Autograph Manuscript of Life Poetry and Democracy with letters to Dr Erich Alport from TS Eliot, Spender and others

Item author: Stephen Spender
Item date: not given
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 20,000
Item date acquired: 1999
Item institution: British Library
Town/City: London

An interesting collection of letters discussing German writers whose work might be suitable for publication by Faber and Faber. Eliot was clearly in favour of promoting German writers; Geoffrey Faber is very revealing on reading tastes and publishing difficulties in England in the 1920s and 30s