ELIOT, T. S.
Typed Letter Signed ("T. S. Eliot") to "Dear Mr. [Harvey] Bright" of the New York Times Book Review,
Eliot writes in response to Breit, who wishes to publish one of Eliot’s lectures in the New York Times Book Review:
“I am honored by the suggestion that the New York Times Book Review should publish my Theodore Spencer lecture, but I had already made my arrangements. The lecture will, I think, be published in pamphlet form by the Memorial Committee. But meanwhile they have authorized its serial publication in the Atlantic Monthly.”
He adds his “best wishes’”, and hopes he “may get a glimpse of you on some occasion during [his] brief stay in New York.”
From the Atlantic (Feb 1951): “Poet, playwright, and publisher T. S. ELIOT *delivered at Harvard on November 21 the first Theodore Spencer Lecture in memory of his friend who was a poet, a Shakespearean scholar, and the Boylston Professor. The paper he prepared for the occasion falls into three parts; it is affectionate, calmly objective in its self-criticism, and compelling in the power of its prose.”*
Folds, near fine.
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