Thirty-seven years ago in her preface to the first volume of T. S. Eliot’s collected letters, his widow Valerie selected for an epigraph words from a lecture Eliot gave in 1933 about the whole business of letter writing: “We want to confess ourselves in writing to a few friends, and we do not always want […]

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