Overview
Primarily letters of American poet and dramatist T. S. Eliot to Eleanor Holmes Hinkley, Susan Stearns Hinkley, and Barbara Hinkley Welch Wolcott.
Dates
- Creation: 1910-1970
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Any requests to publish Eliot material must be cleared through Faber and Faber’s Permissions Department.
Extent
.5 linear feet (1 box)Chiefly letters from T.S. Eliot to Eleanor Holmes Hinkley, Susan Stearns Hinkley, and Barbara Hinkley Welch Wolcott. Also includes Valerie Eliot's letters to Eleanor Holmes Hinkley, letters from others to T.S. Eliot, and a few third-party letters.
Biographical / Historical
Eliot was a poet, dramatist, and critic.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
70M-61. Deposited by Barbara Welch Sturtevant (Mrs. Theodore C. Sturtevant), 101 Indian Av., Middletown RI 02840; received: 1971 March; gift: 1997 July 15.
- Title
- Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. T. S. Eliot correspondence, 1910-1970: Guide.
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou01514
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.
Harvard Yard
Harvard University
Cambridge MA 02138 USA
(617) 495-2440
Houghton_Library@harvard.edu