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73 Works on Paper 212 ELIOT, T. S. TLS fromAmerican-born English Poet & Dramatist, Nobel Prize winner for Liter- ature,T. S. Eliot One page, 8vo, Russell Square, London, dated 28th May 1957, to Neville Braybrooke, on the printed stationery of Faber and Faber Limited. Eliot thanks his correspondent for their letter and states that he has discussed his proposal with another director, Mr. P. F. du Sautoy, and writes to confirm ‘that there appears to be no objec- tion whatsoever on our part to your adapting Nightwood for radio’, further adding ‘If you show your script to Miss Barnes and get her approval of it, we have no objection at all’. Some minor remnants of former mounting to the upper half of the verso; together with another typed letter from Valerie Eliot (1926-2012) Second wife (and later wid- ow) of T. S. Eliot, his most important editor and literary executor following his death. T.L.S., Val- erie Eliot, one page, 4to, Russell Square, London, signed and dated 24th May 1966, to Neville Braybrooke, on the printed stationery of Faber and Faber Limited. Eliot thanks her correspon- dent for his letter and states ‘I am afraid that it never occurred to me to ask my husband what ‘’S.A.’’ stands for, but a good guess might be ‘’Smith Academy’’, the day school in St. Louis - now defunct - which he attended and remembered with such pleasure’, further adding ‘Of course he was too young to be a pupil when he edited ‘’The Fireside’’, but several relatives and his brother Henry were former pupils and he knew that he would be going there in due course’. Eliot continues her letter by remarking ‘Faber & Faber have advised me to protest at your quot- ing from ‘’Poems Written in Early Youth’’ in your article in the ‘’Sewanee Review’’’ and explains ‘My husband did not wish these poems quoted at any length and we are surprised that you did not ask permission in the usual way. Although the poems have not yet been published by this firm it would have been courteous to approach me, as I control the copyright’. About VG, 2 Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher. € 300 - 500 211 PEEL, ROBERT [ALEXANDER PRINGLE; DANIEL O’CONNELL; WILLIAM COBBETT] ALS about Irish Affairs & ReformAct Handwritten letter dated Feb 13 1833 to Peel’s friend and Scottish politician Alexander Pringle with unbroken red wax seal and stamped free frank. A six page letter written at Peel’s home in Whitehall Gardens in which he conveys regret for Pringle’s absence from Parliament (Pringle lost to a Whig/ liberal candidate in the general election of December 1832 held in the aftermath of passing the Great ReformAct earlier that year) finding the ‘general appearance and demeanour of the house most unsatisfactory’ as the ‘tenor of democratic influence was unchecked either by the government or its supporters’. Lord Althorp’s speech comes in for particular ridicule - resembling ‘the overseer of a Parish meeting threatened with an indictment’ and Lord Ormelie comes in for similar vitriol which Peel further heaps onto the as-yet unreformed House of Lords as he ‘justified by his silly and impotent provocations all the fury of the Irish agitators [against Church of Ireland reform]... such are the vapid vicissitudes of public feeling in unreformed houses’. All of which, says Peel, ‘have given the utmost present satisfaction to O’Connell and his Crew’. Peel finishes with a furious sideswipe at William Cobbett: ‘Old Cobbett is a regular twaddler, excepting when he is making a personal attack upon the Whigs - in his species of warfare he seems very formidable...’ w.a.f. € 300 - 500