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INSCRIBED BY ELIOT AS BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ("Old Possum") to the fashionable portrait painter Sir Gerald Kelly (1879–1972). Kelly and Eliot struck up a close friendship back in the early 1920s, and in 1960 Kelly was commissioned to paint a portrait of Eliot, which is now on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institute. Eliot has amended two poems: Of The Awefull Battle... (line 6 reading 'They will now and again join in to the fray' corrected to 'Or now and again they join in to the fray') and Shimbleshanks: The Railway Cat (line 56 reading 'In the watches of the night he is always fresh and bright' amended to 'Through hours of the night he is always fresh and bright').

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