Thursday, October 02, 2008

T.S.Eliot and the Astrological Problematic

The London Library, that great good place, has launched a magazine. This should send a ripple through St James's Square. Their first cover story is by way of being a scoop - unpublished letters from T.S.Eliot to the Library. The highlight is this:
'I have not the slightest recollecton of ever meeting or having had any communication with John MacCaig Thorburn... but in any case I could not possibly vouch for the validity or justification of anybody's work in a field such as Astrological Problematic.'
And so John MacCaig Thorburn slipped quietly into the dark.

2 comments:

  1. i believe his widow is still sitting on quite a few of Possum's letters for the proposed but never-to-be Volume II. Volume I was wonderful, perhaps II would be too wonderful for publication.

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  2. The inaugural issue also includes an article (in .pdf format) about Jacob Simon, Chief Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, that, I was interested to see, shows him dressed for work almost identical to me. His rolling up his sleeves seems a nice touch. I might have to adopt that practice.

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