we sit here – Pound met T. S. Eliot in Verona at the beginning of June 1922 (MC 238-40). It was the second time they were on a holiday together (after Provence in 1919) and it must have been a happy time, as Pound alluded to this meeting years later, in 1930 (XXIX/145) and 1945 (LXXVIII/501).