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What job did T.S. Eliot hold at Lloyds Bank?

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T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study. — T.S. Eliot T.S. Eliot working on his play The Cocktail Party in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, 1948. The letters of the alphabet in his diagram represent characters in the play. The Greek letters represent characters yet to be invented.

T.S. Eliot worked as a bank clerk at Lloyds Bank in London, beginning in 1917. He was employed in the bank's foreign transactions department, where he worked at a desk located in the basement.12