Editorial Acknowlegdements

“I do not want a ‘Lewis number’ or anything of that sort in This Quarter or anywhere else. . . . “

—Wyndham Lewis to Ezra Pound, 11 June 1925

We gratefully acknowledge the cooperation and help of Omar Pound, the Estate of Wyndham Lewis, the Estate of Mrs. G. A. Wyndham Lewis, the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust, and the archives that have allowed us to quote previously unpublished materials: the Wyndham Lewis Collection, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University; The Poetry/Rare Books Collection, University Libraries, State University of New York at Buffalo; the Wyndham Lewis Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin. Thanks are due Michael Wood, solicitor for the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust, in appreciation of his assistance with copyrights. We would also like to thank the Manchester City Art Galleries, the Lavis Fine Arts Gallery, and the owner of Composition in Blue. We are grateful to Paul Edwards for his helpful advice. Finally, we are indebted to Christopher E. Vroom for his magnanimous patronage.

—J. B.

The titles for many of the Lewis images are taken from Walter Michel, Wyndham Lewis: Paintings and Drawings (1971); these titles are not necessarily those given by Lewis himself.

All written text by Wyndham Lewis © Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust.

All illustrations by Wyndham Lewis © Estate of Mrs. G. A. Wyndham Lewis. By permission.