TS Eliot’s intimate letters to confidante unveiled after 60 years

Collection of 1,131 letters may shed light on poet’s relationship with Emily Hale

A trove of more than 1,000 letters from Nobel laureate TS Eliot to his confidante and muse Emily Hale is unveiled this week having been kept in sealed boxes at a US university library for 60 years.

The collection promises to offer an intimate insight into the poet’s life and work, and on the extent of his relationship with Hale, a source of speculation for decades.

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