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THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT (1888-1965); JOHN PIPER (1903-92) & OTHERS A 1p. t.l.s by T.S. Eliot on Faber and Faber Ltd. headed paper, dated 24 Russell Square, London WC1, 28th July 1948, to Lionel Carter congratulating him on a publication and turning down an invitation 'to contribute an essay on the Miracle Plays to the same series, but I am no authority on this subject and the preparation of such an essay would therefore be for me a considerable undertaking...'; a 1p. a.n.s. by John Piper dated Fawley Bottom Farmhouse, near Henley-On-Thames, Oxon, June 7th 1949, to Lionel Carter, accepting a 'proposal to reproduce a JOB design...'; together with 21 other a.l.s. to Lionel Carter from various correspondents including Walter de la Mare, Dorothy Sayers, C.S. Lewis, Arthur Penn, Edward Gordon Craig Joyce Grenfell and Sir Osbert Sitwell. (23)