T. S. Eliot Collection 1929-1962

Summary

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Overview

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Abstract

Consists of selected material of Nobel prize-winning poet T. S. Eliot, primarily of correspondence but including several photographs, typescripts of poems, and corrected proofs.

Description

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Description

The collection consists of selected T. S. Eliot material, primarily of correspondence but including several photographs, typescripts of poems, and corrected proofs. A collection of over twenty letters by Eliot to Luigi Berti, concerning the latter's translations of Eliot's work into Italian, comprises the largest subunit.

Collection Creator Biography

T. S. Eliot, the noted modern poet, dramatist, and literary critic, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. After earning a master's degree from Harvard University and beginning his Ph. D. studies, Eliot moved to the United Kingdom in 1914, eventually becoming a British subject in 1927. In addition to his writing, Eliot worked as a schoolteacher and a bank accounts manager before joining the publishing firm of Faber and Gwyer (later Faber and Faber) in 1925, where he worked for the remainder of his career. Best known for such poems as The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, and Four Quartets, Eliot was the recipient of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Collection History

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Acquisition

Purchased from George Robert Minkoff in 2001 (AM 2001-84).

Processing Information

Folder Inventory added by Jameson Creager (2015) in 2012.

Access and Use

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Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Associate University Librarian for Rare Books and Special Collections. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.

Preferred Citation

T. S. Eliot Collection; 1929-1962, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

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Topics

• British literature

Subject Terms

• English poetry
• Poets, English
• Translations into Italian

Genre Terms

• Correspondence

Contents and Arrangement

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Arrangement

Arranged in accession number order.

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	Title	Date	Container
	Letters to Mrs. Gerald Hopkins, "Dear Mabel"	1937-1939	Box 1, Folder 1
	Typed Letter to "Mr. Gordon"	1941 October 19	Box 1, Folder 2
	Typed Manuscript of Paul Elmer Moore Tribute, published in the Princeton Alumni Weekly	1937 February 1937	Box 1, Folder 3
	"The Rape of Lucretia" by Ronald Duncan	undated	Box 1, Folder 4
	Letters	1939-1948	Box 1, Folder 5
	Signed Card to Maxwell Budenheim	undated	Box 1, Folder 6
	Typed Letter to Elizabeth R. Winters	1944	Box 1, Folder 7
	Correspondence, etc.	1929-1956	Box 1, Folder 8
	Photograph of Emily Hale and T.S. Eliot	undated	Box 1, Folder 9
	"Little Gidding" (uncorrected proof)	1942	Box 1, Folder 10
	Preface to Pascal's Thoughts	1931	Box 1, Folder 11
	Two Poems, Photograph of Emily Hale	undated	Box 1, Folder 12
	Gideon Seymour Memorial Lecture	1956 May 1	Box 1, Folder 13
	Letters	1935-1962	Box 1, Folder 14