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"... but I want particularly to urge you to send me more of your work from time to time; I liked this enough to have a great curiosity in your future writing."

From TS Eliot, director of Faber & Faber, to Stephen Spender, 24 January 1930


Included in: Faber & Faber, The Untold Story, by Toby Faber
 
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