Correspondence and Personal Material, 1915-1961 and undated

This series contains letters written and received by T. S. Eliot. Correspondents include Robert L. Beare, John Black, Sally and Richard Cobden-Sanderson, H. P. Collins, Henry Ware Eliot, Wrey Gardiner, Edgar Jepson, and Jane Quinby. There is also correspondence relating to him written by Robert L. Beare, Conrad Aiken, Peter du Sautoy, Theresa Eliot, Valerie Fletcher, Donald Gallup, Catherine McCarthy, Angela Niles, Norman Holmes Pearson, Eugene Waith, Fredson Bowers, and John Hayward.

All letters written by Eliot are original with the exception of the letters to Edgar Jepson, which are transcriptions. The two largest groupings of correspondence include those exchanged between Eliot and Robert L. Beare (about Beare's research on variants in published Eliot works) and Eliot's letters to H. P. Collins, in which he discusses publishing Collins's literary reviews in The Criterion. The personal material is a 1927 certified copy of Eliot's marriage certificate to Vivienne Haigh-Wood in 1915.

The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by author and then by recient's name; the personal material follows the correspondence.