The Literary Society and John Bailey, and in more recent times, Anthony Powell, Siegfried Sassoon, A. A. Milne, Kingsley Amis, John Gross, Antonia Fraser, Tom Stoppard, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Claire Tomalin, Charles Moore, Miriam Gross, V. S. Naipaul, Sebastian Faulks, Antony Beevor and P. D. James. The Literary Society has not obtruded on public notice, with the brief exception of its meetings and personalities in the middle of the twentieth century which were regularly documented in the Lyttelton/Hart-Davis Letters, in which are frequent vignettes of the members of the 1950s and 60s, including John Betjeman, T. S. Eliot, Malcolm Sargent, Alan Lascelles and
T. S. Eliot his religious views that he combined "a Catholic cast of mind, a Calvinist heritage, and a Puritanical temperament". He also had wider spiritual interests, commenting that "I see the path of progress for modern man in his occupation with his own self, with his inner being" and citing Goethe and Rudolf Steiner as exemplars of such a direction. One of Eliot's biographers, Peter Ackroyd, commented that "the purposes of [Eliot's conversion] were two-fold. One: the Church of England offered Eliot some hope for himself, and I think Eliot needed some resting place. But secondly, it attached Eliot to the English