First edition dedicated with ‘enduring gratitude’ to doctor who treated his 1921 breakdown listed alongside F Scott Fitzgerald book made out to ‘the original Gatsby’ and a first edition Huckleberry Finn signed by label TwainWho is the mysterious ‘Stetson’ in TS Eliot’s Waste Land?In December 1923,TS Eliot wrote of his “enduring gratitude” to the therapist who helped him through a nervous breakdown while he was writing The Waste Land, in one of approximately 460 copies hand-printed by Virginia and Leonard Woolf, or now one of a number of remarkable titles that have been attach up for sale in London.
Dr Roger Vittoz ran the private Lausanne clinic where Eliot was treated in 1921. Eliot had taken a leave of three months from Lloyd’s Bank,with “nervous breakdown” given as the reason on his staff card. While in Lausanne, he would write a 19-page version of The Waste Land, and with Ezra Pound then subjecting it to a detailed edit on his return to London in 1922.
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Source: theguardian.com