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Collection Number: 12009

Collection Title: Henry Ware Eliot Papers, 1934-1935, 1944-1947.

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Size 27 items.
Abstract Henry Ware Eliot Jr. was a writer, archeologist, brother of poet T. S. Eliot, and the collector of the nucleus of the Eliot Collection at Harvard University. Twenty-seven letters, 1934-1935 and 1944-1947, from Henry Ware Eliot Jr. to writers Henry B. Harvey and his wife Dorothy Dudley Harvey, and six miscellaneous items. The letters are chiefly concerned with news of mutual friends, efforts to publish, art criticism, the field of advertising, and health problems. Some also include references to T. S. Eliot.
Creator Eliot, Henry Ware, 1879-1947.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Henry Ware Eliot Papers, #12009, General Manuscripts, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Alternate Form of Material
Microfilm copy available.
Acquisitions Information
Purchase 1980
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available in the Wilson Library.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Henry Ware Eliot Jr. was a writer, archeologist, brother of poet T. S. Eliot, and the collector of the nucleus of the Eliot Collection at Harvard University.

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Twenty-seven letters, 1934-1935 and 1944-1947, from Henry Ware Eliot Jr. to writers Henry B. Harvey and his wife Dorothy Dudley Harvey, and six miscellaneous items. The letters are chiefly concerned with news of mutual friends, efforts to publish, art criticism, the field of advertising, and health problems. Some also include references to T. S. Eliot.

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Processing Information

Processed by: Manuscripts Department Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

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