Autograph letter signed, 2 pages

Eliot writes Lillian consoling her over the death of Collin. He, again in uncharacteristically emotional tones, describes how “you and Collin gave me asylum on the eve of our marriage,” and thus he is impelled to share more about his and Collin’s relationship. He claims he regrets that Colin is one he regrets he “did not get to know them sooner and more intimately.” Interestingly for scholar’s of T.S. Eliot’s dubious political philosophy, he mentions meeting Collins at the “Bunke Club,” and “in the discussions there I soon came to recognize a man whose conservatism was kin to mine.” He cites the integral role Collins played in his personal and professional life: “And there was a destiny in our relations, active from the moment he told Valerie of the vacancy at Faber, and urged her to apply for it. And before that, when he got me to autograph my book for an unknown young lady.”