Young Eliot by Robert Crawford Page B

Manuscript Library, Yale University (particularly Nancy Kuhl, Curator of Poetry, Yale Collection of American Literature); to the Bodleian Library, Oxford (where Dr Judith Priestman expedited my request); to the Cambridge Historical Society of Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts (particularly Gavin W. Kleespies); to the Hayward Bequest, King’s College, Cambridge, England (where, as ever, the College Archivist Patricia McGuire and her colleague Peter Monteith were especially helpful); to the Houghton Library, Harvard University (thanks again to Leslie A. Morris, Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts, and her colleagues Susan Halpert, Christina Linklater, and Mary Haegert); to the Warden and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford, for permission to quote from College records (thanks to Dr Julia Walworth and to Julian Reid); and to other rights holders. Though permissions to reproduce photographs in this book are acknowledged separately in the list of plates, I would like to thank especially the Bertrand Russell Archive at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, and Rick Stapleton, Archives and Research Collections Librarian there for generous help; also once again the Hayward Bequest, King‘s College, Cambridge (especially Patricia McGuire); the Houghton Library, Harvard (especially Leslie A. Morris); the National Library of Scotland (Sarah Moxey); and the Archives of Smith College (Nichole Calero).
    Though the online publication of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition (the first two volumes of which are now published by Johns Hopkins University Press along with Faber and Faber) and the new edition of Eliot’s collected poetry (forthcoming from Faber) were not available in time for me to consult, I would like to thank Professor Ronald Schuchard, overall editor of The Complete Prose , for his guidance and generous support throughout this project and over many years; and I want to thank also Jim McCue and Professor Sir Christopher Ricks, joint editors of the poetry, for exchanging intelligence as they and I were working on our respective projects – and for their sheer wisdom. Future writers on Eliot will be in these great editors’ debt.
    My mother and father nurtured my love of the poetry of T. S. Eliot; my wife Alice and our children, Lewis and Blyth, have sustained it, sometimes to the limit. Without them this book would not have been written. Thank you.
    R.C., St Andrews, 2014

 
    Abbreviations
    Books by T. S. Eliot
    CC : To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings (London: Faber and Faber, 1965).
    CPP : The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot (London: Faber and Faber, 1969).
    Facsimile : The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts including the Annotations of Ezra Pound , ed. Valerie Eliot (London: Faber and Faber, 1971). Facsimile pages on even-numbered pages, transcriptions on facing pages.
    IMH : Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909–1917 , ed. Christopher Ricks (London: Faber and Faber, 1996).
    L1 : The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 1: 1898–1922, revised edn , ed. Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton (London: Faber and Faber, 2009).
    L2 : The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 2: 1923–1925 , ed. Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton (London: Faber and Faber, 2009).
    L3 : The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 3: 1926–1927 , ed. Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden (London: Faber and Faber, 2012).
    L4 : The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 4: 1928–1929 , ed. Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden (London: Faber and Faber, 2013).
    OPP : On Poetry and Poets (London: Faber and Faber, 1957).
    SE : Selected Essays , third enlarged edn (London: Faber and Faber, 1951).
    UPUC : T. S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism , Second Edition (London: Faber and Faber, 1964).
    VMP : The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry , ed. Ronald Schuchard (London: Faber and Faber, 1993).
    Individuals
    CCE: Charlotte Champe Eliot (TSE’s mother)
    EP: Ezra Pound
    HWE: