Letter from T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) to Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

T.S. Eliot was pleased with the Hogarth Press edition of The Waste Land that Leonard and Virginia Woolf published, although he discovered a few typos in the first edition. In this letter to Virginia Woolf, he calls out one of them: “I am delighted with the ‘Waste Land’ which has just arrived. Spacing and paging are beautifully planned to make it the right length, far better than the American edition. I am afraid it gave you a great deal of trouble. You also had to contend against my abominable proofreading: I see one dreadful oversight for which I owe apologies: p.7, I left under London Bridge instead of over!” Eliot hand-corrected the copies he sent to friends, as seen in the book inscribed to John Middleton Murry at left.