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Collection of 30 letters and one telegram to Paz Subercaseaux (neé Larrain), 1942-1956; with postcard from Eliots secretary; and with 23 envelopes.

Title: Collection of 30 letters and one telegram to Paz Subercaseaux (neé Larrain), 1942-1956; with postcard from Eliots secretary; and with 23 envelopes.
Author: Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
Publication: London : 1942-1956.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Mixed material	Permit needed	Berg Coll Cased Eliot, TS A.l.s. to Subercaseaux	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Description

30 leaves, + 23 envelopes, 1 postcard, 1 hand-drawn map; 8 - 26 cm

Summary

The letters feature arrangements for meetings, dinners, and parties, and mention a variety of writers and other notables.
“Luis Subercaseaux Errázuriz (1882–1973) was a Chilean diplomat and athlete. He is claimed to be the first Chilean and Latin American sportsman to have competed in the Olympic Games, at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.”—From Wikipedia. Subercaseaux, the husband of the recipient of these letters, was stationed in the Chilean Embassy in London from 1940 to 1952. Earlier, he, his wife, and daughter, Juana, had resided in Italy, where they became close friends of Marguerite Bassiano, Princess Caetani. The Princess, a friend of T. S. Eliot, and an American by birth (neé Chapin), directed a literary magazine called Botteghe Oscure (English, French, Italian), which she had founded with French poet Paul Valéry. Her only son was killed in the last week of the war, and she asked Paz Subercaseaux, who was then in England, to convey the news to Eliot. This is how Eliot became acquainted with the Subercaseaux family.

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The poet Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957), pseudonym for Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga, the 1945 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, was born in Vicuña, Chile.
Prunella Stack was head of the Women’s League of Health and Beauty in the 1930s, when she was known as Britain’s “Perfect Girl.” She took over the League in 1934, at the age of 20, after the death of her mother, Mary Bagot Stack, who had founded the organization four years earlier.

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Call Number

Berg Coll Cased Eliot, TS A.l.s. to Subercaseaux

OCLC

960384692

Author

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.

Title

Collection of 30 letters and one telegram to Paz Subercaseaux (neé Larrain), 1942-1956; with postcard from Eliots secretary; and with 23 envelopes.

Imprint

London : 1942-1956.

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Subercaseaux , Juliana. Former owner

Subercaseaux Errázuriz, Pedro. Addressee

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Cased Eliot, TS A.l.s. to Subercaseaux