Murder in the Cathedral.

Eliot (T.S.)

Murder in the Cathedral.

Description: FIRST COMPLETE EDITION, pp. 87, crown 8vo, original purple cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, a couple of small spots to edges and to margins of endpapers, dustjacket with chip to centre of browned backstrip panel, but otherwise in nice shape, very good

Publication Details: Faber and Faber, 1935

Notes: Laid in is a typed letter signed by the author, thanking 'Father Nicholson' for his 'kind note of appreciation of the play' - assuring him that he is 'by no means overwhelmed or sated with correspondence of this kind' and it gives him 'very great pleasure and satisfaction'.The recipient, Donald Nicholson (later the Revd Canon Nicholson), continued to correspond with Eliot and - as he relayed in a letter to the author's wife, Valerie, following Eliot's death - 'had the great privilege of working with him at St Stephen's, Gloucester Road, from 1936 to 1939, and living in the same house at 9 Gre...moreLaid in is a typed letter signed by the author, thanking 'Father Nicholson' for his 'kind note of appreciation of the play' - assuring him that he is 'by no means overwhelmed or sated with correspondence of this kind' and it gives him 'very great pleasure and satisfaction'.The recipient, Donald Nicholson (later the Revd Canon Nicholson), continued to correspond with Eliot and - as he relayed in a letter to the author's wife, Valerie, following Eliot's death - 'had the great privilege of working with him at St Stephen's, Gloucester Road, from 1936 to 1939, and living in the same house at 9 Grenville Place'. HIDE

Bibliography: (Gallup A29b)