A small highlight of our trip this week to North Yorkshire: I picked up this very near fine copy of the 1979 edition of Eliot’s Four Quartets (revised by Valerie Eliot) in a bookshop in Harrogate for just £4.

It bears the signature of Leo Walmsley. It can’t be the author of the same name (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Walmsley) since he died in 1966 but perhaps this was a relative. Anyway, it’s always fascinating to try and do the detective work on these things!

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This was apparently Eliot’s inspiration for the Four Quartets:

I have the A minor quartet on the gramophone, and find it quite inexhaustible to study. There is a sort of heavenly or at least more than human gaiety about some of his later things which one imagines might come to oneself as the fruit of reconciliation and relief after immense suffering; I should like to get something of that into verse once before I die

https://tseliot.com/editorials/in-eliots-own-words-four-quartets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUob2dcQTWA

See also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt7Bpy27d1M

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/09/15/the-fruit-of-reconciliation-and-relief-after-immense-suffering/

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