ABSTRACT

During the early 1930s Lewis journeyed to North Africa, America and the south of France as well as to Berlin in September 1932 and January 1934, and Pont-en-Royans in the Val d’Isere, southwest of Grenoble, in October 1932. He began to use the cover address of the Pall Mall Safe Deposit on Carlton Street, off Regent Street, and habitually changed his residence. A few months later, in November 1931, Lewis travelled alone to New York, Washington and Boston. In the capital he met Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt and a cultivated political hostess, who showed him a serious essay on Lawrence, Lewis, Eliot and Joyce published by her second cousin, Joseph Alsop, in the undergraduate Harvard Advocate of October 1931. Lewis evidently had an extensive repertory of lively anecdotes. Lewis concluded his portrait with rare praise, and showed great warmth and affection for Campbell.