Young Eliot (106 page)

29. An early twentieth-century postcard showing the Hôtel-Pension Ste-Luce, Lausanne, where ‘What the Thunder Said' was written.

30. Vivien's summer 1920 photograph of (right to left) Violet Schiff, Tom, Sydney Schiff, Lady Tosti (widow of the composer F. P. Tosti), Wyndham Lewis, and two Italian visitors, Signora and Signor Emanueli, in the Schiffs' garden at Eastbourne.

31. Tom's photograph of Vivien with the same group on the same occasion.

32. The title page of
The Waste Land
when first published as a book.

 

List of Plates

Frontispiece: Tom during his student years.

(Hayward Bequest, King's College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King's College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

1.     Henry Ware Eliot, Jr., with his baby brother Tom in St Louis around 1890. This photograph was taken by the firm of Scholten, St Louis, often regarded as the leading St Louis photographer at that time.
(Hayward Bequest, King's College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King's College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

2.     Tom's father, Henry Ware Eliot, sitting on the porch of the family's summer home at Eastern Point, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
(Hayward Bequest, King's College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King's College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

3.     Tom's mother, Charlotte Champe Eliot.
(Hayward Bequest, King's College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King's College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

4.     Tom, sitting on the front gate of the family home at 2635 Locust Street, St Louis, with his mother and, from the left, his cousin Henrietta, his sister Marian (obscured, with her hand to her head), and his sister Margaret on the morning after the 1896 cyclone.
(Hayward Bequest, King's College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King's College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

5.     2635 Locust Street (now demolished) was screened by dense foliage in a city often loud with the sound of cicadas.
(Hayward Bequest, King's College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King's College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

6.     The hallway of 2635 Locust Street, with (on the left) the grandfather clock which Tom's father brought from Massachusetts as a present for his wife.
(Hayward Bequest, King's College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King's College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

7.     Tom, aged about four, posing for a formal photograph.
(Houghton Library, Harvard; reproduced with the permission of the Houghton Library and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

8.     Tom, aged about six, with his nursemaid, Annie Dunne, in St Louis. Tom's brother, Henry, was a keen amateur photographer, and took many family photographs.
(Hayward Bequest, King's College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King's College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

9.     Tom, aged about seven, in St Louis. This photograph, showing the large ears which so embarrassed him, was taken by the firm of Holborn's Dainties of 2820 Washington Avenue, St Louis, a well established photographic firm.
(Houghton Library, Harvard; reproduced with the permission of the Houghton Library and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

10.   Tom, aged about ten, standing in the yard of Smith Academy, St Louis.
(Hayward Bequest, King's College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King's College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

11.   The Downs, the Eliots' extensive summer house at Eastern Point, Gloucester, Massachusetts, when recently built in the 1890s.
(Hayward Bequest, King's College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King's College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

12.   The view to the sea from the porch at the Eliots' Gloucester house. The family liked to gather on this verandah.
(Hayward Bequest, King's College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King's College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

13.   Tom in sailor suit, sitting astride the balustrade of the porch at the Gloucester house, contemplating a model boat.
(Hayward Bequest, King's College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King's College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

14.   Tom as a boy at Gloucester, learning to sail. He was taught by a retired sailor, nicknamed ‘The Skipper'.
(Hayward Bequest, King's College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King's College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

15.   A damaged photograph of Tom, aged about eight, enjoying the company of his cousins Eleanor and Barbara Hinkley on the rocks at Eastern Point, Gloucester, where he liked to play as a boy.
(Houghton Library, Harvard; reproduced with the permission of the Houghton Library and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

16.   Tom, aged about twelve.
(Hayward Bequest, King's College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King's College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

17.   Harvard Yard at the beginning of the twentieth century. This photograph appears in
The Harvard (Class) Album 1901
, edited by Carroll J. Swan and published in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(Private collection)

18.   Tom as a thin Harvard undergraduate in 1907, wearing what look like white flannel trousers on the porch at Eastern Point, Gloucester.
(Hayward Bequest, King's College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King's College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

19.   Tom as a student, sailing in the catboat
Elsa
, with family or friends.
(Hayward Bequest, King's College, Cambridge reproduced with the permission of King's College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

20.   A modern photograph of the house at 16 Ash Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Tom lodged as a graduate student. His rooms were in the attic.
(Photograph by Clifford Boehmer, reproduced with his permission)

21.   Emily Hale, aged twenty-three, in 1914 (her favourite picture of herself).
(Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Archives; reproduced with the permission of Smith College Archives)

22.   Vivien Eliot as a young woman.
(Houghton Library, Harvard; reproduced with the Houghton Library and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

23.   Vivien and Tom as a young married couple in 1916 in their flat at 18 Crawford Mansions, Marylebone, London.
(The Eliot Estate; this photograph, which later belonged to Valerie Eliot, is reproduced with the permission of the T. S. Eliot Estate)

24.   Vivien's photograph of Tom with Violet and Sydney Schiff in the living room of the house the Eliots leased with Bertrand Russell at 31 West Street, Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
(Hayward Bequest, King's College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King's College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

25.   Bertrand Russell in 1916.
(Bertrand Russell Archive, McMaster University; reproduced with the permission of the Bertrand Russell Archive at McMaster)

26.   Vivien at home in the Eliots' London flat.
(Houghton Library, Harvard; reproduced with the permission of the Houghton Library and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

27.   Tom, Osbert Sitwell, young Jeremy Hutchinson, and Mary Hutchinson at West Wittering, Sussex, in July 1919.
(The Eliot Estate; this photograph, which later belonged to Valerie Eliot, is reproduced by permission of the T. S. Eliot Estate)

28.   A modern photograph of London's Clarence Gate Gardens. The Eliots' flat at number 9 was in the far block on the left, just before the church.
(Photograph by Aisha Farr, reproduced with her permission)

29.   An early twentieth-century postcard showing the Hôtel-Pension Ste-Luce (now demolished) in Lausanne, where ‘What the Thunder Said' was written.
(Private collection)

30.   Vivien's summer 1920 photograph of (right to left) Violet Schiff, Tom, Sydney Schiff, Lady Tosti (widow of the composer F. P. Tosti), Wyndham Lewis, and two Italian visitors, Signor and Signora Emanueli, in the Schiffs' garden at Eastbourne. Tom is smiling directly at the photographer.
(Hayward Bequest, King's College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King's College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

31.   Tom's photograph of Vivien with the same group on the same occasion.
(Hayward Bequest, King's College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King's College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)

32.   The title page of
The Waste Land
when first published as a book.
(National Library of Scotland; reproduced with the permission of the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland)

 

A Note About the Author