TS Eliot’s drawings

Many of TS Eliot’s letters were illustrated with drawings, and the poet even drew the original cover for Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Some examples are here:

 

Drawn by Eliot when he first met James Joyce in Paris, on August 15, 1920; they had dinner at the Hôtel de l’Élysée.
From left to right, a waiter, Fritz Vanderpyl, Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce and T. S. Eliot himself.

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