chaired the personnel committee. Nabokov, who knew and enjoyed Bishop's verse, charmed the committee, and the Bishops and the Nabokovs "took an immediate instinctive liking to each other". While Nabokov and his wife Véra were at Cornell, "their only close companions" were the Bishops, at whose house they frequently dined. Bishop and Nabokov would exchange limericks by mail. Bishop "remained for the rest of his life a close friend, correspondent, and literary adviser of [Nabokov]". A 1967 profile described Bishop as: an accomplished belle-lettrist, a distinguished literary biographer, a widely published poet, a bon vivant, raconteur, and teacher-scholar who has served Cornell all of his adult life and as "one of the charter members of a discreetly exclusive faculty society called 'The Circle', organized by the late Professor George Sabine in the 1920s", and also as having been "a long-time member and supporter of Book and Bowl, a considerably less exclusive organization of students and faculty". Bishop died on 20 November 1973 in Tompkins County Hospital. A service was held for him at Cornell's Sage Chapel. Books with major contributions by Bishop . Teodoro the Sage. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1923. Translated by Bishop. . . Beatrice Cenci. Two volumes. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. . London: Heinemann, 1926. . Translated by Bishop and Henry Longan Stuart. About Beatrice Cenci. London: Peter Owen, 1956. . Morris Bishop. A Gallery of Eccentrics; or, A set of twelve originals & extravagants from Elagabalus, the waggish emperor to Mr. Professor Porson, the tippling philologer, designed to serve, by example, for the correction of manners & for the edification of the ingenious. New York: Minton, Balch, 1928. . Profiles of 12 unusual individuals. Morris Bishop. Paramount Poems. New York: Minton, Balch, 1929. Drawings by Alison Mason Kingsbury. . Much of the content was reproduced within Spilt Milk (1942). Voltaire. Candide and Other Philosophical Tales. Edited by Bishop. The Modern Student's Library. New York: Scribner's, 1929. . New York: Scribner's, 1957. . Francesco Petrarca. Love Rimes of Petrarch. Ithaca, New York: Dragon Press, 1932. . Translated by Bishop, "decorated by Alison Mason Kingsbury". Edition of 500. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1979. . Giacomo Casanova. L'Évasion des plombs. New York: Holt, 1933. . Edited by Bishop. Morris Bishop. The Odyssey of Cabeza de Vaca. New York: Century, 1933. . About Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1971. . Morris Bishop. Pascal: The Life