T.S. Eliot Collection, Accession #12248, Special
Collections, University of Virginia Library,
Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
These items were originally part of a collection of
books and papers owned by Donald Gallup and sold to the
University of Virginia Library by Waiting for Godot Books,
Hadley, Massachusetts; non-book items were transferred to
the Manuscripts Division on July 26, 2002.
Donald Gallup was the Curator of the Collection of American
Literature at Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut,
and a member of the T.S. Eliot Society.
This collection consists of ca. sixty items (one Hollinger
box), ca. 1892-1986, and undated, all pertaining to author
T.S. Eliot and his life and work, including manuscripts or
copies of manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and
memorabilia.
Photograph of Eastern Point, Gloucester,
Massachusetts
[ca. 1900]
Harvard University Student Card belonging to T.S. Eliot, signed by bursar
1913 September 23
Notes by T.S. Eliot on Aristotle's
Analyticorum Posteriorum,
page 55
[ca. 1913]
The book was owned by Eliot in his post-graduate
years at Harvard University (a photostatic copy with a
typed note about the original in the Widener
Library).
Harvard University Tuition Receipt made out
to T.S. Eliot, stamped paid on February 5, 1913 by
bursar
1913 February 5
"The Death of Saint Narcissus" by T.S. Eliot
[1915 October]
This is a photostatic copy of the original canceled
galley proof which was scheduled for publication in
Poetry but withdrawn
before publication.
Photograph of T.S. Eliot, possibly taken on a
Cunard Line sea voyage
[ca. 1921]
"The Prophet of the Waste Land - T.S. Eliot"
by Walter Hanks Shaw
[ca. 1928]
Typed Manuscript (carbon), 6 pages
"Marina" by T.S. Eliot
1930 May 9
Photostatic copies of the Typescript and Manuscript
versions; and a Photostatic copy of a Postscript of a
letter from Eliot to Sir Michael Sadler, describing his
writing method in the poem
Postal card from T.S. Eliot to the Librarian
of Congress, Herbert Putnam
1934 &
1938
Eliot writes regarding "Ezra Pound: His Metric and
Poetry," a negative photostatic copy; with a typed note
from a Library of Congress cataloger to D.C. Gallup
about the postal card
"Some Uses of the Poetry of T.S. Eliot" by
Elizabeth Wheeler Manwaring
[late 1930's]
TMS, 13 pp.
Correspondence of T.S. Eliot and Ashley
Dukes, Martin Browne, and Frank V. Morley
1938
March-April
Typescript Copies, regarding the original production
of Eliot's play,
The Family Reunion
Photograph of T.S. Eliot by E. McKnight
Kauffer, London
1939
Photograph of T.S. Eliot seated at a
typewriter, taken by Jarlas Foto copyright by Ahlen
& Akerlind Studio, Stockholm
1942
Photographs of Little Gidding Church by
Donald Gallup
1943 February
The Columbia Workshop Script for readings
from T.S. Eliot's
Four Quartets 1946 March 16
These include "Burnt Norton" read by John Hall
Wheelock and "Little Gidding" read by James Johnson
Sweeney.
Emilio Ceechi, Italian scholar and Eliot
translator, to Bernard Wall
1946 December 23
Autograph Post Card Signed, mentioning a recent long
and interesting talk with Eliot
"Incontro Con T.S. Eliot" by Emilio Cecchi
[1946]
TMS, 5 pp.
Donald Gallup to [John Cook] Wyllie
1947 June 1
Thanks him for the McGregor Seminar programs and
notes about the Italian translations in
Sud
"A Personal Anthology" by T.S. Eliot
[1948] February 22
TMS, 18 pp.
Might have been written for a BBC appearance, then a copy was sent to
Donald Gallup, who read the text at Yale University.
Photograph of T.S. Eliot, publicity shot by
Angus McBean, Eliot shown seated, from the waist up
[ca. 1940's]
Jeannette Lowrey to Van Allen Bradley,
Literary Editor, of
The Daily News 1950 October 12
Lowrey urges him to listen to the lectures of T.S.
Eliot, praising his literary allusions, and suggests he
do an interview with Eliot while he is at the University
of Chicago, Typed Letter Signed
Photograph of T.S. Eliot standing before a
tall bookcase, probably taken when Eliot delivered a
series of lectures at the University of Chicago
[ca. 1950]
Yale Reports on the Arts & Sciences
1959 March 4
"T.S. Eliot: The Four Quartets A
Conversation for Television between Edith Kerr and
Norman Holmes Pearson, 7 pages
"The Art of Fiction XXIV: T.S. Eliot" An
Interview in
The Paris Review conducted
by Donald Hall
[1959]
Corrected Page Proof
Correspondence concerning
The T.S. Eliot
Newsletter and related topics, chiefly between
Donald Gallup, Curator Collection of American
Literature, Yale University Library, and Editor Shyamal
Bagchee
1973-1982
Selected Prose of T.S.
Eliot , edited with introduction by Frank Kermode
[1975]
Postcards from the National Portrait Gallery
featuring an abstract painting of Eliot by Patrick Heron
and a plaster cast of a bust of Eliot by Sir Jacob
Epstein
[1970's]
T.S. Eliot Society Membership Certificate for
Donald Gallup
1986 September 26
"Please inscribe for Miss
Emily Hal[e?][blank] Prufrock" in ink and signed by T.S.
Eliot as "Done TSE" in pencil
n.d.
AN
Photographs of "The Dry Salvages," and
Exhibition of Eliot books by Donald Gallup at [Yale
University?], Magdalene College Hall post card
photograph, and T.S. Eliot portrait snapshot
n.d.
"La Terre Mise A Nu"
n.d.
TMS, carbon 9 pp.
"Notes on Eliot's Epigraphs" from Jane
Worthington's typescript "The Epigraphs to the Poetry of
T.S. Eliot"
n.d.