Month: January 2020

Front facade of Houghton Library

“The love of a ghost for a ghost”: T.S. Eliot on his letters to Emily Hale

By Leslie A. Morris, Gore Vidal Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts, Houghton Library On November 25, 1960, four years after Emily Hale told him she was giving his letters to her to Princeton, T.S. Eliot wrote a letter to his Executors with an accompanying document. Revised on September 30, 1963, the document was sealed…