Letter from T.S. Eliot, London, to Howard Morris, 1928 March 20 : typescript signed.

Expressing his delight at hearing from him after such a long time; saying "You may not know that I am no longer a banker and am now in the publishing business. I wish I could say that the publishing business had been a healthy one, but the last two years have been very bad for everyone. It is something, however, to say that my firm is still solvent, which is more than all publishers can say;" saying he is happy to hear that he has two sons and hopes that they will go to Milton; commenting on book collecting saying "Being in the business myself, I have never done anything in the book collecting way. Most of the books I own are either presented to me by authors or purchased for professional purposes or obtained by reviewing, and I get rid of them as quickly as I can. You seem to be very much on the spot for first editions which is a subject of which I am entirely ignorant. You might, however, add the name of Wyndham Lewis to your list. Not D.B. Wyndham Lewis but just Wyndham Lewis who is not at all the same person. His first book, "Tarr", is, I believe, likely to be particularly valuable. It is true that I do now and then talk earnestly to young men of Oxford and Cambridge, but everyone does that. Dear old George Moore, he is getting bit weak in the knees now so you'd better pick up everything you can of his because there won't be anything more in a year or two. He is a very nice man and used to be very lecherous, but don't say i said so:" adding news of mutual friends and the London Bolovian Society; adding "It will interest you to hear that King Bolo is still going strong, and in fact I had the pleasure of putting the London Bolovian Society on its feet. Mr. Frank Morley is President because he is the heaviest weight man here and has a bowler hat; what you call a Derby. Do you remember why the Bolovians wore bowler hats? It was because their monarch wore a silk hat. The Bolovians are still up to their old antics and the Bolovian Society meets once a week for lunch. We lunch until it is time for dinner and then we dine."