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Scope and Contents Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) was an American-born British poet, playwright and critic. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature and the British Order of Merit in 1948 for his poems and plays, which include "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," The Waste Land and Murder in the Cathedral. He was also a renowned editor and critic, founding The Criterion, a quarterly review, and working as a director at...

Scope and Contents Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938) is best known as a hostess and patron of the arts who brought together some of the most important writers and artists of her day. Her circle of friends included Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Siegfried Sassoon, D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell and Augustus John. Her husband, Philip Morrell, was a Liberal member of the British Parliament, and their home served as a refuge for conscientious objectors during World War I. There are three...

Scope and Contents Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English novelist, short story writer and critic. Her novels included To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway; and her essay A Room of One's Own is considered a classic feminist work. Woolf also served as a frequent reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement, and she and her husband Leonard launched a small literary publishing house, the Hogarth Press, in...

Scope and Contents This series consists of two pieces of correspondence, one autograph letter from Hope Mirrlees to Mrs. L. H. Cohn and one picture postcard addressed to T. S. Eliot from an unknown sender. The letter is dated May 1, 1974, and concerns the sale of Mirrlees's papers. The postcard may be from a member of Eliot's family, since in 1946 his brother resided in Cambridge. The postcard contains a newspaper clipping concerning a request from Poland for 4,000 cats to control a rodent problem; a...