Richard March: T S Eliot: A Symposium (Durrell, Lawrence)
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Correspondence: Tambimuttu to Durrell (8 March, 1948); Durrell to Tambimuttu (typescript, Buenos Aires, [1948]), supplying a poem (not present) as requested and including the suggestion of a 'Competition Corner' for Poetry London.
Richard March: T S Eliot: A Symposium (Eliot, T S)
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Four letters: T S Eliot's secretary to Tambimuttu (typescript, London, 18 May, 1948), conveying a message from Eugenio Montale, who has lost a letter from Tambimuttu inviting him to contribute; Eliot to March (typescript, London, 29 August, 1948), 'touched and distressed' at the prospect of a pa...
Richard March: T S Eliot: A Symposium (Empson, William)
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Brief letter from Empson to Tambimuttu (typescript, Peiping, China, 26 March, 1948): 'I think it would put my little piece off balance if I tried to put in serious criticism as well'.
Richard March: T S Eliot: A Symposium (Every, George)
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Correspondence: March to Every (1 March, 1948); Every to March (typescript, House of the Sacred Mission, Newark, Nottinghamshire, 2 March, 1948); Every to March (manuscript, Newark, 27 April, 1948), a brief covering note accompanying Every's contribution (not present); March to Every (29 April, ...
Richard March: T S Eliot: A Symposium (Faber, Geoffrey)
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Faber to Tambimuttu (typescript, London, 24 February, 1948), requesting a few days to consider whether Eliot 'would not dislike such a contribution from me'. (The published volume did not include a contribution from Faber.)
Richard March: T S Eliot: A Symposium (Fletcher, Iain)
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Correspondence: Tambimuttu to Fletcher (22 March, 1948), requesting a poem; Fletcher to Tambimuttu (typescript, Bromley, 2 April, 1948), flattered. (The published volume did not include a contribution from Fletcher.)
Richard March: T S Eliot: A Symposium (Fluchère, Henri)
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Correspondence: Fluchère to Tambimuttu (typescript, Oxford, 11 May, 1948); Fluchère to Tambimuttu (typescript, Oxford, 24 May, 1948); March to Fluchère (25 May, 1948).
Richard March: T S Eliot: A Symposium (Foerster, Norman)
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Correspondence: Tambimuttu to Foerster (10 March, 1948); Foerster to Tambimuttu (manuscript, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 16 March, 1948), declining to contribute (although Foerster and Eliot were both students at Harvard, 'it was not my good fortune to know him then').