BIB_ID
422767
Accession number
MA 1667.18
Creator
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
Display Date
London, England, 1940 June 10.
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."
Date of writing from published letter cited below.
The line being discussed is from Eliot's "Defence of the Islands."
Date of writing from published letter cited below.
The line being discussed is from Eliot's "Defence of the Islands."
Provenance
Gift of Marion Dorn, 1955.
Summary
Saying "I think that 'music's enduring instrument' ought to come out. It blemishes the simple straightforwardness of the phrase. / In haste / T.S.E."
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