In the early 1920s Quinn represented Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap for their publication in "The Little Review" of serial portions of James Joyce's "Ulysses", which the U.S. Post Office had found "obscene". Quinn was a friend of American poet Ezra Pound. Quinn gave financial assistance to Pound and T.S. Eliot, and helped Eliot to negotiate contracts with U.S. publishers. In gratitude, Eliot sent Quinn the original manuscript of "The Waste Land" in 1923, containing editorial suggestions by Pound and Vivienne Eliot written on the drafts.