The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1

by Sylvia Plath

  administration of, 527–8, 541, 546, 549, 586, 624, 848;

  Alpha Awards, 911, 921;

  Alpha-Phi Kappa Psi, 438–9, 709, 755, 911;

  ‘American Novel at Mid-Century, The’ (symposium), 899n, 1314;

  ‘Arts and Morals’ (symposium), 596–7, 601, 603–4;

  Botanical Gardens, 321;

  buildings: Albright House, 411, 506; Alumnae Gymnasium, 690; Alumnae House, 911; annex house, 177, 181, 183, 220, 244, 260; College Hall, 231, 287, 675, 677, 693–4, 856, 862; Davis Center, 303–4, 421; Dewey House, 667; Elizabeth Mason Infirmary, 196–7, 199, 311–13, 316–17, 383, 386, 410, 418, 537, 567–8, 600, 701, 738, 811, 855–7, 859, 903, 980, 988, 995, 1112; Franklin King House, 735n; German House, 280; Gillett House, 666, 1149; Graham Hall, 302n, 392n; Haven House, 173n, 174, 178n, 183n, 191n, 211, 232, 242–3, 247, 255, 260, 265, 271, 310–12, 316, 322, 325, 327, 403, 409, 422, 432, 443, 445, 449, 503, 506–7, 510, 516, 563, 578, 660, 667; Hopkins House, 291; John M. Greene Hall, 277n, 284n, 426n, 435n, 439n; Laura Scales House, 735n; Lawrence House, 175, 443, 503n, 504, 507, 508n, 510, 512–13, 531, 536–7, 551, 559, 578, 597, 601, 603, 606, 615, 617, 669, 674, 677, 685, 693–7, 707, 780, 802, 809, 811, 815–16, 825, 844, 850, 855, 902; Lyman Plant House, 674, 677, 693–4; Museum of Art, 382–3; Religious Center (7 College Lane), 727; Sage Hall, 191n, 395, 443, 508, 516, 592n, 628n, 686n, 699n, 724–5n; Scott Gymnasium, 233, 325, 410, 420, 610, 615, 624; Sessions House, 667; Tenny House, 816; Wesley House, 173n, 280; William Allan Neilson Library, 181, 183, 186–7, 217, 222–3, 226, 249, 253, 262–3, 268, 278, 294, 386, 411n, 422, 425n, 528, 539, 547, 629n, 700, 803, 817, 854; Ziskind House, 677n;

  Charity Ball, 284, 401, 414, 419–20;

  courses: Art 11 (art history), 439, 505–6; Art 13 (basic design), 185–6, 189, 199– 200, 214, 219, 226, 233, 243, 250, 253, 257, 262, 265–6, 276, 286, 290–1, 295– 6, 301, 315, 321, 323–4, 665n; Art 33b (medieval art), 674n, 678–9, 694; Art 210 (drawing and painting), 323, 374n, 375, 384, 399, 401, 403, 410, 412, 423, 431, 440; Botany 11 (general botany), 179, 181, 186, 194, 198, 200–2, 206, 211–12, 214, 218–19, 225, 233, 242, 248, 250, 252–4, 264–6, 268–9, 276, 290, 295, 299–302, 307, 309, 312–13, 316, 321–4, 329; English 11 (freshman English), 185–6, 189, 194, 196–9, 202, 204–5, 211–18, 222, 225, 228, 233, 240, 243, 248, 250, 253, 256–7, 262–5, 275, 284, 290, 293, 295, 300–2, 309, 311, 313, 315, 319, 321, 324, see also Smith College (SP as teacher at); English 36 (Shakespeare), 753, 803n, 805–6, 809, 826, 828, 830–1, 833, 848, 852, 856, 861, 866, 868, 889, 899, 903, 911; English 39 (Milton), 504n, 541, 546, 558–9, 570, 574–6, 583, 604, 606, 613, 615, 622, 629; English 40b (review unit), 803n, 848, 866; English 41b (special studies, poetry), 735, 740, 803n, 852, 855, 858–9, 862, 867–8, 871, 889, 892, 900, 911, 917; English 44b (Joyce, Yeats, Eliot), 558–9, 583; English 211 (19th- & 20th-century literature), 323, 374n, 388, 392, 399, 401, 406, 416, 423–4, 426, 436, 445; English 220 (practical writing), 323, 374n, 384, 395, 401, 403, 406, 410, 416, 423, 431, 606; English 321b (American fiction), 674n, 678, 694, 698, 701–2, 705, 741, 759; English 347a (style and form), 504n, 505–7, 510, 514–15, 525, 527, 534, 539–41, 546–7, 549–50, 559, 570, 576, 753, 803n, 833, 838, 842–3, 846, 852, 866, 871, 880; English 347b (techniques of fiction and criticism), 826n, 852, 911; English 417b (20th-century novel), 674n, 678, 694, 803n, 826n, 848, 866, 903; English unit (medieval literature), 504n, 505–7, 514–15, 520–1, 527, 532, 534, 547, 576, 902; English unit (modern poetry), 436n, 504n, 540, 545–6, 549, 554–5, 564, 570, 575–6, 604, 613, 615; French 13 (reading, grammar, and composition), 179; French 16 (introduction to French literature), 179, 181, 183, 185–6, 189, 198–202, 206, 211–12, 214, 222, 224, 233, 236, 250, 253–4, 264, 266, 267, 276–7, 290, 295, 299–301, 303, 316, 321–2, 324, 329, 332; German 12 (intermediate course), 753, 803n, 806n, 810, 813–14, 817, 822, 824, 826, 828, 833–4, 839, 843, 845–6, 848, 852, 856, 860–1, 866, 868, 889, 899–900, 903, 911, 917–18, 921; German 26 (Lessing, Goethe, Schiller), 780, 806n, 810, 815, 822, 826; Government 11 (introduction to politics), 323, 374n, 388, 392, 399, 401, 404, 406, 410, 413, 415, 423–4, 426, 436, 442, 445; History 11 (general European), 185–7, 189, 194–5, 198–9, 201–2, 205–6, 209–14, 222, 225, 231, 233, 235, 237, 239–40, 243, 250, 253–4, 256–7, 263–5, 268–9, 272, 274, 281, 286, 289–90, 293, 295, 300–2, 306, 309–10, 312, 316, 321–2, 324, 329, 332, 705; History 38b (19th-century European intellectual history), 674n, 678, 694, 701, 724, 726, 759; Physical Education 1a, b (body mechanics, dance, and sports), 199, 250, 256, 263, 265, 323; Physical Education 2a, b (dance and sports), 323, 374, 400, 426; Physical Science 193 (world of atoms), 438, 450, 456, 459, 466, 471, 483, 489–90, 504n, 505, 507, 514–15, 521, 526–8, 530, 532–3, 537, 539, 541, 546–7, 549–50, 554, 558–9, 566, 607; Religion 14 (introduction to religion), 323, 374, 383, 385–6, 392, 396, 399–401, 412, 416, 426, 434, 437, 552; Russian 35b (Tolstoy and Dostoevsky), 674n, 678, 694, 698, 701–2, 704–5, 724, 759;

  Dean’s List, 284, 286, 373, 578;

  Elizabeth Babcock poetry prize, 602n, 604, 630n, 755n, 1135;

  Ethel Olin Corbin prize, 630n, 755n, 929, 1135;

  exams and grades of, 173, 175, 179, 229, 236, 239, 256–7, 261, 265, 268–70, 273, 275–6, 281–2, 284, 286, 290, 293, 295, 298–300, 304–5, 307, 309, 312, 316, 321–2, 324, 329–32, 384, 396, 400, 404, 410, 412–13, 420–1, 424, 426, 429, 433–4, 436, 442, 444–5, 512, 521, 527, 532–3, 539, 541, 546, 549–50, 565–6, 576, 613, 615, 623, 628–9, 654, 701–2, 704–5, 724, 739, 741, 753, 757, 759, 808, 822, 826, 835, 838, 855–7, 861, 867–8, 889, 899–901, 903, 911, 916–17, 923, 928, 930;

  extracurricular activities: Art Club, 325, 667; Decoration Committee, 302, 306, 400–1, 419–20, 434; Electoral Board, 419, 425, 561, 575–6, 578, 580, 582, 709; Glee Club, 749; Honor Board, 206, 425, 427, 441, 444, 483n, 505n, 513, 554, 561n, 575, 709; Judicial Board, 283–5, 287, 292, 419, 561n; News Office, 392, 414, 423, 439, 507, 543, 583, 586–7, 596, 599, 612, 617, 620, 622–5, 677, 683, 705, 709, 740, 744, 749, 753, 862, 927; Press Board, 373, 392, 396, 398, 401, 406, 411, 414, 423, 425, 426, 433, 436–7, 439–40, 444, 455, 463, 507, 510, 512, 515–16, 527, 533, 543, 558, 575, 583, 601, 612, 613n, 619, 631, 729, 748, 813, 816–18, 860; Push Committee, 440; Smith Review, 438–9, 484, 506–7, 513, 532, 575, 604, 616, 622–4, 626, 683, 708, 731, 843n, 845, 847, 852, 863, 871, 874, 921; Studio Club, 305–6, 325, 414; Honors Committee, 855; Friends of the Smith College Libraries, 439, 441;

  lectures, 200–1, 213, 222–3, 374, 388, 392, 396, 398, 406, 411, 412n, 426, 433, 436, 439–40, 443, 541, 546, 549, 559, 586, 592, 607, 676, 679, 686–7, 695, 698–9, 701–2, 706, 726–7, 809, 826, 831;

  Marjorie Hope Nicholson prize, 674n, 929;

  Paradise Pond, 183, 201, 226, 235, 304, 322, 328, 383, 443, 548, 627, 668, 674, 677, 693–4, 792, 814;

  Phi Beta Kappa, 303, 438, 566, 576, 606, 683, 709, 729, 735, 736, 738, 874;

  programmes abroad, 168, 179, 203, 323, 418, 432, 463, 512;

  Public Relations, 862;

  Religious Association, 411n;

  Smith College Associated News (SCAN), 175;

  Sophian, The, 175n, 911n;

  Sports, 667;

  SP’s interpersonal relationships at, 687;

  student life: advisors, 174–5, 668; artwork, renting of, 679; bridge playing of, 178, 195, 202, 255, 261, 327, 421, 505, 657, 664, 665, 679, 685, 694, 697, 701, 724, 808; Chapel, 199, 231, 305, 438, 589, 667, 701; Christmas vacations, 403, 405, 408, 531, 812, 841–2, 847, 867; commencement, 902, 922, 932; cooperative houses, 209, 313, 317, 319, 418, 423, 431, 519, 666; dating, 183, 185, 190, 203–4, 213, 220, 227, 230, 235–9, 241, 245, 255, 266, 271–2, 277–8, 307, 328, 411, 667; fire drills, 816; Float Night, 325, 328, 627, 668, 725, 759, 825; Freshman Dance, 306–7, 414; hosiery, selling of, 374; house dances, 215, 230, 236, 247–9, 254, 401–2, 405, 414, 529, 531, 564, 815–16, 844, 846, 850; house meetings, 219, 235, 242, 257, 296, 405, 426, 515, 530, 578, 816, 911; International Students’ Day, 396, 414; meals, 173
, 177, 180, 198, 202, 208, 216, 226, 228, 242, 245, 252–3, 267–8, 278, 303, 308, 311–12, 383, 438, 440, 444–5, 506, 508, 515, 534, 536, 542, 555, 584, 604, 627, 687, 700, 726, 735–6; Junior Prom, 304, 521, 572; Mountain Day, 187, 192–3, 395, 439, 513, 802, 812–14; Rally Day, 284, 286–7, 420, 558, 560–1, 564, 568, 690, 695; reading periods, 615, 741, 744; riotous living fund, 823; safety rules, 832; Smith Club, 306, 323; snow storms, 253–5, 269, 289–90, 294, 674, 677, 693–4; Sophomore Prom, 300, 401, 411, 413, 425, 438; spring, 321, 328, 432, 575, 690; spring vacations, 229, 275, 281, 283, 292, 295, 318, 418, 422, 424, 429, 432, 449, 570, 582–3, 601, 660, 675, 679, 702, 899, 902, 905, 906; tuition, 310, 423, 431, 667; waitressing, 503, 507, 512, 533, 622; Vocational Office, 307, 318, 893

  ‘Smith College Club Tea For Freshman And Undergraduates’, 560n

  Smythe, Richard (‘Dick’), 524

  Snerd, Mortimer, 67

  Snow, C. P. (Charles Percy), 962

  Snow Inn, 476

  Snow White (legendary character), 121

  Socrates, 1191, 1273

  Soho (London), 965, 1055, 1058, 1062n, 1107

  Sonnenfeld, Marion, 802, 803n, 806n, 822, 826, 831, 835

  Sons of the American Revolution Prize, 415

  Sophocles, 1085, 1099, 1130n; Electra, 1130; Oedipus Rex, 995n; Philoctetes, 1099–1100, 1102

  Sotheby’s (firm), 274n, 651n

  Sousa, John Philip, ‘Stars and Stripes Forever, The’, 82

  South Africa, 967, 977, 1057, 1085

  South America, 251, 489, 654, 1216, 1303

  South Beach, Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., 115

  South Dennis, Mass., 482, 489, 494

  South Orange, New Jersey, 404, 407

  South Pacific, 473, 476, 1103n;

  ‘A Cockeyed Optimist’, 1103n;

  ‘A Wonderful Guy’ (quotation from), 714n

  South Station (Boston), 94, 101–2, 133

  Southampton, UK, 1079, 1159, 1190–1

  Southern Rhodesia, 37

  Southward Inn (Orleans, Mass.), 435, 486, 704, 707, 856, 887

  Sou’wester (restaurant), 481

  Spain, 891, 1013, 1038, 1055, 1080, 1104, 1132, 1136, 1153, 1160–1, 1166, 1171, 1175, 1179, 1181, 1187, 1190, 1192, 1195, 1200, 1205, 1207, 1209–11, 1213–15, 1217, 1222–3, 1225–6, 1235, 1238–40, 1248, 1259, 1261, 1264, 1268, 1287, 1298–1300, 1308, 1316, 1321, 1323–4, 1326n, 1327–8, 1330; Spanish language, 891, 895

  Spaulding, Myrtle, 771

  Spencer, Edmund, 534

  Spender, Natasha, 1311–12

  Spender, Stephen, 962, 1094, 1117, 1120, 1152, 1253, 1257, 1285, 1311–13

  Spillane, Mickey, 532, 926–7

  Springfield, Mass., 270, 306, 412, 516, 550, 553, 571, 585, 627, 732

  Springfield Cubs, 627

  Springfield Daily News (Springfield, Mass.), 373n, 463, 484, 512, 587; SP’s work in, 512n, 516n

  Springfield Sunday Republican (Springfield, Mass.), 373n

  Springfield Union (Springfield, Mass.), 373n, 624, 628; SP’s work in, 411–12n, 425–6n, 439n, 613n

  Stafford, Jean, 1084, 1256n, 1298; ‘The Mountain Day’, 1298n; ‘A Reading Problem’, 1256n, 1298n

  Stair, Holly, see Greer, Holly

  Stamper, John, 825, 857

  Stanway, Arthur Gordon (‘Gord’), 359n, 360, 385, 391, 402

  Star Island, Isles of Shoals, off Portsmouth, NH, 54, 56, 59, 145–6, 147n; Judy (Camper), 146

  Star Market, 773, 938n

  Starr, Eleanor, see Darcy, Eleanor Starr

  Starr, Kay, 788n

  Staten Island Ferry, 718

  Statue of Liberty, 718

  Steck, Jean, 10

  Steele, Priscilla, 38, 45–6, 108

  Stein, Dorothea Wormser, 1149

  Stein, Gertrude, 652

  Steinbeck, John, In Dubious Battle, 333; East of Eden, 1076; The Grapes of Wrath, 333

  Steiner, George, 626n

  Steiner, Nancy Hunter, 706, 724–5, 727–9, 732–3, 742, 747–9, 751, 753–4, 758–9, 773, 780, 782–3, 786, 791, 794–5, 805, 818, 828, 852, 858, 878, 911, 914, 969, 978, 1236, 1260, 1299

  Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noire, 975, 986, 998, 1040, 1044, 1229

  Steps of Age, The (motion picture), 717n

  Sterling, W. Wayne, 46, 84–5, 113, 119, 129–30

  Stern, Ernest, 259n

  Stern, Marcia B. (‘Marty’, ‘Brownie’), 178n, 259, 262, 267, 272–80, 284, 287–8, 292–4, 296–7, 300–1, 306–8, 310–11, 313, 316, 318–20, 322, 326–7, 339–40, 345–6, 351, 353, 356–9, 361–4, 374, 376, 380, 382, 385, 390, 394, 396, 400, 403–4, 406–11, 415, 418, 421, 434, 437, 441, 445, 451, 489, 506–7, 510–12, 516– 17, 525, 527, 550, 554–5, 582, 584–5, 587–8, 590, 603, 615, 623, 637, 688, 692n, 695, 703, 713, 724–5, 726n, 729, 732, 742, 761, 766, 777, 782, 852, 903, 905–6, 943, 948, 952, 1006, 1041, 1052, 1102, 1189, 1193, 1195, 1197, 1206, 1234, 1250, 1299; marriage of, 698–9, 704, 707, 742, 755, 757, 758, 763, 781; SP’s correspondence with, 329–30, 332–7, 340–1, 343–5, 350–1, 367–70, 464–74, 1056–8, 1151–4

  Sterne, Laurence, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 727

  Stevens, Wallace, 920, 1311

  Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Erving), 475, 479, 516, 520, 523, 846–7, 932

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 823

  Stewart, David Hamish, 1120

  Stix, John, 948n

  Stocklan, Joyce, see Goldberg, Joyce Stocklan

  Stockton, Frank R., ‘The Lady, or the Tiger?’, 662, 743

  Storer, Elizabeth, see Paynter, Elizabeth Storer

  Stout, John Anthony (‘Tony’), 243, 247, 276, 696

  Strahan, Derek, 1120

  Stratford-upon-Avon, England, 1026, 1042, 1048, 1171, 1177–9

  Strauss, Harold, SP’s correspondence with, 463

  Strauss, Johann, 153, 266, 379; ‘The Blue Danube’, 82; Die Fledermaus, 492; Voices of Spring, 104n

  Street and Smith Publications, 659n, 673

  Strindberg, August, 1043, 1046, 1060, 1085–6, 1090, 1122; The Ghost Sonata, 1043n

  Strong, Joan, see Buell, Joan Strong

  Struik, Dirk J. (Dirk Jan), 425

  Stuart, Gilbert, 43n

  Sudbury, Mass., 33

  Suicide, 694–5; see also Plath, Sylvia (suicide attempt of)

  Sullins, Bessie McAlpine, 265n, 266

  Sullivan, Charles (‘Charlie’), 240

  Summertime (motion picture), 959

  Sunday Tribune (Sunday Herald Tribune), 176

  ‘Sunset in Seville’, 82

  Sutcliffe’s Inn, 1275

  Svengali (motion picture), 941n, 942

  Swampscott, Mass., 306, 308, 318, 329–30, 340–2, 344, 347, 370

  Swan Lake (choreographic work), 432, 611

  Swarthmore College, 869

  Swarz, Sahl, 1025

  Sweden, 251, 406, 890, 993, 1074

  Sweeney, Sean, 1014, 1038

  Swenson, May, 1256n; ‘The Promontory Moment’, 1256n

  Swift, Jonathan, 1287

  Swinton, George, 325

  Switzerland, 140, 1067, 1122, 1140, 1145

  Sydney, Australia, 969n

  Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1122, 1318n; Deirdre of the Sorrows, 1318

  Szell, George, 277n

  Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso), 516, 520, 523

  Taj Mahal (restaurant), 1037, 1134, 1253

  Tales of Hoffman (motion picture), 940n

  Talking books, 1111

  Tallchief, Maria, 637, 640

  Tangier, Morocco, 889–92, 894, 956, 965

  Tansley, Sir A. G. (Arthur George), 1003, 1043

  Tansley, Edith, Lady, 1003n, 1017, 1043, 1049

  Tansley, Katharine, 1003n, 1012–13, 1031, 1043, 1049

  Tapley, Arden, see Ramrath, Arden Tapley

  Tarot (cards), 1306, 1327

  Tate, Allen, 597, 601, 1152

  Tate Gallery, 1296

  Tati, Jacques, 508n

  Taylor,
Joshua, 1199, see also Joshua Taylor

  Taylor, Marge, 10

  Taylor, Susan Slye, 271

  Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, Eugene Onegin, 104n; Piano Concerto No. 1, 1026, 1040

  Tchelitchew, Pavel, 779

  Teasdale, Sara, 1012, 1181, 1237, 1268, 1289, 1330; ‘The Crystal Gazer’, 1012n; ‘Two Songs for Solitude’ (quotation from), 1012n

  Teed, Nancy, see Shears, Nancy Teed

  Telephone systems, 773, 881

  Television, 160, 273, 336, 638–9, 642, 657, 879, 1210, 1248, 1254, 1269, 1281

  Tennessee, 355n

  Tennyson, Alfred, Baron, 332, 538n; ‘Break Break Break’, 538n; ‘The Eagle’, 332n; ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ 659

  Terry, 1269

  Texas, 273

  Texas Christian University, 705n, 708

  Thames River (England), 969, 1205

  Thanksgiving Day, 139, 157, 177, 187, 196–8, 211–13, 217, 221–2, 225, 244, 384, 387, 400, 402–3, 431, 508n, 514, 519–21, 523, 525, 527–9, 531, 824, 834–8, 840, 1032

  Themerson, Franciszka, 1037n, 1054n, 1056n

  ‘These Foolish Things’, 869

  Thiébaux, Marcelle, 550

  Thiel family, 28

  Thomas, Dylan, 615, 634, 670–2, 682, 705, 709, 717, 770, 920, 1010, 1014, 1144n, 1164–7, 1173, 1177, 1179, 1185, 1200, 1203, 1278, 1312; ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’, 682; ‘Fern Hill’, 682n, 1144; ‘In the White Giant’s Thigh’, 682; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, 1200; Under Milk Wood (quotation from), 671, 762; ‘The Vest’, 898n

  Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall, ‘The Hill People’, 480

  Thompson, Alice, 259, 261n, 509n

  Thompson, Peggy, ‘This is how it was’, 449n

  Thompson, Sue, 544n

  Thomson, Patricia May, 35

  Thornell, Colleen Marie, 924–5

  Thornell, Emma M. Takacs, 924–5

  Thornell, Robert, 924–7

  Thornell, Russell E., 924–5

  Thornell, Susan, 974, 815, 924n

  Thornton, Reese, 1087