Eliot, Henry Ware, 1879-1947

T.S. Eliot's older brother.

Henry Ware Eliot, Jr., was a writer, archeologist, and brother of American poet T. S. Eliot.

Henry Ware Eliot, Jr., was a writer, archeologist, brother of poet T. S. Eliot, and the collector of the nucleus of the Eliot Collection at Harvard University.

Resident of St. Louis, Mo., involved in publishing, printing, and advertising; b. Henry Ware Eliot, Jr.

Collection of materials by and about the American-born poet, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot. This collection was begun by Charlotte Eliot, the mother of T. S. Eliot. It was added to by various family members, but especially by TSE's brother, Henry Ware Eliot, Jr. It was originally given to Harvard University, for the Eliot House Library, on behalf of Charlotte Eliot's children, by Henry Ware Eliot, Jr. HWE, Jr. made an elaborate typed index for this material and continued to increase the collection until his death in 1947. After his death, his wife, Mrs. Henry Ware Eliot, Jr. (Theresa Garrett Eliot), kept up the cataloging and augmented the collection. In 1951 the collection was transferred from Eliot House Library and gifted to the Houghton Library. Members of the Eliot family have continued to add to this collection since that time.

Henry Ware Eliot, Jr. was a writer, archeologist, and brother of American poet T.S. Eliot.

Henry Ware Eliot Jr. (1879-1949) was born in Saint Louis, Mo., the son of Henry Ware Eliot and Charlotte Stearns Eliot. He and his only brother, Thomas Stearns Eliot, had for sisters. Henry Ware Eliot Jr. married Theresa Garrett, an artist and illusrator; they apparently had no children. It seems likely that he worked in advertising in the years after his graduation from Harvard University in 1902.

In 1932, under the pseudonym Mason Deal, Eliot published The Rumble Murders. The Eliots lived in New York int he 1930s, moving to Cambridge, Mass., about 1940. The interest in archeology that Eliot pursued later in life culminated with the publication in 1950 of Excavations in Mesopotamia and Western Iran: Sites of 4000-500 B.C., illustrated by his wife.

For many years, Eliot collected materials relating to his brother (he and his wife were both among T.S. Eliot's few intimate friends) and eventually established with this material the Eliot Collection at Harvard.

Henry Blodgett Harvey (d. afer April 1947), author and at one time a colleague of Henry Ware Eliot Jr. in advertising, married the poet and art critic Dorothy Dudley (d. 1962). The Harveys lived in Paris in the 1930s and New York in the 1940s. Harvey is identified in these papers as the co-author, with Mr. Fulton, of They Couldn't Say No.