T. S. Eliot papers, 1878-1958.

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T. S. Eliot papers, 1878-1958.

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The core of this collection was gathered by Henry Ware Eliot, T. S. Eliot's brother. This portion of the T.S. Eliot collection consists of correspondence; notes; and writings, chiefly manuscripts of plays, addresses, radio broadcasts, and articles, by Eliot; notes on Harvard and Oxford courses, 1910-1915; and papers for philosophy courses. Includes 57 letters, 1937-1959, from Eliot to E. Martin Browne, who produced Eliot's plays, as well as production scripts and other papers relating to his plays, such as stage plans, seating plans, and programs for various productions of Murder in the Cathedral.

4 boxes (1.3 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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Eliot (Family : Boston, Mass.)

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The Eliot family is the American branch of one of several British families to hold this surname. This branch is based in Boston but originated in East Coker, Yeovil, Somerset. It is one of the Boston Brahmins, a bourgeois family whose ancestors had become wealthy and held sway over the American education system. All are the descendants of two men named Andrew Eliot, father and son, who emigrated from East Coker to Beverly, Massachusetts between 1668 and 1670. The elder Andrew (1627-March 1, 1703...

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965

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Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), a poet, critic, editor, and playwright, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He received a B. A. in 1909 and an M. A. in 1910 from Harvard, where he also pursued a doctoral degree in philosophy. In 1915, he married Vivienne (Vivien) Haigh-Wood. He completed his dissertation in 1916 while living in England and submitted it to Harvard, but was unable to defend it. He was literary editor of the avant-garde magazine The Egoist. In the Spring 1917, he publishe...

Eliot, Henry Ware, 1879-1947

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T.S. Eliot's older brother. From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1941. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 175238214 Henry Ware Eliot, Jr., was a writer, archeologist, and brother of American poet T. S. Eliot. From the guide to the Henry Ware Eliot papers, 1900-1969., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Henry Ware Eliot, Jr., was a writer, archeologist, brother of poet T. S. Eliot, a...

Browne, E. Martin (Elliott Martin), 1900-1980

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English actor and producer, closely connected with the revival of poetic and religious drama in England, Browne was responsible for the first production (1935) of T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral and produced all of Eliot's subsequent plays. He was director of the Pilgrim Players, the Mercury Theatre (1945- ) and the British Drama League (1945-1957); visiting professor at the Program in Religious Drama at Union Theological Seminary, N.Y. (1957-1962); and Honorary Drama Adviser to the New Cov...