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Article from the Evening Standard regarding a reading of T. S. Eliot's 'Wasteland' and recalling Ted Hughes's thoughts on this T. S. Eliot poem.

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Photographs of the cast members and set of 'The Family Reunion' by T. S. Eliot; its first amateur production by GHWR at the ADC Theatre, Cambridge. Dimensions: 15 x 21 cm (GHWR/5/96-7, 99-100), 21 x 15 cm (GHWR/5/98, 101). Sleeves 43-6.

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1 autograph letter, signed, and 6 typed letters, signed, to Lydia Lopokova Keynes. 1948-57.
2 autograph manuscript draft letters from Lydia Lopokova Keynes. Undated.

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Correspondence concerning a reference to T.S. Eliot in C.S. Lewis' preface to 'Paradise Lost'. Includes:
T.S. Eliot to C.S. Lewis. 19 Feb. and 8 Mar. 1943
C.S. Lewis to T.S. Eliot 22 Feb. and Ash Wednesday (10 Mar.) 1943

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Letters from many American and English poets and scholars, 1940-80; occasional manuscripts and typescripts of poetry; 18 letters on The Sandpipers; and a collection of letters of poets and writers, 1856-c.1950.

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1 autograph letter, signed, and 1 autograph postcard, signed.

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Hassall died intestate. His working papers were taken to the Royal Society of Literature by his assistant Gillian Paterson, who arranged and (presumably) listed them. They were bought by CUL from Bloomsbury Book Auctions in 1992. They were housed in paper box files 1 25 and cartons A D, as listed. They have now been re boxed, in 28 boxes and one packet, which has involved some reorganisation of the material and hence some rearrangement and re numbering of the original list.

Scope and Contents These papers comprise the typescripts, manuscripts, letters, and photographs given by T.S. Eliot to his friend, John Davy Hayward. They include drafts and proofs for some of T.S. Eliot's most famous works, including 'The Waste Land', 'Sweeney Agonistes', 'Four Quartets', 'Murder in the Cathedral', 'The Family Reunion' and 'The Cocktail Party'. Also included are the texts of several broadcasts and lectures, books from T.S. Eliot's library (many of them annotated), and over 350 photographs...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The correspondence comprises incoming letters, including readers' reports.This series is known as ‘author files’ because the arrangement is focused upon the individual. Some contain correspondence only. The correspondence includes readers' reports from 1913 onwards.As the new Press Archive catalogue is not yet complete, please use the 'Former / Other Reference' to request these items.For the number of items (not the number of letters) see the number in brackets after the Former /...

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Photograph of E.M. Forster and T.S. Eliot seated in armchairs with empty chairs to the left and right, and a picture on the far wall. T.S. Eliot is wearing long woollen socks turned up over knee-length trousers and has a fluffy white cat on his lap. Possibly taken at Monk's House. Print, 10.8 x 8.2. Inscribed on back, by E.M. Forster, 'Self and T.S. Eliot / at the Woolfs - the picture / they gave me behind / date?'. (Sleeve 137)

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Includes letters from Faber, G.C., Morley, F.V., Mare, R. de la and Eliot, T.S. Also a report by Morley, F.V. and mention of Waldock, A.J.A. and Letts, C.F.C.

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Hassall died intestate. His working papers were taken to the Royal Society of Literature by his assistant Gillian Paterson, who arranged and (presumably) listed them. They were bought by CUL from Bloomsbury Book Auctions in 1992. They were housed in paper box files 1 25 and cartons A D, as listed. They have now been re boxed, in 28 boxes and one packet, which has involved some reorganisation of the material and hence some rearrangement and re numbering of the original list.

Scope and Contents The volume is a plain notebook titled 'Journal 1921', written while living at 54 Tufton Street. It is entirely comprised of diary entries in an unusually fair hand together with many later annotations and expurgated sections. It includes: - quotations from Conrad, Sir J. Davies, Pope, Bertrand Russell, Goethe and Stendhal: /1b (r)-1b(v). - list of social engagements: /7r, 8r. - mention of the suicide of young Holloway at Nellie Burton's...

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1 typed letter signed.

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1 typed letter, signed, to E.M. Forster.
To request this document, please use the following call mark: vol. 8/24

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1 typed letter, signed.

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Letters re Preston's suggestions to Faber and Faber for publication of French translations; Four Quartets Rehearsed; spending Christmas at House of the Resurrection. Also includes 3 letters to D .J. Enright re Enright's poetry; and an Eliot autograph cut from a letter.

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4 typed letters signed, 1 typed letter unsigned, and 1 typed postcard signed to Clive Bell, 1927-39, including 1 letter signed on his behalf by his secretary, P. Wilberforce.
1 autograph letter signed to Vanessa Bell. 1937.
Photocopy of 1 autograph letter signed, 2 autograph postcards signed and 9 typed letters signed to Clive Bell. 1914-1947. Includes photocopies of 2 envelopes addressed in verse, 1937 and 1948.

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2 autograph letter signed and 15 typed letters signed.

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5 autograph letters signed and 9 typed letters signed. The file also contains an autograph manuscript draft of 'Russet and Taffeta' by GHWR (published by Hogarth Press in 1925), annotated by T. S. Eliot; and a proof of a note by T. S. Eliot on 'The Revenger's Tragedy' for inclusion in the programme of a Marlowe Society production, 1937.

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2 autograph letters, signed, and 1 typed letter, signed.

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The first book of minutes for the Hesperides Society. Contains details of several significant guests including G.K. Chesterton (November 9th 1924), J.B. Priestley (October 20th 1926), and T.S. Eliot (May 12th 1928).

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A file holding six word-processed versions of a draft script for a BBC Radio 3 or 4 documentary programme on T. S. Eliot, written by Anne Stevenson. The drafts differ in length, ranging from 8 to 12 pages long, and all contain annotations in Stevenson's hand. One of the drafts is marked in pencil as the 'final draft.'

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Working papers relating to JDH's edition of 'John Donne Dean of St Paul's: Complete Poetry and Selected Prose' (London, 1936). The file includes transcripts of sermons and poems; proofs; correspondence; and articles by T. S. Eliot on the Metaphysical Poets published in 'The Listener', 1930.