Essays, Addresses, and Verses

The first date has been estimated.

This volume comprises:

A) Prize Day Address at the Methodist Girls' School, Penzance, sometime in the 1930s. 7 pp. Typescript, so titled in pencil and initialled TSE

B) 'The Last Twenty-Five Years of English Poetry'. 23 pp. Typescript (?T.S. Eliot) with one sentence added in ink (p. 7). Draft lecture for cancelled British Council Tour of Italy, 1939

C) 'Types of English Religious Verse'. Summary. 1 p. Typescript by T.S. Eliot. Carbon copy only. 21 pp. Typescript by T.S. Eliot, untitled, with one phrase added in pencil (p. 4). Draft lecture for cancelled British Council Tour of Italy, 1939

D) 'The Art of the Theatre: Gordon Craig's Socratic Dialogue'. 8 pp. Typescript (T.S. Eliot) titled and corrected in ink; further corrections in pencil

E) 'The Cultivation of Christmas Trees'.

1. Progressive drafts: 1 p. pencil notes and 2 pp. pencil draft.

2. A Preamble to Christmas Trees, 2 pp. Typescript, corrected in ink.

3. A Comment upon Christmas Trees, 2 pp. Typescript, corrected in pencil.

4. A Note on the Cultivation of Christmas Trees, 2 pp. Typescript on American airmail paper, corrected in pencil.

5. The Cultivation of Christmas Trees, 1 p. as above (single-spaced), 1 correction in pencil.

6. The Cultivation of Christmas Trees, 2 pp. Typescript, corrected in pencil. Carbon copy with J.D. Hayward comments.

7. Same, variant, 1 p. Typescript, corrected in ink.

8. Same, variant, 1 p. Typescript, corrected in ink with carbon copy similarly corrected (1 line in latter, 2 in former)

F) Essay on Paul Valéry for Bollingen edition. 21 pp. carbon copy of typescript (T.S. Eliot) corrected in ink, titled in pencil 'P. Valéry'

G) 'On David Jones'. BBC. 3 pp. Typescript (T.S. Eliot) titled in pencil and corrected in ink

H) Speech at the Annual Banquet of the Alliance Française. Bristol, 23 May, 1953. 2 pp. Typescript (T.S. Eliot) with corrections. Clipped to these two sheets is a slip of paper bearing six lines 'Vers d'Occasion de M. Emile Henriot'

I) Address delivered at Washington University, 1953. 26 pp. Typescript (T.S. Eliot) corrected in ink and marked in pencil 'Script used'

J) 'American Literature and the American Language'. Address delivered at Washington University, St. Louis, Jun. 1953. 25 pp. Typescript (T.S. Eliot) corrected in ink. Carbon copy also corrected, to lesser extent (no variants)

K) 'Edgar Poe et La France' (Text in English). Address delivered at Aix en Provence on receiving Hon. D. es L. (carbon copy so marked in pencil). 24 pp. Typescript (T.S. Eliot); both copies corrected, top with a few additional corrections to those on carbon

L) Introduction to Ezra Pound's Essays.

Draft, 10 pp. carbon copy Typescript (T.S. Eliot); 7 pp. single-spaced typescript, corrected (these 7 pp. interleaved in item m, following)

M) 'The Three Voices of Poetry'. National Book League Annual Lecture, 19 Nov. 1953.

1. First draft (so marked by T.S. Eliot), 21 pp. Typescript (T.S. Eliot) and 8 pp. notes of variations.

[2nd part of item L appears here]

2. Second draft 1 and 2 (so marked by T.S. Eliot). 19 pp. Typescript (T.S. Eliot); top and carbon copy variously corrected in ink, with additional pages of variant paragraphs.

3. Revised draft, 21 pp. Typescript (T.S. Eliot) corrected in ink; clipped onto this draft is a note by T.S. Eliot '3d draft completed'.

4. Final copy, 26 pp. Typescript with a few minor corrections

N) 'Poetry and Drama'. Address delivered at Foyle's Literary Luncheon, Cape Town, 19 Feb. 1954. 8 pp. Typescript

O) A Message of Goodwill on the first appearance of The London Magazine. 1st draft, 3 pp. Typescript (T.S. Eliot) corrected; 2nd draft, ditto. 3rd draft, 4pp. Typescript (T.S. Eliot) marked in pencil '3d Draft. For favour of censure'. Corrected in ink

P) Inscriptions to Sir Geoffrey Faber on the occasion of his knighthood. 4 pp. 'Original Drafts' for two alternative congratulatory verses on the occasion of Sir Geoffrey Faber's knighthood, with a final 'P.S.' recommending the shorter version to be inscribed on glass, the longer to be calligraphed and presented on paper

Q) A Fragment (Anagram on letters: T-h-o-m-a-s S-t-e-a-r-n-s E-l-i-o-t). Macbeth (J. Hayward), Banquo (T. S. Eliot) and The Three Witches (Madame Amery, Mrs. Beck, Miss Morison)

R) 'Author and Critic'. Address to the Author's Club, 13 Apr. 1955. 15 pp. Typescript corrected in ink by T.S. Eliot

S) 'The Literature of Politics'. Address at the Conservative Literary Luncheon, 19 Apr. 1955. Draft, 12 pp. Typescript (T.S. Eliot) corrected. Final, 14 pp. Typescript, top and carbon of another draft with variant corrections

T) 'Goethe as the Sage'. Hamburg 1955. Draft, 32 pp. Typescript (T.S. Eliot), corrected. Fair copy, 38 pp. Typescript, with a few minor corrections. 1 p. carbon copy Typescript (T.S. Eliot) quotations from Goethe. Shortened Version, 27 pp. Typescript with a few notes and marks in pencil. 5 May 1955.