Day: October 1, 2014

Front facade of Houghton Library

“Do you wear pants!”: T. S. Eliot’s first magazine

T. S. Eliot’s first magazine was published in an extremely limited edition, with an erratic mixture of upper- and lower-case penciling. Advertised as “A Little Papre” (it is about three inches wide and four inches tall), Fireside first appeared on January 28, 1899, when Eliot was ten. It ran in fourteen installments over the next…