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42 THIS DIFFICULT INDIVIDUAL
in taking over the magazine, and he invited Hueffer and Miss Hunt
to spend the weekend with him at his estate, Goring Hall, and work
out the details of the transfer.
Hueffer had now put out thirteen issues of the Review, and his
funds were exhausted. He was disappointed to find that Lord Mond
was quite anxious to acquire the Review, but that he did not need
the services of its founder. He saw the possibilities of the magazine
as a political weapon, for, despite its losses, it had attracted an
influential audience in England, and it was now an important organ
of opinion.
Knowing that he could not purchase Hueffer's political support,
Lord Mond proposed to purchase the magazine and let Hueffer go
elsewhere. Nor was Hueffer to be repaid for his losses. Lord Mond
proposed that he would continue to publish the magazine, and
would be fully responsible for any further debts incurred, but he
could not afford to pay anything for the audience that Hueffer had
built up for him.
Hueffer quixotically agreed to this odd proposal, because he was
anxious that the magazine should survive. Perhaps he thought he
might be able to repurchase it at some future date. He was always
extremely optimistic and careless about financial matters. In this
instance, he was not able to recover the magazine. He went down to
Goring Hall as the publisher and editor of one of the most influential
reviews of the day, and he returned to London with nothing.
Hueffer had met his first millionaire.
Pound memorialized the event in "Canto 104":
Mond killed the English Review
and Ford went to Paris (an interval) 19 [.]
During the months that he edited the review, Hueffer did not
confine himself to publishing the works of the established reputations.
He also introduced the work of several important writers.
Ezra Pound and D. H. Lawrence were two of the poets who first
appeared in its pages. Violet Hunt, who was acting as Hueffer's
reader, had first read the poems that D. H. Lawrence, then a
young schoolteacher, had sent in, and she passed them on to the
editor with an enthusiastic note. Hueffer was greatly impressed by