Eliot, Thomas Stearns. Collection of 3 typewritten letters with signature and handwritten additions, 12 letters from his wife Valérie, further correspondence and enclosures. Ca. 1924-93. various formats. In private linen box. Well-kept small archive, compiled by the Fribourg Eliot researcher and librarian Gerd Schmidt. - Contains: T. S. Eliot. Typewritten letter with signature, short handwritten postscript and inserted accents. London, 31.III.1924. 1 p. 26 x 18.5 cm. - In French to Jacques Rivière, director of the "Nouvelle Revue Francaise". Thanks for "l'envoi du précieux inédit de Proust" and, also on behalf of the Vicomtesse Rotheremere, "pour tous les soins que vous avec pris pour nous". With letterhead from "The Criterion. A Quarterly Review". - T. S. Eliot. Typewritten letter with signature and short handwritten addition. London, 1.III.1956. 1 p. (greeting and signature on the reverse). 20 x 17.5 cm. - English on Faber & Faber stationery to Ronald Gregor Smith, The Athenaeum, London. Hopes to be able to arrange "a date in two or three weeks (not Holy Week, however)" for a dinner (in his own hand). Dictates the reason for the delay into the machine: "I have been for over a month in a nursing home and am now convalescing at home, but am not yet allowed out of doors ...". - T. S. Eliot. Typewritten letter with signature and handwritten postscript. London, 22.XI.1957. 1 p. 20 x 17.5 cm. - On Faber & Faber stationery to a German autograph collector. "I almost never write with a pen since for many years I have suffered from a writer's cramp ...". In his own hand: "I hope this brief specimen of my handwriting will suffice." - Valérie Eliot, his secretary, second wife since 1957 and executor of his estate (1926-2012). 12 typewritten letters with signature, 1 handwritten postscript and all envelopes. London, 1970-88. Together approx. 12 pp. 20 x 15 cm to DIN A4. - With one exception in English to Gerd Schmidt, on sheets with private head (mostly Kensington Court Gardens) or from Faber & Faber. Responds to requests for the publication of poems and letters from the estate. In April 1984, thanks "excitedly" for a copy of Eliot's above letter to Rivière, "because I have been pursuing my husband's letters to Rivière for many years without success and had begun to fear that he would not appear in the Correspondence". May 1984 then thanks for notification of Eliot's letter to Gregor Smith, July 1985 inquiry about Eliot's correspondence with E. R. Curtius, December 1987 the corrective notification "that 'Casey Jones' was not written by my husband. It is a popular American folk ballad that TSE used to enjoy singing!". - Also mentions the following letter: Laurence Binyon, poet and art historian, close friend of Ezra Pound. Handwritten letter with signature. Streatley, Berks., 18.VII.1941. 2 pp. 19.5 x 14 cm. - To the writer Robert Nichols about reactions to his most recent publication of poetry ("The North Star"): "T. S. Eliot, by the way, admires Angkor ... and in Hospital most. He wanted to have the book published by his firm, but Macmillan wouldn't allow it. In writing to me he was very modest about his own work - wondering if his 'experiments' are really any good, etc.". - Also: Typewritten letter from Erhart Kästner, handwritten letter from Eva Hesse and handwritten card from Hugo Friedrich to Schmidt, 1967-75 - 3 offprints dedicated to Schmidt by Alfred Weber (1) and Donald Gallup (2) on Eliot and Pound, 1968-92 - Further enclosures, including some large-format prints of photo portraits of Eliot (including National Portrait Gallery). - In very good condition. VAT: #