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ELIOT (T.S.) Five typed letters signed ("T.S. Eliot"). to Lady Violet Powell ("Dear Violet") and her husband, the novelist Anthony Powell ("Dear Tony"), about mutual friends, social engagements and the reception of honours, 24 Russell Square, 1945-1956
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ELIOT (T.S.)
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ʻTHE APPALLING PROBLEM OF GETTING A HOUSEKEEPER' – T.S. Eliot to Anthony Powell and his wife. The Powells had got to know Eliot through Margaret Behrens, who had offered them a country refuge from London during the V2 raids, and her companion Hope Mirrlees: ʻAfter one came to know him better Tom Eliot was inscrutable only in his mild amiability... Eliot, encountered in the Mirrlees household, drinking a pint or two of cider in the pub, dropping in at our bungalow on the cliffs at the end of one of his long solitary walks (wearing a cap and carrying a stick), always kept conversation to light topics... This amalgam of tea-party cosiness with cold intellectuality, the more menacing because strictly implicit rather than explicit, gave Tom Eliot's personality that very peculiar flavour, which even the most high-powered of his contemporaries seem at times to have found, if not exactly intimidating, at least restraining' (To Keep the Ball Rolling, pp.309-10).





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