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T. S.Eliot
EmilyHale
TS
Faber & Faber Ltd
Letter 37.
6 November 1944
Dearest Emily,

If you get all of my letters, and the book, with all this moving about, I shall be surprised. I hope that your late landlady has not taken to detaining your letters arriving after you, as a final oddity. I am distressed that you should have had this torment and inconvenience, and at a time when your strength and attention are being taxed by the work with new pupils. Some people take that kind of unpleasantness very easily, but I find it shattering. But though I deplore the distance (do get a bicycle, if they are still obtainable and not at a fabulous price, for use in possible weather – then you ought to have an oilskin cape and perhaps trousers too, and a handle basket – if the road is not hilly) I should prefer that, on the condition of having two meals a day at home – if the food is wholesome and palatable. I think that going out for all meals is too much for anybody. Does that mean that you eat those meals alone with your landlady? Would it not be possible to have a modest breakfast on a tray in your room? I do hope that she will not prove wearing company.

MyEliot family, thethe Stearns Lexington home;b4 mother’sEliot, Charlotte Champe Stearns (TSE's mother)and the Stearns family home;b3 parents used to live nearAmericaLexington, Massachusetts;f3and the Stearns family home;a1 Lexington, you know.1 It was very rural then: though my memory is very dim, and I only just remember them both. I dare say the house is gone now: they cut a road just below it, and the street-car line ran past. But in those days it was a farm – I don’t know [how] big a one, run by a sort of bailiff. I remember best the smell of the stable and the cow-barn, most delightful to a child[,] an old surrey-wagon in which I think we were driven from and to the station (for one went there by train); also the rag mats and the round tub-bath in front of a bed-room fire, and the pleasant musty smell of an old house. IStearns, Thomas, Jr. (TSE's maternal grandfather)in TSE's recollection;a1 thinkEliot, Henry Ware, Jr. (TSE's brother)likened to Grandfather Stearns;i6 my grandfather was a rather ineffective person of literary tastes, somewhat like Henry: hisStearns, Asahel (TSE's great-uncle);a1 two brothers were more successful – one was Dean of the Law School, and Foxcroft House was his house,2 theStearns, Oliver (TSE's great-uncle);a1 other was a professor in the Divinity School.3 HeScott, Walterbeloved of Grandfather Stearns;a2 sat in a skull cap in his library, reading the works of Walter Scott. MyStearns, Charlotte (née Blood, TSE's maternal grandmother)in TSE's recollection;a1 grandmother, who died first, I remember as a laughing merry soul, in spite of having had a pretty hard life: her family, the Bloods, were of Anglo-Irish origin, and I imagine that from her I get my taste for simple jokes and any cheerfulness I possess: for my grandfather was rather depressed, and no one could say that the Eliots are much given to mirth and whimsicality. (YourBrocklebank, Charlotte Carissima ('Cara')shares ancestors with TSE;a7 Mrs. Brocklebank is a remote member of the same family!) BesidesBlood, ThomasTSE's myth of;a1, the founder of the Blood fortunes (such as they were), who was I believe the son of a blacksmith, made a name for himself by trying to steal Charles II’s crown jewels.4 I remember Grandma Faraway, as we called her, with much affection, considering how little I was when she died: for she was cosy and made beautiful gingerbread, and I never felt for Grandma Eliot anything but awe.5 GrandmaPecci, Vincenzo, Pope Leo XIIIidentified with Grandma Eliot;a1 Eliot tended to be identified in my childish imagination with Pope Leo XIII, her Italian contemporary whose portrait I had seen – probably in the possession of my nurse-maid.6 IDunne, Annietook TSE to Catholic church in St. Louis;a1 liked it when Annie took me with her to say her prayers in the little Catholic church on Locust Street, because of the decorations and lights, and because the pews had little gates to them, with latches.7

InMurder in the CathedralHoellering film;g1TSE adapting for screen;a3 spite of good intentions, I have been interrupted in work (did I tell you that I wrote two prose speeches for Becket, butHoellering, George M.;a9 I have not yet heard from Hoellering about them – perhaps his attention is absorbed in his law-suit with the British Council)8 but the kind of chore which I am unable to refuse in war time. I'Responsibility of the European Man of Letters, The';a2 hopeBritish Councildespaired of;a7 the B.B.C. is not going to prove like the British Council – getting me to do jobs which never come off, for I have not yet been notified of the delivery of the programme I recorded for them, or of the arrangements for recording in French and German. Meanwhile I have to go on tomorrow afternoon to record another short speech in French for the French Section (which seems to be quite distinct from what [sic] Bobby Speaight’s European Section, and they don’t seem to know what the other is doing) and on Thursday morning to a studio on Maida Vale to be filmed reading a very short poem, for a film of B.B.C. work to be shown in India. ThenBooks Across the Sea'Bridgebuilders';b5 I have to prepare a'Bridgebuilders';a1 short speech – which you might be able to hear, for the Columbia System, in connection with the opening of the Books Across the Sea Exhibition of American Children’s Books next week.9 AndChurchill Club, TheMilton talk for;a3 finally, an informal talk on Milton for the Churchill Club for November 29th, ArchbishopLang, William Cosmo Gordon, Archbishop of Canterbury (later Baron Lang of Lambeth)chairs TSE's Milton talk;a6 Lord Lang in the chair (that’s the American soldier’s club – I mean the club for high-brow American soldiers, you know).10 TomorrowSmith, William Henry, 3rd Lord Hambledenand CNL;a3 aChristian News-Letter (CNL)TSE, Hambleden and Mrs Bliss discuss;c6 difficult lunchBliss, Kathleendiscusses future of CNL;a1 with Lord Hambleden and Mrs. Bliss11 about the future of the Christian News Letter, andFenn, Revd J. Eric;a1 the Rev. Eric Fenn (asst. religious director of the BBC)12 in the evening to discuss the Moot, myLey, Murray Hickey;a1 sweet wee S/Sgt. Murray Hickey Ley13 in to see me on Wednesday; andMannheim, Karlnotable correspondence with;a4 tryingPolanyi, Michael;a1 at the same time to carry on an elaborate correspondence with Karl Mannheim and with Michael Polanyi14 about the Rôle of the Intelligensia. IMrs Millington (the blind masseuse)communicates message from William Blake;a4 rather wish that Mrs. Millington (the blind masseuse) was not given to prophetic dreams and visions, but she comes from Orkney and can’t help it. ItBlake, Williamappears to masseuse in vision;a3 was William Blake (presumably the poet of that name) who presented himself to her the other night carrying a book and a pen, and said ‘Mrs Millington, I want you to give a message to Tom Eliot. Tell him he must do it quickly. He will understand what I mean.’ I am afraid he doesn’t. I should never presume to address him as Bill: but I concede that his great seniority to me gives him the privilege of familiarity.

Well, I must stop maundering. YouAmerican Presidential Election1944;a3AmericaAmerican Presidential Election are probably listening for election returns. IHunter, Melanie (née Grant);a1 did go to the Christianity and the Young Citizen Conference to please Jeanie’s friend Melanie Hunter, but I didn’t say anything. FortunatelyLewis, Clive Staples ('C. S.')dodged;a2 I had to leave to catch my train just as C. S. Lewis and Barbara Ward were starting a set debate.

Your loving
Tom

1.TSE’s mother, Charlotte Champe Stearns (1843–1929), wasStearns, Thomas, Jr. (TSE's maternal grandfather) the second daughter (of nine children) of Thomas Stearns, Jr., a merchant, andStearns, Charlotte (née Blood, TSE's maternal grandmother) Charlotte Stearns, née Blood. His home at Foxcroft House, otherwise known as Stearns House, stood at 17 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Mass.; built in 1882, it was demolished in 1926.

2.AsahelStearns, Asahel (TSE's great-uncle) Stearns (1774–1839), a graduate of Harvard University, Federalist, was a member of the Massachusetts Senate, 1817–31. He was a Professor of Law at Harvard, 1817–29.

3.OliverStearns, Oliver (TSE's great-uncle) Stearns (1807–85), Unitarian clergyman and theologian, a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, served as minister of the Second Congregational Church, Northampton, Mass., 1831–9, and at the Third Church of Higham, Mass., 1839–56. Thereafter he became President of the Meadville Theological School, 1856–63, before being appointed as Parkman Professor of Pulpit Eloquence and Pastoral Care, Harvard University, and Parkman Professor of Theology, 1869–78. He was Dean of the Divinity School, 1870–85.

4.ThomasBlood, Thomas Blood (1618–80) – a self-styled ‘Colonel’ – attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London in 1671.

TSE told the Librarian of St Andrews University, Mar. 1941: ‘My mother’s family, the name of which is really Stearne, comes from Suffolk, whence three brothers emigrated to America in 1632.’ TSE to Mary Trevelyan, ‘SS. Peter & Paul [29 June], 1942’: ‘I ought to have explained to you long ago that I had an Irish grandmother, of a respextable [sic] family founded by a man who tried to steal the Crown Jewels.’

HoweverHinkley, Eleanor Holmes (TSE's first cousin)explodes two Stearns family myths;d2n, in Oct. 1954 TSE’s cousin Eleanor Hinkley would send him a family tree she had compiled that exploded (as he acknowledged on 22 Oct. 1954) ‘two myths which I think were dear to my mother’s heart (i) that the Bloods were descended from Col. Blood who tried to steal Charles II’s Crown Jewels (2) that we are nearly related to Laurence Sterne. I am sure my mother would not have wanted either the Restoration underworld character, or the rather unsavoury 18th Century parson in her house (she certainly didn’t admit Laurence Sterne’s works into the library) but she was rather proud of the connexion all the same. But the coat-of-arms that you show is totally different from that in the Sentimental Education, which we had always supposed to be ours as well: that one has a starling for a crest, and you know that the name Sterne or Stearne comes from the Old Danish word for starling – the Stearnes’s came from Dedham Essex, and Laurence’s family from Suffolk (just across the border – so they were obviously descended from Danes of the Danelaw. Why did you get your Stearns coat?

‘I have somewhere a Chauncy pedigree that Henry had, going back to the 11th century. It is sad to think that the only Stearns’s left (and I know they are numerous as the sands of the sea) are so remote that one can take no interest in them. There were I believe three brothers, who came over in the Arbella; and they must all have had large families’ (Houghton bMS Am2244).

See too TSE’s private joke in Noctes Binanianae (1939): ‘diluted Blood’: ‘The Whale and the Elephant’, l. 20, Poems II, 217.

5.Cf. TSEAmericaSt. Louis, Missouri;h4TSE's childhood in;a1St. LouisAmericaBostonAmericaCaliforniaAmericaCambridge, MassachusettsAmericaHollywoodAmericaNew EnglandAmericaNew YorkAmerica to Marquis W. Childs (St Louis Post-Dispatch), 8 Aug. 1930 (Letters 5, 281): ‘As I spent the first 16 years of my life in St. Louis, with the exception of summer holidays in Maine and Massachusetts, and a visit to Louisiana which I do not remember, it is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has done. These 16 years were spent in a house at 2635 Locust Street, since demolished. This house stood on part of a large piece of land which had belonged to my grandfather, on which there had been negro quarters also in his time; in my childhood my grandmother still lived at a house 2660 Washington Avenue, round the corner.’

6.VincenzoPecci, Vincenzo, Pope Leo XIII Pecci (1810–1903), Italian, served as Pope Leo XIII, 1878–1903.

7.Cf. TSE to Childs, 8 Aug. 1930: (Letters 5, 281): ‘TheDunne, Annie earliest personal influence I remember, besides that of my parents, was an Irish nursemaid named Annie Dunne, to whom I was greatly attached.’

8.The British Council, for whom George Hoellering directed Message from Canterbury (1944), was in dispute with him over the content of the film, and demanded from him both the film and the negatives he held.

9.The Books Across the Sea exhibition of American wartime children’s books was opened by Sir Ernest Barker on 13 Nov. 1944, with TSE in the chair. The BBC series Bridgebuilders was broadcast by the North American Service on 16 Nov.: TSE appeared in the programme, hosted by Nicholas Stuart, together with Noel Streatfeild, Eileen Colwell and Alicia Street.

See TSE, ‘Bridgebuilders’, CProse 6, 563–5.

10.See ‘Notes for a Lecture on John Milton’, CProse 6, 543–6.

11.KathleenBliss, Kathleen Bliss (1908–89), theologian, missionary and writer, worked as assistant editor of the Christian News-Letter; as editor, 1945–9. She served too on the World Council of Churches; as a member of the executive committee from 1954; and also as a BBC producer, 1950–5. Her publications include The Service and Status of Women in the Churches (1952).

12.RevdFenn, Revd J. Eric J. Eric Fenn (1899–1995): presbyterian minister, broadcaster; editor of The Student Movement. From 1936 he worked with the ecumenist J. H. ‘Joe’ Oldham, helping to organise the Oxford conference on ‘Church, Community, and State’, and participating in the ‘Moot’, 1938–47. From 1939 he was assistant director of religious broadcasting for the BBC; literary editor for the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1947–56. See K. M. Wolfe, The Churches and the British Broadcasting Corporation, 1922–1956: The Politics of Broadcast Religion (1984); The Moot Papers: Faith, Freedom and Society, 1938–1947, ed. K. Clements (2010).

13.MurrayLey, Murray Hickey Hickey Ley, a graduate of Notre Dame University, Indiana, was a newspaper columnist and literary critic.

14.MichaelPolanyi, Michael Polanyi (1891–1976), Hungarian-born British chemist, economist and philosopher; head of the Department of Chemistry at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, 1926–33. After quitting Nazi Germany, he was appointed (from 1933) to a Chair of Chemistry at the University of Manchester, and he then became Professor of Social Sciences at Manchester (the chair having been created for him), 1948–58. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1944. A polymath, his works include The Contempt of Freedom: The Russian Experiment and After (1940); Full Employment and Free Trade (1945); Science, Faith and Society (1946); The Logic of Liberty (1951); The Study of Man (1959); Beyond Nihilism (1960).

America, TSE on not returning in 1915, and TSE as transatlantic cultural conduit, dependence on Europe, TSE's sense of deracination from, and the Great Depression, TSE a self-styled 'Missourian', as depicted in Henry Eliot's Rumble Murders, its national coherence questioned, its religious and educational future, versus Canadian and colonial society, where age is not antiquity, drinks Scotland's whisky, and FDR's example to England, underrates Europe's influence on England, redeemed by experience with G. I.'s, TSE nervous at readjusting to, and post-war cost of living, more alien to TSE post-war, its glories, landscape, cheap shoes, its horrors, Hollywood, climate, lack of tea, overheated trains, over-social clubs, overheating in general, perplexities of dress code, food, especially salad-dressing, New England Gothic, earthquakes, heat, the whistle of its locomotives, 'Easter holidays' not including Easter, the cut of American shirts, television, Andover, Massachusetts, EH moves to, Ann Arbor, Michigan, TSE on visiting, Augusta, Maine, EH stops in, Baltimore, Maryland, and TSE's niece, TSE engaged to lecture in, TSE on visiting, Bangor, Maine, EH visits, Bay of Fundy, EH sailing in, Bedford, Massachusetts, its Stearns connections, Boston, Massachusetts, TSE tries to recollect society there, its influence on TSE, its Museum collection remembered, inspires homesickness, TSE and EH's experience of contrasted, described by Maclagan, suspected of dissipating EH's energies, EH's loneliness in, Scripps as EH's release from, possibly conducive to TSE's spiritual development, restores TSE's health, its society, TSE's relations preponderate, TSE's happiness in, as a substitute for EH's company, TSE's celebrity in, if TSE were there in EH's company, its theatregoing public, The Times on, on Labour Day, Brunswick, Maine, TSE to lecture in, TSE on visiting, California, as imagined by TSE, TSE's wish to visit, EH suggests trip to Yosemite, swimming in the Pacific, horrifies TSE, TSE finds soulless, land of earthquakes, TSE dreads its effect on EH, Wales's resemblance to, as inferno, and Californians, surfeit of oranges and films in, TSE's delight at EH leaving, land of kidnappings, Aldous Huxley seconds TSE's horror, the lesser of two evils, Cannes reminiscent of, TSE masters dislike of, land of monstrous churches, TSE regrets EH leaving, winterless, its southern suburbs like Cape Town, land of fabricated antiquities, Cambridge, Massachusetts, TSE's student days in, socially similar to Bloomsbury, TSE lonely there but for Ada, TSE's happiness in, exhausting, EH's 'group' in, road safety in, Casco Bay, Maine, TSE remembers, Castine, Maine, EH holidays in, Cataumet, Massachusetts, EH holidays in, Chicago, Illinois, EH visits, reportedly bankrupt, TSE on, TSE takes up lectureship in, its climate, land of fabricated antiquities, Chocurua, New Hampshire, EH stays in, Concord, Massachusetts, EH's househunting in, EH moves from, Connecticut, its countryside, and Boerre, TSE's end-of-tour stay in, Dorset, Vermont, EH holidays in, and the Dorset Players, Elizabeth, New Jersey, TSE on visiting, Farmington, Connecticut, place of EH's schooling, which TSE passes by, EH holidays in, Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, EH recuperates in, Gerrish Island, Maine, TSE revisits, Hollywood, perceived debauchery of its movies, TSE's dream of walk-on part, condemned by TSE to destruction, TSE trusts Murder will be safe from, Iowa City, Iowa, TSE invited to, Jonesport, Maine, remembered, Kittery, Maine, described, Lexington, Massachusetts, and the Stearns family home, Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, visited by EH, Madison, Wisconsin, Aurelia Bolliger hails from, Ralph Hodgson sails for, EH summers in, as conceived by TSE, who eventually visits, Maine, its coast remembered by TSE, TSE recalls swimming off, Minneapolis, on EH's 1952 itinerary, TSE lectures in, New Bedford, Massachusetts, EH's holidays in, TSE's family ties to, New England, and Unitarianism, more real to TSE than England, TSE homesick for, in TSE's holiday plans, architecturally, compared to California, and the New England conscience, TSE and EH's common inheritance, springless, TSE remembers returning from childhood holidays in, its countryside distinguished, and The Dry Salvages, New York (N.Y.C.), TSE's visits to, TSE encouraged to write play for, prospect of visiting appals TSE, as cultural influence, New York theatres, Newburyport, Maine, delights TSE, Northampton, Massachusetts, TSE on, EH settles in, TSE's 1936 visit to, autumn weather in, its spiritual atmosphere, EH moves house within, its elms, the Perkinses descend on, Aunt Irene visits, Boerre's imagined life in, TSE on hypothetical residence in, EH returns to, Peterborough, New Hampshire, visited by EH, TSE's vision of life at, Petersham, Massachusetts, EH holidays in, TSE visits with the Perkinses, EH spends birthday in, Edith Perkins gives lecture at, the Perkinses cease to visit, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, TSE on, and TSE's private Barnes Foundation tour, Independence Hall, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, surrounding countryside, Portsmouth, Maine, delights TSE, Randolph, New Hampshire, 1933 Eliot family holiday in, the Eliot siblings return to, Seattle, Washington State, EH summers in, EH's situation at, TSE prefers to California, EH repairs to post-Christmas, EH visits on 1952 tour, EH returns to, Sebasco, Maine, EH visits, South, the, TSE's first taste of, TSE's prejudices concerning, St. Louis, Missouri, TSE's childhood in, TSE's homesickness for, TSE styling himself a 'Missourian', possible destination for TSE's ashes, resting-place of TSE's parents, TSE on his return to, the Mississippi, compared to TSE's memory, TSE again revisits, TSE takes EVE to, St. Paul, Minnesota, TSE on visiting, the Furness house in, Tryon, North Carolina, EH's interest in, EH staying in, Virginia, scene of David Garnett's escapade, and the Page-Barbour Lectures, TSE on visiting, and the South, Washington, Connecticut, EH recuperates in, West Rindge, New Hampshire, EH holidays at, White Mountains, New Hampshire, possible TSE and EH excursion to, Woods Hole, Falmouth, Massachusetts, TSE and EH arrange holiday at, TSE and EH's holiday in recalled, and The Dry Salvages, TSE invited to, EH and TSE's 1947 stay in, EH learns of TSE's death at,
see also American Presidential Election
American Presidential Election, 1936, TSE favours Roosevelt, 1944, 1952, TSE's English perspective on, 1956, and American foreign policy,
Blake, William, quoted by way of nostrum, pervades 'Lines to a Persian Cat', appears to masseuse in vision,
Bliss, Kathleen, discusses future of CNL, accepts TSE's CNL resignation,

11.KathleenBliss, Kathleen Bliss (1908–89), theologian, missionary and writer, worked as assistant editor of the Christian News-Letter; as editor, 1945–9. She served too on the World Council of Churches; as a member of the executive committee from 1954; and also as a BBC producer, 1950–5. Her publications include The Service and Status of Women in the Churches (1952).

Blood, Thomas, TSE's myth of,

4.ThomasBlood, Thomas Blood (1618–80) – a self-styled ‘Colonel’ – attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London in 1671.

Books Across the Sea, TSE unwillingly president of, AGM, letter to The Times for, exhibition, reception for Beatrice Warde, The Times reports on, TSE trumpets in TES, 'Bridgebuilders', TLS reports on, and South Audley Street library, absorbed into English Speaking Union, final meeting of,
'Bridgebuilders',
British Council, and TSE's mission to Sweden, honours TSE with Edinburgh reception, and TSE's abortive mission to Italy, and TSE's abortive North Africa mission, despaired of, wartime trip to Paris, think TSE's lecture too French, TSE opens exhibition for, trip to Paris,
Brocklebank, Charlotte Carissima ('Cara'), Cheetham introduces to TSE, invites TSE to Nativity play, son killed in action, shares ancestors with TSE, suffers further family heartbreak, visited in Stratford-upon-Avon, news of her death, her death and inquest, provides inspiration for 'Celia',
see also Brocklebanks, the

2.CharlotteBrocklebank, Charlotte Carissima ('Cara') Carissima (‘Cara’) Brocklebank (1885–1948), only surviving daughter of Gen. Sir Bindon and Lady Blood, married in 1910 Lt.-Col. Richard Hugh Royds Brocklebank, DSO (1881–1965). They lived at 18 Hyde Park Square, London W.2, and at Alveston House, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire: see Biographical Register.

Christian News-Letter (CNL), TSE's way of writing for, described, first number, TSE's commitment to as war work, TSE on Papal Encyclical, TSE's colleagues not quite friends, becoming too politic for TSE, features TSE on Wells's New World Order, 'Education in a Mass Society', TSE's guest-editorship of, TSE gives talk for, relocates to Oxford, 'Responsibility and Power', TSE, Hambleden and Mrs Bliss discuss,
Churchill Club, The, Walt Whitman talk for, Milton talk for, Poe talk for,
Dunne, Annie, took TSE to Catholic church in St. Louis,

7.Cf. TSE to Childs, 8 Aug. 1930: (Letters 5, 281): ‘TheDunne, Annie earliest personal influence I remember, besides that of my parents, was an Irish nursemaid named Annie Dunne, to whom I was greatly attached.’

Eliot, Charlotte Champe Stearns (TSE's mother), effect of her death on TSE, her religious beliefs, her pride in TSE, screened from TSE's domestic nightmare, her decline and death, was cremated, her grave visited, TSE visits her final address, her death and TSE's guilt, and TSE's poetic inheritance, as parent, and the Stearns family home,

6.CharlotteEliot, Charlotte Champe Stearns (TSE's mother) Champe Stearns Eliot (1843–1929): see Biographical Register.

Eliot family, the, ties to New Bedford, coat of arms in Eliot House, TSE visits quondam ancestral estate, have public not private lives, and God, Molly Browne and her three Greenleaf daughters, congenital reserve, its former family mansions, in East Coker, are Whigs, the original William Greenleaf, its Peterborough connection, the Stearns Lexington home, hereditary neurosis,
Eliot, Henry Ware, Jr. (TSE's brother), hears TSE's Dryden broadcast, as potential confidant, sibling most attuned to TSE's needs, witness to the Eliots in 1926, surprises TSE in Boston, his aura of futility, disputes New Yorker profile of TSE, at Eliot family Thanksgiving, attends second Norton lecture, his business in Chicago, hosts TSE in New York, TSE reads his second detective story, his immaturity, accuses TSE of wrath, writes TSE long critical letter, the favourite of TSE's parents, sends New York Murder clippings, writes again about religion, insensitive to European affairs, Peabody Museum employ as research associate, gives TSE pyjamas for Christmas, sends TSE luggage for Christmas, hosts Murder's Boston cast, sends present to Morley children, cables TSE on 50th birthday, given draft of Family Reunion, gives TSE portfolio, champions Kauffer's photograph of TSE, explains operation on ears, sends list of securities, takes pleasure in shouldering Margaret, undergoes serious operation, recovering at home, as curator of Eliotana, as curator of Eliotana, war imperils final reunion with, and TSE's rumoured Vatican audience, corresponds with TSE monthly, offers Tom Faber wartime refuge, nervous about TSE during Blitz, as described by Frank Morley, recalls The Dry Salvages, has appendix out, cautioned as to health, frail, condition worries TSE, as correspondent, friend to J. J. Sweeney, tries TSE's patience, reports on Ada, describes Ada's funeral, beleaguered by Margaret, sent Picture Post F&F photos, likened to Grandfather Stearns, goitre operated on, his archaeological endeavours, back in hospital, imagined in exclusively female company, ill again, as brother, has pneumonia, terminal leukaemia, prospect of his death versus Ada's, anxieties induced by deafness, writes to TSE despite illness, death, memorial service for, on EH's presumption, Michael Roberts's symptoms reminiscent of, his Chicago acquaintance, friends with Robert Lowell's father, invoked against EH, on TSE's love for EH, buried in Garrett family lot, The Rumble Murders,

3.HenryEliot, Henry Ware, Jr. (TSE's brother) Ware Eliot (1879–1947), TSE’s older brother: see Biographical Register.

Fenn, Revd J. Eric,

12.RevdFenn, Revd J. Eric J. Eric Fenn (1899–1995): presbyterian minister, broadcaster; editor of The Student Movement. From 1936 he worked with the ecumenist J. H. ‘Joe’ Oldham, helping to organise the Oxford conference on ‘Church, Community, and State’, and participating in the ‘Moot’, 1938–47. From 1939 he was assistant director of religious broadcasting for the BBC; literary editor for the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1947–56. See K. M. Wolfe, The Churches and the British Broadcasting Corporation, 1922–1956: The Politics of Broadcast Religion (1984); The Moot Papers: Faith, Freedom and Society, 1938–1947, ed. K. Clements (2010).

Hinkley, Eleanor Holmes (TSE's first cousin), announces presence in London, TSE regrets speaking lightly of, un-deracinated, compared to TSE, TSE shares EH's frustrations with, less perceptive than her mother, gives party for Eva Le Gallienne, unworldly, theatrical success might improve, takes TSE to football match, dances with TSE, at second Norton lecture, as EH's friend, unflattering photograph of, and EH attend American Murder, suspected of writing by the book, to Aunt Susie as Hope Mirrlees to Mappie, pursues adult education, prejudices TSE against George Baker, cossetted, TSE feels remote from, explodes two Stearns family myths, reportedly writing novel, and life after Aunt Susie, turned carer, passes up EH's invitation, recollected as girl, TSE attempts to lure to England, her impersonality, invites TSE to stay in Boston, reports on Margaret's funeral, TSE's improved relations with, as 1956 hostess, reports on EH, informs EH of TSE's health, engineers correspondence between EVE and EH, adaptation of Emma, central to TSE falling for EH, Charlotte Brontë play, TSE presents to London Play Company, TSE's verdict on, compared to Dear Jane, Dear Jane, to be produced in New York, consumes her, TSE happy to dodge premiere, but hopes to catch over Christmas, well reviewed in certain quarters, White Violets,
see also Hinkleys, the

5.EleanorHinkley, Eleanor Holmes (TSE's first cousin) Holmes Hinkley (1891–1971), playwright; TSE’s first cousin; daughter of Susan Heywood Stearns – TSE’s maternal aunt – and Holmes Hinkley: see Biographical Register.

Hoellering, George M., pitches for Murder film rights, TSE's fondness for, accompanies TSE on Canterbury recce, persists with TSE, encourages TSE over adaptation, sitting on TSE's scenario, commissioned to film Archbishop's enthronement, incommunicado, publicising Murder, on collaborating with TSE, tries to cast TSE as Becket, discovers Father Groser of Stepney, dressing set in disused church, peddling his Murder, and Murder's reception, Message from Canterbury,

3.GeorgeHoellering, George M. M. Hoellering (1898–1980), Austrian-born filmmaker and cinema manager: see Biographical Register.

Hunter, Melanie (née Grant),

5.MelanieHunter, Melanie (née Grant) Grant had married Robert Arbuthnott Hunter in 1937.

Lang, William Cosmo Gordon, Archbishop of Canterbury (later Baron Lang of Lambeth), non-committal benediction on Murder, petitioned over Purchase Tax, over which he proves industrious, blesses TSE's South India intervention, chairs TSE's Milton talk,
Lewis, Clive Staples ('C. S.'), and Charles Williams lunch with TSE, dodged,

1.C. S. LewisLewis, Clive Staples ('C. S.') (1898–1963), British novelist, academic and critic; Christian apologist; ‘Inkling’: see Biographical Register.

Ley, Murray Hickey,

13.MurrayLey, Murray Hickey Hickey Ley, a graduate of Notre Dame University, Indiana, was a newspaper columnist and literary critic.

Mannheim, Karl, at TSE's Maritain dinner, and CNL, dinner in Cambridge with, notable correspondence with, Man and Society,
see also Mannheims, the

3.KarlMannheim, Karl Mannheim (1893–1947), Hungarian–Jewish sociologist: see Biographical Register.

Mrs Millington (the blind masseuse), works on TSE's writers' cramp, traces TSE's cramp to Harvard, pounding TSE's neck, communicates message from William Blake, attributes condition to teeth, dies of stroke,
Murder in the Cathedral, idea for initially suggested by Laurence Irving, offered to Martin Browne, St. Thomas as TSE's muse, TSE on writing, tentatively, 'The Archbishop Murder Case', uncertainties over title, currently 'Fear in the Way', which proves unpopular, TSE on rewriting, title settled on, final revisions for printer, tentatively critiqued by EH, and EH on TSE as dramatist, chorus copied for EH, Virginia Woolf's aspersions on, the form of its choruses, defended from obscurity, did not test TSE's plotting, book-sales to-date, $1,000 offered for American rights, pays for 1936 American trip, Italian and Hungarian rights sold, and Whiggery, Savile Club dinner to celebrate, compared to next play, discrepancies of Canterbury Text, Martin Browne's initial response to, TSE recognised as author of, TSE on its cheerful title, EH on, abandoned Mercury Theatre premiere, suggested by Yeats and Doone, in the offing, and Doone's response to first draft, EH requested at, imperilled, text copied for Yeats, 1935 Canterbury Festival production, in rehearsal, opening night, reception, final performance, and EH's response, 1935–6 Mercury Theatre revival, Martin Browne pushing for, in rehearsal, which EH attends, compared to Canterbury original, at the box-office, its 100th performance, still running, proposed tour to end, 1936 BBC radio version, BBC bid to produce, broadcast fixed, BBC memo on, in rehearsal, TSE on, abortive 1936 New York transfer, Dukes visits America to arrange, blighted by Brace's actions, quashed by Federal Theatre production, its usurper founders, deferred to autumn, unsolicited 1936 New York production, licensed by Brace, to be directed by Rice, seemingly withdrawn, Rice resigns from, delights EH and Eleanor Hinkley, TSE sent press-cuttings for, EH reports on, TSE speculates as to textual discrepancies, attended by Eleanor Roosevelt, extended and potentially expanded, TSE to the Transcript on, may predispose immigration authorities favourably in future, royalties from, 1936 University College, Dublin student production, described by TSE, rumoured Australian and American productions, 1936 Gate Theatre touring production, TSE's long-held wish, scheduled, 1936 touring production, due at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge, as it was played in Cambridge, 1936 America pirate production, 1937 Duchess Theatre West End transfer, date fixed for, announced in Times, dress-rehearsal attended, reception, reviewed, royalties, still playing, ticket sales pick up, coming to an end, receives royal visit, 1937 touring production, scheduled post-Duchess, beginning in Leeds, then Manchester, going strong, 1937 Harvard University production, 1937 Amherst College production, singled out for praise, 1937 Old Vic production, touring production arrived at, in rehearsal, 1937 Tewkesbury Drama Festival production, 1938 American tour, projected for January 1937, said date seconded by Dukes, deferred to September 1937, confirmed again by Dukes, pre-tour dates in Golders Green, then Liverpool, opening in Boston in January, over which EH is consulted, tour itinerary, Family Reunion keeps TSE from, preparatory re-rehearsal for, pre-crossing Liverpool dates, EH's judgement desired, EH reports on first night, reviewed in The Times, EH sends New York cuttings, prematurely transferred to New York, Dukes reports on, Westminster Cathedral Hall charity performance, 1940 Latham Mercury revival, revival suggested in rep with Family Reunion, wartime modern-dress production suggested, ambushes TSE, in rehearsal, first night, reviewed, Browne's wartime Pilgrim Players' adaptation, Hoellering film, Hoellering's initial approach made, Hoellering's vision for, TSE adapting for screen, reconnoitre of Canterbury for, casting Becket, recording made for, development process described to NYT, non-actor found for Becket, screenings of Groser, set-dressing, screening, approaching release, still in the edit, final screening, and Venice Film Festival, seeking distribution, soon to premiere, opens, initial reception, circulating in shortened version, 1945 Théâtre du Vieux Colombier production, compared to Martin Browne's, royalties, apparently a hit, reviewed, reaches 150 performances, Fluchère's involvement, 1946 German production, 1947 Edinburgh Festival production, 1948 Milton Academy production, 1949 broadcast, 1949 Berlin production, politically resonant, 1952 University of Rennes, Grand Théâtre abridgment, 1952 Théatre National Populaire production, 1953 Old Vic revival, waiting on Donat, TSE on, 1954 Harvard production,
Pecci, Vincenzo, Pope Leo XIII, identified with Grandma Eliot,

6.VincenzoPecci, Vincenzo, Pope Leo XIII Pecci (1810–1903), Italian, served as Pope Leo XIII, 1878–1903.

Polanyi, Michael,

14.MichaelPolanyi, Michael Polanyi (1891–1976), Hungarian-born British chemist, economist and philosopher; head of the Department of Chemistry at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, 1926–33. After quitting Nazi Germany, he was appointed (from 1933) to a Chair of Chemistry at the University of Manchester, and he then became Professor of Social Sciences at Manchester (the chair having been created for him), 1948–58. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1944. A polymath, his works include The Contempt of Freedom: The Russian Experiment and After (1940); Full Employment and Free Trade (1945); Science, Faith and Society (1946); The Logic of Liberty (1951); The Study of Man (1959); Beyond Nihilism (1960).

'Responsibility of the European Man of Letters, The', trilingual commission, French broadcast, German broadcast,
Scott, Walter, and the Literary Society, beloved of Grandfather Stearns, The Lady of the Lake, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion,
Smith, William Henry, 3rd Lord Hambleden, on Oldham's wartime committee, and CNL,

1.WilliamSmith, William Henry, 3rd Lord Hambleden Henry Smith, 3rd Lord Hambleden (1903–48), Governing Director of W. H. Smith.

Stearns, Asahel (TSE's great-uncle),

2.AsahelStearns, Asahel (TSE's great-uncle) Stearns (1774–1839), a graduate of Harvard University, Federalist, was a member of the Massachusetts Senate, 1817–31. He was a Professor of Law at Harvard, 1817–29.

Stearns, Charlotte (née Blood, TSE's maternal grandmother), in TSE's recollection,

1.TSE’s mother, Charlotte Champe Stearns (1843–1929), wasStearns, Thomas, Jr. (TSE's maternal grandfather) the second daughter (of nine children) of Thomas Stearns, Jr., a merchant, andStearns, Charlotte (née Blood, TSE's maternal grandmother) Charlotte Stearns, née Blood. His home at Foxcroft House, otherwise known as Stearns House, stood at 17 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Mass.; built in 1882, it was demolished in 1926.

Stearns, Oliver (TSE's great-uncle),

3.OliverStearns, Oliver (TSE's great-uncle) Stearns (1807–85), Unitarian clergyman and theologian, a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, served as minister of the Second Congregational Church, Northampton, Mass., 1831–9, and at the Third Church of Higham, Mass., 1839–56. Thereafter he became President of the Meadville Theological School, 1856–63, before being appointed as Parkman Professor of Pulpit Eloquence and Pastoral Care, Harvard University, and Parkman Professor of Theology, 1869–78. He was Dean of the Divinity School, 1870–85.

Stearns, Thomas, Jr. (TSE's maternal grandfather), in TSE's recollection,

1.TSE’s mother, Charlotte Champe Stearns (1843–1929), wasStearns, Thomas, Jr. (TSE's maternal grandfather) the second daughter (of nine children) of Thomas Stearns, Jr., a merchant, andStearns, Charlotte (née Blood, TSE's maternal grandmother) Charlotte Stearns, née Blood. His home at Foxcroft House, otherwise known as Stearns House, stood at 17 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Mass.; built in 1882, it was demolished in 1926.