T. S. ELIOT
533
TS
Yale
3 July 1920 at 31 West Street, Marlow, Bucks
Dear EP
I have not yet received the Benda of which you speak. I recall
his name as a colleague ofPeguy . Is that the same man? I will try to
do it as soon as possible but shall be rushed for the next three or four
weeks trying to finish polishing the essays for my book. You appear
to have made a pretty clean sweep of Paris, on which I congratulate
you . With all this stuff and the best English it ought to be possible to
extend the circulation of the
Dial
even into England. I certainly can–
not think of any other French writer worth having. I am afraid there
won't be so much in this country . I am sending Scofield two articles I
have just done on criticism, which I hope he will use soon if at all as I
must use them for the book. . . .
Bodenheim now says he is returning to New York at the
earliest possible opportunity . He has discovered that it is very dif–
ficult to make a living in London, Murry after preliminary ef–
fusiveness has dropped him altogether, and he has put the backs up
against him of most of the native English whom he has met. I don't
know that there is anything to be done for him (I fear a contribution
toward his travelling expenses will be necessary- Mr. B. Mrs. B.
and Master Max junior). He is in some ways more intelligent than
the native Britons and excites hostility in that and other ways . Do
you take any interest in this case? Lewis finds him much more
tolerable than Rodker. But I can't see any means by which Boden–
heim might be made self-supporting here ; can you?
12 March 1922
Cher maitre;
Yours
T
TS
Lilly Library
12 , Wigmore Street , W .I.
Now there is this in which your cooperation is necessary . I have
now arranged with Lady Rothermere about the quarterly review ,
have decided on quite a good small format and paper, neat but no
extravagance and not arty, to be published probably by Cobden–
Sanderson, in such a way that I shall have only to select the con-
