Dates
- Creation: 1881-1994
Language of Materials
Collection materials are mostly in English, but also include some in German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, and other languages.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
The majority of this collection is not housed at the Houghton Library but is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. Retrieval requires advance notice. Readers should check with Houghton Public Services staff to determine what material is offsite and retrieval policies and times.
Extent
15 linear feet (39 boxes (including 1 portfolio box))Arrangement
Organized into the following sub-series:
- A. Articles on TSE by subject
- B. Reviews and other materials on TSE's works in general
- C. Reviews and other materials on TSE's early works, 1917-1934
- D. Reviews and other materials on Murder in the cathedral, 1935
- E. Reviews and other materials on TSE's later works, 1936-1948
- F. Reviews and other materials on The cocktail party, 1949
- G. Reviews and other materials on The confidential clerk, 1953
- H. Articles and ephemera on TSE's lectures in the United States
- I. Articles and ephemera on TSE's lectures outside of the United States
- J. Articles and ephemera on TSE's awards
- K. Articles, reviews, and ephemera on recordings of TSE's poetry
- L. Articles and ephemera on interviews with and personal stories on TSE
- M. Scrapbooks of clippings concerning TSE
- N. Miscellaneous clippings and posters, 1920-1964
- O. Obituaries and clippings after TSE's death, 1965-1994
Physical Location
Harvard Depository, pf, b, Vault
General note
Please note that it is not usual practice at Houghton to item-describe news clippings, but the Eliot family did so in their original index. Consequently, we have retained their item-description under this "Printed materials" series, but have not edited it. The descriptive text and arrangement for this series remains mostly as written in the original collection index.
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
Houghton Library’s Reading Room is free and open to all who wish to use the library’s collections.
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