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 (Hutchinson, Mary)
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Correspondence: Tambimuttu to Hutchinson (10 March, 1948); Hutchinson to Tambimuttu (manuscript, Charlotte Street, London, 3 April, 1948), accepting the invitation but pressed for time; [Tambimuttu] to Hutchinson (5 April, 1948), extending the deadline; Hutchinson to Tambimuttu (manuscript, Lond...
Richard March: T S Eliot: A Symposium (Roberts, Michael)
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Correspondence: [Tambimuttu] to Roberts (5 March, 1948); Roberts to Tambimuttu (manuscript, College of St Mark and St John, Chelsea, London, 17 March, 1948), unable to contribute 'without neglecting other work which TSE, as a partner in Fabers, is urging me to do at once'.
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 (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 Editorial Correspondence: Eliot, T S
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Two letters. (1) Eliot to Tambimuttu (typescript, Faber & Faber Ltd letterhead, London, 20 May, 1943), having decided to reprint Poetry in Wartime (ed. Tambimuttu), and referring to a previous conversation with Tambimuttu, 'the question arises of replacing the poem by Roy Fuller' [Fuller, ...
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 (Bowra, C M)
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Correspondence: Tambimuttu to Bowra (13 April, 1948); Bowra to Tambimuttu (manuscript, Oxford, 14 April [1948]): 'I fear I have nothing to say. So I must refuse.'