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Becket’s shrine<\/em><\/p>\n

Further to the earlier post<\/a> on Thomas Becket, here’s Frye writing to Helen Kemp from London, 30 December 1936<\/p>\n

On Boxing Day Elizabeth [Fraser] came down\u2014she was getting a bit fed up in Oxford\u2014and we went out to dinner and went to see Murder in the Cathedral but Elizabeth got sick, almost fainted and had to be brought home in a taxi and sent to bed with a hot water bottle. Sunday she was all right, but we didn\u2019t do much except go to Soho for dinner, which I didn\u2019t like much. . . . .Well, anyway, Tuesday we went to see Murder in the Cathedral again. It\u2019s a wonderful play all right\u2014read it sometime. It will probably come to Toronto anyway. The chorus of women was full of the loveliest poetry, and as a play it came off very well. I had reserved tickets for this performance, but through a very fortunate error (at least I assume it was an error) we got seats in the front row of the dress circle, where we were practically breathing down the actor\u2019s necks. The female functionary who had fluttered around Elizabeth Saturday evening and offered her peppermint lozenges came up in the intermission and said \u201cAre you feeling better now, dear?\u201d Elizabeth left early to get the last train back to Oxford, which leaves at eleven and is called the \u201cFornicator\u201d by the Oxford students.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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