Eliot Letter.4: On Women

Grrr...

[From a letter to Ezra Pound, hurriedly written] "Thursday--I thought too many women--it lowers the tone: ...perhaps there should be a special evening for males only, as well as this. Eeldrop on the feminisation of modern society." 9/1917

[From a letter to his mother] "I struggle to keep the writing as much as possible in Male hands, as I distrust the Feminine in literature, and also, once a woman has had anything printed in your paper, it is very difficult to make her see why you should not print everything she sends in." 10/1917

(For the record, I think "Eeldrop and Appleplex" must be the Eeldrop to which Eliot refers.)