T.S. Eliot

Thomas Sterns Eliot attended Smith Academy, the boy’s Preparatory School of Washington University for the following years:

First year class, 1899-1900

Second year class, 1900-01

Third year class, 1901-1902

Fourth year class, 1902-03

Fifth year Classical student, 1903-1904

Sixth year student, 1904-1905

Digital copies of these items are available to researchers upon request; they are currently not online. Contact the WU Archives staff for more information. 

TSE gym / sports measurements (health ledger page 28 and 29) – digitized

1905 Commencement invitation – digitized

1905 Commencement, 2 page program – digitized – lists TSE in graduating class

1904 flyer / notice from Harvard listing changes to student admission exams for English class (relevant for TSE attending Harvard after Smith) – digitized

1904 Chapel program given for Christmas (lists TSE as speaking) – digitized 

1905 February 2, typed letter to Smith Academy staff listing students selected to participate in Public Speaking event (lists [TS] Eliot for 6^th year class) – digitized 

1905 Field Day entrance ticket (event held for Class of 1905, however TSE did not participate in sports & unknown if he attended) – digitized

1905 February, Smith Academy Record pages 1-3, “Fable for Feasters” by TSE – digitized

1905 April, Smith Academy Record pages 1-3, “Tale of a Whale” and “Lyric” by TSE – digitized

1899-1904 (various pages), Smith Academy Record description of chapel exercises during TSE years of attendance - digitized

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TSE grades from individual classes – digitized and transcribed [restricted]

TSE final exam grades – digitized [restricted]

Campus Visit 1933:

• Student Life newspaper January 10, 1933, p 1 (digitized)
• Student Life newspaper January 13, 1933, p 1 (digitized)
• Student Life newspaper January 17, 1933, p1, 4 (digitized)
• Alumni Bulletin, February 1933, p 2 (digitized)

Photographs available:

• T.S. Eliot receiving honorary degree hood, June 1953 (digitized)
• T.S. Eliot at Desk, mid-Twentieth Century, undated (digitized, #WU7)

 Campus Visit 1953:

• audio tape of T.S. Eliot speaking at Commencement, June 9, 1953

Digital copies of these items are available to researchers upon request; they are currently not online. Contact the WU Archives staff for more information. 

Otto Heller Papers:

• Letter from T.S. Eliot to Otto Heller, May 5, 1923 (digitized)

Arthur Holly Compton Personal Papers:

• Letter from T.S. Eliot to Dr. Compton regarding Honorary Degree, July 17, 1953 (digitized)
  
• Letter from T.S. Eliot to Mrs. Compton regarding a missed visit, August 20, 1953 (digitized)

T.H. Eliot Personal Papers (S01, B02, Correspondence E, 1962-66):

• Note from T.H. Eliot commenting on meeting TSE and about his poetry, October 21, 1963
  
• 1965, printed program from Washington, D.C. Meorial Service for T.S.Eliot
• Letter from Tom D. Eliot to T.H. Eliot about family and attending memorial service for TSE in England, Feb 10, 1965
  

T.S. Eliot [Thomas Sterns] is the grandson of Washington University co-founder, William Greenleaf Eliot

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