A Guide to the Letters of T.S. Eliot 1932 Eliot, Thomas Stearns, Collection of 6247-o

A Guide to the Letters of T.S. Eliot 1932

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Accession Number 6247-o

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Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

6247-o

Title

Letters of T.S. Eliot, 1932

Physical Characteristics

This collection contains 2 items, TLS, 1 p. each on 1 l. each.

Language

English

Administrative Information

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Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Letters of T.S. Eliot, Accession # 6247-o, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Processing Information

This collection was an archival transfer from the University of Virginia Committee on Public Occasions on June 24, 1992.

Scope and Content Information

This collection consists of two letters that discuss Eliot's lecturing at the University of Virginia.

Contents List

T. S. Eliot to Professor Wilbur D. [sic] Nelson December 17, 1932

TLS, 1 p. on 1l.

Has been considering the invitation to lecture at the University of Virginia, one of the universities in America he would most like to visit. Suggests the week of May 8th-13th to deliver three Barbour-Page Foundation lectures, gives instructions for mailing after his departure for "the West."

Eliot to Nelson December 26, 1932

TLS 1p. on 1l.

Fixes Wednesday the 10th and the Thursday and Friday following for his three lectures. Briefly discusses subject of lectures, assumes Nelson would not want him to repeat his three Turnbull Lectures on Three Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry. Asks if he may let Nelson know at the beginning of February, gives a Claremont, California address for the next fortnight.