An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter Discussing T S Eliot by Writer/Designer Philip Mairet to Writer Neville Braybrooke. Dated 1967. The long letter discusses Braybrookes essay on T S Eliot. Mairet and T S Eliot were great friends. Philip Mairet 1888-–1975 was a British designer, writer and journalist. He had a wide range of interest: crafts, Alfred Adler and psychiatry, and Social Credit. He translated major figures including Jean-Paul Sartre. He was a friend and long-time correspondent of T. S. Eliot, who dedicated his Notes towards the Definition of Culture to him. He wrote biographies of Sir Patrick Geddes and A. R. Orage, with both of whom he was closely associated, as well as of John Middleton Murry. As editor of the New English Weekly in the 1930s, he championed both Christian socialism, as it was known at the time, and ideas on agriculture that would come together later as organic farming. Size is 203mm x 125mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease.