[No surviving envelope]

T. S.Eliot

EmilyHale

Faber & Faber Ltd

24 April 1944

INorwood, Sir Cyril;a4 believe that it is permissible to send personal photographs, soBooks Across the Seaexhibition;a7 here I am with Sir Cyril Norwood opening the Exhibition of American Children’s Scrap-books for Books Across the Sea. My melancholy expression is caused by Sir Cyril Norwood. His, I think, is permanent.

T. S. E.

Books Across the Sea, TSE unwillingly president of,

AGM,

letter to The Times for,

exhibition,

04/03/44, 04/03/44[n],

24/04/44;

reception for Beatrice Warde,

The Times reports on,

16/10/44[n];

TSE trumpets in TES,

'Bridgebuilders',

TLS reports on,

and South Audley Street library,

absorbed into English Speaking Union,

final meeting of,

Norwood, Sir Cyril,

gives feeble speech at exhibition,

04/03/44;

24/04/44;

see bio

4.SirNorwood, Sir Cyril Cyril Norwood (1875–1956), educationalist; Head of Bristol Grammar School, 1906–16; Master of Marlborough College, 1917–25; Headmaster of Harrow, 1926–34; President of St John’s College, Oxford, 1934–46. Norwood headed the Board of Education Committee of the Secondary School Examinations Council, which produced Curriculum and Examinations in Secondary Schools (1941); and in 1943 the Norwood Report on secondary education provided for the separation of secondary schools in England and Wales into grammar, technical and secondary modern.