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Eliot (Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965). Four Christmas and Easter greetings cards, each signed Eliot (Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965). Three Christmas cards, and one Easter greetings card, each signed, from T. S. Eliot to Lady Ottoline and Philip Morrell, circa 1930s, three colour-printed Christmas greetings cards, two Rimini Series cards of reproductions from early manuscripts, one signed 'T. S. Eliot', another signed 'Tom Eliot', the third, a smaller colour-printed Christmas greeting card reproducing an illumination by Hilda M. Price, with printed verse by E. B. Browning, signed 'from Tom Eliot', the first card 204 x 174 mm, the third 108 x 76 mm, together with an Easter Greeting's card from T. S. Eliot to Lady Ottoline and Philip Morrell, signed with initials 'T. S. E.', stencil hand-coloured illustration to front cover, 172 x 115 mm, the largest and smallest Christmas cards with some spotting QTY: (4) NOTE: T. S. Eliot first encountered the Morrells through Bertrand Russell, after enrolling at Oxford in 1914 to finish his PhD. He was a regular visitor to the Morrells' Garsington Manor where he met a wide variety of literary and artistic figures, including many members of the Bloomsbury Group.