The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 1: 1898-1922 Read Free Page B

even gloomily, scientific; and they professed considerable respect for Mr Bertrand Russell and his Cambridge friends. All this was to the good; but it must be admitted that the New Realism, like most pre-War philosophies, seems now as demoded as ladies’ hats of the same period.’
    1913 JUNE – Buys F. H. Bradley’s Appearance and Reality . OCTOBER – Is appointed President of the University Philosophical Club. 15 DECEMBER – Pays Emma Wright Gibbs seven dollars for three hours’ dancing lessons.
    1914 27 MARCH – TSE meets and comes under the influence of Bertrand Russell, a Visiting Professor at Harvard. 31 MARCH – TSE, who is appointed a Sheldon Travelling Fellow in Philosophy for the academic year 1914/15, plans to spend it at Merton College, Oxford. 7 JULY – Passes through London on his way to a summer school in Marburg. 1 AUGUST – Germany declares war on Russia. 2 august – The course, due to start next day, is cancelled, and students are told they cannot leave for a fortnight. 16 AUGUST – TSE departs for Frankfurt, reaches London five days later. Stays at 28 Bedford Place, Russell Square, W.C. 1. Early SEPTEMBER ? –Writes ‘Morning at the Window’. 22 SEPTEMBER – Meets Ezra Pound. OCTOBER – Runs into Bertrand Russell in New Oxford Street. 6 OCTOBER – Goes up to Merton College to study Aristotle under Harold Joachim. Pound sends Harriet Monroe ‘Prufrock’. DECEMBER – TSE, Brand Blanshard and Karl Culpin spend a holiday together at Swanage in Dorset.
    1915 JANUARY – Lives at 1 Gordon Street, Gordon Square. MARCH – Reads a paper on ‘The Relativity of the Moral Judgement’ in Russell’s rooms at Trinity College, Cambridge. 24 APRIL – Tells Eleanor Hinkley that he has met some English girls ‘with such amusing names’, and one is called Vivien [Haigh-Wood], who is at that time living as a governess at 26 Malcolm Street, Cambridge. 2 MAY – Jean Verdenal is killed in the Dardanelles. JUNE – Poetry prints ‘Prufrock’. 26 JUNE – TSE marries Vivienne Haigh-Wood at Hampstead Registry Office. JULY – Wyndham Lewis’s magazine, Blast , prints ‘Preludes’ [I–IV] and ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’. 24 JULY – TSE sails for America to join his parents at East Gloucester. Visits Harvard’s Philosophy Department to discuss returning tor his degree. 21 AUGUST – Leaves for England, having decided his future lies there. SEPTEMBER – ‘Portrait of a Lady’ appears in Others . Russell offers the Eliots a room in his Bury Street flat. TSE begins teaching at High Wycombe Grammar School, lives at Sydney Cottage, Conegra Road, High Wycombe. OCTOBER – Poetry prints ‘The Boston Evening Transcript’, ‘Aunt Helen’ and ‘Cousin Nancy’. NOVEMBER – Catholic Anthology is published.
    1916 Early JANUARY – Russell takes Vivien to Torquay for a holiday and is succeeded after five days by TSE, whose first review for the International Journal of Ethics is published. TSE begins teaching at Highgate Junior School. 6 MARCH – Tells Professor Woods that he is sending his thesis in a few days. Late MARCH – The Eliots move to 18 Crawford Mansions, Crawford Street, W. 1. TSE prepares to sail to America on 1 APRIL in order to take his viva at Harvard, but at the last minute his boat is delayed for five days and he cancels his plans. 2 APRIL – TSE and Pound see Yeats’s Noh play, At the Hawk’s Well, with Mischio Itow as the hawk and masks by Edmund Dulac, in Lady Cunard’s drawing-room. 23 JUNE – Woods informs him that his thesis has been accepted ‘without the least hesitation’. 24 JUNE – TSE’s first contribution to the New Statesman. 21 AUGUST – The Eliots at Bosham cottage. 3 SEPTEMBER – Pound writes John Quinn that ‘Eliot seems to be getting on all right (though he is producing very little, practically nothing)’. 6 SEPTEMBER – TSE tells Henry that he often feels that Prufrock ‘is a swan song’. october – Begins reviewing for The Monist. 3 OCTOBER to