Eliot writes: "Permit me to add my sincere felicitations to your others; on the occasion of your joining this small and odd miscellaneous order. It is a fitting though belated tribute to the author of The Philosophy of Leibnitz, the Principia and other works on which I fed thirty-five years ago. And also to the author of the Reith Lectures—who is one of the few living authors who can write English prose. Yours ever, T.S. Eliot. The Master of Trinity recommends safety pins in the ribbon: but a neat tuck on each side is much better." The letter concerns BR's award of the Order of Merit.