by T. S. Eliot
Matthew 65;
(Apocrypha) 1 Maccabees 228
Blake, William: 376, 458; Milton 181;
The Tyger 143
Bolo: derivations of name 247–48
Bottome, Phyllis: 223
Bowen, Elizabeth: 235
Bowra, Maurice: 198
Brace, Donald: 421, 429
Browne, E. Martin 54, 70, 179, 469
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: A Musical Instrument 258
Browning, Robert: 291; How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix 266;
The Flight of the Duchess 594;
Meeting at Night 594;
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 281
Buber, Martin: “Great Man” 156
Burns, Robert: “modest claim” as writer of songs 172; Auld Lang Syne 174;
Oh Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast 173;
Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation 195;
Tam o’Shanter 173, 174;
Tam Sampson’s Elegy 174;
The Twa Dogs 174
Byron, George Gordon, Lord: Beppo 283; Don Juan II – 274;
XI – 66
Caetani, Marguerite: 417; commissions translation of Anabase 135–37, 146;
Commerce 136;
Ash-Wednesday 422
Campbell, Roy: 199
Carmichael, Alexander: Carmina Gadelica 172
Carroll, Lewis: 39, 151; The Hunting of the Snark 60;
Jabberwocky 59, 60, 144, 180;
Sylvie and Bruno 151;
Through the Looking-Glass 214, 268, 275;
The Walrus and the Carpenter 183, 278
Catholic Anthology: “has not done very well, in spite of the name of Yeats” 252
cats: Asparagus see Gus; Big Bravo 40, 57;
Bustopher Jones 71;
Carbucketry 52;
Dick Whittington’s 70, 165;
Dirghakarna 38;
Dolabella 54;
Ermyntrude (formerly Gertrude) 54;
Great Rumpuscat 65;
Grizabella 52, 624;
Growltiger 44, 58;
Gus 49, 56;
James Buz-James 74;
Jellicle 38, 43, 44, 54, 57, 61;
Jellylorum 55;
Lilliecat 51–52;
Macavity 66–68;
Mirza Murad Ali Beg 52, 57;
Mister Mistoffelees 65;
Morgan 43, 75–76, 639–41;
Mungojerrie 62;
Noilly Prat 52;
Old Deuteronomy 63;
Old Gumbie 40, 57;
Pettipaws 74;
Porpentine 40, 52;
Pouncival 52;
The Practical Cat 38, 40;
Rumpelteazer 62;
Rum Tum Tugger 60–61;
Sillabub 52;
Skimbleshanks 72–73;
Tantamile (also Tantomile) 52;
Tumblecat 40;
Wiskuscat 52;
see also headnote to The Naming of Cats.
Cats (musical): 50–53
Chaplin, Charlie: 203, 253
Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales Prologue 227
cheese: 168–69; Society for the Preservation of Ancient Cheeses 213;
“rather fine Red Cheshire” 213
Chesterton, G. K.: 64
clubs: Harvard 72; London 71–72.
See also Eliot’s Club
Clutton-Brock, Arthur: deprecated 256
Cobden-Sanderson, Richard: 366
Cobden-Sanderson, Sally: 238–39; verse envelopes addressed to 157–58
Colefax, Sibyl: 516; organises reading 253
Coleridge, S. T.: Dejection 223; Kubla Khan 160;
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 228, 261;
Sibylline Leaves 217
Conan Doyle, Arthur: The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans 69; The Adventure of the Naval Treaty 69;
The Final Problem 66–69;
The Musgrave Ritual 67;
Spiritualists and the Hidden Hand 68
Cousens, Hilderic: 183
Crawley, W. J.: 46, 202
Curwen Press: 421, 453
Dante: Sayers translation 197
Davies, Geoffrey: 183, 190
Davies, Hugh Sykes: 47
Day Lewis, C.: 199, 297, 466
de la Mare, Richard: 45, 58, 135, 201, 421, 424, 437, 486; Noctes Binanianæ 209–10
Dickens, Charles: Our Mutual Friend 61; Pickwick Papers 73, 74;
TSE’s “Pickwick Paper (Advanced)” 48, 59
Dobrée, Bonamy: 58, 71, 238–39; on Anabasis translation 141, 144, 145;
on Bolovians 247;
Difficulties of a Statesman typescript 454;
Improper Rhymes 257–69
dogs: Pollicle 41–43, 162; “book of Consequential Dogs” 52;
“a simple soul” 74
Dunbar, William: Lament for the Makers 172
Eliot, Henry Ware, Jr.: leaves TSE a new typewriter 360; gifts to Harvard 150–51;
The Rumble Murders 39–40
Eliot, Henry Ware, Sr.: 40, 272
Eliot, Vivien: drafts of The Waste Land 361
Eliot’s Club: 216
Empson, William: 41; “possible Empsonism” 526
Epstein, Jacob: 183
“F. M.” (see headnote to Index of Identifying Titles for TSE’s Prose, I 1253): 62; Letters of the Moment and “Fresca couplets” 367–68
Faber & Faber: Book Committee 45; Faber & Gwyer 77, 136, 366;
inadequate emoluments 216;
Sesame series 296
Faber, Enid: 38–40, 53, 221, 227, 622
Faber, Geoffrey: “genially tolerant” as chairman of Faber & Faber 39; Estates Bursar of All Souls 216;
editor of John Gay 218;
Latin poet 232;
“An Answer to the Foregoing Poem” 214;
Nobody knows how I feel about you 224
Faber, Tom: 39, 57; “a promising youth” 214
Fabre-Luce, Jenny (Mme. Roland de Margerie) 210, 235
Fireside: childhood magazine 40, 150–51
Firuski, Maurice: buys TSE drafts from Aiken 580–81
Ford, John: The Broken Heart 265
Foster, Jeanne Robert: sent typescript Q of The Waste Land 363–64
Fox Club (Harvard): 72, 566
Frost, Robert: 172
Fry, Roger: Vision and Design 156, 347
Gascoyne, David: 47
Gay, John: 218; The Elephant and the Bookseller 219
Gilbert, W. S.: Bab Ballads 43
godchildren: see Faber, Tom; Tandy, Alison; Morley, Susanna; Roberts, Adam
Goldsmith, Oliver: An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature 213, 214
Graves, Robert: “reading of poets” 253
Gray, Thomas: Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat 47, 57; Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 197
Gregory, Eric: prints Noctes Binanianæ 207
Grieve, C. M.: see MacDiarmid, Hugh
Gunn, Neil M.: 174
Hale, Emily: assists Mrs. Perkins’s lecture 603
Harris, Joel Chandler: The Stories of Uncle Remus 37;
Brer Rabbit 37, 288
Hart-Davis, Rupert: 466; records with TSE 234;
The Waste Land copied out by TSE for auction 369, 466
Harte, Bret: 65
Hatch, Roger Conant: 561
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: Mosses from an Old Manse 64; The Scarlet Letter 64
Hayward, John: drawings for Practical Cats 47–49, 53; hosts dinners 207;
Love’s Helicon 210, 268;
Mon Faust (Valéry) 231
Hebert, Gabriel: typescript of East Coker 493
Hemingway, Ernest: “writer of tender sentiment” 59
Hinkley, Eleanor: The Jim Jum Bears 609
Hodgson, Aurelia: 40
Hodgson, Ralph: fails to draw for Practical Cats 48
Hogarth Press: printing and binding of Poems (1919) 337–38; distributes Commerce 136
Hopkins, Gerard M.: 458
Housman, A. E.: A Shropsh
ire Lad 185, 217
Hutchinson, Mary: 422–23; envelope verses 156, 157, 160
Inventions of the March Hare Notebook 302–304
Irving, Washington: Tales of a Traveller 56
James, Henry: The Sense of the Past 68
Jennings, Richard: 235, 497
John of the Cross, St.: 449
Johnson, Jack: 201
Johnson, Samuel: The Battle of the Pygmies and Cranes 64–65
Joyce, James: “somewhat sabbatarian mind” 248; Ulysses episodes II (Nestor) 56;
IX (Scylla and Charybdis) 57;
XIV (The Oxen of the Sun) 58
Junius: 449
Kauffer, E. McKnight: 207, 235, 422
Keats, John: Ode on a Grecian Urn 223; Ode to a Nightingale 221–22
Kennerley, Jean: 188–89
Kennerley, Morley: 75, 189
Kipling, Rudyard: 57; Captains Courageous 281;
The Craftsman 61;
The Jungle Book 223–24;
The Long Trail 52, 73;
La Nuit Blanche 68;
The Outsider 251;
The Song of the Banjo 68;
Toomai of the Elephants 223–24
Layton, Turner and Clarence “Tandy” Johnstone (duo): 224
Lear, Edward: Nonsense Botany 38; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat 61, 62
Lewis, P. Wyndham: One-Way Song 288
Leyris, Pierre: and Noctes Binanianæ 230, 297
Liveright, Horace: publication of The Waste Land: 363, 365–67
Lockhart, J. G.: 207
London: Bina Gardens 207, 230–31; Russell Square 75–77, 198, 641;
St. Stephen’s Church, Gloucester Road 186, 216, 626;
Tottenham Court Road 615
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: The Divine Tragedy 56; The Village Blacksmith 147, 279
Macaulay, Thomas Babington: Lays of Ancient Rome 59–60
MacDiarmid, Hugh: “good deal of vigour” 172
Macmurray, John: 181
Mairet, Philip: 183, 501
Man in White Spats, the: 53–54 Mardersteig, Giovanni: edition of Four Quartets 298;
edition of The Waste Land 298;
emends quotation from Dante 300
Marlowe, Christopher: Dr. Faustus 66, 142, 219
Marvell, Andrew: The Nymph Complaining for the death of her Faun 223
Marx, Groucho: 203
Menasce, Jean de: translates parts of Ash-Wednesday 421–23
Menninger, Karl: 222
Meredith, George: Lucifer in Starlight 60
Milton Academy: 68
Milton, John: Areopagitica 288; Lycidas 52;
On the Lord General Fairfax 226;
Paradise Lost 70, 227;
Paradise Regained 63;
Sonnet 8 (When the assault was intended to the City) 227;
Sonnet 16 (On his Blindness) 217
Mirrlees, Emily (Mappie): 76, 174
Mirrlees, Hope: 75, 174, 198
Morley, F. V. (Frank): 219; and Noctes Binanianæ 207–209, 220, 268, 286–87;
Pike’s Farm 167;
moves to Connecticut 208;
“push and initiative” 219;
US edition of Four Quartets 483–84;
The Mark of the Spider is 666 208;
My One Contribution to Chess 219
Morley, Susanna: 39
Morrell, Ottoline: and The Hollow Men 417; and Ash-Wednesday 422
Nichols, Robert: 56; “reading of poets” 253
nonsense: nonsense words 61
Noyes, Alfred: 180–81
nursery rhymes: Mother Goose 197; “Boys and girls come out to play” 61, 163;
“Mary had a little lamb”, 72;
“Michael Finigan” 264;
“One finger one thumb” 62;
“Robin and Richard were two pretty men”, 201;
“Sing a song of sixpence” 277;
“With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes” 169
Page, Patricia Shaw: 165
Piper, John: 221
Poe, Edgar Allan: To Helen 228
Pope, Alexander: 368, 385; The Dunciad 213, 288;
An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 227;
The First Book of Statius His Thebais 60
Possum: “feigning death” 37; “very unpleasant odour” 37;
possible title for Criterion 37;
“Old Possum’s Book of ‘Flowers shown to the Children’” 38
Pound, Dorothy: 37
Pound, Ezra: annotation on drafts of The Waste Land 359–62; Improper Verses 253–56;
“Podesta” 256
practical jokes: 38–39
Pringle, Alan: 46
Prokosch, Frederick: “seems a very amiable person” 463; Butterfly Books (and fakes): A Duck in the Park 459;
Lines to a Persian Cat (decorated manuscript) 458;
Rannoch, by Glencoe 466;
Old Man’s Song 467;
Two Poems 463–64;
Words for Music 463
publishing: “sordidly corrupt activity” 216; Jonathan Cape 226;
Victor Gollancz 226;
Penguin 63, 197, 228, 297;
Publishers’ Association 226;
Swan Sonnenschein 286.
See also Faber & Faber; Liveright, Horace
pubs: Bell 59; Bricklayer’s Arms 65;
Doves 157;
Fox and French Horn 64;
Lion 59;
Wellington Arms 65
Quinn, John: makes Q typescript of The Waste Land 363
Read, Herbert: Surrealism 47; The Green Child 47;
The Knapsack (ed.) 66
Reckitt, Maurice B.: 183
Ridler, Anne: 45; types Noctes Binanianæ 208, 210;
selection of poems in TSE’s Sesame volume 296
Roberts, Adam: 39
Rowse, A. L.: 159
Sadler, Michael: drafts of Marina 437
Salter, Arthur: 159
du Sautoy, Peter: 67, 355
Sayers, Dorothy L.: 197
Scott, Walter: Bonnie Dundee 200; The Lay of the Last Minstrel 70;
Proud Maisie 173;
When the Blue Bonnets Came Over the Border 65
Scottish literature: 172–73
Shakespeare, William: Antony and Cleopatra 267; As You Like It 227, 265;
Coriolanus 228, 290;
Cymbeline 61, 195;
Hamlet 69, 71, 143, 181;
Henry VIII 227;
King Lear 71;
Macbeth 141, 227, 313;
Measure for Measure 449;
The Merchant of Venice 71;
Richard III 227;
Sonnet 126
(“O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power”) 289
Shaw, Martin: 37–38; The Builders 598
Signet, The: 72; manuscript of Marina 433
Sitwell, Edith: “reading of poets” 253
Sitwell, Osbert: “reading of poets” 253
Smart, Christopher: “real feeling for cats” 57
Spender, Stephen 198–99, 216
Stead, William Force: discovers Smart’s Jubilate Agno 57; Ash-Wednesday typescript 422
Swift, Jonathan: 218; Gulliver’s Travels 273;
The Humble Petition of Frances Harris 186
Tailhade, Laurent: 243
Tandy, Alison: 39, 57, 62, 63, 66, 72; TSE offers to help evacuate from London 39
Tandy, Geoffrey: 39–40, 66, 69; broadcasts of Practical Cats 43–44
Tandy, Polly: 39–40, 43, 61
teeth: “plastic” 214
Tennyson, Alfred: Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height 146; Crossing the Bar 142;
The Eagle 146;
Idylls of the King 227;
Leonine Elegiacs 196;
Maud 213;
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington 288;
Of old sat Freedom on the heights 145;
The Poet 143;
The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet 59, 255;
Will 146
Thayer, Scof
ield: 364; typescript of The Waste Land 364–65;
and The Hollow Men 417–18
Trevelyan, Mary: 65, 187, 201
Turner, W. Mc. (Francis): sent manuscript of Little Gidding for Magdalene College Library 511; stuffs manuscript in a drawer 512
Unitarianism: xi, 58
Unwin, J. D.: 222
Valerie’s Own Book: 304–305
Villon, François: La Belle Heaulmière 52
Washington, Booker T.: 38
Watson, James Sibley: typescript of The Waste Land 362–65
Watts, Isaac: 74
Webster, John: The Duchess of Malfi 594
Wesley, Charles: 268; Gentle Jesus 176, 253
Wilde, Oscar: on Dickens 70
Williams, Charles: exchange of poems 179–81
Wilson, John: Noctes Ambrosianæ 207