BIB_ID
422766
Accession number
MA 1667.17
Creator
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
Display Date
London, England, 1940 June 5.
Credit line
Gift of Marion Dorn, 1955.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 25.4 x 20.3 cm
Notes
Written on the letterhead of "The / Criterion / A Quarterly Review / Edited by T.S. Eliot / 24 Russell Square, / London, W.C.1."
Eliot served as an air-raid warden during the Blitz.
Eliot served as an air-raid warden during the Blitz.
Provenance
Gift of Marion Dorn, 1955.
Summary
Expressing his disappointment "...if this weekend proves impossible, but I shall be still sorrier for you, having this vexation and inconvenience. I do hope in any case that the position will be dealt with sensibly, so that you need not get special permission to move between Chelsea and North End on each occasion. Meanwhile, if we don't go this weekend, I hope you will ask me later; and I have plenty to do here - I have about fifteen houses to visit around me, to talk to the people about stirrup pumps and incendiary bombs! But I shall keep this weekend, and I shouldn't have gone anywhere else, so you needn't think that I shall be inconvenienced."
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