Volume One of the Letters of T. S. Eliot, edited by Valerie Eliot in 1988, covered the period from Eliot's childhood in St Louis, Missouri, to the end of 1922, by which time he had settled in England, married and published The Waste Land. The 1988 edition included the most significant of his letters to have survived from this period, and a number of letters by Vivien, his first wife; but also letters from his family in America, as well as from English and French friends and contemporaries.Since 1988, Valerie Eliot has continued to gather materials from collections, libraries and private sources in Britain and America, towards the preparation of subsequent volumes of the Letters edition. Among new letters to have come to light, a good many date from the years 1898-1922, which has necessitated a revised edition of Volume One, taking account of approximately two hundred newly discovered items of correspondence.
Covers the period from T S Eliot's childhood in St Louis, Missouri, to the end of 1922, by which time he had settled in England, married and published "The Waste Land".