ABSTRACT
Lewis had first met the golden-bearded Sturge Moore, the poet, artist and elder brother of the Cambridge philosopher G. E. Moore, at the Vienna Café near the British Museum in about 1902, and had corresponded with him while living abroad. He was an immensely attractive man to both men and women, and when he returned to London he inspired the friendship of older writers like Thomas Sturge Moore and Ford Madox Ford, contemporaries like Ezra Pound and younger women like Rebecca West. Lewis was very fond of Moore, trusted his taste and appreciated his serious interest in Tarr; and he was grateful for his friendship, encouragement, criticism and conversation. Lewis appears as George Heimann in Ford’s first postwar novel, The Marsden Case, which deals with London bohemians and aristocrats just before and during the Great War.
