Letters of T.S. Eliot [manuscript], 1932 and 1943.

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Letters of T.S. Eliot [manuscript], 1932 and 1943.

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In two letters, 1932 December 17 and 26, Eliot responds to Wilbur A. Nelson of the University of Virginia concerning Nelson's invitation to come to Virginia and deliver the Barbour-Page Foundation lectures. In a 1943 December 15 letter to the Editor of "The Nation" [Freda Kirchwey] Eliot responds to Lionel Trilling's review of his volume of selectionsfrom Rudyard Kipling's verse. Eliot cites a textual example to prove that Kipling was anti-German but not specifically anti-Semitic.

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