The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 1: 1898-1922 by T. S. Eliot Page A
Authors: T. S. Eliot
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but what more disgusting display could there be than that of sacred objects. Let us not despise methodicalness. I see with pleasure that you are engaged in serious study; your delicate taste and perspicacity will be put to better use than in dealing with futile matters. I wish you, for the coming year, an oft-renewed ardour – ardour, flame – but its source is in the heart, and here it is that our wishes must be prudent. ‘Bring good upon me, O Lord, whether I ask for it or not, and remove evil from me, even though I ask for it.’
Goodbye, my dear friend, and all best wishes. J. Verdenal.
PS I have seen the worthy Prichard again; he delivered himself of a mass of ridiculous opinions about a host of works of art, and repeated theories from which he more or less refuses to budge. He hasn’t, I think, a sufficient grounding in philosophy and science to avoid being taken in by charlatans.
1913–1914
TO Eleanor Hinkley
PC 1 Houghton
[Postmark 29 June 1913]
Portland, Maine
This is sure one warm place. Am having photo snapped: if real good will send you one.
Yours etc
TSE
PS Going to have fortune told. If real nice will let you in on it.
1–Entitled ‘Quitcherkidin’, the postcard shows a woman tickling a man with a long feather.
TO W. E. Hocking 1
MS Houghton
10 October 1913
16 Ash St, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
My dear Professor Hocking
I am writing to you as a representative of the Harvard Philosophical Club. We are anxious to secure a speaker for our first open meeting of the year, which will take place on Friday evening the thirty-first of October. Would it be possible for you to come up to Cambridge and address us on that night? We feel that it would be very much to the interest of the club and the pleasure of the public if you could accept. As you are an old member of the club yourself I have no need to describe the sort of occasion that our public meetings are; I can only assure you of our appreciation in the case of your acceptance. The club, of course, defrays the expenses of speakers whom it invites from a distance. And if you cannot accept for this date, could you suggest some other time, either in November or December, or later in the year, when it might be possible for you to come? 2
Very truly yours
Thomas S. Eliot
(President)
1–William E. Hocking (1873–1966), idealist follower of Josiah Royce; Professor of Philosophy at Yale, 1908–14; Harvard, 1914–43. Author of The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912).
2–Hocking spoke on Bergson’s Philosophy of Art, 5 Dec.
This was TSE’s first dramatic appearance, in 1913, at one of the private theatricals given in the house of his aunt, Mrs Holmes Hinkley, for the benefit of The Cambridge Visiting Housekeeper, a scheme organised by Mrs Hinkley to train unskilled girls for domestic service. Eleanor Hinkley recorded that ‘the scenes were laid in the parlor fireplace in a space no bigger than seven square feet, so that the actors could be seen by the audience in the next room, through a doorway that was four feet eight’. The guests consisted of relatives, friends of the cast, and neighbours.
TO Professor W. E. Hocking
MS Houghton
7 December [1913]
16 Ash St
My dear Professor Hocking
I am writing just to remind you to send a note of your expenses either to me or to our treasurer, Mr A. A. Roback, 51 Mt. Auburn Street, whenever it is convenient to you.
I hope that you feel justified for the time and fatigue of coming up to address us – if you could have talked (as I did) with a number of the members afterwards you would realise our gratitude!
Sincerely yours
Thomas S. Eliot
FROM Henry Ware Eliot TO Thomas Lamb Eliot
MS Reed College
7 March 1914
[St Louis]
Dear Bob,
You must and I have written to Tom D. 1 It probably is a good thing to mix foreign blood with our effete New England people. Especially if it means brawn. It will prevent petering out.
I can’t
Goodbye, my dear friend, and all best wishes. J. Verdenal.
PS I have seen the worthy Prichard again; he delivered himself of a mass of ridiculous opinions about a host of works of art, and repeated theories from which he more or less refuses to budge. He hasn’t, I think, a sufficient grounding in philosophy and science to avoid being taken in by charlatans.
1913–1914
TO Eleanor Hinkley
PC 1 Houghton
[Postmark 29 June 1913]
Portland, Maine
This is sure one warm place. Am having photo snapped: if real good will send you one.
Yours etc
TSE
PS Going to have fortune told. If real nice will let you in on it.
1–Entitled ‘Quitcherkidin’, the postcard shows a woman tickling a man with a long feather.
TO W. E. Hocking 1
MS Houghton
10 October 1913
16 Ash St, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
My dear Professor Hocking
I am writing to you as a representative of the Harvard Philosophical Club. We are anxious to secure a speaker for our first open meeting of the year, which will take place on Friday evening the thirty-first of October. Would it be possible for you to come up to Cambridge and address us on that night? We feel that it would be very much to the interest of the club and the pleasure of the public if you could accept. As you are an old member of the club yourself I have no need to describe the sort of occasion that our public meetings are; I can only assure you of our appreciation in the case of your acceptance. The club, of course, defrays the expenses of speakers whom it invites from a distance. And if you cannot accept for this date, could you suggest some other time, either in November or December, or later in the year, when it might be possible for you to come? 2
Very truly yours
Thomas S. Eliot
(President)
1–William E. Hocking (1873–1966), idealist follower of Josiah Royce; Professor of Philosophy at Yale, 1908–14; Harvard, 1914–43. Author of The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912).
2–Hocking spoke on Bergson’s Philosophy of Art, 5 Dec.
This was TSE’s first dramatic appearance, in 1913, at one of the private theatricals given in the house of his aunt, Mrs Holmes Hinkley, for the benefit of The Cambridge Visiting Housekeeper, a scheme organised by Mrs Hinkley to train unskilled girls for domestic service. Eleanor Hinkley recorded that ‘the scenes were laid in the parlor fireplace in a space no bigger than seven square feet, so that the actors could be seen by the audience in the next room, through a doorway that was four feet eight’. The guests consisted of relatives, friends of the cast, and neighbours.
TO Professor W. E. Hocking
MS Houghton
7 December [1913]
16 Ash St
My dear Professor Hocking
I am writing just to remind you to send a note of your expenses either to me or to our treasurer, Mr A. A. Roback, 51 Mt. Auburn Street, whenever it is convenient to you.
I hope that you feel justified for the time and fatigue of coming up to address us – if you could have talked (as I did) with a number of the members afterwards you would realise our gratitude!
Sincerely yours
Thomas S. Eliot
FROM Henry Ware Eliot TO Thomas Lamb Eliot
MS Reed College
7 March 1914
[St Louis]
Dear Bob,
You must and I have written to Tom D. 1 It probably is a good thing to mix foreign blood with our effete New England people. Especially if it means brawn. It will prevent petering out.
I can’t
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