Moroccan boy

Lewis and his wife visited North Africa in the summer of 1931. In a letter to Naomi Mitchison, dated 11 July 1931, Lewis wrote from Agadir in Morocco: 'they are brave as lions (so the French say) and surely one of the handsomest people in the world. I say "handsome" and it is of course masculine beauty, but there is a great deal of grace too, always among the men'. On his return he wrote a series of articles about his travels which appeared in Everyman and were published as a book, Filibusters in Barbary in 1932 (see W.K. Rose, The Letters of Wyndham Lewis, London, 1965, pp. 202-4).