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Autograph lists [two] of Eliot poems, some with page numbers (?) indicated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Description One set numbered 1 - 7, some with two or more poems grouped under one number. Two poems crossed out, one with question mark. Unidentified initials [M.I.T.?] at head of list. At foot of sheet, upside down and crossed out reads `Poetry Center 25.11.61.' Verso. List in pencil; varies slightly from first list. Some titles unidentified. Heading reads [Boston Coll.?] Lists apparently not connected to book or other typescripts. Possibly prepared in preparation for a reading. Ink and pencil, 2...

Publications lists of Eliot's complete works, 1963 January 3

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Description Typescript heading notes Collected Poems, 1909 - 1962 [corrected in pencil from 1960]. Upper left corner reads Mr. Bland. Manuscript notation in right corner `As knowledge and experience' in Eliot's hand, and manuscript paging note. Lower left corner reads, JL/ab. Unidentified printer's note. [Does not correspond with published version] The following is a setting copy for Occasional Verses for the new edition of Collected Poems,...

Typescript and typescript [carbon] author's notes

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Description

To accompany Occasional Verses in the new edition, not including Dedication to my wife. States origin of poems; slight corrections in ink; pencil printer's marks. Note in Eliot's hand read `Each of the above notes to precede the verses attached.' Carbon unmarked. 2 pages

Typescript and typescript [carbon] of Defense of the Islands, 1940 June 9

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Description

One correction, line 22. Text corresponds. Written [in the author's hand] June 9th, 1940 in several places; all crossed out. T.S. Eliot also crossed out. Printer's marks. Carbon has no marks. 2 pages

Typescript and typescript [carbon] of A Note On War Poetry, 1942

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Description

Date crossed out. Copy marked #2. Printer's page mark. Carbon has no marks. Text corresponds. 2 pages

Typescript of To the Indians Who Died in Africa, 1943

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Description

Date is erased. Copy is marked #3. Note, author's title is For the Indian Soldiers Who Died in Africa. Printer's page mark. Author's notes uses published title. One substantive change, line 21. 1 page

Typescript and typescript [carbon] of To Walter De La Mare, 1948

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Description

Date is erased. Copy is marked #4. Printer's page marks. Text corresponds. No corrections. Carbon has no marks. 2 pages

Typescript and typescript [carbon] of A Dedication to My Wife

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Description

Printer's page marks. Accidental correction, line 10. Text corresponds. Carbon has no marks. 2 pages

Typescript [carbon] review of Lytton Strachey's Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History, 1928

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Description

Final typescript, 7 pages with a small number of pencil corrections in Eliot's hand. Eliot's favorable analysis of Elizabeth and Essex was published anonymously in the Time Literary Supplement in December 1928

Collected Poems, 1909-1935, Faber and Faber, 1954, fifteenth impression, 1963

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Description Corrected and revised by the author, in preparation for new edition. Following is a notation of the changes. Textual comparisons refer to the American edition of Collected Poems, by Harcourt, Brace, 1963. Front matter. Front fly-leaf reads `This copy to be used in preparing next edition. Return to T.S.E.' Publication list notes ‘See new copy'...[  ].  Title page with correction reads Collected Poems 1909 - 1935 62 by T.S. Eliot London Faber and Faber Limited,...