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Eliot, Valerie, b 1926 (editor and literary executor of T. S. Eliot)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: b 1926

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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Sheila Cudahy, The bristle cone pine and other poems (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976), 1975-1976

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9816/A/73
Scope and Contents

Copy for frontmatter; estimates; layouts; drawing and paste-up of cover; page proof, marked by Sheila Cudahy; correspondence with Sebastian Carter. Correspondents include Sheila Cudahy, Valerie Eliot, Harvill Press Ltd, Helen and Kurt Wolff Books Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (Helen Wolff, Lisa M. Mayer), Mansell (Bookbinders) Ltd.

Dates: 1975-1976
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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T. S. Eliot, Eeldrop & Appleplex (Foundling Press, 1992), 1991-1992

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9816/A/168
Scope and Contents

Artwork; layouts; page proof (sewn, labelled 'proof copy'); printed copy (labelled 'advance copy'); correspondence with Sebastian Carter and other papers including copy (photocopy of 1917 printing), prospectus (artwork, printed copy), layout of Foundling Press writing paper with proof of wood-engraved device by Edwina Ellis. Correspondents include Valerie Eliot, Edwina Ellis, Jim McCue.

Dates: 1991-1992
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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T. S. Eliot, Four quartets: a specimen spread printed at the Rampant Lions Press by Sebastian Carter (1994), 1994-1996

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9816/A/262
Scope and Contents Comprises: page proofs, various batches, with accompanying correspondence, including letters from Valerie Eliot and John [Bodley], 1995; proof cover for prospectus booklet; dummy of prospectus booklet; setting copy; correspondence between Sebastian Carter and Valerie Eliot, Howard Hodgkin, John Bodley, Simon Lawrence (The Fleece Press), Victoria Hall, Jan van der Wateren, Christopher Ricks, Ron Costley, Charles Chadwyck-Healey, Peter Guy and Robert Giroux, 1994-6; consultation draft; proof...
Dates: 1994-1996
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).