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Letter from T.S. Eliot, London, to E. McKnight Kauffer, 1930 September : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
422733
Accession number
MA 1667.6
Creator
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
Display Date
London, England, 1930 September.
Credit line
Gift of Marion Dorn, 1955.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.1 cm
Notes
Eliot does not date the letter however the published letter cited below dates it to "end September 1930."
Written from "68 Clarence Gate Gardens, / N.W.1" on personal stationery engraved with the address "177, Clarence Gate Gardens, N.W.1." Eliot has crossed through "177" and written "68" above it.
Provenance
Gift of Marion Dorn, 1955.
Summary
Concerning a drawing Kauffer gave him; saying "I am delighted to have the beautiful drawing, with the inscription, and shall have it framed to match the other (Simeon) which I appropriated. I had not seen the original when in de la Mare's hands and was surprised by the differences. I must say that I like the colouring of the drawing you have given me very much better than that of the printed 'Marina'. I wish that the poem had been printed according to this one. Until Marion called the other night we knew nothing of your illness. I do hope you are getting on : let me know when you would care to have me come to see you;" adding, in a postscript, The Hutchinson's showed us your Don Quixote which we much admired. I should not have thought anything possible after Doré, but you have done it."