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INSCRIBED AND WITH A TLS ELIOT, T.S. The Complete Poems and Plays. 8vo, original teal cloth, moderate soiling; lacking dust jacket. first edition, first printing. inscribed on the title page "Inscribed for Catherine Morison by her cousin T.S. Eliot." Additionally inscribed, but not signed, for Catherine from her father Samuel Eliot Morison "from her loving Papa. Cousin Tom's cousin!" on front free endpaper. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1952)
with-Typed Letter Signed, laid-in, from T.S. Eliot to Catherine Morison, on letterhead of The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey where Eliot was the "Artist in Residence" (Eliot authored his play The Cocktail Party during his time at the Institute), expressing his regrets over not being able to dine with Ms. Morison and her father in Boston before returning to England. Original mailing envelope. November 12, 1948.
