Eliot (T.S.) East Coker, 1940; The Dry Salvages, 1941; Little Gidding, pencil note to head "sent by T.S.E.", editorial correction in pencil to line 31, 1942, extracts from The New English Weekly, the first 2 browned with splitting to folds and some chipping to extremities; and the complete issue of The New English Weekly containing Little Gidding, 4to (4)

⁂ The first appearances of 3 of Eliot's Four Quartets, at least one seemingly sent by Eliot to Michael Roberts.

Provenance:

Janet Adam Smith (1905-99) Scottish writer, literary editor and journalist. From 1930 to 1935 she was assistant editor at The Listener, where she did much to promote the work of new poets, in particular W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Herbert Read and Louis MacNeice. In 1936 she succeeded Michael Roberts as chief reviewer in Eliot’s quarterly The Criterion. She married Michael Roberts in 1935.

Michael Roberts (1902-48) English poet, writer, mathematician, critic and broadcaster. He taught at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle and while there began publishing both his own poetry as well as editing anthologies, the most celebrated of which was the Faber Book of Modern Verse.