T.S. Eliot - The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 2: 1923-1925

EDITED BY

VALERIE ELIOT

AND

HUGH HAUGHTON

VOLUME 2
19231925

GENERAL EDITOR

JOHN HAFFENDEN

I owe a special debt of gratitude to both Dr William H. Bond, formerly Librarian, and Rodney G. Dennis, Curator of Manuscripts, at the Houghton Library, Harvard University; to Dr Donald Gallup, bibliographer of Eliot and Pound, who has answered innumerable questions with grace; and to Matthew Evans with my editor, John Bodley, for their generous support and encouragement.

For permission to print letters and quote from copyright material, I wish to thank Alain Rivire (Alain-Fournier), Alastair Kershaw (Richard Aldington), Professor Charles W. Eliot (President Eliot), Mme Catherine Gide (Andr Gide), The Ezra Pound Literary Property Trust, and James Laughlin (Ezra Pound), The Bertrand Russell Estate and McMaster University (Bertrand Russell), Francis Wyndham (Sydney Schiff), Franoise Valry (Paul Valry), Harvard University Libraries (J. H. Woods).

I am grateful to Professor John Weightman for translating all letters in French, and to the following for help in various ways: Joan Bailey; Anne Olivier Bell; Kenneth Blackwell, McMaster University; Michael Harry Blechner, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa; Mary Boccaccio, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland; Dr J. M. L. Booker, Lloyds Bank Archivist; Penelope Bulloch, Balliol College Library; William R. Cagle, Saundra Taylor, Lilly Library; Douglass Campbell; Dr Joseph Chiari; the late Marguerite Cohn; Joyce Crick; Arthur Crook; Roy Davids; Dr A. Deiss, General Secretariat, Swiss Medical Institutions; Giles de la Mare; Peter du Sautoy; Donald D. Eddy, Cornell University Library; Barclay Feather, Director of Libraries, Milton Academy; K. C. Gay, Lockwood Memorial Library, Buffalo; Herbert Gerwing, Special Collections, University of Victoria; Mrs Ghika; R. C. Giles, T. G. Mallinson, Highgate School; Robert Giroux; Sir Rupert Hart-Davis; Professor E. N. Hartley, Institute Archives, MIT; Cathy Henderson, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas; the late Robert Henderson; Dr Roger Highfield, Merton College Library; Robert W. Hill, New York Public Library (Manuscript Division); Penelope Hughes-Hallett; J. W. Hunt, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst; Lord Hutchinson; Carolyn Jakeman; Professor Dorothy O. Johansen, Reed College, Portland, Oregon; William Jovanovich; Monique Kuntz, Bibliothque Municipale, Vichy; the staff of the London Library; Richard M. Ludwig, Princeton University Library; R. Russell Maylone, Northwestern University Library; Professor B. K. Matilal; Joe Mitchenson; Mary C. McGreenery, Harvard Alumni Records; Lord Quinton; Angela Raspin, London School of Economics; Benedict Read; Dr R. T. H. Redpath; Helene Ritzerfeld; Rosenbach Museum & Library; Anthony Rota; Samuel A. Sizer, Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Arkansas; Lola L. Szladits, Berg Collection; Theodora Eliot Smith; Kendon L. Stubbs, University of Virginia Library; Barbara Sturtevant; Elizabeth Stege Teleky, Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago; Professor Kathleen Tillotson; Dr George Watson; the late Helen Willard; Professor David G. Williams; Patricia C. Willis, Beinecke Library, Yale University; Dr Daniel H. Woodward, Huntington Library.

It is a pleasure to record my heartfelt appreciation of the Faber team: Ron Costley, designer, Mark Massingham, typesetter, Jane Robertson, managing editor, Hazel Orme, copy-editor, and Gillian Bate, proof reader, who have combined their skills to produce such an elegant tribute to TSE in his centenary year.

1988

The acknowledgements above are those made by Valerie Eliot in the first edition of Volume 1. Sadly, a number of those mentioned are now deceased (as are some of those we will add below). The editors would like also to thank: Owen Barfield; H. Baugh; Jewel Spears Brooker; Robert Brown; Andrew Boxer; Ronald Bush; Franois Chapon; Mrs Charlton; Alan Clodd; the Literary Trustees of Walter de la Mare; J. P. G. Delaney; the estate of Geoffrey Faber; Toby Faber; Jennifer Formichelli; Mrs Burnham Finney; Estate of Enid Goldsmith; Herbert T. Greene; Warwick Gould; Michael Halls; Saskia Hamilton; Hal Hlavinka; Michael Hofmann; Michael Holroyd; Steven Isenberg; P. D. James; Iman Javadi; Emeline Jouv; Paul Keegan; Kenneth A. Lohf; Jim McCue; Tessa Milne; Tim Munby; Mary Middleton Murry; Anne Owen; Craig Raine; Carol Rothkopt; Gerd Schmidt; Rev. Karl Schroeder, sj; Ronald Schuchard; Jesse Cordes Selbin; Timothy and Marian Seldes; Prue Shaw; James Strachey; M. J. Tilby; Franois Valry, Judith Robinson-Valry; David Van Ness; Michael J. Walsh; Jemma Walton, J. Waterlow; Dave Watkins; Kieron Winn; SusanWolfson; John Worthen and Michael Yeats. Special thanks go to Ron Costley, Donald Sommerville for his copy-editing, Jenny Overton for proofreading, Alison Worthington for indexing, and to Debbie Whitfield (PA to Mrs Eliot) for her commitment to this project.

We are grateful in addition to: Leslie Morris and Elizabeth A. Falsey (Houghton Library); Dr P. Kelly (National Library of Scotland); Robin Carlaw (Harvard University Archives); Eamon Dyas (News International); Moira A. Fitzgerald and Eva Guggemos (Beinecke Library, Yale); Thomas Lannon (New York Public Library); Molly Schwartzburg (Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas); Claire Nicholas-Walker (British Library); Thomas Whitehead (Temple University Libraries); Stephen Young (Regenstein Library, University of Chicago); Bibliothque Littraire Jacques Doucet; Bibliothque Nationale, Paris; Bodleian Library, Oxford; University of Bonn Library; British Library; Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives), Koblenz; Rare Books and Manuscripts Division, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York; University of California, Los Angeles; Fondazione Camillo Caetani, Rome; Clare College, Cambridge; Fondren Library, Woodson Research Center, Rice University; Galleria Nazionale dArte Moderna, Rome; Harvard University Archives; Special Collections, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Mass.; Hornbake Library, University of Maryland; Special Collections, Keele University; Modern Archives Centre, Kings College, Cambridge; Magdalene College, Cambridge; Marshall Library, Cambridge; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Lockwood Memorial Library; University Library, Missouri History Museum; Morris Library, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University; National Library, Scotland; New College, Oxford; Pennsylvania University Library; Reading University Library; Real Academia de la Historia; Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach am Neckar; Schweizerisches Literaturachiv (Swiss National Archives), Berne; University of Sussex Library; Trinity College, Cambridge; Trinity College, Dublin; University of Virginia Library; Washington University Library, St Louis, Missouri; Widener Library, Harvard University; Chapin Library, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts; Yale University Archives.