As had his two older brothers, Christopher and Felix, Morley attended Haverford College and then studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.
[2] As had his two, older brothers, Christopher and Felix, Frank returned to Haverford College for his undergraduate education which, however, was interrupted in 1917 when Morley left school to serve as 2nd lieutenant in an Engineering unit based at Hog Island, Philadelphia, during World War I.
Reviewing the book in The New English Weekly, George Orwell described it as "an exceedingly naïve adventure story, and at the same time a sort of Chelsea Hospital for superannuated jokes.
[16] Shortly thereafter Harcourt published My Sister and I by Dirk van der Heide (1941), the story of the German bombing of Rotterdam ostensibly written by an 11-year-old refugee to England and thence to the United States.
[19][20] As an editor and publisher, Morley enjoyed a wide correspondence and friendships with many prominent authors and literary figures of the day.
These included Eliot, Ezra Pound, Lewis Mumford, and Walter De la Mare, as well as Morley's eldest brother Christopher, who was a notable author and powerful promoter of literature.