Ottoline Morrell and T.S. Eliot

Lady Ottoline Morrell used to take photos, as you
know so well, her family members or Julian's governess
Juliette Baillot (later Huxley), the Bloomsbury Goup
members, and other writers (Thomas Hardy, Walter de la
Mere), poets (her favourite Siegfried Sasson, Robert Graves,
W.B. Yeats, just name a few), artists like Dora Carrington,
Mark Gertler, et al as well as Vita Sachville-West, Harold
Nicholson, Vita's cousin Eddy. Sorry if I've skipped your
favourite celebrities.
Ottoline's snapshots were her daughter
Julian's when she died in 1938. Julian made a book
from her mother's album and published it in 1976:
Lady Ottoline's Album; Snapshots and Portraits of her
famous contemporaries (and herself), photographed for
the most part by Lady Ottoline Morrell.
For this book, Lord David Cecil writes an Introduction.
The other day I read his ibntoroduction; I was struck
by the next episode about T.S. Eliot.
Koteliansky, thinking that T.S. Eliot converted to Anglican
Church member from "a cowardly desire for comfort."
So far from Christianity being a comfort to him, he said,
it was in some ways the reverse: for it had forced him
to face the full dangers of the human predicament,
not just in this life but for eternity; and it had burdened
his soul with a terrible and hitherto unrealized weight
of moral responsibility.
David Cecil was more impressed or simply touched
by the way Eliot said those words: he said "briefly and
restrainedly but with a grave sincerity of conviction
that it was impossible not to believe him. " The words
silenced Koteliansky. Listening to the words, Cecil
felt he had been given a glimpse into the depths of
Eliot's grand and tragic spirit. I saw that Lady
Ottoline felt so too."