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65. TSE to John Hayward, 27 December 1939 (Hayward Bequest).
66. Ibid.
67. Advertisement, ‘Dancing Taught’, St Louis Republic, 30 September 1903, 13.
68. ‘Children in Charity Benefit’, St Louis Republic, 3 May 1902, n.p.; ‘Mahler’s Matinee’, St Louis Republic, 19 November 1903, 8.
69. Julius K. Hunter, Westmoreland and Portland Places: The History and Architecture of America’s Premier Private Streets, 1888–1988 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1988), 70.
70. ‘Society’s Christmas Interests’, St Louis Republic, 25 December 1904, Part I, 8.
71. ‘Social Leaders to Study Delsarte’, St Louis Republic, 7 April 1892, 1.
72. François Delsarte, ‘Address’ to Genevieve Stebbins, Delsarte System of Expression, fifth edn (New York: Edgar S. Werner, 1894), xlviii.
73. On Hargadine and McKittrick, see Elizabeth McNulty, St Louis Then and Now (San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2000), 54; for Otto von Schrader’s change of address see address lists prefacing Transactions of the Academy of Science of St Louis, vols. VI and VII (St Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1894 and 1897).
74. TSE to John Hayward, 27 December 1939 (Hayward Bequest); for information about the Lewis Dozier Mansion, see the entry in the online US National Register of Historic Places; on the Glee Club, see Fiftieth Annual Graduating Exercises, Smith Academy, 13 June 1905 (Smith Academy Collection, Washington University Archives).
75. [TSE], Fireside, numbers 11, 13, 14 and 7.
76. TSE, ‘Prize-Day Address at the Methodist Girls School at Penzance’ (Hayward Bequest).
77. [TSE], Fireside, numbers 11, 5 and 8.
78. ‘Up the Paraguay River’, St Louis Globe-Democrat, 5 February 1899, 4.
79. CPP, 109. On these and other passages of Mayne Reid’s work which can be connected to Eliot’s interests, see Crawford, The Savage and the City, 15–26.
80. L1, 376.
81. Edward Eggleston, A History of the United States and its People (New York: Appleton, 1888), iii.
82. ‘Smith Academy, Washington University, Semi-Annual Record of Thomas S. Eliot of the First Year Class, Second Term – Session of 1899–1900’ (Houghton bMS Am 2560 (95)).
83. ‘Smith Academy, Washington University, Semi-Annual Record of Thomas Stearns Eliot of the Second Preparatory Class, Second Term – Session of 1898–9’ (Houghton bMS Am 2560 (95)).
84. TSE, ‘George Washington, A Life’ (Hayward Bequest).
85. [TSE], ‘George W———’, Fireside, number 8.
86. ‘Women’s Clubs’, St Louis Republic, 2 March 1902, 3.
87. See TSE’s note to line 253 of that poem (CPP, 78).
88. John Williams White, The First Greek Book (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1896), 3.
89. See Katharine T. Corbett, In Her Place: A Guide to St Louis Women’s History (St Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1999), 135.
90. ‘A Brief Review of Many Celebrated Colleges and Schools of Merit’, St Louis Republic, 30 August 1902, 8.
91. A Catalogue of the Officers and Students in Washington University with the Courses of Study for the Academic Year 1895–96 (St Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1895), 216; other details about the school are taken from this work.
92. Ibid., 218.
93. Roger Conant Hatch, Fallen Leaves (Boston: Four Seasons Company, [1922]), 30.
94. ‘How to Achieve Success’, St Louis Republic, 6 December 1903, 2.
95. Smith Academy Catalogue, 1899–1900, quoted in Jayme Stayer, ‘T. S. Eliot as a Schoolboy: The Lockwood School, Smith Academy, and Milton Academy’, Twentieth-Century Literature, 59.4 (Winter 2013), .634.
96. ‘What They “Wanted to Be” When They Grew Up’, St Louis Republic, 26 August 1900, magazine section; ‘Twenty-Five Years’ Service is Celebrated’, 28 April 1904, 10; ‘Curd, Charles Paine’, in Leonard, The Book of St Louisans, 142; ‘C. B. C. May Not Play Washington’, St Louis Republic, 29 October 1900, 3.
97. Guide to the Percy Boynton Papers, University of Chicago Library; ‘Ethical Society Lectures’, St Louis Republic, 20 October 1900, 6.
98. ‘School Notes’, Smith Academy Record, June 1902, 12.
99. Roger Conant Hatch entry in Harvard Class of 1900, Fourth Report (Cambridge, Mass: Crimson Printing Co., 1921), 204; Hatch, Fallen Leaves, 11; also Soldo, The Tempering of T. S. Eliot, 27.
100. Hatch, Fallen Leaves, 30, 18; see also The School Songs of Smith Academy (St Louis: Mangan Press, [?1907]), 41.
101. Roger Conant Hatch, entry in Harvard Class of 1900, 204.
102. TSE to John Hayward, 21 December 1942 (Hayward Bequest).
103. TSE, ‘American Literature and the American Language’, CC, 45–6; Thomas H. McKittrick and M. Haywood Post quoted in Soldo, The Tempering of T. S. Eliot, 26.
104. See, e.g., ‘Smith Academy Team Dines’, St Louis Republic, 10 January 1903, 2; and ‘High School 15, Smith Academy 11’, St Louis Republic, 29 November 1901, 6.
105. Football report, St Louis Republic, 22 October 1903, 6; ‘Smith Academy Defeated Manual’, St Louis Republic, Part III, 6; see also ‘Klipstein’ (photograph), St Louis Republic, 6 November 1904, Part IV.
106. Facsimile, 4; TSE, ‘Song to the Opherian’, Tyro, 1 ([Spring 1921]), 6.
107. CPP, 123.
108. J. Louis Swarts is mentioned in ‘School Notes’, Smith Academy Record, June 1902, 12; Soldo, The Tempering of T. S. Eliot, 27.
109. Fireside, number 8.
110. L1, 482.
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1. TSE to John Hayward, 27 December 1939 (Hayward Bequest).
2. James E. Sullivan, ed., Spalding’s Official Athletic Almanac for 1905 (New York: American Sports Publishing Co., 1905), 187.
3. World’s Fair Authentic Guide (St Louis: Official Guide Company, 1904), 26, 74, 75, 141, 143; see also Tatsushi Narita, ‘The Young T. S. Eliot and Alien Cultures: His Philippine Interactions’, Review of English Studies, 45.180 (1994), 523–5.
4. TSE, ‘The Man Who Was King’, Smith Academy Record, 8.6 (June 1905), 2, 1.
5. TSE to John Hayward, 27 December 1939 (Hayward Bequest).
6. Sullivan, Spalding’s Official Athletic Almanac for 1905, 187; Programme for Fiftieth Annual Graduating Exercises, Smith Academy, 13 June 1905 (Washington University Archives).
7. ‘Smith Academy Graduates Eighteen’, St Louis Republic, 14 June 1905, 11; entries for Lawrence Tyler Post and Walker Moore Van Riper in Yale University 1909 5th Year Reunion Book (New Haven: Yale University, 1914), 206–7 and 256–7; entries for Frederick Clinton Lake, Jr, in Robert Dudley French, ed., History of the Class of 1910 Yale College (New Haven: Yale University, 1910), 217, and History of the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Ten Yale College, Volume 2 (New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1917), 191; ‘Young Orators of Smith Academy Will Compete for Gold Medal in Annual Contest To-morrow’, St Louis Republic, 13 April 1905, 2; for Post’s ‘Class Song’, see the programme for the Fiftieth Annual Graduating Exercises, Smith Academy. Other information from entries in John W. Leonard, ed., The Book of St Louisans (St Louis: St Louis Republic, 1906).
8. Typed sheet, dated February 1905, listing names of those chosen
to speak in the Smith Academy Preliminary Speaking Contest (Smith Academy Collection, Washington University Archives).
9. L1, 5–6; see also John J. Soldo, The Tempering of T. S. Eliot (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1983), and Jayme Stayer, ‘T. S. Eliot as a Schoolboy: The Lockwood School, Smith Academy, and Milton Academy’, Twentieth-Century Literature, 59. 4 (Winter 2013), 619–656.
10. Robert Herrick and Lindsay Todd Damon, Composition and Rhetoric for Schools (Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1899), 12, 13, 30.
11. TSE, ‘Le Morte Darthur’, Spectator, 23 February 1934, 278; see Sidney Lanier, The Boy’s King Arthur (New York: Scribner’s, 1880), 206, 271; on American Arthurianism, see Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack, King Arthur in America (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1999).
12. James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal and Other Poems, ed. Mabel Caldwell Willard (Boston: Leach, Shewell, and Sangborn, [1896]), 6.
13. Ibid., 17, 20, 25.
14. See Lupack and Lupack, King Arthur, 10, 13.
15. Lowell, Vision of Sir Launfal, 111.
16. TSE to Otto H. Schwarz in St Louis Post-Dispatch, 16 February 1964, quoted in Soldo, The Tempering of T. S. Eliot, 27.
17. ‘St. Louis Travelers who have made from Ten to Twenty Transatlantic Trips’, St Louis Republic, 4 October 1903, magazine section, [52]; other information from her October 1921 Certificate of Death at Missouri Board of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics.
18. A Catalogue of the Officers and Students in Washington University (St Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1895), 212.
19. Smith Academy report for TSE dated ‘February 1, 1901’ (Houghton bMS Am 2560 (95)).
20. CPP, 62.
21. CPP, 63 (74–5), 67.
22. Lowell, Vision of Sir Launfal, 13.
23. Rudyard Kipling, A Choice of Kipling’s Verse, ed. and intro. by TSE (London: Faber and Faber, 1941; repr. 1963), 136.
24. [TSE], Fireside, numbers 13, 6 and 3.
25. TSE, ‘T. S. Eliot: A Personal Anthology’ (1947 radio script) (Hayward Bequest).
26. Kipling, A Choice of Kipling’s Verse, 171, 172, 11, 12; CPP, 86.
27. ‘Columbus Benjamin Gast’, and ‘Robert McCreery Allen’, Smith Academy Record, February 1900, 8, 9.
28. ‘Strain Caused Brain Fever’, St Louis Republic, 20 April 1901, Part I, 7.
29. Herbert Howarth, Notes on Some Figures Behind T. S. Eliot (London: Chatto & Windus, 1965), 28; TSE vetted Howarth’s typescript very carefully: see Timothy Materer, ‘T. S. Eliot and his Biographical Critics’, Essays in Criticism, 62.1 (2012), 41–57.
30. L1, 4.
31. L1, 9.
32. Howarth, Notes on Some Figures Behind T. S. Eliot, 23.
33. ‘Favors Juvenile Court Bill: Mrs. Eliot Declares Good Results Will Follow Its Passage’, St Louis Republic, 11 February 1903, 3.
34. ‘“Tombs Angel” has Resigned’, St Louis Republic, 24 November 1904, 12.
35. L1, 4.
36. TSE, Lectures on English 26 (1933) (Houghton), XVIII.
37. Ibid; D. H. Lawrence, Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious, ed. Bruce Steele (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 147, 144–5, 146.
38. L1, 420.
39. A Catalogue of the Officers and Students in Washington University, 220.
40. L1, 41.
41. L2, 678.
42. ‘Doctor Day Goes to Boston’, St Louis Republic, 5 March 1903, 5.
43. Cynthia Grant Tucker, No Silent Witness: The Eliot Parsonage Women and their Unitarian World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 178.
44. Ibid., 178–9 and 226.
45. L1, 2.
46. CPP, 73, 79.
47. ‘Easter Services and Sermons in the Churches: Evidences of a Larger Life in Which We Live’, St Louis Republic, 16 April 1900, 10.
48. ‘Oratorio “Redemption” to Be Given at Church of the Messiah’, St Louis Republic, 6 April 1900, 9.
49. ‘Sermons and Services of the Churches: Peace of Soul that Comes through Endurance’, St Louis Republic, 8 October 1900, 8.
50. ‘Sermons and Services: “Death in Life and Life in Death”’, St Louis Republic, 8 April 1901, 10.
51. CPP, 68.
52. ‘Survival of the Faithful: The Law of Immortality’, St Louis Republic, 28 April 1902, 10.
53. ‘Urges Special Building for Religious Exhibit’, St Louis Republic, 10 June 1901, 1.
54. ‘St Louis Citizens Meet to Honor “Sage of Concord”’, St Louis Republic, 26 May 1903, 5.
55. ‘Sees Encouraging Signs in Unitarian Conference’, St Louis Republic, 19 October 1903, 10.
56. ‘Deceit in Small Things Makes for Bad Morals’, St Louis Republic, 23 November 1903, 10.
57. ‘Union Club’s Lenten Concert at Church of the Messiah’, St Louis Republic, 27 March 1904, 5.
58. HWE, Jr, TS, Notes on a lecture of TSE (1933) (Houghton Library bMS Am 1691 (134)).
59. Ibid.
60. TSE, ‘Ezra Pound’, New English Weekly, 31 October 1946, 27.
61. TSE, Notes for English 26 Lectures (1933) (Houghton), I.
62. HWE, Jr to Donald Gallup, 25 February 1937 (Houghton bMS Am 1691.6(7)).
63. TSE to Eleanor Hinkley, 7 August 1959 (Houghton bMS Am 2244 (3)).
64. TSE, ‘The Art of Poetry I, T. S. Eliot’ (interview by Donald Hall), Paris Review, 21 (Spring/Summer 1959), 49.
65. TSE, ‘Religion and Literature’, SE, 394.
66. UPUC, 33.
67. HWE, Jr, TS, Notes on a lecture of TSE (1933) (Houghton bMS AM 1691 (134))
68. ‘Coming Events’, St Louis Globe-Democrat, 20 February 1898, 44; ‘In Defense of Le Gallienne’, St Louis Globe-Democrat, 6 March 1898, 13.
69. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, tr. Edward Fitzgerald (New York: Dodge Publishing Co., 1905), 12, 15, 37, 56, 104, 74, 105.
70. UPUC, 33.
71. TSE, ‘The Education of Taste’, Athenaeum, 27 June 1919, 521.
72. Henry S. Pancoast, An Introduction to English Literature (New York: Henry Holt, 1894), 382; L1, 5.
73. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 2 vols (London: Ellis and Elvey, 1887), I, 232, 233.
74. CPP, 28 (‘The “Boston Evening Transcript”’).
75. CPP, 587.
76. Thomas Ingoldsby [R. H. Barham], The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels (London: Richard Bentley, 1864), 93, 99.
77. CPP, 587, 588; for HWE, Jr’s recollection of the poem, see his notes on TSE’s lecture on tradition (Houghton bMS Am 1691 (134a)).
78. CPP, 589; The Ingoldsby Legends, 91.
79. CPP, 14; The Ingoldsby Legends, 98.
80. L1, 376.
81. Percy Byshe Shelley, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. Edward Dowden (London: Macmillan, 1895), xi, 558; TSE’s copy of Dowden’s Shelley is now in the archive
at Milton Academy (see Soldo, The Tempering of T. S. Eliot, 30).
82. L1, 4.
83. L3, 568.
84. L2, 741.
85. TSE, ‘The Man Who Was King’, Smith Academy Record, 8.6 (June 1905), 2, and ‘A Tale of a Whale’, Smith Academy Record, 8.4 (April 1905), 2:
86. TSE, ‘The Man Who Was King’, 2, 1; see Robert Crawford, The Savage and the City in the Work of T. S. Eliot (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987).
87. The poem is dated on the copy of the original draft sent to John Hayward with TSE’s letter to John Hayward, 19 August 1943 (Houghton bMS Am 2706 (3)).
88. ‘St Louis Clubmen Planning Concert Hall’, St Louis Republic, 26 March 1905, Part II, 8; Roger Conant Hatch, ‘Smith Forever’, Smith Academy Record, 8.2 (February 1905), 7.
89. TSE to John Hayward, 19 August 1943 (Houghton); and ‘American Literature and the American Language’, CC, 45.
90. TSE, Poems Written in Early Youth, ed. Valerie Eliot (London: Faber and Faber, 1967), ‘Note’, 7.
91. TSE, annotated carbon copy of ‘If Time and Space, as sages say’ (Houghton bMS Am 1691 (128)).
92. Fiftieth Annual Graduating Exercises programme.
93. CC, 43 (‘American Literature and the American Language’).
94. L1, 3.
95. L1, 6.
96. L1, 4.
97. L1, 4.
98. L1, 6.
99. Adam Sherman Hill, The Principles of Rhetoric, new edn, revised and enlarged (New York: American Book Company, 1895), 81, 111, 132, 13, 170, 273, 352, vii.
100. L1, 6.
101. L4, 655.
102. HWE, Jr, to Mr Field, headmaster of Milton Academy, 8 November 1937 (Houghton bMS Am1691.6 (3)).
103. Roger Amory, ‘Class History 1906’, The Milton Orange and Blue, 12.15 (4 July 1906), 120.
104. CPP, 226 (‘Macavity: the Mystery Cat’); Stayer, ‘T. S. Eliot as a Schoolboy’, 637.