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PARTISAN REVIEW
about. (This is NOT for publication to Lady R. or anyone else.) I
want Sir J. Frazer, Trotter, Eddingron, Sherrington or people like
that. Also historians if they can write. (Hence Whibley
20
on Bol–
ingbroke).
Unless I can edit a paper that pays, or else that is so "impor–
tant" in some way or other that rich ignoramuses will feel that they
MUST subsidise it, I don't see how I can ever earn more than £150
per year maximum.
Lady R. is (so far as I can
ma~e
out her address) at La Prieure,
Avon, Fontainebleau. Only thing is to congratulate her on the re–
view as if ignorant of what I have told you, to counteract influence of
K.
M. who has presumably told [her] that it is bad.
12
December
1922
My dear Ezra,
[T.]
TS
Lilly Library
9 Clarence Gate Gardens , London
Enclosed is a copy of your proof. I have already, in order to
save time, corrected (so far as necessary) one copy and returned it to
the printer, so I hope and trust that you will not require any altera–
tion beyond such printers' errors as I have not spotted . I have seen
Yeats and passed a very agreeable afternoon with him and he has
promised a contribution in prose for the following .
Now as to the Obsequies. 21 I couldn't have got it in to this
number because I had already accepted for that purpose some time
ago a short sketch which you will see, and which I think is good of its
kind. For the next number I have got Virginia Woolf, also arranged
some time ago. There will be no number therefore before July, so
please let me know when you wish to produce the lady's book. It
seems to me very good, although not emphatically a work of genius.
I have been offered a story by Pirandello,22 do you know anything
about him? ...
Yours ever,
T.
20 .
Charles Whibley
(1859-1930),
scholar, critic, and journalist, whose friendship
was important to TSE.
21.
'The Obsequies' by B. M . Goold-Adams,
en'tenon,
1. 3
April
1923, 293-302.
22.
Luigi Pirandello
(1867-1936),
Italian dramatist and novelist. 'The Shrine' ap–
peared in the second number.
