BIB_ID
422659
Accession number
MA 6301.3
Creator
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
Display Date
London, England, 1932 January 1.
Credit line
Gift of Lewis Morris, 2004.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 26.5 x 20.8 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of six typed letters from T.S. Eliot to Howard Morris dating from March 20, 1928 through February 25, 1952.
Written on the letterhead of "The / Criterion / A Quarterly Review / Edited by T.S. Eliot / 24 Russell Square, / London, W.C. 1" and addressed to Howard Morris at the "Harvard Club / 27 West 44th Street, / New York."
Eliot would hold the position of Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard for the 1932-1933 academic year.
Written on the letterhead of "The / Criterion / A Quarterly Review / Edited by T.S. Eliot / 24 Russell Square, / London, W.C. 1" and addressed to Howard Morris at the "Harvard Club / 27 West 44th Street, / New York."
Eliot would hold the position of Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard for the 1932-1933 academic year.
Provenance
Gift of Lewis Morris, 2004.
Summary
Concerning his upcoming professorship at Harvard; thanking him for his "...offer of hospitality from the Harvard Club in New York. So far my plans are quite inchoate, and as a matter of fact I have not even had any official notification from Harvard. I shall no doubt have to come to New York sooner or later, but I had rather come for the pleasure of spending a week-end with yourself and your family at Easthampton than to plunge into the vortex of the metropolis. I am particularly anxious to keep out of the way of publishers, agents, editors, authors and poetesses, the last of whom I understand abound in New York. Your account of the liquid refreshment is about as depressing as it could be, and I think the best thing I can do, if it is within my powers, is to train myself to be able to live on orange juice. I wonder if that is possible, however, for seven or eight months. Incidentally my term does not begin until October 1932, and lasts until May 1933 so there is plenty of time.
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