Eliot thanks BR for his compliments on "The Waste Land", especially part v which he feels is "the only part that justifies the whole". Vivien mentioned 18 months ago that Eliot should let BR see the manuscript for the poem but they "felt that you might prefer to have nothing to do with us. It is absurd to say that we wished to drop you." Vivien nearly died in the spring and has been in the country since the spring.