Mrs Stanley Smith, who was Miss Ethel Le Neve, died aged 84 of cardiac failure on August 8, 1967, at Dulwich Hospital in South London. In 1955, Eliot suffered a fatal coronary thrombosis in the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria in New York, when on his way to give a lecture at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. While this book was being written, Nancy was still living, at Shiplake Castle in Kent.