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ELIOT, T.S. Five typed letters signed ("T.S. Eliot") to the Rev. Philip Caraman, S.J., editor of The Month, London, 17 March 1949-29 August 1950. 5 pages, 8vo and 4to, on Faber and Faber letterhead, quarter morocco slipcase.
Eliot writes to Rev. Caraman, editor of the leading Catholic journal The Month, declining to review Mgr. Knox's sermons and declining to write an essay on Theodore Haecker, "I wish I could do this because I have an abiding admiration for Haecker and a desire that this work should be better known" (8/15/49). Their first correspondence concerned a review by a Mr. Dawson which "seems to have been exaggerated. I was certainly highly gratified by the review as a whole, since there is no one whose commendation I should more covert for anything I wrote in such a field of enquiry than that of Mr. Dawson... The situation is simply that I was puzzled by one criticism made by Mr. Dawson but until I have been able to read his own book and then look again at my own I shall not understand his objection and therefore cannot reply to it..." (5)
Eliot writes to Rev. Caraman, editor of the leading Catholic journal The Month, declining to review Mgr. Knox's sermons and declining to write an essay on Theodore Haecker, "I wish I could do this because I have an abiding admiration for Haecker and a desire that this work should be better known" (8/15/49). Their first correspondence concerned a review by a Mr. Dawson which "seems to have been exaggerated. I was certainly highly gratified by the review as a whole, since there is no one whose commendation I should more covert for anything I wrote in such a field of enquiry than that of Mr. Dawson... The situation is simply that I was puzzled by one criticism made by Mr. Dawson but until I have been able to read his own book and then look again at my own I shall not understand his objection and therefore cannot reply to it..." (5)