Letters : to Aimée and Rosamond Lamb from T.S. Eliot and Valerie Eliot, 1933-1988.

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Letters : to Aimée and Rosamond Lamb from T.S. Eliot and Valerie Eliot, 1933-1988.

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Eliot's letters to his American cousins are chatty and affectionate. After World War II, the Misses Lamb sent supplies of meat and eggs to Eliot in England, which he gratefully acknowledges. Other letters discuss his health and travels, family and friends, lectures and readings, and performances of his work. With photographs and a pencil sketch of Eliot by Aimée Lamb. Collection also includes letters to Theresa Garrett Eliot (Eliot's sister-in-law) from Valerie Eliot, and letters from T.S. Matthews regarding a biography of Eliot. Two typed notes from Eliot to Annie Lawrence Lamb, 1933 Jan. 29 and March 5, are on Eliot House (Harvard) stationery. With a collection of 26 original and copy photographs, snapshots, Polaroids and studio photographs of Eliot, Vivienne Eliot, Valerie Eliot, and of Eliot with others, including Theresa Garrett Eliot, Aimée and Rosamond Lamb, and Annie Lawrence Lamb; and a folder of 12 clippings from newspapers and magazines featuring photographs of Eliot.

ca. 60 items, in box + 1 folder ; 27 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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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...

Lamb, Rosamond, 1898-1993.

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Lamb, Aimée, 1893-1989

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Painter; Milton, Mass. Died 1989. From the description of Aimée Lamb papers, 1888-1991. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122395058 ...

Lamb, Annie Lawrence.

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Eliot, Vivienne, 1888-1947

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Eliot, Valerie

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Second wife of T.S. Eliot. She edited and annotated 'The letters of T. S. Eliot' and a facsimile of the draft of 'The waste land.' From the description of Valerie Eliot letter to Professor Eder, 1975 February 27. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 642169774 Wife of T.S. Eliot. From the description of Letters : London, to Aurelia Hodgson, Minerva, Ohio, 1981-1982. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28636225 ...

Matthews, T. S. (Thomas Stanley), 1901-1991

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Editor. From the description of Reminiscences of T.S. Matthews : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513341 ...