Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from London
correspondent
T. S. Eliot
(Saint Louis, 1888 - 1965, London)
Date7 November 1915
Place MadeLondon, Greater London, England, Europe
MediumInk on paper
Dimensions17.75 x 22.5 cm (7 x 8 7/8 in.)
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.001415
eMuseum ID724325
Previous NumberU3eElioTho.02
EmbARK ObjectID24305
TMS Source ID8864
Last Updated8/9/24
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Not on viewWeb CommentaryIn this letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner, the renowned Modernist poet T. S. Eliot seeks news of their mutual friend Matthew Stewart Prichard, a former administrator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, who was imprisoned by the German government during World War I. The letter describes his desire to “express myself through literary channels” instead of through teaching, which he found to be “deadening.” Eliot received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
