Eliot's mandolin
Line 261

Vivienne Eliot gave her husband a mandolin when they went to Margate in October 1921. This was when Eliot was on leave from Lloyds Bank to recover from a case of nerves. After staying at Margate for the month he spent most of the rest of his leave at Lausanne where he underwent treatment by Dr. Roger Vittoz at a clinic there. At Lausanne Eliot completed writing the draft of The Waste Land.

• 261)  The pleasant whining of a mandoline
  
  
• 300)   'On Margate Sands.
  301)   I can connect
  302)   Nothing with nothing.
  

Source for mandoline information: Seymour-Jones, pp. 532-3