NMLP P-030461 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Confidential Clerk

T.S. Eliot · Faber & Faber (London) · 1954

Faber (London) precedes the US Harcourt, Brace edition of the same year (1954). Gallup notes copies with and without the 'Ihad' misprint were bound and issued simultaneously, so the corrected state is not a distinct later issue; Eliot's own first copies existed in both states.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-030461 for "The Confidential Clerk" by T.S. Eliot (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-030461, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).