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Lord Hutchinson of Lullington, shared with me his mother’s memoirs of Eliot and let me record a substantial interview with him at his home. That was, as I anticipated, a delight, and gave me what I never expected: the chance to chat with someone in 2013 who remembered Eliot before the publication of The Waste Land.
    Warm thanks are due, too, to many people for advice, guided tours, winks, drinks and staunch support. Among them are Michael and Mary Alexander; Struther and Greta Arnott; David Bradshaw; Jewel Spears Brooker; John Burnside; Marilyn Butler; Peter H. Butter; Robert Christie; Tony Cuda; Robert M. Cummings; Robert Davis; Frances Dickey; Douglas Dunn; Ulla Dydo; Melanie Fathman; Graham Bruce Fletcher; Elizabeth Glass; Lyndall Gordon; John Haffenden; Jason Harding; Henry Hart; Hugh Haughton; Seamus Heaney; Roger Highfield; Rosalind Ingrams; Manju Jain; Iman Javadi; David Kinloch; Joan Langhorne; Sara Lodge; Jim McCue; Arthur E. Meikle; Edward Mendelson; Elizabeth Micakovicz; Edwin Morgan; Les Murray; Don Paterson; Diana Franzusoff Peterson; Richard Price; Patrick Reilly; Louise Richardson; Christopher Ricks; John A. M. Rillie; Carl Schmidt; Ronald Schuchard; Susan Sellers; Fiona Stafford; Jayme Stayer; Archie Turnbull; Paul Turner; Clifford Tym; Lynda Tym; Margaret Vickers; Mark Webster; Hamish Whyte.
    At the Houghton Library, Harvard, thanks are due especially to Leslie Morris, Susan Halpert and their colleagues; at the Archive Centre of King’s College, Cambridge, to Patricia McGuire and her colleagues. Other libraries and archives to be thanked for their consistent support and helpfulness include the Beinecke Library, Yale University, and the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale; the Bodleian Library, Oxford; the British Library; the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds; Glasgow University Library; Harvard University Archives; Haverford College Library; High Wycombe Library; the Library of Congress (not least for such digital resources as the Chronicling America newspaper database); the London Library; Margate Library; Marlow Library, Buckinghamshire; Merton College Library; Missouri History Museum; the Mitchell Library, Glasgow; the National Library of Scotland; New York Public Library, Astor, Lennox, and Tilden Foundations; St Andrews University Library; University of Missouri Library; Washington University, St Louis.
    For permission to quote from the published and unpublished work of T. S. Eliot I thank the Estate of T. S. Eliot and Faber and Faber Ltd; particularly, I acknowledge their permission to quote poetry from Faber volumes including Collected Poems 1909–1962 by T. S. Eliot, Inventions of the March Hare by T. S. Eliot (edited by Christopher Ricks), and The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript by T. S. Eliot (edited by Valerie Eliot); their permission to quote prose from Selected Prose by T. S. Eliot (edited by Frank Kermode), and from The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volumes 1 and 2 (edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton); also for their permission to quote from uncollected prose, property of the Estate of T. S. Eliot, and from unpublished prose, poetry, and other materials which are also property of the Estate of T. S. Eliot. I owe a debt of gratitude to Clare Reihill and to Emma Cheshire for their patience and attention. I am grateful also for permission to quote in the United States and related territories excerpts from Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909–1917 by T. S. Eliot (text copyright c . 1996 by Valerie Eliot. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company; all rights reserved); also excerpts from The Letters of T. S. Eliot published by Yale University Press. Other quotations from published works in Young Eliot are used under the terms of fair use, and sources are cited in detail in the endnotes to this book.
    For help with and/or permission to reproduce manuscript materials in their collections I am grateful to the Beinecke Rare Book and