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Portrait of Henry Ware Eliot by Abbott Handerson Thayer. Henry Ware Eliot (November 25, 1843 – January 7, 1919) was an American industrialist and philanthropist who lived in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the father of poet T. S. Eliot.
The poet’s father, Henry Ware Eliot (‘Hal’) was the son of the Rev. William Greenleaf Eliot (1811–87) and Abby Adams Cranch (1817–1908). Born on 25 November 1843, he was educated at Washington University, St Louis.
Questions of marriage dominated the lives of both brothers: at least where they approached Vivien, Henry was nearest to Eliot’s heart. If Henry was critical of their marriage – at times suspicious, even distrustful of Vivien – he was also sympathetic and patient with its discords.
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.
8 de jul. de 2020 · Henry Ware Eliot and T. S. Eliot on a boat trip, Gloucester 1895. The house built by Eliot’s father, named ‘The Downs’, was completed in 1896. It is described in America as a ‘cottage’, but is a far cry from the small, low-ceilinged house you might expect to find in England.
Includes extensive autograph manuscript and typescript correspondence between T. S. Eliot and his mother (Charlotte Eliot), his father (Henry Ware Eliot, Sr.), and his brother (Henry Ware Eliot, Jr.).
Letters of the American writer Henry Ware Eliot, Jr. to his mother and other relatives, and portraits of the American poet T.S. Eliot.
