Richard March: T S Eliot: A Symposium (Sweeney, James Johnson)
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Sweeney to Tambimuttu (typescript, New York, 3 March, 1948), 'happy to prepare a contribution for inclusion'; and a Western Union Cablegram from Sweeney to Tambimuttu (New York, June, 1948): 'Card received regret delay sending piece for Elliott [sic] volume trust not too late'. (The published vol...
Richard March: T S Eliot: A Symposium (Tate, Allen)
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Correspondence: Tambimuttu to Tate (22 March, 1948); Tate to Tambimuttu (manuscript, New York, 19 May, 1948), unable to contribute because the invitation only reached him on 20 April: 'This I regret exceedingly. There is no one who holds him in greater honor than myself'.
Richard March: T S Eliot: A Symposium (Todd, Ruthven)
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Correspondence: Todd to Tambimuttu (typescript, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 14 March, 1948), contributing a poem (not present), and supplying news of his post at Iowa ('I am running the Poetry Workshop'); Tambimuttu to Todd (22 March, 1948), unimpressed with Todd's poem ('I hope that you w...
Richard March: T S Eliot: A Symposium (Wall, Bernard)
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Correspondence concerning translations from the Italian of Emilio Cecchi and Eugenio Montale: Editions Poetry London Ltd to Wall (10 May, 1948); Wall to Tambimuttu (manuscript, Palace Court, London, 28 May, 1948); Wall to Tambimuttu (manuscript, Palace Court, London, 6 June, 1948); Wall to Tamb...
Richard March: T S Eliot: A Symposium (Watkins, Vernon)
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Correspondence: Tambimuttu to Watkins (10 March, 1948), requesting the contribution of a poem; Watkins to Tambimuttu (typescript, Pennard, Nr Swansea, 18 March, 1948): 'verse is always an unpredictable thing'; Watkins to Tambimuttu (typescript, Pennard, 28 April, 1948), enclosing 'two sonnets fo...
Richard March: T S Eliot: A Symposium (Letters of Solicitation without Response)
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Letters of solicitation (all carbon typescript) from either Tambimuttu or March (author not indicated) to: W H Auden, Stephen Coates, Cyril Connolly, E E Cummings, David Gascoyne (two letters, the second of which, in addition to renewing the request for a contribution, refers to corrections havi...
Richard March: T S Eliot: A Symposium (Title-page, Contents, Foreword)
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(1) Two versions of the title-page, the first bearing the title 'Mr Eliot's Circus' which has been struck-through in pencil by John Hayward, appending a marginal note (signed): 'I don't at all like this title & am sure TSE wouldn't'. (2) Draft Contents page, largely as published, and indic...
Richard March: T S Eliot: A Symposium (Copy Photographs Prepared for Plates)
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Copy photographs prepared for the photographic plates, comprising various portraits of Eliot, juvenile compositions ('George Washington' and the title-page of a 'domestic periodical' in Eliot's hand called 'Fireside'), Eliot's earliest manuscript poem ('If time and space...') and holograph draft...
Richard March: T S Eliot: A Symposium (Correspondence with the Library of Harvard University)
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Correspondence (March, 1948) with the Library of Harvard University concerning obtaining various copy photographs for publication. Xerox copies of poems and prose by Eliot published in The Harvard Advocate (1907-1910): eight poems, a review of a book on Swinburne, and 'Gentlemen and Seamen', a ...
Richard March: T S Eliot: A Symposium (Marketing and Distribution)
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(1) A letter of enquiry (9 April, 1948) from the literary agency Bureau Littéraire, of Paris, concerning rights for a French edition, with a reply (14 April, 1948) from Tambimuttu. (2) A letter (3 December, 1948) from the Central Office of Information, London, returning two borrowed photograph...