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Letter 6.
I have time only for a very brief message this week; and as I have no letter from you I have nothing to answer. The'Broadcast on the publication of first ten “Guild Books” in Sweden';a1 greater part of this weekend has had to be given to fulfilling a sudden request for a brief broadcast to Sweden, to be delivered on Thursday, for a special occasion; 1 IZajdlerowa, ZoëThe Dark Side of the Moon;a1 have also had an urgent and difficult manuscript concerned with Poland to pass an opinion upon (it is a subject in which I am specially interested); 2 andChristian News-Letter (CNL) I have had a difficult matter of policy in connexion with the Christian News Letter to make up my mind about. SoNotes Towards the Definition of CultureTSE writing;a5 that a weekend which I had intended to devote placidly to Chapter III, and to private correspondence, has nearly gone by; and to add to the distractions, thereChevrillon, Pierre;a1 is a Frog coming down to Shamley to lunch – a son of old André Chevrillon whom I met in 1910 – who is here officially on Cultural Relations.3 The world is now swarming with people concerned with Cultural Relations between the nations, and I don’t think they are going to do much good. I also have a persistent tooth-ache though my dentist has been fiddling with it for two weeks; and my washing has not come back for a fortnight. If it has been sent by post, and stolen, I shall be in a frenzy, for almost nothing is really replaceable. IPerkins, Dr John Carroll (EH's uncle);f9 have just had a letter from your Uncle John in quite lively vein, suggesting full vigour and powers, and relieving my feelings about the portrait by saying that it was never meant to be a portrait at all4 – that you sat as a model for a picture expressing Miss Richardson’s fancies. That is a relief: why didn’t you let on to that?
1.‘Broadcast on the publication of first ten “Guild Books” in Sweden’: CProse 6, 588–91.
2.Zoe Zajdlerowa, anonymous author of My Name is Million: The Experiences of an Englishwoman in Poland (F&F, 1940), was to write – apparently at the request of General Sikorski (head of the Polish government in exile in Britain until his death in 1943) – The Dark Side of the Moon (F&F, 1946), which would be published with a preface by TSE (CProse 6, 742–7).
3.PierreChevrillon, Pierre Chevrillon (1903–75), son of André Chevrillon (1864–1957), Anglophile writer who was educated in London and Paris, fought for the British Army in WW1, and was elected to the Académie Française in 1921. Works include books on Sydney Smith and Ruskin, and Trois Études de Literature Anglaise (on Kipling, Shakespeare, Galsworthy, 1921). TSE to Hayward, 24 Mar. 1945: ‘The Chevrillon in question may well be the one you remember: he is about 45 I should say, and was certainly a little boy when I lunched at the expensive villa of his father, André C. (the French impresario of Kipling) in St. Cloud in 1910.’
4.Letter from the Revd J. C. Perkins not found.
3.PierreChevrillon, Pierre Chevrillon (1903–75), son of André Chevrillon (1864–1957), Anglophile writer who was educated in London and Paris, fought for the British Army in WW1, and was elected to the Académie Française in 1921. Works include books on Sydney Smith and Ruskin, and Trois Études de Literature Anglaise (on Kipling, Shakespeare, Galsworthy, 1921). TSE to Hayward, 24 Mar. 1945: ‘The Chevrillon in question may well be the one you remember: he is about 45 I should say, and was certainly a little boy when I lunched at the expensive villa of his father, André C. (the French impresario of Kipling) in St. Cloud in 1910.’
3.DrPerkins, Dr John Carroll (EH's uncle) John Carroll Perkins (1862–1950), Minister of King’s Chapel, Boston: see Biographical Register.