Eliot (Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965). Two Typed Letters Signed, ‘T. S. Eliot’, Faber & Gwyer and Faber, London, 6 February 1929 and 7 December 1944, the first a brief letter to Miss Phare [later Mrs Duncan-Jones], expressing his honour for her renewed invitation but regretting he is unable to accept, ‘I am afraid that I should be ill advised to make any arrangements at Cambridge of Oxford for another two terms. I wish I could do so but I am gradually coming to learn my limitations’, and sending best wishes for her Society, 1 page on publisher’s letterhead, 4to; the second to Austin E. Duncan-Jones, ‘… I think that I met your wife in Cambridge a number of years ago…’, and saying that he know her work, and knows his father and who Austin is, then proceeding to give his thoughts about Duncan-Jones’s proposal for a new education journal, ‘… What you have in mind is rally a technical educational journal, though I should imagine it might overlap in a slight extent with “Scrutiny”, and I really don’t feel that any observations of mine could have much value. I feel sure, however, that there ought to be a place for a magazine devoted to the serious problems of higher education…’, then referring to the Times Educational Supplement, encouraging him to continue to explore the possibilities but saying that ‘it is very unlikely that Faber and Faber will want to undertake any periodicals after the war’, referring to their own experience with Nursing Mirror and Criterion but saying that besides the difficulty in knowing what the conditions will be after the war, in their experience magazines are generally ‘better handled by separate organisations’, and concluding that he would be happy to meet and talk it over if he still thinks he can make a useful contribution, one word corrected in ink in Eliot’s hand, 2 pages on letterhead, 4to (Quantity: 2) Austin Ernest Duncan-Jones (1908-1967) was a British philosopher. He was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham from 1951 until his death. He was the founding editor of Analysis, president of the Mind Association in 1952 and president of the Aristotelian Society for 1960-61. In 1933, Duncan-Jones married the literary scholar and playwright Elsie Elizabeth Phare. She had attended Newnham College, Cambridge, where she was president of the college's undergraduate literary society. Among her society’s notable guest speakers was Virginia Woolf – see below.
Eliot (Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965). Two Typed Letters Signed, ‘T. S. Eliot’, Faber & Gwyer and Faber, London, 6 February 1929 and 7 December 1944, the first a brief letter to Miss Phare [later Mrs Duncan-Jones], expressing his honour for her renewed invitation but regretting he is unable to accept, ‘I am afraid that I should be ill advised to make any arrangements at Cambridge of Oxford for another two terms. I wish I could do so but I am gradually coming to learn my limitations’, and sending best wishes for her Society, 1 page on publisher’s letterhead, 4to; the second to Austin E. Duncan-Jones, ‘… I think that I met your wife in Cambridge a number of years ago…’, and saying that he know her work, and knows his father and who Austin is, then proceeding to give his thoughts about Duncan-Jones’s proposal for a new education journal, ‘… What you have in mind is rally a technical educational journal, though I should imagine it might overlap in a slight extent with “Scrutiny”, and I really don’t feel that any observations of mine could have much value. I feel sure, however, that there ought to be a place for a magazine devoted to the serious problems of higher education…’, then referring to the Times Educational Supplement, encouraging him to continue to explore the possibilities but saying that ‘it is very unlikely that Faber and Faber will want to undertake any periodicals after the war’, referring to their own experience with Nursing Mirror and Criterion but saying that besides the difficulty in knowing what the conditions will be after the war, in their experience magazines are generally ‘better handled by separate organisations’, and concluding that he would be happy to meet and talk it over if he still thinks he can make a useful contribution, one word corrected in ink in Eliot’s hand, 2 pages on letterhead, 4to (Quantity: 2) Austin Ernest Duncan-Jones (1908-1967) was a British philosopher. He was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham from 1951 until his death. He was the founding editor of Analysis, president of the Mind Association in 1952 and president of the Aristotelian Society for 1960-61. In 1933, Duncan-Jones married the literary scholar and playwright Elsie Elizabeth Phare. She had attended Newnham College, Cambridge, where she was president of the college's undergraduate literary society. Among her society’s notable guest speakers was Virginia Woolf – see below.
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