Collection Level Description: Papers of Vivienne Haigh Eliot
Reference: MSS. Eng. lett. b. 20-2, c. 382-4; Eng. misc. c. 621-4, d. 936/1-4, e. 876-8, f. 532
Title: Papers of Vivienne Haigh Eliot
Dates of Creation: 1914-36
Extent: 15 shelfmarks
Language of Material: English
Administrative/Biographical History
Vivienne Haigh Eliot (d 1947) was the first wife of T.S. Eliot.
Scope and Content
Papers of Vivienne Haigh Eliot, consisting of:
- Personal and business correspondence, with some miscellaneous papers, 1931-6
- Diaries, 1914, 1919, 1934, 1935
- Personal account book, December 1927-April 1932
- Household account books, January 1929-July 1930
- Notebooks containing drafts of short stories and copies of poems, 1924, n.d.
- Miscellanous papers
Administrative Information
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The papers were bequeathed to the Library by Mrs Eliot in 1947.
Access Conditions
Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a
valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).
Further Information
Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 40518-32.
Access Points
Diaries
Eliot | Vivienne Haigh | d 1947 | wife of TS Eliot
Enquiries
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