Volume 31, Number 11 · June 28, 1984
Art, Life, and T. S. Eliot
By Irvin Ehrenpreis
T.S. Eliot: A Study in Character and Style
by Ronald Bush
Oxford University Press, 287 pp., $25.00
Among T.S. Eliot's friendships, the longest-lived attachment to a woman was his connection with Emily Hale (daughter of a Bostonian architect who was also a minister), which began when he was a student at Harvard. Miss Hale (1891–1969) became a teacher of speech and drama, and the pair met during the 1930s in America and England. For decades, Eliot wrote to the lady often and regularly; but the correspondence ended in the late 1950s, when he married Valerie Fletcher. Miss Hale gave her friend's letters to Princeton University, stipulating that they remain sealed until the year 2020.
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