I. Habsburger Gasse 2.

VIENNA.

October 20th 1921.

Mrs. T. S. Eliot.

9 Clarence Gate Gardens.

LONDON. N. 1.

Dear Vivien,

I am very sorry indeed to hear about Tom's breakdown.
I do hope that the rest will do him good and that he will be
alright again after a couple of months. I should think the
Lady Rothermere villa should be both pat and helpful. Yes,
Dorothy Ireland, Lady Rothermere's friend had written me about
the quarterly. I am sorry I cannot approve of the multiplication
of magazines. It was to avoid just such a thing that I had been
to so much bother in re the Rothermere bunch. The more artis-
tic journals you publish the more money is wasted upon printers
and paper dealers and the less is left for the artists them-
selves.

Please thank Tom in my behalf for securing St. John
Hutchinson to do a London letter for The Dial. I am sure that
if Tom recommends him he will be satisfactory, but prefer to
arrange for only one London letter from him and to let further
London letters wait until Tom himself can handle them.

Of course we can wait for the review of Marianne Moore's

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poems until February. Please let Tom know that we shall then
eventually accept a review of the book from him. I am writing
Mr. Seldes to tell him to wait for this review. So you will
not have to bother to write to Mr. Seldes again.

Goethe once observed speaking of his love affairs that
it was pleasant to see the moon rise before the sun set. But
such is not I presume the case with nervous breakdowns, especially
when they are both in the same family.

I am sure Vienna would be a very amusing and Baroque
background. But I do not myself know how long I shall be here
and may any week pop back to Paris. Anyhow I hope to be in
London in the spring and to see you and Tom then.

I trust Thomas's excellent family will inhibit the
possibility of his falling off la tourbée upon the gaming-tables
of Monte Carlo.