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When, in October 1921, T.S. Eliot was given 3 months sick-leave from Lloyds Bank to recuperate from nervous exhaustion, he spent the first 3 weeks of it at Margate, staying at the Albemarle Hotel, 47 Eastern Esplanade, Cliftonville. His wife saw the benefits of the change almost immediately, commenting in a letter to a friend: …’he looks already younger, and fatter and nicer … being out in this wonderful air all day!‘ Eliot’s work benefited, too, for it was here that he composed the third section of ‘The Waste Land’ which was to be published the following year. He submitted the manuscript with the hotel bill attached - about £16!
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I have done a rough draft of part III, but do not know whether it will do - I have done this while sitting in a shelter on the front – as I am out all day except while taking rest. But I have written only some fifty lines, and have read nothing, literally – I sketch the people, after a fashion, and practise scales on the mandoline.
On Margate Sands.
I can connect
Nothing with nothing.
The broken fingernails of dirty hands.
My people humble people who expect
Nothing.
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| Margate | His wife saw the benefits of the change almost immediately, commenting in a letter to a friend: …’he looks already younger, and fatter and nicer … being out in this wonderful air all day!‘ Eliot’s work benefited, too, for it was here that he composed the third section of ‘The Waste Land’ which was to be published the following year... |
