T. S. Eliot - The Letters of T. S. Eliot VOL 3 1926-1927

THE LETTERS OF
T. S. ELIOT
VOLUME 3

By T. S. Eliot

THE COMPLETE POEMS AND PLAYS

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COLLECTED POEMS 19091962
FOUR QUARTETS
THE WASTE LAND AND OTHER POEMS
THE WASTE LAND:
A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts
edited by Valerie Eliot
INVENTIONS OF THE MARCH HARE:
POEMS 19091917
edited by Christopher Ricks
SELECTED POEMS

plays
MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL
THE FAMILY REUNION
THE COCKTAIL PARTY
THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK
THE ELDER STATESMAN

literary criticism
THE SACRED WOOD
SELECTED ESSAYS
THE USE OF POETRY AND THE USE OF CRITICISM
VARIETIES OF METAPHYSICAL POETRY
edited by Ronald Schuchard
TO CRITICIZE THE CRITIC
ON POETRY AND POETS
FOR LANCELOT ANDREWES
SELECTED PROSE OF T. S. ELIOT
edited by Frank Kermode

social criticism
THE IDEA OF A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY
edited by David Edwards
NOTES TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF CULTURE

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THE LETTERS OF T. S. ELIOT
Volume 1: 18981922
Revised Edition
edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton
THE LETTERS OF T. S. ELIOT
Volume 2: 19231925
edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton
THE LETTERS OF T. S. ELIOT
Volume 3: 19261927
edited by Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden

EDITED BY

VALERIE ELIOT

AND

JOHN HAFFENDEN

VOLUME 3
19261927

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1 T.S. Eliot at his desk at Faber & Gwyer, 24 Russell Square. Photograph by Henry Ware Eliot, 1926. National Portrait Gallery, London

2 Eliots bookplate, with the family motto Tace et fac. Collection Valerie Eliot

3 Journey of the Magi, with drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. London: Faber & Gwyer, [1927]. Collection Valerie Eliot

4 Eliot delivering the final Clark Lecture at Trinity College, Cambridge, 9 March 1926. Graphite drawing by Theresa Garrett Eliot, 1926.
By permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Am. 1560 (187)

5 Maurice Haigh-Wood, TS Eliot, Henry Eliot, and Vivien against a backdrop of trees, Rome, 1926. Collection Valerie Eliot

6 Vivien, TS Eliot, Theresa Garrett Eliot and Maurice Haigh-Wood on a terrace in Rome, 1926. By permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Am 2560 (188)

7 John Middleton Murry on the terrace of the Villa Isola Bella at Menton on the south of France. Photograph by Ida Baker, 1920. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

8 William Force Stead. Detail of a group at Garsington. Photograph by Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1922. National Portrait Gallery, London

9 Henry Ware Eliot, profile portrait, 1920s. Collection Valerie Eliot

10 Geoffrey Faber, studio portrait photograph in Eliots possession, early 1930s. Collection Valerie Eliot

11 Herbert Read. Photograph by Elliott & Fry, c.1925.
Hulton Archive/Getty Images

12 Bonamy Dobre. Photographer unknown, late 1920s. Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, BS MS 20c Dobre

13 Virginia Woolf. Vintage snapshot by Lady Ottoline Morrell, June 1926. National Portrait Gallery, London

14 Eliot with Maurice Haigh-Wood on the Janiculum, Rome, 1926. Collection Valerie Eliot

15 Letter from Eliot to John Middleton Murry, sent from Grand Hotel, Divonne les Bains, 19 September 1926. Collection Valerie Eliot

16 A pensive Eliot in his study. Collection Valerie Eliot

17 Two pages from Eliots British passport, 2 November 1927. Collection Valerie Eliot

18 Portrait head of Eliot. Pencil drawing by Powys Evans, late 1927. Collection Valerie Eliot ( estate of Powys Evans)

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