It would take over three years for the book to materialise, with the dog poems discarded in favour of a book solely about cats. In their Spring 1936 catalogue, Faber & Faber announced Mr Eliot’s Book of Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats as Recited to Him by the Man in White Spats. Eliot and the Practical Cat ‘go in for COUNTRY LIFE’ in a letter to Tom Faber, Between 19, poems were written and sent to friends and their children for comment, before their eventual inclusion in Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. There followed further letters to Eliot’s godson introducing the Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats, and the Practical Cat who can be seen trying out country life pursuits with Eliot in the drawings illustrating the letter. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvsouly… ITS NAME IS JELLYLORUM’. ‘I am glad you have a Cat’ Eliot wrote, ‘but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My cat. It’s believed Eliot first put pen to paper with his cats in a 1931 letter to his young godson, Tom Faber, who had written to Eliot about his cat. The embroidery, made in 1894, shows a ribbon-collared cat ready to pounce on a ball of wool. Eliot in 1894Īn embroidery made by a young T.
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