Eminent American-born British writer (1888–1965), winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature, best known for such works as the epic poem The Waste Land and the plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party. TLS, one page, 8 x 10, The Criterion letterhead, August 29, 1941. Eliot writes to Father McLaughlin. In part: “[Reckitt] offers every postponement possible in order to give me the opportunity of coming to Newcastle and Durham. But thinking over the matter more lucidly in this retirement, and facing more honestly the other job I have to get done, I am more and more doubtful of being able to finish it, and do some preparation of my Shakespeare lectures for Bristol…. Even three weeks … is short for preparing the Durham-Newcastle stuff; and if, as is quite likely, I shall need some of that time to complete my Kipling edition, I should merely be doing two jobs badly, if at all. It is work against time, and I have no right to scamp it….” Intersecting mailing folds and a few mild wrinkles, otherwise fine condition. R&R COA.
