Henry James on Eliot on "a curved ball"

[Stephen Goranson]

I already sent back to storage James' biography of Eliot. But, FWIW, the words "To pitch a curved ball seemed to him to be a resort to a low form of cunning" appear about midway between two sentences with footnotes. It may be that this is James' characterization or memory or paraphrase of Eliot. In other words, possibly, maybe, drawing on personal acquaintance rather than a document.

Stephen Goranson
www.duke.edu/~goranson

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