A Brief Biography of H.D.

Note: This biography is largely drawn from Herself Defined: the Poet H.D. and Her World, by Barbara Guest. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984.) An excellent and highly recommended biography is Susan Friedman's article in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 45, 2nd series (volume is entitled, Modern American Poets). H.D., Hilda Doolittle, was born on September 10, 1886, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Her mother a Moravian, and her father an astronomer, she grew up to be what some have called the finest of all Imagist poets. Her accomplishments, though, extended far beyond her early Imagist poems. Her poetry, fiction, and non-fiction writings were published on both sides of the Atlantic, and her roles in a few early films also earned her praise. Most of the awards, including the Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Brandeis and Longview Awards came late in her life, when her poetry had begun to break away from strict Imagism. Her days in Pennsylvania were spent among her family and extended family. As a young woman she began lifelong friendships with Marianne Moore and Ezra Pound. She met them both before and during her days at Bryn Mawr, but dropped out and found her way to England in 1911. Her romance with Ezra Pound had ended, but he had found his way to Europe before her and he introduced her to London's literary circles. In London she also met the novelist Richard Aldington, whom she married on October 18, 1913 in the borough of Kensington. The Imagists held three principles: direct treatment of the subject, allow no word that was not essential to the presentation, and follow the musical phrase rather than strict regularity in their rhythms. They began publishing circa 1908, and H.D.'s first published poems appeared in the journal Poetry in January 1913. ("Hermes of the Ways," "Orchard," and "Epigram.") Throughout her life she had adored all things Greek, and during this time she began to travel throughout Europe, and saw Greece for the first time. Her friends and associates included Ford Madox Ford and Amy Lowell, and her poetry appeared in the English Review, the Transatlantic Review, and the Egoist. And, thanks largely to Amy Lowell, she was introduced to audiences in the United States. She also began turbulent times during which her intense, but non-sexual relationship with D.H. Lawrence began, and her marriage became troubled. (Her novel "Bid Me to Live" is largely about this time.) She lived downstairs from her husband's mistress, and was introduced to a friend of the Lawrences, Cecil Gray, who became the father of her daughter, Frances Perdita. Known as Perdita, she was named for H.D.'s first great love and lifelong friend, Frances Gregg, and for the lost daughter of Hermione in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. She was born on March 31, 1919; H.D. had been very ill, but Bryher had come to her rescue. Bryher, born Annie Winifred Ellerman, met H.D. on July 17, 1918 in Cornwall. She took the name Bryher from one of the Scilly Isles, which she adored. Also a writer, she was a great fan of H.D.'s poetry, and their friendship blossomed into love. They were lifelong companions, although often maintaining separate residences and their independence. They travelled as cousins, and were together through the other loves of each others' lives, and through Bryher's marriages to Robert McAlmon and Kenneth Macpherson. Together they went to Paris, mingling with the expatriate literary community, where Bryher helped establish McAlmon's press, which published

Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Pound, Nathanael West, and Djuna Barnes, among others. After Bryher's marriage to McAlmon ended, and the one to Macpherson begun, they were drawn into the world of film. Bryher and Macpherson began POOL Productions, and the film magazine Close-Up, read internationally. H.D. appeared in the POOL films Foothills (1927) and Borderline (1930), which received the most enthusiastic reception in Germany. Although they moved in circles that included G.W. Pabst and Sergei Eisenstein, H.D. was again soon travelling. She and Bryher lived at this time in Kenwin, the Bauhaus home Bryher had built near Riant Chateau in Switzerland. Life for H.D. was awkward there; she was neither mistress of the house nor guest. She also sought out analysis, and Bryher, an early supporter of psychoanalysis, arranged for Dr. Hanns Sachs and Havelock Ellis to recommend H.D. to Sigmund Freud. H.D. referred to herself as Freud's pupil, and he referred to her as his analysand, during 1933 and 1934. H.D. later wrote "Tribute to Freud" as a fictionalized memoir of this period. Her interests at this time also included mysticism, Hellenic studies, Egyptology, and astrology, and her days in Vienna were very happy. Luckily, she and Bryher were able to get to London for the duration of World War II; Bryher barely escaped Switzerland before helping over a hundred refugees to homes in other countries. The years during World War II were very productive for H.D., in contrast to her experience of World War I. She and Bryher lived together during this time, and Bryher published "Life and Letters Today," having bought enough paper to last through the war. They visited their friends the Sitwells, T.S. Eliot, and others, and kept up their correspondence with their friends in America, including Norman Holmes Pearson. He was at Yale, and became her friend, promoter, and literary executor. She became very interested in spiritualism, and her poetry began to strain at the boundaries of Imagism. "The Walls Do Not Fall," the first part of "Trilogy," was her break with Imagism. After the war, though, H.D. suffered a mental breakdown, and returned to Switzerland. She lived at Kusnacht, a clinic, and various hotels. She was now 60, yet was experiencing the most prolific writing years of her life. Now divorced from Aldington, they began a new friendship, and she remained legally Hilda Doolittle Aldington. The greatest awards of her career came in the fifties and sixties, during which time Bryher, now divorced, and Pearson took care of the legal and literary details of her life, leaving her free to write. However, in July 1961, while on the phone with her dear friend and physician, Dr. Heydt, she suffered a stroke. She remained perhaps semi-conscious while her writings continued to be published. She died on the 21st of September 1961, and was buried on Nisky Hill, back in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, among her family. She was survived by Bryher, her daughter and sonin-law, her grandchildren, and many, many other family members and friends. She had written to Pearson, "I think I did get what I was looking for from life and art." Her gravestone lies flat in Nisky Hill Cemetary, Bethlehem, Penn., and usually has sea shells on it, left in tribute. It bears lines from her poem "Epitaph:" Hilda Doolittle Aldington

Sept. 10, 1886 Sept. 27, 1961 "So you may say, Greek flower; Greek ecstasy reclaims forever one who died following intricate song's lost measure." H.D. --H. Hernandez

Two Children's Stories by H.D.: Introduction by Michael Boughn

Between 1906, when H.D. left Bryn Mawr, and January, 1913, when she first burst into the world of poetry with the publication of three of her poems by Harriet Monroe in _Poetry_, H.D. spent several years trying to earn a living as a professional writer. As she later wrote to Norman Holmes Pearson, "I did some column length stories for the Maclure Syndicate, Mary Marshall got those first published and she and her sister suggested trying the Sunday School papers as they paid well." The first of these pieces appeared in December, 1909, syndicated by the Associated Literary Press. Between then and September 1913, H.D. published at least fourteen stories, most under the name Edith Gray, either through ALP or in _Forward for Youth_ or _The Comrade_, two national Presbyterian Sunday School magazines published out of Philadelphia. In addition, several unpublished manuscripts from the same period are housed at the Beinecke Library at Yale. These two stories are representative of the best of that early work. H.D. was 23 years old when the first was published, so they are hardly "juvenilia." Although they have been referred to as "moralistic sub-Alcott feuilletons in Protestant magazines," on closer scrutiny these stories seem much more. H.D. has adopted the form of the moralistic child story that was popular in the periodicals of the time, but she has subjected it to a subversive torsion. Most of those stories focussed on inculcating children with socially sanctioned moral lessons about money or manners. These stories, however, are concerned with teaching children how to preserve the integrity and freedom of their imagination in the midst of a world bent on circumscribing it with prohibitions. In that sense these stories are more comparable to the great writing for children done by Dodgson, Potter, Barrie, Milne, and Seuss, than to the work of the moralist genre writers. A further interest of these stories is the way they link the circumscription and fragmentation of the imagination to issues of gender. They articulate H.D.'s already well-developed concern with

the difficulties facing the framented self in the sexual world and the complex relations of its many voices and dimensions. Later, she would return to the form of the child story to address the same issues in _The Hedgehog_ (1936). But equally, these same voices can clearly be heard echoing within the complexities of _Nights_ (1935), _Vale Ave_ (1957, published 1982) and _Helen in Egypt_ (1951-54, published 1961), not to mention the rest of her work. These stories bear tender witness to the origins of H.D.'s determined, passionate quest to make sense in art of her experience of the enormous, confusing, and sometimes terrifying forces of sexuality and gender. Old Tommy appeared in The Comrade, April 30, 1911. Winter Woods appeared there also, nearly a year later on March 2, 1912.

Old Tommy, by H.D. (as Edith Gray)

"There never is anything a boy can do!" David pressed his nose close to the pane and scowled disapprovingly at the rain which beat against the window and in the deserted little courtyard just without. "There never is anything a boy can do when he's not allowed to go out because it rains. There never is anything a boy can do!" He turned into the warm, fire-lit room with a disgusted little sniff. "Such a tiny house, and crowded up so close against other tiny houses that there's hardly room to breathe. Can't play Indians or herding cattle here; it's too crowded with furniture. And there's no room for anything in the hall," he scolded in contempt, "but a dolls' house. Everything indoors seems for girls." He glanced disapprovingly about the room. "Cathie's flowers in the window, and her books on the floor, and the cat! Why couldn't I have a dog? Cats are girls' animals." Old Tommy was asleep by the fire. David stalked across the room, contemplated him reflectively, considered tweaking his tail, decided, second thought, on nobler restraint, and then sat down, his arms about his knees, his eyes following the glimmer of up-drifting sparks and the coiled whiffs of blue- gray smoke behind the shining andirons. There was no sound in the little room save the tick, tick of the great clock in the corner, the comfortable purr-rr of old Tommy and the beating of the rain against the window. Just outside the door his sister Cathie and a little friend were playing contentedly, wholly satisfied with so silly and meaningless a toy as a dolls' house. Occasionally, he caught the drift of their contented chatter. "O Ann, Ann, it's such fun to have someone to play with! See how the little door opens! O Ann, and there are green trees just outside in the garden! My brother hates my house, but, oh, I love it so! He once stepped on a tree, but he's so big, of course" --

The loyal little sister! But David smiled in scorn. "Stepped on a tree, guess I did. I'd step on another if it got in my way. I wonder how girls get such fun out of nothing!" He dropped his chin on his knees, and his eyes, half closed, dreamed into the fire light. "I have no patience with these foolish little things. I want to be something great and build big houses and sail ships to far countries, or write a thousand books. I want to be something great" -"Something great?" He turned in surprise. Tommy was sitting up, licking his fat, white paw. "Something great? Well, young man, if I'm not much mistaken, you'll have to begin at the beginning, if ever you want to get to the end. That's a platitude, if you know what that means. That means that it's seven times seven times true, if you know how true that is. And I'll tell you this, you'd better hurry and begin at the beginning, or you can be quite sure you'll be pretty well forgotten at the end." David was on the point of answering disdainfully; but old Tommy began stroking his whiskers in such a knowing manner that he was awed, instead, into profound respect. "A girls' animal, yes," old Tommy continued, "when girls are very wise and know how to makebelieve as well as a certain little Miss Cathie, with whom, in times past, I have had the honor of some learned conversation." Old Tommy puffed out his chest. He seemed to be growing larger and wiser and more completely all- knowing every minute. "Girls' animal, yes. But, of course, if you want to be something great all at once, without knowing in the least how to go about it, I really mustn't bore you with further advice. Good-bye; it's time I leave you." "Oh, no, stay for just one minute," David implored. "I never knew before that cats could talk. Tell me what you mean." Old Tommy grew bigger and bigger and wiser and wiser, and more and more all-knowing. Then he raised his fat, white paw and gave David a little cuff behind his left ear. "That is what I mean," he said. Suddenly David seemed to be standing on a great wharf that reached far out into the ocean. Around and about there were strange voices and merchants in red robes and sailors with gold and silver earrings and great knives in their belts. Everyone was hurrying and jostling, and black slaves carried heavy boxes and rugs and great clusters of strange fruits, piling them high on the decks of the white-sailed ships. They seemed in a great hurry and David was quite bewildered by all the running about and shouting and calling. Then there were strange trumpet notes, as one by one, the great sails flapped, and the ships prepared to depart. "Oh," thought David. "All the wonderful boats are going. I must ask where they are sailing, and, oh, they mustn't leave me here alone." The wharf was almost deserted now except for a few sailors, who were untying the ropes from about the wharf piles. David walked up to one who wore a yellow sash and had a kind look about him.

"O Mr. Sailor," he said, "where are the ships going, and will they take me with them?" The sailor with the yellow sash paused for a moment and looked at David. "Why," he said, "the ships are sailing to the wonderful land where the sun sets in the morning and rises in the evening. Didn't you know? It's the land of make-believe." "And may I go with you?" asked David. "Oh, may I go with you? I never saw such beautiful lights on the water, and I've always wanted to sail away in a ship!" The sailor pondered a moment and seemed about to consent. Then he called to another with a blue handkerchief twisted about his head. "What do you think?" he asked. "This boy wants to set sail with us. He says that the lights on the water are beautiful. Do you think that he's ready to go?" The blue sailor eyed David suspiciously. "Certainly not." he said. "Don't you remember? This is the boy who thinks that doll houses are silly, and mopes indoors on a rainy day. He knows nothing of the beginning of make-believe, and this is very near the end. If he can't be happy in his own house, he won't be any more so on the far seas. He's not half ready for us. Throw down the ropes, the captain's calling!" In a trice the sailors had jumped from the wharf into the rocking boats, and the fresh winds had blown the ships out and away, over across the sea; and David was quite alone on the deserted wharf. "Oh! Oh! Oh!" he cried. "They've left me and I wanted so to go with them!" He turned and stumbled blindly along the empty quay, back to the solid land. The country was harsh and dark and gray, and he walked and walked, blinded with disappointment. Then--he couldn't tell just how it happened--he was standing outside a strange garden, peering in through a green, latched gateway, down long, flower-lined pathways. There were white and pink flowers along the walks, and among the soft grass there were frail gold and lavender ones. David pressed his face close to the latched gate and peered, eagerly stretching his hands through the bars. "O beautiful garden," he said, "I never knew that flowers could smell so sweetly. How wonderful it all is! And the winding paths seem to go on forever into the forests. I never saw anything so beautiful. Is there no one to let me in?" All at once a little old lady stepped from behind a great rose tree. Her hands were filled with tiny yellow rosebuds, and her cheeks were pink as seashells, though her hair was silver white. "Well, boy," she said. "Why don't you come in? Everyone's welcome! " David jerked at the gate expectantly; but it was locked and he couldn't budge it. "I can't," he said. "The gate is locked. I can't get in!" "True," said the little old lady; "but you brought your key, of course."

"Why, no," said David, "I haven't any key." The little lady, gasped and looked quite terrified. "No key?" she said. "Oh, go away. I remember now. You're the boy who thinks that flowers belong only to girls. Oh, go away; this is the garden of make-believe and you can't enter here unless you have the key. You never once looked at the yellow crocuses that your sister planted along the window ledge indoors. The key to the garden of make-believe flowers is the love of real flowers. Go away, you don't belong here at all." And the garden was gone and the old lady was gone and David was again alone upon the hard, gray road, wandering and lost. He seemed to have walked, footsore and dejected, for hours and hours. The path invariably twisted when he thought that he had reached the end, and seemed never to get anywhere at all, no matter how far and how fast he traveled. "Oh! Oh! Oh!" said David. He sat down upon the dry, parched grass, utterly disconsolate. "How dreadful this all is after the ships and flowers. Is there never any way out?" "Why certainly." It was old Tommy, sitting on a dry stump at the edge of the gray road. "Why certainly. Just wish to be where you'd like to be, and I'll see that you get there. You want to be great. Wish yourself in a wonderful castle, writing a thousand books, or in a splendid city, building a thousand palaces. Wish-- " "Oh, stop!" cried David. "I'm tired. I'm tired, old Tommy. I wish that I were at home and had a chance to mend the doll-house trees!" "Purr-rr," said old Tommy, asleep by the fire. David rubbed his eyes. "Why, where am I?" he questioned. "This isn't a cold, gray road at all." Then he jumped up, suddenly remembering, "Oh, it's home," he said. "How beautiful the flowers are in the window, and how warm it is! And, O Cathie, Cathie!" he ran out into the hall. "O little sister Cathie! I have a wonderful new plan for making doll-house gardens!" First published in The Comrade. Philadelphia, Pa. : Presbyterian Church, Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work. Vol. 3, no. 18 (April 30, 1911), p.70.

Winter Woods, by H.D. (as Edith Gray)

"What a little girl she is," thought David. "What a little girl she is, to be sure." She was propped up in bed, her pink wrapper thrown about her shoulders, her eyes, big and dark, looking wistfully at her brother, her fragile little fingers clinging to David's square-set, boyish palm. "What a little girl she is!" And he was glad for many things as he looked at her lying there so tired and white -- chiefly that once he had dreamed a strange dream about girls and the things

girls love -- that was long ago when they lived in the city. Since that he had learned more and more of this little sister, Ann, and the things she loved. He was proud enough of her now. He was glad that they had called him from the yard where he was coasting with Bert and Harry Weston. He was glad even to leave the joy and the stinging cold, the tingling of it all, to come and sit here and talk to Ann, who was such a very little sister. The doctor had met David in the hall, put his two hands on his shoulders and looked down at him from his great height, and said: "David, you're a brave lad. Go tell your little sister what a beautiful world it is and how good it seems just to be alive." So David went clattering up the steps. He wondered why his mother turned away her face as he passed her on the landing. "It's this way," said David, "it's this way, Ann. You're tired, and you've forgotten how the trees look, and that's the reason that you don't want to get up and run outdoors. Don't you remember how you loved it all when we first came? Don't you remember the white petals on the cherry trees and the pink ones on the peach trees in Weston's yard? Don't you remember how we found violets in the Lynn meadow along the brook, and how Mary Lynn laughed because you asked if you might pick one? Don't you remember it, Ann? Ann's little head drooped languidly. "Oh yes," she said, "I remember, David, but that was so long ago and it's all spoiled now, there are no flowers--in--the--woods." "O Ann, Ann," he said, "look at me, Ann." He had slipped down now, kneeling on the floor, his arms reaching about her shoulders. "O Ann, Ann, look at me!" Something seemed to catch in his throat. He became strangely terrified. "The woods are full of beautiful things now--beautiful things!" He was glad that he had walked home from school that very afternoon with Jim Daly-funny Jim Daly who never knew his lessons but could tell the name and history of every field and tree for miles around. It was Jim who had shown him the rabbit track that cut across the meadowhill field, twisted among the birches and finally disappeared behind the great, gray bowlder [sic] above the mill-creek swimming hole. "O Ann," said David, "the woods are full of beautiful things. Ann, Ann, look at me! Do you know how a rabbit hops across the snow? Look! He puts his two hind feet forward, and then comes down with his front feet, and on the snow it looks as if he were running the other way. You'd never know unless someone told you." David was demonstrating his point by punching little hollows in the white counterpane. Ann's tired head lifted a moment, her eyes forgot to droop. "So, he goes, on into his burrow under the gray rock," and David's fingers journeyed across Ann's little knee and, for a moment, snuggled under the pillow by her shoulder, "so he goes, and when you get well, I'll take you out and show you, or he'll tell you, or we can pretend that he'll tell you of all the things one finds in winter woods." "What things?" asked Ann. There was a faint touch of color in her cheeks; her eyes sought his wonderingly.

"Why, leaves under the snow. You remember the hepaticas, Ann, how blue they were, and how you bunched the dark green leaves about them? Well, those leaves that were so strong and bright and shining last spring were left over from the year before. So, don't you see, they'd be there all the time, hidden underneath the snow. And, oh, the fir trees are as green as ever--greener, it seems, for there's nothing else to hide them. "Ann, there are brown leaves, too, as fresh and crisp as when they fell. I'll bring some home tomorrow, and you shall tell me which is oak and elm and chestnut, and which is from the little dogwood tree. We'll spread them on the bed. You can pretend they're fairies--all with the newest thing in wood-style wings! I'll bring some roots home, too. We'll plant them in a pot and put them in the window--some bloodroot and some wee anemonies [sic]. Their roots are round, you know--anemonies [sic]--like little acorns or brown chestnuts. I'll have to look hard for them in the winter woods. Ann, are you listening to me?" "Yes," said Ann, "tell me about the leaves." "The leaves," said David, "are wrapped tight in their buds now. I think that the horse-chestnut buds are the largest. They're covered on the outside with thick, brown scales, to keep them warm, you know. They're very happy in their tight, little houses, and none of them complain because the woods are empty." Then, seeing that his little sister's head was drooping, David added quickly, "All except one, perhaps." "Tell me about him, David." "He was anxious for spring, you see, that leaf. He wanted so to come out. He couldn't wait quietly as the others did, he wanted so to see the flowers again. The great horse-chestnut tree,--she knew each tiny leaf, because she was their mother. She said: 'You must rest quietly here, my little leaf. It won't be spring, you know, until I call you.' But the little leaf grew more and more impatient, and one day he felt the warm sun through his coat, and he whispered to the twig, 'O twig, spring's come and mother doesn't know it.' But the twig said, 'I'm bigger than you, and I know it isn't spring until our mother tells us. Why, even the great branch wouldn't say the spring had come before our mother told him.' The little leaf didn't answer back because he knew he could never convince the stubborn twig, but he thought and thought. And, finally, because the sunlight was so warm, he pushed open the door of his house--forbidden though it was--and poked out his little head. "All about, the sun fell soft on the leaves. They were gold-brown and fresh, for the snow had just melted away, and, down in the little hollow, the brook ran free, unbound and joyous. The little leaf laughed to himself and quivered in the sunlight. That night he could scarcely sleep for joy, and the next day, early in the morning, he was out again, venturing even farther. But"--David paused impressively and was rewarded by an eager little clutch about his arm: "Go on, go on, what happened? Tell me, David." "The frost came back that night. It was February still, you see, and he shook the great trees and the small trees and tried each branch and twig. But all the doors were locked, tight locked, all except one, and he laughed and he tossed the brown leaves with joy as he found the tiny little green leaf peering out. 'O mother horse-chestnut, mother horse-chestnut,' he shouted in his

triumph, 'you're the only mother in the winter woods that dares neglect her children. Ho! Ho!' And he was about to clutch with his cruel pointed fingers and crush the life out of the little leaf, when suddenly"-"Yes, David, suddenly"-"The great mother horse-chestnut woke from her night's sleep and saw the little leaf that had so disobeyed her. And then, what did she do? Instead of saying, 'Well, it served you right,' she sent her warm heart's blood, the sap, and wrapped her warmth round and round the leaf and covered him again in his warm bud. So he was none the worse for his naughtiness except for a nipped nose and a resolve to wait after that in patience for spring. So, shall we look for that very little bud when you are better?" "Oh, yes, yes," she said, and her head rested against his shoulder, all contentment. "Oh, yes--yes," and Ann was asleep, but smiling, warm and safe like the wee, winter bud. ******* "It was the boy who called her back to life. It was the boy who broke that treacherous languor. You're a good lad, David!" David turned from the window as the doctor touched his shoulder. "A good lad." That was just the doctor's way. He knew that he was not a good lad--he never seemed to get all his lessons at school, and he was always forgetting to wipe his feet on the mat at the front door. The doctor was down the path and away with a whir of his big machine. "A good lad." No, David knew that he wasn't really that, but what did it matter, after all, since his mother was kneeling on the floor beside him, her arms about his neck, sobbing quietly against his shoulder. David patted her hair softly, and stood patient and unquestioning, though he wondered why she should be crying now. Ann was going to get well! First published in The Comrade. Philadelphia, Pa. : Presbyterian Church, Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work. Vol. 4, no. 9 (March 2, 1912), p.34.

Beautiful Dreamers: Helen in Egypt and The Sleeping Beauty

by Charlotte Mandel
Copyright Charlotte Mandel. This article originally appeared in Clockwatch Review: a journal of the arts. Bloomington, IL : Dept. of English, Illinois Wesleyan University, c1994-1995. ISSN:

0749-9311. vol. 9, nos. 1-2, p. 155-159, and is reproduced here with the kind permission of Charlotte Mandel. Call the muse Mnemosyne or Beatrice, Ewige Frau, Eve, Helen or Sleeping Beauty--for poets of either sex, the elusive inspirer materializes as a woman. On the game board of poetic quest, she is initiator, chief dice thrower, and the spiritual reality sought. Her image can never be physically possessed--what she represents is the power of the poet's dreaming self. Helen in Egypt, H.D.'s mid-century touchstone of woman's self-discovery, revolves around the beautiful dreamer. For a male poet to risk entrance into that feminine energy field requires rare gifts of sensitive awareness. Hayden Carruth, by his long poem The Sleeping Beauty, published a generation after H.D.'s death in 1961, marks a significant turn in literary gender evolution. While H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) delved for transcendence into projections of the self, her contemporary, William Carlos Williams, yanked his imagined woman by the hair. H.D. portrays her beautiful Helen "moving in a dream," and therein lies her ineffable power. Without dream power, the woman is dispossessed of her generative role. Practicing his preachment, "no ideas but in things," Williams depicts his "beautiful thing" as victim of a catalog of graphic beatings. He goes on to say, "The page also is the same beauty: a dry beauty of the page--beaten by whips" (126). Likened to the physical page his mind wishes to dominate, the poet's feminine subject becomes vincible object, significantly, she does not dream any part of his poem. The bravest of poets vibrate to a dynamic dilemma on twin cables of opposing tension-trustful surrender to the dream pilot against refusal to let go of the wheel. Male poets have often personified the ambivalent state of submission/control as a sexually seductive woman; by submitting to her attractive force, he nonetheless controls her as a device within his poem, a servant-muse who waits upon his poetic purpose. H.D., innovator, personified the muse as an extension or projection of herself, submission as exploration of the self, control as articulation of underlying dream energy. Carruth's poem resonates, as does Helen in Egypt, with a quest for beauty suspended in dream consciousness. Pound's Cantos and Williams' Paterson operate stylistically according to a masculine sense of conquest--the poems grab, almost hurl their separate parts into agglutinating series of juxtapositions that never form a true whole. These "epics" stop, rather than end. Within their accretions of historical and legendary images, fragments of feminine personae occasionally appear. In contrast, Helen in Egypt and The Sleeping Beauty circle in musical changings around a central quest, H.D.'s in free verse lyrics, Carruth's in sonnet sequence. Both long poems conflate historical or mythological juxtapositions into structural wholeness. And that sense of wholeness, the poems will conclude, emanates from feminine energy at the source. Must the dreamer be "beautiful"? Yes, because of the abstract working ideal she represents. "Beauty," H.D. wrote in 1927, is "goodness in its Hellenic sense...Beauty and Goddness [are] one thing...a curse, a blessing, a responsibility" (Close Up 27). In 1990, Hayden Carruth, defining his own feelings of artistic responsibility in an interview, stated, "To me, poetry and goodness are almost synonymous. They go together...to be a poet, you have to have a vision at some point" (Weiss 133).

Musical flow impels their poetic visions. Although Helen in Egypt's 160 sequences of threeline stanzas vary in length from four to thirteen stanzas, each flows as a single sentence, stopped at most by a semi-colon. A prose voice which introduces each sequence becomes another part of the whole, a participant who sounds a different level of consciousness, simultaneously narrating and questioning the story. Nearly all of The Sleeping Beauty's 125 poems (including one added in the 1990 reissue) follow a fifteen line sonnet-based rhyming "paragraph" invented by Carruth. In the interview cited above, he explains the "pivot" effect of a rhyming couplet shortened to tetrameter set in the middle to allow "flow through" the rhymed couplet "barrier" effect that would otherwise "break up the poem" (Weiss 135-36). Both long poems germinate in mysterious silence. H.D.'s opening envisions a timeless Egyptian tomb where Helen, alone, moves "as one in a dream." Achilles--or his ghost--appears, his memories differing from hers of "the whole phantasmagoria of Troy." Later, on the Greek island of Leuke, while dying Paris remembers/relives his passion for Helen, Theseus, a wise father-guide, leads a younger Helen through shifting labyrinths of myth. "Eidolon," the final portion of the long poem, carves the image of Thetis, the "Sea-mother," a compelling, feminine generative figure. H.D.'s language continually absorbs and alters the myths received by the poem's personae--and by the reader. Divine and legendary figures superimpose, absorb into new kinships. Through incantatory cinematic word-dissolves. Helen conflates gods of death and war with the name of Achilles, once her lover. "Cypris, Cypria, Amor/say the word over and over...War, Ares, Achilles, Amor" (178-79). Gradually, the shifting elements resolve: "the assembled host of spirits for the whole arc...the circle complete" (275). At the close, Helen, awake, no longer dreaming herself within a dream, believes she has discovered "the innermost/key or the clue to the rest/of the mystery" (303). Carruth's poem opens to the dreamlike silence of invisible snow: "Out of nothing." The poem's silence is attuned to capture "the echo of coincidental voices" in history. Names of poets are called upon, of philosophers, heroes, cities, and even the apocalyptic persona, "Hydrogen Bomb." Within the structural frame, each stanza achieves a separate tine, diction and rhythm-from medieval, to rural contemporary Vermont, to insertions of American Jazz wherein the spirit of "Saint Harmonie" is invoked. And yet, with all the differences in voice, plaint, content, and pace, The Sleeping Beauty, like Helen in Egypt, travels to final cognitive resolution. Carruth's poet ultimately hears "in the beating universe/the poem alone and free" (123). Helen as she unravels the cords of bequeathed history that bind her (and the reader's) mind, liberates the poem of herself: as the poem states, "She herself is the writing" (91). The goal is revealed to have been the poem itself--the poems evolving in struggle toward vision embodied and transformed into a living work of art. This sacred grail carries the healing regeneration. The lyric/narratives of Helen in Egypt and The Sleeping Beauty offer healing of the original male/female cosmic division within our spiritual identities. By ritual enactment of what has gone before, the poem attains a new state of existence, rhythmically paced to the passage of time coeval with transformation. From silent stirrings of conception, Helen in Egypt and The Sleeping Beauty grow into life--the poem's ontogeny recapitulating phylogeny through metamorphoses of past images--and come to terms. A new identity is born.

Carruth's poem strives to acknowledge the world's debt to the feminine principle as we may know it in woman, nature, and history. His axial image, intermittently seen, is a woman's face of stone, visible under a stream, originally sculpted and placed in the brook by a woman who thought it was "flawed." The face in the water, states the poem, is "Our eternity." Carruth brings in a witness who confirms the presence of the stone woman in the water--Amos, ghost of a Vermont farmer. Speaking in twenty-four of the stanzas, Amos functions as guide or teacher, comparable to the character of Theseus in H.D.'s poem. The chiming echo of Dante's Virgil heard in the voices of these guide-figures subtly suggests that H.D. and Carruth are in quest of an ideal. The Vermont farmer says, (his words identified in the poem by italics): "I knowed her afore you was thought of'...Down in the watergrass, just as plain, as calm". The poet asks, "Asleep or awake, Amos?" "Both," replies his guide from the past (39-40). Helen, too, marvels at a sculpted image of a woman linked to water--the carved figure of Thetis upon the prow. "She is the "sea-mother," a goddess who changes embodiment through the ages. "Did her eyes slant in the old way?/was she Greek or Egyptian?/had some Phoenician sailor wrought her?...had the prow itself been shaped to her mermaid body,/ curved to her mermaid hair?" (245) She is the mother of Achilles, "his childhood's secret idol, the first Thetis-eidolon" (284). Answering his own question, "Why is the face in the water a woman?" Carruth asserts, "...the image is basal,/From before the beginning of all imagining,/The a priori of human feeling, ineffaceable/for good or ill,/and as such it is, it must be, feminine" (75). He affirms the feminine principle as source of artistic energy for both sexes. Personified as the fairy tale princess, she dreams poems which address societal cruelty to females--binding of feet, accommodations of the harem, mutilations of war. Interspersed are struggles of male persona (sometimes the "prince," awake or dreaming) whose memories include the trauma of institutionalized strapping down for electric shock treatments. The male persona's dream of a menstruating young woman is overturned by a psychoanalyst into a battle between father and son, a castrating anger. But "the prince who is human, driven, and filled with love" recalls the myth of creation as division by divine sword blade, male and female equally wounded; his dream seeks, in fact, wholeness, the healing to be found in loving sexual connection. "...for a long (eternal?) moment/His being and hers were indistinguishable,/So intermingled that he could not tell/Which was man, which woman...He knows his feminine aspect,/Always his, deeply and dearly his (75)." The above passage soars beyond the impression of one critic that The Sleeping Beauty calls forth the Provencal troubadour poetic adorations of a woman loved (Solotaroff 600-05). But Provencal tradition treats the woman as an erotic object. In her perceptive study of reclamation of the muse by women poets, Mary K. DeShazer states, "muses have typically been portrayed as passive catalysts who stimulate lyricism in the active male poet, helping him 'give birth' to a new entity" (10). Hayden Carruth literalizes the traditional metaphor in one of the prince's dreams: "And his belly is brilliantly broad...the birth is easy, a mere gush/or a happy purging, and behold! in the flash/Of newborn radiance is a beautiful translucent child...and he is wild/With joy, joy, joy...Because he has done it at last,/the real thing,/he has done it himself!" (43). Carruth, fully conscious of the practice of muse-appropriation, ironically illustrates the male dream with eureka-style shouts of "joy, joy, joy!" The birth dream stanza adds to the catalog of oppressions against women. It is not exploitation of a passive erotic muse, but consonance of masculinefeminine energies that charges The Sleeping Beauty.

The initial "H"--an oddly relevant coincidence--suffuses the consciousness of both poets. Hilda Doolittle preferred the use of her initials as her published signature, played upon them in the title of Hermetic Definition, named an autobiographical heroine Hermione/Her, and poetically absorbed the identity of Helen (of Troy, and also her mother's name).(1) The Sleeping Beauty plays variations upon persons and entities whose names begin with the poet's initial, the letter "H": Homer, Helen, Hero/History, Herod, Holderlin, Heraclitus, Hermes, Herr Husband, Hendryk Hudson, Hitler, Heathcliff, Heliopolis, Hiroshima--personae and things that appear in the princess's dreams, or those of her prince. What cousins to the self may the poet be seeking? In English, these names are initiated by a voiceless exhalation of breath, a sound that evokes the beginning of life and its fragile continuance, just above the border of silence. At the resolution of Helen in Egypt, Helen/H.D. is awake, her consciousness freed by the poem's work of reassembling memories and cultural definitions. Carruth's princess is also awake. The poet has filtered reason and feeling through immersions in past and present literature as well as loves and separations of his own life to an integration of consciousness. The closing stanza speaks with the voice of a mature male poet: Princess, the poem is born and you have woken,... The sun Will rise on the snowy firs and set on the sleeping Lavender mountains as always, and no one Will possess or command or defile you where you belong, Here in the authentic world. The work is done. My name is Hayden and I have made this song. (124) The poet is named--he is Hayden, himself. The poem is the song that frees prince and princess who have been entangled in the trance-dreaming and brings into harmonious completion the male and female elements of our natures, an androgyny innate within the universe. For Helen, harmony breathes within the timeless center of herself: "there is no before and no after,/there is one finite moment/that no infinite joy can disperse...now I know the best and the worst" (303). A passage in H.D.'s early autobiographical novel, HERmione, surprises the moment of awakening/passing of a winter dawn; "There is a quivering, a slightest infinitesimal shivering. The thing that was is not" (HERmione 212). The Sleeping Beauty envisions the "intricate purity" of invisible snow whitening a branch of pine in a gray world; "Out of nothing...or out of a cold November/Dawn that anyone could see, this grace/That no one can ever quite remember" (1). The reader, awake within the poems' dreaming visions, hears, in isolated silence, the notes of H.D.'s and Hayden Carruth's questioning/answering. Helen's self-discovery of the dreaming muse reverberates "the seasons evolve around/a pause in the infinite rhythm/of the heart and of heaven" (304). Carruth has said that imagination makes it possible for a poet to become "existentially free, and the same time...come into some kind of sympathetic understanding with other imaginations which are also existentially free." Feminist scholars, notably Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, have sweepingly recorded as a "war of the words' reactive angers that have informed twentieth century literature...."(2) The Sleeping Beauty comes into existence during a century of

imaginative re-vision by women poets. Such re-imagining by a male poet may signal new landscapes. Will it be possible to abstract the dream entirely? Not for H.D. and Carruth, poets whose stance is basically humanistic. Seeking a moral vision, they trust in the terms set by the dreamer. The dreamers within the poems of H.D. and Hayden Carruth envision goodness, a state of healing. By poetry's intellectual and intuitive grace, their visions breathe within the reader's consciousness as well. NOTES 1.Adelaide Morris discusses H.D.'s preoccupation with the letter "H" in "Reading H.D.'s 'Helios and Athene,'" Iowa Review 12 (Spring/Summer 1981): 55. 2.See Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, 3 vols. (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1987, 1988, 1992). WORKS CITED Carruth, Hayden. The Sleeping Beauty. Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press, 1990. DeShazer, Mary K. Inspiring Women: Reimagining the Muse. New York: Pergamon Press, 1986. Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.). "The Cinema and the Classics: Beauty." Close Up 1 (July 1927): 22-33. -----. Helen in Egypt. New York: New Directions, 1961. -----. HERmione. New York: New Directions, 1981. Friedman, Susan Stanford. "When a 'Long Poem' is a 'Big' Poem: Self Authorizing Strategies in Women's Twentieth Century 'Long Poems.'" Literature Interpretation Theory 2 (July 1990): 1, 925. Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar, No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century (3 vols.). New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987, 1988, 1992. Mandel, Charlotte. "The Redirected Image: Cinematic Dynamics in the Style of H.D." Literature/Film Quarterly 11 (1983) 35-45. Morris, Adalaide. "Reading H.D.'s 'Helios and Athene.'" Iowa Review 12 (Spring-Summer 19481[sic]): 2-3, 155-63. Solotaroff, Ted. "One of Us." The Nation (November 16, 1992): 600-605. Weiss, David, Editor. In the Act: Essays on the Poetry of Hayden Carruth. A TwentiethAnniversary Special Edition of Seneca Review 20 (1990): 1. -----. "Interview with Hayden Carruth," In The Act (cited above) 128-46.

Williams, William Carlos. Paterson New York: New Directions, 1963. With this essay, Charlotte Mandel has published poetry, fiction, and prose in Clockwatch Review. Her most recent books of poetry include The Life of Mary and The Marriages of Jacob, two poem-novellas which re-vision biblical women.

Garbo/Helen: The self-projection of beauty by H.D.

by Charlotte Mandel
Copyright Charlotte Mandel. This article originally appeared in Women's Studies (1980, vol. 7, p. 127-135) and is reproduced here with the kind permission of Charlotte Mandel. As the old Imagist label dissolves, the impressive canon of H.D.'s work is revealed to be major twentieth-century poetry of epic quest. The transition from the early lyrics to the booklength volumes of Trilogy and Helen in Egypt has not been fully explored, and appears as an unexplained break in stylistic goals. There is a vital transitional clue which has been virtually unnoticed in critical discussion of her work. That element springs into focus during the late 1920's, when H.D. lived and worked in close continuing relationship with a group of cinema enthusiasts dedicated to the serious examination of cinema as an art form of tremendous aesthetic and social possibilities. From their base in Territet, Switzerland, Hilda Doolittle's intimate friends, Kenneth Macpherson and Bryher (Winifred Ellerman), set up and edited the avant-garde film magazine Close Up. During the period 1927 to 1929, H.D. contributed eleven articles of film review and commentary to Close Up(1) and two poems, "Projector" and "Projector II (Chang)." As a reviewer, she was invited to showings of avant-garde films from other countries, visited movie sets and talked with directors. She played a leading role opposite Paul Robeson in Borderline, a non-commercial but artistically ambitious film made by Macpherson in 1930.(2) To help publicize the film, H.D. wrote a separate essay published as a pamphlet which describes in detail the film's progress of construction and offers a sensitive technical analysis of its themes and movements.(3) The articles in Close Up prove H.D.'s knowledge of film editing to be sophisticated and in touch with new trends. Even more, the style of the essays provides direct access to H.D.'s thoughts and impressions. She writes conversationally, openly expressing feelings of admiration, puzzlement or distaste. The films are described through the perceptions of the writer, almost as though she is writing a memoir. For H.D., cinema was an exciting new source for expanding the boundaries of art, and she wrote these articles at the moment of her experience. Her opinions and emotions, therefore, are immediate and fresh. In another paper ("The redirected image: Cinematic dynamics in the style of H.D." submitted for publication), I have analyzed detailed correspondences between film-making techniques and

poetic devices in the poems. This paper will examine H.D.'s unique vision of Beauty, a vision which absorbs and spiritualizes the projection of a beautiful woman as hieroglyph, a sign. As a woman, H.D. needed to discover non-traditional articulation of her artistic sensibility. The image of a woman on the motion picture screen acted as a hieroglyphic element which later blended into the forms, rhythms and transmutations of her Helen-figure in Helen in Egypt. An essay subtitled "Beauty" was the first of three that H.D. wrote for Close Up under the heading "Cinema and the Classics" (July, August and November, 1927). "Some two or three years" earlier, she had seen the young Greta Garbo in G. W. Pabst's Joyless Street, a film which H.D. has called "my never-to-be forgotten premiere to the whole art of the screen."(4) In the essay, the poet-film reviewer inveighs against Hollywood's vulgarization of the actress's appeal. "Greta Garbo in Montreux, Switzerland, trailing with frail, very young feet through perhaps the most astonishingly consistently lovely film I have ever seen" had been turned out as a "vamp": "Her wigs, her eye-lashes have all but eclipsed our mermaid's straight stare, her odd, magic quality of almost clairvoyant intensity."(5) H.D.'s first impression of Garbo directly evokes the images of three beautiful women of her own creation: Helen in an early poem published in January, 1923, about two years before she saw Joyless Street; Hipparchia in the novel Palimpsest, published in 1926, and written before seeing the film or about the same time; and Hedyle, the Athenian mother of the boy Hedylus, whose name gives title to the novel published in 1927. (Palimpsest is dedicated to Bryher, Hedylus to Kenneth Macpherson.) [Note: The article as originally published includes an illustration at this point, not reproduced on this web version of the article: "Greta Garbo in Joyless Street. Reproduced courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art/Film Stills Archive, New York."--Ed.] The early poem "Helen" takes on visual interest when considered as a held shot, the camera lens focused on the beautiful woman:(6) HELEN All Greece hates the still eyes in the white face, the lustre as of olives where she stands, and the white hands. All Greece reviles the wan face when she smiles, hating it deeper still when it grows wan and white, remembering past enchantments and past ills. Greece sees, unmoved, God's daughter, born of love, the beauty of cool feet

and slenderest knees, could love indeed the maid, only if she were laid white ash amid funereal cypresses. The line "Greece sees, unmoved" places the reader within the consciousness of "All Greece," a watchful, collective audience-persona. We see Helen through an unmoving lens. Helen stands still but is alive--she smiles and grows pale. The poem contains, as does a held shot of a living image, a cinematic dynamic of tension within stasis. A detail from Palimpsest reveals H.D.'s perception of Hipparchia as screen-image of beauty. The woman stares at her reflection in a sea-pool:(7) Hipparchia...gazed at a silver goddess. So she saw (in that spread length of sea-pool beneath her) a mirrored separate entity...The image remained silver, detached and alone and Hipparchia, gazing at Hipparchia, saw that Hipparchia was some abstraction...Grasses of frail texture wavered ever so silently like soft hair combed backward. Gazing at that soft hair, the only frail thing in motion against that static image... In this example, Hipparchia's image gazes back and becomes "some abstraction" in the form of "a silver goddess." The stone boundary of Hipparchia's sea-pool acts as a frame as does the fixed screen boundary of a camera shot. Compare a detail from Hedylus:(8) She lifted the polished mirror. A face regarded her in blotting shadows. It was the face of Hedyle that Athenian. It had that look, godlike tranquillity, that comes to some at overwhelming odds with destiny. Hedyle's face is "godlike"; Hipparchia's image has become "a silver goddess"; Helen, too, is "God's daughter," and the poem's colors evoke the silent, silver screen of the 1920's: "in the white face, the lustre as of olives...and the white hands...the wan face...it grows wan and white...white ash amid funereal cypresses." Helen, too, is a silent, white, divine abstraction. In H.D.'s discussion of Joyless Street,(9) she acclaims Greta Garbo as "Helen" and as an abstract image of Beauty. H.D. refers to the film character's plight in postwar Vienna as "Helen walking scatheless among execrating warriors." "Our mermaid's straight stare" reflects Hipparchia's image under water and the gaze of Helen's "still eyes in a white face." The description of Garbo's "frail, very young feet" is similar to Helen's "beauty of cool feet and slenderest knees." Beauty, Helen of Troy, and Greta Garbo have been fused into one symbol. H.D.'s strong emotional response to Pabst's film may have been stimulated by the materialization of her imagined Helen on Screen. "Greta Garbo," states H.D., "as I saw her, gave me a clue, a new angle, and a new sense of elation...Miss Garbo is a symbol as I saw her in Joyless Street [italics mine]."(10)

As Hipparchia, Helen and Garbo blend into one vision of Beauty, the woman becomes a pictorial symbol or hieroglyph, a significant emblem (as I have termed the hieroglyphic phenomenon on screen). H.D. defines the word as "goodness in its Hellenic sense" and declares, "the world will not be sustained, will not exist without that classic ancient Beauty. Beauty and Goodness, I must again reiterate, to the Greek, meant one thing." H.D. then extends the reach of her symbol to a definition that is central to her concept of art: "And beauty, among other things, is reality...Beauty brings a curse, a blessing, a responsibility."(11) She expresses, here, her belief in the sacred responsibility appropriate to the artist within the new film medium. The accurate presentation of Beauty is a sacred trust; to H.D., a "silver goddess" image could function as an eidolon, a mystical evocation of deeper meanings, an inner reality, the "something beyond something." That sacred responsibility applied to film-maker as to poet. In Trilogy, H.D. affirms the sacred role of the poet, insisting that the "scribe" must have "protection":(12) he takes precedence of the priest, stands second only to the Pharaoh. Both the art of poetry and the art of film were responsible for the evocation of deeper truths. The goddess-image dominates a scene in Bid Me To Live, H.D.'s autobiographical novel published in 1960, the year before Helen in Egypt.(13) This roman clef portrays a period in H.D.'s life during the first World War. In a key scene, the heroine, Julia Ashton (H.D.), goes to a cinema and experiences an intense mystic reaction:(14) ...she realized that the silver wavering was the very shape and texture of olive leaves, flickering in the wind. [Julia waits for] some unravelling of this mystery...This was the answer to everything, then, Beauty, for surprisingly, a goddess-woman stepped forward. She released from the screen the first (to Julia) intimation of screen beauty. Screen? This was a veil, curiously embroidered, the veil before the temple. It is probable that H.D., in this scene, has recreated her own experience responding to Garbo, although the film in this novel is not identified. Also, the imagery echoes the early Helen poem, as, "The silver wavering was the very shape and texture of olive-leaves" recalls "the lustre as of olives where she stands." Julia mirrors H.D.'s experience: "Greta Garbo, as I first saw her, gave me a clue, a new angle...". H.D. does not delineate "the new angle" by logical, declarative sentences. Her approach is intuitive, looking to the woman's image as "a clue" to new sources of meaning. [Note: The article as originally published includes an illustration at this point, not reproduced on this web version of the article: "H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). Photograph by Man Ray. Copyright Perdita Schaffner. Reproduced by permission."--Ed.] In a recent retrospective essay, John Peck discusses H.D.'s "neoplatonism," her concept of Garbo as eidolon--the image that gazes back at the poet, from which she derives mystical meaning. Peck is dubious about the validity of her concept; he sees H.D.'s eidolon as a "cinematic projection" of the self, her Garbo-image as "hybrid of the Botticellian and the hypnotic."(15)

And yet, male poets traditionally have called upon a female Muse, a mysterious vanishing woman-figure which symbolizes the poet's quest for Beauty--as, in Shelley's "Alastor," Keats's "Lamia," Poe's lost young women. For Hilda Doolittle, the projection of Beauty legitimately arises from the self. Hipparchia and Hedyle visually absorb their own symbolic goddess reflections. All the world stares at Helen, and at the woman on screen as portrayed by Greta Garbo. The Helen-figure in Helen in Egypt is hieroglyph: "She herself is the writing," a figure projected in shifts of context like cinematic visualizations, and the final section of Helen in Egypt is given the title, "Eidolon." The goddess-woman-beauty hieroglyph is the poet's identifying emblem of sacred meaning. Hilda Doolittle was herself an extraordinarily beautiful woman. In Bryher's autobiography, The Heart to Artemis, she states, "H.D. was the most beautiful figure that I have ever seen in my life with a face that came directly from a Greek statue and, almost to the end, the body of an athlete."(17) Editing The Pamphlet Poets Series in 1926, Hughes Mearns romantically terms H.D. "a fair young Greek revisiting earth."(18) I believe that H.D. accepted that identification, but the a deep sense of sacred responsiblity. In the mirror-images and in the screen-eidolon, she saw herself as symbol, a source of Beauty's own statement as she created her art. She drew from herself, as into a well of stars, the projections of her poetic vision. Notes and References 1. These articles include reviews of G. W. Pabst's Joyless Street, Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings, Conrad Veidt in The Student of Prague, the Russian films Expiation and Turksib, and a three part essay on "Cinema and the Classics." 2. For discussion of Borderline in historical perspective see Thomas Cripps, Slow Fade to Black (London: Oxford University Press, 1977), pp. 209-11. 3. Borderline: A Pool Film With Paul Robeson (London: Mercury Press, 1930). The pamphlet is unsigned, but definitively attributed to H.D. in a bibliographical listing of her works: Jackson R. Bryer and Pamela Roblyer, "H.D.: A Preliminary Checklist," Contemporary Literature, 10, No. 4 (Autumn 1969), 632-75. 4. H.D., "An Appreciation," Close Up, 4 (March 1929), 62. 5. H.D., "The Cinema and the Classics: Beauty," Close Up, 1 (July 1927), 33. 6. H.D., Selected Poems (New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1957), p. 48. 7. H.D., Palimpsest (1926; rpt. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1968), pp. 5455. 8. H.D., Hedylus (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927), p. 152. 9. "Beauty," p. 31. 10. "Beauty," pp. 28-29.

11. "Beauty," pp. 32-33. 12. H.D., Trilogy (New York: New Directions, 1973), p. 15. 13. Linda Wagner finds similarities in structure and movement between this novel and Helen and Egypt. Linda Wagner, "Helen in Egypt: A Culmination," Contemporary Literature 10, No. 4 (Aut. 1969), 523-36. 14. H.D., Bid Me To Live (New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1960), pp. 123-24. 15. John Peck, "Passio Perpetuae H.D.," Parnassus, 3, No. 2 (Spring-Summer 1975), 51. 16. H.D., Helen in Egypt (New York: New Directions, 1961), pp. 22 and 91. 17. Bryher, The Heart To Artemis (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1962), p. 186. 18. Hughes Mearns, Introduction to H.D., The Pamphlet Poets (Simon and Shuster, Inc., 1926), p. 5.

Letters Across the Atlantic : H.D., Bryher, May Sarton, During World War II
by Charlotte Mandel
Copyright Charlotte Mandel. This article originally appeared in A celebration for May Sarton : essays selected and edited by Constance Hunting. Orono, Maine : Puckerbrush Press (c/o University of Maine, Dept. of English, 5752 Neville Hall, Orono, Maine, 04469-5752), 1994, p.89-104, and is reproduced here with the kind permission of Charlotte Mandel and the permission and generosity of Constance Hunting. Letters exchanged by well-known women of letters, written to each other as private conversations, elicit interest on biographical, literary, and personal levels. During World War II, a transatlantic "conversation" began in letters between May Sarton and the poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), and between Sarton and H.D.'s companion, the historical novelist Bryher (Winifred Ellerman). The time period of the exchange extends through the bombings of London--undergone by H.D. and Bryher--until well after the war's ending. This article is based on 125 letters written between October 20, 1938 and March 5, 1951, the last five written sporadically after 1946.(1) Today's scholar who inherits the benefit of these writers' published works reads their informally expressed thoughts with, perhaps, a sense of intrusion. The feelings may persist although, by making such papers available in special library collections, the correspondents (or their executors) have willingly opened private envelopes for perusal by scholars. These fragile pages--

such as the waxy, tissue-thin sheets of rationed paper from England, textural demonstrations of wartime scarcity--bring us closer than anything else we have to their spoken voices and associative paths of idea from mind to page. At twenty-six, May Sarton had published one book of poems and her first novel, and was seeking the support of interaction with established literary figures. Her letters from America were, in turn, supportive of the older writers H.D. and Bryher during a time of war anxieties and physical hardships. The ambience of the letters of this period is a feeling of trust, encouraged and reinforced by shared artistic, political and bisexual concerns. Their letters of formal address gradually evolve to use of first names and deepening expression of warm greetings. The topics covered by the three women writing to each other overlap continually, but include ideas about literary work in progress; the role of the artist in society; feminist consciousness--two decades in advance of the 1960's rising of awareness; exchange of feelings and information about personal friends--each had ties to both Europe and the United States; and socio-political concerns. Overall, the letters to and from H.D. enter more readily into personal feelings; those to and from Bryher speak more about intellectual and political matters. In recent years, the attention of feminist critics has brought H.D. to the forefront as a great modernist poet; also, her prose works, many published posthumously, are earning definitive critical appreciation.(2) In 1940, however, at age fifty-four, H.D. was yet on the threshold of her epic long poems, Trilogy and Helen in Egypt. She was still primarily regarded as "The Perfect Imagist" whose early poems, signed "H.D., Imagiste," were sent by Ezra Pound from London to Harriet Monroe in America to appear in Poetry (1913). That same year, she married Richard Aldington, an English poet and novelist. Althought by 1919 the marriage had disintegrated, H.D. remained in London during the hardships of the first world war. Beginning with a letter of admiration for the stark beauty of H.D.'s first collection of poems, Sea Garden, Bryher and H.D. were to sustain each other in a complex lifetime relationship. Bryher, eight years younger, daughter of a wealthy English industrialist, was an aspiring writer. Encouragement of younger writers was characteristic of H.D.; Bryher's letter elicited an invitation to tea on July 17, 1918, at a summer cottage in Cornwall. In 1919, at the close of the first world war, Bryher arranged for care of H.D. who was pregnant and dangerously ill with influenza. The child, Perdita, was born safely. Except for occasional visits, H.D. did not return to the United States, and stayed in London or on the continent. For a time, their lives were shared with Kenneth Macpherson, with whom Bryher legally entered a marriage of convenience; a house was built above Lake Geneva in Switzerland. As sensitive explorers of artistic expression, Macpherson, Bryher and H.D. became fascinated by the possibilities of the new art of cinema. To these enthusiasts, the silent art of cinema, free of barriers of language, might open paths toward universal fellowship and understanding. Bryher conceived and financed the extraordinary magazine Close-Up (1927-1933), a pioneer publication for cineastes. Macpherson's experimental "auteur" film Borderline dealt with the daring theme of an interracial love triangle, and starred Paul Robeson, his wife, Eslanda, and H.D.; Bryher also played a role in the film. Shared fervor against all forms of racial prejudice connects the passions of May Sarton with those of H.D. and Bryher. Their correspondence begins just on the edge of the vortex, nine months before the German invasion of Poland pulled England and France into World War II. Sarton's early poems voice longings for universal fellowship, "where love, that airy tree, is separate

nowhere" ("From All Our Journeys"). H.D. had been raised in the Moravian Fellowship, a religion sensitive to mystical connections of spiritual love and brotherhood. Bryher, in Switzerland, was actively helping refugees from Nazi persecution to escape, at much risk to her own safety. It is during a visit to Bryher in Vevey, that H.D. writes the first letter to "Dear Miss Sarton," (October 20, 1938), expressing admiration for Sarton's first novel, The Single Hound (1938). H.D. had not heard of Sarton before reading The Single Hound but writes that Bryher did know of her "personally" through mutual friends. Because occupying German armies had silenced communication with Sarton's native Belgium, H.D. suggested that Sarton contact Bryher to seek information about relatives and friends. H.D. returned to London where Sarton paid her a visit in the summer of 1939. On the continent for another dangerous year Bryher continued her efforts to help refugees escape. At the last possible minute before all routes were cut, she herself managed to get away to Portugal, and from there to H.D.'s flat in Lowndes Square, arriving September 28th, 1940. H.D. had enjoyed meeting the young American writer in London the year before. Following the visit, she writes, "Do give me a ring...and let me know when (if) I can see you again" (letter dated 1939 by internal evidence). They were not to see each other again, however, until after the war. At H.D.'s recommendation, Sarton sent some of her new poems to be read by Bryher. In 1935, Bryher had financed and taken over the publication of Life and Letters Today--a literary magazine of international importance which she kept going until 1950. Included in the magazine's pantheon of authors are such indelible names as Jean Paul Sartre, Kafka, H.D., the Sitwells, Elizabeth Bowen, Dylan Thomas, Marya Zaturenska, Dorothy Richardson, Horace Gregory, Henry Miller, Eugene Jolas, Norman Douglas, Rumer Godden, Christopher Fry and Eudora Welty. Threading the Sarton-H.D.-Bryher letters as an underlying bond is a shared consciousness of exile. H.D., born in Pennsylvania, had married an Englishman and lived almost her entire life in England or on the continent. Bryher, although English, was multilingual, liked to travel, and chose residence in Switzerland. Her return to London in 1940 was a gesture of loyalty, to stand by H.D. and their friends in beleaguered England. Her unique account, The Days of Mars: a Memoir 1940-1946 (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972), reads with the immediacy of oral history, offering a lively, graphic day by day view of the times. The long war years' experience ends with, quite literally, her homecoming to Switzerland: "It seemed as if again I were going back to my beginnings" (DM 182). May Sarton had been uprooted from her Belgian flower garden childhood at the age of two, wandering as a displaced person with her Englishborn mother and Belgian father. Her parents came as political refugees to England, thence to the United States, finally to settle in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Throughout the H.D.-Bryher-Sarton exchange of letters, feelings of transcontinental pulls and divided loyalties inform the quality of their affections. After Sarton's first visit to London in summer of 1939, H.D. writes, "It is so helpful to my confused, national, international, unnational consciousness, to communicate with one who knows the USA, the Continental--the English background. And to me, in you, it seems harmonious" (letter dated 1939 by internal evidence). Two years later, she reiterates, "It does mean so much to have the link with USA as so few

people really have the deep tie with both continents" (June 26, 1941). The link mattered very much to Sarton as well, more and more as warships dominated the Atlantic Ocean; she confides to Bryher that it has been "a very long time since I have seen England and I mind terribly. I miss it. I miss friends there and the sense of civilization...Your letter did me good" (January 6, 1942). Bryher, too, eagerly opens arriving envelopes: "One just lives for American news" (February 20, 1942). The bond continues undiminished nearly three years later as H.D. writes, "It is good weaving impressions back and forth across the Atlantic" (September 24, 1944). Although they were a generation apart in age, similarity of parental patterns occurred in the emotional constructs of both Sarton's and H.D.'s childhoods. Given financial support from Harvard University, Sarton's father devoted energies to his monumental lifelong work, Introduction to the History of Science. George Sarton's intellectual discipline and dedication to scholarly investigations recall the portrait of H.D.'s father, Dr. Charles Doolittle, professor of astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania--his night hours dedicated to observations at the telescope, day hours to writing mysterious symbols at his desk. The fathers' abstract pursuits were treated as sacred by the artistically gifted mothers who devoted themselves to care of family, household, and garden. Of the correspondence available for this discussion, the first letter from Bryher, dated September 1, 1940, arrives from Switzerland in reply to Sarton's earlier inquiry about Belgium. Sarton's answer contains an arresting observation: "I was deeply grateful for the news from Belgium. Very little appears in the papers here--there are so many oppressed peoples now that none receives special attention. They are lumped" (September 17, 1940). Today, Sarton's perceptive comment, written over fifty years ago, takes on poignant power. World War II is known as the twentieth century's military turning point where bombing strategies routinely sweep masses of civilians into the ranks of the war dead, and tides of refugees can overwhelm public sensibilities. In her twenties, May Sarton already demonstrates her ability to use anger as a force that transmutes inner passion into creative action. She writes to Bryher in 1940 about her planned travel across the country to read and talk "about poetry," intending to talk as well about the need for America to come to the defense of England. "One rages," she states, frustrated by "panic and indifference...We must accept and honor the responsibility and not wait until the guns are at the door before being willing to make personal sacrifices" (September 17, 1940). Indeed, while differing as individuals, all three women shared passionate convictions of moral responsibility. That responsibility included loyalty to friends and dedication to their art. Tall, thin, visionary H.D. would not leave London for safety in the countryside; practical yet impetuous Bryher stayed on despite assults of air raids, the bad, inadequate food, and the stale wet ashes smell of rubble. There are forceful traits of personality that link Sarton's liking for direct action with Bryher's. The Englishwoman had a natural inclination for the kind of freedom her upbringing had allowed only to boys, and her historical novels often use the persona of a young boy--a typical example is Ruan, a novel of 6th century Britain (Pantheon, 1960). Early in the war, speaking of the possibility of a German invasion, she expresses a fighting attitude that would be congenial to Sarton's spirit: "A friend in the Home Guard has promised me half his hand grenades if I can get

to his trench in time...and what a pleasure it would give me to throw them at an advancing enemy" (February 5, 1941). One of the letters offers a direct clue to the artistic patterns of Sarton's creative mind. In her memoir, A World of Light: Portraits and Celebrations (1976), she gives a frank account of her intense attraction to the writer, Elizabeth Bowen, who had allowed her one sexual encounter, but thereafter had kept the relationship at friendship level. Nevertheless, Sarton's interest in Bowen's life and loves continued undiminished. H.D. was also tremendously attracted to Bowen, and writes of her often, as an affectionate letter from H.D. rushes to report: "I have just rung up El. Bowen" (June 19, 1940). Because the latter declared a total dislike of writing letters, Sarton would turn, sometimes with a wistful overtone, to H.D. and Bryher for news of their charismatic friend. "Your letter was like a spell," Sarton writes to Bryher, "it rapt me off onto one island after another of Ideas and Emotions--so strange to think of you and Elizabeth sitting and talking. I am now and then full of the aches and pains of homesickness for her big windows on Regents Park...I meant to write to her...and then didn't. There is no incentive when the answer will be silence" (February 13, 1942). Too long to quote in full here, the letter includes a vivid memory description of Bowen's home, its visitors, comings and goings. The scene which flows into Sarton's dreamy letter to Bryher echoes the description in her later memoir, I Knew a Phoenix (1959). Sarton's correspondence with these two sensitive mutual friends may have been instrumental for her future memoir. "It is fun," Sarton writes to Bryher, "to have someone who makes one define what one does feel instinctively and privately" (April 12, 1942). In every genre, Sarton's prolific verbal energy may be perceived as that of a mind in dialogue. She has stated that "the poem is primarily a dialogue with the self and the novel a dialogue with others...I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something" (Journal of a Solitude, 1973, 41). In her writings to H.D. and Bryher, she appears to do both. Sarton's published journals may be seen as a variation on her thought/feeling process--informal prose dialogues with the self, nevertheless written with the idea of possible publication to a wide, amorphous audience. Personal correspondence sparks yet another wire of energy. Letters written to a specific artist friend who shares one's deepest concerns engage on the level of passion and are honed by sophisticated response. To be able to write of feelings with trust helps the solitary writer clarify the yet unvoiced phases of her art. Often the narrative of a Sarton novel unfolds by means of dialogues whereby characters test and explore evolution of the self in a world of others. In her poetic process, as Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar observe, Sarton has, at times, used a technique of "analyz[ing] her own creativity through dialogues with other literary women (The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, 1985, 1772). Writing letters, H.D. confirms her own sense of trust in Sarton: "I...do not feel you are 'writing for posterity' when you write me" (March 2, 1942). There had been other people, H.D. goes on to say, to whom she could no longer write letters because the recipients had quoted her words out of context. A half-century later, women writers have absorbed axioms of feminist consciousness that appear self-evident--not least, the gratitude now offered to the written legacies of these three imaginative women. Sarton and Bryher compared views on education; neither had patience with rituals of education that deadened young minds and spirits. "I do agree with you," Bryher writes, "that boys and girls ought to be brought up together and treated in the same way" (July 2, 1941). In England,

exigencies of war were transforming accepted views of occupational roles. "It will be curious to know what happens afterwards...[ellipsis Bryher's] all the boys are being taught to fly and the girls to drive. I like the implication that now the skies are left to the males, the girls can have the earth" (June 17, 1941). A desire to articulate the feminine principle, with allegiance to one's own inherent muse, had been evolving in each one's consciousness.(3) H.D. thanks Sarton for a poem (not identified in the letter) "which says what one knows and feels. Women. WOMAN--this new Aquarian age we have been told is well on the way--a woman's age, in a new sense of WOMAN" (December 6, 1944). During this period, Sarton's poem "My Sisters, O My Sisters" offered new perspective toward the traditional figures of Eve and Mary. Writing to Bryher after the death of Virginia Woolf, Sarton names the latter's "nation" as "Woman" (October 19, 1941). Each writer, in her life and in her dedication to artistic vision, refused to lie motionless within a decorative sarcophagus of inherited mythologies. The three-way transatlantic dialogue often focussed upon the tension between an artist's need for solitary concentration and her social conscience--a dilemma Sarton has addressed as a theme in many forms. In some of these letters written during the life and death struggle of the war against fascism, Sarton expresses pangs of anguish about doing too little, that she feels "terribly anxious" to be actively involved in war work, possibly on the assembly line of a weapons factory, that her writing must take second place at such a time (February 13, 1942). She was given vital encouragement by H.D. and Bryher--by their example no less than by exhortation--to keep faith with her inner self and not to dilute her artistic energies. Bryher scolds the younger woman for the factory idea, and offers practical advice: "Can't you keep office hours for your writing? Simply hang up a card with working hours from --to--? I used to do this at home in Switzerland" (March 24, 1942). Bryher, living on the continent through the 1930's, had been sensitive to the seismic vibrations of the Nazi war machine. When she underwrote Life and Letters Today in 1935, she set up an office with Robert Herring as resident English editor, and, with unusual practical prescience, anticipated wartime shortages by purchasing a large stock of printing paper in 1938.(4) As the war dragged on, despite such exigencies as bombs that demolished their offices at three different locations, the magazine survived. What is more, every issue sold out as fewer books and magazines were printed. "Books!" Bryher writes in her war memoir, "They were all we had...the book was a fortification...against the overwhelming grimness of the moment" (DM 121). The Life and Letters enterprise proved in tangible form that literary art was necessary, that intellectual thought was active, and that the spirit of a people should not be reduced to the physical materials of survival. For May Sarton, the magazine's existence was an inspiration as well as an opportunity to have her own work published in good company and appreciated abroad by discerning readers. On September 17, 1940, Sarton writes to Bryher, "I wonder if Life and Letters still goes on. The fact that poems and plays and books of all sorts are still being published every day is one of the most thrilling things, I think....The English are plucking flowers out of the nettles and that is the glory." For the issue of May 1941, Bryher chose Sarton's peom "Definition." "[It] made me swell with pride...to see it there," Sarton responds after receiving the magazine in the mail (September 4, 1941). Her pride increased when "The Sacred Order" appeared in November 1941, and "Song" the following September.

H.D. is often an exquisitely sensitive mentor to the younger woman: "The writing if not selfindulgence, or even if self-indulgence, is for us a form of living--more than food even, actual breath. So go on breathing and feeling...and don't get discouraged" (September 6, 1941). Given such spiritual understanding, and the intellectual nourishment of receiving books and magazines from England (such as France Libre), Sarton was unquestionably helped to blossom: "I refuse to be motivated by guilt an instant longer--I am not going into a factory unless I have to" (December 12, 1942). More than harmony of thought may prove the mettle of friendship. Sarton disagreed fruiously with comments Bryher made about her dependence on older forms in poetry (April 12, 1942). On one occasion, she did not conceal her anger at what she saw as Bryher's misinterpretation of a poem. "I don't mind the machine age at all and I don't see where you get that idea from the poems...I loved Boulder Dam passionately because it was the living proof of the potentialities of the machine age. But to say we have realized them yet is simply idiotic" (May 24, 1942). Sarton's anger here is stimulated by growing confidence across the country on poetry-lecture tours. Her tirade in this letter concludes, "...don't be cross with me for this explosion! Your postscripts are provocative!" Despite such outspoken disagreement, Sarton sees Bryher "from afar" as a guiding torch, "like the burning bush" (October 21, 1942). As a concerned mentor, Bryher justifies this accolade. From time to time, Sarton had been suffering prolonged and debilitating bouts of intestinal illness. Bryher believed the cause must be psychosomatic and urged her to see an analyst, recommending Dr. Hanns Sachs who had been significantly helpful to her. Dr. Sachs was then living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, not far from Sarton. Sarton explains, "When I was worried at one time about the possible ill-effects of bisexuality I did go to an analyst and he said it would be crazy to be analysed that I didn't need it at all" (July 31, 1942). Nevertheless, she expresses warm gratitude for Bryher's concern. In any writer's life, the blows of rejection by publishers or wounds inflicted by reviewers may be inevitable. Bryher briskly dismisses the opinions of publishers who had left Sarton devastated by rejection of two early novels. "I never met a publisher yet who had the glimmering of an idea what literature was...Most of the best stuff that I have read has been in manuscript, or else it has been published by acccident...I'm looking forward to seeing your new book and don't listen to the publishers, they never know anything about art" (July 2, 1941). And H.D. offers spiritual solace: "O, my dear--don't worry about your work. It is wonderful, you have wonderful gifts. The fact of the writing is the thing--it trians one to a sort of yogi or magi power, it is a sort of contemplation, it is living on another plane, it is 'travelling in the astral' or whatever it is, they are supposed to do. That is the thing" (July 26, 1941). Attacks by reviewers, Bryher believed, had been instrumental in driving Virginia Woolf to suicide. H.D. and Bryher had not sought to know Woolf personally. Sarton, on the other hand, had pined to meet her; during a visit to London in 1937, she was given the opportunity to be introduced through Elizabeth Bowen.(5) As the shock of Woolf's suicide by drowning is shared in the letters, each states a differing point of view. H.D. sees the act as a giving up of will to endure (May 6, 1941); Bryher feels that suicide can be an act of courage (May 16, 1941); Sarton adds a socio-political element--Woolf's death as "a fearful defeat of the spirit...the tangible example of what Hitler means" (April 28, 1941).

In the course of the years between 1940 and 1944, Sarton's letters gradually gain in maturity and sense of assurance toward her abilities and identity as a woman and author. When some American reviewers do not appreciate H.D.'s major work, the first volume of her war trilogy, it is the younger writer who criticizes the attitudes of some of the critics: "Dearest Hilda, here is a poverty-stricken sheaf of reviews which will tell you more of the abysmal state of criticism in America than it will about your book. I have had several seizures of imaginative apoplexy as I read these over--...And, for God's sake, are we still in the dark ages that 'female poets' are considered a race apart, a sport of monsters to be reviewed as such?" (October 29, 1944). Sarton also begins to advise the older poet on the state of publishing in America. She recommends an agent to H.D., and warns, "Have nothing to do with Houghton-Mifflin...They use up all their paper on best-sellers" (May 11, 1944). Upon the liberation of France and Belgium, direct word could reach England and the United States from friends who had survived the Nazi occupation. "The most unexpected people turn out to be heroes," Sarton writes of quiet, unassuming former neighbors (February 2, 1945). On December 13, 1944, Bryher received her first letter in five years from Sylvia Beach, founder of the landmark Paris bookstore, Shakespeare and Company. Beach was suffering greatly from malnutrition. Because it was forbidden to send rations out of England, Bryher asked Sarton for help. At once, Sarton wrote to an army major she knew, based in Paris, who was happy to visit Sylvia Beach and help transfer food and other necessaries that Sarton began to mail regularly from the United States. Another soldier friend contributed money to pay for the expensive postage (April 22, 1945). Sarton was extraordinarily touched to learn from her friend that her books were displayed in Sylvia Beach's bookcase, and admired. Toward the end of the war, H.D. wrote words of hope for world transformation: "Maybe this last terrible bout of most personal and intimate view of suffering will cleanse the human psyche" (February 3, 1945). Bryher and Sarton were less visionary. Bryher had predicted the war in Europe and resented the public's failure to take warning from history. Sarton anticipated future patterns of international conflict: "More and more the war looks to me like a world civil war where over and over again the pattern is repeated--the sell-out to fascism from fear of revolution" (May 11, 1944). The same letter to Bryher shares further foreboding, "You are dead right about racial prejudice. Here it is assuming frightening proportions." Only five letters, two written by H.D. and three to her by Sarton, appear between 1946 and 1951; there may, however, be additional letters not available at the time of this study. In 1986, May Sarton recalled that she met H.D. and Bryher "only once after the war, it must have been in 1945, and had tea with them" in the Lowndes Square apartment. Bryher departed from London on the first of April, 1946, returning home to Switzerland with concern, however, at leaving H.D. who had become seriously ill. From the continent, she arranged for H.D. to travel to be nursed back to health in Switzerland. As postwar travel restrictions eased, Sarton sailed for England in April, 1947, from there going to Belgium and France. Another trip in the summer of 1948 included a three day stay at Bowen's Court in Ireland. A letter from H.D., dated February 14, 1947, warmly praises Sarton's newly published The Bridge of Years, a novel that brings to life a Belgian scene familiar to H.D. The last postwar letter from Sarton to H.D. (of the group available for this discussion), dated April 19, 1949, mentions that "Judith Matlack, with whom I live," will join her for a holiday in Europe. There are no plans mentioned to visit either H.D. or Bryher in Switzerland. Although two years later, a letter from H.D. thanks Sarton for the gift of her latest

novel, and consoles her upon the death of her mother (March 5, 1951), the steady three-way transatlantic correspondence had concluded its work as a spiritual lifeline. May Sarton was now coming into her full strengths, happy in a stable relationship, aware of herself as a writer of poetry and prose. There had been always so much that Sarton felt called by-the need to work for a living; tensions between writing poetry or fiction; and strong desire to work for a humanitarian world. All of these calls are expressed in the letters she wrote and received from H.D. and Bryher. Their correspondence was, indeed, a friendship of letters rather than of personal meetings. Although many of Sarton's writings tell of persons she has known--by name in autobiographical accounts, or as models for fictional characters--references to H.D. and Bryher have not appeared in Sarton's memoirs, nor do any of her novels' protagonists suggest either of their personalities as specific models. (In a letter to me dated May 31, 1991, May Sarton confirms that none of her characters is based on H.D. or Bryher). Sarton has stated that, for her, intense feelings are often "lived out" by writing a novel, as, in her first novel, The Single Hound, "Elizabeth [Bowen] appears as the painter, Georgia" (A World of Light 197). Writing to H.D. and Bryher, Sarton participated in a stimulating, honest interchange without deep psychological roots. World events and geography had created the matrix for a uniquely supportive relationship. The friendship was nourishing to all three women during the wartime merging of needs across the Atlantic. For May Sarton, the flow of letters furthered her evolution at a critical time when she was not yet sure how best to focus her powerful youthful energies. The correspondence ended like a graduation--a time of intense interaction between rare minds had come to appropriate closure, as each friend's life continued to evolve. Grateful acknowledgments: Letters from May Sarton to H.D. and Bryher are quoted with permission of May Sarton, and The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; letters from H.D. and Bryher are quoted with permission of Perdita Schaffner, and The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Many thanks to May Sarton and Perdita Schaffner for their gracious assistance. Thanks also to curators Vincent Giroud and Patricia Willis, Beinecke Library, and Francis O. Mattson, Berg Collection. Appreciation is given to Lois Marchino for valued encouragement and editorial suggestions. WORKS CITED Bryher. Days of Mars: a Memoir 1940-1946. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanich, Inc., 1972. ---. Letters to May Sarton. Sept. 1, 1940-June 23, 1945. ---. Ruan. New York: Pantheon Books, 1960. DeShazer, Mary K. Inspiring Women: Reimagining the Muse. New York: Pergamon Press, Inc. (The ATHENE series), 1986. Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.). Letters to May Sarton. Oct. 20, 1938-March 5, 1951. ---. Helen in Egypt. New York: New Directions Books, 1961. ---. Trilogy. New York: New Directions Books, 1973. Friedman, Susan Stanford. Penelope's Web: Gender, Modernity, H.D.'s Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Friedman, Susan Stanford and DuPlessis, Rachel Blau, editors. Signets: Reading H.D. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. Gilbert, Sandra M. and Gubar, Susan, editors. The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women:

The Tradition in English. New York: Norton, 1985. King, Michael, ed. H.D.: Woman and Poet. Orono, Maine: National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine at Orono, 1986. Life and Letters Today, 1935-1950, edited by Robert Herring and Bryher. Sarton, May. "From All Our Journeys," Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine: Poems Selected and New. New York: Norton, 1961. ---. I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography. New York: Norton, 1959. ---. Journal of a Solitude. New York: Norton, 1973. ---. Letters to Bryher (Winifred Ellerman). Sept. 17, 1940-April 22, 1949. ---. Letters to H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). Oct. 29, 1944-April 19, 1949. ---. Letter to Charlotte Mandel. May 31, 1991. ---. The Single Hound. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1938; reissued Norton, 1991. ---. A World of Light: Portraits and Celebrations. New York: Norton, 1976. Straw, Deborah. "Interview: May Sarton." Belles Lettres (Winter 1991) 34-38. NOTES 1. Available in the Berg Collection of The New York Public Library are the letters addressed to Sarton, fifty-three by H.D., forty-eight by Bryher; available in The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University are the letters written by Sarton, four addressed to H.D., and twenty to Bryher. Seven of the letters from H.D. have been published by May Sarton, with a brief introduction, in H.D.: Woman and Poet, edited by Michael King (Orono, Maine: National Poetry Foundation, Univeristy of Maine at Orono, 1986) 49-57. 2. For a perceptive introduction to H.D. with an overview of current critical appreciation, see Signets: Reading H.D., edited by Susan Stanford Friedman and Rachel Blau DuPlessis (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1990). See also H.D.: Woman and Poet, cited above. Most recent is a landmark study of H.D.'s fiction in modernist context by Susan Stanford Friedman, Penelope's Web: Gender, Modernity, H.D.'s Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). 3. For an interesting discussion of the identity of the muse in the works of Sarton and H.D., see Mary K. DeShazer, Inspiring Women: Reimagining the Muse (New York: Pergamon Press, 1986) 67-134. 4. Ironically, in 1942, Life and Letters Today was accused of hoarding and obliged to divide its supply with less forethoughtful publications. 5. Recently interviewed at age seventy-nine, Sarton still speaks of her meetings with Woolf as highlight emotional experiences. Deborah Straw, "Interview: May Sarton," Belles Lettres (Winter 1991) 34-38.

Magical lenses: poet's vision beyond the naked eye

by Charlotte Mandel

Copyright Charlotte Mandel. This article originally appeared in H.D. woman and poet / edited by Michael King (Orono, Me. : National Poetry Foundation, 1986, p.301-317) and is reproduced here with the kind permission of Charlotte Mandel. The poetry and prose of H.D. set readers at stations within the living observatory of her mindwork. The poet-seer's writings offer instruments to see beyond usual powers--detail after detail shifts into new focus, words refract as lenses of a microscope, telescope, or cinema projector--three magical lenses actually involved in shaping her unique blend of concrete with psychic vision. Hilda Doolittle was born at the full of the Victorian-style quest for scientific knowledge by diligent personal observation, collection, notation and classification. Her grandfather was an authoirty on freshwater algae, her father a noted astronomer. To the child, these were awesome men who discovered living bodies in pondwater's green scum or kept long night watch to glean secrets of the heavens. From birth, she was influenced by these devotions to exactitude at reading the universe, interpreting meaning that would be evoked by avid study of detail and its accurate rendition into drawing and written symbol. She absorbed the discipline of their concentrated search, and its mystery, for the myriad specific tiny plants and orbiting sky-presences were invisible to the naked eye. The methods of these close paternal scientsts may be seen to correspond with two rules of the 1913 Imagist crredo: "direct treatment of the 'thing'" and "no word that does not contribute to the presentation." The making of "the perfect Imagist" begins well ahead of Imagism's innovative literary stir in London pre-World War I, and before the appearance of Ezra Pound in her life during her late teens. The fortunate memoir by H.D.'s cousin Francis Wolle, titled A Moravian Heritage,(1) offers a participatory view of Hilda Doolittle's early environment. In their two adjacent houses, six Wolle children and four young Doolittles shared household intimacies, backyard play, family events, elementary education at Moravian Parochial School, and Grandfather--the microscopist H.D. called Paplie, her mother's father, Rev. Francis Wolle. It was not until the age of sixty-four that this patriarch turned to his poineer studies in micro-botany. By the time of his death twelve years later, he had become the recognized international authority on freshwater algae, desmids and diatoms, identifying thousands of species of minute living components of the green scum that gathers on lakes and ponds. H.D.'s cousin explains, "If you will rub it off on a piece of paper, and when you get home place it under a microscope, you will find it to consist of tiny plants of a great variety of shapes and colors. These are the cryptograms."(2) H.D. tells of the wonder in her memoir The Gift: When Papalie lifted us, one by one in turn, to kneel on the chair by his worktable, we saw that it was true what he said, we saw that where there is nothing, there is something. We saw that an empty drop of water spread out branches, bright green or vermillion, in shape like a branch of a Christmas tree or in shape like a squashed peony or in shape like a lot of little green-glass beads, strung on a thick stem.(3) Concentrating for hours each day over his microscope, their grandfather examined drop by drop, measured and sketched each figure of a new species he saw, and "reproduced their colors in meticulously exact renderings."(4) The aging scientist published three books containing a total of 5700 figures reproduced "from the author's drawings"; in later revised editions, he added 300

more.(5) Each new species identified required creation of a name; as was commonplace in scientific nomenclature, elements of Greek or Latin were amalgamated into names that evoked specific characteristics of the organism. The scientist's drawings [see photos pp. 303-306] show a graceful and meticulous skill which is equalled by his text. His introduction to Diatomaceae of the United States brings to life the landscape and terrain of his searches in flowing montage: The marine forms abound in the sea depths, in marshes which are flooded at high tide, in shallow inlets and the muddy bottoms underlying the sandy surface of the seashore. The fresh water forms are plentiful on the mossy stones of mountain streamlets, pools bordering rivulets, dripping rocks. [Edition of 1890] Subtleties of color are essential to accurate identification, as: "green, then pink grading off into all the shades of purple, and finally olive, from golden green and bright tawny to black; indeed, there are few if any colors from the most gorgeous to the dullest, but are to be found among the Algae."(6) An enthusiastic appreciation. Because technology for color printing did not yet exist, the author set up a team system of hand-coloring the plates that came off letterpress in black and white. The method is engagingly described by H.D.'s cousin. After the large unfolded sheets with their thousands of drawings (by the author) printed in black and white came off the press, the tall, white-bearded Rev. Wolle mixed water color tints and painted each figure the hue of the original specimen. Six indigent female relatives were hired and trained to work with paints and brush to produce perfect copies of his key sheets, which the scientist then scrutinized for the least variations. Of special interest to readers of H.D. is the information that "next-door cousin" Hilda earned pennies by transporting the precious rolled up sheets in bundles to the women who were to tint them. The expensive sheets, covered with thousands of cryptic drawings, catalogued and named in variations of category, as "Melosira crotonensis...spiralis...sculpta..." were to be tinted exactly with the tip of a brush and carried back to the scientist-scribe who would, as the final culmination of all this effort, have them bound into a book. "The scribe," H.D. affirms in the maturity of her Trilogy, "stands second only to the Pharoah."(7) Color identification and botanical study enters H.D.'s Sea Garden, her first volume of poetry, published 1916.(8) In the poem, "Sea Gods," she seems to model the ancient Greek catalogue form almost into a naming of species: But we bring violets ... wood violets, stream-violets, violets from a wet marsh. Violets in clump from hills, tufts with earth at the roots, violets tugged from rocks, blue violets, moss, cliff, river-violets, yellow violets' gold, burnt with a rare tint--

violets like red ash among tufts of grass. We bring deep-purple bird-foot violets. We bring the hyacinth-violet, sweet, bare, chill to the touch-and violets whiter than the in-rush of your own white surf In "Pursuit," she applies the detecting eye of a scientist observing structure for clues: the green stems show yellow-green where you lifted-turned the earth-side to the light; this and a dead leaf-spine, split across, show where you passed. H.D.'s famous precision of description applies to a male torso as to a specimen: "The ridge of your breast is taut,/and under each the shadow is sharp,/and between the clenched muscles/of your slender hips" ("The Contest"). The poems "Sea Violet" and "Sea Rose" demand that we look closely at small things to discover beauty and endurance. Rev. Wolle describes how microscopic diatoms may attach stalks to "stones, wood or other adjacent objects to prevent ... being swept away by currents and waves."(9) The scientist, however, does not speak directly to the small bit of life, as does the poet: Violet your grasp is frail on the edge of the sand-hill, but you catch the light-frost, a star edges with its fire. In the above stanza, H.D. uncannily merges the microscope's concentrated magnifying power, the telescope's power to bring a star near at hand, and a cinematic held-shot--the object shimmers though motionless within the frame. H.D.'s father, Charles Doolittle, Professor of Astronomy and Mathematics at Lehigh University, later director of Flower Observatory at University of Pennsylvania, directed his attention to nightly observations of the stars and to daytime mathematical calculations to elicit the meaning of his observations. To Hilda, the astronomical markings were mysterious, cryptic signs, coded keys to heavenly constellations. The "signs" her father wrote upon paper were not to be touched and his concentration was not to be disturbed. In HERmione, the autobiographical roman clef of her late adolescence,(10) H.D. represents the father as biologist, but the home atmosphere is true memory. As the father spends evenings working under a concentrated "cone of light," the mother sits effaced in the dark, hands busy with knitting, an occupation she could manage while sitting in shadow.

H.D. reveals in Tribute to Freud the kind of fear concomitant with the child's powerlessness in the presence of such men, to be caught between the double lenses of "my father's telescope, my grandfather's microscope. If I let go (I, this one drop, this one ego under the microscope-telescope of Sigmund Freud) I fear to be dissolved utterly."(11) Her psychic solution is to reverse and internalize the scrutiny. In her art she becomes herself receiver and refractor of images/signs to be inscribed into words. What is more, she lifts Helen-her self-identity, and her mother's first name--out of the shadows, into the brightly lit concentration of the lens, and magnifies her. The early poem "Helen" is charged with the dynamics of a cinematic held shot; the epic late poem Helen in Egypt includes dream and memory in the struggle for transformation, and takes us into rhythms of a motion picture that may be replayed.(12) The autobiographical novel HERmione, by style and content, offers insight into H.D.'s internal perceptions at the crucial chrysalis period when she determined to fuse her identity to the vocation of poet-seer. Images break apart from the matrix, thoughts are juxtaposed in counterpoint with outer stimuli. The brain, desperately trying to link up the welter of impressions, gives way to a period of illness, an incubation that helps her emerge to a fuller sense of herself. In the first section, Hermione's mind is pictured as "a patchwork of indefinable assocation" (p. 24), as "breaking up like molecules in test tubes" (p. 31). We follow her eyes and her thoughts. "Staring with her inner vision" she focuses on an object, hoping for a yield of meaning: Her eyes peered up into the branches. The tulip tree made thick pad, separate leaves were outstanding, separate leaf-discs, in shadow. Her Gart [H.D.] peered far, adjusting so to speak, some psychic lens, to follow that bird. She lost the bird, tried to focus one leaf to hold her on to all leaves; she tried to concentrate on one frayed disc of green, pool or mirror that would refract image. She was nothing. She must have an image no matter how fluid, how inchoate. (pp. 4-5) (Italics mine). Her observation is biologist-exact: Minnie was zinnia-colour, no colour of wild lilies. A zinnia was a flat vegetable sponge, sucking up sun, never giving out sun. Those lilies were the sun-self, spotted she knew like the wings of beetles. Bettle-lilies. (p. 23) We see a sudden close-up: A face would loom at her, freckles magnified across a drawn pale countenance. (p. 14). Fusing astronomical to biological image, she is obsessed by a compelling need to see and hold on to whatever vision her mind presents: ...trying not to obliterate the memory of an eclipse of the sun by a huge bee (under a magnifying glass). (p. 14) The bee image wings her on to new vision projected within her mind, and she is rewarded:

Translucence of beewing veiled the terror of protoplasmic function. (p. 14). Here, the poet's mind has triumphed by the marvel of superimposition. Coping with a mosaic bombardment upon the senses, it is the mind which relates one part of the jumble to another. Although HERmione re-enacts events of 1907-1910, H.D. wrote the book twenty years later, at a time of enthusiastic involvement with the art of cinema. In the following excerpt, we are given a narrator's voice from the later time: (The word "conscience" confuses in this context, perhaps meaning something like "consciousness"). Precinematographic conscience didn't help Her. Later conscience would have. She would later have seen form superimposed on thought and thought making its spirals in a manner not wholly related to matter but pertaining to it and the peony petals magnified out of proportion and the people in the room shrunk to tiny insects while the teacups again would have magnified into hemispheres. (p. 60). It is a characteristic of film form that inanimate objects take on the force of living beings, while human figures can appear as pure image or hieroglyph. The "onlooker's" voice inserted into the narrative documents H.D.'s attitude toward her discovery of the art of film and its tremendous importance to her as a key to handling her perceptions. HERmione enacts inner dynamics of H.D.'s mind in the year she felt stifled by the paucity of her options and her drastic failure to graduate from Bryn Mawr. The reader experiences tinkle and chatter of tea parties, provincial conversations, Hermione's automatic verbal responses using a trained part of her brain. For a brief period, she lets herself become engaged to George Lowndes (Ezra Pound), but he does not really see her. "You are so damned decorative," he comments as she sits by a fire. The Pound character affects her far less deeply than the young woman who becomes her intimate friend, Fayne Rabb (Frances Gregg). Their use of words is intense, each trying to "get through" the other: Words with Fayne ... became projections of things beyond one ... prophetess faced prophetess ... two teacups making delphic pattern on a worn carpet ... and people and things all becoming like people, things seen through an opera glass ... and it was Hermione's entrancing new game to turn a little screw, a little handle somewhere (like Carl Gart with his microscope) and bring into focus those two eyes that were her new possession ... You put things, people under, so to speak, the lenses of the eyes of Fayne Rabb and people, things come right in geometric contour. (p. 146) Yet Hermione does not really see her friends whole--Fayne is thought of as a pair of eyes, white hands, a snatch of conversation. George Lowndes is seen in parts--she rather dislikes his red Harlequin mouth. Somehow, Hermione/Hilda searches for focus, a lens by which she may see things and people "come right." The influence of Ezra Pound upon H.D.'s formulation of herself as a poet and as Imagist has generally been assumed as axiom; he could not, however, have been indifferent to her unique sytle of seeing/phrasing. It is clear from HERmione that the young Hilda who attracted him was gifted with a powerfully active mind open to fascinating details of their shared universe. It was never easy for H.D. to extract her sense of self independent of a male figure she feared might reduce or magnify parts of her personality. Looking at her father, Hermione thinks, "Gart is too

terribly in me ... Screw of light that had always been there, burning incandescent in the room" (p. 80). She resents the dissective defining paths of science, associated with the male figures: "I am tired of things that make molecule pattern and pattern like planets rotating round the sun and planets making just so much of a slight variation in their so set circle" (p. 110). But with Fayne, her self-image is transformed: She felt like a star invisible in daylight. When she said Fayne a white hand took Her. Her was held like a star invisible in daylight that suddenly by some shift adjustment of phosphorescent values comes quite clear. Her saw Her as a star shining white against winter daylight. (p. 225) The image is repeated three times on one page. H.D.'s scientist father sees stars through his telescope only at night, powerless to see his daughter's shining. Something very beautiful happens toward the resolution of HERmione, a moment where she lets go of her furious drive to fixate impression after impression. In pure moving language, she takes the reader into a discovered vision: A moment and an infinitesimal fraction of a moment and dawn slides into morning like starlight into water. There is a quivering, a slightest infinitesimal shivering. The thing that was is not. (p. 212) Timelessness has been made visible. Her consciousness has escaped the clamp of the double lens. Nature itself offers visual enactment of the mind's marvelous ability to superimpose, dissolve image into another. This magical moment of quiet epiphany carries cinematic richness. She does not have to re-screw the psychic lens but simply see, absorb, become. In nature, such moments must be given; art must strive to construct the moment that becomes another. Hermione believes the aim of science is to sort out, catalogue details. But "art was what science wasn't. Art was the discriminating and selecting and bringing odd distorted images into right perspective" (p. 139). For a while, she breaks down with the effort of forcing herself to refract bits and pieces of the jumble until final resolution, symbolized by an unbroken landscape of snow. "Her feet were pencils tracing a path ... across a space of immaculate clarity, leaving her wavering hieroglyph as upon white parchment" (pp. 223-224). Again, nature helps her to signify. As in the repeated motif of Helen in Egypt, "She herself is the writing." Because HERmione is neither diary of its events nor a frank memoir, the portrayal of the young woman's mind is necessarily overlaid by the outlook of the narrator of twenty years later. The cited reference to "precinematographic conscience" clearly marks the older voice. During the late 1920's, H.D. played an active role as one of a group of enthusiastic cineastes centered in Territet, Switzerland where her close friends Kenneth Macpherson and Bryher (then married) edited the avant-garde film magazine Close Up. Macpherson cast his friends in his experimental films Wing Beat and the ambitious Borderline which starred Paul Robeson and featured H.D. in a leading dramatic part. From 1927 to 1930, H.D. published in Close Up eleven film reviews (of films now classic such as G. W. Pabst's Joyless Street, Carl Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc, The Student of Prague with Conrad Veidt) and two poems titled "Projector." An essay on Borderline (39 pages) was published as a separate pamphlet. In a questionnaire interview published May 1929, H.D. tells of her delight in filmmaking. "The work has been enchanting, never anything such fun and I myself have learned to use the small projector and spend literally hours alone here in my apartment, making the mountains and

village streets and my own acquaintances reel past me in light and light and light ... I feel like a cat playing with webs and webs of silver."(13) Through film art, H.D. experienced another moment of epiphany. She tells of this in her appreciation of Garbo in Joyless Street,(14) and weaves the key incident into Bid Me To Live, the roman clef of her life during World War I. In the novel, she responds to a "silver goddess," image of pure abstraction--beauty. Of Garbo, she says, "'Chance' led me one day to worship." She writes of "Greta Garbo ... trailing with frail, very young feet [compare Hermione in the snow] through perhaps the most astonishingly lovely film I have ever seen, 'Joyless Street.'" The shimmering image of the woman becomes, in some way, clear to the psychic lens of herself. "Greta Garbo, as I first saw her, gave me a clue, a new angle, and a new sense of elation." The inner vision she saw and put into words in her early poem "Helen," shining with "the lustre of olives ... and the white hands," now fills the screen and gazes back to her. Helen is pure light, but made visible, no longer invisible as the star by day. This was, for H.D., "my first real revelation of the real art of the cinema." H.D. writes about cinema almost as an evangelist: "A perfect medium has at last been granted us. Let us be worthy of it. ... Light is our friend and our god." The two poems titled "Projector"(15) address light drawn through the projector's lens as pure divine beneficent essence: light reasserts his power reclaims the lost; in a new blaze of splendour calls the host to reassemble and to readjust all severings and differings of thought, all strife and strident bickering and rest; O fair and blest, he strides forth young and pitiful and strong. ... light who is god and song. (Collected Poems, pp. 349-350) The hypnotic attraction of cinema has so thoroughly permeated the expectations of our presnt day percept that we forget the art is barely a half century old. H.D. is ecstatic with the wonder of her own responses. "Projector" concludes: worn dusty feet sink in soft drift of pine needles and anodyne

of balm and fir and myrtle-trees and cones drift across weary brows and the sea-foam marks the sea-path where no sea ever comes; islands arise where never islands were, crowned with the sacred palm or odorous cedar; waves sparkle and delight the weary eyes that never saw the sun fall in the sea nor the bright Pleiads rise. (Collected Poems, p. 352) Halfway through the poem titled "Projector II," persona voice changes to that of the god himself addressing the "neophyte": You are myself being free ... Your souls upon the screen live lives that might have been, live lives that ever are; ... we raise a living thing we draw it to the screen of light on light on light; ... the moment makes you great, evoe makes you taste pure ecstasy; the snake crawls from his leafy nest, so you, you to my breast I call your spirit here, I light you like a star, I hail you as a child, I claim you as a lover. (Collected Poems, pp. 357-359) By its magic the projector functions as god and as parent and as lover. Her soul, her spirit transforms from image to image to different place, different time: "tomorrow/you are other." In her laudatory discussion of Macpherson's film Borderline, H.D. writes, "Art and life ... drama and music ... epic song and lyric rhythm, dance and the matter of science here again [italics mine] take hands, twine in sisterly embrace before their one God, here electrically

incarnated, LIGHT."(16) To call forth this god-miracle, H.D. knew, required a hard-working alliance of creative genius with machine. She shows Kenneth Macpherson as a young auteur director. Besides holding the "renowned" Debrie camera and directing an "elaborate series" of lights, "he writes a script which he meticulously illustrates with a series of some 1,000 pen sketches." She counts 910 "captions" or descriptions of each carefully composed shot. Her account recalls two other men; Macpherson's painstaking intensity seems equal to the precise, tireless concentrations of the microscopist Rev. Francis Wolle and the astronomer, Professor Charles Doolittle. There is another correlation among the three occupations. Most impressive to H.D.--and the capitalization for emphasis is her own--is that Macpherson directs from behind the camera, "facing his models, not eye to eye, as is the case of the usual director but THROUGH THE LENSE [sic]." The visual portrayal finally put before us has been discovered through the lens, not by the naked eye. The cinema shot is a representation of his skill and assiduous attention, no less than a drawing of a microorganism or the radiant pattern of a star. But the filmmaker's drive is "creative impulse" (again, emphasis is H.D.'s). "The cinema-camera is a renaissance miracle or a Greek incarnation, it is monster compound ... of steel and fibre and final miracle, that delicate crystal lense" (p. 14). Through this miracle machine, the inner eye could portray the actualities of mindwork. This, for H.D., is the culmination--"film is the art of dream portrayal"--the shimmer of significance, the "something beyond something" she sought to receive and project into words. The child Hilda in The Gift discovers the process of her thought: "you saw what was there, you knew that something was reminded of something. That something remembered something" (p. 72). Hermione resolves that her vocation will be to "put things into visible language." Dream-image is a thing no less real than a star invisible by day or an unsuspected swirl of micro-botanic life. In H.D.'s work with Sigmund Freud, dreams and memories were examined as things, her associations accorded the status of realities. The mind ignores linear measure, slides time forward, backward. Thoughts rise or fall in spirals of recognition. The grammar of cinema operates only in the present tense. Past becomes the scene we see now as flashback. Memory becomes the field, the person, the room, we are visually absorbing now. H.D. was excited and challenged by the Soviet film Turksib (1929), a masterwork of its era on the unlikely subject of building a railway between Turkestan and Siberia. Her review in Close Up describes "the making of an engine, perfect in nuance of super-imposition, drawing-board traceries, abstraction of T-square and ruler and numerical statistics."(17) Again, she experiences a moment of epiphany: "'Thought,' one wanted to shout aloud, 'is here for the first time adequately projected.' ... These are not images made artificially but thought itself, seen for the first time, in actual progression." Helen in Egypt meets the challenge of representing in poetry the mind's work as it views, absorbs, reacts and causes in turn further action, question, conclusion by reliving of memories, dreams, waking dreams. To achieve her art, she concentrates light through the lens of her inner vision, frame by frame. In the book's structure of prose introductions to each poetic sequence, we hear the interpretive part of the mind, the onlooker examining the shifts in focus presented by the lens of the persona's consciousness, the poetic stanzas. The book's imagery is predominantly visual; at times, the sun's fire is drawn as by a lens: "the blazing focus/of the sun-blade, the ember" (p. 205). H.D. never forgot the childhood incident relived in Tribute to Freud of her brother igniting fire by focussing sun rays through a magnifying glass. There is danger in drawing the rays of meaning or prophecy to convergence through the lens of oneself, but our fiery sun is itself a manifestation of "something beyond something." In a poem

published 1937, she claims the courage of her vision: "I saw/that Star by day ... I shot past heaven's centrifugal heaven/to find/the ultimate Sun that makes our own sun blind."(18) In her poetic process, H.D. fuses her creative visionary drive with the unflinching examinative view of her scientist father and grandfather. During the time she was "involved with pictures," she moved eagerly into widening realizations of her artistic strengths. From Switzerland in 1929, H.D. answered the question, "What is your attitude toward art today?" She said, "There has never, I am certain, been a more vibrant, a more exciting era for the pure artist, to anyone who wants to make something ... out of Chaos."(19) Writers of that era applying stream of consciousness technique to enact the mind's rapid intake of chaotic awareness may have prefigured leaps of thought in science. A new discipline of physics declares its very name Chaos as it aims to chart patterns that may be predictable in arhythmias of sky, earth and human heartbeat.(20) Hilda Doolittle's exquisite vision of time engraving new symbols on visible markings of the past superimposes luminous as film upon present scientific thought into patterns of our future. "I fear," she wrote, "the being caught in any one set formula or set of circumstances." By restlessly sharpening her self as visionary instrument, she prophecies healing of rifts between science and art.

Notes and References

1. Francis Wolle, A Moravian Heritage (Boulder, Colorado: Empire Reproduction and Printing Co., 1972). 2. Wolle, p. 21. 3. H.D., The Gift (New York: New Directions, 1982), p. 11. 4. Wolle, p. 26. 5. Rev. Francis Wolle, Desmids of the United States, 1884; Fresh-water Algae of the United States, 1887; Diatomaceae of North America, 1890. 6. As quoted in A Moravian Heritage (1884 volume), p. 24; probably from a revised edition, as this quotation does not appear in the edition listed above. 7. H.D., Trilogy (New York: New Directions, 1973), p. 15. 8. Edition quoted is the original published London: Constable and Ltd., 1916; the entire contents of Sea Garden are included in H.D., Collected Poems 1912-1944 (New York: New Directions, 1983). 9. Introduction to Diatomaceae. 10. H.D., HERmione (New York: New Directions, 1981), p. 79. 11. H.D., Tribute to Freud (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1974), p. 116.

12. Charlotte Mandel, "Garbo/Helen: The Self-Projection of Beauty by H.D.," Women's Studies, vol. 7, no. 1/2 (1980) 127-35; and "The Redirected Image: Cinematic Dynamics in the Style of H.D.," Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 1 (1983) 36-45. [Note: Links to both articles may be found via the H.D. Home Page.--Ed.] 13. "Confessions-Questionnaire," The Little Review (May 1929); rpt. The Little Review Anthology, ed. Margaret Anderson (New York: Horizon Press, 1970), pp. 364-366. 14. H.D., "The Cinema and the Classics: Beauty," Close Up 1 (July 1927), 22-33. 15. Published in Close Up, July and October 1927; included in Collected Poems 1912-1944. 16. H.D. Borderline: a Pool Film with Paul Robeson (London: Mercury Press, 1930), p. 31. 17. H.D., "Turksib," Close Up 5 (Dec. 1929) 488-492. 18. In Life and Letters Today, 1937; included in Collected Poems 1912-1944. 19. "Confessions-Questionnaire," op. cit. 20. James Gleick, "Solving the Mathematical Riddle of Chaos," The New York Times Magazine, June 10, 1984.

The Redirected Image: Cinematic Dynamics in the Style of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
by Charlotte Mandel
Copyright Charlotte Mandel. This article originally appeared in Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 11, no.1 (1983), p.36-45, and is reproduced here with the kind permission of Charlotte Mandel. The poet H.D., Hilda Doolittle, is a major twentieth-century writer whose fame begins and nearly ends in 1913 with publication of marvelous short poems that remain axiom and paradigm for the literary innovation called Imagism. Probably because she was a woman, and a contemporary of strong male literary achievers, her later long-poems, such as the three-volume Trilogy written during World War Two bombings in London, and the epic Helen in Egypt, published just before her death in 1961, are less known. American poetry burst forth in this century with the nonlinear narrative epic where the poet's persona vibrates as hero, juxtaposing elements without regard for chronology or decorum. Ezra Pound's Cantos took on all the history of the world; William Carlos Williams personified the city of Paterson, New Jersey; Hart Crane transformed the soaring construct of the Brooklyn Bridge. H.D. chose to transform the myth of Helen of Troy, to free the image of the beautiful Helen from

burdens of time and history. Film art is especially capable of freeing an image from its past associations. Cinema offers us a clue to the evolution of H.D.'s style. In the late 1920s, H.D.'s life was daily involved with filmmaking and film criticism. She was then living in Territet, Switzerland, where her close friends Kenneth Macpherson and his wife Bryher edited the avant-garde film magazine Close Up, attracting a circle of enthusiastic cineastes. H.D. published a series of film reviews in Close Up and, in 1930, she played a leading role opposite Paul Robeson in Borderline, a full-length experimental film made by Macpherson. (1) H.D.'s essays on cinema prove her knowledge of film editing to be technically sophisticated, accurate and visionary--designations which apply to her poetic art. A note of clarification: it is not the purpose here to assert that H.D. deliberately incorporated cinematic techniques into her language. This analysis discovers word tension and action that is controlled by analogous techniques. It is likely that H.D. was drawn to the efficiency with which cinema can visually portray the influence of conscious and unconscious memory upon present experience. The sense of pastpresent-future as continuum informs her perceptions throughout her work. It may seem paradoxical that the poet praised for hard crystal imagery used these images to create poems that might dissolve the boundaries of time, that might evoke mystical or mythic realities. Cinematic illusion depends entirely on paradox--offering artistic advantage by manipulating successions of fixed frames. It is worthwhile to read Helen in Egypt at one sitting, to experience its dynamics in the space of a few hours, approaching the work passively, as though in a cinema, allowing the changings of images, voices and sounds to move us as they will. Cinematic parallels exist in the book's structure, scenario set-up of language, and in poetic techniques which correspond to film editing practice. The structure of the book is organized into sequences of three-line stanzas, each verse sequence preceded by a statement in prose, differentiated by italics. At first, the prose appears to be an argument or introduction, but close attention shows the alternations of prose and verse to be integral to the poem's structure. The prose acts as another voice, one which continually intercedes as counterpoint to the highly subjective, emotional, inner points of view in the poetic lines. In a recording of H.D. herself reading aloud a passage from Helen in Egypt, the change in voice can be heard, clearly differentiated by the poet's tones.(2) This structure suggests a cinematic parallel. While watching a film, we experience dual levels of consciousness--the view dictated by the camera lens interacts with our conscious awareness of the self as onlooker. No matter how powerfully, even hypnotically, the film may play upon our imaginations, a certain conscious intellect stays active. At every moment, we know we are sitting in a theatre and not riding an Arab stallion across the desert or reading a hieroglyph on the stone wall of an Egyptian tomb. That conscious, intellectual point of view continually reacts, insists on interpreting, analyzing, drawing conclusions or demanding answers to the succession of images that may not show a logical progression. H.D. verbalizes that part of the mind in her own film essays. Her review of The Student of Prague (with Conrad Veidt) begins:

A small room, a stuffy atmosphere; a provincial Swiss lakeside cinema....There's something wrong and I have seen those horses making that idiotic turn on the short grass at least eight times. What is it? I won't stay any longer....O that's what the little man is after.(3) H.D. as film-reviewer does not tell us about the film; instead, she places us within her own perception, so that we re-enact her experiences as she perceives them and simultaneously perceive her thoughts as she watches those images. In Helen in Egypt, the counterpoint is consistent--the prose intellectual consciousness interacting throughout with verse stanzas that place us within the perceptions of the characters. H.D. makes this clear in a prose statement early in the book (p. 13): "She [Helen] knows the script, she says, but we judge that this is inuitive or emotional knowledge rather than intellectual." The words "we judge" are significant--it is the intellect which judges. "We" are the audience-persona watching Helen. The intuitive part of the mind acts on another level. Immediately following the above prose heading, we enter Helen's memory in verse which presents a visual scene: We huddled over the fire, was there ever such a brazier? a night bird hooted past, The prose-verse alternation device parallels experience in the cinema; the watchful, thinking mind of an "audience" operates along with unconscious dreams, memories and fantasies of the characters. At times, also, the prose assumes a directorial voice, as "So at last we see, with the eyes of Achilles, Helen upon the Walls" (p. 49). The verse stanzas frequently set up an active scenario. H.D. uses catalogues of short noun phrases which function like lists of camera shots. The following excerpt begins with the words "everlasting memory" or pictures in the mind as taken by a movie camera: ...everlasting memory, the glory and the beauty of the ships the wave that bore them onward and the shock of hidden shoal, the peril of the rocks, the weary fall of sail, the rope drawn taught the breathing and breath-taking climb and fall, mountain and valley challenging, the coast drawn near, drawn far

the helmsman's bitter oath to see the goal receding in the night? (fadeout). In Helen in Egypt, H.D. uses at least seven poetic techniques which correspond to film editing practice. As in a good film, successful elements overlap and reinforce one another. The techniques analyzed here include the use of prosody (line length, punctuation and stanza form) that controls the speed and quantity of action; close intense view of visual detail (close up); emblem signification through dissociation of context; montage (juxtaposition and controlled rhythm of changes), a special poetic practice of H.D.'s which I have termed "word-dissolve"; treatment of time and space as segments to be altered at will; the moving camera eye. The following entire sequence, given "with the eyes of Achilles," demonstrates the first four listed above: I only remember the turn of a Greek wrist, knotting a scarf; I only remember the sway of a ship's mast that measured the stars; I only remember a struggle to free my feet from a tangle of cords and a leap in the dark; I only remember the shells, whiter than bone on the ledge of a desolate beach; I only remember a broken strap that had lost Achilles the rule of the world and Greece; I only remember how I had questioned Command; for this weakness, this wavering, I was shot like an underling, like the least servant,

following the last luggage carts and the burdened beasts. (pp. 59-60) The book's entire verse structure consists of sequences in the same pattern as this example, and may be compared to a series of cinematic sequences. Length of sequence varies from two to nineteen stanzas, thus altering the rhythm of "scenes" in keeping with balance and emphasis desired. The stanza pattern of three short lines operates as the fixed frame. The illusion of continuum between frames is achieved by the pattern of punctuation. The first word of each sequence is capitalized, as the opening of a sentence. No matter how varied the number of stanzas, stops are temporary, accomplished by commas, semi-colons, question marks, a few dashes, until a period rests the final word. Always the rhythm seems to follow in logical motion to a concluding stop. No capitalization interrupts the one-sentence feeling during the six to fiftysix lines in any section (or sequence, or scene). The prosodic pattern controls the speed and action of the work as film editing controls the rhythms of a film when connecting sequences into a complete work. H.D. focuses on visual detail throughout. In this passage, there are close-ups of "the turn of a Greek wrist knotting a scarf," the feet in "a tangle of cords," "the shells whiter than bone," "a broken strap." The close-ups are parts of a montage--images of persons, places, objects juxtaposed without chronological explanation. A visual image dissociated from context may work as significant emblem or interact with images juxtaposed. In the passage above, the details elicit symbolic associations. The opening lines present images of Helen's hand knotting a scarf, sway of a mast, and stars--images that connect as symbols of Achilles' destined fate. His fate entangles him further (his feet tangled in cords); he must leap in the dark (blindly) in a futile attempt at escape; the shells are funereal (whiter than bone, the beach "desolate"); the sandal strap is broken (implement of his vulnerability); the inevitable downfall is symbolized by a beast tied (with cords or straps) to a burden. No matter what reasons Achilles may state for his downfall, the succession of images clicks off his true destiny, a fate controlled by greater powers. The control seems to move by the hand of a woman, or perhaps, a goddess figure. This Greek wrist is not simply part of a woman's body, nor the scarf a casual item of clothing. As in a film the mind of the reader/viewer collaborates with the poet to invest dissociated images with meanings beyond the individual shots. The effect on montage depends on rhythm--the length of time a shot is allowed to remain on screen. Lengthening the time increases its importance as an event, while shortening the time may speed up the sense of excitement. In the same sequence, the refrain "I only remember" works as a device that regulates the length of time a picture is held. The visual placement of the refrain may be diagrammed:
I only remember...... ..................... ..................... I only remember ..................... ..................... I only remember

............... ..................... ............... I only remember ..................... ..................... I only remember ............... ............... ..................... I only remember ..................... ....................... ...................... ............... ...................... .....................

During the first three stanzas, the pace is fairly even, the refrain placed on the first line. In the fourth stanza, the refrain is held back and does not appear until the second line. The additional line has functioned to lengthen the time of Achilles' struggle to unbind his feet. The fifth stanza continues the original pace, keeping the refrain steady, but slows again in the sixth stanza, reflecting Achilles' growing awareness of defeat as it drops to the third line. The final two stanzas lose the refrain entirely as the picture stays with the realized images of defeat. Another corresponding cinematic technique is H.D.'s use of superimposition, or dissolve. There are only four similes in Helen in Egypt, and in this respect, the passage under discussion is atypical, containing two. H.D. is admired for the dynamic compression of her poems. Blendings of organic-inorganic elements and fusion of boundaries are basic to her poetic practice. H.D. logically incorporates the cinematic dissolve into her poetry. A most beautiful example appears in Helen in Egypt (p. 271): the circle of god-like beasts, familiars of Egypt; would they turn and rend each other, or form a frieze, the Zodiac hieroglyph, on a temple wall? The circle of beasts is transformed into a carved frieze. H.D. believed in the transforming power of words. In a sequence from her long-poem Trilogy, the process is made visual and concrete (p. 71):

Now polish the crucible and in the bowl distill a word most bitter, marah, a word bitterer still, mar, sea, brine, breaker, seducer, giver of life, giver of tears; Now polish the crucible and set the jet of flame under, till marah-mar are melted, fuse and join and change and alter, mer, mere, mere, mater, Maia, Mary, Star of the Sea, Mother. This technique of word-dissolve occurs with less frequency in Helen in Egypt but carries the same urgent insistence: War, Ares, Achilles, Amor; (p. 179) Isis, yes Cypris, the cypress, (p. 191) Dis, Hades, Achilles. (p. 199) Word-images of love and death have been superimposed. As in film editing, Helen in Egypt alters time sense by rearranging images so that they operate as flashback or flash-forward. In the following excerpt, Helen tells herself: I only remember the shells, whiter than bone, on the ledge of a desolate beach... These two lines on page 224 flash an image we've "seen" as part of Achilles' memory on page 59. Helen sees the image again on page 235, in a longer "held shot," a complete stanza. The psychologist Munsterberg defined the flashback as "an objectification" of memory.(4) The "shot" of white shells is repeated to objectify a memory within Helen's awareness. Time in cinema is always present. In the following excerpt, H.D. presents a visual image of time as an object changing shape, size, even apparent weight (p. 200): Time in its moon-shape here, time with its widening star-circles, time small as a pebble,

Memories are used as re-workable objects (pp. 288-89): but what followed before, what after? ... the million personal things, things remembered, forgotten, remembered again, assembled and re-assembled in different order The memory process described here parallels the editing process of a filmmaker who cuts and reasembles camera shots as visual objectifications of time. The seventh technique parallel corresponds to the use of a moving camera, a device associated with the work of G.W. Pabst, a director H.D. admired for his film Joyless Street.(5) The camera moves into the scene in the following excerpt from Helen in Egypt (pp. 57-58): (Stanza separations have been disregarded.) only the sound of the rowlocks as the old man ferried me out; he made for a strange ship that he called a caravel ... this had a mast; swaying across the night, I counted...the familiar stars, the Bear and Orion's belt, the Dragon, the glittering Chair; the mast measured them out, picture by picture, the outline of hero and beast grew clearer and clearer; The experience for the reader is a camera view moving in or along the boat at the same speed as Achilles, travelling the path of his vision. H.D. transforms the Troy myth into a creation in which the players may be ourselves, still "moving as one in a dream" as does Helen. Like cinema, the images are seen or heard in juxtapositions which elicit our own powers to dynamize meaning. As in cinema, the poem displays moments of memory or fantasy as objective present images. Theseus, the god-father of Helen in Helen in Egypt, tracing the knots of labyrinthine thread "another and another and another" recalls H.D.'s psychoanalytic experience with Sigmund Freud. In her memoir of her time with him, Tribute to Freud, she writes, "The years went forward, then backward. The shuttle of the years ran a thread that wove my pattern into the Professor's....It was a present that was in the past or a past that was in the future.(6) The impact of film upon modern perception has been compared to the processes of Freudian theory by Walter Benjamin who

points out that Freud's work "isolated and made analyzable things which had heretofore floated along unnoticed in the broad stream of perception."(7) H.D. perceived thought as a flow of successive images: "Thought is never static. It creeps, it seeps, it crawls in just where you don't expect it."(8) Helen in Egypt is the work by H.D. which most fully realizes the poetic representation of a mind viewing, absorbing, reacting and causing, in turn, further action, questioning or concluding by reliving parts of remembered experience or projected fantasy experience. Film art was peculiarly adapted to H.D.'s mode of perception. She thought pictorially. She looked for meaning in images--an object, person, landscape or mythical figure might be seen as hieroglyph, a form of picture-writing to be deciphered. Beyond the surface view understood by the intellectual mind, there existed "another side" to everything that mattered, "something beyond something." H.D. wrote to find changing manifestations of a central core. The penultimate sequence in Helen in Egypt tell us: the seasons revolve around a pause in the infinite rhythm of the heart and of heaven. But the long-poem does not end there--an epilogue follows, the small "Eidolon" that vibrates in the reader's consciousness, an image of ceaseless sound and movement: ...the sea, its beat and long reverberation, its booming and delicate echo... H.D. offers a poem that may, like cinema, be remembered, re-pictured, re-played. NOTES 1. The eleven articles by H.D. in Close Up include reviews of G.W. Pabst's Joyless Street, Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings, Conrad Veidt in The Student of Prague, the Russian films Expiation and Turksib, and a three-part essay on "Cinema and the Classics." 2. H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), "Opening Verses of Helen in Egypt," The Spoken Arts Treasury of 100 Modern American Poets, ed. Paul Kresh, Vol. III, SA 1042, n.d. 3. H.D., "Conrad Veidt," Close Up, 1 (Sept. 1927), 34-35. 4. Hugo Munsterberg, The Film: A Psychological Study, with a new foreword by Richard Griffith (1916; rpt. Berkeley, Cal.: Univ. of California Press, 1971), p. 81. 5. H.D., "An Appreciation," Close Up, 4 (March 1929), 56-68. 6. H.D., Tribute to Freud (McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1974), p. 9.

7. Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936)," in Illuminations (New York: Harcourt Brace and World, Inc., 1968), p. 237. 8. H.D., "Turksib," Close Up, 5 (Dec. 1929), 490. Bibliography by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Essays on cinema and film reviews: "An Appreciation." Close Up, 4 (March 1929), 56-68. "Boo (Sirocco and the Screen)." Close Up, 2 (Jan. 1928), 38-50. Borderline: A Pool Film with Paul Robeson, London: Mercury Press, 1930. "Conrad Veidt." Close Up, 1 (Sept. 1927), 34-44. "Expiation." Close Up, 2 (May 1928), 38-49. "Joan of Arc." Close Up, 3 (July 1928), 15-16, 17-23. "Russian Films." Close Up, 3 (Sept. 1928), 18-29. "The Cinema and the Classics: Beauty." Close Up, 1 (July 1927), 22-23. "The Cinema and the Classics: Restraint." Close Up, 1 (Aug. 1927), 30-39. "The Cinema and the Classics: The Mask and the Movietone." Close Up, 1 (Nov. 1927), 18-31. "The King of Kings Again." Close Up, 2 (Feb. 1928), 21-32. "Turksib." Close Up, 5 (Dec. 1929), 488-92. Memoir: Tribute to Freud: Writing on the Wall; Advent. Foreword by Norman Holmes Pearson. New York: McGraw Hill Book Co., Incl, 1975. Poetry: Helen in Egypt. New York: New Directions, 1961. Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall; Tribute to the Angels; The Flowering of the Rod. 1944, 1945, 1946; rpt. New York: New Directions, 1973. Recording:

"Opening verses of Helen in Egypt." The Spoken Arts Treasury of 100 Modern American Poets. Ed. by Paul Kresh. Vol. III, No. SA 1042, n.d.

Louis Silverstein's H.D. Chronology: Introduction

As Louis Silverstein wrote in Planting the Seeds: Selections from the H.D. Chronology, "The H.D. Chronology is a "work in progress" being compiled by Louis H. Silverstein with the assistance, contribution, and encouragement of numerous H.D. scholars. Additional comments, corrections, and contributions will be greatly appreciated." Louis published selections from the Chronology during his lifetime, and through the kind permission of Monty Montee, his working files of the Chronology are now being made available online. Monty Montee sent the files to me in their original Nota Bene format. I converted them to Word for Windows, and then tagged them in very simple HTML for presentation on the Web. I have corrected some typos, but I'm afraid that here and there some formatting has been lost; for example, what may have been in italics in the original is not in italics here. There are also some characters that I believe were diacritics in Nota Bene, but have not translated well; I have left them as is, since I don't know the original name or word. In some instances, I believe the symbol indicating British pounds () has been translated as a question mark, e.g., ?100 rather than 100, but have left them as is, since I don't know this for certain. I would sincerely appreciate any help others can offer in correcting words that should have diacritics, etc. Also, if searching the text of the Chronology (e.g., with your browser's "find"), keep in mind that the same people were mentioned in different ways; e.g., Richard Aldington may be mentioned as "Aldington," "Richard," "R.A.," etc., and often refers to H.D. as "Dooley." I have also tried to keep added notes obvious and at a minimum; anything I have added is indented and indicated as an editorial note. I would like to incorporate others' contributions to the Chronology in a similar manner, so that the document can continue to grow, while preserving Louis' original work. Although I never met Louis in person, I was fortunate to correspond with him and to discuss the possibility of making the Chronology available online. I'm afraid the format isn't as polished as the published versions of the Chronology, but I haven't changed the presentation of the text, and have tried to keep it as close to his original working document as possible, so that my inadvertent errors are kept to a minimum. With gratitude to Monty Montee for his very kind and generous permission to make the Chronology available, H. Hernandez

Part One (1605-1914) Part Two (1915-March 1919)

Part Three (April 1919-1928) Part Four (1929-April 1946) Part Five (May 1946-April 1949) Part Six (May 1949-1986, Misc. Info)

H.D. Chronology: Part I 1605 October 9. Hans Weiss born (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 6). 1620. Abraham Doolittle born; husband of Abigail Moss (H.D. to NHP [unpubl. letter, May 15, 1943]). 1640 February 19. Matthias Weiss born (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 6). 1665. Samuel Doolittle born; husband of Mary Cornwall (H.D. to NHP [unpubl. letter, May 15, 1943]). 1676 May 14. Matthias Weiss born; husband of Salome Weber (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 6). 1689. Jonathan Doolittle born; husband of Rebecca Ranny (H.D. to NHP [unpubl. letter, May 15, 1943]). 1709 February 17. Matthias Weiss born in Muehihausen, Alsace (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 6). 1720. Regina Neumann Weiss born in Langenoels, Silesia; daughter of John Neumann; second wife of Matthias Weiss; grandmother of Elizabeth Caroline Weiss Wolle (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 8). 1729. Samuel Doolittle born; husband of Elizabeth Hubbard (H.D. to NHP [unpubl. letter, May 15, 1943]). 1741 December 24. Bethlehem named by Count Zinzendorf. 1743 May 27. Matthias Weiss marries Margretha Catharina Feurnhaber [his first wife, not the grandmother of Elizabeth Caroline Weiss] at Herrnhaag, Germany (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 7). 1743 August 24. Matthias and Margretha Weiss assemble with other colonists being sent to Pennsylvania at [Note: above line ends "Pennsylvania at" in original file. -- Ed.] 1743 December 6. Matthias and Margretha Weiss arrive in Bethelhem, Pennsylvania (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 7).

1744. Matthias and Margretha Weiss joined thirty-one other married couples in starting the congregation at Nazareth (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 7). 1745 November 6. Peter Wolle born in Schwerzens, Posen (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 5). 1747 March. Matthias and Margretha Weiss return and settle in Berhlehem (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 7). 1752. Samuel Doolittle born; husband of Anne Arnold (H.D. to NHP [unpubl. letter, May 15, 1943]). 1757 April 20. A year after the death of his first wife, Matthias Weiss marries Regina Neumann (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 8). 1758. Johan Friedrich Wolle dies; lived in Posen (Poland); husband of Susanna Schneider; father of Peter Wolle (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 5). 1758 August 17. John George Weiss born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 6). 1761 January 19. Anna Rosina Geyer born at Ottenhayn; wife of Peter Wolle (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 5). 1777 September 21 - October 18. Marquis de Lafayette arrives in Bethlehem for treatment after having been disabled by a wound (hit by a musket ball below the knee, no bone broken) received in the Battle of Brandywine; stays in the George Bewckel House and is nursed by Elizabeth Beckel (Myers, R.E, Sketches of Early Bethlehem, p. l09, 113, 121-3). Incident possibly referred to in ASPHODEL (p. 41). 1782. Willard Doolittle born; husband of Piany Roberts (H.D. to NHP [unpubl. letter, May 15, 1943]). 1783 July 21. Peter Wolle marries Anna Rosina Geyer. 1785 November 20. John Frederick Wolle born at Bethany, St. John (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 5). 1788 October 16. John George Weiss marries Elizabeth Schneider (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 8). 1791. Regina Neumann Weiss dies at Bethlehem (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 8). 1796 February 11. Mary Stables Weiss born in Alexandria, Virginia; mother of Elizabeth Caroline Weiss (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 8).

1796 February 21. Jedidiah Weiss born; father of Elizabeth Caroline Weiss Wolle; became a watchmaker, clockmaker and a silversmith in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on the east side of Main Street, a few doors below the Sun Hotel (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 6, 8). 1809. John Frederick Wolle marries Sabina Henry (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 5). 1812. Peter and Anna Rosina Wolle move to Pennsylvania from the Danish West Indies, where they had served as missionaries (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 5). 1813. Charles Doolittle born; husband of Celia Sanger (H.D. to NHP [unpubl. letter, May 15, 1943]). 1817 - 1867. Jedidiah Weiss is an actively performing member of the Trombone Chior (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 8). *18l7 December 17. Francis Wolle born in Jacobsburg, a little village near Nazareth (H.D.'s maternal grandfather); a Moravian minister; principal of the Young Ladies Seminary [Query: when did it become the Moravian Seminary] in Bethlehem, Pa.; a world specialist in desmids; husband of Elizabeth Caroline Weiss Wolle (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p.6, 21). 1820 November 26. Jedediah Weiss marries Mary Stables (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 8). 1824 (?). John Frederick Wolle and Sabina Henry Wolle move with their family to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 21). 1824 May 27. Elizabeth Caroline Weiss Wolle born (H.D.'s maternal grandmother) (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 6). 1836. Elizabeth Caroline Weiss Wolle graduates from the Young Ladies Seminary (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 23). 1838 July 21. William Howard born [LHS thinks this was husband of Agnes Seidel Howard and father of Clifford Howard] (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). 1839. Francis Wolle becomes a teacher at Nazareth Hall, a boy's school in Nazareth; seven years later he returns to Bethlehem as a teacher of boys in the Moravian Parochial School but resigned six years later (1852) because of ill health (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 21). 1842 May 10. Elizabeth Caroline Weiss marries her first husband, Rev.Henry Augustus Seidel and moves to Hopedale in the Beechwwods, Wayne County, Pennsylvania where he is assigned as a pastor to a small Moravian church (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 21).

l843 May 2. Agnes Angelica Seidel Howard born in Hopedale, Wayne County, Pennsylvania; daughter of Elizabeth Caroline Weiss by her first husband, Henry A. Seidel (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 6, 21). 1843 November 12. Charles Leander Doolittle born (H.D.'s father) : a professor of astronomy at Lehigh University in Bethelehem and later at the University of Pennsylvania. 1844 June 10. Rev. Henry Augustus Seidel dies of typhus fever; Elizabeth Caroline Weiss Seidel returns to Bethlehem, Pennsylvia and teaches at the Moravian Seminary (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 21). 1848. Francis Wolle marries Elizabeth Caroline Weiss Seidel, widow of Henry A. Seidel (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 6). 1849 April 22. Robert Henry Wolle born; son of Francis Wolle and Elizabeth Caroline Weiss Wolle (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 22). 1851 April 30. Francis Wolle records in his personal account book the sum of $15.99 as the cost of making the first model of a paper-bag machine (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 22). 1851 June 22. Laura Rebecca Wolle Jenkins born; daughter of Francis Wolle and Elizabeth Caroline Weiss Wolle (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 22). 1851 August 20. Francis Wolle begins work on making the second model of a paper-bag machine (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 22). 1852. Francis Wolle resigns from teaching at the Moravian Parochial School because of ill health; obtains his first patent on the paper-bag machine; forms, with four close relatives, the Union Paper Bag Machine Company (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 22). 1853. Agnes Angelica Seidel Howard graduates from the Young Ladies Seminary (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 23). *1853 June 6. Helen Eugenia Wolle Doolittle born; daughter of Francis Wolle and Elizabeth Caroline Weiss Wolle (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 22) [Query: did Helen Wolle teach music and painting to the children at the Moravian Seminary? Cf. Friedman. DLB 45:118]. 1855. Francis Wolle obtains another patent on the paper-bag machine (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 22). 1855 January 29. Georgina Weiss Wolle born; daughter of Francis Wolle and Elizabeth Caroline Weiss Wolle (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 10). 1856. Francis Wolle obtains another patent on the paper-bag machine (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 22).

1856 July 30. Georgina Weiss Wolle dies (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 10). 1856 November 11. Frances Elizabeth Wolle born; daughter of Francis Wolle and Elizabeth Caroline Weiss Wolle (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 10). 1857. Francis Wolle obtains another patent on the paper-bag machine; is appointed to the position of Vice-Principal of the Young Ladies Seminary by his brother, Rev. Sylvester Wolle who is Principal (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 22). 1857. Clement King Shorter born (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 248). 1857 October 23. Hartley Cornelius Wolle born; son of Francis Wolle and Elizabeth Caroline Weiss Wolle (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 22). 1860 August 2. Belle Robinson Wolle born; daughter of Edwin True Robinson and Martha Foote Robinson; wife of Hartley C. Wolle; mother of Francis Wolle, Richard Hartley Wolle, and Philip Weiss Wolle (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 2, 7). 1861. The Reverend Francis Wolle succeeds his brother in the principalship of the Moravian Young Ladies Seminary, the oldest "Female College" in America (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 2, 23). 1861 September 16. Francis Wolle is ordained a Deacon of the Moravian Church (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 23). 1862 May 15. John Reeves Ellerman born at 6:20 AM (Ellerman family Bible). 1863. When the Confederate Army had invaded Pennsylvania and was advancing on Gettysburg, Jedidiah Weiss became a leader in organizing the Bethlehem Home Guard (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p.9). 1863. Helen Eugenia Wolle graduates from the Young Ladies Seminary (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 23). 1863 April 4. John Frederick Wolle [J. Fred Wolle] born in the Principal's quarters of the Moravian Seminary for Young Ladies; son of Francis Wolle and Elizabeth Caroline Weiss Wolle (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 22, 40) (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). 1866. Charles Leander Doolittle marries Martha Farrand, his first wife and mother of Eric and Alfred and a daughter who died (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). 1866 September 9. Agnes Angelica Seidel marries William B. Howard; ceremony performed by Rev. Francis Wolle (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 29).

1867 May 30. Francis Wolle is ordained a full Presbyter of the Moravian Church and is henceforth known as Reverend Francis Wolle (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 23). 1867 December 31. Hattie Sterling Case Howard born (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). 1868 October 12. Clifford Howard born (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]) {Note: Francis Wolle in A MORAVIAN HERITAGE (p. 29) gives Clifford Howard's birth date as December 10, l868.}. 1868 November 12. Laura Rebecca Wolle marries Harry C. Jenkins (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 28). 1868 December 8. Norman Douglas born (Macpherson. OMMES EODEM COGIMUR : SOME NOTES WRITTEN FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF NORMAN DOUGLAS ...). 1869. Rev. Francis Wolle installs an organ in the Seminary Chapel and Helen Eugenia Wolle becomes the organist for the daily service (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 40). 1870 July 26. Eric Doolittle born (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]).. Son of Charles Leander Doolittle by his first wife, Martha. (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.] has his birth date as 1869). 1870 November 27. Frances Elizabeth Wolle dies; daughter of Francis Wolle and Elizabeth Caroline Weiss Wolle (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 10). 1872. Mary Stables Weiss dies (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 9). 1873-1875. Charles Leander Doolittle serves on U.S. Boundary Survey (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). 1873. Dorothy Richardson born in Abingdon Berkshire (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. [47]). 1873 April 12. Annie ("Birdie") Jenkins Peiter born; daughter of Laura Rebecca Wolle Jenkins and Harry C. Jenkins; wife of Frederick Peiter (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 28). 1873 September 3. Jedidiah Weiss dies (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 7). 1874. Charles Leander Doolittle receives C.E. from the University of Michigan (Pearson's Biog notes) 1874. Union Paper Bag Machine Company changes its focus and is renamed Union Bag and Paper Company (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 22). 1874 February 9. Any Lowell born (Heymann., AMERICAN ARISTO~CRACY, p. 157).

1875-1895. Charles Leander Doolittle is Professor of Math and Astronomy at Lehigh University (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). 1875 September 3. Jedediah Weiss dies. 1875 September 23. Norman Howard born (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 30). 1876. Francis Wolle publishes article on Desmids in the TORREY BOTANICAL BULLETIN OF NEW YORK (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 24). 1877. Jennie C. Wolle Stryker graduates from the Young Ladies Seminary (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 23). 1877. Francis Wolle publishes article on Desmids in the TORREY BOTANICAL BULLETIN OF NEW YORK (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 24). 1878. Belle Robinson Wolle graduates from the Young Ladies Seminary (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 2, 23). 1878. Francis Wolle publishes article on Desmids in the TORREY BOTANICAL BULLETIN OF NEW YORK (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 24). 1878 December 26. Robert Donald Jenkins born; son of Laura Rebecca Wolle Jenkins and Harry C. Jenkins; husband of Jessie Walzer Jenkins; father of Marion Jenkins, Roberta Jenkins, Elizabeth Jenkins, and Robert Donald Jenkins (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 28). 1880. Francis Wolle publishes article on Desmids in the TORREY BOTANICAL BULLETIN OF NEW YORK (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 24). 1881. Francis and Hartley Wolle build and move into house at 110 Church Street (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 1, 24). 1881 - 1882 (?). Charles Leander Doolittle purchases property and builds a house for his future bride on the east side of 110 Church Street (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 24). 1881 March 6. John Cournos born in Zhitomir, Russia (Cournos, John. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, p. 3). 1881 May 27. Margaret Cravens born (R. Spoo. Introd. to "Erza Pound to Margaret Lanier Cravens" [unpubl. ms.]). 1881 July 19. Francis Wolle retires from the principalship of the Young Ladies Seminary (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 20, 21, 24). 1882. Francis Wolle publishes article on Desmids in the TORREY BOTANICAL BULLETIN OF NEW YORK (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 24).

1882 May 11. Charles Leander Doolittle and Helen Eugenia Wolle married. [LHS note: there is an implication in ASPHODEL (p. that they honeymooned in Europe and went to Paris.] 1882 August 11. Hugh Stanley Jenkins born; son of Laura Rebecca Wolle Jenkins and Harry C. Jenkins; husband of Lillian Johnson Jenkins; father of Hartley Jenkins and Diana Jenkins (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 28). 1883-1887. Eric Doolittle attends Lehigh University; does post-graduate work in astronomy (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). 1883. Francis Wolle publishes article on Desmids in the TORREY BOTANICAL BULLETIN OF NEW YORK (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 24). 1883 March 27. Bethlehem Choral Union (organiized by J. Fred Wolle} gives its first concert (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 40). 1883 April 18. Edith Doolittle born (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). 1883 August. Edith Doolittle died (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). 1884. Francis Wolle publishes article on Desmids in the TORREY BOTANICAL BULLETIN OF NEW YORK; also publishes 450 copies of DESMIDS OF THE UNITED STATES, printed by H.T. Clauder and bound in embossed cloth covers by Anton Hesse, both of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 24, 25). 1884 June 28. J. Fred Wolle sails for a year's study in Germany as a pupil of Joseph Rheinberger in Munich; expenses paid for by Hartley C. Wolle (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 41). 1884 September 2. Frances Gregg born (EP to DP, note, p. 148-149). 1884 October 18. Gilbert Doolittle born. 1885. Francis Wolle publishes article on Desmids in the TORREY BOTANICAL BULLETIN OF NEW YORK (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 24). 1885 September 11. David Herbert Lawrence born in Nottingham. 1885 October 30. Ezra Loomis Pound born about 2:00 P.M.in Hailey, Idaho, to Homer Loomis Pound and Isabel Weston Pound. 1886. Francis Wolle publishes article on Desmids in the TORREY BOTANICAL BULLETIN OF NEW YORK (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 24).

1886 July 27. J. Fred Wolle marries Jennie Stryker of Hackettstown, N.J. (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 41 [note: Wolle also, on p. 26, gives 1887 as the year of this marriage]). 1886 September 10. Birth of Hilda Doolittle to Helen Wolle Doolittle and Charles Leander Doolittle on Church Street in Bethlehem, Pa. 1887. Francis Wolle publishes FRESH-WATER ALGAE OF THE UNITED STATES in two volumes (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 25, 26). 1887 March 14. Sylvia (Nancy Woodbrige) Beach born in Baltimore Maryland (Fitch, SYLVIA BEACH AND THE LOST GENERATION, p. 21). 1887 June 28. Hartley Cornelius Wolle marries Belle Robinson (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 2, 25). 1887 Septembber 7. Edith Sitwell born (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]); confirmed in Glendining) 1887 October 24. Harold Doolittle born. 1887 December 18. Dr. Elizabeth Ashby born (Dobson. Notes [unpul.], p. 405). 1889 February 22. Francis Wolle born at 110 Church St., Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; son of Hartley C. Wolle and Belle Robinson Wolle (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 11). 1889 July 10. Work begins on the construction of a house for J. Fred Wolle, four doors east of the Doolittles on Church Street (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 26, 41). 1890. Francis Wolle publishes DIATOMACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 26). 1890 September 10. Louisa Ash born (H.D's charwoman) (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). 1891-1892. Eric Doolittle is an instructor of Astronomy at Lehigh University (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). 1891 (?). H.D. attends kindergarten in the home of Miss Louise Mullens [i.e. MacMullen], two blocks from Church Street (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 15). H.D. refers to this in a letter to Norman Holmes Pearson (18 Dec 1948) where she recalls the kindergarten run by the MacMullen's and thinks that she and William Rose Bent were both enrolled there and went on to the parochial school [Moravian Parochial School] where she remembers a little boy named Bill mocking her for wearing one of Gilbert's sailor hats [LHS note: Laura Bent mentions Ida MacMullen and her first-rate kindergarten on Market Street in her memoir WHEN WILLIAM ROSE, STEPHEN VINCENT AND I WERE YOUNG (New York, Dodd, Mead, cl976) (p. 42);

Laura Bent also mentions the seven children of Edward H. Williams, a professor at Lehigh University, who lived on Church Street (p. 52); Francis Wolle mentions the two oldest Williams girls, Olive and Cornelia, who became intimate friends of H.D. (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 15)]; in the same letter to Pearson, H.D. also recalls a May-Day party at the Williams and also being in the Delsarte (?) and says "I was the tail of the class and was only let in because my best friend insisted. I was no good at dumb-bells, but I think I was only 6"; she also remembers being taken by Charles Leander Doolittle to see a room full of stuffed birds at Lehigh University and comments that she never knew where her father had "lived over the other side" during his first marriage. 1891 April 12. Philip Weiss Wolle born; son of Hartley C. Wolle and Belle Robinson Wolle (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 113). 1891 April 15. Agnes Seidel Howard and William Howard move from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to Washington, D.C., to live with their sons (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 12). 1892/93/94 (?). H.D. in first and second grade, Moravian Parochial School--was taught by "Miss Helen," later the mother of Anne Catherine Krause who wrote of this to Virginia L. Gillispie, Jan 24. 1963 (Krause letter enclosed in letter from Virginia L. Gillispie to Norman Holmes Pearson. Pearson. Misc. files [unpubl.]). In discussing links with Mary Herr who had attended the Moravian Seminary, H.D. commented to Norman Holmes Pearson that she herself had hated the Seminary (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter] 12 III 1950). 1892-1893. Eric Doolittle at the State University of Iowa (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]) 1892. Francis Wolle publishes a new edition of DESMIDS OF THE UNITED STATES (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 26). 1892. Clifford Howard publishes his first book, a volume of verse (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 29). 1892. Dorothy Yorke born (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, p. 173). 1892 April 26. Adrienne Monnier born in Paris (THE VERY RICH HOURS OF ADRIENNE MONNIER, p. 7) 1892 July 8. Richard Aldington born in Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire to Jesse May and Albert Edward Aldington. [Note: Later research has shown RA's birthplace to be Portsmouth; see the link to his birth certificate.--Ed.] 1893 February 1. Georgine Blanche Wolle; daughter of Robert Henry Wolle and Katherine Eckhardt (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpul.]).

1893 February 10. Death of Francis Wolle (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 26). 1893 November. Birth of Cornelia Brookfield (Dobson. Notes [unpl.], p. 64).] 1893 December 20. Clifford Howard marries Hattie Sterling Case and, while on their honeymoon, brings her to Bethlehem for Christmas to meet all the Wolle, Weiss and Seidel kin (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 29). 1894 (?). H.D. possibly initiated into the facts of life by her best friend, Florence Prince (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]; possibly from the "Hirslanden journals"). 1894. Second edition of Francis Wolle's DIATOMACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA is published (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 26). 1894 May 2. Charles Melvin Doolittle born (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 37). 1894 September 2. Annie Winifred Ellerman born. 1895(?). Doolittle family moves from Bethlehem to Upper Darby; H.D. later [May 21, l934] wrote Silvia Dobson (Dobson. Notes [unpl.], p. 35) that "at 9, the big change came; we moved from a cosy town to the country, a complete psychic break with my little friends and life and school - a great shock in some way to me, that drove me in, introverted me." Francis Wolle (in A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 32) erronously (?) states that the move happened in the late summer of 1897 when "Gilbert was thirteen, Hilda eleven, Harold ten and Melvin three and a half." 1895-1912. Charles Leander Doolittle is Professor of Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). 1895 May 19. Cecil Gray born in Edinburgh. 1896-1912. Eric Doolittle is Professor of Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). 1896. Charles Leander Doolittle becomes the first director of the Flower Observatory at the University of Pennsylvania in Upper Darby. 1896 March 9. Robert McAlmon born in Clifton, Kansas. 1896 July 23. Murray Constantine born (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). 1897. Charles Leander Doolittle receives honorary ScD from University of Michigan (Pearson's Biog notes).

1897. Clifford Howard publishes volume entitled SEX WORSHIP (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 29). 1899 Summer (late). Hartley C. Wolle family leave Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and move to Danville, Pennsylvania then, the following year, to Johnstown, Pennsylvania (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 38). 1900 August 3. Hartley C. Wolle leaves Danville, Pennsylvania to move to Johnstown, Pennsylvania where he begins to work with the Cambria Steel Company (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 47). 1900 October (mid). Hartley C. Wolle's family joins him in Johnstown, Pennsylvania (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 47). 1900 November 28. Russell Howard maries Mary Palmer (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 30). 1901-1902. H.D. in eighth grade at Miss Elizabeth Gordon's School in West Philadelphia (4112 Spruce Street) with Margaret Snively. Reproved while at Miss Gordon's School by a Miss Pitcher for stating that Edgar Allan Poe was her favorite among American authors (TRIBUTE TO FREUD). 1901 April 3. Hildegard Howard Wylde born (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]) (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 31). 1901 April (mid). Hartley C. Wolle family moves to Westmont, a suburb of Johnstown, Pennsylvania (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 47). 1901 October 31(?). Ezra Pound brought by his classmates at the University of Pennsylvania, De Forest Snively and Gilbert Doolittle, to a Halloween fancy dress ball at the Burd School in Phildelphia (63rd and Market Street: director of the school was Rev. Sumnmerwood E. Snively, M.D.). Here Pound met the fifteen year old H.D. (Wallace: Athene's owl). 1902-1905. H.D. attends Friends' Central School in Philadelphia (15th and Race Streets). A lifelong friend from there is Jeanette Keim (later Trumper). Allowed to engage in independent study in Greek history (Wallace: Athene's Owl). 1902. Eric Doolittle marries [Sara] (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). 1902. Clifford Howard's "The Story of a Young Man" published serially for six months in THE LADIES HOME JOURNAL (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 30). 1902-1905 (?). Period of friendship with Louise Skidmore whom H.D. probably knew at the Burd School: in a letter to Viola Jordan, H.D.comments "Louise S. dropped out of my life years ago, but it was from her (I was 16, I think) I first heard that "HE WRITES POETRY". We discussed

this "he" who was at the time her friend- mine in a general way- but she had had revelationin their drawing-room set about with chunks of semi-precious stone on marble-tables in N. Philadelphia. It all comes back! Mrs. Skid. was a C.S. and rather fussy, the old fellow was a prof. of sorts, it was his boat that E. went out in, Port Jefferson-"; later H.D. went (with Ezra Pound?) to visit his friends, the Skidmores who had a boat in a place off Long Island--while there she saw a copy of Dante's Vita Nouva with Rossetti's Dante's Dream as a frontispiece (H.D. to V.J., [unpubl. letter, 20 July 48], Lilly Library). 1902 February 20. William Howard dies (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). 1902 March 27. Kenneth Macpherson born. 1902 December 16. Norman Howard marries Mamie Smith (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 31). 1903 May 2. John McDougall born (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). 1903 May l3. Robert Herring born. 1904. Clifford Howard's handbook entitled GRAPHOLOGY published (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 30). 1904. Annie ("Birdie") Jenkins Peiter marries Frederick Peiter who worked at Cambria Steel; hence they lived in Johnstown, Pennsylvania for four or five years (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 48). 1904 May 27 - May 31. Bryn Mawr matriculation card shows that H.D. was scheduled to take an almost complete set of entrance exams. Passed: Plane Geometry, Latin Prose Authors; failed French, Physical Geography, Latin Grammar, German (Wallace: Athene's Owl). 1904 June. H.D. takes College Entrance Examination Board tests; poor showing (Wallace: Athene's Owl). 1904 November. H.D. writes to Mrs. Sidney Skidmore to invite her to tea (mentions Burd School?) on Friday the 25th, the day following Thanksgiving (H.D. to Mrs. SS [unpubl. letter]) 1905-l907. Pound composes poems included in "Hilda's Book." 1905. Eric Walter White born (Pictures from a life : Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976, no. 76--picture of White in the early 1930's). 1905 April 4. William Carlos Williams meets H.D. at a dinner hosted by Ezra Pound; in a letter to his brother (April 12), Williams describes H.D.: "She is tall, about as tall as I am, young, about eighteen and, well, not round and willowy, but rather bony, no that doesn't express it, just a little

clumsy, but all to the mustard. She is a girl that's full of fun, bright, but never telling you all she knows, doesn't care if her hair is a little mussed, and wears good solid shoes ..." (WCW to EW: Sel. let. of WCW, p.8-9). 1905 April 9. William Carlos Williams attends afternoon party at Flower Observatory, Upper Darby, Pa. which is continued at another house out in the country in the evening; in a letter to his brother (April 12) Williams describes events and gives further impressions of H.D. (WCW to EW: Sel. let. of WCW, p.8-9). l905 June 2 - June 6. H.D. takes entrance examinations for Bryn Mawr for the third time and passes, except in Algebra (Wallace: Athene's Owl)." 1905. June 16. H.D. is the first student speaker at the commencement at Friends' Central School, her topic being "The Poet's Influence" (Wallace: Athene's Owl). 1905 June 29. Ezra Pound graduates from Hamilton College (Broadside program, BRML). 1905 August (?). H.D. spends three weeks, with Margaret Snively and others including an Emily, at a cottage in Port Jefferson, Long Island, as the guests of Louise Skidmore and her family; afterwards H.D. and Margaret Snively spent a few days in New York City visiting Mary and Fanny Marshall in an apartment into which they had recently moved. In a letter to Mrs. Sidney Skidmore, written while H.D. is still at Port Jefferson, Helen Wolle Doolittle mentions that Hilda is to to a local college although she is aware that Hilda would have liked to go away (Louise Skidmore went to Cornell); also mentions the departure of J. Fred Wolle from Bethlehem and bringing her mother up to stay in Upper Darby; both H.D. and Margaret Snively write undated thank you notes to Mrs. Sidney Skidmiore (the tone of these notes is such that they apparently felt very comfortable with her); in her note H.D. comments that Margaret was with her as her travelling experience in New York City enabled them to get to the spot where they were being met by the Marshalls. It sounds as if Mrs. Skidmore's husband may have been a colleague of Charles Leander Doolittle at the University of Pennsylvania (all of this data is pieced together from undated letters from H.D.. Margaret Snively, and Helen Wolle Doolittle to Mrs. Sidney Skidmore). 1905 August 19.. Alan Howard born; son of Norman Howard and Mamie Smith Howard (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 31). 1905 September. J. Fred Wolle leaves Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to become the Head of the Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 43). 1905 September (?). Helen Wolle Doolittle writes to Mrs. Sidney Skidmore; comments that Hilda is spending the night at Bryn Mawr "taking in some of the festivities"; continues "she is very happy and I know is going to enjoy college life immensely" (HWD to Mrs. SS [unpubl. letter]) 1905 September 25. H.D. takes Algebra exam a third time and passes (Wallace: Athene's Owl)."

1905 October 2. H.D. enters Bryn Mawr as a day student, commuting from Upper Darby, and withdraws after three semesters. [Note: information on academic record available in Wallace: Athene's Owl.] While at Bryn Mawr meets Marianne Moore and Mary Herr. 1905/l906(?). H.D. and Ezra Pound become engaged. 1906 March. Elizabeth Caroline Weiss Wolle dies at Clifford Howard's home in Chevy Chase (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 31). 1906 March. William Carlos Williams calls upon H.D., takes her to a preliminary performance given by the Mask and Wig Club, and then writes poem about her "Last night I sat within a blazing hall ..." Later in the month he calls on her again, tours the observatory, then spends the evening with her at the Snivelys (WCW to EW: Sel. let. of WCW, p.8-9). 1906 April 28. Ezra Pound sets sail for Spain where, as a Harrison Fellow in Romanics, he was to spend six months studying in Madrid (Mariani, Paul. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, p. 50). 1906 May 1 (?). H.D. participates in May Day festivities at Bryn Mawr; is observed by William Carlos Williams (Mariani, Paul. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, p. 50). 1906 May 6. William Carlos Williams writes to his brother that he has been to Bryn Mawr on May Day to watch Hilda, dressed like one of Robin Hood's merry foresters, cavort in the traditional Spring rites (Wilhelm. The American roots of Ezra Pound, p. 145). 1906 June (mid). H.D. attends party for graduating class of the University of Pennsylvania held by Bob Lamberton (friend of William Carlos Williams) at his family home at Point Pleasant on the New Jersey shore; Margaret and Ethelwyn Snively were also there; H.D. "carried to the point of ecstasy by her delight in the waves, rushed into them headlong ...[and] was crushed, trampled, swept out, drowned"; at once Lamberton dived in after her and, with the help of others, dragged H.D., unconscious, from the ocean; H.D. recovered consciousness and was taken up to the house to recuperate; Williams arrived after the incident (Williams, AUBIOGRAPHY; Mariani, Paul. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, p. 51). 1906 September. Clifford, Hattie and Hildegarde Howard move to Los Angeles (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 31). 1906 December. Eric Doolittle runs into William Carlos Williams in Philadelphia (HD to WCW, 24 Jan. 07). 1906(end) -1907 January 23. H.D. withdraws from Bryn Mawr. [Note: from the letter written to WCW on 24 Jan l907 it seems as if H.D. has put Bryn Mawr behind her.] H.D. later told Silvia Dobson that she had failed calculus but didn't mention that she had also failed English (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 5). Francis Wolle comments that after H.D. dropped out of Bryn Mawr she "was under doctor's orders not to overwork until she had recovered from nervous exhaustion, her only obligations besides helping her mother with the household chores, were the things she choose to do socially" (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 56). On March 12, 1950, H.D.

wrote to Norman Holmes Pearson that "I don't suppose it was the fault of Bryn Mawr that I didn't like it. My second year was broken into or across by my affair with E.P., who after all, at that time, proved a stimulus and was the scorpionic sting or urge that got me away - at that time, it was essential - felt there, I had fallen between two stools, what with my mother's musical connection and my father's and half-brother's stars" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1907. In a letter to Isabelle Pound, Ezra Pound comments "You might drag Hilda into that Musical Club affair. Don't think it would cause any violent calamities. She is working at one of the conservatoriums or natatoriums or piany skools or wot'el. Her uncle demonstrates that there is a slight tendency toward the musical in the family" (quoted in NHP to H.D. [unpubl. letter] 29 VIII 49). 1907 January - July(?). H.D. in Upper Darby, Pa. 1907 January 24. H.D. writes to William Carlos Williams; mostly asking about his writing, saying that she is willing to be a critic, and scolding him for not paying her a visit when he was in Philadelphia just before Christmas; mentions reading "Are You a Bromide" and THE WOOD CARVER OF OLYMPUS [novel] (unpl. letter: SUNY Buf.). 1907 January (late). Norman, Mamie and Alan Howard move to Warsaw, Indiana, where Norman Howard has bought the practice of a retiring physician (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 31). 1907 March 29. H.D. writes to William Carlos Williams; accepting invitation to go the Mask & Wig show (unpl. letter: SUNY Buf.). 1907 April. Dr Williams wrote (?) about H.D. having left Bryn Mawr--mentions weakness of the back and a nasty cough (Wallace: Athene's Owl). 1907 April(?). H.D. writes to William Carlos Williams [undated]; about sending a book intended for WCW to Margaret Snively erronously (unpl letter: SUNY Buf.) 1907 April 28. H.D. writes to William Carlos Williams; mentions arrival of book which she had erronously sent to Margaret Snively; has been reading some of Maeterlink's essays (unpl. letter: SUNY Buf.). 1907 July. H.D. visiting the Hartley Wolle's (Westmont, Johnston, Pa.). 1907 July 23. H.D. writes to William Carlos Williams (unpl. postcard: SUNY Buf.). 1907 July(?). H.D. writes to William Carlos Williams [undated but written after 23 July 1907]; writes about her vacation activities (tennis, golf) (unpl. letter: SUNY Buf.) 1907 September. H.D. in Upper Darby, Pa.

1907 September 11. H.D. invited to farewell party (along with Mary Moore of Trenton) for Ezra Pound prior to his departure for Crawfordsville, Indiana, to teach at Wabash College [Comment: LHS does not know if H.D. actually attended] (Wilhelm. The American Roots of Ezra Pound, p. 165). 1907 September 18. Postmark of postcard sent by H.D. to William Carlos Williams with a view of the Manasquam River from Pine Bluff Inn, Point Pleasant, N.J.; "I have just returned. Sorry you scorned us. We had a dandy time" [LHS comment: could this refer to the farewell party for Ezra Pound] (unpubl. postcard in private collection owned by Dr. William Eric Williams, data supplied by Emily Wallace). 1907 September 27. H.D. writes to William Carlos Williams; writes about becoming domesticated (unpl. letter: SUNY Buf.). 1907 (Fall) -l908 (June ?). Francis Wolle in Freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania; sometime during this year he is invited by H.D. to see Isadora Duncan perform; when he asked who Isadora Duncan was, H.D. responded: "Isadora is the greatest dancer of them all! Has studied the Greek vases. But you'll probably be shocked because she dances barefoot" We may be be able to pinpoint exact date of Duncan's appearance in Philadelphia as Wolle further comments, perhaps erronously, that the next night in New York Isadora drank so much that she could not perform; and thereafter her career slipped downward towards its tragic end; throughout his four years at the University of Pennsylvania Wolle spent Sundays at the Flower Observatory; when he graduated the ceremony was attended by his, mother, Belle Robinson Wolle, and two of his aunts, Helen Wolle Doolittle and Jennie Stryker Wolle, his father, Hartley C. Wolle, being in Utah at the time (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 50, 51, 54). Francis Wolle describes H.D. at this time as being "tall and slender like her father and, to me, gracefully willowy in her movements. She had changed from the pleasant playmate I had known for years to a self-poised, charming young woman. My special wonder and admiration was at the social finesse that seemed so natural to her"; Wolle also tells of "the Sunday afternoon teas or informal suppers that Hilda enjoyed giving for ten to twelve guests. At these affairs she was a perfect hostess, possessing the rare social grace of being able to mix people of disparate tastes in such a way that the enjoyed themselves and each other. Her natural thoughtfulness and quick perception got the kind of talk started that remained self-propelling (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 55, 56). 1907 October 1. To a letter to Ezra Pound (who is teaching at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana), postmarked this date and signed Tuesday, William Brooke Smith (1884-1908) adds a postscript: "Some day I shall go to Hilda" (Pound dedicated A LUME SPENTO to Smith and H.D recalled him in END TO TORMENT) (Wilhelm, James J. "The letters of William Brooke Smith to Ezra Pound" in PAIDUEMA, v. 19, no. 1/2, p. 166). 1907 November 23. Jimmie Daniels born (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). 1908 February 12. H.D. writes to William Carlos Williams; "I have promised to marry Ezra" (Unpl. letter: SUNY Buf.; Wallace: Athene's Owl). 1908 February 14. Pound departs from teaching position at Wabash College.

1908 March 7. H.D. writes to William Carlos Williams; "Ezra and I are not going to marry each other", Ezra to leave for Europe the following Thursday (Unpl. letter: SUNY Buf.; Wallace: Athene's Owl). 1908 March. Pound leaves for Europe (Wilhelm. The American Roots of Ezra Pound). 1908 May 17. Alice Modern born (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 42). 1908 May 3l. Silvia Herbert Dobson born (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 4). 1908 September 17. Allsebrook (sp?) Ross Williamson born (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]; Pearson's notes comment that Bryher does not know who this is [neither does LHS). 1908/1909. H.D. enrolled in the College Course for Teachers at the University of Pennsylvania (Wallace: Athene's Owl). 1909. Harold Doolittle graduates from the University of Pennsylvania's College of Engineering (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 36). 1909. Sir John Ellerman marries Hannah Glover; they had lived together for years but could not marry until just before John Ellerman was born; in HEART TO ARTEMIS Bryher says that she did not know this until she was twenty-four. Emma Brown (Silvia Dobson's Nanny) had known Ada (a cook who had worked for Lady Ellerman) and told Silvia that the reason that they could not marry before was because Lady Ellerman had been married to some else (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. l82-183). 1909 February. Gilbert Doolittle marries Doris Henderson (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p.34). 1909 November 21. Hartley Wolle Howard born; son of Russell Howard and Mary Palmer Howard (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 31). 1910. H.D. states that she first published in New York syndicated papers (helped by the Marshalls--Mary Marshall Durfee and her sister); also did Sunday School stories and astronony pieces for Presbyterian paper (through auspices of Homer Pound) (Autobiographical notes). 1910. H.D. meets Frances Josepha Gregg, a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts [possibly through Mary Herr. Cf. Friedman. DLB 45:120]; "this is the Frances Gregg period"; ites her first poems to Frances based on Theocritus translation which Ezra Pound had given her (prior to this she had done a few lyrics for music and translations of Heine (Autobiographical notes). Francis Wolle describes finding H.D. and Frances Gregg "soul-communing" by gazing into each others eyes (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 56).

1910 April(?). H.D. in Upper Darby at time of Halley's Comet; interviews reportors who come to the observatory and studies Flammarion (who is considered to be "unreliable and sensational" by Charles Leander Doolittle with a new interest (Autobiographical notes). 1910 June 18. Ezra Pound sails from Liverpool, England on the Lusitania to return to the United States, arriving at Swarthmore, Pa. around June 27 (R. Spoo. Introd. to "Erza Pound to Margaret Lanier Cravens" [unpubl. ms.]). 1910 Summer. H.D. meets Walter Morse Rummel in Philadelphia or Swarthmore (R. Spoo. Introd. to "Erza Pound to Margaret Lanier Cravens" [unpubl. ms.]). About this time attends concert given by Rummel at the Pound Summer home outside of Philadelphia--attended with Frances Gregg (H.D. to E.P., 28 Oct 48, unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). 1910 July 6. Arthur Bhaduri born (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). 1910 Fall. H.D. joins Julia Wells at Patchin Place for a few months, sees Ezra Pound, and is unable to get work published; has unpleasant experiences in Patchin Place; encounters the Dollar (or Dolland) Brothers; spends time with Viola Baxter [Jordan]; then returns to Philadelphia and is visited by Ezra Pound (Autobiographical notes). Francis Wolle gives an explanation of this period, attributing it to 1909: "she felt that she could not develop her artistic talents in the midst of her conservative, unappreciative family' so after much family counseling, it was decided that she should take an apartment in Greenwich Village and work at her poetry in that bohemian atmosphere. So in l909, with her father's blessing and financial backing, she left home for a year's trial in New York. She returned home after five months, having found too many phonies in the people she met and more sexual freedom expected than she cared to give" (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 56). (J.J. Wilhelm in EZRA POUND IN LONDON AND PARIS (p. 58) describes Julia Wells as "a kindly old woman ... who had fed Pound and given him some free lodging in Venice back in 1908"; Wilhelm also gives Wells exact address as 4 Patchin Place and refers to Warren Dahler as another occupant; LHS is under the impression that H.D. and Wells were contempowaries in age and went to school in Philadelphia together.) 1910 Fall. Richard Aldington first goes to London to attend University College; completed only one year (Zilboorg Introd. [draft]). 1910 November 9. Doris Helen Doolittle born; daughter of Gilbert Doolittle and Doris Henderson Doolittle (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]) (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 34). 1910 December 30. H.D.in Philadelphia; writes to Isabel Pound; Ezra has been there; thanks her for Christmas present; says she will come up and see her and tell her all about Patchin Place (Collecott notes). 1911. WHAT HAPPENED AT OLENBERG by Clifford Howard published (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 31).

1911 (?). J. Fred Wolle returns from Berkeley, California, to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 44). 1911 January 3 (?). Ezra Pound writes to Viola Baxter: "Did I give you Hilda's number at Patchin Place (Head of 1st flight of stairs)" (Spoo notes from unpubl. letter from E.P. to V.J., dated only "N.Y. l911 Tues"; date conjectured from Spoo's knowledge of Pound's whereabouts). Another undated letter, possibly written later this month, from Ezra Pound to Viola Baxter comments "Hilda is restored to the bosom of her family and spends her time weaving fine raiment silk and satinine [?] which are much more becoming than literature." 1911 February 22. Ezra Pound returns to England (Weintraub. London Yankees, p. 272). 1911 April 21. H.D. writes to Isabel Pound (Collecott notes). 1911 May 12. H.D. in Philadelphia; writes to Isabel Pound; has wanted to bring her lilacs & magnolias, "but my time is not mine at present"; her cousin Gretchen [Wolle Baker] is visiting from California; has finished reading Richard Feverel and hopes to read the rest of Meredith (Collecott notes). 1911 July 23. [After Pound's departure. H.D. departs for Europe with Frances Gregg and her mother on the Floride; William Carlos Williams and Charles Leander Doolittle at pier to see them off; arrives at Havre, goes to Rouen (writes post card to Helen Wolle Doolittle from here), then to Paris; stays at Paris Plage Etaples (Autobiographical notes). (Specific date of departure from Emily Mitchell Wallace's unpublished "Ten Years of Beauty.") According to ASPHODEL, while in Rouen, H.D. and the Greggs visit the Cathedral and fight off bed bugs in their hotel. 1911 August - September. H.D. spends time in Paris and sees Walter Rummel at his studio in Passy where he performs (Friedman. DLB 45:121) (Autobiographical notes). According to ASPHODEL (p. 45) H.D. runs into Rummel in the Louvre. Also goes to Versailles with the Greggs, according to ASPHODEL 1911 August 21-22. "Mona Lisa" stolen from Louvre; H.D. and Frances Gregg stand in long lines; sees "Hellenistic ring of some occult significance in a jewel-case in the Louvre" {apparently with serpent and thistle symbols} (Thorn Thicket, p. 36). In ASPHODEL, H.D. writes about having seen the Winged Victory, Venus de Milo, Corregio's "Zeus and Antiope", etc. 1911 September 5. H.D. in Paris; sends postcard to Helen Wolle Doolittle (Collecott notes). 1911 September (mid?). Francis Wolle spends week in Paris; meets H.D. and they take the river trip to St. Cloud; on his last day in Paris, Wolle is robbed at the Eiffel Tower--contacts H.D. at her address "at St. Denis" for assistance and has tea with her and Frances Gregg (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 61-62).

1911 September 27. H.D. sends postcard to Helen Wolle Doolittle postmarked Boulogne/ParisPlage: "We leave Friday for Dover via Folkstone. We may stop off a day at latter. I look forward to mail in London" (Collecott notes.) 1911 September 28. Postcard of "La Primavera" postmarked this date sent by H.D. to Ezra Pound: "Arrive Sunday -- c/o Mrs. Symons, 30-31 Bernard St. W.C. -- Hope to see you sometime -- H. ----" (unpublished postcard in the possession of Omar S. Pound). 1911 September 29. H.D. and the Greggs possibly left Boulogne for Dover (LHS conjecture). Ezra Pound writes to May Sinclair: "Hilda is - in her lucid intervals - rather charming. Will you then gratia plenis, etc. write to Miss Hilda Doolittle c/o Mrs Symons, 30 Bernard St. WC and ask her to bring Miss Frances Gregg to tea. If you write at once it may be there for her arrival" (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 21). 1911 October 1. H.D. arrives in London with Frances and Julia Gregg [date based upon postcard written by H.D. to Ezra Pound 28/IX/1911]. 1911 Autumn(?). H.D. visits Manchester (?) (Autobiographical notes). 1911 October (early ?). H.D.'s address was c/o Mrs. Symons, 30 Bernard Street, W.C. [off Russell Square Street]. (Collecott. Notes.) 1911 October 6 - ?. H.D.'s address was c/o Miss Withey, 8 Duchess Street [off Portland Place]; recommended by Ezra Pound who stayed there in 1906 and 1908 (Collecott. Notes). 1911 November. H.D. in London; begins studies at British Museum (Autobiographical notes). 1911 October 21. "Lady Leicester" published in FORWARD (Philadelphia) under pseudonym of Edith Gray. [Note: Edith was the name of the baby sister who died.] 1911 October 30. H.D. goes to Kenilworth Castle; writes postcard of the castle to Helen Wolle Doolittle (postmarked Leamington Spa): "En route to Stratford. Beautiful windswept day in Kenilworth Castle" (Collecott notes). 1911 October 31. H.D. in Stratford-on-Avon; sends postcard to Helen Wolle Doolittle (Collecott notes). 1911 October (late ?) or November (early ?). Gregg and her mother return to America; H.D. sees them off in Liverpool (Collecott notes: depends on route followed). (ASPHODEL indicates that H.D. did see the Greggs off from Liverpool.) 1911 November. H.D. in London; begins studies at British Museum (Autobiographical notes). 1911 November 17. H.D. in London; sends postcard of the British museum to Helen Wolle Doolittle: "where I spend my mornings"--comments that Rummel is due in London (Collecott notes).

1911 December 4. H D. in London; writes to Isabel Pound (from 8 Duchess St.) to say that Ezra had been most kind to her since her arrival in London (Stock. Life of Ezra Pound, p. 107). This may be the same letter in which she goes on to say "our reception in London was surprisingly cordial - due to the efforts of his friends spurred on by himself. Miss Sinclair had a tea for Frances Gregg & myself, at which Frances was properly introduced as the risin American poetess, and I as -- well, just a friend of great people.; tells of meeting Alice Meynell and Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Rhys; hasspent hours browsing in picture galleries {"`The National' is my favorite Haunt"}, exploring old churches and churchyards, "odd corners in Lincoln's Inn Fields, remote by-ways and bridges by Hammersmith, feeding many ducks who quack gracefully in St. James Park, and sea-gulls who look on and soar disdainfully aloft; - more ambitious adventures into Hampstead Heath & Goldners' [sic] Green" (Collecott notes). 1911 (End ?) - 1912 (?). H.D. at Waterloo Court, Golders Green (Autobiographical notes). Meets Richard Aldington about this time--Aldington later wrote: "At nineteen I first met my wife at the house of Mrs Deighton Patmore" (Aldington, Richard. `BUBB BOOKLETS', p. 28). 1912. Charles Leander Doolittle receives LLD from Lehigh University (Pearson's Biog notes). 1912 January. Harold Monro opens Poetry Bookshop at 35 Devonshire St., Theobald's Road, W.C. (Collecott notes from Hughes, p. 30). 1912 January 8. H.D. in London; sends Ezra Pound a postcard postmarked Hendon N.W. saying that she will be there "tomorow or Wed. night" to receive him (Collecott notes). 1912 February 26. H.D. in London; writes to Isabel Pound; gives address as c/o American Epress, 8 Haymarket, S.W.; has heard Yeats at Olivia Shakespear's ("though I was impressed I was not hyper-impressed by the poet"); "Mrs. Shakespear has been most kind and her daughter & I have had some chats together, as well"; refers to kindness of John Galsworthy's sister (to whom Kate Procter {?} had written to be kind to H.D.); refers to impending arrival of Walter Rummel in a few weeks; the Pounds had sent her candied apricots for Christmas; includes gossip about the F.S. Flints: "He [Ezra] always has some under-dog on hand. One Thursday it was a derelict poet called Flint who made the fatal mistake of marrying his landlady's daughter, a hopeless little cockney!"--H.D. indicates amusement that the baby's name was Ianthe (Collecott notes). H.D. also expresses her gratitude to Ezra for his introducing her to May Sinclair; also refers to the Rhys [?] and refers to being invited to their house on the coming Thursday [February 29?] to meet Hewlett [?]; also mentions that next week she is to have tea with Harriet Monroe, whom Ezra says is depressed (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 21, 22). 1912 Winter (late?). Upon the recommendation of Ezra Pound, Helen Wolle Doolittle entertains John Cowper Powys and Louis Wilkinson; Francis Wolle is present (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 63). 1912 April. H.D. inscribes a copy of selections from Euripides as "H.D." April, 1912. 1912 April 8. Frances Gregg marries Louis Wilkinson in Philadelphia at St. Stephen's Church; Francis Wolle asked to be an usher in order to represent H.D. (Graves. Brothers Powys, p. 88-89) (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 63). Gregg writes to H.D. of her marriage and invites

her to join them on the honeymoon (END TO TORMENT; Autobiographical notes). [Wolle also claims that Ezra Pound was also an usher at the wedding and that Pound hosted a breakfast at the Rittenhouse Hotel after the ceremony--this LHS can find no substantive evidence for--in checking Pound's letters to Dorothy Shakespear and Stock's biography it does not seem possible that Pound could have been in America at that time. Frances and Louis Wilkinson, with John Cowper Powys, then set sail for Europe (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 24). 1912 April (?). It was probably about this time that H.D., Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington decided that they were agreed upon three principles of good writing, resulting in the birth of Imagism (Stock Life of Ezra Pound, p. 115). [LHS note: this can't be right.] 1912 April 13. John Cournos leaves New York for Europe (Cournos, John. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, p. 194). 1912 April (late) - May (early). H.D. sees Frances Gregg Wilkinson at Victoria Station Hotel (along with Ezra Pound, Brigit Patmore and Richard Aldington); makes plans to travel to Brussels with the Wilkinson entourage; next day Pound meets her outside her room [off Oxford Circus] as she prepares to depart and informs her that if she joins them she is ruining Frances's chance for happiness; H.D. reconsiders and goes to Victoria Station with a glowering and savage Pound accompanying her and tells Frances that she is not joining her (END TO TORMENT; Autobiographical notes). 1912 April 27. "The Griffin of Temple Bar" published in THE COMRADE: A WEEKLY ILLUSTRATED PAPER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE (Philadelphia). 1912 May(?). H.D. and Richard Aldington in Paris (Friedman. DLB 45:121); discoursed with Henry Slominsky on a bench in the `Jardins du Luxembourg' about Hellas and Hellenism (Stock. Life of Ezra Pound, p. 116). 1912 May 1 (?). H.D. departs for Paris, alone, and meets Margaret Cravens (R. Spoo. Introd. to "Erza Pound to Margaret Lanier Cravens" [unpubl. ms.]). 1912 May 9. H.D. in Paris; writes postcard to F.S. Flint; gives address "c/o Madame Bribaule [?] - 21 rue Jacob" (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 559). For some reason H.D. has to be extracted by Margaret Craven from the rue Jacob pension (where Louise Skidmore had sent her (Autobiographical notes). When Margaret Cravens helps H.D. get out of the pension in the rue Jacob (presumably after May 9), she gets her into a more agreeable hotel in the rue de la Grande Chaumire (R. Spoo. Introd. to "Erza Pound to Margaret Lanier Cravens" [unpubl. ms.]). 1912 May 15 (?). Richard Aldington arrives in Paris (R. Spoo notes). 1912 May 20. Richard Aldington in Paris; writes postcard to A.E. Aldington ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). H.D's diary confirms that she was in Paris with Richard Aldington and indicates that they were in the Louvre (Zilboorg notes: Paris 1912 Diary).

1912 May 23. Richard Aldington in Paris; writes postcard to A.E. Aldington; "I spend many hours wiith the Venus" ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). [Spoo conjectures that "the Venus" refers to H.D. (R. Spoo. Introd. to "Erza Pound to Margaret Lanier Cravens" [unpubl. ms.])]. 1912 May 24. H.D. in Paris; goes to the Louvre with Richard Aldington (Zilboorg notes: Paris 1912 Diary). 1912 May 31. Richard Aldington in Paris; writes postcard to Molly Aldington ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1912 June 1. Margaret Cravens writes notes to Walter Rummel (enclosing a briefer one for Ezra Pound) and to Louise Morgan Sill; goes to a tea party at the Passy home of Thrse Chaigneau (whose engagement to Walter Morse Rummel had occured that week); then stops to see Rummel at his flat, behaving with utmost serenity (according to Rummel); around 8:00 PM she returned to her sixth floor apartment on the rue du Colise, just off the Champs Elyse; played a piece that Rummel had composed to accompany an original poem written by Pound and part of a group which he had dedicated to Margaret Cravens ("the Weaver of Beauty"); then she propped the notes which she had written earlier on the piano; retires to her bedroom where, dressed in a white blouse and a new light brown suit, she pressed a small silver revolver up under her right breast and fired (R. Spoo. Introd. to "Erza Pound to Margaret Lanier Cravens" [unpubl. ms.]). The piece that Margaret Craven played was probably either "Aria" or Madrigale" or both, each of which was dedicated to "the Weaver of Beauty" (R. Spoo, letter to LHS, Oct. 29, l987). 1912 June 2. H.D. goes to Margaret Cravens' apartment, expecting to have tea with her; learns from the maid that "Mademoiselle est morte" (THE CANTOS OF EZRA POUND: SOME TESTAMONIES ..., p. 19); if "Asphodel" can be interpreted at face value, Richard Aldington was supposed to meet her at Margaret Cravens'; then she was at the home of Thrse Chaigneau, outside of Paris (Passy) where she learns that Walter Rummel has received a letter from Craven explaining that he is the person whom she was in love with, not Ezra Pound as Rummel had declared (Autobiographical notes); that evening H.D. possibly began the two poems under the heading "M.L.C." (in her Paris 1912 Diary). Richard Aldington in Paris; writes postcard to Molly Aldington; refers to visiting the Louvre and a tea party that afternoon ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1912 June 4. H.D. and Richard Aldington in Paris; go to the Louvre together (Zilboorg notes: Paris 1912 Diary). Aldington writes postcard to Miss M.M. Aldington ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1912 June 6. Richard Aldington in Paris; writes postcard to Misses M. & P. Aldington ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1912 June 9 (?). About a week after Margaret Cravens's suicide, Ezra Pound returns to Paris after having been on a walking tour (R. Spoo. Introd. to "Erza Pound to Margaret Lanier Cravens" [unpubl. ms.]), he and H.D. apparently stand after dark by an old bridge saying goodbye to Margaret Cravens (THE CANTOS OF EZRA POUND: SOME TESTAMONIES ..., p. 19). Richard Aldington in Paris; writes postcards to Miss May Aldington; refers to difficulties in

getting permits for drawing in the Louvre and using the Bibliotheca Nationale ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1912 June 10. H.D. in Paris; has tea with Richard Aldington and Ezra Pound (Zilboorg notes: Paris 1912 Diary). 1912 June 11. Richard Aldington in Paris; writes postcard to Miss May Aldington ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1912 June 15. H.D. in Paris; spends morning in Luxembourg Gardens with Richard Aldington (Zilboorg notes: Paris 1912 Diary). 1912 June 18. Ezra Pound writes to Dorothy Shakespear that H.D. and Aldington had encountered Walter Rummel after he had just discovered that a marriage licence in France cost 200 francs, "and they gave thanks to me & god, in private, that they were neither of them going to marry" (EP to DP, p. 118). 1912 June 18. Richard Aldington in Paris; writes postcard to Mr. & Miss Aldington ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1912 June 29. Richard Aldington in Paris; writes postcard to Miss M. Aldington ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1912 July 23. H.D. still in Paris (EP to DP, p. 136). 1912 Summer. H.D. goes to Rye where Richard Aldington is visiting his parents and Brigit Patmore and Rachel Annand Taylor are nearby (Patmore: My Friends When Young) {Comment: date on this may be incorrect, LHS}. 1912 August 23. H.D. in London; spends day with Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington (EP to DP, p. 143). 1912 September 2. Mollie and Mervyn Dobson born (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], l4). 1912 September (early). H.D. (?), Richard Aldington (?), and Ezra Pound dine with Frances Gregg Wilkinson (EP to DP, p. 147). 1912 September 3. Ezra Pound invites H.D., Richard Aldington and Brigit Patmore to his room to meet and hear Marjorie Kennedy Fraser, the singer of Gaelic folk songs (Stock. Life of Ezra Pound, p. 120). 1912 September 9. Ezra Pound writes to Dorothy Shakespear that he has recently had meals with Richard Aldington, Brigit Patmore, and H.D. (EP to DP, p. 150). 1912 Septemer 17. Ezra Pound writes to Dorothy Shakespear that he plays tennis with Ford Madox Ford in the afternoons and dines with Richard Aldington and H.D. (EP to DP, p. 158).

1912 September 23. Ezra Pound writes to Dorothy Shakespear that "the Dryad [Hilda Doolittle] is much depressed at the prospect of returning to its parental bosom" (EP to DP, p. 161). *1912 September 26(?). British Museum tea room episode supposedly occured. Poems involved include "Hermes of the Ways," "Acon" and "Orchard" (Autobiographical notes). Pound adds "Imagiste" to H.D.'s initials which were already on the page. (Cf. Biographical notes file in Pearson Papers at Beinecke: notes from interview with H.D.) [Note: the version that H.D. told Pearson varies from version recorded in END TO TORMENT. Note: because of the whole mythology that has been built around Pound's naming of H.D. this whole sequence needs to be very carefully examined. Note that H.D. had earlier signed letters to Williams with just her initials; also she signed one of her books as "H.D." April 1912.] 1912 October. Ezra Pound sends a group of H.D.'s poems to Harriet Monroe of POETRY with a covering letter (Stock. Life of Ezra Pound, p. 121). 1912 October. H.D. leaves London; goes to Paris where she sees Ezra Pound and the Rummels [source: letter from H.D. to Isabel Pound of December 5, l9l2]; then goes to Genoa where she joins her parents with Margaret and Dr. Snively who arrive together on a liner; then they go on to Florence and Rome; Aldington comes to Rome (with a job writing a series of articles on Italy for A.R. Orage of The New Age in early December (Autobiographical notes) (Zilboorg introd. [draft]). 1912 October 14 - December 3. H.D. travels with her parents and the Snivelys (who leave the group on December 3) (Zilboorg notes: Margaret Snively Pratt to H.D., unpubl. letter, 1/26/55). Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary indicates that Snively's left on December 2. 1912 October 14. Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle land at Genoa, accompanied by Dr. Snively and Margaret Snively; H.D. is there to meet them (Zilboorg notes: Margaret Snively Pratt to H.D., unpubl. letter, 1/26/55). 1912 October 18. Doolittles and Snivelys leave Genoa for Florence, stopping at Pisa enroute (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1912 October 25. Helen Wolle Doolittle buys a dress for H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1912 October 31. H.D. in Florence Was this H.D.'s first trip to Florence (?) when she wrote to Isabelle Pound: "Florence set me on edge--too frail, too fastidious, like a lovely, nervous woman"; goes to a cafe with Helen Wolle Doolittle and Margaret Snively (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1912 November 3. Guinevere Doolittle born; daughter of Gilbert Doolittle and Doris Henderson Doolittle (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 34). 1912 November 19. H.D. in Florence; goes to the library with Helen Wolle Doolittle (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary).

1912 November 29. H.D. in Florence; has last Italian lesson (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1912 December 2. H.D. in Florence; Margaret [and Dr.?] Snively leaves that morning for Nice (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1912 December 4. H.D. in Florence; leaves with her parents for Rome (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). H.D. later referred to seeing Phyllis Bottome and Lylie [i.e Lislie] Brock in Rome (Autobiographical notes). Years later, in a postcard to Ezra Pound, H.D. recalls that Pound sent her to Phyllis Bottome in Rome, Winter 1912--comments that she thinks much of her but can't recall when she last saw her, possibly in Paris 1924 (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter, 25 Mar 53], Lilly Library). In her memoirs, Phyllis Botttome recalls that she first met Ezra Pound at one of May Sinclair's parties and that he rescued her from the insufferable presence of Gilbert Canaan who was there with Mary Ansell (Mrs. J.M. Barrie); she goes on to recall "In 1912, when Lislie and I went to Rome for the Winter, Ezra gave me an introduction to his great friend and disciple, H.D., and I later met Richard Aldington through H.D. I made a great many mistakes over these two. I laugh now when I think of their nature; but I found them highly stimulating as companions, though I agreed with Lislie, who was violently shocked at their unkind treatment of H.D.'s simple and kindly parents. We were also struck with H.D.'s ignorance of nature. 'She cannot be a real poet, Phil,' Lislie told me indignantly, 'or she would know a lamb's bleat and not ask what kind of a bird it was!' H.D. was a mysterious girl, an introvert with a curious Victorian streak of docile femininity which had to battle with her twentieth century revolts. I thought--and still think--her poems as lovely as salted shells washed up out of reach of the tide. I made the mistake of admiring these poems of H.D.'s as much or more than I admired Ezra's, and I though Richard Aldington inferior to either. No one was more annoyed by these heretical opinions than Hilda. Richard Aldington in his turn considered me 'Meredithian'--a term of abuse in those days-but he was a kindly and generous hearted person and grateful to me for introducing him to Tusculum, which he and Hilda had hitherto overlooked, and subsequently giving them both introductions to my artist friend in Capri. Richard would, I think, have liked to give me a helping hand when H.D.--not altogether surprisingly--repudiated me forever. The morals of this literary circle differed fundamentally from Lislie's and mine. If the occasion had arisen, we would not have been averse to considering the world well lost for the sake of a serious, lifelong passion; but we still considered the world to be well worth keeping. The set to which H.D. and Ezra belonged were not only prepared to lose the world, they wanted to kick it away from them on the slightest provocation, or even no provocation at all; indeed it was a pleasure to them simply to kick it (Bottome, Phyllis. THE CHALLENGE. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, c1953, p. 381-385). 1912 December 5. H.D. in Rome; writes to Isabel Pearson Pound: "I miss London ... but am eager to know Rome" (Collecott notes). Refers to Aldington, Brigit Patmore, and Ezra: "We four - that is. E, R.A., and Mrs P. - not her family - were much together during the last year" (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 23). Receives mail and visits the Coliseum with her parents (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1912 December 7. H.D. in Rome; Helen Wolle Doolittle notes visiting the Vatican Museum (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary).

1912 December 9. H.D. in Rome; is having a blue dress made (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1912 December 12. H.D. in Rome; spends time with her "English friends" (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). Richard Aldington in Rome; writes postcard to A.E. Aldington; has just moved to Via Sistina 68 and has paid for rent until January 25 ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1912 December 16. H.D. in Rome; has tea with her "English friends" (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). Richard Aldington in Florence; writes postcard to Signorina M. Aldington; refers to having been to Genoa ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1912 December 18. H.D. in Rome; Helen Wolle Doolittle comments "Hilda was feeling particularly well" (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1912 December 20. H.D. in Rome; goes out with Richard Aldington (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1912 December 21. H.D. in Rome; goes with Richard Aldington to the Vatican Museum and dines with him (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1912 December 22. H.D. in Rome; goes with Richard Aldington to the National Museum (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1912 December 23. H.D. in Rome; sends off present with Helen Wolle Doolittle to Margaret Snively (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1912 December 24. H.D. in Rome; Richard Aldington has tea with the Doolittles (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1912 December 25. Christmas dinner in Rome (Autobiographical notes). Richard Aldington joins the Doolittles for dinner (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1912 December 28. H.D. in Rome; goes out with Richard Aldington (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1912 December 29. H.D. in Rome; goes out with Richard Aldington (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1912 December 30. H.D. in Rome; Helen Wolle Doolittle has tea with H.D. and Richard Aldington (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1912 December 25. Richard Aldington in Rome; writes postcard to Miss May Aldington; refers to having been out to dinner [a later postcard on the 28th says with an old professor?] ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript).

1912 December 28. Richard Aldington in Rome; writes postcard to Miss M.M. Aldington; "I went & heard the Cardinal Arch-Priest say mass on Xmas day - I did have some plum pudding, because an old professor here asked me to dinner, & they gave us some" [LHS wonders if the "old professor" could possibly be Charles Leander Doolittle] ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1912 December 30. H.D. in Rome; writes to Isabel Pound (Collecott notes). 1912 December 31. Richard Aldington in Rome; writes to Miss May Aldington ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1913 Winter. H.D. travels in Italy (Naples, Pompeii, Posedonia or Paestum) with Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle (Autobiographical notes). 1913 January. Doolittles leave Naples (Corpa di Cava?); take the Amalfi Drive and go to Sorrento and Capri; Charles Leander Doolittle leaves for Sicily (Autobiographical notes). 1913 January. First publication of H.D.'s poems (including "Hermes of the Ways," "Epigram," and "Priapus") in Harriet Monroe's POETRY: A MAGAZINE OF VERSE. 1913 January 2. H.D. in Rome; goes out with Richard Aldington (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 January 4. H.D. in Rome; goes out with Richard Aldington (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). Ezra Pound writes to Dorothy Shakespear that R. [Richard Aldington] thinks that he, the HD & I have money enough to send him to Sicily" (EP to DP, p. 178). 1913 January 5. H.D. in Rome; spends the morning with Richard Aldington at the Borghese Palace and grounds (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 January 11. H.D. in Rome; she and Richard Aldington are met by Helen Wolle Doolittle at the Vatican Museum (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 January 12. H.D. in Rome; visits Capitoline Hill with Richard Aldington (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 January 16. H.D. in Rome; has dinner with Helen Wolle Doolittle and Richard Aldington at an Italian restaurant (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 January 21. H.D. in Rome; goes out with Richard Aldington (Zilboorg notes: Richard Aldington to H.D. unpubl. letter, 1/21/58; also Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 January 22. H.D. in Rome; goes out sightseeing with Richard Aldington (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary).

1913 January 23. H.D. in Rome; goes with Richard Aldington to Frascati [?] (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 January 28. H.D. in Rome; spends day with Richard Aldington in Geazaro [?] (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 February l. H.D. in Rome; goes out with Richard Aldington (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 February 2. H.D. in Rome; Helen Wolle Doolittle mentions visiting with Richard Aldington for an hour (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 February 8. H.D. in Rome; goes out with Richard Aldington (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 February 12. Doolittle family [without Richard Aldington] leaves Rome for Naples (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 February 14. H.D. in Naples; Richard Aldington arrives from Rome (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 February 15. H.D. in Naples; goes out with Richard Aldington (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 February 16. H.D. in Naples; has tea with Helen Wolle Doolittle and Richard Aldington (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 February 21. H.D. and Richard Aldington in Naples (Zilboorg notes: Richard Aldington to H.D. unpubl. letter, 1/21/58). 1913 February 22. H.D. in Naples; goes out with Richard Aldington; spent the morning in the museum [this should be checked in the diary--Zilboorg has two entries for this date] (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 February 25. H.D. in Naples; spends day at Pozzuoli [?] with Richard Aldington; returns to hotel after five to have tea with Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle in their room (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 February 27. H.D. in Naples; goes to Pompeii with Richard Aldington (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 Spring (early). H.D. stays on in Capri and moves from "Paradiso" to a room and works on Greek (Aldington is also there); Helen Wolle Doolittle goes to Sicily; (H.D., with Aldington, may have also gone back to Naples and Florence at this time).

1913 March 1. H.D. in Naples; goes out with Richard Aldington (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 March 6. Helen Wolle Doolittle leaves (with Charles Leander Doolittle ?) Naples for Venice; H.D. and Richard Aldington follow on later train (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 March 8. H.D. in Venice; Helen Wolle Doolittle notes that Richard Aldington came for lunch (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 March 9. H.D. in Venice; Helen Wolle Doolittle notes in her diary that H.D. and Richard Aldington are coming in later (after tea) (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1919 March 14. The Doolittle and (Richard Aldington?) take a boat for Capri and Anacapri; stay on Anacapri (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 March 17. H.D. on Anacapri; Helen Wolle Doolittle buys fabric "for Hilda's new nightdress" (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 March 18. Richard Aldington in Anacapri; writes to A.E. Aldington; gives address as Pensione di Luiro, Anacapri, Napoli ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1913 March 19. H.D. on Anacapri? Helen Wolle Doolittle notes in her diary that she went again to the town of Capri where she "had tea with Hilda and R.A." then walked up the hill with them to see the view (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 March 22. Richard Aldington in Anacapri; writes to A.E. Aldington; says "Odd doings for Easter. E.P. leaves England April 3" ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1913 March 23. H.D. on Anacapri; Helen Wolle Doolittle notes in her diary that they "make plans - Hilda remains here while we [Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle] go to Sicily" (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 March 26. H.D. on Anacapri; Charles Leander Doolittle leaves early for Naples; Helen Wolle Doolittle follows in the afternoon-~-comments that "Hilda and R. came down to see me off" (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 March 26. Helen Wolle Doolittle mails letter to H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 April 5. Helen Wolle Doolittle mails letter to H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 April 10. Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Palermo; "found letter & postals from Hilda (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary).

1913 April 11. Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle land at Naples; collect letters from H.D. at the American Express; the took the train to Rome (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 April 11. Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle leave Rome (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 April 14. Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle arrive in Bologne (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 April 15. Helen Wolle Doolittle sends postcard to H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 April 16. Helen Wolle Doolittle writes letter to H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 April 17. Helen Wolle Doolittle arrives in Venice; writes letter to H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 April 18. Helen Wolle Doolittle writes letter to H.D. in Capri; receives postcard from her (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 April 19. Helen Wolle Doolittle writes letter to H.D. in Capri; receives letter from H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 April 20. Helen Wolle Doolittle sends postcard to H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 April 21. Ezra Pound writes to Dorothy Shakespear implying that H.D. and Richard Aldington will shortly be arriving in Venice (EP to DP, p. 207). Richard Aldington in Anacapri; writes to A.E. Aldington; says he plans to stay on in Anacapri and writes as he is expecting some books from London and E.P. won't be in Venezia until May ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1913 April 22. Helen Wolle Doolittle visits San Marco (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 April 27. Helen Wolle Doolittle receives letter from H.D.from Anacapri (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 April 28. Helen Wolle Doolittle writes to H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 April 29. Helen Wolle Doolittle writes to H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary).

1913 May 1. "Sitalkas" published in The New Freewoman; H.D. later reflects on its composition in 1955 in "Compassionate Friendship", p. 12. 1913 May 2. Richard Aldington in Florence; writes to A.E. Aldington; reports that he is back again after a night in Naples--is going to Venezia next week ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). Helen Wolle Doolittle receives a postcard from H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 May 3. Ezra Pound writes to Dorothy Shakespear that "R. & H. [Richard Aldington & Hilda Doolittle] appear to be falling in love with each other somewhere en route from Napoli" (EP to DP, p. 217); Pound writes a few days later that "I found the dryad's family disconsolate on the piazza yesterday afternoon & spent the evening consoling them for the absence of their offspring (EP to DP, p. 220). Richard Aldington in Florence; writes postcard to Mile. M.M. Aldington; says he is leaving on Monday for Venice ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1913 May 4. Helen Wolle Doolittle receives postcard from H.D.; comments in her diary: "Ezra P. - looked for us - found us here - we came back to hotel together - he had dinner with us - stayed until midnight" (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 May 5. Helen Wolle Doolittle comments in her diary: "Ezra called this afternoon & had dinner again with us" (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 May 6. Richard Aldington in Florence; writes to A.E. Aldington; is leaving Florence that day--is meeting Pound that evening in Venice ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1913 May 7. H.D. meets her parents in Venice after trip up with Aldington (Pound is in Venice and takes on Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle--sense of unhappiiness on H.D.'s part prevails) (Autobiographical notes); during this stay in Venice Pound leads H.D. through a labyrinth of strrets and bridges to a church he insisted she "must" see: "The church was cool. with a balcony of icy mermaids, Santa Maria del Miracoli" (End to Torment, p. 5-6; EP to DP, p. 227). Richard Aldington writes postcard to Mile. M. Aldington; reports that he he is staying in the same hotel as Pound ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). Also writes postcard to A.E. Aldington; refers to driving with Pound ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1913 May 8. H.D. in Venice; Ezra Pound writes to Dorothy Shakespear that "The Dryad [H.D.] has arrived with its faun [Richard Aldington]. She doesn't seem much more in love with it than when she left London, but her family distresses her & seems to drive her more faun-wards (EP to DP, p. 224). Helen Wolle Doolittle records in her diary that "Ezra gave a gondola party this evening - sailing for Milano in & out the various canals - light wonderful! Hilda & Richard in one. E. & I in other, Back 11:30" (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 26). 1913 May 9. H.D. in Venice; Ezra Pound writes to Dorothy Shakespear that H.D. and Richard Aldington "are submerged in a hellenism so polubendius and so stupid that I stop in the street about once in every 15 minutes to laugh at them" (EP to DP, p. 226). H.D., Richard Aldington, Ezra Pond, and Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle spend time together (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary).

1913 May 10. H.D. in Venice; Richard Aldington in Venice; writes postcard to Mile. A.M. Aldington ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). Also writes postcard to A.E. Aldington; says he will stay there three weeks and try to see Rimimi and Ravenna--then gradually go north to Vicenza and Verona--might also go to Innsbruck and Munich though he would prefer to keep this trip entirely Latin--will drift up towards Paris in a couple of months ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). Helen Wolle Doolittle comments in her diary that "Ezra & Richard came in the evening" (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 May 12. H.D. in Venice; goes on the Lido in the afternoon with Helen Wolle Doolittle, Richard Aldington, and Ezra Pound (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 May 13. H.D. in Venice; goes sightseeing with Helen Wolle Doolittle and Richard Aldington; later they meet Ezra Pound (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 May 15. H.D. in Venice; Helen Wolle Doolittle notes in her diary that H.D. and Richard Aldington saw Charles Leander Doolittle off (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). At this point Charles Leander Doolittle apparently made a quick business trip back to Philadelphia (Autobiographical notes). 1913 May 16. H.D. in Venice; dines with Helen Wolle Doolittle and Richard Aldington (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 May 21. H.D. in Venice; Helen Wolle Doolittle comments in her diary: "bought blue crepe for blouse for Hilda - have nearly finished it" (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 May 23. H.D. in Venice; Helen Wolle Doolittle comments in her diary: "R. [Richard Aldington] & I met at the Lido - had lunch there (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 May 27. H.D. in Venice; Helen Wolle Doolittle writes in her diary: "Hilda and Richard are spending the day in Padua" (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 May 28. H.D. in Venice; takes a long walk with Richard Aldington; Helen Wolle Doolittle comments "too far for me" (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 May 30. H.D., Helen Wolle Doolittle, take trip to Verona for the Bach Festival (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). Richard Aldington writes postcard to A.E. Aldington; is leaving today for Verona--if Verona is too hot, he will go on up to Sirmione ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1913 June 1. H.D. in Verona; goes with Richard Aldington to the Museo Dineo [?] but finds it closed (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary).

1913 June 3. Richard Aldington in Verona; writes postcard to A.E. Aldington; leaving "domani" because of enormous heat; instructs him to write c/o Hotel Eden, Sirmione, Lago di Garda ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1913 June 4. H.D., Helen Wolle Doolittle, and Richard Aldington travel to Lake Garda, Sirmione (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 June 5. H.D. in Sirmione; Helen Wolle Doolittle comments in her diary that she "had long row on lake with Richard" (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 June 6. H.D. in Sirmione; Helen Wolle Doolittle's diaryy indicates that she was naking and having a dressmaker make many clothes for H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 June 7. H.D. in Sirmione; Helen Wolle Doolittle notes in her diary that "Richard took me out boating" (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). Richard Aldington writes postcard to Miss M.M. Aldington from Albergo Eden ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1913 June 10. H.D. in Sirmione; goes out on the lake after dinner with Richard Aldington and Helen Wolle Doolittle--"moonlight & very beautiful" (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 June 14. Richard Aldington in Sirmione; writes postcard to A.E. Aldington ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1913 June 16. Richard Aldington in Sirmione; writes postcard to May Aldington ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). THE FREEWOMAN is relaunched under the title THE NEW FREEWOMAN; H.D. is one its subscribers (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 167). 1913 June 17(?). Richard Aldington in Sirmione; writes postcard to Mile. M.M. Aldington; says he going to Paris soon and that he has written to their father suggesting that he bring her there to take tea with him on his birthday [July 8] ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript--transcript has this dated June 25--but it it is signed Tuesday which would be the 24--however it probably was written the previous week). 1913 June 22. H.D., Helen Wolle Doolittle, and Richard Aldington leave Sirmione; Aldington travels with them as far as Desenzano del Gardo, the goes on to Paris; H.D. and Helen Wolle Doolittle reyurn to Verona (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 June 25. H.D. in Verona; Charles Leander Doolittle arrives back in Verona; Helen Wolle Doolittle "so so happy!" (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 June 29. H.D., Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle see a passion play at a mountain village festival (a religious life of Christ in the Oberammergau tradition) [Helen Wolle Doolittle

says it was at Brillegg (?) (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary); H.D. says it was in or near Innsbruck (Autobiographical notes)]. 1913, June 30. H.D., Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle take the train over the mountains to France [Fulmpec?] where they stay at the Golden Adler Hotel (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 July 6(?) - August 3 (?). H.D. in Paris; meets Henry Slominsky (Autobiographical notes). 1913 July 6. H.D. leaves Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle in the Alps and goes to Paris; Helen Wolle Doolittle comments in her diary: "I know H. will enjoy settling down for a little but we shall miss her" (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 July 7. Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle go to Toblach [?] (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 July 8. Helen Wolle Doolittle writes to H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 July 15. Helen Wolle Doolittle receives letter from H.D. and a card from Richard Aldington (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 July 18. Helen Wolle Doolittle receives letter from H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 July 19. Helen Wolle Doolittle receives letter from H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 July 21. Helen Wolle Doolittle receives postcard from H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 July 28. Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle in St Moritz (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 July 29. Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Zurich (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 July 31. Helen Wolle Doolittle receives two letters from H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 August 3 (?) - l913 October. H.D. at 6 Church Walk, Kensington. [Ezra Pound at 10 Church Walk; Richard Aldington at 8 Church Walk (Collecott. Notes) (Stock. Life of Ezra Pound, p. 113).

1913 August 3. H.D. apparently back in London; Ezra Pound writes to Dorothy Shakespear that "the Dryad--with no sense of modernity has writ a poem to Tycho the god of little things [not identified by LHS] (EP to DP, p. 238). 1913 August (early?). John Gould Fletcher meets H.D. and Richard Aldington at her flat in Kensington (introduction arranged for by Ezra Pound); H.D. tries to talk Fletcher into letting some of his poems be included in the forthcoming IMAGIST ANTHOLOGY; H.D. discusses her idea of translating one of the plays of Euripides and according to Fletcher was already at work on some of the choruses which she proposed to translate in meters corresponding to the originals (Fletcher, J.G. LIFE IS MY SONG, p. 80-81). 1913 August 5. Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cologne (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 August 6. Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Hamburg (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 August 11. Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Potsdam (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 August 13. Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Berlin (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 August 18. Frances Gregg writes to her mother, Julia Gregg, after having been introduced to John Cowper Powy's wife: "... I hated her! She was so like Hilda! She used to look at Jack across the table, with her eyelids half drooped and that expression of veiled resentment with which Hilda used so much to look at Ezra.--that resentment that is based in unsatisfied sexual desire" (quoted in Smith, Penny. "Hilda Doolittle and Frances Gregg," The Powys review, Vol. 8, no. 22 (1988), p. 48). 1913 August 20. Helen Wolle Doolittle receives letter from H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). Richard Aldington in Kensington; writes postcard to A.E. Aldington ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript). 1913 August 22. Helen Wolle Doolittle receives postcard from H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 August 25. Helen Wolle Doolittle receives letter from H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 August 27. Helen Wolle Doolittle receives postcard from H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 September 2. Helen Wolle Doolittle receives postcard from H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary).

1913 September 4. Charles Leander Doolittle and Helen Wolle Doolittle start for London; reach Flushing on the Holland coast; then take a train for London (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 September 5. H.D. in London; Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle arrive in the morning; Helen Wolle Doolittle comments in her diary: "met Hilda at once"; in the evening H.D. and Richard Aldington visit the Doolittles (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 September 6. H.D. in London; (Zilboorg notes.) Doolittle not feeling well and a doctor is sent for (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). Ezra Pound writes to Dorothy Shakespear that "the Dryads family have descended on it, but she seems to have survived" (EP to DP, p. 253). 1913 September 7. H.D. in London; Charles Leander Doolittle has a fever and the doctor comes again; H.D. and Richard Aldington in and out at the Doolittles rooms (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 September 8. H.D. in London; Charles Leander Doolittle feeling better; Helen Wolle Doolittle is able to get some little things for H.D.'s birthay (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 September 9. H.D. in London; Charles Leander Doolittle not feeling better; H.D. visits the Doolittle's rooms several times (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 September 10. H.D. in London; celebrates her birthay; spent part of the day with Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle during which time they considered various "seaside places" where Charles Leander Doolittle could recuperate (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 September 11. H.D. in London; sees Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle off to Bournemouth; Helen Wolle Doolittle writes to H.D.on arrival in Bournemouth (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 September 13. Helen Wolle Doolittle notes in her diary: "Charles improving but not strong yet" (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 September 16. Helen Wolle Doolittle writes to H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 September 17. Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle go to Swanage for the day by boat (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 September 18. Helen Wolle Doolittle, writing in her diary, blames Charles Leander Doolittle's illness on the London air (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary).

1913 September 19. H.D. and Richard Aldington go to Bournemouth; Helen Wolle Doolittle notes in her diary: "Eventful day. Richard & Hilda came for the day to talk over the future. Such a lovely time! & I am happy for them both! ... C. & I met them at the station ... After our talk went to the pier and had our tea there. They left about 6"; Helen Wolle Doolittle further comments that she feels "happy & peaceful" (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 26). This quotation had better be carefully checked against the diary. At this time H.D. and Richard Aldington may have also gone to Corfe Castle (Autobiographical notes). [Note: there is a postcard of "Corfe Castle & Village" from Richard Aldington to one his sisters dated with a holograph "1913" ([unpubl.] Temple Univ. Lib. transcript)]. 1913 September 20. Helen Wolle Doolittle receives a postcard from H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 September 21. Helen Wolle Doolittle writes to H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 September 22. Helen Wolle Doolittle receives a letter from H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 September 23. H.D. in London; writes to F.S. Flint, postmarked Kensington; thanks him for gift of Paul Claudel's L'ANNONCE FAITE A MARIE which she found awaiting her when she recently returned from Bournemouth (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 560). Helen Wolle Doolittle writes to H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 September 28. Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle at Bournemouth; Helen Wolle Doolittle notes in her diary: "Packing today - leave in the morning for London where we meet Hilda & prepare for her marriage" (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 September 29. H.D. in London; Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle return from Bournemouth and stay at Kingsway (?) on Guildford Street off Russell Square Kingsway is not listed in the 1910 ed. of Baedeker's Great Britain (p.2-3); the Doolittles met H.D. and Richard Aldington at supper (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 September 30. H.D. in London; goes to the Kinsway for lunch and she and Helen Wolle Doolittle go out shopping; Helen Wolle Doolittle notes in her diary: "I purchase towels &c. & am happy to get Hilda's things together - Charles went out by himself" (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 October 1. H.D. in London; shops with Helen Wolle Doolittle in the morning; Richard Aldington joins them for tea (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 October 2. H.D. in London; shops with Helen Wolle Doolittle (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary).

1913 October 3. H.D. in London; lunches with Helen Wolle Doolittle and Richard Aldington (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 October 5. H.D. in London; dines with Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle at the Kingsway (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 October 7. H.D. in London; has lunch with Richard Aldington and Charles Leander and Helen Wolle Doolittle (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 October 18. H.D. and Edward Godfree Aldington married in the registry office of the district of Kensington. Ezra Pound and Helen Wolle Doolittle are witnesses. "Father, mother and Ezra are there" (Autobiographical notes). In her diary, Helen Wolle Doolittle notes: "Hilda married" "Letters to all the family. Hilda wrote most of them" (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). In a letter to Isabel Pound, postmarked on her wedding-day but probably written several days earlier, H.D. writes "I have no definite address at present ... We want to live in Paris but will stay here for a few months. I am at present in 6 Church Walk - most exciting with R.A. two doors above and the great E.P. across the way. -- My mother and father are still here - will return after the fatal day (Collecott notes). 1913 October - 1914 August(?). H.D. and Richard Aldington take up residency at 5 Holland Place Chambers, S.W. [off Kensington Church Street; Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear later across the hall at the same address (Collecott. Notes). Frances Gregg Wilkinson and Louis Wilkinson move into the flat at 6 Church Walk (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 27). According to John Cournos, in the spring of l914, after Ezra Pound married Dorothy Shakespear and moved to Holland Place Chambers acroos the landing from the Aldingtons, Cournos moved into Pound's room at 10 Church Walk; Cournos also comments that Ford Madox Hueffer lived in the vicinity (Cournos, John. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, p. 268). 1913 October 22. Dorothy Shakespear visits H.D. and Richard Aldington (EP to DP, p. 272). 1913 October 25. Helen Wolle Doolittle sends a box of spoons to H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 October 27. Helen Wolle Doolittle's diary indicates getting ticks, writing to H.D. and sending her two packages (Zilboorg notes: Helen Wolle Doolittle's Diary). 1913 October(?). Charles Leander and Holen Wolle Doolittle return to America (Autobiographical notes). 1913 November 29. Ezra Pound walks down Church Walk with H.D. and Richard Aldington (EP to DP, p. 280). 1913 December 1. "Contes Macabres" (l. "My Case"; 2. "Condemned to die"; 2. "A Letter") by Frances Gregg published in THE NEW FREEWOMAN.

1913 December (Christmas week). Belle Robinson Wolle and Francis Wolle visit the Clifford Howards in Los Angeles ((Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 31). 1914. DES IMAGISTES: AN ANTHOLOGY published (London : Poetry Bookshop ; New York : A. & C. Boni); edited anonymously by Ezra Pound; contains six poems by H.D.: "Sitalkas," "Hermes of the Ways I," "Hermes of the Ways II," "Priapus," "Acon," "Hermonax," and "Epigram."; other contributers were Richard Aldington, F.S. Flint, Skipwith Cannell, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Hueffer, Allen Upward, and John Cournos. 1914. "Pergamos" written (NHP unpubl. notes). 1914. REGION OF LUTANY by Bryher published (London : Chapman & Hall). 1914 January. Dr. Snively dies in Nice; then Margaret Snively moves to England (Zilboorg notes: Margaret Snively Pratt to Bryher, unpubl. letter, 12/6/68). 1914 January 1. Richard Aldington is listed as Assistant editor of THE EGOIST. 1914 January 6. Dorothy Shakespear writes to Ezra Pound that H.D. and Richard Aldington are coming (and did come) to tea (EP to DP, p. 295-296). 1914 February 2. "Hermes of the Ways," "Incantation," "Oread," and "Priapus" published in THE EGOIST. 1914 March 20. H.D. sends post card to Helen Wolle Doolittle from Kensington of Rossetti's "Ecce Ancilla Domina" (Tate Gallery) (Collecott notes). 1914 March 28. H.D. in London; writes postcard to the Flints, inviting them to visit her and Richard Aldington on Saturday evening (Collecott notes: post card postmarked from Kensington). 1914 April (?). John Cournos takes over Ezra Pound's room at No. 10 Church Walk (Cournos, John. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, p. 268). 1914 April 3. H.D. at The Hostel, Hindhead, Surrey; writes to F.S. Flint; comments that she and Aldington are sorry not to be able to come to the "Cubist" show on Saturday but are planning to see it the following Saturday (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 560). 1914 April 20. Ezra Pound marries Dorothy Shakespear (Stock. Life of Ezra Pound, p. l55) at St. Mary Abbotts Church, Kensington shortly after 10 a.m. (Wilhelm, J.J. Ezra Pound in London and Paris. p. 153). 1914 April 24. H.D.in London (Kensington); writes to F.S. Flint; arranges meeting wiith Flint at 38 Great Ormond St. (Collecott notes).

1914 May 5. James Whitall and wife [Mildred?] sail for England with George Plank on a White Star Line liner (Whitall, James. English years, p. 7). 1914 June 3. Walter Morse Rummel plays a concert in the afternoon at Aeolian Hall, London; announced in THE EGOIST, June 1, 1914, p. 214 (Zilboorg note). 1914 July (?). H.D. and Harriet Shaw Weaver meet for the first time (a chance encounter); Weaver describes H.D. as "tall, thin, pale, rather handsome, dreamy-eyed, plaesant-mannered" (Lidderdale & Nicholson, DEAR MISS WEAVER, p. 91). 1914 July 4. Richard Aldington writes to F.S. Flint; comments that H.D. is not well and refers to "mental strain" (Zilboorg notes, RA to FSF, unpubl letter, 7/4/1914--at HRC, Austin). l914 July 17. Amy Lowell's "Imagiste" dinner at the Dieudonn Restaurant in Ryder Street, just east of St. James Street, below Piccadilly; attending are Amy Lowell, H.D., Richard Aldington, Ezra Pound, Dorothy Shakespear, John Cournos, John Gould Fletcher, F. S. Flint, Henri GaudierBrzeska, Ford Madox Ford, Violet Hunt, Allen Upward, and Ada Russell (Weintraub. London Yankees, p. 336-338). Pound announces that there will be a new school of poetry, no longer to be called "imagiste" but henceforth called "nageiste" and proclaims that its symbol will be a bathtub (Fletcher, J.G. LIFE IS MY SONG, p. 148-152).. 1914 July 23. Austria-Hungary issues its forty-eight-hour ultimatium to Serbia (Heymann, AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY, P. 198). 1914 July 27. Michael Sadlier writes to Edward Marsh, asking him to bring together D.H. Lawrence and Amy Lowell (Hassall, C. A BIOGRAPHY OF EDWARD MARSH, p. 289). 1914 July 28. Austria-Hungary declares war (Heymann, AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY, P. 198). 1914 July 30. H.D. and Richard Aldington dine with D. H. Lawrence as guests of Amy Lowell at the Berkeley Hotel [Piccadilly: Collecott] (Moore. Priest of love. Rev. ed.) (Weintraub, p. 340) (Autobiographical notes). 1914 July 31. D.H. Lawrence writes to Harriet Monroe and mentions having been at dinner with Amy Lowell and the Aldingtons the previous evening; also comments that "Mrs Aldington has a few good poems" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #768). 1914 August(?). H.D. becomes pregnant; goes to Dr. Willy (Lady Barrett, who confirms that a child will be due in the Spring (Autobiographical notes). [Guest, Herself Defined, p. 72, states that H.D. learned of her pregnancy the morning of the day war was declared--LHS does not know source for precise dating]. 1914 August 43. War declared; on night of declaration H.D., Aldington, and John Cournos outside of Buckingham Palace (Autobiographical notes).

1914 August 9. D.H. Lawrence writes to Amy Lowell; asks her to give the Aldingtons their (the Lawrences) address--"of course I've forgotten theirs"--and tells her to tell the Aldingtons that he and Frieda would like to come to tea (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #774). 1914 August 11. D.H. Lawrence writes to Amy Lowell; thanks her for inviting them to dinner on Thursday [August 13] 1914 August 13. H.D. and Richard Aldington possibly dine with Amy Lowell and the D.H. Lawrences at the Berkeley Hotel (reference in vol 3 of Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1497; note in vol 2 to letter #777 indicates that this was the first time that Amy Lowell met Frieda [LHS note: since Fried was apparently not present on July 30, then this was probably the first time that the Aldingtons met Frieda]). LHS must check vol. 2 p. 207. 1914 August 22. D.H. Lawrence writes to Amy Lowell from Chesham, Bucks.; invites her to drive over for a day with the Aldingtons or Ada Russell (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #780). H.D. later recalled that Amy Lowell had taken her and Aldington to see the Lawrences in their Cottage at Chesham in Bukinghamshire where they met Katherine Masefield and Mark Gertler ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 53). 1914 September 15. Amy Lowell writes to Harriet Monroe; describes at length the rift with Ezra Pound over Amy's idea of publishing a yearly series of Imagist anthologies along democratic principles (each poet having an equal amount of space and the contributors selecting which of their own poems to include; reports that Pound was furious and sent for the Aldington 's and told them that they had to choose between him and Amy; the Aldington's apparently handled it diplomaticly and told Pound that it was not a question of choosing between them but that it was a question of principle; Pound then supposedly tried to bribe them by asking them to edit an anthology with him, leaving Amy out, which the Aldington's refused to do (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 200-202). 1914 October 29. Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell; comment that H.D. is in the "Country"; Aldington is in London but will join H.D. for a week in the country (Zilboorg notes: RA to AL, unpubl letter, 10/29/14--Houghton). 1914 November 23. H.D. sends card postmarked that date from THE EGOIST, Oakley House, Bloomsbury Street; writes card to F.S. FLint; is sending review copy of book by Amy Lowell; supplies Amy Lowell's address (Heath Street, Brookline, Mass.) (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 560). Also writes to Amy Lowell re new poems by Lowell and Chinese translations by Pound [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton])]. 1914 December 17. H.D. writes to Amy Lowell; Pound apparently is taking up Imagism again; H.D. wonders if they shouldn't drop it (H.D., Aldington, and Flint are in agreement); refers to Pound writing articles on Imagism for "T.P.'s Weekly" and BLAST; Aldington intercepted an article for THE EGOIST (by Pound) attacking Macmillans and indirectly Lowell; says "we can't go on watching him like two keepers - can we? It is making us ridiculous! - All of us - or it will!"; says Ford has been very kind and that it is he who suggested dropping the title "Imagism"; they suggest changing the title to "The Six"; comments thhat "the pre-raphaelites were known as

the seven or was it `the nine'?"; further says "we would all be individuals without being isms and we would, in addition, be a group!"; comments that Aldington has disassociated himself entirely from BLAST (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton]). 1914 December 19. H.D. sends letter postmarked that date to F.S. Flint; comments on Aldington's appreciation for Flint's comments on one of his poems; refers to plans for SOME IMAGIST POETS; says that Aldington suggests that Flint come to Isola Bella to-morrow around 7:00 if he can (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 562). 1914 December 26. Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell; thanks Lowell for forwarding some of his work to THE LITTLE REVIEW and adds "will you always remember that the Egoist is open to any of your friends who want to air their opinions" (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 176).

.D. Chronology: Part II 1915. Receives Guarantors Prize (POETRY magazine) for "The Wind Sleepers," "Storm," "Pool," "The Garden," and "Moonrise" (Friedman. DLB 45:115). 1915. Richard Aldington's THE IMAGISTS published as special series, no. 5 of BRUNO CHAP BOOKS (Washington Square [New York] : G. Bruno, c1915); includes one poem by H.D.: "Huntress." 1915. Gilbert Doolittle awarded the graduate degree of Civil Engineer (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 34). 1915. Charles Melvin Doolittle graduates from the University of Pennsylvania, studying engineering (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 37). 1915 January(?) - 1915 August(?). H.D. and Richard Aldington at 7 Christchurch Place, Hampstead (Zilboorg Introd. ) to Audrey Locke's flat; John Hilton (?) has part of house there for his studio (Autobiographical notes). 1915 January 13. H.D. at 7 Christchurch Place, Hampstead; Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell (Zilboorg notes--Houghton). 1915 January 14. H.D. writes to Amy Lowell; asks for a small change in a poem of hers [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton])]. 1915 February 1. H.D. at 7 Christchurch Place, Hampstead; Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell; comments on how much better they like the Hampstead flat which is larger; refers to being "away from Kensingtonian squabbles & intrigues" (Zilboorg Introd. [draft]--Houghton). 1915 February 10. Richard Aldington sends postcard, postmarked this date from Hampstead; to George Plank; invites him to come tomorrow (Thursday) about 8:15--gives instructions and

draws a diagram: "Take Hamstead & Highgate railway to Hampstead; turn to the right up Heath St., till you come to the Daily Express, then ?right? again down Elm Row; you will see Christ Church in front of you; we are just below it ... [diagram] P.S. We are on the ?top? floor" (RA to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1915 February 19[?]. Richard Aldington writes to George Plank on THE EGOIST stationary, from 7 Christchurch Place, Hampstead; reports that an U.S.A. publisher is in the vicinity; refers to possible meeting "somewhere in town soon & see if we can't make a scheme whereof the magazine could be run by you & me & my wife & Cournos. We haven't suffiicient moral depravation to make a concern commercialy sucessful - we must therefore rely only [on?] the approbation of the elite" (RA to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1915 March. Article by Richard Aldington appears in THE LITTLE REVIEW (p. 22-25) (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 263). 1915 Spring. Confinement at Prince's Gate; (Birth of stillborn child (a girl); visitors include May Sinclair, Brigit Patmore, Mrs. Wadsworth, John Fowler, and F.S. Flint; after return to Hempstead has wearing experience with Anna Wickham; sees a lot of John Cournos, Margaret Radford (Autobiographical notes). 1915 April. SOME IMAGIST POETS, 1915 published; edited anonymously by Amy Lowell, introduced anonymously by Richard Aldington; includes seven poems by H.D.: "The Pool." "The Garden," "Sea Lily," "Sea Iris," "Sea Rose," "Oread," and "Orion Dead"; other contributors are Richard Aldington, John Gould Fletcher, F.S. Flint, D.H. Lawrence, and Amy Lowell. 1915 April 27. H.D. writes to Amy Lowell; refers to Rupert Brook's death; says she likes Lawrence's "Mowers" in the new anthology; refers to Aldington's work on THE EGOIST and comments "I know how disappointed you & Fletcher will be to see Miss M. on the first page. I assure you we both fought hard enough - but Miss Weaver runs the paper for Dora Marsden swears by her - and R. is after all only sub-editor" [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton])] (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 175). 1915 May 1. "Mid-day" published in THE EGOIST (special Imagist issue); in same issue F.S. Flint praises H.D.'s poetry. H.D. later reflects on its composition in 1955 in "Compassionate Friendship", p. 12. 1915 May 7. The Lusitania sunk off the coast of Ireland, with the loss of 1198 lives, including 139 Americans (Langer). 1915 May 21. Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell: "I have been rather distressed, because Hilda was delivered of a little girl still-born, about 2 am this morning. ... I haven't seen the doctor, but the nurse said it was a beautiful child & they can't think why it didn't live. It was very strong, but couldn't breathe. Poor Hilda is very distressed, but is recovering physically" (RA to AL, [unpubl. letter], Houghton Library--quoted in Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 28).. Francis Wolle also seems to have known that the Still-born child was a girl (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 57).

1915 June 1. First Zeppelin attack on London (Zilboorg notes). 1915 June 2. Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell; H.D. still in nursing home in London. expected out about June 11 (Zilboorg notes--Houghton). 1915 June 11. Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell; has picked H.D. up that day from the nursing home in London in Bridgit Patmore's car (chauffeur driven) and has taken her to the country [Surrey?] (Zilboorg notes--Houghton). 1915 July 5? H.D. writes letter to F.S. Flint postmarked that date from Vale End, Albury, Surrey, Station, Chilworth; refers to letter from Ezra Pound which had appeared in the July 2 issue of THE EGOIST; inivites Flint to come for supper on Wednesday evening; says that both she and Aldington are angry with Pound [for his published letter attacking an article by Flint] "though we wouldn't have E.P. know we are annoyed for the world--silence is the best, for us, I think, and surely the simplest policy!--" (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 563). 1915 July 8. H.D. in Surrey; writes post card to F.S. Flint; mentions having missed Flint on Aldington's birthday; they had dined "in lovely state at the Island Beautiful [i.e. Isola Bella]"; invites Flint to tea on Sunday (Collecott notes). Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell; discusses Harriet Monroe and POETRY; comments that "Ezra had to force her to print Hilda and me in the beginning, she always holds our stuff up for months ... and she has steadily taken Ezra's part against us from the beginning" (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 156). [Note: this impression was apparently incorrect--Monroe's standard practice was to accept material and hold it back for a while before publishing it. Cf. Williams.] Richard Aldington also comments to Amy Lowell that he (?) still thinks of the child (Zilboorg notes: Houghton). 1915 August 4-December 21. D,H. and Frieda Lawrence reside at 1 Byron Villas, Vale of Health, Hampstead (Sagar, p. 231-2). 1915 August 9. H.D. writes letter to George Plank, postmarked this date from Hampstead [LHS note: an affectionate and flippant letter]; says she wiill be at home to him, possibly Friday of this week about 3:00 (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1915 August 21. H.D. at 7 Christchurch Place, Hampstead; writes to Marianne Moore, renewing the Bryn Mawr acquaintance: "I remember you at Bryn Mawr May F?te, in a green dress"; comments on her own and Aldington's reactions to Moore's poems; says she knows what Moore is going through although she herself "escaped some five years ago"; implies that it is not an easy battle on this side of the Atlantic either; however H.D. does recognize that she is imposing her own experience on Moore; invites Moore to visit them in London; however she does warn that they are "poor"--however "London is to be seen most advantagously ... from the top of a twopence bus; is sending a prospectus of their latest venture [Poet's Translation Series] and says that they will continue with it if it proves to be a success; suggests that Moore might like to try her hand at translating some obscure Greek or Latin ([unpl. letter], Rosenbach Foundation). [Note: date written in brackets on letter; however Hanscombe & Smyers (WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 265) say that the letter is postmarked September 7, 1915.] [LHS note: since the envelope of this letter is addressed by H.D. tp Bryn Mawr and has been forwarded to Carlisle,

Pa., Pat Willis conjectures that since H.D. could have gotten Moore's current address from either Aldington or Harriet Shaw Weaver, that addressing it to Bryn Mawr was H.D.'s manner of being sure that Moore was the person whom she remembered from there.] 1915 August 23. H.D. writes to F.S. Flint and asks him to go to supper with Anna Wickham at 49 Downshire [or Devonshire?] H.M. Hampstead; she and Aldington will be in the country (Collecott notes). 1915 August/September. H.D. writes an undated letter to George Plank about this time; describes the bombing in London--one narrowly missed "Monroe's shop [the Poetry Bookshop?]; refers to Plank's wish to purchase a picture from "Nina" [LHS note: could this possibly be Nina Hamnett?]; says she is going over there this afternoon; discusses adding a bit of money to what Plank can pay as she wants to help Nina (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1915 September 8. John Cournos first hears Zeppelins flying over his room at the top at the top of a house in Mecklenburgh Square [44?]; describes his landlady [Ellinor James? [first name located by Carolyn Zilboorg in the London Postal Directory]]: "She was an altogether odd lady, this landlady of mine. She quite apparently belonged to a good family--her sister indeed was Lady So-and-So--and she furnished the rooms in quite superior fashion, with rugs in excellent taste and reproductions of Botticelli on the walls. She was very selective about her tenants, and accepted only those she personally liked. She preffered couples who were in love and lived without the formality of marriage. Such however usually preferred other quarters. For the most part her lodgers were suffragettes of the militant variety ..." (Cournos, John. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, p. 281-283). 1915 September 18. Richard Aldington writes to George Plank from 7 Christchurch Place, Hampstead; mostly about relations with the editress of the Egoist [Harriet Shaw Weaver] and subscriptions to the Poet's Translation series (RA to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1915 September 25. H.D. writes to George Plank; discusses getting together and American subscribes to the Poet's Translation Series (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1915 October 4. H.D. writes to Amy Lowell; "we [H.D. and Aldington] see him [D.H. Lawrence] on Sunday" in Hampstead (Collecott notes); asks if Lowell has read THE RAINBOW; comments that Lawrence is not much interested in the next Imagist anthology but perked up at the sound of royalties [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton])]. This letter has been erronously dated 1916; moved by LHS September 30, 1988.? 1915 October 7. H.D. writes to Amy Lowell; encloses poems--"Huntress" and "Midday"; comments that the Lawrences have moved "out here" [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton])]. 1915 November (?). CHORUSES FROM IPHIGENEIA IN AULIS published as number 3 of THE POET'S TRANSLATION SERIES. [Bryer, Friedman, et al. have accepted publication date for this edition as 1916; LHS and Gregory have examinned prospectuses in earlier and later numbers of this series and are in agreement that it probably was published in November 1915-the announcement in no. 1 (Anyte) states "THE POETS' TRANSLATION SERIES will appear

first in 'The Egoist' (starting September 1st) and will then be reprinted and issued as small pamphlets"--no. 2 (Sappho), which was published in October 1915, announces that no. 3 will be ready in November--the prospectus announcing the planning of a second series dated "January 1916" states "The first five are now ready. Number six will be ready February l, 1916. The others will be published monthly on the 1st of each month"; the same pospectus further states "Part of each of these translations will appear simultaneously in 'The Egoist'".] 1915 November 1. "Choruses from Iphigeneia in Aulis" published in THE EGOIST. 1915 November 14. F.S. Flint writes to Amy Lowell that he had recently drunk wine with Richard Aldington and H.D. to celebrate her reciving the Poetry prize (Zilboorg notes: from a copy of a letter at HRC, Austin) 1915 November 15. Adrienne Monnier opens her own bookshop, La Maison des Amis des Livres, on the Rue de L`Odeon, Paris (H.D. "Letters across the Abyss," p. 117) 1915 November l9 (?). H.D. writes to Amy Lowell; discusses poems for the anthology (her own and those of others); discusses English bitterness that America has not entered the War; says that Lawrence is going to the country and that the Florida venture has been postponed; comments that Lawrence waited for hours in the rain in a queue to get his "medically unfit" status along witin hundreds of others then gave up and took to his bed without attaining the "unfit" status (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton]). 1915 November 23. Amy Lowell writes to H.D.; discusses growing influence of Imagism on poets and people in America; discusses dificulties of getting poems published in magazines in America other than POETRY and THE LITTLE REVIEW ("Most of the magazines her do not understand them - that is the frank truth") but despite that she will try to place the poems which H.D. has sent her; refers to the forthcoming anthology [the second SOME IMAGIST POETS]; comments that "I cannot tell you how I long to see you both. There are no two people in the world whom I miss so much and whom I feel it such a loss to be parted from" (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 69, 203-204). 1915 November 29. Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell; a book of Lawrence's has been suppressed under "some practically obsolete law" [LHS note: Aldington is referring to THE RAINBOW]--his publisher's (Methuen) have let him down; says that Lawrence did not hear about the suppression until two days after a magistrate had ruled on it; the matter has been taken up by several people including Eddie Marsh who is now Asquith's secretary and it has been raised in Parliament where it is to be debated in the week following (Aldington comments: "This is, of course, an immense compliment to a young writer like Lawrence, for the House now treats of none but war business"); apparently it has been suggested that Lawrence be left out of the next anthology and H.D. is saying that in the light of what has happened that he should not be left out; says "we are seeing quite a good deal of Lawrence as he lives just around the corner" [Sagar's A D.H. LAWRENCE HANDBOOK (p. 231) gives Lawrence's address from August 4 to December 21 as l Byron Villas. Vale of Health, Hampstead, London]; discusses Alfred Kreymborg and Darcy Hyde (negatively); thanks Lowell for trying to find someone to take the "Translations" in America and discusses proposed projects including Choruses from Euripides Ion and Poems of

Meleager [LHS is speculating that it was Amy Lowell who put Aldington and H.D. in contact with the Rev. Charles C. Bubb] (Aldington to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton]). 1916. SEA GARDEN published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin. Amy Lowell instrumental in arranging for this publication. 1916 January 1. "The Cliff Temple" published in THE EGOIST. 1916 January 20. H.D. writes to Amy Lowell; asks secretly for money--they are living on allowance from her family and money from publications; refers to her shattered nerves from her experience of the previous Spring [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton])]. 1916 January 22. H.D. writes to Amy Lowell; tells her that money is coming from the U.S. and asks her not to send more after all [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton])]. 1916 January 24. H.D. writes to Amy Lowell; discusses anthology and plans for a book of her own . 1916 January 25. D.H. Lawrence writes to Amy Lowell; comments "Mrs Aldington said how beautiful your poems for the anthology are--she is going to send them to me" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1147). 1916 February. In a letter dated October 1, 1916 to Amy Lowell, Richard Aldington indicates that he and H.D. left London about this time (Zilboorg notes--Houghton). 1916 February 6. Amy Lowell writes to H.D.; sends H.D. and Aldington the royalties from the first Imagist Anthology and adding a bit extra; discusses H.D.'s work: "Now, Hilda, don't you think it would be a good idea if a book of yours came out in print? Have you got enough things to go in a book? I will do my best to force Ferris Greenslet to take if you have" (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 69, 204). 1916 February (?). H.D. writes to Amy Lowell using c/o Egoist, Oakley House, Bloomsbury St. as address; thanks her for her kindness and generosity (40 pounds); explains that they had gotten hard pressed as three months allowance was missing but it has been straightened out--turns out to have been a careless mistake of the bank; will await Lowell's instructions before returning the loan; should some of the money be sent to Lawrence and Flint; asks if she could send two or three pounds to a young friend--a journalist [Cournos?]; mentions another friend with a wife and daughter who live on less than fifteen shillings a week; comments that during this war period she and Aldington have a joint income of around three pounds a week and live extremely comfortably on it; says that, even when she was ill, they have never needed to borrow money before; says they are all weakened by the continual strain of the war; mentions Lowell's poems and an article by Flint (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton]).

1916 February 10. H.D. inscribed her copy of Roget's THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES (New York : Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [190-?]). 1916 February 15. D.H. Lawrence writes to Dollie Radfor from Porthcothan, St. Merryn, North Cornwall; comments in a postscript: "I'm glad you like Mrs Aldington. Ask her if she doesn't want a cottage in Cornwall?" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1175). 1916 February 22. H.D. at The Schoolhouse, Martinhoe, Parracombe, North Devon (?); writes to Amy Lowell; her book [SEA GARDEN] has been accepted by Constable but will not come out in three months as she had hoped because of paper shortage; tells Lowell that she is in Devon; discusses poems [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton])]. 1916 February 24. H.D. writes to George Plank; gives new address on envelope: "New address / c/o Mrs Dellbridge / Martinhoe / Parracombe / N. Devon"; says "some of us, no doubt all will turn up Isola Bella on Friday"; sets time for 7:30; continues "we must be back early as we take morning train! We are moving our furniture to 44 Mecklenburg Square Friday P.M."; indicates that dinner will include herself, Aldington and John Cournos and perhaps F.S. Flint as they had asked him to dine with them that evening--they had planned a tea on Monday [for Plank and the Whitalls?] but it has all gone wrong; mentions confusion [LHS note: from this letter it seems as if the decision to move to 44 Mecklenburg Square was a hurried one]; insists that dinner must be Dutch--says " we can't ask Flint otherwise & we can't impose on you forever and ever" (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1916 February 26. H.D. and Aldington possibly move to 44 Mecklenberg Square (implied in H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter], 24 Feb 1916). 1916 March. Military Service Act of 1916 passed (Zilboorg notes). 1916 March l. "The Last Gift" published in THE EGOIST. 1916 March 6. H.D. at Woodland Cottage, Martinhoe, Parracombe, North Devon; writes to Harriet Monroe (Zilboorg notes). 1916 March 22 (?). H.D. in Devonshire; writes to F.S. Flint; describes writing activities and domestic life; says they are on their own trout stream (called the Heddon); the place is charming but there is only enough room for them and John Cournos (if he comes); speculates that Pound had expected to get Aldington's post on THE EGOIST (he had written a "charming Macheavellian [sic] note" to them which they had not answered; refers to widening gulf with Amy Lowell (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 565-566). Carl and Flo Fallas have cottage nearby; H.D. makes marmalade (data from incorrectly dated entry in "Autobiographical notes). 1916 March 27. H.D. at Woodland Cottage, Martinhoe, Parracombe, North Devon; Richard Aldington writes to F.S. Flint and comments on her erotic attraction and his desire to sleep with

her (Zilboorg introd. [draft]). Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell giving above address (Zilboorg notes: Houghton). 1916 Spring-Summer. Aldington has affair with Flo Fallas, wife of Carl Fallas. 1916 Spring. H.D. writes to William Carlos Williams [undated]; tells him of her plans to substitute for Aldington at THE EGOIST as "a sort of assistant assistant editor" (unpl. letter: SUNY Buf.). 1916 April 1. "The Helmsman" published in THE EGOIST. 1916 April 15. H.D. at Woodland Cottage, Martinhoe, Parracombe, North Devon; writes to Marianne Moore re. the Poets' Translation Series; says that "we are obliged to put off the second series of our translations for the present"; however she will hold Moore's payment for the time for the time being and will repay it in a few months if the series is dropped; says she is very happy in Devonshire; speaks of recent events (deaths at the battlefront or imprisonments of friends) as being on a "Dostoyeskian [sic] scale"; refers to forthcoming publication of SEA GARDEN by Constable; says it is "horribly uneven but it seemed best to make up the book at the time and I just let all go"; indicates that she is already preparing another volume; refers to possibility of Harriet Monroe publishing some of her poems; describes her surroundings as wild and pagan-they have half a thatched cottage with a brook--they are backed by a wooded hill with a small mountain in front and the sea, with cliffs covered with gorge, is half a mile down the valley; describes fauna--wild daffodils, snow-drops, and hedge-violets; discusses quality of Moore's work and encourages her to publish a volume; says she writes very few letters--"two a week perhaps" ([unpl. letter], Rosenbach Foundation). 1916 April 23 (ca.). F.S. Flint spends Easter with H.D. and Richard Aldington in Devonshire (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 566). 1916 April 28 (?). H.D. at Woodland Cottage, Martinhoe, Parracombe, North Devon; writes to F.S. Flint; writes of cost of food, etc.; says that they are living more economically than they can in London; discusses what will happen when conscription comes in; says that Flint and Cournos are the only reliable friends she has--"at least on whom I could depend in an emergency"; Aldington has apparently talked of going to jail to avoid conscription, saying that should that happen H.D. should return to America; speaks of trying to find a cottage Flint and his family (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 567-568). 1916 May. SOME IMAGIST POETS, 1916 : AN ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY (Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company) published; includes four poems by H.D.? "Sea Gods," "The Shrine," "Temple--The Cliff," and "Mid/day"; other contributors are Richard Aldington, John Gould Fletcher, F.S. Flint, D.H. Lawrence, and Amy Lowell. 1916 May 3 (?). H.D. at Woodland Cottage, Martinhoe, Parracombe, North Devon; writes to F.S. Flint; thanks Flint for sending cigarettes; again Aldington talks of H.D.'s going to America--"Of course, I say I won't but if he does get taken away from me and it will give him any comfort to know I am somewhere else, I will have to think seriously of it"; they are waiting to hear what happens about the Military Service Act of 1916 before making their plans; mentions that Flo

Fallas will have to leave her house in July (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 569). 1916 May 4. CHORUSES FROM IPHIGENEIA IN AULIS greeted by reviewer in the TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT as a singular achievement (Pondrom note in H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 570). Possibly by Professor J. W. Mackail (see Aldington's letter to C.C. Bubb of l9 June 1916) and H.D.'s letter to C.C. Bubb for end of October-early November 1916). 1916 May 6. SOME IMAGIST POETS, l9l6 acclaimed by William Stanley Braithwaite in a three column article entitled "The Latest Quintessence of Imagism" in the BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT (Pondrom note in H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 572-573). 1916 May 9 (?). H.D. at Woodland Cottage, Martinhoe, Parracombe, North Devon; writes to F.S. Flint; thanks him for congratulations for the review in the TIMES, a review which she found "most comforting"; comments that she never said she was returning to the U.S.A,, only that Richard wanted her to; turmoil of Aldington's struggles to decide what to do about the conscription bill is reflected in this letter (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 570-571). 1916 May l6. John Cournos writes to F. S. Flint that the result of the praise in the TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT has made H.D. more determined than before to continue her work as poet (Pondrom note re unpublished letter in H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 570). 1916 May 17. H.D. at Woodland Cottage, Martinhoe, Parracombe, North Devon; writes to F.S. Flint (letter begins on the back of a typescript of "Sea Poppies", letter also continues on both the front and back of the typescript of the last five stanzas of "Pursuit"); Thanks him for sending her a set of Pindar; things have calmed down a bit after the first shock of the conscription bill--she thinks Aldington will wait now and at the last moment join the North Devons as a private; says that Carl Fallas wants to join with Aldington but she doubts if this is possible because of age and health [Fallas did enter the service with Aldington and served in the same unit with him] has received the proofs of SEA GARDEN--"beautifully printed" by the Chiswick Press--she is "awfully pleased" with it and so are Aldington and Cournos; apologizes for writing on typescript of the poems--it is all she has on hand at the moment; mentions that Harriet Shaw Weaver has written that she can take Aldington's place at THE EGOIST (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 571-572). 1916 May (between 17 and 24). Aldington enlists as a private in the 11th Reserve Battalion, the Devonshire regiment; although H.D. expected him to be sent to France in about eight weeks, he was actually kept on for training in England as a noncommissioned officer (Pondrom note in H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 572-573) (dates pinpointed by Zilboorg; name of regiment in letter from the Imperial War Museum to Zilboorg). 1916 May 24. Conscription begins (Military Services Act goes into effect) (Zilboorg notes).

1916 May 25. H.D. at Woodland Cottage, Martinhoe, Parracombe, North Devon; writes to F.S. Flint; discusses possibility that Amy Lowell may have, without being authorized to do so, sent some of H.D.'s poems to Harriet Monroe for POETRY [she apparently had not done so] (Harriet Monroe had first accepted "The Shrine" then turned it down as it was to appear in SOME IMAGIST POETS, 1916); refers to Braithwaite article [see entry for May 6, 1916]; refers to uncertainity about future plans--had hoped to stay there with Flo Fallas but Flo's people are coming to collect her in July; has been very happy despite unrest--"every day we go to Heddons Mouth about 1:30, bathe, scamper about on the rocks, build a drift-wood fire and have tea"; refers to Flint's friend Keniss who is one of the party; more about enlistment plans (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 573-574). 1916 June l - 1917 May. H.D. substitutes for Richard Aldington on editorial board of THE EGOIST. ["Notice to readers: Mr. Aldington will shortly be called up for military service and during his absence the assistant-editorship of THE EGOIST will be taken over by "H.D." (Mrs. Richard Aldington)."] 1916 June-July. Article by John Gould Fletcher on H.D. appears in THE LITTLE REVIEW(p. 26-31) (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 264). 1916 June 1. "Sea gods" published in THE EGOIST. 1916 June 11. Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell from Woodland Cottage, Martinhoe, Parracombe, North Devon (Zilboorg notes--Houghton); comments that "Hilda is taking over the Egoist. I seem to be a little 'out' with Miss weaver just now. Whether it is due to Ezra or Miss Marsden I can't say, but there it is ... Mis Marsden seems to have a great 'down' on you - anyhow she is a beastly woman, I dislike her very much" (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 176). 1916 June 19. Richard Aldington writes to C.C. Bubb giving the Woodland Cottage address; suggests that Bubb reprint the first six of the Poet's Translation Series at his Clerk's Press (Cleveland, Ohio) beginning with no. 3 (Choruses from Iphigeneia iin Aulis) [LHS NOTE: Dean Keller's introduction to 'BUBB BOOKLETS' indicates that Bubb approached Aldington first]; refers to praise which it has received from Professor J.W. Mackail; suggests printing 50 copies with specimen copies being sent to him and H.D.--no question of money payment--the specimen copies suffice; "it would be understood that the author would have the right to print the translation publicly in America"; comments that over 2000 copies of the Poet's Translation Series have been sold to date (Aldington, Richard. 'BUBB BOOKLETS', p. 19-20) (Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections. CHARLES CLINCH BUBB AND THE CLERK'S PRESS, item 49). 1916 June 24 - October. Aldington in training camp in Wareham, Dorsetshire, adjacent to Devon--the village of Corfe Castle, northwest of Swanage within walking distance (Pondrom note in H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 575). [Zilboorg identifies the training camp as Worget Camp.] [June 24 pinpointed from letter from Richard Aldington to Amy Lowell dated June 22, l916 (Zilboorg notes--Houghton)]. In a letter to C.C. Bubb, written 9 August 1917, Richard Aldington writes: "Last summer when I was at Wareham I had to get up at 4:30 (3:30 by the sun!) to get back from Corfe by reveille. In the autumn dawn

when the wind moaned round that huge old ruin I used to scurry along in dread of of the ghosts of Saxon kings! That piece of country is pure Saxon, marvellous, austere" (Aldington, Richard. 'BUBB BOOKLETS', p. 33). 1916 June 26. H.D. at Woodland Cottage, Martinhoe, Parracombe, North Devon; writes to F.S. Flint; states "R. has been passed for general service. He has about 8 weeks in England and is sent to France to complete his education"; gives Aldington's address as "11th Devons, Wareham, Devonshire"; Aldington and Carl Fallas went off together; refers to letter which Aldington wrote to the NATION in response to [unidentified] one written by Flint--Aldington signed his as "Miles" [Pondrom thinks this may be a comment on "The Medical Treatment on the Unfit" signed Haud Equidem Miles which appeared in the NATION for June 13, 1916] (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 574-575). 1916 June (26?). John Cournos later recalls that after Aldington left: "H.D. and I were left as 'paying guests' in the same House [Woodland Cottage]. H.D. was dreadfully upset by Richard's departure, though she had had ample time to prepare for it. Psychically wrought up, immediately after his departure, she impetuously walked over to me in the sitting-room we all jointly occupied, and kissed me. This revelation of confidence and its implication of the two of us being left to maintain the thinning thread of spirit in growing chaos, touched me, and I resolved to help her breach the emptiness of the days immediately before her. She made up her mind to take a room somewhere near Richard as soon as she knew where his training camp was. An extraordinary thing happened a day or two after Richard left. We were in the sitting-room having afternoon tea, when suddenly we looked at each other strangely. 'Did you hear it?' she asked me. 'He called you!' 'Yes,' I said. 'Isn't it strange?' And, indeed, what we both heard, distinctly and unmistakably was Richard's voice calling me: 'Kershoon!' That was, of course, my real name, the name of my own father, the name by which both Richard and H.D. affectionately called me. It seemed to come out of the very air out of doors. We looked out, but saw nothing. I have no explanation to offer" (Cournos, John. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, p. 289). 1916 June 28. Amy Lowell writes to H.D.; sends support and encouragement and refers to Aldington's absence, saying that she knows H.D. must be "fearfully lonely" (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 69). 1916 June 30. Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell; gives address as 24965 Co. E, Hut [?] 8, 11th Devons, Worget Camp, Wareham, Dorset (Zilboorg notes: Houghton). 1916 July l. "Cities" published in THE EGOIST. 1916 July 12. H.D. at Woodland Cottage, Martinhoe, Parracombe, North Devon; writes to F.S. Flint; says she is going to Corfe Castle in a few days to be near Aldington and that he will be able to come see her on Sunday a week [23?]; is so tired typing for THE EGOIST (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 575). 1916 July 13. H.D. writes to Amy Lowell; comments on the hope for a promotion for Aldington which would keep him in England; says that Aldington is a private in Dorset; mentions trying to place poems by John Cournos [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul.

letter, Houghton])]. Says she plans to move to Wareham to be near Aldington (Zilboorg notes: Houghton). 1916 July 23-November (early). H.D. at Corfe Castle; later tells Pearson that she wrote "Fragment Thity-six" and "The Islands" at Corfe Castle (H.D. to NHP, [letter], [Dec. 12, 1937]). 1916 July 23. H.D. arrives at Corfe Castle [LHS note: Corfe Castle is southeast of Wareham, halfway between Wareham and Swanage]; sees Richard Aldington [date deduced from letters to John Cournos and F.S. Flint]; writes to John Cournos; indicates that the train trip to Corfe Castle had many tribulations; fell out of the train "into the salute of a very tall, strange person whom my mind told me must, of all his majesty's many, be only One! It was R.A. - looking very well, taller, tremendously full chested with a cropped but not disfigured head"; says that Aldington is changed; mentions Aldington's relationship with Carl Fallas; has met an officer who has been very kind to Aldington; describes Corfe Castle; tells Cournos to got go on with his work and to be bold but not too bold; says Aldington loves him dearly (H.D. to John Cournos. IOWA REVIEW, v. 16, no. 3, p. 130-131). John Cournos remains behind at Parracombe long enough to pack his own belongings and the Aldington's books which he sends to London (Cournos, John. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, p. 290). 1916 July 24. H.D. at Corfe Castle; writes to F.S. Flint; saw Aldington on Sunday; refers to photograph of Flint which sits on writing table; says "I feel indeed I must go on with our works, yours R's and mine, for the sake of us all!-I don't seem to get much done-all I want is to keep the home-fires of divine poesy humming till the boys come home!--"; refers to having teased Flint with her "new visions" which she says was a joke [H.D. (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 577-578) [LHS comment: h'mmm!] 1916 July 30. H.D. at Corfe Castle; sees Richard Aldington (referred to in her letter to C.C. Bubb, 31 July 16). 1916 July 31. H.D. at Corfe Castle; writes to C.C. Bubb; thanks him for having sent examples of his publications [Clerk's Press, Cleveland, Ohio]; has seen Richard Aldington on Sunday who is exhausted and can do no writing--but seeing Bubb's work "revived [?] his old desires and ambitions for our little 'Poet's Translation Series'"; is sending Bubb a set of the series (ordinary edition); will send any of the special edition which he wants; if he wants more of the ordinary edition suggests that he write to Miss Paine, Oakley House, Bloomsbury St, London W.C.; says Aldington especially likes the Anacreon [A GARLAND OF TEN POETICAL VERSIONS BY DIVERS HANDS OF THE THIRTY FIRST ODE OF ANACREON WITH THE GREEK TEXT. 1914] and was also extremely interested in the Church pieces [THE BREASTPLATE OF ST. PATRICK, TOGETHER WITH OTHER EARLY IRISH POEMS OF CHRISTIAN ORIGIN ... 1912]; comments that she does not know if she will be able to have the second series done [Poet's Translation Series]--"prices of printing etc. have gone up appallingly in the last months; would be happy to send him the manuscripts as they are finished; comments: "Most of the translators, of course, are incapacitated for the time being. I, however, fortunately am exempt from military service and will endeavor to keep in touch with things - keep my own and my husband's works alive"; express their interest in seeing the "Clouds of Aristophanes" [1916] (Unpubl. letter: UCLA).

1916 July 31. H.D. at Corfe Castle; writes to Amy Lowell; is still hoping that Aldington will get stripes that will keep him in England; mentions that she is glad that Lawrence was exempted; begs Lowell to write and to send Aldington anything [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton])]. 1916 August. "Marianne Moore" [article] published in THE EGOIST. 1916 August 2. H.D. at Corfe Castle; writes to F.S. Flint; tells him that Aldington is now a lancecorporal; John Cournos is due to return to Mecklenburgh Square "on Saturday; comments that 'Arold [Harold Monro?] is also in army camps "in some godless district" (Collecott notes from photocopy in BRBML, dated in Pearson's handwriting). 1916 August 4. H.D. at Corfe Castle; writes to F.S. Flint refers to John Gould Fletcher's article in THE LITTLE REVIEW: "Fletcher has cetainly puffed H and F.S. even to their heart's content: refers to Aldington's training and his attitude; Flint apparently offered them a photograph of himself as H.D. says "we will be delighted to have your 'nobil mug'" (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 577). 1916 August 9. Marianne Moore writes in appreciation for the article on her poetry which was published in THE EGOIST; sent to her in proof by Harriet Shaw Weaver (unpl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation). 1916 August 12. CHORUSES FROM IPHIGENAIA IN AULIS TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF EURIPIDES?MDUL??MDNM? published by C. C. Bubb (Cleveland, Ohio : Clerks Press). "The 'Introduction' by H.D. defends her translation against those who would have the Greek translated word for word. She explains her omission of 'ornamental adjectives' in the original and describes her translation as an attempt to keep the Greek quality of 'umaged clarity'" (Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections. CHARLES CLINCH BUBB AND THE CLERK'S PRESS, item 49). 1916 August 14. H.D. at Corfe Castle; writes to Amy Lowell; reports on what she did with Lowell's money (shared it with writers); asks her to send Lawrence extra royalties [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton])]. Also writes to William Carlos Williams; discusses his "Postlude" as being too long for THE EGOIST (with critical comments); mentions that SEA GARDEN is due to be published in the autumn (unpl. letter: SUNY Buf.). 1916 August 15. H.D. at Corfe Castle; writes to F.S. Flint; asks Flint to order and send two books: Joseph Henry Shorthouse's novel JOHN INGLESANT (1880) and THE RENAISSANCE (1877) by Joseph Arthur, comte de Gobinueau (Referred to in Pondrom note in H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 579; letter itself not included) 1916 August 20. H.D. sees Richard Aldington [date deduced from letter to F.S. Flint]. Writes to Amy Lowell; mentions that Aldington has several recommendations for promotion [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton])].

1916 August 22. H.D. at Corfe Castle; writes to F.S. Flint; gives address as "c/o Mrs. R. Moss, East St."; apparently Flint's family have moved to Swanage as H.D. refers to attempts to see them; is having tea tomorrow with some awful people at Swanage; is returning Flint's translations of poems by Jean de Bossch?re which Aldington had brought on Sunday (apparently she and Aldington both read then with a critical eye); specifies that she wants the French edition of THE RENAISSANCE (see August 15, 1916); Aldington has written that his camp is to be shifted to S. Devon and that his chances of promotion are absolutely nil--confidentialloy mentions possiblity that Aldington might be sent to Mesopotamia [did not happen] (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 578-579. 1916 August 23. D.H. Lawrence writes to Amy Lowell; refers to the Aldingtons (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1274). 1916 August 30. H.D. at Corfe Castle; writes to F.S. Flint; mentions going past his wife's tent the previous day but because of bad weather did not see her; Aldington will be there Saturday & Sunday and he is eager to see Flint; invites Flint to put up with then Friday or Saturday night if he is bicycling through; JOHN INGLESANT has apparently arrived as H.D. says she will settle the cost when he arrives (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 579-580). Writes to Amy Lowell: Aldington's future plans are very uncertain; she will be anxious to see John Gould Fletcher it she gets back to London (Collecott notes); asks if Lowell has seen Lawrence's "Amores"; sends her poems by Aldington to place . 1916 September. "The Contest" published in THE EGOIST. 1916 September. "The Farmer's Bride" published in THE EGOIST. 1916 September 2 or 3 (?). H.D. and Richard Aldington visit St. Aldhelm's chapel: "it is austere and barren ... [little?] place, set like a square of rock, in utter isolatiion above the sea"(referred to in H.D.'s letter to C.C. Bubb, 9 Sept 16) [LHS note: possibly St. Aldhelm's Head which is 4 1/2 miles west of Durlston Head which is itself 1 mile south of Swanage]. In a letter to C.C. Bubb, written 9 August 1917, Richard Aldington asks: "Have you ever been to St Aldhelm's chapel on the promontory? There is one window only in it--and profane thought!--it always makes me think of the one from which Iseult of Brittany looked across the sea for Tristan" (Aldington, Richard. 'BUBB BOOKLETS', p. 33-34). 1916 September 3. H.D. in Corfe Castle; writes to Marianne Moore, postmarked from Chatham; says that Miss Weaver liked Moore's article and encourages her to do a comparison of Poe, Bryron and Bacon; apologizes for THE EGOIST not being able to pay for contributions; refers to John Cournos's attempting to place a book of Moore's--if he can't she will turn it over to May Sinclair, who has some influence and likes Moore's poems; gives her address as East Street, Corfe Castle, Dorset--says she will be there at least three months; says Aldington wants to do another article on Moore ([unpubl. letter], Rosenbach Foundation). Possibly [LHS note: letter just dated Sunday; in another hand is written "Spt 4, 1916" which could have been from the postmark] also writes to John Cournos; says that Aldington has got his stripes as does Carl Fallas; Aldington will be kept there for at least another three months though there is always the chance that he might be sent abroad; says that Aldington was called out of the ranks by an adjutant and asked if he would take a commission--Aldington replied that he preferred being a non-com. for

the present; says this will mean a difference in his social status--that he is no longer an outcast; says she has been working on a very long poem, or rather series of poems, about double the length of "Tribute"; comments that it was Cournos who "saved my daemon from hell" and now they must help Aldington; thanks him for a book which he had sent (H.D. to John Cournos. IOWA REVIEW, v. 16, no. 3, p. 132.) 1916 September 4. Poetry Bookshop (London) sends H.D. copies of books which she has requested: one copy each of Images, Cadences, Des Imagists, and Some Imagist Poets; sent to East Street, Corfe Castle, Dorset; H.D. requests "Please send bill in separate envelope as the package of books is to be handed over without being opened" (Unpubl. letter [to A. Monro?]: UCLA). 1916 September 5. H.D. at Corfe Castle; writes to John Cournos; has just received the POETRY REVIEW OF AMERICA [Hollenberg note: Vol. l, no. 4 (August 1916) contained Aldington's "Images" and "Inarticulate Grief"] in which "were two very beautiful and intense poems of Richard's"--these two poems have made her realize that what she and Cournos thought "was perhaps a mild and distracting flirtation was apparantly [sic] a very intense passion" [LHS assumes this refers to Aldington's affair with Flo Fallas]; says that "I was glad for myself to know this as the slight cloudiness of my understanding was cleared away"; says that she believes that Aldington was and still is in love with her [Flo Fallas]; wishes he could talk frankly with her about it so that she might be able to help more; continues trend of thought in introspective manner; is wondering if she should have her come live with her there--"to have Carl come in the old way, to have the pairing off afternoons out walking"; wonders whether doing so would give Aldington peace, as she hopes, or hurt him more; says "At the same time, I am ready to give my own life away to him, to give my soul and the peace of my spirit that he may have beauty, that he may see and feel beauty so that he may write - as that is the ultimate desire of all of us" (H.D. to John Cournos. IOWA REVIEW, v. 16, no. 3, p.. 132-133). 1916 September 7. T.S. Eliot writes to Harriet Monroe; inquires if she has received his review of H.D.'s Iphigenia (Eliot, T.S. THE LETTERS OF T.S. ELIOT ... 1898-1922, p. 153-154). 1916 September 8(?). H.D. at Corfe Castle; writes to John Cournos; thanks Cournos for his long letter; compares herself to a spirit that "burns and flames and tries to write"--Aldington has made her thus but Cournos has caused her to enter that flame; discusses Aldington and Flo Fallas-agrees with Cournos that it is a symbol--idea that "being torn by unanswered passion is going to make R. a great poet" seems to have been expressed by Cournos; H.D. comments "in the end there is peace, and if R. is to gain peace, he must take Hell to him first. I know now the price - but it is 'a deep & ever increasing delight'"; apparently H.D. has asked Aldington to go to London with her; says of herself "What I do, I do deliberately and with clear eyes open. The hurt I suffered has freed my song - this is most precious to me"; tells Cournos "do not deny your fate. If love of me - absolute and terrible and hopeless love - is going to help you to write - then love me"; continues in this romantic vein, discussing their daemons; concludes by saying "to deny love entrance is to crush and break beauty. Let love crush & break you but never break love by denial and conscience"; says she must see Aldington and talk of plans for going to London--if they do not come together she will come alone after his vacation (H.D. to John Cournos. IOWA REVIEW, v. 16, no. 3, p.. 134).

1916 September 9. H.D. at Corfe Castle; writes to C.C. Bubb; gives address as "East St., Corfe Castle, Dorset"; expresses her own and Aldington's delight with the Clerk's Press edition of Choruses from Iphigenaia in Aulis--"it will be an inspiration to us to go on with our work"; says she is trying to do double work; refers to her papers being in town but says that she will probably be going up in a little while and will see what there is that is ready for publication; tells him not to send the proceeds from the Poet's Translation Series--"Indeed, we are so happy to feel that the little we have done, is helping, if only in a small way"; has written James Whitall about the possibility of Bubb's reprinting the Leonidas; thanks him for having sent "'the little booklet of Saxon Lyrics (LYRICS FROM THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE. 1913); mentions that she and Richard Aldington went to visit St. Aldhelm's chapel the previous weekend; also thanks him for sending the Aristophanes (THE CLOUDS OF ARISTOPHANES. 1916); asks Bubb if he ever finds time to write and if he might like to contribute something to printing for THE EGOIST; warms him that THE EGOIST does not pay for contributions; comments that she has trouble understanding Aldington's book-keeping methods; gives him bibliographic information re J.W. Mackail and Anyte; (Unpubl. letter: UCLA). 1916 September 13. H.D. at Corfe Castle; writes to John Cournos; has received a letter from Flint which has made her very unhappy--he offered her paternal advice about brooding over Aldington; has responded and sends Cournos a copy of her response [LHS note: seems to be lost--not in Pondrom article]; says she knows she is a fool; tries to explain herself to Cournos--he has apparently misunderstood her last letter and has accused her of seeking the gratification of a few compliments; still wants to clear up the Fallas affair; says that she has written to Flo Fallas to suggest that if she wants to come to Corfe Castle, H.D. will look for a place for her to stay--wants to talk to Flo, if she can, and try to clear things up; wants Cournos to be near with advice--says it helps to write all this to him--but if her writing thus troubles him then she will stop; says that sometimes she feels that in wanting Flo to come that she is putting her own head in a noose "But then again I say, no deception, no lies can hurt beauty. Beauty, to be of any worth, must help thelp things, must clear clouds and ugliness - and deceit is ugliness"; says Cournos saved her life in Devon by restoring her self-confidence, her faith in beauty, and her power; says she could not trust Flint but she does trust Cournos; says "I have all faith in my work. What I want at times is to feel faith in my self, in my mere physical presence in the world, in my personality. I feel my work is beautiful, I have a deep faith in it, an absolute faith. But sometimes I have no faith in my own self" (H.D. to John Cournos. IOWA REVIEW, v. 16, no. 3, p.. 135-136). 1916 September 15. Richard Aldington writes to F.S. Flint from Worget Camp; mentions his forthcoming leave (Zilboorg notes: Austin)). 1916 September 20(?). H.D. in London; Aldington has six days leave and joins her (Collecott notes). 1916 October 1. Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell that he is with H.D. (Zilboorg notes: Houghton). 1916 October 5. SEA GARDEN given a one third column review in the TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (Pondrom note in H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 580).

1916 October 8(?). H.D. writes to F.S. Flint; refers to collecting poems for the next Imagist anthology (1917); refers to having seen Mrs. Bax last Wednesday; has been writing poems; refers to review of SEA GARDEN which had appeared in the TIMES LITERARY REVIEW (May 5); comments that "R. seems to double his concern for my 'career' not [i.e. now] that his has more or less invalided" (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 580-581). 1916 October 11. D.H. Lawrence writes to Dollie Radford; comments " today I sent a few poems to Hilda Aldington for the new American anthology" [SOME IMAGIST POETS, 1917] (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1294). 1916 October 12(?). H.D. writes to F.S. Flint; discusses circulation of the selection of poems for SOME IMAGIST POETS, 1917; this letter shows that selection of poems was reviewed by the participating poets (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 581). 1916 October 12. D.H. Lawrence writes to Amy Lowell; comments "Hilda Aldington asked me for some things for the new anthology. I sent several pieces of verse along: don't know what she will think of them. They are mostly very regular." (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1295). 1916 October 13. H.D. writes to Amy Lowell; "we [H.D. and Aldington] saw Fletcher on R's six days leave in Town"; gives Lowell his (John Gould Fletcher) address as 37 Crystal Palace Park Road, Sydenham S.E. (Collecott notes); mentions collecting poems for the next anthology; comments that Lawrence is living on advance money [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton])]. 1916 October l9(?). H.D. writes to F.S. Flint; thanks him for sending his selection of poems for SOME IMAGIST POETS, 1917; more on circulation of poems (see entry for October 12?); her own contribution will be "The Tribute" which she tells him he can see in the November issue of THE EGOIST; discusses Aldington's attitude (or psychological well-being) and says "he is to be sent near Salisbury [in Wiltshire] to finish N.C.O. training, but he is not sure when"; gives Flint Aldington's new address T.R./g/20455, F. Comp. Hut E6, 44 T.R.B. etc.; urges Flint to keep in touch with John Cournos: "He is indeed a splendid and inspiring friend" (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 582-583). 1916 October (end)-November (early). H.D. at Corfe Castle; writes to C.C. Bubb; describes Richard Aldington's reaction at receiving the Clerk's Press edition of Latin Poems of the Renaissance; refers to the publication of Sea Garden; suggests that Bubb print "The Tribute" with one or two other poems which are not in Sea Garden as a surprise for Aldington (Unpubl. letter: UCLA). 1916 November. "The Tribute" published in THE EGOIST. 1916 November 3. H.D. writes to Amy Lowell; tells Lowell that Aldington has received promotion [from Private to Corporal: Zilboorg] and expects to be moved; H.D. herself is packing and preparing to return to Philadelphia (Pine St. [?]) "in a few weeks" (Collecott notes); mentions William Carlos Williams; is collecting poems and has asked Lawrence [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton])].

1916 November 6. Richard Aldington writes to F.S. Flint to that H.D. has been ill (Zilboorg notes: Austin). 1916 Fall (?). H.D. writes to C.C. Bubb from 44 Mecklenburgh Square; is returning all subscriptions to the second series of the Poet's Translation Series "as my husbands plans are so very uncertain" (Unpubl. letter: UCLA). 1916 November 12. H.D. in London (44 Mecklenburgh Square); writes to Amy Lowell; "I am staying at our old room at 44 Mecklenburgh Square, London W.C. for the present"; does not know her plans from week to week--"I had made all my arrangements to return when R found he would be kept in England for a time at least. I will stay in England as long as he does though I am not able to see him as before"; has received a new book by Lowell (Collecott notes); mentions Aldington's poems [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpubl. letter, Houghton])]. Richard Aldington writes F.S. Flint from Westham Camp, Weymouth (Zilboorg notes: Austin). 1916 November 15. Richard Aldington writes to George Plank; gives address as "20455. L/Cpl R.A. / "D" Company / 44 T.R.B. / Verne Citadel / Portland. / Dorset."; says "we leave Weymouth for the above elevated spot to-morrow"; describes area of Portland and conditions facing him; refers to "them bloody, bleedin', fuckin' trenches"; says "I wish I wasn't a soldier; I do, George, I do. But if you're a good boy you shall have all my medals to play with / When I get back / When I get back / To my o-o-old Ken-tucky / home!" (RA to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1916 November 16. Richard Aldington writes to F.S. Flint; indicates that he intends to be at Verne Citadel (Camp), Portland, Dorset (Zilboorg notes: Austin). 1916 November 19. Richard Aldington writes to F.S. Flint; is at Portland (Zilboorg notes: Austin). 1916 November 23. H.D. at 44 Mecklenburg Square, London; writes to George Plank; says that she has not left [with Richard?] although she has her bags packed and ready; says "It was only Pa's [Charles Leander Doolittle] foolishness. I was going because? I thought he would feel more peaceful. But Pa doesn't know what the place is like"; says that they are hoping for some fun at Christmas; refers to having had a little tiff with Plank "about the Germans" but she didn't think any more about it; (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]). D.H. Lawrence writes to Dollie Radford: "Hilda Aldington is in town - 44 Mecklenberg Square W.C. if you want to see her (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1316). 1916 November 27. Richard Aldington writes to George Plank from Portland; says "We have had to give up our Devon badges & put up 'T.R.' We are known as 'Tank Runners,' the 'Tame Rabbits,' the 'Tommy Rotters' & the 'Teddy Roosevelts'. I leave it to you to decide wh. is the worst insult"; describes his stint this week as an orderly corporal (RA to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1916 December. "Circe" published in THE EGOIST.

1916 December 1(?). H.D. in London (44 Mecklenburgh Square); writes to Amy Lowell; discusses poems in a new collection by Lowell which she has received and sent on to Aldington; thanks Lowell for her cable and says "I couldn't leave. My plans are very uncertain as are his. But I will stay on here till after Christmas anyway"; mentions having had a beautiful letter from THE DIAL and says she will send them some more of Aldington's work; mentions having heard from Frieda Lawrence about Lowell's generosity towards them; about Lawrence she writes "I am afraid he won't live if he stays many more winters in England ... he felt the suppression of the Rainbow I am certain" ... He feels "England does not want him (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton]). 1916 December 8. Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell; tells her that he is now a Lance Corporal (Zilboorg notes: Houghton). 1916 December 20. Richard Aldington writes to F.S. Flint; "I am off to France with the Leicesters tomorrow (Thursday). Please look after H.D. in my absence" (Collecott notes). D.H. Lawrence writes to Barbara Low , telling get the manuscript of WOMEN IN LOVE from Esther Andrews, read it quickly then pass it on to Hilda Aldington at 44 Mecklenburg Square then H.D. must send it to Ottoline Morrell (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1336) [LHS note: this is the first reference to Barbara Low in connection with H.D. which he has encountered; also to Ottoline Morrell]. 1916 December 21 (?). Richard Aldington was attached to the 6th Leicesters, a Pioneer Battalion (Zilboorg and Collecott in agreement on this). Writes to George Plank [letter undated but headed Portland]; is "off to France in a couple of hours; suggests that Plank go down to Mecklenberg Square to have tea with H.D.; hopes they all have a good Christmas; reflects negatively on the war and life; says "I have a conviction that I shall be killed, but it doesn't worry me except for H.D. You must help to find her another husband, some nice Yank of cultured opulence who'll not bore her too much" (RA to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1916 December 21. H.D. in London (44 Mecklenburgh Square); writes to Amy Lowell; "I am waiting at Waterloo to say goodbye to Richard. He leaves England tonight"; expects the Lawrences to be coming to town for a few days and will talk with Lawrence about the anthology [SOME IMAGIST POETS, 1917] (Collecott notes); thanks Lowell for sending the Lawrences money . 1916 (end) - 1917 (beginning). H.D. writes to C.C. Bubb from 44 Mecklenburgh Square; is sending the manuscript of "The Tribute" which Aldington has expressed a desire to see printed; suggests a clear Roman type [Bubb disregarded this suggestion and used Civilit? script (Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections. CHARLES CLINCH BUBB AND THE CLERK'S PRESS, item 55)]; explains that the poem "is a purely personal affair - an attempt to express for Richard what I felt his part in this soldiering to be!"; asks that dedication be "To Richard Aldington!" (Unpubl. letter: UCLA). 1917. Receives Vers Libre Prize (LITTLE REVIEW) for "Sea Poppies" (Friedman. DLB 45:115).

*1917. Amy Lowell's TENDENCIES IN MODERN POETRY published; includes photograph of H.D. (Friedman. DLB 45:124). [Comment, if that particular photograph was used in 1917 as shown in DLB 45:125 and in the volume itself then how could Man Ray and/or the Man Ray estate be claiming credit for it since Man Ray arrived in Paris in l920 and I have found no evidence that he had a studio or took photographs in London prior to that time--John Walsh uses this photograph in his edition of BID ME TO LIVE, crediting it to Man Ray, ca. 1923; futhermore he says that a copy of it is in the Man Ray archives--there are several other photographs credited to Man Ray which I suspect could not have been taken by Man Ray--there are, however two photographs which I know were taken by Man Ray in Paris ca. l923. Much work needs to be done to straighten out this tangle.] Amy Lowell sent a copy of her book to Bryher (Collecott notes). 1917 January. "The God" and Adonis" published in THE EGOIST under title "Two Poems. 1917 January 2. H.D. in London (44 Mecklenburgh Square); writes to Amy Lowell; discusses her own and Aldington's poems for the anthology [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton])]. On the same date Amy Lowell wrote to H.D.; mentions lecturing about her at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; refers to SEA GARDEN and her appreciation of it; says she hopes her lectures and the publication of SEA GARDEN may be a means of making more people understand H.D. and comments that "The public is a stupid beast" (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 204). 1917 January 4. Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell; he is now with the 6th Leicesters BEF#36179 (Zilboorg notes: Houghton). 1917 January 24. H.D. in London (44 Mecklenburgh Square); writes to Amy Lowell [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton])]. Comments "I hear from R. often" (Zilboorg notes). 1917 February. "Pygmalion" published in THE EGOIST. 1917 February. SEA GARDEN reviewed in POETRY by John Gould Fletcher (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 155). 1917 February 2. H.D. in London at 44 Mecklenburgh Square; Army returns marriage certificate to her there; (Collecott note). 1917 February 9(?). THE TRIBUTE AND CIRCE: TWO POEMS published in Cleveland by the Rev. C. C. Bubb at The Clerk's Press (date from: Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections. CHARLES CLINCH BUBB AND THE CLERK'S PRESS, item 55). 1917 February 18. D.H. Lawrence writes to Catherine Carswell; is sending her the manuscript of a book of poems which she is to pass on to Hilda Aldington at 44 Mecklenbugh Square (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1376).

1917 March 4. H.D. writes to Amy Lowell; comments on Aldington; "He is quite happy in a philosophical way and doing more work than he has had for some time" (Zilboorg Introd.-Houghton). 1917 March 9. D.H. Lawrence writes to Catherine Carswell; comments on H.D.'s reaction to his book of poems: "Hilda Aldington says they won't do at all; they are not eternal, not sublimated; too much body and soul" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1386). 1917 March 17. H.D. writes to Amy Lowell [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton])]. 1917 March 23. D.H. Lawrence writes to Amy Lowell: "Hilda Aldington is very sad and suppressed, everything is wrong" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1389). 1917 March 29. H.D. writes to Amy Lowell; comments that she is putting together a volume of Aldington's poems; comments on his mental health (Zilboorg Introd. --Houghton). Writes to C.C. Bubb; has received and sent on to Richard Aldington a copy of the Clerk's Press edition of The Poems of Anyte of Tegea [published February 24, l917]; discusses Aldington's reaction to The Tribute and Circe; says that Aldington had requested several times that she send him a copy of "The Tribute" but she had refrained so that she could surprise him with the little book; says Aldington wants her to give copies to the British Museum so that Bubb could bre represented in its catalog ("that gargantuian tome") (Unpubl. letter: UCLA). 1917. SOME IMAGIST POETS, 1917 : AN ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY (Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company); gather and orientated by H.D. (Collecott notes); contains four poems by H.D.: "The God," "Adonis," "Pygmalion," and "Eurydice"; other contributors are Richard Aldington, John Gould Fletcher, F.S. Flint. D.H. Lawrence, and Amy Lowell. 1917 April 6. United States declares war on Germany (Zilboorg notes). 1917 May. "Eurydice" published in THE EGOIST. 1917 May (?). H.D. writes to Harriet Shaw Weaver; discusses plans for THE EGOIST [LHS note: turning over literary editor position to T.S. Eliot] and comments "I feel it would be jolly for Richard to go back to this old post on his return" (Lidderdale & Nicholson, DEAR MISS WEAVER, p. 138). 1917 May 8. Richard Aldington writes to John Cournos; tells him that he has applied for a commission and asks him to warn H.D. that he may be in London for a few days; says he has to report to the War Office when he reaches London and then to the headquarters of the Leicesters at Leicester where he will get a "leave-warrant" for a few days; will try to let Cournos know when he will arrive; it that is not possible he will "take a taxi to 44, in between reporting at W.O. & leaving for Leicester"; asks Cournos not to tell anyone else (Aldington, Richard. THE DEAREST FRIEND, p. 15-16).?Zilboorg has May 3?

1917 May 17. D.H. Lawrence writes to Cecil Gray; describes furniture which is available and a chair which he has purchased for Bosigran Castle with money sent by Gray for the purpose (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #11418). 1917 May 20. H.D. in London at Mecklenburgh Square; T.S. Eliot writes to his mother: "I am now fully established as assistant editor of the Egoist ... My colleagues are a Miss Weaver, a funny little spinster, but quite nice, and I believe quite intelligent, and a Mrs. Aldington, better known as "H.D.," a poetess, who like most, or half of the world of arts and letters in London, is an American. I went to see her this afternoon for the first time and found her very agreeable and disposed to look on me, for some reason, as a great authority upon Greek language and literature London is an amazing place - one is constantly discovering new quarters; this woman lives in a most beautiful dilapidated old square, which I had never heard of before; a square in the middle of town, near King's Cross Station, but with spacious old gardens about it." (Eliot, T.S. THE LETTERS OF T.S. ELIOT ... 1898-1922, p. 181). 1917 May (end?). H.D. in London (44 Mecklenburgh Square); writes to C.C. Bubb; thanks him for copies of the Clerk's Press editions of A Book of Prayers For War Time (published April 30) and The Garland of Months (published May 15); comments that Richard Aldington "returned a few days ago, by some miracle, safe from France"; says Aldington "will be kept some months in England doing his officer's cadet training"; comments on what a comfort his beautiful booklets have been to them; hopes to send some more of Aldington's Latin Renaissance pieces; refers to America's having entered the War and the fact that people in England felt as if a "great weight of depression lifted" as a result--hopes that another winter campaign may be avoided; (Unpubl. letter: UCLA) (Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections. CHARLES CLINCH BUBB AND THE CLERK'S PRESS, items 58 and 59). 1917 June. T. S. Eliot replaces Richard Aldington and H.D. as assistant editor of THE EGOIST. 1917 June 1(?). H.D. writes to George Plank; apologizes for not having writen sooner--"But I have been under an awful strain expecting R. from France. He has come at last to Blighty and will have soon 14 days leave in town" (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1917 June 8. Richard Aldington addresses a letter from 44 Mecklenburgh Square; H.D. later uses page to write to C.C. Bubb (mid July l917) (Unpubl. letter: UCLA). 1917 Summer. H.D. writes "The Islands" (Autobiographical notes). 1917 June 9. D.H. Lawrence writes to Cecil Gray; describes remodelling of Bosigran Castle and lists furniture which he has purchased for Gray (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1420). 1917 June 14. D.H. Lawrence writes to Cecil Gray; lists additional furnishings which he has purchased; comments that if the weather is fine the next day everything will be taken over to Bosigran Castle and installed (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1424).

1917 June 22. Richard Aldington writes to C.C. Bubb giving 44 Mecklenburg [sic] Square as the address; explains that he is "now in a Reserve battalon awaiting transfernce to a Cadet Corps"; comments that he doesn't know if it is permissable for him to give out his military address; comments on having appreciated H.D.'s sending him copies of the Bubb booklets in France; comments that " I am looking forward with some impatience and great pleasure to the 'Konalis' poems" and remarks on the critical response to their earlier publication; asks Bubb to send a copy to Amy Lowell and to M.C. Carr of the Universty of Missouri; asks if he can have a dozen copies; comments that he tried to get a leave from the Army authorities to do some more translations at the British Museum instead of being stationed where he is now for the interim but "Learning is not popular nowadays!" (Aldington, Richard. `BUBB BOOKLETS', p. 24-26). 1917 June 26. United States troops arrived in France (Zilboorg notes). 1917 June 29. Richard Aldington writes to C.C. Bubb giving 44 Mecklenburg [sic] Square as the address (with "Leicesershire Regt." in parenthesis); comments on having received THE LOVE POEMS OF MYRRHINE AND KONALLIS; describes a little of his present mental state and gives Bubb some biographical backround including commenting that "At nineteen I first met my wife at the house of Mrs Deighton Patmore. The same year I went to Paris. Next year to Italy for seven months. I was married in London in Oct. 1913, at the age of 21. Everyone said I was ruining my life & that of a charming girl! I am happy to say these prophets of evil were entirely wrong and we have never quarrelled since our marriage although we often did before! You see, I was older at 21 than many men at 30; even now few people will believe I am only 24" (Aldington, Richard. 'BUBB BOOKLETS', p. 27-29) (Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections. CHARLES CLINCH BUBB AND THE CLERK'S PRESS, item 61). 1917 June (end?). H.D. in London (44 Mecklenburgh Square); writes to C.C. Bubb; is charmed with the Clerk's Press editions of the Myrrhine [The Love Poems of Myrrhine and Konallis: published June 1, l917] and the Rossetti [The Garland of Months by Folgare da San Gemignano Translated into English Sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: published May 26, 1917); is is sending him the manuscript of Aldington's "More Latin Poems of the Renaissance"; discusses other possible projects of works by Aldington including an authorized translation of Remy de Gourmont's "The Saints of Paradise", some Mimes of Herodes, and some Meleager; comments "I am so happy to see the little volumes. You really can not imagine (though I have reiterated this so often) what courage they give us-- wwhat faith and courage to `carry on' in another sphere than that of guns and slaughter"; comments that she has sent the last volume and Bubb's letters to Aldington in the North of England; says she may find time to send him some of her own work; discusses possible places where Aldington may be sent for training "but I can hardly hope for a lovelier place than the Corfe Castle of last year"; says will probably be seeing Mr. Pound before she leaves London and will urge him to send Bubb some of his work; says "I quite agree with your criticism of his [Pound's] methods & literary manner. It is such a pity. And so unnecessary"; mentions a hope that she and Aldington will someday visit him in America; comments on Aldington's "strengthening of style"; concludes "I always enjoy your letters, but seem inadequate myself to reply as I could wish. The strain has been so great this winter. But I am so deeply grateful now that R.'s back in Blighty'" (Unpubl. letter: UCLA) (Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections. CHARLES CLINCH BUBB AND THE CLERK'S PRESS, items 60 and 61). [LHS comment : the last page of this letter is written on one whiich Aldington had started to use and dated 8/6/17 and headed 44 mecklenberg Square].

1917 July. "The Look-out" published in THE EGOIST. 1917 July 8. H.D. and Richard Aldington at Brocton (north of Lichfield on Cannock Chase) in order to celebrate his 25th birthday; Aldington now in officers' training at Lichfield, Staffordshire (Zilboorg notes: R.A. to H.D., 7-7-18; place clarified by Collecott)). 1917 July 14. Amy Lowell writes to H.D.; asks why H.D. has resigned the assistant editorship of THE EGOIST; comments "Ezra's coming back on the paper fills me with horror and he seems to have got in with Margaret Anderson. Her little sheet is entirely full of him" (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 181). 1917 July 21. Richard Aldington writes to Edmund R. Brown, giving 44 Mecklenburgh Square as address (Zilboorg notes). 1917 July 25. H.D. writes to C.C. Bubb; discusses sending him the "Saints of Paradise; refers to having received copies of various Clerk's Press publications including THE TRIBUTE AND CIRCE, A BOOK OF PRAYERS FOR WAR TIME, and THE GARLAND OF MONTHS 1917 July 29. Richard Aldington writes to Martyn Johnson, giving 44 Mecklenburgh Square as address (Zilboorg notes). 1917 August 3. Richard Aldington writes to C.C. Bubb; comments of The Garland of Months (Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections. CHARLES CLINCH BUBB AND THE CLERK'S PRESS, item 59) (published in full in Aldington, Richard. `BUBB BOOKLETS', p. 30). 1917 August 4. Richard Aldington writes to Martyn Johnson, giving 44 Mecklenburgh Square as address (Zilboorg notes). 1917 August 6. Richard Aldington writes to C.C. Bubb, giving 44 Mecklenburgh Square as address; "I enclose with this the m.s.s. for the new edition of M. & K. [it had been proposed that Bubb publish a new edition of THE LOVE POEMS OF MYRRHINE AND KONALLIS which Bubb did not do] One poem I cannot find any where nor can it be found among my papers in London. My wife will be in London at the end of the week & will have a thorough search; if she finds it she will send it on & if not will drop you a card. It will be no: 38 if it does come ..." (Aldington, Richard. `BUBB BOOKLETS', p. 31). 1917 August 9. Richard Aldington writes to C.C. Bubb, giving 44 Mecklenburgh Square as address; "To-morrow I leave here for O.T.C."; comments that H.D. is having his "Letters to unknown women" typed and that she will send them to Martyn Johnson of THE DIAL (Aldington, Richard. 'BUBB BOOKLETS', p. 32-34). 1917 August 10. H.D. writes to Amy Lowell; "Miss Anderson writes us very charmingly - and we may send some poems later to the Little Review. Just now I don't feel much like contributing. Aren't E.P.'s [Ezra Pound] antics amusing? From a distance, yes, but one wants to keep out of the purlieus" (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 182).

1917 August (mid). H.D. in London; writes to C.C. Bubb; letter marked "Recd Sept 4th 1917"; encloses a "dialogue" which Aldington wanted to see printed with some other poems [possibly in Reverie: aa Little Book of Poems for H.D. --if so, it would have arrived too late since the book was printed August 30, 1917--it could also be that this "dialogue" was intended to go in The Love Poems of Myrrhine & Konallis (published June 1, 1917) in which case this letter was probably written in May]; says she is back "in town" for a few days--has only just arrive; comments on having heard that the American troops had marched through London (Unpubl. letter: UCLA). 1917 August 22. Amy Lowell writes to H.D.; "Margaret Anderson has gone over body and soul to Ezra; and I have told her that while she is running him so hard, I will not put anything into her magazine" (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 182). 1917 August 29. H.D. writes to Marianne Moore, using 44 Mecklenburgh Square address; thanks Moore for sending her a bag [?]; is sending Moore's latest poems to D.H. Lawrence to see--says "He has curious gifts of intuition and I wonder what he will say of your work; says she wishes Moore would tell her of herself your self"; praises Moore and her work--"Your work is more rare, more fine than any modern I know. But you puzzle me. Lawrence will send me the clue I am sure"; says that the atmosphere is surcharged with death; suggests sending some of Moore's work to THE DIAL (H.D. to Marianne Moore [unpl. letter], Rosenbach Foundation). 1917 August 30(?). H.D. writes F.S. Flint; apologizes for having gone to his house (while the Flints were visiting on the Isle of Wight) and borrowed his copy of POETES D'AUJOURD'HUI as well as one volume of Mallarm?--if he asks John Cournos he can retrieve the volumes for Flint from her room at 44 Mecklenburgh Square; says "a beautiful lady has my room" [Dorothy Yorke?]; says that "tomorrow I go to No. 16 Market Square Lichfield. If I am lucky I see R. [Aldington] once a week"; doesn't think they will get back to London until December (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 584). 1917 August 31 - November 30? H.D. at Lichfield, Staffordshire. 1917 September 7. Richard Aldington writes to F.S. Flint from Lichfield (Zilboorg notes: Austin). 1917 September 14. Bryher writes to Amy Lowell in admiration for her SIX FRENCH POETS (Hanscome & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 35). 1917 September 19. H.D. writes to Amy Lowell; has been to a party of Ezra Pound and his circle; comments "He seems untouched by all the realities that are torturing us all"; doesn't how Pound got his hooks into THE LITTLE REVIEW especially since he was originally so scornful of it; reaffirms that, though Margaret Anderson has wanted her and Aldington to contribute, they have decided to keep their distance (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 182183). [LHS note: in a letter to C.C. Bubb, written 4 September 1917, Richard Aldington summarizes what appears to be both his his and H.D.'s attitude towards Pound at the time (Aldington, Richard. 'BUBB BOOKLETS', p. 35-36).]

1917 October (beginning). John Cournos leaves with the Anglo-Russian Commission to Petrograd (Pondrom note to H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 583). 1917 October 10. Amy Lowell inscribes copy of TENDENCIES IN MODERN AMERICAN POETRY to Hilda and Richard Aldington. 1917 October 12. D.H. and Frieda Lawrence evicted from Higher Tregerthen, Zennor, Cornwall (Sagar). Interestingly enough, a few days earlier Cecil Gray had been fined 20 pounds "for permitting an unobscured light in [his] house which was visable from the sea"--it was pointed out that the house ["My house at Bosigran Castle, near Gurnard's Head, stood on the highest summit of the chain of cliffs that stretches unbroken between St. Ives and Land's End, facing out over the Atlantic with no land between it and the New World (Gray, Cecil. MUSICAL CHAIRS, p. 115)] "was so situated that that the light would be a guide to hostile submarines" and that there had been numerous complaints about Gray's failure to follow regulations (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, note to #1462--source given as ST. IVES TIMES, 5 Oct 1917). In his autobiography, Cecil Gray describes an incident when the Lawrences were visiting him one evening, sitting around the fire singing German folk-songs, when there was a hammering upon the door and in marched a half dozen men who proceeded to search the house on the pretense that lights had been noticed flashing out to sea from his windows--supposedly discovered to have been caused by a loose drawing pin holding one of the curtains in place (Gray, Cecil. MUSICAL CHAIRS, p. 127). 1917 October 14. Richard Aldington writes to C.C. Bubb; has received his copies of REVERIE : A LITTLE BOOK OF POEMS FOR H.D. (Aldington, Richard. `BUBB BOOKLETS', p. 38-39). 1917 October 15. Amy Lowell writes to H.D.; comments that she found H.D.'s "method of being on perfectly terms with them all ... [?] a good one"; though she doesn't bear Pound a grudge, she does not want to be involved with him publicly since she feels he has "queered himself all over the shop" (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 183). 1917 October 15. D. H. and Frieda Lawrence arrive in London; stay with Dollie Radford at 32 Weil Walk, Hampstead N.W. (Delany, Paul. D. H. LAWRENCES NIGHTMARE, p. 125-126). 1917 October 16. D. H. Lawrence writes to Catherine Carswell: has attempted to see her but discovered that she has gone to Edinburgh; tells her of what has transpired and says "We shall stay in London a bit -- try and get a flat -- perhaps Gray's mother would lend us one. She is in Edinburgh -- lives at the Cadonian Hotel--has a nice little flat in Earl's Court. You might meet her -- Mrs Gray. They are rich. We of course are the fag end of poverty" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1465). In her memoir of Lawrence, Catherine Carswell says that she did see Mrs. Gray on Lawrence's account while she was in Edinburgh (Carswell, Catherine: THE SAVAGE PILGRIMAGE: A NARRATIVE OF D. H. LAWRENCE, p. 99). 1917 October 17. D. H. Lawrence writes to "Grigio" (Cecil Gray);is waiting to hear from Gray's mother about the possibility of their staying in her flat at Earl's Court; comments "failing the flat, Hilda Aldington offers us her room 44 Mecklenburgh Square, so we shall go there" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1466).

1917 October 19. D. H. Lawrence writes to Cecil Gray: "No news from Edinburgh as yet. Unless we hear tomorrow, we shall move in to 44 Mecklenburgh Square, w.C. -- that will be thee address after today, failing a letter about the flat tomorrow" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1468). 1917 October 20-November 30. H.D. shelters D.H. and Frieda Lawrence at 44 Mecklenburgh Square (Friedman. DLB 45:126; specific dates from Sagar's A D.H. LAWRENCE HANDBOOK, p. 232). 1917 October 21. Cynthia Asquith has D.H. and Frieda Lawrence to tea and comments that "at present they are living in a room in Mecklenburg Square which has been lent to them" (Asquith, Cynthia. Diaries 1915-1918 {New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969}, p. 357). 1917 October 22. D. H. Lawrence writes to Catherine Carswell: "Hilda Aldington has lent us her room here for the time--a very nice room. So far as housing goes, we are safe and sound for the moment Many thanks for going to Mrs Gray for me" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1470). In her memoir of Lawrence, Catherine Carswell says that "Hilda Aldington insisted upon their using her rooms in Mecklenburgh Square, or rather her one huge room, that had some kind of appendix by way of scullery" (Carswell, Catherine: THE SAVAGE PILGRIMAGE: A NARRATIVE OF D. H. LAWRENCE, p. 99). 1917 October 28. Cynthia Asquith notes in her diary: "I bicycled to Mecklenburg Square to lunch with the Lawrences. They have had a very handsome bed sitting room lent to them, but they are both pining for their Cornwall cottage. They cooked an excellent omelette by the fire, and we lunched off that plus sardines and pears" (Asquith, Cynthia. Diaries 1915-1918 {New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969}, p. 359). 1917 November (?). Richard Aldington on leave (Zilboorg notes; deduced partly from events narrated in BID ME TO LIVE). 1917 November 6. D. H. Lawrence writes to Cecil Gray; "I have have begun to learn Grrek -faintly and fitfully" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1480) [LHS note: one might conjecture that Lawrence had been inspired to this by browsing through H.D. and Aldington's books]. 1917 Novemer 7. D. H. Lawrence writes to Cecil Gray; comments "my 'women', Esther Andrews, Hilda Aldington etc, represent in an impure and unproud, subservient, cringing, bad fashion, I admit -- but represent none the less the threshold of a new world, or underworld, of knowledge and being" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1482). 1917 November 12. Cecil Gray possibly returned to London from Cornwall (deduced from Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1483: Lawrence had said he would meet him at Paddington). 1917 November 14. H.D. in London (44 Mecklenburgh Square); writes to Amy Lowell; refers to having had dinner with Ezra Pound (Zilboorg notes: Houghton). Amy Lowell writes to Bryher

saying that she will be glad to correspond with her and offer any advice that is in her power (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 73). 1917 November 17. D. H. Lawrence writes to Cynthia Asquith giving directions on how to get to Mecklenburgh Square: "If you take 18 bus, it will put you down at the Grays Inn end of Guilford St, and then iin one minute you are in Mecklenburgh Sq."; also mentions the Russell Sq. tube station; refers to plans to go to the opera [Nov. 20] and asks "if you've not asked much other people, could we take with us Miss Yorke -- American girl -- elegant but poor -- lives in this house -- usually lives in Paris -- like her very much. -- But only if there's plenty plenty [sic] of room, as we've said nothing to her" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1487). 1917 November 18. Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell; comments on the present difficulties of doing creative work (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 255). In the same letter he comments that he is at Officers' Training School and away on the weekends (Zilboorg notes: Houghton). 1917 November 20. Cynthia Asquith notes in her diary: "Dined with the Lawrences for the opera--sardines, cold beef. and mixed business. Miss York--a chic poor American, like a drawing in Vogue, with straight whiskers--came with us, and Nichols and Ivo Grenfell joined us. Miss York designed the cover for Wheels" (Asquith, Cynthia. Diaries 1915-1918 {New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969}, p. 369). 1917 November 28th. Richard Aldington receives his commission as 2nd Lieutenant (Zilboorg notes: letter from the Imperial War Museum to Zilboorg). 1917 November 30. D.H. and Frieda Lawrence move from 44 Mecklenburgh Square to Cecil Gray's mother's flat, 13b Earl's Court Square; D.H. Lawrence writes to Cynthia Asquith: "We have moved here today" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1493). 1917 December 4. Cynthia Asquith notes in her diary: "Went by the Tube to dine with the Lawrences at Earls Court Square. They have had an overwhemingly, glistenly clean flat lent to them by a Mrs. Gray" (Asquith, Cynthia. Diaries 1915-1918 {New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969}, p. 376). 1917 December 11. D. H. Lawrence writes to Cynthia Asquith; instructs her to use 44 Mecklenburgh Square address when writing to him as "That address will always find me" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1495). 1917 December 13. D. H. Lawrence writes to Amy Lowell using 44 Mecklenburgh Square as address; tells her of being expelled from Cornwall and says "Hilda like an angel came to the rescue and let us her room. But now she and Richard are come back, we must yield it up ..."; also comments "I met Fletcher for the first time the other day. It surprised me to find him so hyper sensitive and fretted. I thought he was a rather hearty American type, from his poems. I was mistaken. But I liked him. The Aldingtons are in London -- Richard has another fortnight or so: and then heaven knows where he will be sent: let us hope, somewhere in England. They seem pretty happy, as far as it is possible under the circumstances. We have had some good hours with them in Mecklenburgh Square -- really jolly, notwithstanding everything: remembering that

evening at the Berkeley with you, when we all met for the first time, and laughing at ourselves" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1497). Richard Aldington writes letter postmarked this date and addressed from 44 Mecklenburg Square to George Plank; asks if Plank can see him at the Whitalls where they will be on Friday evening; says "We had a good time at Rye & remembered you when we passed Lamb House" (RA to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1917 December 14. Thomas Sturge Moore writes to Richard Aldington; is writing a series of articles on Soldier Poets to be translated for abroad [Russia] which he is now allowed to publish in England and America--one of which is devoted to the Aldingtons; asks how much store H.D. places on the use of her nom de plume (encl. in RA to Georege Plank, [unpubl. letter, 15 Dec 1917]). 1917 December 15. Bryher writes to Amy Lowell; refers to SEA GARDEN which she has bought and started to read at Amy's recommendation and comments "from the few I have read they enhance by contrast the value of your own poetry" (Hanscome & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 35-36, 205). Richard Aldington writes to George Plank; encloses a postcard which he has received from Thomas Sturge Moore (see entry for 14 Dec 1917); explains that "abroad" means Russia (RA to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1917 December 19. Richard Aldington writes to George Plank, giving 44 Mecklenburgh Square as address; says "Encore des nouvelles! I am gazetted Tempy. 2nd lieut in Royal Sussex Regt today"; is glad he will be coming to dinner (RA to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1917 December 25(?). H.D. in London; ; spends Christmas with the group: Yorkes, D.H. and Frieda Lawrence; refers to contacts with Captain Jack White, Mrs. James, Van Dieran, Gray, and de Kristhoff (Autobiographical notes). Richard Aldington, in a later letter to Amy Lowell (l Feb 18) comments that he spent Christmas at 44 Mecklenberg Square (Zilboorg notes). [LHS note: James Robert White, l879-1946, who helped organize the Irish Citizen Army at the time of the transport worker's strike in Dublin in 1913, was, according to Harry T. Moore, the original for Jim Bricknell in Aaron's Rod; White published his autobiography in 1930 (Moore, The Priest of Love, rev. ed., p. 284-86)] [LHS note: entries in H.D.'s cheque book lead one to wonder if Mrs. James was the landlady at 44 Meckenberg Square (observation made by Zilboorg)]. [LHS note: if D. H. Lawrence's letter to Catherine Carswell of December 22 (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1501) is correct and the Lawrence's did not go to London until the 27th (if at all--see letter #1502 to Koteliansky) then it is not possible that they spent Christmas at 44 Mecklenburgh Square as H.D. recalls.] 1917 December 28. Richard Aldington writes to F.S. Flint, giving Newhaven as address (Zilboorg notes: Austin). 1917 December 30. Richard Aldington writes to C.C. Bubb; has just returned to military duties after nearly a month of leave; comments that he tried during his leave to read aloud to H.D. certain pieces--Shelley's "Defence of Poetry" and Swinburne's "Erechtheus" and Euripedes "Hippolytus"--"and each time I was so very moved, so choked with emotion that I regretted having opened these over-poignant books" (Aldington, Richard. `BUBB BOOKLETS', p. 40).

1918(?). "At Baia" written; Bryher later tells Pearson that it was definitely written for Cecil Gray (NHP unpubl. notes from conversations with Bryher [several HD scholars do not agree with this statement; some express the opinion that it was actually written about Bryher and that Bryher told Pearson otherwise in order to conceal its origins]). 1918. AMY LOWELL: A CRITICAL APPRECIATION BY Bryher published (London : Eyre & Spottiswoode). 1918 January 3. Richard Aldington writes to George Plank, giving "3rd Royal Sussex Regt /Newhaven ? Sussex" as address; doesn't care how soon he gets to France; describes experiences and his feelings of alienation from England and the English (RA to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1918 January 6. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. (Friedman notes) [This letter may actually be one which Zilboorg has pinpointed as being 1919]. 1918 January 9. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. (Friedman notes). 1918 January 25. H.D. writes to John Cournos; Richard Aldington is still in England (Zilboorg notes). 1918 January (?). Richard Aldington returns to France; attached to the 9th (Service) Battalion (Zilboorg notes: letter from the Imperial War Museum to Zilboorg). [LHS note: LHS thinks this entry is incorrect and that Aldington did not actually return to France until April 19 or so.] 1918 February. Frieda Lawrence writes to Amy Lowell from Chapel Farm Cottage, Hermitage, Newbury, Berks: "I never pass the Berkeley hotel without thinking of you there and the jolly evening that we had. Alas, times seem very much sadder now, the world in such a stew everywhere; where and when will it be the end or any end or any beginning? We are out of the raids here anyhow, did you hear that H.D.'s rooms were bombed people take it so cooly, but when they come night after night then it's most nerveshattering. It's a different London than the London you knew. We are very poor at present, even for us low watermark, mostly I dont mind but just occasionally when Lawr is seedy and I get scared. that's why I cant tell you, how glad it makes me that Hilda A. said you would help us again! I am very grateful. It is a load of me at present and one has quite enough to burden one as it is--It is generous of you! Hilda gets very low at times, it is'nt good for her to be alone and Richard away, she feels it very much--we had some jolly evenings with them, but though we enjoyed it, there was always underneath something sad but we acted all sorts of mad things and wished you were there! ..." (The letters of D.H. Lawrence & Amy Lowell, 1914-1918, p. 130-131). 1918 February 8. Richard Aldington writes to C.C. Bubb; comments "I remember when I was 18 & first knew H.D., I was dreadfully poor & had to do extraordinary things to get money to buy her violets & take her to tea. Yet though it meant actually nothing but bread & water the next day, it was extraordinarily worth it" (Aldington, Richard. `BUBB BOOKLETS', p. 43). 1918 March 3. Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell; says that he was in England a "few weeks ago in London on short leave ..." (Zilboorg notes: Houghton).

1918 March 12. Cecil Gray writes to H.D., pleading with her to come and join him at Bosigran Castle (Hanscome & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 31). 1918 March 21. Richard Aldington at Newhaven; writes to Beaumont (Zilboorg notes). Cecil Gray at Bosigran Castle; D. H. Lawrence writes him there mentioning having received a postcard and "feel waves of Cornish malaise coming from the west" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1549). 1918 March 22. Richard Aldington writes to C.C. Bubb; comments "... people do forget their soldier friends. I think that after I'd been two months in France you & H.D. remained my only correspondents" (Aldington, Richard. 'BUBB BOOKLETS', p. 46). 1918 March-April (?). H.D. goes to Cornwall to live with Cecil Gray at Bosigran Castle (Bosigran, near Zennor, near St. Ives). [Zilboorg, based on calculations in letter from Aldington to H.D., dated June 29, 1918, thinks H.D. arrived in Cornwall on March 23.] H.D. later tells Pearson that she wrote "Leda." "Lethe" and "Song" while in Cornwall (H.D. to NHP, [letter], [Dec. 12 1937]). 1918 March 30. Richard Aldington at Tunbridge Wells; writes to Thomas Sturges Moore (Zilboorg notes). 1918 March 31. Richard Aldington at Tunbridge Wells; writes to Beaumont (Zilboorg notes). 1918 April 4. H.D. in Cornwall; Richard Aldington addreses letter to her there; mentions just returning to France (Zilboorg notes) 1918 April 6. Richard Aldington writes to John Cournos about Cournos' anger at Aldington's affair with Arabella [Dorothy Yorke]; explains that Arabella had requested that Cournos not be informed sooner about the the relationship; indicates that he can only respond to Cournos' demand for an explanation by simply stating "we fell in love with each other, that is all"; says he accepts full responsibiliy" (Aldington. THE DEAREST FRIEND, 17-18). 1918 April 14. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; says that he is "off to France once more" (Zilboorg notes). Also writes to C.C. Bubb that he is "en route for the Continent" (Aldington, Richard. 'BUBB BOOKLETS', p. 50). 1918 April 15. Frieda Lawrence writes to Amy Lowell from Chapel Farm Cottage, nr Hermitage, Newbury, Berks: "Hilda is in Cornwall which is very lovely in the spring" (The letters of D.H. Lawrence & Amy Lowell, 1914-1918, p. 132). 1918 April 18. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; is on a steamer to France (Zilboorg notes). 1918 April 19. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; is back in France with the 9th Royal Sussex; "a stormy passage, though ... I was not sea-sick. Some ways it is good to be back with the B.B.F."; indicates that he expects to go "up the line" the next day (Collecott notes).

1918 April 23. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. (Friedman notes). 1918 April 24. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; is resting behind the line (Collecott notes). 1918 May 2. H.D. writes to John Cournos: "I don't know what to do about my room at 44. There is a girl there but she may move. I will move out if I come back ever to London. I don't suppose that you would want my room now. But let me know if you do!" (Collecott notes). [LHS note: the girl was Margaret Postgate who married the economist, G. H. D. Cole who writes in her memoir of her husband, THE LIFE OF G. H. D. COLE (p. 95-96) without giving any dates: "We were married in a dingy little registry office in a dingy building behind King's Cross Station. It had been St Pancras Workhouse when Sidney Webb and Beatrice Potter had been united there twenty-six years earlier [July 23, l892]... It was on an afternoon in mid-August, three weeks before the Armistice [August 14, l918]... It was something of a jolt, to one whose address was a single first-floor room in Mecklenburgh Square (rented from the Imagist poet through the medium of of Ezra Pound) to discover that Douglas's possesions required an entire house to accommodate them." In her autobiography, GROWING UP INTO REVOLUTION (London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1949), p. 80, Margaret Cole describes the last place where she had lived before her marriage: "a lovely first-floor room in Mecklenburgh Square belonging to the poet H.D., with three tall windows, a balcony looking out on the plane-trees of the Square, very inadequate heating and a large population of mice."] 1918 May 6. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; "I am right in line in temporary command of the company"; 5 of his 10 days "trip up" (the line) have passed, he expects to go to base for a course till June 15 (Collecott notes). 1918 May 7. Gilbert Doolittle sent overseas ahead of his regiment (Co. B, 303rd Division, U.S. Engineers) (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 34). 1918 May 9. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. (Friedman notes). 1918 May 11. Richard Aldington sends H.D. a Field Service post card (Collecott notes). 1918 May 17. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; "I have been 18 days in the trenches & am wearied out" (Collecott notes); ad~dres~sed to Bosigran Castle, Pendeen; filled with depression and despair; "I suppose in a a way I care for Arabella & in a way I care most terribly for you; wishes he could be "gay & witty, contemptuous of 'ordinary' people--how I envy Grey his contempt-- but there are too many dead men, too much misery"; comments "But you are silly to think that our love would ever be broken. Don't I long sometimes to throw myself at your knees & call passionately to you?"(Friedman notes). 1918 May 20. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; filled with love for H.D. but at the same time demonstrates his being torn between H.D. and Arabella; says "Do be happy with Cecil"; comments that he has difficulty writing to Arabella (Friedman notes; Friedman recognizes direct quotes in this letter which were later included in BID ME TO LIVE).

1918 May 28. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; "Have done 2/3 of our time up here" [i.e. in the line] (Collecott notes). 1918 May 31. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; he is 1,000 yards behind the front line; is sending his photograph (Collecott notes). 1918 June 1. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; filled with his love for H.D. --"How could there be anyone but you?"; later comments "I wonder what is gained through this deprivation & suffering? After all we have scarcely known each other for two years"; H.D. has apparently suggested that he think of her as a friend rather than a lover and he protests; claims that he has changed and says "Ah, but I am nearly crying as I write, my wife, my Dooley, I am so proud that you have my name--please, please, won't you keep it, whatever happens, in memoriam as it were?" (Friedman notes). 1918 June 2. Richard Aldington writes to F.S. Flint that though H.D. was living in Cornwall, there was nothing to rumors of separation (Pondrom note in H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 584). Richard Aldington writes to H.D. that he will be leaving the trenches for [a month's?] training at base camp (Zilboorg notes); is a about to be sent "down the line" for a 5 week course (Collecott notes); says "I hope you don't mind my writing to you too often. You must tell me if it causes and difficulty in you [sic?] new menage and I will then abridge my correspondence"; comments that he is receiving correspondence from Arabella; still thinks that they will be together again and comments "Of course it makes no difference that we have had other lovers--though sometimes it hurts, hurts"; asks "Why didn't you love me passionately before Arabella & not after? Don't you know that it's you I wanted & want life, everything with it"; says "you do not tell mew if you are happy with Grey" (Friedman notes). 1918 June 6. H.D. sends Helen Wolle Doolittle a stone (serpentine) box for her birthday (Autobiographical notes). 1918 June 12. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. in French. (Friedman notes). 1918 June 13. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; he has heard from Gilbert Doolittle who is glad to be in France; is sending three photographs. Also describes his visit to a ruined castle (Zilboorg, C. Richard Aldington in transition, p. 496). 1918 June 15. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. (Friedman notes). 1918 June 18. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. in French (Friedman notes). D. H. Lawrence writes to Amy Lowell; comments that he has read her lectures on Imagism (delivered March 20 and 27, l9l8) "which I got from Hilda"; further on he adds: "I have not seen Hilda for some time -- but believe she is happy in Cornwall -- as far as it is possible to be happy, with the world as it is" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1585). 1918 June 20. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; reminds her that forces' mail "needs only one penny stamp" (Collecott notes).

1918 June 21. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. (Friedman notes). 1918 June 23. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; thinks he has "pyrexia" -- "this new mysterious disease which is going all over Europe, especially the armies, like the old plague" (Collecott notes); touches upon hallucinations (Friedman notes). 1918 June 24. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; refers to being sick (Friedman notes). 1918 June 26. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; is getting better; writes respectfully of her talents but suggests that she "assinate H.D. since Amy has mangled her?"--suggests another alphabetic combination or a name (Friedman notes). 1918 June 29. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; on Grey and sanity; comments "if Grey can give you sanity from that mannered calm of his, then indeed he is not one who gives nothing" (Friedman notes). 1918 July 1. In envelope postmarked that date, Richard Aldington sends H.D. a photograph (Collecott notes). 1918 July 2. Richard Aldington writes to C.C. Bubb; letter headed B.E.F. [British Expeditionary Force]; comments "H.D. is in the country and seems to be enjoying the simple life--no doubt she will hunger for London in time, but for the moment the literary groups are so dispersed that there is no particular interest in remaining" (Aldington, Richard. `BUBB BOOKLETS', p. 52). 1918 July 3. D.H. Lawrence writes to Cecil Gray that Dorothy Yorke is now back at Mecklenburgh Square after having spent two weeks with the Lawrences at Mountain Cottage, Middleton-by-Wirksworth, Derbyshiire (Moore, Collected Letters of D.H. Lawrence, p. 559, 560). 1918 July 4. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; attempts to discourage her from turning from poetry to prose (Zilboorg, C. Richard Aldington in transition, p. 491); complains that H.D. had destroyed a years work of poetry--poems which he had liked although they were bitter--however, he does want to see anything she writes (Friedman notes). 1918 July (early: 5?). Perdita conceived (Zilboorg notes). 1918 July 6. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; speaks in defense of "common humanity" (Friedman notes). 1918 July 7. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; warns her not to get "this Spanish influenza"; comments to H.D. that John Cournos is "going about London ... implying that I have committed some deed of revolting treachery" (Collecott notes); content indicates that H.D. has told Aldington not to write of love as he says could not write her because he wanted to write her a love letter (Friedman notes). 1918 July 8. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. (Friedman notes).

1918 July 9. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; expects to go up the line again in about a week (Collecott notes); comments on subconscious attempts of Arabella to enslave him, and draws parallels with the wives of Flint and Lawrence, even Ford; comments that he has been dropped by Brigit Patmore--expresses theory that Brigit really loved H.D. and only tolerated Aldington because of his lik to H.D. (refers to an ill advised operation [on Brigit?] referred to in an appendix to one of Havelock Ellis's volumes); comments "I smile to think of your watching with so delicately aesthetic & appraising an eye the physical loveliness of your Cecil! Tu qusque, Brutus" (Friedman notes). 1918 July 10. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; "I am enjoying these last days here immensely -six weeks of summer in war-time is a generous gift of the gods" (Collecott notes); this letter enclosed the one written July 9 and Aldington comments that he had almost destroyed it because it was so horrible but he feels that he said some important things so he is going ahead and sending it--but he recognizes that his comment on Grey was unforgiveable (Friedman notes). 1918 July 12. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. (Friedman notes). 1918 July 13. H.D. at Bosigran Castle, Bosigran, Cornwall; writes letter postmarked that date to Bryher in response to Bryher's note querying whether or not she and a friend might call up H.D.; invites them to tea on Wednesday; refers to their having a chat and a rest "before your long walk back to Zennor"; describes Bosigran Castle as "a square house standing by itself just below the ruins (with two tall red chimneys) that stand close to the road" (Hanscome & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 33). Richard Aldington writes to C. Beaumont that he anticipates going "up the line" (Zilboorg notes). 1918 July 15. In envelope postmarked that date, Richard Aldington sends H.D. two photographs (Collecott notes). 1918 July 16. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; he is back in the line (Collecott notes); is about to leave the village for the front (Friedman notes). 1918 July 17. Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman) and possibly Doris Banfield (later Mrs. Clement Shorter and then Mrs. John Long) come to tea with H.D. at Bosigran Castle, Cornwall [Question has been raised by H.D. scholars of where LHS got idea that Doris was actually with Bryher that fateful day--LHS trying to find source: one point is that, although it does not specifically mention Doris by name, in the second (?) surviving letter from H.D. to Bryher, she thanks her for coming to tea with her friend]. 1918 July 18. H.D. at Bosigran Castle, Bosigran, Cornwall; writes to C.C. Bubb; is forwarding a note which Aldington has sent from the front for Bubb; says "I am in Cornwall now - most beautifully situated four miles from even a suspicion of a village, right on the sea, all very wild and enchanting. - The stone walls & blue sea and cliffs suggest the South. Friends are urging me to join them in the Silly [sic] Islands and perhaps later I can settle there for a time. They say it is the isles of Greece all over again - palms and queer wild birds"; has had a line from Ezra Pound who wonders if Bubb had received a manuscript which Pound had sent him; mentions a sweater which Bubb apparently sent to Richard Aldington (Unpubl. letter: UCLA). [LHS comment: Is it

possible that, one day after meeting them, H.D. is referring to Bryher and Doris Banfield as the friends urging her to go to the Scillies?] 1918 July 20. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; he is still in the line (Collecott notes). 1918 July 23. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; he has heard from Gilbert Doolittle who is "near the line but not actually in it"; comments "if I survive the war the government will be bound to look after me to some extent" (Collecott notes). Warns that Gilbert might show up in Cornwall and comments that H.D. had better get a chaperone, much about triangle with Arabella (Friedman notes). 1918 July 27. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. (Friedman notes). 1918 July 28. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; H.D has apparently told Aldington of Bryher's invitation to go to the Scilly Isles (without telling him her name yet) as he alludes to her preparations and asks "are you staying with the little girl who learns H.D. by heart. Or have you just got rooms? As you speak of Alec[x?] and Amy [Randall] coming down that way I suppose you are not staying with yr: amie"; refers to anger at Amy Lowell and her arrogance towards him; offers her money; throughout this letter writes of his love and passion for her, even referring to holding against him "the tiny points of your sterile breasts"; says "You must tell me more about this new admirer of H.D. She must be very wise since she can love your poems so much. Has she a name or is she just some belle amorouse?" (Friedman notes). 1918 August (early?). Cecil Gray is called up for military service; absents himself to London (Gray. Musical Chairs). 1918 August 1?. H.D. writes to Richard Aldington to inform him of her pregnancy by Gray (timing deduced by LHS from Aldington's letter to H.D. of August 3). 1918 August 3. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; has just recieved word from her of her pregnancy: "You seem to be in rather a devilish mess, and in a way I am responsibile"; comments on difficulties posed in establishing an "alibi"--"I have been nearly four months in France & haven't much hope of getting back before November!"; advises H.D. to l.) stay in Cornwall until she knows if Gray is going to be enlisted, 2.) confirm her condition by consulting a doctor then tell Brigit [Patmore] and get her advice and assistance, 3.) then leave Cornwall--"If you stay where you are there may be all sorts of unpleasantness"; 4.) get advice from Brigit as to where to go; 5.) not to worry about the situation--"I will accept the child as mine, if you wish, or follow any other course whi [sic] seems desireable [sic] to you", and 6.) encloses five pounds--"I will send you as much of my pay as I can. Try & keep it by for doctors &c. You will need it"; comments "Of course I won't tell Arabella". I can see you must be feeling rather rotten about things, but you must just feel that this is one more strange experience and not feel badly about it"; asks for a guess at the date of conception--is worried about the fact that he has "been corresponding with Gilbert [Doolittle] & he knows I haven't been out of France"; but thinks he could work out an alibi later by pretending that he wrangled a couple of days from the corps school and telling Gilbert that he had not told him of it because of the censor but first he needs a date from H.D. as to when he is supposed to have been in England; says "I will do anything I can"; comments "Brigit is the only trustworthy woman friend you have"; concludes "Anyway,

you must keep on keeping on and not get hysterical or anything. These little matters are not really as grievous as they seem." 1918 August 4. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; very mixed and confused reactions to pregnancy; reversal of reaction that he will accept the child as his; discussions of her relations with Grey and with himself from two points of view: natural and social; comments "Damn it, Dooley, I am fed up to have lost you. I was an idiot to let you go away with Grey, but the omes [?] were unfriendly. I never really thought you would have a child with him. And Dooley, I can't ever really love this little one--there's our own sweet dead baby I'll never forget. I should always hate this one for being alive ..."; he does promise her money and to step in if Grey fails (Friedman notes). 1918 August 5. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; another response to pregnancy although still not confirmed; says "Please, please, please find out & let me know the tr. I can stand the truth-I've faced the whole problem for us both"; indicates that he has approval of H.D.'s being Gray's mistress but fears that he will lose her if she is indeed bearing Gray's child--says that for similiar reasons he had stifled his desire to have a child with Arabella; says again "... I love you & I want you to be happy & have lovers & girl-lovers if you want, but I don't want to lose you as I should if this happened"; says he wants "to be so tender, so all embracingly compassionate" (Friedman notes). 1918 August 7. H.D. writes to John Cournos that she has given up her room at Mecklenburgh Square (Zilboorg notes). 1918 August 8. Richard Aldington sends H.D. a photograph of himself with fellow officers (Collecott notes). 1918 August 9. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. (Friedman notes). 1918 August 11. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; apparent that they still don't know for sure that she is pregnant; Gray has been away and H.D. has not told him of the situation--Aldington protests: "really Dooley, it's damned unfair not to tell him"; says that Gray should support H.D. in this but if he fails then her, Aldington, will be there; says he fears that her having gone three weeks over her time is a pretty sure indication and asks "Have you tried giving yourself several orgasms in one night. As you know that helps a delayed period very much. I wish I were with you for I understand that delicate part of you so well ..."; letter goes on in this vein, encouraging her to masturbate in the hope of bringing on her period (Friedman notes). 1918 August 12. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; mentions that Cecil Gray is with his mother [in London?] (Zilboorg notes); comments "Where are we? What are we doing? What do we want? ... The war is driving us all mad?" (Collecott & Friedman notes); refers to the difficulty of loviing both H.D. And Arabella (Friedman notes). H.D.'s bankbooks itemizes a check to James (possibly the last rent payment to the landlady of 44 Mecklenburgh Square) (Zilboorg notes). 1918 August 14 Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; "for two years we have known each other only in snatches" (Collecott notes). Refers to a letter from her which he calls "clear and firm and puts things well"; recalls a night the previous December during which she sat alone by the fire sing

softly to herself--a terrible night--"like some Greek tale--Oenoene"--"that night my spirit was yours though my body was another's" [LHS suspects that Aldington is referring to the night at Mecklenburgh Square when he possibly first consumated his affair with Dorothy Yorke ("Arabella")]; discusses their relationship--inadequacies and the way they view each other; refers to H.D.'s speaking forming a new attachment; says that H.D.'s female instinct failed her--that she did not recognize that he loved her but desired Arbabella; discusses relationship with Arabella (Friedman notes). 1918 August 18. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; addresses letter to Cornwall; letter forwarded to Mrs. Richard Aldington, c/o Mrs. A. Randall, 3 Christchurch Place, Hampstead, London (Zilboorg notes). Urges her to see a specialist and send the bills to him; still hopes that they will get back together (Friedman notes). 1918 August 19. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; says "I love you, I think of you, I want you" (Friedman notes). 1918 August 21. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; tries to convince her that Gray has some degree of responsibility although he may not be accepting it ("sloppy musician"); feels bitter that this child is not theirs (Friedman notes). 1918 August 22 (?). Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; letter forwarded from Cornwall to London (Zilboorg notes). 1918 August 23. H.D. in Hampstead; letter from Richard Aldington addressed to her there (Zilboorg notes). 1918 August 25. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; tells her that he is pleased with her intention to go to town (Zilboorg notes); comments that he expects victory over Germany and peace by the end of 1920 (Collecott notes); plans to be with her forever (Friedman notes). 1918 August 26. H.D. apparently writes to Richard Aldington and refers to something that has occurred in connection with Lawrence [see entry for Sept. 1, 1918]. 1918 August 28. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; refers to "the improvement in food and consitions [sic?] one gets as an Officer ... The last two months are the most agreeable I've had for over two years"; he may get leave in London (Collecott notes). 1918 August 31. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; begs her not to have an operation [abortion?]--indicates that B. [Brigit Patmore?] has experience negative effects from a similar operation; says he will give the child his name but that he might leave both her and Arabella as H.D. has suggested--go live by himself; H.D. has appently suggested sending the child to a farm to be brought up--Aldington is opposed--thinks that a mother ought to suckle her own, etc.; says that H.D. can tell Arabella that it is impossible for them to marry since H.D. cannot divorce Aldington (adultry is insufficient in England) and Aldington will not divorce H.D. (Friedman notes).

1918 September 1.?? Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; reitters decision to break off from both H.D. and Arabella; says "I will accept your child as mine and give it my name. It is too great a burden for a sensitive child to hand it with bastardy ..."; says he will give her 1/3 of his income; asks not to see her during his November leave; comments that her letter of August 26 has just arrived and comments "I am sorry about the Lawrence business for your sake; but people are like that. I suspected the Gray business too. Artists! My God, quel canaille" (Friedman notes). 1918 September 2. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; a short note about pregnancy and comments that he will provide (Friedman notes). [LHS note: this may be Sept. l letter] 1918 September 8. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; "sad bitter little birthday note"; comments "I will do all I can for you and your dear child--dear to me, because it is part of you--but you must not expect to see me agasin; the middle-aged like to avoid pain!" (Friedman notes). 1918 September 9. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. ; says that he will provide for the child-"I would rather, if it can be done, that you didn't take G's money' (Friedman notes). 1918 September 10. H.D. in London; celebrates her thirty-second birthday by having dinner with Clement Shorter and May Sinclair; at a later date sees Muriel and Margaret Snively at Shorter's house [Knockmoroon, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire--a short distance from "Peace" cottage (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 248)] (Autobiographical notes). 1918 September 11(?). H.D. writes to Amy Lowell that Bryher "is very queer" about her family, imagining that "any kindness and interest come only because her father is reputed `the richest man in England'"; comments "Clement Shorter + H.D. is the extent at present of her literary acquaintances" (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 247, 253). This may be the same letter in which she gives her address as c/o Mrs. A. Randall, 3 Christchurch Place N.W., Hampstead and tells Lowell that she is just back from Cornwall and hopes to move "somewhere near London", mentions that she has given up Mecklenburgh Square, and dined with [Clement] Shorter "last night" (Zilboorg notes). 1918 September 11. D. H. Lawrence writes to Amy Lowell; "I haven't seen Hilda or Fletcher for some time. Hilda has left Cornwall and even had some idea of coming to America, I believe. But I don't expect she will. -- Richard is still alright -- in France, back of the firing lines (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1633). 1918 September 17. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; H.D. has appently written to him of her confinement plans; comments "O far as you & I ever being lovers again or living together as husband & wife, you mus [t?] understand that is fini, fini, fini. Now I am not trying to force you into anything. I am proud that you should bear my name; glad if you correspond with me on mater of art & literature & life; happy to meet you as one meets an old friend. You are quite free to make any kind of 'liason' you choose, providing some sort of elementary social camoflage is used; I don't wish to interfere with you in any way. Be as 'free' as you can in a world of slaves. If you care to give & accept friendship upon thosae terms, I am only too happy ... but I cannot have

you being pleasant to me if I feel there is any idea in your mind of the old relationship being renewed. Because that is impossible ..."; sermonizes on her having gone with Gray and says "never, in future, have an affair with a man if you are not in love with each other"; says "you don't need reiteration of my admiration for your work (though, since we are being so devilish frank, it wouldn't hurt for you to improve your spelling & punctuation) or for your personality and fine mind" (Friedman notes) [LHs note--this quotation will have to be carefully checked]. 1918 September 20. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; expresses anger at Amy Lowell and refers to her as a fool (Friedman notes). 1918 September 21. H.D. writes to Clement Shorter; thanks him for gift of roses; refers to two of her poems which can be found in THE EGOIST (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 249). 1918 September 22. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; refers to having gotten a note from Bryher (Friedman notes). Richard Aldington writes to Bryher at 2 Dukes Drive, Eastbourne, Sussex (Zilboorg notes). 1918 September 25. Gilbert Doolittle killed {"Fallen in action in France, laid to rest in Thiacourt cemetary": H.D.'s address book--event incorrectly dated 29 here}. Francis Wolle (in A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 34) has September 25 as the date that Gilbert was killed by a machine gun bullet whilst in company with a captain and sargeant at the front lines. Carolyn Zilboorg has checked the U.S. Army records at the cemetary at Belleau Wood near Chateau Thierry and ascertained that he is listed as a Captain and was killed in the Battle of St. Mihiel, fighting with the 303 Engineers, 78th Division from New York; he is buried in Grave 9, Plot C, Row 7 of St. Mihiel Cemetary on the edge of the town of Thiaucourt (190 miles from Paris and 23 Miles from Metz) (C. Zilboorg letter to LHS, 8/23/88). 1918 September 27. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; letter addressed to Speen, Buckinghamshire (Zilboorg notes); says that they can only be friends (Friedman notes). 1918 September 30. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; sends October check (Friedman notes). 1918 Autumn(?). "From Citron Bower" (included in HYMEN) written (NHP unpub. notes). 1918 Autumn(?). H.D. lives in a cottage in Buckinghamshire accompanied by Margaret and Peggy Snively [Pratt] and a nurse found for her by Daphne Bax (Autobiographical notes). The cottage was called "Peace" and was in Speen near Princes Risborough (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 247). In the second Hirslanden Journal, p. 6 (dated January 26, 1957), H.D. later recalls that it was Daphne Bax who found the cottage at Speen for her (Zilboorg notes). 1918 October(?) - l9l9 March(?). H.D. in Buckinghamshire (divorce Statement of Facts). 1918 October 6. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; says again that they can only be friends (Friedman notes).

1918 October 10. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; has read one of Bryher's volumes of poetry which H.D. has sent to him; likes it but finds Bryher immature and in some ways startlingly like H.D.; hopes H.D. takes Bryher under her wing; indicates that he thinks that as long as he is still married to H.D. he is safe from the entrapments of other women (Friedman notes). Richard Aldington writes to Bryher (Zilboorg notes). 1918 October 11. H.D. at Peace Cottage, Speen, Prince's Risboro, Buckinghamshire; writes to Clement Shorter (Zilboorg notes). 1918 October 13. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; comments on having found a book of German poems on the battlefield--has read them, found them to be beautiful and wants her to read them; writes more on disillusionment with war (Friedman notes). 1918 October 14. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; hopes for peace; refers to tears at a German's grave (Friedman notes). 1918 October 20. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. (Friedman notes). 1918 October 22. H.D. writes to Amy Lowell; comments that she has seen Bryher "only about three times" (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 250). 1918 October 23. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; refers to advancing on front; refers to some ordeal for Grey (Friedman notes). 1918 October 26. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; sends November money (Friedman notes). 1918 October 27. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; plans to see both H.D. and Arabella briefly when he is on leave; comments on Amy Lowell and expresses opinion that H.D. is still too unknown for anything that Lowell might have done to cheapen her work and reputation to affect H.D. seriously; indication that Gray must be refusing conscription (Friedman notes). Richard Aldington writes to F.S. Flint that he has found dead Germans (Zilboorg notes). 1918 November 1. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; sends a blank check in case he is killed as he is about to fight (Friedman notes). 1918 November 4. Amy Lowell writes to Bryher; announces that she has gotten Harriet Monroe to accept three of Bryher's poems ("Wakefulness," "Rejection," and "Waste") for POETRY; thanks Bryher for her critical articles and comments that even Harriet Monroe has quoted Bryher's "`Saturday Review' article [Note: does not apprear to be listed in Martin checklist] as extremely important" (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 73). 1918 November 11. Armistice Day; H.D. at Peace Cottage, Speen, Prince's Risboro, Buckinghamshire with Margaret Snively Pratt and her child [Peggy] (Autobiographical notes).

1918 November 12. H.D. writes to Bryher ; thanks her for her enthusiasm; is waiting to hear from Aldington at which point "I will know definitely about my future life and work. " (Hanscome & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 37). According to Zilboorg, H.D. tells Bryher that she will go to London on the 15th and plans to lunch with Bryher (Zilboorg notes). That morning Richard Aldington is handled a leave warrent and hitch-hikes to Cambrai (Aldington. LIFE FOR LIFE'S SAKE, p. 192-193). 1918 November 13. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; plans to be in London on November 16 or 17 and wants to meet with her (Friedman notes). Richard Aldington arrives in Cambrai (Aldington. LIFE FOR LIFE'S SAKE, p. 193-194). 1918 November 14. Richard Aldington travels from Cambrai to P?ronne (Aldington. LIFE FOR LIFE'S SAKE, p. 194). 1918 November 15. Richard Aldington reaches Boulogne at dawn on the train (Aldington. LIFE FOR LIFE'S SAKE, p. 194). H.D. goes to London (Zilboorg notes). 1918 November 16-30? H.D. possibly has dinner in a Soho restaurant with Aldington, his father, and his sister, Molly--Aldington was still in uniform (Zilboorg notes: H.D. to Havelock Ellis, Dec. 28, 1932). 1918 November 17. H.D. at the Lancaster Hotel in Upper Bedford Place; Richard Aldington on leave in London; writes to H.D. breaking an appointment apparently having just arrived (Zilboorg notes). 1918 November 28. Bryher writes to Amy Lowell; confides in Amy her desire to "run away to America, live on what I can earn myself, and have adventures" (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 73). 1918 November (end?). H.D. in London; writes to Clement Shorter: "I am so very sorry but Richard was suddenly called away. He had hoped for another week, and we had made all our plans accordingly. I am feeling so tired with the continual rushing about we had last week that I will return at once to Spleen. I wonder if you will understand how disappointed I am" (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 250). 1918 December 1. H.D. at Peace Cottage, Speen, Prince's Risboro, Buckinghamshire; Richard Aldington writes to her there; apparently tells her that his leave will end on December 5th (Zilboorg notes). H.D. apparently left London quickly and Aldington comments "Nor am I going to remonstrate any further on the subject of provision for your future; it is really up to you. No more than Cain am I my brother's keeper. Get from Gray what you can; and call on me in any emergency. I shall not fail you" (Friedman notes). 1918 December 5. Richard Aldington's leave ends (Zilboorg notes: R.A. to H.D. 1 Dec 18) and he returns to the battalion a few miles from Tournai (Aldington. LIFE FOR LIFE'S SAKE, p. 195).

1918 December 6. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. (Friedman notes). 1918 December 8. Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell that Bryher "seems a person of decidedly fine temperament, though crushed by the revolting circumstances of her life, positively immense wealth vulgarly displayed. It is sad; I don't see how she can do anything until she gets away from her people" (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 247); mentions having seen a copy of a book by Amy Lowell at Bryher's [Audley Street?]; says he is still in France but gives Lowell his mother's address (Zilboorg notes: Houghton). 1918 December 12. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; mostly on Poet's Translation Series (Friedman notes). 1918 December 15. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; refers to translations and dispersal of his books (Friedman notes). 1918 December 16. D.H. Lawrence writes to Selina Yorke, Dorothy Yorke's mother; "Poor Hilda. Feeling sorry for her, one almost melts. But I don't trust her -- other people's lives indeed" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #11672). 1918 December 17. H.D. in London; writes to Bryher from a London restaurant; gives address as Upper Bedford Place [Lancaster Hotel?] (Zilboorg notes). [LHS suspicious--perhaps this letter was written in November--to be checked.] 1918 December 18. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. (2 letters?); wants H.D.'s and Bryher's help with translations; in second letter he refers to some minor corrections of her translations, which he loves (Friedman notes). 1918 December 19. H.D. writes to Bryher; tells her for the first time of her pregnancy: "At present, I am a little tied [or tired] [This will have to be checked: Hanscombe and Smyers transcribe this word as "tied"; Zilborg transcribes it as tired.]?. Three years ago, I had a sad illness + lost my little child. I am expecting to have another towards the end of March.-- Do not take this too seriously... I shall write Mr. Shorter this, as he is so very kind and can help me..."; H.D. also quotes Shorter as thinking her a suitable chaperone as "a good married woman"; encourages her to get her own flat (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 252, 253, 261). According to Zilboorg, H.D. is still in London and apparently indicates that she going back to Speen in two days. 1918 December 21. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; reassures her on pregnancy; reference to the possibility of a Greece trip; says "Some arrangement could be made about the child. Of course it will live & you will love it very much & you will be happy even if it is messy & noisy"; H.D. apparently has indicated a desire to go back to her writing as Aldington says "I'm glad you want to work again; it is the most satisfactory thing" (Friedman notes). 1918 December 22. Bryher writes to H.D.; says she hopes she will have a nice Christmas at Speen (Hanscome & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 37) Comments "I am so glad

you wrote me" (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 250). 1918 December 23. H.D. writes to Bryher; menttions "chaperone" concept (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 253. 1918 December 24. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. (Friedman notes). 1918 December 25. H.D. spends Christmas Day with Daphne Bax and Undine (Autobiographical notes)--possibly in Buckinghamshire (Zilboorg conjecture). 1918 December 28. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; asks H.D. to help him get reinstated at the EGOIST (Friedman notes). D.H. Lawrence writes to Amy Lowell; comments "I was in London in November - saw Richard [Aldington], who was on leave. He is very fit, looking forward to peace and freedom. Hilda also is in town - not so very well. she is going to have another child, it appears. I hope she will be all right. Perhaps she can get more settled, for her nerves are very shaken; and perhaps the child will soothe her and settle her. I hope it will" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1679). 1919. CHRORUSES FROM THE IPHIGENEIA IN AULIS AND THE HIPPOLYTUS OF EURIPIDES published in London by the Egoist Press in THE POET'S TRANSLATION SERIES. 1919 Winter (?). H.D. leaves Buckinghamshire for a pension in Ealing where Margaret Snively Pratt had stayed; there H.D. gets the war pneumonia (Autobiographical notes). 1919 January 1. H.D. at Exeter House, 17 Montague Street, Russell Square, London; Richard Aldington writes to her there (Zilboorg notes). H.D. writes to Bryher; tells her that she is in London to see about Aldington's demobilization (Zilboorg notes). 1919 January 2. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; advice and reactions to HYMEN; suggests periodical publication then book form; also suggests asking Willy Yeats to write a short note for its publication as a book (Friedman notes). 1919 January 3. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; more on HYMEN which he likes more and more; points out errors and says "don't submit your m.s. ever until I have been over it; you make little careless errors in spelling & syntax & which fools pick up as a weapon against an original artist. Remember H.D. cannot afford to be anything less than perfection" (Friedman notes). 1919 Jan 6. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. (letter dated 1918 but postmarked 1919); criticizes Harriet Shaw Weaver for her parsimony in her attempt to get his release so that he could take up an appointment at EGOIST; comments "I shall be sent to the army of occupation and not be released, perhaps for years" (Collecott notes) (Zilboorg, C. Richard Aldington in transition, p. 493).

1919 January 7. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; apologizes for HYMEN [?]; refers to being on the verge of a mental collapse [?] after having heard from Harriet Shaw Weaver who offered him 36 pounds a year--not enough to use as a lever to get the Army to release him (Friedman notes). 1919 January 9. H.D. at Exeter House, 17 Montague Street, Russell Square, London; Richard Aldington writes to her there (Zilboorg notes). 1919 January 13. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. (Friedman notes). 1919 January (mid to late). H.D. writes to Clement Shorter, telling him of her pregnancy, explains that she is making arrangements to enter a nursing home in March or early April, and comments "I had a very sad confinement about three years ago and lost my child, so I feel it very wicked yet to worry about this one's life and future ... Do not refer to this,. I cannot talk about it, as I was so sad and ill the last time"; expresses some thoughts on possibly living with Bryher: "I think W.B. must take her flat. I have written her that later I shall be glad to be with her almost entirely, if she would like, and I could arrange for the child's being cared for near by" (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 251-252). 1919 January 21. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; letter contains second reference to twilight sleep; still sending money (Friedman notes). 1919 January 29. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. (Friedman notes). 1919 February 1. H.D. writes to Amy Lowell; comments that Bryher "certainly must break away from London"; also comments that "Mr, Shorter has dined me and wined me" (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 247, 253). H.D.'s bankbook itemizes a check to Havelock Ellis (Zilboorg notes). H.D. writes to Bryher ; mentions that she will be in town on February 4 and will see Bryher then (Zilboorg notes). 1919 February 8. Richard Aldington leaves Belgium (Zilboorg notes: Houghton, R.A. to A. Lowell, unpubl. letter, 17 June 1920); travels via Armenti?res, Dunkirk, and Dover (Aldington. LIFE FOR LIFE'S SAKE, p. 199-200). 1919 Febrary 11. Richard Aldington arrives in London (Zilboorg notes: Houghton, R.A. to A. Lowell, unpubl. letter, 17 June 1920); walks "Charing Cross to an Italian restaurant in Soho, and as I was very tired I rentted a room there for the night [LHS query: was this at the Hotel du Littorial on Moon Street?] (Aldington. LIFE FOR LIFE'S SAKE, p. 200). 1919 February 12. H.D. writes to Bryher; refers to the fact that Clement Shorter has sent her six shillings to help maintain the pony at Speen and says "Poor Clement--how banal, how grotesque!" (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 254). Richard Aldington, enroute to Cox's Bank for the purpose of drawing some pay, stops in one of the Charing Cross bookshops, and discovers an entire row of books which he recogniized as being ones which he had read; pulling them down one by one he finds his own name written in them, books whoch he had left stored in a house; querying the bookseller, he learns that "the books had been sold by 'a friend,' a Bloomsbury intellectual, who had rooms in the house [44

mecklenburgh Square?] and therefore access to the store-room. Evidently he had come tothe conclusion that I was unlikely to return from the front, and since that the books were no use to him as books he might as well change them into beer" (Aldington. LIFE FOR LIFE'S SAKE, p. 202-203). 1919 February 14. H.D. writes to Bryher; has sent off "Hymen" to Harriet Monroe; refers to DEVELOPMENT and to the fact that she wants both Havelock Ellis and Brigit Patmore to see the manuscript (Hanscome & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 38). 1919 February 15. Richard Aldington writes to Clement Shorter that has just been demobilized (Zilboorg notes). 1919 February 17. Richard Aldington at Rye, Sussex with his family; writes to Martyn Johnson (Zilboorg notes). 1919 February 20. Richard Aldington invites Clement Shorter to have a humble dinner with him at the Hotel du Littorial (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 255). 1919 February 21. Richard Aldington at Rye, Sussex with his famuly; writes to C.C. Bubb (Zilboorg notes) (Aldington, Richard. 'BUBB BOOKLETS', p. 55). 1919 February 24. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; offering to help her get published (Friedman notes). 1919 February 27. Sir John Ellerman writes to the Times Literary Supplement on Richard Aldington's behalf (Zilboorg notes: source to be determined-apparently a letter to H.D.?). Richard Aldington writes to C.C. Bubb and informs him that his permanent address is "Author's Cub, 2, Whitehall Court, S. W. 1. (Aldington, Richard. 'BUBB BOOKLETS', p. 56). 1919 March l. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. at 2 Hanger Lane, Ealing, W.5 (owned [?] by Mrs L. Jones); is aware of her illness and hears of her from Bryher and Brigit Patmore; tells her that he has a studio at 52 Doughty St., WC l, for a month (Zilboorg notes). 1919 March 3. Charles Leander Doolittle dies but H.D. does not hear of it for several weeks until after she has moved to St. Faith's Nursing Home; about this time H.D., who is ill with doublepneumonia and still in the pension awaiting the birth of her child, has a vision around 2 or 4 a.m. which she later associates with her father's death--in this vision H.D. was a girl at a mountainspring and a gigantic river-god, with the attributes she thought at the time of Havelock Ellis, was waiting for her (later H.D. realized that the river-god symbolized the dying of her father who was possibly waiting for her to join him)--recalled that in the vision she was clutching a school exercise-book, possibly scribbling American poetry and that her arms were cold as there was no fire in the room; comments "there is no struggle, the terrible premonitions of difficult birth were stilled"; in the vision a doctor (whom she describes as having wings on his khaki sleeves, officially connected with the air force, and over-worked with the epidemic victims) from St. Faith's slides into the room, sits besides her, draws down the sleeves of her night dress, pulls up

the meagre blankets, and says "You want to have a nice baby, don't you?"; the day after the vision the doctor whom H.D. thought had been there called on her with a Sister from St. Faith's; when H.D. thanked him for having called on her earlier he gave her a strange look--he had not been there ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 51-52). 1919 March 4. Richard Aldington writes to Clement Shorter that he can only send him one set of proofs (?) "as Mrs. Aldington wanted to see the other"; comments that "she is going on remarkably well and seems very cheerful" (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 256). 1919 March 5. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; plans to see her; reference to May Sinclair sending money [?] (Friedman notes). 1919 March 8. Richard Aldington writes Clement Shorter that H.D. is recovering from her illiness; also indicates that he is planning to see "Miss Bryher" on March 10 (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 256). 1919 March(?). H.D. at St. Faith's Nursing Home, 24-26 Mount Park Road, Ealing; found for her by Brigit Patmore (Collecott. Notes); Bryher visits constantly, bringing wonderful bunches of anemonies; Brigit visits often too (Autobiographical notes). [Exact address from C. Zilboorg letter to LHS, Sept. 4, 1989.] 1919 March 17. Richard Aldington writes Clement Shorter that he has seen H.D. yesterday in "her new place" [i.e. St. Faith's Nursing Home] and that "She is of course very weak but I feel more hopeful about her than before. She is more cheerful. And her courage is truely wonderful; should have been a soldier" (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 257). 1919 March 20. Bryher writes to H.D.; refers to having seen Havelock Ellis: "Then we got on to the question of whether I was a boy sort of escaped into the wrong body and he says it is a disputed subject but quite possible and showed me a book about it" (Hanscome & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 38). 1919 March 22. Richard Aldington writes to Clement Shorter; refers to having dined with Sir John Ellerman at his home the previous Friday; apparently Sir John had written to Shorter about having Aldington write some articles (Zilboorg notes: letter in Leeds. Brotherton Library. Brotherton Collection.) (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 257). 1919 March 25. Bryher writes to Brigit Patmore ("Mrs Patmore") from 1 South Audley Street; thanks her for having taken care of the money and gotten all of the necessary things [LHS assumes Bryher is referring to a layette, etc., for the forthcoming birth]; says "I am tremendously glad I had the chance of helping a poet and I hope in a few weeks I may be able to take Mrs Aldington away to Cornwall or somewhere for a few weeks. She is very anxious to go to the Scillies but I fear the journey for her and even there it is very rough" (Patmore to Bryher [unpubl. letter]).

1919 March 30. Ezra Pound visits H.D. in St. Faith's Nursing Home in Ealing, near London (End to Torment). 1919 March 31. Birth at noon of Frances Perdita Aldington in St. Faith's Nursing Home, Ealing; Bryher visits that day (Auto~bio~graphical notes). Richard Aldington may have also visted that day as in a letter to Amy Lowell written that day he mentions reading a letter from her while he was making the hours journey "in the train going to see Hilda" (Zilboorg notes: Houghton). H.D. later wrote to Amy Lowell on July 19, 1919, that she was three months in bed (Zilboorg notes: Houghton). H.D. Chronology: Part III 1919 April(?). While H.D. is still at St. Faith's Nursing Home, Ealing, Richard Aldington brings her bunches of daffodils and solemnly asks her to come back to him (Autobiographical notes). 1919 April. H.D. rejoins Richard Aldington at the Hotel du Littoral in Shaftsbury Avenue, then two days later they are separated (divorce Statement of Facts). {Zilboorg says that the Hotel du Littoral was on Moor Street across from the Palace Theatre in Soho (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 255).} 1919 April - ? Perdita first in Hampstead Nursery, found by Brigit Patmore, then is moved to the Norland Nursery (Autobiographical notes). 1919 April 5. D.H. Lawrence writes to Amy Lowell: "Hilda also had pneumonia some weeks ago, and it left her weak. I hear her baby, a girl, was born last Sunday, and that both are doing well. We shall be going to London soon, and may see her" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1722). 1919 April 7. D. H. Lawrence writes to S. S. Koteliansky: "Heard from Arabella: Hilda's baby born last week: a girl; 'Gray behaving wretchedly, Richard very fine' (quots. Arabella). A. herself seems in low water. -- Hilda and baby doing well"; later adds: "Don't say anything about Hilda -except to Sonia" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1723). 1919 April 10. H.D. writes to Bryher [from St. Faith's Nursing Home]; comments "I worried about Clement [Shorter]--but now I am amused. I think once free, I can get R [Richard Aldington] out of his bombastic Victorianism" (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 254). 1919 April 13. H.D. in St. Faith's Nursing Home; writes postcard to Bryher; Richard Aldington has visited her that day; Bryher is expected to visit the next day (Zilboorg notes). 1919 April 17. H.D. in still in St. Faith's Nursing Home; Richard Aldington writes to Clement Shorter, apologizing about late proofs: "They would have been earlier but H.D. asked me to let her read them" (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 257). Aldington also writes to F.S. Flint, giving Hotel du Littoral as his address (Zilboorg notes).

1919 April 18. H.D. in St. Faith's Nursing Home; is visited by Richard Aldington (Zilboorg notes: H.D. to Bryher, 19 Apr 1919). 1919 April 19. H.D. in St. Faith's Nursing Home; writes to Bryher; refers to having been visited by Aldington the previous day; refers to forthcoming release (Zilboorg notes). 1919 April 22. H.D. moves to Soho (Zilboorg notes: H.D. to Bryher, 19 Apr 1919; also Aldington to Amy Lowell, 19 Apr 1919). Bryher writes to H.D. that she will return to London from the country the next day (Zilboorg notes); refers to deteriorating relationship with Clement Shorter (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 254). Aldington takes a room for H.D. at the Hotel du Littoral then orders H.D. to leave, apparently calling Bryher and saying "Hilda must get out of here at once" (see H.D.'s letter to John Cournos, 4 Feb 1925). *1919 April 23. H.D. and Bryher leave on trip. Perdita left behind in nursery. [Note: this tidbit from cards kept by LHS while cataloging papers; source forgotten.] [LHS comment: this entry may be totally incorrect.] 1919 April 26. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; gives address as c/o Miss Ellerman, 1 South Audley Street; says that he will hand the matter over to a lawyer (Zilboorg notes). 1919 May 6. Frances Perdita Aldington registered in Sub-District of Brentford in the County of Middlesex; place of birth given as 26 North Park Road, Ealing, U.D. [LHS note: I may not have transcibe street correctly as I can't read my own note (may have been Mount Park)--will have to recheck sometime]. 1919 Spring/Summer. H.D. says she spent time at this point at Ezra's flat in Holland Place [see entry for June 11, 1919]; comments that Bryher brings her parrot-tulips and other flowers from Eastbourne (Autobiographical notes). 1919 June 11. Ezra Pound writes a postcard from Toulouse, France, to his mother-in-law, Olivia Shakespear: "Have told dryad [sic] she can return to H.P.C." [i.e. Holland Place Chambers] (Collecott notes from EZRA POUND: THE LONDON YEARS [exhibition catalogue]. Sheffield University Library, 1976, item #28). 1919 June - July.. H.D. and Bryher go to Cornwall (Scilly Islands); "jelly-fish" and "bell-jar" experiences occur; writes and describes experience in NOTES ON THOUGHT AND VISION (Autobiographical notes). Inscribes her copy of Farnell's Cults of Greek States: "H. D. Aldington, Mullion Cove, Cornwall, Summer 1919." 1919 June 26. H.D. in Cornwall with Bryher; writes to Amy Lowell (Zilboorg notes: Houghton). 1919 July. "Leda" published in THE MONTHLY CHAPBOOK. 1919 July 19. H.D. writes a long letter to Amy Lowell [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton])].

1919 August(?) - 1920 August(?). H.D.'s London address is 16 Bullingham Mansions, Kensington, not far from Norland Nursery (where Perdita is) which H.D. visits daily; is visited by Richard Aldington and Ezra Pound (H.D. says she finally has to exclude both from flat [?]); works on essays on Greek subjects [LHS speculates that these could have been parts of "Notes on Euripides ..."]; Bryher "is back and forth from Audley Street, strange and uneven, but always staunch and loyal"; Brigit Patmore borrows the rooms and has du Lac there; other visitors include Arthur Waley; Cole [Dorothy Cole Henderson], Olivia Shakespear, John Cournos (Autobiographical notes). During this period H.D. inscribes a copy of Edward McCurdy's edition of LEONARDO DA VINCI'S NOTE-BOOKS (London : Duckworth, 1908) with "Hilda Aldington Kensington, 1919." 1919 August. Richard Aldington records in his notebook of monthly literary earnings that he has recieved ten pounds from H.D. (Zilboorg, C. Richard Aldington in transition, p. 493). 1919 October 1. Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell; says "Hilda is living with the Ellermans" (Zilboorg notes: Houghton). *1919 Autumn(?). H.D. sees Havelock Ellis in Brixton (Autobiographical notes). Introduced by Daphne Bax (Guest, HERSELF DEFINED, p. 120) [LHS comments: 1. How does Guest know this? 2. Grosskurth (p. 267-268) identifies Daphne Bax who was a friend of Edith Ellis) as the wife of the playwright Clifford Bax--in trying to do further checking LHS discovered that the DLB entry on Clifford Bax does not mention him as having been married to a "Daphne"] . "Rainbow stream" incident occurs (Grosskurth, HAVELOCK ELLIS, p. 331-332) (Guest, HERSELF DEFINED, p. 121). [LHS note this entry needs to reconciled with entries for February and March 1919.] 1919 November 17. Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company at 8 rue Dupuytren, Paris (Fitch, SYLVIA BEACH AND THE LOST GENERATION, p. 39-40). 1919 December 25. H.D. spends Christnas Day at 16 Bullingham Mansions, Kensington with a small tree (she and Bryher modelled a bird and a clay elephant to put under it); Havelock Ellis comes in and John Cournos brings a Greek testament (Autobiographical notes). 1920?/1921. "Asphodel" written (date from cardboard cover on mss). 1920. "Pontikonisi (Mouse Island)" written. [Note: information gleaned from letter written by H.D. to Richard Johns; published in A RETURN TO PAGANY (Boston: Beacon Press), p. 444]. 1920. DEVELOPMENT by Bryher published (London : Constable). 1920 January 1. H.D. in London at 16 Bullingham Mansions; writes, as if from Perdita, to Barbara and Susan Jordan; says Perdita was named thus because she was born on the last day of March--There is a girl in a play called Perdita who brought flowers and daffodils that take the winds of March with beauty"; says that she may take a trip to Greece for six weeks, leaving Perdita behind (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]).

1920 January 7 (?) Erich Heydt born in Stuttgart (year of birth from "Compassionate Friendship", p. 2--month and day from Sylvia Dobson's notes--Dobson thought the year of birth was 1927; place of birth from Dobson) 1920 February 3. Amy Lowell writes to H.D.; discusses Harriet Monroe and POETRY (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 160). 1920 February 7 - May (early). H.D. and Bryher travel; go to Greece and Corfu, by way of Gibraltar and Malta; they set off with Havelock Ellis on the Borodino; Ellis apparently remained with them in Athens {staying in a modest pension while they "were comfortably ensconced in the most luxurious hotel"} through March at which point he decided to return to England supposedly because H.D. and Bryher couldn't make up their minds when they were going to leave (Grosskurth, HAVELOCK ELLIS, p. 296-297); Peter Rodeck on board ship as well (Friedman DLB 45:128); "Hippolytus Temporizes [poem] written (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 62). 1920 February 7. H.D., Bryher, and Havelock Ellis leave London on the Borodino [LHS thinks this was the supply ship operated by the Junior Army and Navy Stores during World War I; among the books from H.D.'s library was a book describing this venture]; Marguerite Tracy (friend of Ellis) comes on board to see them off off with a cake (Grosskurth, HAVELOCK ELLIS, p. 296). 1920 February 8. Travellers are off or at the Isle of Wight (Autobiographical notes). 1920 February 9. Travellers are off the coast of Portugal (Autobiographical notes). 1920 February 27. Travellers arrive at Piraeus (5? miles from Athens); H.D. sees the Acropolis (Autobiographical notes). 1920 February 28(?) - March (end?). While in Athens, H.D. and Bryher stay at the Hotel Grand Bretagne (Autobiographical notes). 1920 February 28. H.D. in Athens; visits the Acropolis and the British School (Autobiographical notes). 1920 February 29. H.D. in Athens; goes to the Museum [LHS assumes it was the National Archaeological Museum] (Autobiographical notes). 1920 March 1. H.D. in Athens; visits the stadium, Ilissos [the stream which runs in the south of Athens near the Stadium] and the Theatre [of Dionysus or of Herodes Atticus?] (Autobiographical notes). 1920 March 2. H.D. in Athens; goes to Kaiseriani [i.e. Kaisariani: a monastery church 7 km. SE of Athens] situated on the slopes of Mount Hymettos which H.D. walks up (Autobiographical notes).

1920 March 3. H.D. in Athens; goes to Kolonos [the quarter of Athens E of the Academy] and Lykabettos [i.e. Lycabettus] (Autobiographical notes). 1920 March 4. H.D. in Athens; explores the streets of Athens (Autobiographical notes). Writes to Viola Jordan, giving Ionian Bank, Athens, Greece, as the address; has had a letter from Viola, forwarded from London; comments that they are rushed about so and that she can't really write impressions--"they will flood over me when I leave; describes the Acropolis as beautifully compact and small; comments on the space and the colors; says she has "been crawling about, existing under mist and fog for many years"; describes visiting Hymettos with Bryher where they "found early hyacinths and great rose-coloured anemonies among the rocks" ... "the oilives seem to leap suddenly, when the wind catches them, like the belly of a dolphin or great fish leaping above the grey stones like water" (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1920 March 5. H.D. in Athens; goes to the Tower of the Winds, Thesion [i.e. Theseum?] and Eleusis (14 miles from Athens) (Autobiographical notes). 1920 March 7. H.D. in Athens; goes to Lykabettos (Autobiographical notes). 1920 March 8. H.D. in Athens; goes to the Acropolis (Autobiographical notes). 1920 March 9. H.D. in Athens; goes to the Theatre of Dionysios (Autobiographical notes). 1920 March 10. H.D. in Athens; goes to Kallirhoe [?] and the Theatre of Dionysios (Autobiographical notes). 1920 March 11. H.D. in Athens; goes to the Acropolis (Autobiographical notes). 1920 March 12. H.D. in Athens; has tea with Miss Palmer [?] (Autobiographical notes). 1920 March 13. H.D. in Athens; goes to Lykabettos (Autobiographical notes). 1920 March 24. H.D. goes to Piraeus [port of Athens], Salamis [largest island in the Saronic Gulf], Corinth, and Patras (Autobiographical notes). [LHS wonders if H.D. and Bryher could have taken some sort of cruise on this and the following two days enroute to Corfu (possibly on the S.S. Helene)--or perhaps they were visiting places trying to decide where to settle for the next stage of their trip.] 1920 March 25. H.D. goes to Astakos, Mytikos, Kalamos, Santa Maria, and Pervesa [i.e. Pr?veza: town situated at the entrance to the Ambracian Gulf] (Autobiographical notes). 1920 March 26. H.D. goes to Parga [costal town on the mainland south of Corfu] and Corfu (Autobiographical notes). 1920 March 26/27 - April. H.D. and Bryher at the "Hotel Angleterre et Belle Venise," Corfu {for approximately 5 weeks} (Autobiographical notes); H.D. has her "writing-on the-wall" experience (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 32).

1920 March 27. H.D. on Corfu; walks towards Canone [i.e. Kanoni: 4 km from the city of K? rkyra, which has a view of the two small islands of Pontikonisi ("Mouse Island")] (Autobiographical notes). 1920 March 28. H.D. on Corfu; goes to Pelleka (Autobiographical notes). 1920 March 29. H.D. on Corfu; walks among olives (Autobiographical notes). 1920 March 30. H.D. on Corfu; drives around Potomo (Autobiographical notes). 1920 March 31. H.D. on Corfu; goes to Paleokattrizza [i.e. Palaiokastritsa: location of a monastery] (Autobiographical notes). 1920 April 3. Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell; mentions having had a letter from Bryher from Greece (Zilboorg notes: Houghton). 1920 April 29 or 30. H.D. and Bryher possibly leave Corfu on the ?MDUL?S.S. Arcadia? MDNM? then stay overnight at the Hotel Europe, Brindisi, Italy (Autobiographical notes). 1920 May 1. H.D. and Bryher take the train to Rome; stay at the Grand (Autobiographical notes). 1920 May 15. Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell; mentions having heard from Bryher from Greece (Zilboorg notes: Houghton). 1920 May 20. Charles Melvin Doolittle marries Dorothy Whiting of Phadelphia (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 37). 1920 May 21. H.D. at Mullion Cove Hotel, Mullion, S. Cornwall; writes to F.S. Flint about the death of his wife Violet and their third child; asks after his daughter Ianthe and his son; mentions plans to go to California the next winter; mentions that her friend W. Bryher "is interested in education and children (particular types) and we were wondering if perhaps in a few years (if she starts her out of doors school) Ianthe might by a miracle join in with us"; says she imagines the coast in California is "Hellas + Cornwall"; says Bryher began her serious discoveries of French literature after reading an article by F.S. Flint on that subject; discusses Violet's death and her own experience: "I feel so utterly understanding as I went through it all almost exactly as she did. And then I wanted to stop breathing - not from anguish of life but, as it were, from perfection of being - as the tide pauses a moment when it turns"; says she is trying to work again on the Attic choruses (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 585-586). 1920 June 12. H.D. writes to Amy Lowell; mentions reading Lowell's long Chinese poem while at Corfu [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton])]. 1920 June 17. Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell; mentions having had letters from both H.D. and Bryher (Zilboorg notes: Houghton).

1920 July 6. H.D. in London at 16 Bullingham Mansions, Church Street, Kensington; writes to Marianne Moore; asks why she doesn't see more of Moore's poetry; tells of plans to come to the US in September; does not yet know where she will be staying; explains that she will be accompanied by "a friend, W. Ellerman who (as W. Bryher) has just written a very fine little 'adventure'"; is also bringing Frances Perdita and her nurse; apologizes for not having done more to help Moore and comments "I have had such a struggle just living through the war - and pneumonia last winter just did not finish me. I want to survive somehow"; is enroute to California for the winter and indicates that she might settle there "as the fog & mist here grow more & more compact & my lungs are so busy digesting fog that there is no time left for shouting poetry" (unpl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation). 1920 September 1(?) - 10. H.D., Perdita, Perdita's nurse, and Bryher crossing the Atlantic on the S.S. Adriatic (Autobiographical notes). 1920 September 10. H.D., Bryher, Perdita, and nurse arrive in New York City and stay at the Hotel Belmont where the cost is $10.00 per day excluding food (Autobiographical notes). They are met by Amy Lowell and Ada Russell who escorted them to the Belmont and drove them around the city (Guest, HERSELF DEFINED, p. 129-130). They are at the Belmont for about five hectic days (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter], Jan. 16, 1921). 1920 September ca. 20? H.D., Bryher and Perdita in Los Angeles at the Hotel Alexandria (Autobiographical notes). 1920 September 21. Eric Doolittle dies (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]).. 1920 September 23. Doris Banfield marries Clement King Shorter (Shorter, Clement King. C.K.S.: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, p. xv-xvi). 1920 September 24. H.D., Bryher, and Perdita with nurse at "El Encanto Hotel & Cottages, Santa Barbara, California; Bryher writes to Marianne Moore that we are disappointed with Santa Barbara ... we have been advised to go north to Carmel" (unpl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation). 1920 October - November(?) H.D., Helen Wolle Doolittle, Perdita, and Bryher at the Carmel Highlands Inn, Carmel-By-the-Sea, Calif. (Collecott. Images at the Crossroads, p. 323). 1920 October 1. H.D. writes to Alida Monro, from the Carmel Highlands (Collecott. Images at the Crossroads, p. 323). 1920 Autumn. H.D. worked on "Notes on Euripides, Pausanius, and Greek Lyric Poets" while in the Carmel Highlands. 1920 October 27. H.D. at the Carmel Highlands Inn, Carmel-By-the-Sea, Calif.; empty envelope addressed to Marianne Moore by H.D., postmarked from Carmel exists (unpl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation).

1920 November. "Helios," "Phaedra Remembers Crete." and "Phaedra Rebukes Hippolyta" published in THE DIAL, LXIX, p. 509-513. 1920 November 8. Ezra Pound writes to Scofield Thayer; comments on the H.D. poems which appeared in the November 1920 issue of THE DIAL: "H.D. touch of real thing, in spots. No longer stamina enough to stand crtiticism. = 'Think, O my soul' [a repeated line in 'Phaedra remembers Crete'] is idiotic rhetoric. // However 'les femmes' This not crit. of you for printing the poems -- but of my boyhood's friend -- geni? [g?nie?] -- et maintenant -- malhereusment -femme des lettres // part conceit -- part nervous breakdown // But damn it all the real thing is there in the poems // which is assez scarce. So far as I can see the quantum is exactly what it was in 1912 -- nothing added -- nothing learned -- no development possible // Suppose we ought to be thankful for what there is. // A touch in her, in Williams -- a touch of something very different in T.S.E. & elsewhere desolation = howling, bluff -- barnstorming -- vacuity" [EP to ST, unpubl. letter; copied from transcriotion by Walter Sutton]. 1920 November 25. H.D., Bryher and Perdita with the Howards [Clifford, Hattie, and Hildegarde] for Thanksgiving (Autobiographical notes). 1920 December 22. H.D. in Santa Barbara, California. (Wrote to Amy Lowell from there.) 1920 December 25. H.D., Bryher and Perdita entertain the Howards for Christmas (Autobiographical notes). 1921. HYMEN published by the Egoist Press in London. Bryher subscribed for 300 copies and arranged for a bulk purchase of sheets for sale in America (Lidderdale & Nicholson, DEAR MISS WEAVER, p. 190). 1921. "Paint it Today" written. 1921. H.D. and Bryher take it upon themselves to arrange for Harriet Shaw Weaver's Egoist Press to publish Marianne Moore's POEMS without Moore's permission or approval. Bryher pays the whole cost of the printing (Lidderdale & Nicholson, DEAR MISS WEAVER, p. 190). 1921 January l6. H.D. at 'Leven Oaks Hotel, Monrovia, California; writes to Viola Jordan; thanks her for books which she has sent for Perdita; comments that she "put off writing in the sort of family atmosphere of the holidays and then some writing grew over & about me& I could not [burrow?] my way through it and into decent communication with the world again"; says she is already thinking of New York and comments that they hope to get there about the end of March-expects that they will stay about a month; comments that she had no opportunity to explore the depth of Greenwich Village when they were in New York; asks where they can meet and asks advice on hotels "l. Not too grand 2, Not too bohemianm 3. not too out of the center of things 4. where one could properly receive visitors"); cooments "this sounds an impossible combination but I am still in search of the imp[ossible"; comments that the Belmont, where they spent their five hectic days, was a little large & impossible; mentions that she will be with her "little novelist friend Winifred Bryher"; she will leave Perdita with her mother in Orange for a few weeks; says they will be meeting a few editors and serious people on business matters; after New York they

plan to settle in the country with Perdita for another bout of work (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1921 January l7. H.D. and Bryher at 'Leven Oaks Hotel, Monrovia, California; writes to Marianne Moore; Moore has apparently written about Dial connections and H.D. offers to send a manuscript of an unpublished essay, which is part of a series which she is hoping to do for a volume; is doscouraged as she is having difficulties writing; Bryher and she now want to settle in New York for about three weeks on their return in the spring; comments "I am beginning to feel as if the world approved of me - and I can't write unless I am an out-cast"; wants "above all things, to see odd pages of an opus by M.M. - full of ironical, satirical [?] jibes" (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation). 1921 February(?). H.D. and Bryher return to New York (travelling on the Santa Fe Railroad with a half hour stop in Alburquerque and a brief stopover in Chicago where they stayed at the La Salle Hotel for a few hours (Autobiographical notes). 1921 February. H.D. and Bryher at Hotel Brevoort, New York (Collecott. Notes) (Autobiographical notes). 1921 February. H.D. writes to Amy Lowell; mentions having had a wonderful long talk with Frost [Robert?] whom she had known prior to the war [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton])]. 1921 February 14. Bryher marries Robert McAlmon (Autobiographical notes) at City Hall in New York (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 40). 1921 February 17. H.D. at the Hotel Brevoort, New York; writes to Viola Jordan; has just received a letter fron Jordan which was forwarded from the west coast; "we are in a terrible confusion of packing & unpacking & repacking"; asks if Jordan can come in to dinner with them; comments that they are probably sailing again in about ten days; wishes that she had time to visit the Jordans and comments that she cannot even get to her relatives in Orange; speculates that she might be back the following autumn; says that they ended up at the Brevoort "or the recommendation of some English friends, though Americans seem to consider it a little too gay" (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1921 February(?). H.D., Bryher, Perdita, and Robert McAlmon sail for Europe on the S.S. Celtic (Autobiographical notes). 1921 Febrary 24(?) [dated Thursday]. H.D. on board the S.S. Celtic; writes to Marianne Moore; will get to Liverpool on Monday; comments that Bryher keeps talking about doing things with "Dactyl" [Moore]; everyone has had the sulks; describes Robert as being good with Perdita; comments that Bryher "knows what she wants and how much & how little she wants"; refers to an afternoon spent with Moore and her mother at the "Goddess" (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation).

1921 February (end?). H.D. in London; stays at l South Audley Street (residence of Sir John and Lady Ellerman) (Autobiographical notes). 1921 March (end?) - April(?). H.D. at 131 Prior's House, St. James Court, 41-54 Buckingham Gate, S.W.1 (Collecott. Notes); while at St. James Court worked on "Paint it To-day" (Autobiographical notes). 1921 March 31. H.D. at St. James Court; Perdita celebrates her second bithday there, having been brought over from the Norland Nurseries by a nurse (Autobiographical notes). 1921 April 11. H.D. at 131 Prior's House, St. James Court, Buckingham Gate; writes to Marianne Moore; is working on a sort of prose-poem novel [Paint it To-Day]--says she writes two [?] paragraphs a day and is exhausted--"a sort of of criticism of the Anglo-American ..."; characters include two girls on their first trip to Europe who criticize each side from the point of view of the other; wants Moore to send her pages from New York to help H.D. keep a balanced perspective-says Moore is one of "the tribe to which these two girls, Josepha & Midget, belong"; if she ever finishes Josepha & Midget she will attach Bryher and Dactyl as they are also "somewhat abstract, trans-international types"; comment that Robert McAlmon and Bryher seem settled and writing novels although Robert says he is going to Germany; comments that Bryher "is wonderful, so good, intense & radiant. a 'baby Macenas' I call her"; comments on difficulty of adjusting back to England (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation). 1921 Summer (early?). H.D. flies to Paris; sees Ezra and Dorothy Pound; then possibly goes to Zermatt and stays at Mount Cervin; then to Montreaux and stays at the Eden; then returns to Paris where she has breakfast at the Continental; then to London, staying at the Metropole and at Queen Anne's Mansions; then returns too Paris, staying at the Continental; then back to the Hotel Eden, Montreaux where a Mrs. Dixie brings Perdita out from the Norland Nursery (Autobiographical notes). 1921 July 9. H.D. on Lahe Geneva (Territet?); writes to Marianne Moore; gives Lloyds Bank, London as addressed but envelope postmarked from Montreaux; thanks Moore for her "litle critique" of a book she has written [referring to Paint it To-Day]--Brigit Patmore also read the book and made a similar comment--their comments make H.D. want to change the title of the book "but Bryher objects very strongly"; asks Moore to sit tight on the manuscript as she is "at present in communication with a London firm"; comments " I am waiting breathlessly to know what you think of the distinguished little volume, newly set up by the Egoist Press" [LHS note: H.D. is referring to the volume of Moore's poems which she and Bryher had urged Harriet Shaw Weaver to publish without Moore's knowledge]; comments that she and Moore "are to be sort of twins or cousins or something, in format" as "I am trying very hard for some sort of blue check or blue flowered pinafore for my baby `Hymen'"; describes Moore's "Poems" as being in a "Cretan pottery pattern" wrapper; refers to the "white catalpa" tree in bloom under her window: "this tree is an old love of mine"; describes Lake Geneva and a brown fish hawk who swings up, a fish in his claw (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation). 1921 July 27. By this date Sylvia Beach has moved and reopened Shakespeare and Company at 12 rue de l`Odeon, Paris (Fitch, SYLVIA BEACH AND THE LOST GENERATION, p. 91).

1921 (Summer ?). Helen Wolle Doolittle joins H.D., Perdita and Bryher in Territet; joined by her sister Laura Jenkins by Christmas 1921; remained with them until l925 [LHS comment: probably with occasional visits to America] (Friedman. DLB 45:129, emmended in telephone conversation 8/26/87). 1921 Autumn (early ?). H.D. and Bryher settle in Switzerland (Riant Chatteau?). 1921 October 5. Bryher writes to Norman Douglas after having read his THEY WENT (Holloway, NORMAN DOUGLAS, p. 301) 1921 December 25. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; has Christmas tree there (Autobiographical notes). 1922(?) - 1924(?) H.D.'s London residence is Washington Hotel, Curzon Street, Mayfair, W. 1 (Collecott. Notes; from Guest; corrected by Friedman). 1922 January 9. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Marianne Moore; thanks her for gifts and review--comments on review; agrees with comment that Moore has apparently made--that Rober McAlmon "is all riot and no construction"--builds on construction imagery; is eager to go south and escape snowy, slushy, and rainy weather which she experiencing--possibly to some common Capri hostel" (only the really second-rate go to Capri (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation). nowadays)"; 1922 January 10. Birth of Doreen Clement Shorter (daughter of Clement King Shorter and Doris Banfield) (Shorter, Clement King. C.K.S.: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, p. xxiii). 1922, January 18. Russell Howard dies (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 31). 1922 February 14. H.D. at the Baglioni in Florence with Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle; meets Norman Douglas (Autobiographical notes). 1922 February 22. Brigit Patmore writes to Bryher; had visited Violet Hunt the previous Saturday and she happened to mention that "she was going to hear Richard Aldington read his own and H.D.'s poems at the Sitwells studio"; Brigit asked if she might go with Violet so Violet rang up to ask if she might bring a friend [LHS gathers that this was some sort of organized lecture series as Brigit says "I believe holy members pay ?1.1 per annum"]; reading held at "the sacred house of Sitwell in Carlyle Square"; as they entered the house Brigit heard Richard's voice and she recognized part of Hymen; described Richard reading: "He read H.D. very well - not frightfully well chosen but of course it sounded lovely & was exquisite to hear"; then Edith Sitwell read some Sacheverell Sitwell; then Richard read some of his own war poems: "Blood of the young men, blood, blood, blood!!!"; afterwards Brigit was sitting besides Violet and May Sinclair-Richard comes up and shakes their hands, then Violet says "of course you remember B." then "he held out a very dubious hand, which I shook, complimenting him on the reading"; Brigit further comments that when Violet had rung up the secretary she had explained that Violet was a great friend of H.D.'s and the Secretary had inquired "There won't be a fracas?"; describes Richard: "looks common somehow - coarsened - an inclination of middle waistcoat button to protrude";

F.S. Flint was there with his second wife (deceased wife's sister); also Sturges Moore and Harold Munroe. Brigit has had tea with Cecil Gray at the Metropole- location chosen "so that H.D.'s spirit might trouble him"; Brigit goes on to say that she is going to have tea at Gray's rooms on Monday" & think I can then bring up the subject of H.D. Am going warily indeed. He says he has much on his conscience, that inaction is almost a madness with him ... I have never forgiven myself for not going at him long ago at the time when it was necessary & so musn't bungle this!"; tells Bryher to be happy in Florence (Patmore to Bryher [unpubl. letter]). 1922 February 25. Brigit Patmore writes to Bryher; Bryher has apparently written to Brigit that the "Scotch hare [Cecil Gray] ... "Should go to a psychoanalyst"; Gray himself has made the same observation to Brigit the evening she last saw him "He feels something is wrong but won't do anything. Nothing would persuade him to go to one. I think the only thing is for me to keep in touch with him & try a gradual unnoticeable pressure. One has to go frightfully carefully because of the strange fear of people that makes him perverse. He himself had the courage to approach the subject of his conduct to H." (I had spoken of her conversationally until he could stand it no longer) Apparantly he is so tangled up with horror of what he did [arrow pointing left] feeling he must justify himself that he doesn't allow himself to realize what an awful thing it is to leave a child - to say nothing at all of a woman. He says: `You must think me the greatest cad on earth, but everything was so awful & I had the [undecipherable word] on me & so on & so on'"; without identifying Bryher, Brigit told Gray how H.D. would have died if it hadn't been for her--at which Brigit says Gray "went green"; apparently during this conversation Gray "of course he would look after Perdita"--Brigit says she left it at that although she didn't beleive in his words; Gray told Brigit that his family had suffered heavily in the financial losses of the previous year so that money was scarce for him; Brigit comments that at least Gray hasn't run away from her and that "he seems divided between a hatred & disgust with his own part in it & a consequent weak determination to shut it out completely, & a sort of equally weak desire to make it all right, which one must bolster up in all ways" (Patmore to Bryher [unpubl. letter]). 1922 February (end?) - March 10. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Venice at the Danielle (Autobiographical notes). 1922 March 7. Islay de Courcey Lyon born at 5:30 A.M. in Wales (Dobson. Notes [unpul.], p. 631). 1922 March 10. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle leave Venice (right by St. Mark's) at 6:30 PM on the S.S. Leopolis (Autobiographical notes). The S.S. Leopolis was from the Lloyd Triestio line; they steamed out slowly by St. Mark's and the Lido to sea (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1922 March 11. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle at sea (Autobiographical notes). "saw land from about 3 o'clock onward (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1922 March 12. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle at sea; Bari and Brindisi, Italy (Autobiographical notes). They arrived at Bari about 10:30 AM and Brindisi in the afternoon; walked ashore (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1922 March 13. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle land at Corfu at 6:00 AM and drive towards Canone (viewing Almond flowers, cherry, a few roses, many violets, iris, oranges and anemones), returning to the boat about 10:00 AM; boat leaves Corfu about 12:00 noon and sails past Paxos and Antipaxos, passing Parga about 2:30-3:00 PM, then Ithaca at 6:00 PM (Autobiographical notes) also (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1922 March 14. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle land at Piraeus and leave boat at 10:30 AM; take a cab to the Monastiriki [Bryher spells it Monasteriki] Station; go to Athens, see the Acropolis and the Museum, lunch at the Hotel Grand Bretagne; return by car to Pireaus about 5:00 PM and reboard boat (Autobiographical notes). Met the Schollenbergers (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1922 March 15. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle sail along the Asia Minor coast, passing Tenedos, Lemnos [i.e. Limnos], viewing the plain of Troy over the hills, Dardanelles and the Hellespont (Autobiographical notes). Also passed Imbros (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1922 March 16. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Constantinople; go to the museum [Efkat?], see wonderful Sidonian remains, Santa Sophia, Meridan with three columns, the remains of the Hippodrome, burnt column and the great bazaar (Autobiographical notes). Stay at the Pera Palace Hotel (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1922 March 17. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Constantinople; go past Bazaret mosque to mosque with Byzantine mosaics, view remains of Constantine's palace, the great walls, and Marciam's column (Autobiographical notes). 1922 March 18. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Constantinople; view column (?), the Bath of Theodora, the Resevoii, small Saint Sophia, and bazaars (Autobiographical notes). In the afternoon they boarded the Celio (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1922 March l9. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle sail past Tenedos, Mount Ida?, Mytilene [on the Island of Lesbos]--(Friedman. DLB:129 seems to think that they stopped briefly there-source might be the apocryphal tale that Francis Wolle tells in A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 58), and Scyros [i.e. Skiros] (Autobiographical notes). 1922 March 20 - April 3. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens (Autobiographical notes). 1922 March 20. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle arrive back at Athens; afternoon devoted to errands (Autobiographical notes). Bryher comments that they had difficulty finding rooms but they stayed at the Hotel Grande Bretagne (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1922 March 21. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens; visit the Acropolis and walk past the Theatre of Dionysus (Autobiographical notes).

1922 March 22. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens; go to the Museum (Autobiographical notes). 1922 March 23. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens; go to the Station and gardens; walk in the evening (Autobio~graphical notes). 1922 March 24. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens; make side trip to Eleusis, walk around towards Stadium (Autobiographical notes). 1922 March 25. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens; go to the Theatre of Dionysus, garden, shops, walk (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1922 March 26. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens; maake side trip to Cape Sunion [68 km. SE of Athens]; Bryher comments that it is like Cornwall, many flowers; they have a perilous trip back then walk in gardens (Autobiographical notes, dates this on the 25 however Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher dates this on the 26) 1922 March 29. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens; go to the British School (Autobiographical notes). 1922 March 30. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens; walk in the city (Pearson ? MDBO?Notes?MDNM?, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1922 March 31. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens; go to the Brittish School Helen Wolle Doolittle gives H.D. flowers with heather wrapped around stems in honor of Perdita's third birthday (Autobiographical notes). 1922 April 1. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens; take care of passports; talk with the Schollenbergers (Autobiographical notes). 1922 April 2. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens; go to the Acropolis; walk in the afternoon and observe the sunset on Lykabettos (Autobiographical notes). 1922 April 3. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle leave Athens by boat (S.S. Leopolis); sail through Corinth Canal, view Corinth and Parnassos from boat (Autobiographical notes). 1922 April 4. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle stop at Corfu; drive around Potamo (Autobiographical notes). 1922 April 5. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle at sea, pass the Lissa Islands [?] (Autobiographical notes). 1922 April 6. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle arrive in Venice; stay at the Danielli for seven days (Autobiographical notes).

1922 Spring, Summer and Fall and probably into the Winter of 1923.. H.D. indicates the following sequence: Beau Rivage, Montreux (3 weeks)--Regina, Territet (33 weeks)--Hotel Washington, Curzon Street, London--Royal, Dieppe (4 days)--Wagram, Paris (4 days)--Pension Jundt, Territet--Excelsion (6 weeks)--Wagram, Paris (11 days: Bryher is in London at this time: probably end of August-beginning of September)--Pension Jundt, Territet (6 weeks)--Baglioni, Florence (3 weeks)--Albion, Florence (2 months) (Autobiographical notes). 1922 July 14. H.D. receives from Margaretta Schuyler a copy of her Poems [S.l. : s.n., 1922?] inscribed "To 'H.D.' with Margot's love. Territet, Suisse. July fourteenth 1922." Bryher also recieved a copy inscribed "To Bryher who made them possible ... July 13, 1922." 1922 August 26. Brigit Patmore writes to Bryher; tells Bryher that the Hare [Cecil Gray] is in London; refers to the possibility of seeing Bryher in London at the beginning of September; says that she wishes H.D. were coming as well "but it is rather a long way to come for a week" (Patmore to Bryher [unpubl. letter]). 1922 August 29. Brigit Patmore writes to Bryher; has recieved a letter from Bryher about tackling the Hare [Cecil Gray]; says that if she were to go with Bryher to talk to Gray that he would never get over it and that he would refuse to see me ever again; indicates that she she doesn't know how much good she will be able to do by remaining on friendly terms with Gray but that she feels that her doing so is their only hope; proposes instead to invite him to tea with Bryher, thus providing the opportunity for Bryher to meet him, and then Bryher could make arrangements to meet him separately; mentions fact that Gray always spends Sunday evening with his mother and that the Lawrences always spoke of her as 'Lady' Gray but now she is listed as 'Mrs'; further discusses pros and cons of how best to approach Gray; refers to Bryher's having had a terrible journey over; asks if H.D. is in Paris (Patmore to Bryher [unpubl. letter]). l922 September 6. Brigit Patmore writes to Bryher; has spent the previous evening with Cecil Gray discussing the repayment of Bryher and providing financial aid for Perdita, getting no further than "I don't know where the money is to come from"; Gray did suggest selling his books but said they'd only amount to ?l00, etc.; Brigit told Gray that Bryher wanted ?1000 as a return for her expense over Perdita & some kind of a fund for her and that H.D. had only ?150 & that her mother can do nothing; Gray seemed to indicate that he seriously wanted to do something but failed to know where the money was going to be obtained; Brigit asked Gray if he would discuss the matter with either Bryher or H.D.--Gray "was silent - & then said: not from any desire to run away but simply "I don't see how discussion can alter the facts" [LHS concludes that Bryher has not talked to Gray]; Brigit thinks that Gray is on the verge of running away from the situation mentally too but he has said he would see her the following week (Patmore to Bryher [unpubl. letter]). 1922 September 10. While travelling on the Orient Express towards Italy, Nancy Cunard sends Ezra Pound a note with the cryptic statement: "Beneath me not H.D., but her remplacant" (Wilhelm, James J. "Nancy Cunard: a sometime flame, a stalwart friend" in PAIDEUMA, v. 19, no. 1/2, p. 206).

1922 September 12. Brigit Patmore writes to Bryher; apparently Bryher had not recieved the letter of September 6 so Brigit repeats what she has already written; comments on H.D.'s having influenza (Patmore to Bryher [unpubl. letter]). l922 September 13. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; was glad to hear from H.D.; comments on Cecil Gray: "I understand so well what a dangerous person he is; so reasonable & thoughtful in theory & in the little immediate occurencies, but such hopeless paralysis of will when the thing is of the slightest difficulty ..."; Brigit will suggest an allowance as Bryher has suggested; comments that Gray has shown her a pot of hashish which he claimed he only took occasionally; says she thinks H.D. should see Gray; asks if H.D. has overcome "fear of boats & sea" [LHS was unaware of such a fear--thought H.D. had a fear of Flying]; refers to [Dorothy] Cole; asks if H.D. remembers a Milly Defries--came to see Brigit about starting a sort of international arts society (Austin Harrison is to handle the literary side) (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1922 September 24. Brigit Patmore writes to Bryher; thanks Bryher for gift of ?10; has been running errands for her; has not seen Gray again though she plans "to ask him here & ask what conclusion he's come to"; has seen some of Man Ray's portraits in an American magazine and is anxious to see what he makes of Bryher (Patmore to Bryher [unpubl. letter]). 1922 November 7. H.D. in Florence; writes to George Plank on Grande Albergo Baglioni stationary; says "I get awfully home-sick for England at times but I know I am best out of it. and there are delightful English people here & I [love?] Florence after two years monastic seclusion along Lake Geneva"; advises Plank to avoid Switzerland as "it isexpensive and grandiose and almost American. Good health, good spirits, optimism, no tradition and yet something seething [...?] putrid underneath ... But there is gayiety here and real vital emotion & sanity"; asks about the Whitalls; says "I am busy on a cinematographic ultra-modern novel. I love the thing - all about nothing - but when will I ever finish?"; asks for news of London people and things; gives him both Lloyds Bank in London and Cook & Son in Florence as addresses where she may be reached--says Cook "is my address for some months I hope" (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1922 December 23. H.D. in Florence; writes to George Plank; sends Christmas greetings and asks that he convey them to the Whitalls as well; says that she agrees that from certain angles Floresence is a "detestible hole"; comments "I have been in a frenzy of work & have entirely devoted my energies to my own very precious & very tiny circle, including a large child who is having her fourth tree to-morrow"; asks what he thinks of John Cournos' Babel; says "I hear from him in the states - half & halfish, seems improved, in a way and vaguely (as always) insecure un another" (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1922 December 25. H.D. in Florence; spends Christmas with Perdita, Bryher, Helen Wolle Doolittle, and Aunt Laura [Wolle Jenkins] (Autobiographical notes). 1923 - 1948. Stories that make up "The Moment" written (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 41). 1923(?). "Secret Name" written soon after H.D.'s return from Egypt (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 7). 1923. AMERICAN POETRY SINCE 1900, edited by Louis Untermeyer, published; includes photograph of H.D. (taken in Greece); according to Francis Wolle, H.D. reacted strongly to

having had the initials H.D. linked with a photograph of herself (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 58). 1923. TWO SELVES by Bryher published in Paris by Contact Publishing Co.; includes account of her meeting H.D.. 1923. Frances Gregg divorces Louis Wilkinson; has two children, Oliver and Elizabeth Josepha (EP to DP, note, p. 149). 1923. At some point, while both are in Paris, Bryher gives H.D. a copy of THE WISDOM OF THE CHINESE, edited by Brian Brown (London : Brentano's, 1922). 1923 (?). H.D., Bryher, and Robert McAlmon visit Mary Butts and Cecil Maitland on Crowley's Island of Cefalu (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 108). 1923. H.D. meets H.P. Collins and gives him a letter of introduction to Louis Wikinson (Collins, H.P. "Louis and Lulu," Recollections of the Powys Brothers, p. 78). 1923 January 18. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle leave Florence for Rome; comfortable journey; tea on train; stay at the Hotel Continental (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 January 19. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle go for a cold drive on Pincio; see winter roses; eat at Hotel; leave Rome for Naples (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 January 20. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Naples at the Excelsior; walk in the afternoon and have tea at Miss Middleton's tea shop (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 January 21. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Naples at the Excelsor; go to the museum and the acquarium (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 January 22. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Naples at the Excelsor; walk in the morning; board S.S. Adriatic about 4:00 PM, sailed at 5:00 PM (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 January 23. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle at sea; reach the Straits of Messina at dawn; calm voyage (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 January 24. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle at sea (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 January 25. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle landed at Alexandria around 11:00 AM; go through customs; leave on train for Cairo around 3:00 PM; pass camels, mud huts, palms, natives; have lunch around 4:00 PM; arrived in Cairo around 6:00 PM (Pearson Notes,

transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). Stayed at Shepherd's Hotel (Autobiographical notes). 1923 January 26. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cairo at Shepherd's Hotel; drive to the Pyramids; see the Sphinx; lunch at Mena House (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 January 27. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cairo at Shepherd's Hotel; go to the Museum, Hatorius [?.] in the afternoon; "Fete Hippique" (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 January 28. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cairo at Shepherd's Hotel; go to the old mosque, Coptic churches, the Island of Rodah, the Citadel and Alabastar Mosque (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 January 29. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cairo at Shepherd's Hotel; walk in gardens and go to the zoo (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). Receives from Bryher a copy of Arthur Weigall's The Life and Times of Akhnation Pharaoh of Egypt (new & rev. ed.) (London, T. Butterworth, 1922) 1923 January 30. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cairo at Shepherd's Hotel; go to the Mosque of Sultan Hassan and another mosque, bazaars; in the afternoon they go to the Hatorin [?] Bazaars [etc.] (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 January 31. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cairo at Shepherd's Hotel; shopped; left in the evening at 7:30 PM for Luxor (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). Writes this date in her copy of Arthur Weigall's A Guide to the Antiquities of Upper Egypt (2nd ed.) (London, Methuen, 1913). 1923 February 1. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle arrived in Luxor at 9:00 AM; first went to the Winter Palace Hotel which they found to be crowed and noisy; then they moved to the Luxor Hotel; slept in the afternoon, then walked and saw Karnak by moonlight (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 February 2. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Luxor at the Luxor Hotel; they sailed in a boat across the Nile to the West Bank then drove in a sand cart to the tombs in the Valley of the Kings; they viewed the new entrance to Tutank~hamun's tomb; they then visited the tomb of Amenhotep II with its mummy and wall paintings; then returned to the new tomb (Tutank~hamun's) where they watched a guarded stretcher being carried out by natives bearing a small chariot wheel; later they saw another stretcher with horns and small objects; then they took the easier path over the hill to the Cook's Rest House for lunch; then they visited the Temple at Deir al Bahri; joined an expedition to Punt [?] and H[------?]; drove back by the Colossi of Memnon; sailed back across the Nile to Luxor; saw Karnak by moonlight and climbed up the pylon (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 3. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Luxor at the Luxor Hotel; they shop and walk and go to the Temple of Luxor (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 February 4. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Luxor at the Luxor Hotel; go to Karnak where they see the Hoopocs [?]; walk in the evening (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 February 5. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Luxor at the Luxor Hotel; walk and shop (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 February 6. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Luxor at the Luxor Hotel; walk; make arrangements to sail on the S.S. Rosetta; visit shops and go to the Winter Palace Hotel for tea (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 February 7. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Luxor at the Luxor Hotel; walk; have tea at the Winter Palace Hotel; board the S.S. Rosetta (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 February 8. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle on the S.S. Rosetta, cruising on the Nile; at 10:30 AM they reach Esna where they walked up a sandy slope passing by water carriers and basket vendors and visit the Temple of Esna; in the afternoon they have a hot walk of about a half hour in order to visit the Temple of Edfu (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 February 9. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle on the S.S. Rosetta, cruising on the Nile; visit the Temple of Sobek and Horus at Kom Ombo in the morning; reach Aswan about 3:00 PM and have tea at the Cataract Hotel (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 February 10. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle on the S.S. Rosetta, cruising on the Nile; take a motor launch through two locks to barrage [?]; go across in a trolley; take a row boat (manned by four rowers with a boy to steer) to visit the submerged island of Philae (water was at its highest level); return to Aswan by trolley and motor launch; lunch at the Cataract Hotel; [additional details undecipherable] (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 February 11. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle on the S.S. Rosetta, cruising on the Nile; still at Aswan; drive by the unfinished obelisk and the first of the Northern Quarries and {undecipherable] camps; return through bazaars and shops; have tea at the Cataract Hotel and sail back to the S.S. Rosetta in the dark (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 February 12. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle on the S.S. Rosetta, cruising on the Nile; experienced a sand storm; journey resumed at a quick pace; pass Esna; land at Luxor about 5:00 PM (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 13. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Luxor at the Luxor Hotel; walk; visit the Temple of Luxor; tea at the Winter Palace Hotel (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 February 14. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Luxor at the Luxor Hotel; go to Karnak and visit the Temple of Ptah; walk; tea at the Winter Palace Hotel (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 February 15. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Luxor at the Luxor Hotel; {Helen Wolle Doolittle visited mission [?]}; walk in the gardens of the Winter Palace Hotel and see gazelles; walk and shop in the area of the Winter Palace Hotel; "bought cat" [LHS comment: this is probably the turquoise-blue cat described by Perdita Schaffner in "The Egyptian Cat," p. 142l46 of Hedylus (Redding Ridge, Conn. : Black Swan Books, c1980)]; [details of other objects obtained: "fly whisks and giant scarab and key of life"] (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 February 16. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Luxor at the Luxor Hotel; walk and shop; in the evening they boarded the train to Cairo; heard the news of Tutankhamun's tomb being opened (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). The opening of the tomb later becomes subject of short story "Hesperia" (Thorn Thicket, p. 35). 1923 February 17-22. While staying at Shepherd's Hotel Helen Wolle Doolittle brings H.D. a bunch of red roses and a small book of Lawrence's poems; H.D. hardly thanks her and does not mention it afterwards; H.D. later described the room as having a palm framed in the window and palm-doves in the little garden court-yard below; describes the February heat as instilling life radiant soft life; "but my heart contracted when I opened the book and found the poem he had sent me to Corfe Castle, when I was there near Richard - was it 1917? .. There was that other poem when you are dead, I will bring roses and roses to cover your grave"; H.D. later commented: "It seems I had been dead but the roses were to come later" ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 50-51). 1923 February 17. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle arrive in Cairo about 9:30 AM; stay at Shepherd's Hotel (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). [Note: on this date the wall to the burial chamber of King Tutankhamun's tomb was pulled down (Friedman note from: Desroches-Noblecourt, LIFE AND DEATH OF A PHAROAH: TUTANKHAMEN, p. 49).] 1923 February 18. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cairo at Shepherd's Hotel; go to the Egyptain Museum and concentrate on the lower rooms and early dynasties (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 February 19. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cairo at Shepherd's Hotel; go to the Egyptain Museum; Lizieri [?] for tea (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 February 20 H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cairo at Shepherd's Hotel; Helen Wolle Doolittle went to the University; afternoon spent on errands and making arrangements to

return to Naples via the S.S. Umbria (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 February 21 H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cairo at Shepherd's Hotel; shopped (references to Ahmed Suleiman {Khan el Khahli}, Hatsun"s {Muski Street} and Indian Shop) (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 February 22 H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cairo at Shepherd's Hotel; depart for Alexandria at 9:00 AM; reached the S.S. Umbria about 2:30 PM; H.D. and Helen Wolle Doolittle go for a drive in Alexandria (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 February 23-27. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle on board the S.S. Umbria; sail from Alexandria early; very rough and stormy voyage (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 February 26. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle on board the S.S. Umbria; reach the Straits of Messina and the Calabrian coast at night (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 February 27. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle on board the S.S. Umbria; have a difficult landing at Naples; stay at the Excelsior (Autobiographical notes) (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 February 28. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Naples at the Excelsior; go to the aquarium (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 March l. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Naples at the Excelsior; walk and packed (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 March 2. H.D. departs Naples for Capri (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher); stays at the Hotel Quisissima for three weeks then moves to the Pension Lomdres [on Capri?] for three more weeks (Autobiographical notes). 1923 March 3. Helen Wolle Doolittle goes to Florence from Naples (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 March 4. Bryher joins H.D. on Capri (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). 1923 March 5. H.D. and Bryher at the Hotel Quisissima, Capri; Norman Douglas arrives (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher) and Bryher meets him at the harbour (Holloway, NORMAN DOUGLAS, p. 313-315 {probably cribbed from HEART TO ARTEMIS}).

1923 March 6. H.D. and Bryher at the Hotel Quisissima, Capri; Bryher has dinner with Norman Douglas that night (he is "wildly gloriously drunk") (Holloway, NORMAN DOUGLAS, p. 313315 {probably cribbed from HEART TO ARTEMIS}). 1923 March (?). Nancy Cunard arrives on Capri; Bryher and Norman Douglas meet her at a cafe (Holloway, NORMAN DOUGLAS, p. 313-315). 1923 March 9. H.D. at the Hotel Quisissana, Capri; writes to Marianne Moore; thanks her for an article, apparently on H.D.; comments "that article is like some rare Florentine silver work surrounding some quite ordinary but pleasant agates or some sort of nice blue pebbles" [the article which H.D. refers to is probably Moore's review of HYMEN (BROOM, 4 (January 1923), 133-135; reprinted in THE COMPLETE PROSE OF MARIANNE MOORE, 79-82]; comments on dream of having a place of her own--wants Moore and her mother to join them (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation). 1923 March 31. H.D., Helen Wolle Doolittle, and Bryher in Capri; Perdita is brought to join them for her fourth birthday by Laura Wolle Jenkins (Autobiographical notes). Also recalled in "Compassionate Friendship", p. 14; Perdita was brought from Florence. 1923 June [12]. Bryher in Paris; writes to H.D.; includes gossip about Mary Butts, Djuna Barnes, Thelma Wood, William Carlos Williams, and Norman Douglas (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 41). 1923 June l4. Bryher in Paris; writes to H.D.; describes visits to Man Ray's studio, Brancusi's studio, to Gertrude Stein, to Ezra Pound, and ended her day at "Le Boeuf sur le Toit." 1923 July 17. Brigit Patmore writes to Bryher; has just heard something about the Hare [Cecil Gray] which will amuse Bryher; a former housekeeper of the Patmore's is now working for Jacob Epstein's wife; Mrs. Epstein had asked if Isobel (the housekeeper) had known H.D. & commented on "what a wonderful woman she is - so beautiful * brilliant"; they had gone on comparing friends and finally, not in connection with H.D., Mrs. Epstein had spoken of Cecil Gray as a "rich young man" to which Isobel had exclaimed that he was always talking of being poor -- to which Mrs. Epstein had responded "Oh yes always poor to women, but men can get anything out of him: men have a great influence on him"; Brigit then asks if Bryher can't come disguised as a male or get Robert McAlmon to talk to him; gives Bryher his hareship's [Cecil Gray] mother's address as Rosehill Lodge, Porchester Gate; volunteers to try to help snare him in September when Bryher will be in London again (Patmore to Bryher [unpubl. letter]). 1923 July 17. Brigit Patmore writes to Bryher; has heard more 'dirt'-- "Mrs Epstein said to Isobel. 'Gray was very fond of H.D. but Van Dieren said "no"'"; refers to death of Olivia Shakespear's husband (Patmore to Bryher [unpubl. letter]). 1923 August 8. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; responds to a query from H.D. about hotels in the Channel Islands; refers to the Whitalls whom she'd like to see; comnments that "the Epstein revelations of Gray are illuminating. I suppose they are true - or mostly so - Van Dieren is, as you always thought, the evil demon. He it is that directs the cowardice. According to Peggy E[pstein] V.D. has had at least ?3000 from Gray one way or another. And one of the reasons for Mama

gathering her son into a fold is because she had to repay ?500 that C.G. had borrowed from someone to 'help' V.D. Also C.G. paid Epstein ?100 for the bust of V.D. that he has" (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1923 August 30. H.D. in London at the Hotel Washington, Curzon Square; writes to George Plank; will be delighted to have lunch with him a little before one the following Wednesday at her hotel even though the food is awful (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1923 Fall - 1924 June (?). Francis Wolle claims?PRLHS has never seen any concrete evidence for this? that, when he entered Columbia University to begin work towards a Ph.D., his mother, Belle Robinson Wolle, "went to Paris to be with her sister-in-law, Helen Wolle Doolittle, and with her daughter Hilda, and Perdita, and Bryher for nine months. They moved on to Territet, where they spent most of the time, though for the six coldest weeks of the Winter they went south to Mentone on the Riviera (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 58). 1923 November 25. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; thanks her for having sent her a copy of SPEED THE PLOUGH, a collection of stories by Mary Butts--refers specifically to "In Bayswater"; implies that Dorothy Richardson and Alan Odle are currently visiting H.D.; refers to Cole and Oppie and comments on taking them to [Jacob] Epstein as possible candidates for heads; H.D. had apparently asked Brigit about Ethel Colburn Mayne as Brigit responds: "Violet [Hunt] loves Ethel Colburn Mayne. What do you want to know? Everything there is?" (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1923 December 9. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; refers to letter which H.D. has apparently written to Dorothy Cole: "I love your snippets [?] of Odleing. She read me the part about D.R. [Dorothy Richardson] putting you in your place & you could see our heels in the air as we shouted with laughter"; passes on gossip about Violet Hunt and May Sinclair; has run into John Cournos and passes on the message that Horace Liveright wants to see some of H.D.'s prose and Cournos wants H.D. to send Liveright some of it. (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1924. "Pilate's Wife" begun. 1924. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet with Helen Wolle Doolittle; THE HEDGEHOG begun at request of a well known Boston publisher who did not like the result (Thorn Thicket, p. 26, 29). 1924. HELIODORA AND OTHER POEMS published in London by Jonathan Cape and in New York by Houghton Mifflin. 1924 February(?). H.D. apparently in Florence (see entry for February 9). 1924 February 9. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; refers to letter which H.D. has written to her from Florence by which H.D. tantalizes Brigit by referring to "delicate indelicacies"; asks if H.D. is back in Territet; gossips about Cole (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). l924 February 16. H.D. writes to to Brigit Patmore; sends Brigit a copy of the prospectus in which Robert McAlmon announces the joining of forces with William Bird--comments "Robert

is ( or was ) inclined to be a little over independant, and I think ... that the way to get a good public is not always the offensive ( I use the term in its military as well as its social sense )" (H.D. to Patmore [unpubl. letter]). 1924 February l9. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; comments that H.D. must have hated leaving Florence; thanks her for photographs of Perdita and friend and picture of Norman Douglas ((apparently by this time H.D. knows Douglas--it is clear that Brigit has not yet met him); sends addresses for possible places for Helen Wolle Doolittle to stay (or live?) in London (supposes that the middle of May is when she wants to come); gossips about Oppie (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1924 February 26. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; letter begins "Sweetheart - do I not get the situation! You must not be upset - if he had the sense to give you adoration & love you were right to enjoy it, But I'm glad it hasn't gone deep - don't let it, please ... But some more will come along surely - perhaps from the same quarter" [What this refers to, LHS has no idea at this point, September 11, 1987]; then Brigit asks "What is Mary B. really like? [LHS is sure this refers to Mary Butts.; Brigit then delivers a discourse on H.D.'s relations with men; refers to Violet Hunt and comments that she (Brigit) never says anything about anyone's affairs--then asks "Does he write to you? (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1924 February 26. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; has just received letter from H.D.; comments that she had not connected 'Charles' with "In Bayswater [a short story by Mary Butts included in SPEED THE PLOUGH]; more oblique references to situation hinted at in previous letter (February 26); apparently H.D. has described Mary Butts to which Brigit comments "Your pictures of M. make my appreciative nerves shriek with joy, 'magenta - mouthed' is gorgeous" (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1924 March 6. H.D. writes to Violet Jordan, using Riant Chateau letterhead; asks for her sister's address as a friend is interested in possibly acquiring one of her sculptures; refers to the sister's having cut herself off from everyone; comments that she has had news of William Carlos and Florence Williams although she has not seen them (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. lettter]). 1924 March l8. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; letter begins "I am furious with H.E. [Havelock Ellis] - in absolute understanding with you. Of course he thinks, I suppose, that it is an honour to be a 'case' - and worthy to be written about - discussed ... Well, with Violets & Fords about, who leave not a nerve unturned & unpublished, it is difficult to realize any reserve"; but Brigit does comment that to outsiders the case would probably be unrecognizable; says "H.E. is too absorbed in the scientific side to think of personalities"; says "I suppose when Violet & F[ord] were young they awarded each other medals for each published adultery ..." (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1924 April 28. H.D. writes to Brigit Patmore; will be in London late the following day; asks if she can see Brigit on Wednesday [April 30) around 7 (H.D. to Patmore [unpubl. letter]). 1924 April 29. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; accepts invitation for the following day (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1924 May 5. H.D. in London; Brigit Patmore writes to her to accept invitation for Tuesday luncheon (12:45); apparently a party for H.D. has been proposed but H.D. has indicated that she doesn't relish it (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1924 June 1. H.D. in Paris; is dining at Adrienne Monnier's along with Bryher, Sylvia Beach, and Florence and William Carlos Williams; Pound's voice is heard calling from the street (Wilhem, J.J. Ezra Pound in London and Paris, p. 338) 1924 June 3. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; H.D. had apparently gone from London to Paris; refers to some sort of a shock which H.D. has had involving what Brigit refers to as an "old Uncle"; refers to herself having received a note from Jack White [whom H.D. mentions in "Autobiographical Notes"--entry for 1916]; refers to H.D. having met Ford and to her (H.D.) having seen John Cournos and his wife off (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1924 June 10. H.D. in Territet?; sends postcard to Adrienne Monnier; refers to not wanting to miss any parties given by Monnier (asks her please not to give any more until she comes back-implying that she has been there recently) (H.D. "Letters across the Abyss," p. 119). 1924 June 10. Brigit Patmore writes to Bryher; says "How I liked your story of the golden robed young man. Mary Butts is a treasure of romance"; refers to unsucessful attempts to seeing the Hare [Cecil Gray] "but have collected some very dirty dirt ... to the effect that he has had another child by a young married woman" [LHS comment: not confirmed by Pauline Gray in her "Afterword" to the 1985 Hogarth Press edition of MUSICAL CHAIRS, although she admits she doesn't know how many illigetimate offspring Gray spawn--knows only of Perdita--quotes Gray's entry in one of his notebooks: "The world is full of my daughters. It pulluates with them. You can't escape them. They are all over the place. I keep on running into them"]--this tidbit has come from Peggy Epstein who does not tell lies but however doesn't trouble to verify tales (Patmore to Bryher [unpubl. letter]). 1924 June 19. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; has received a picture of H.D. and comments "He's got something very vivid & flamming & vibrant" [could this possibly have been one by Man Ray?]; refers to going with Jack White to a lecture on psychoanalysis held at the "Minerva Cafe (yes, Minerva!) (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1924 July 21. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Brigit Patmore; has received a wire from Brigit (?) about some unpaid bill which dates back to before she and Bryher went to America (bill apparently had been sent to Richard Aldington--comments "How Arabella & he must be gloating over my 'debts.' I feel so horrid"); says Norman Douglas is here with a "cook" downstairs at Pension Jundt--goes on to explain that Douglas has his meals with them and that the so-called "cook" is a 12 year old (a male) with a "skin like wild cyclamen spread over yellow roses" whom Douglas is training to wait on tables (theirs)--"O - quel vie!!! Does anyone ever have such combinations of sordid & excatatic [sic]"; says Douglas bores her--describes him as heavy & Anglo-Indian; he leaves, she hopes in a week; mentions Siamese cats who have been very sick with distemper; refers to "the dreadful little old Auntie got off & mercifully P[erdita] is greatly humanized since"; asks of "that little whippet Collins whom she thinks she has failed since he asked her to befriend a female friend (and she couldn't because of their peculiar situation (H.D. to Patmore [unpubl. letter]).

1924 July 28. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; comments on Siamese kittens; has been around to see Smith [tailor?] about bill mentioned in H.D.'s letter of July 21--had been turned over to collection agency--agency had sent it to Aldington--Brigit expresses doubt over the validity of the bill, but finally decided to turn over the cheque which H.D. has sent fer payment of the bill; refers to pretty frocks which H.D. has given her; mentions novel which she is writing: "I find myself writing intense bits to you - about you & what I feel for you. H.D. (Her Doing!)"; has not seen Collins (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1924 July 30. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Brigit Patmore; thanks her for sending back THE ENORMOUS ROOM [e.e. cummings] and JENNIFER LORN [Elinor Wylie]; is sending back her copy of "CLEOPATRA" [?]; thanks her for dealing with tailor's bill--says that Brigit's suspicions about the validity confirmed her own--further explains that Richard Aldington had sent the bill to Harriet Shaw Weaver who sent it to H.D.; tells Brigit that the McAlmons will spend August and half of September in England; suggests that Brigit and Derek (her son) come to Paris after that time so that they could all be together; says that R[obert] certainly is a charming host in Paris and that he really is not happy in London; refers to the Sitwells; mentions having stayed at the Hotel Unic, Rue de Rennes (near the Gare Montparnasse)--cheap; H.D. comments that she hated other more expensive hotels which she has been to in Paris and says she was only reconciled to Paris after her stay at the Unic; indicates that the Williamses [William Carlos and Florence?] had stayed at the Unic when she did, along with Bryher and Robert McAlmon; refers to Siamese cats--Ty (now called Tiger) and Nefert (H.D. to Patmore [unpubl. letter]). 1924 August 19. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Brigit Patmore; assures Brigit that the Hotel Unic is very cheap and not sordid; says she had most meals at Trianon, around the corner; also refers to the Rotunde and another haunt (Doffure?); tells her to look up Miss Beach, 12 rue de l'Odeon (Shakespear & Co.); gives her Ezra Pound's address: 70 bis rue Notre Dame des Champs (I think) (H.D. to Patmore [unpubl. letter]). 1924 September 9. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; implication is that H.D. is in London as Brigit, whow is in Sussex, asks if H.D. is at the Washington (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1924 September 23. H.D. in London; sees Brigit Patmore (inferred from unpubl. letter from Brigit Patmore to H.D., September 24, 1924). 1924 September 24. H.D. at the Hotel Washington, London; writes to Viola Jordan; doesn't write or gossip more because all her efforts go into her writing; describes Dorothy Shakespear: "Mrs. Ezra is a tall girl - (well, not "girl", she's my age within about a week.) She has fairish hair, not actually "yellow", & greyish eyes, not actually grey, not blue. She used to dress in a very pretty, rather fussy Gainsboroughish manner. Not at all "arty" but picturesque. I don't see her (or him) much now"; plans to leave London in a few days; continues comments on "Mrs. E.": "Mrs. E, spends a few months every year with her mother here in London ... Yes E. is "married" but there seems to be a pretty general concensus of opinion that Mrs. E. has not been "awakened" whatever that may mean. She's very English & cold & I personally like her although she is unbearably critical & never has been known to make a warm friend with man or woman. She loathes (she sauys) children! However, that may be a little pose. She is a bit addicted - little mannerisms. I don't think she can be poignantly sensitive or or she could never have stuck Ezra. Ezra is [? kind or blind] but blustering and really stupid. He is adolescent. He seems almost "arrested" in

development"; comments on photograph [Man Ray?] which she sent Viola: "I wear my hair shorter at the back & curl it every day - rather a mop... better cut than in the picture"; continues describing the Pound's: "The E's live in a sort of studio with, I believe, several little rooms off. However I don't know. They cook in the studio, that is Ezra does it all. She says she can not boil an egg" (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1924 September 27. H.D. in London; sees Brigit Patmore (inferred from unpubl. letter from Brigit Patmore to H.D., September 28, 1924). 1924 September (end) - October (early). H.D.. Bryher, and Robert McAlmon take Harriet Shaw Weaver on an impromptu trip to Paris; Bryher and McAlmon prepared Weaver for the trip by taking her to a London Music hall where they heard Norah Bayes sing "No-one ever loved like Samson and Delilah"; after their arrival in Paris McAlmon planned a party at Bricktop's cabaret after which the group moved to dinner at L'Avenue where they are joined by Thelma Wood, Djuna Barnes, and William Bird--H.D. and McAlmon insist that Harriet Shaw Weaver, who never drank at all, drink some wine--Pound arrived on the scene and, noticing that Harriet had a partially consumed glass of wine in front of her, accused her jokingly of being drunk--H.D. gasped, then, along with McAlmon, let out a gasp of laughter, then both looked at Harriet and turned scarlet--Harriet was mortified and sat as if she had been struck--Djuna Barnes unsucessfully tried to save the situation, then since it was after 10:00, H.D. escorted her to her hotel; McAlmon called on Harriet the next morning and took her to Fouquet's for coffee and tries to change her perspective on the incident; Bryher later claimed that Harriet had relaxed after several people assured that no malice had been intended (Lidderdale & Nicholson, DEAR MISS WEAVER, p. 244-247). 1924 October 9. Harriet Shaw Weaver writes to Bryher (who with H.D. had left Paris); thanks the McAlmons for "having pressed me to come to Paris in your party" (Lidderdale & Nicholson, DEAR MISS WEAVER, p. 247) (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 145). 1924 October 25. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Brigit Patmore; has stopped in Paris before returning to Territet; saw zra Pound who spoke very affectionateky of Brigit (H.D. to Patmore [unpubl. letter]). 1924 November 2. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; refers to the Eliots who are moving from Clarence Gate Mansions; has run into Richard Aldington while coming out of the British Museum (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1924 November 22. H.D.'s bankbook itemizes a check to Man Ray (Zilboorg notes). 1924 November 29. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Brigit Patmore; refers to Richard Aldington's literary productivity; comments on Gray's publishing a book: "I am surprised though that he has managed to get through his inhibitions to the extent of publishing a book at all"; has been working terribly and has managed to get her eyes into a state of a blurr that is uncommonly uncomfortable; says she may be going to Florence after Christmas; has heard from H.P. Collins (H.D. to Patmore [unpubl. letter]).

1924 December. "People of Sparta" published in THE BOOKMAN, with illustrations by Rockwell Kent. 1925. COLLECTED POEMS OF H.D. published in New York by Boni and Liveright.. 1925. A selection from HEDYLUS published in Paris in Robert McAlmon's anthology, CONTACT COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS. 1925. WEST by Bryher published by Jonathan Cape in London. 1925. SEX IN RELIGION by Clifford Howard published (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 29). 1925 January 8. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Marianne Moore; thanks her for her review of Heliodora and other Poems (in The Dial, October 1924); says that Helen Wolle Doolittle is currently in Paris (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation). 1925??PRCape published HELIODORA in 1924--dating of this letter depends on whether or not H.D. was expecting Cape to continue to publish her; however H.D. apparently saw the Williams in the summer of 1924; also Amy Lowell died in 1925? Jan 10. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Viola Jordan; mentions plans to go to Paris in two months as well as the gfact that she must go to London to see her publisher, Cape; comments that Amy Lowell is due to arrive in London in May; comments on her writing: "I have to get a certain amount of stuff ready for Cape for Spring. I have in some way to justify my existance, and then it is also a pure "trade" with me now. It is my "job"; comments "I do love Suiss but it is utterly cut off. But then I like this too, as I am more and more hating of people. By the way, I thought Williams most banal. Don't tell him so, and Florence we all thought was too silly. She tried to carry onlike a movie vamp and it didn't become her and it was so futile with a husband in the background. They both wanted "relationships" we all thought. But no one was having any from either of them. I thought Williams common-place, common and banal. Don't say so to anyone. I can't afford to make enemies. But really, really there are limits" (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1925 January 31. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; H.D. has apparently written to Brigit that she is planning to set up a home in London--Brigit writes about real estate opportunities and offers her help when the time comes (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1925 February 3. H.D. sees John Cournos (H.D. to John Cournos, [unpubl. letter] 4 Feb 25? PRThis data from copy supplied to LHS from Friedman; check Hollenberg file to make sure this letter is from Harvard; it could be one of the Bryn Mawr letters?). 1925 February 4. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to John Cournos; refers to having seen him the day beefore; has been to Vey [ie. Vevay?] to investigate a possible place for Cournos and his family to settle--has asked about schools, etc.; refers to being upset about possibility of R. [Aldington] descending upon her; comments "I think a man must prove at least a years `chastity' before he can come down on a wife whom he has already literally kicked out. Remember I had friends come to see me in the room HE GOT FOR ME at the du Littoral, and how can he prove I

deserted him then at any rate. He literally called up Bryher and said `Hilda must get out of here at once.' That was after he arranged the room for me. You see he can't get around that. I have very reliable witnesses of his whole attitude and all the letters during that period, a half year before the actual break"; says she investigate the legal aspects thoroughly just to be on the safe side; invites him and Helen to come again (H.D. to John Cournos, [unpubl. letter]?PRThis data from copy supplied to LHS from Friedman; check Hollenberg file to make sure this letter is from Harvard; it could be one of the Bryn Mawr letters?). 1925 February 6. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; H.D. has apparently wired and written to Brigit to get information on the possibility of Aldington divorcing her; Brigit rang up Stanley Passmore who "said emphatically that theres no divorce for a man except misconduct, & moreover it he knows of the said horrid word, & has condoned it, that finishes the chance of divorce. He can get a judicial separation for desertion that's all"; Brigit has taken it upon herself to write to Richard Aldington, mentioning having seen him at the British Museum [the previous November]; the whole thing apparently was started by Cournos suggesting that Aldington might seek a divorce-[LHS comment: Cournos may or may not have implied that Aldington might seek custody of Perdita]; Brigit rang up Eliot to confirm that Aldington's address was Padworth; refers to having gotten a note from H.P. Collins (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1925 February 16. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; has found out that it is not worthwhile for H.D. to bother about a judical separation--the only way she could get it would be by "collusion" with Aldington and she would not be better off than she is now; has not found out anything about such action would affect Perdita; has gotten a nice response from Aldington to her note--quotes part of it "Your letter seems to accuse me of neglecting you. I think I might more legitimately adopt that tone since it was you - doubtless for good reasons - allowed our friendship to drop"--Brigit comments that she certainly didn't accuse him of neglecting her; has not answered him because she doesn't want to unless it might make a difference in either H.D. or Perdita's affairs; will await instructions from H.D.; Brigit thinks the next thing she has to do is to find out mout the law points and costs (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1925 February 18. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Brigit Patmore; tells Brigit not to worry about Aldington; says it is only a matter of separation--that she had never dreamt of the possibility of divorce; says that separation seems to be a respectable way of "protecting the children"; she doesn't really care--Richard can have his "A."--"what I can never get over is the fact that even now SHOULD I care for any one or want a little freedom, HE can come down on me. Perhaps just a PHOBIA. I don't know. If he were really a `gentleman' I would not think twice about it. But we know in certain ways he is totally unreliable. I think, still think, he is a little cracked ... However, i am inclined to be charitable, only it is the baby. Bryher seems to think R. might later stand in the way"; tells Brigit to keep on friendly terms with Aldington and "try to find out any `dirt'" discretely (H.D. to Patmore [unpubl. letter]). 1925 February 22. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; has gotten some more information: "1. Cost of separation about ?150. Its almost as much bother as divorce & even if R. did not defend, you would have to be examined. 2. Time: about 2 or three months probably longer. 3. Baby. Supposing at any time he wished to make trouble & claim her (a fantastic supposition, because he could never keep her) you would win easily. He cannot deny parenthood"; comments that Aldington can't come down on H.D. because he is not innocent; tries to assure H.D. that there is

nothing Aldington can do and also that she is likely to be hurt by "talk"--that she she has done a good job of restructuring her life and the other life has receded into the past (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1925 February 22. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; has apparently received a letter from H.D. thanking her for the information and in which idea of having Bryher and Robert McAlmon adopt Perdita has been mentioned; says "Yes, the young must be protected. It's almost all that matters. I can't help feeling that for Bryher and Robert to adopt her would be the best protection"; discusses the matter in more detail pointing that H.D. would be relieved of the strain of bringing Perdita up yey Perdita at the same time "must not be deprived of such a wonderful mother"; has been taking to Tom Eliot on the telephone about H.P. Collins--Eliot told Brigit that since November 22, he and Vivien have had a more than usually terrible time (Brigit comments "I love that precision"); mentions D.H. Lawrence's memior of Norman Douglas [?] and says the she "felt somehow that Lawrence had shut his eyes and spat"; then asks "Do you remember how he'd haunch up on a stool like a cat with a bad liver?" (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1925 March 2. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; discusses issue of whether or not Aldington might or could fight possibility of Bryher adopting Perdita; suggests it could be done by private deed witnessed by responsible people; appears to be very supportive of adoption idea (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1925 March 4. Bryher writes to Brigit Patmore; "On arrival here a few weeks back, I found H. in a terribly nervous state as the result of Cournos having sprung some theory on her that after seven years R. A. might try some divorce for desertion stunt. It's perfectly riculous but I personally don't trust R.A. a scrap. Now I suggest, and Robert is very kind and helpful and says that I may, that Robert and I adopt, legally and fully, Perdita. She will take our name, have an immediate settlement on her as regards money, and her education and everything provided for. I have no wish to take her from Hilda's care, in fact that is the only stipulation that Robert makes, that it does not mean that I drag an infant round with me. My hands are tied unless she is mine, becausethere is no fun in providing an expensive education and either having a fight with R.A. in the middle of it, or else having some beastly struggle in the courts of justice. There is one complication - that is nationality. If it could be arranged I should prefer that the whole thing was kept silent, that only the parties interested know about it, and that as she was born in England she still stayed on her mother's passport. It is simply a question that I am not prepare to pay down money for an expensive education and have R.A. making a mess of things in the middle. I wonder whether you could quite privately find out, perhaps from mr Allen, how the law stands as regards adoption. Having always in mind that we are American citizens. It does not matter but I should like a little light on the subject before coming to any definite decision on the matter. You see, everything depends on Robert and I shall have to make a clear statement to him before I could take any definite steps. I expect to be in London in April but before I come over should like to know a little how the law stands. But please do not mention this matter to anybody as if the thing is carried through it must be done as secretly and quietly as possible. Please don't go out of your way on the matter but as you know the whole story it is easier than writing to someone to whom the story would have to be explained. Of course I hall have to see a lawyer about it in Paris or London but I must put a clear statement of the matter in front of Robert before he gives his final consent. If H. could get a legal separation with custody of child, things would be different. But I will not spend a lot of money on the infant's education and have R.A. stick his nose in, in

the middle." Shorttly after this letter was written, Bryher wrote another undated note to Brigit: "A hurried line to ask you ( in view of your letter this morning ) to leave matters as they are till we get over. It is very important the thing should be kept private. On arrival in England Robert will see what he thinks best to be done" (Bryher to Brigit Patmore [unpubl. letters]). 1925[?] March 6. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to George Plank; refers to a photograph: "Alas, I hate to say so, but do you know I agree with you about that photograph, but do you know I agree with you about that photograph. I should say those, as there were three, each worse than the last. You would never have seen it, nor would Louis U. had it not been that a friend generously shoved me into Man Ray's Paris studio and then ungenerously shoved my photographs at various agents, Louis U. being the most (I should say I suppose the least) objectionable. Pleas tell no one that I thin Louis U. objectionable and please breathe to no one that I do not altogether love the photographs. They are SUPPOSE to be wonderful. Well, they are. They do scare off all manner of vermin. Louis U. not among the least"; says she hopes to be in London the following month and would like to see him; asks if he has seen Quo Vadis; says the Whitalls sent her a charming photograph of themselves; refers to Dorothy Cole who she says has a tendress for Jim; comments on photograph again: "And please DO NOT TELL that I positively agree with you about the Medea"; refers to the Cournos' having turned up in Territet on their "way to Chateau d'[?ex], an awful hole up in the mountains where I told them not to go" and continues with gossip commenting "Now this is sheer CAT" (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1925 March 31. H.D. in London at the Hotel Washington; writes to George Plank; it is Perdita's sixth birthday; comments on how much his talking to her the other day meant to her; refers to being confused and the need to think clearly; says that she does not want him or anyone else to "spy ... on Richard"; says "it is and has always been my very deep affection for him that has kept me from asking awkward questions. I would myself write him as he asked me (through Miss Weaver) to do some ten months ago, But how do I know who will open that letter? What possible quarantee have I that it is not some lawyers trick or some try-on of sorts? I myself would be too easily trapped, though this may well be the most innocent and heart-rending of attempts to get in touch with me again. But what do I know? I have to protect the little girl first, don't I?"; is glad to have been able to unburden herself to him and hopes that he will allow her to do the same for him someday; refers to the Whitalls and comments "I am positively embarassed about my MSS which Jim wants to look over for his firm. And do you know something holds me back. I can't offer them to him. I can't see him reading them. It is very awkward as it is or should be a matter of business. But the things I write are all indirectly ( when not directly ) inspired by my experiences"; says she will write him when she gets back to Suisse; says she leaves London early next week; comments "I just had to tell you in a hurry before I had time to think about it, how much it means to be getting in touch with the London ( which I suppose indirectly means Richard ) I knew and loved for so many years and in which I so intensely suffered" (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1925 April 26. May Sinclair writes to H.D. (Zilboorg notes). 1925 April 28. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; has not heard from H.D. for some time but Cole has reported that she had a note from H.D. so Brigit feels assured that H.D. is okay; mentions not having yet received a manuscript of H.D.'s yet from May Sinclair which she is looking forward to

reading [LHS surmises this is probably PALIMPSEST]; indicates that she has given up trying to bring T.S. Eliot and H.P. Collins together (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1925 May 7. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to George Plank; thanks him for a "wise letter" and comments: "No, I long ago decided that well enough was best let [severely ?] alone. After all, it is only sentiment, a desire to link up with the past & I might loose even the illusion of that past if it were broken across. If things happen they happen! That is again different. But I don't see that there can be any possible move this end, considering my temperament. I am really supremely happy in my present state. Naturally we all have `moments' of sorts"; is sending him a copy of COLLECTED POEMS and points out two typographical errors which she jokes were caused by SLUGS (p. 214: foul = four; p. 191: tea = bee); has apparently written to James Whitall (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1925 May 12. Amy Lowell dies (Heymann., AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY, p. 275). 1925 May 13. H.D. writes to H.P. Collins; discusses her prose writing and comments "I seem a very between-worlds person" (Friedman. Penelope's web, p. 19). 1925 June 16. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; has apparently heard from H.D. that she is coming to London soon (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1925 June (after 16th) - July. H.D.'s address is 37 Park Mansions, Knightsbridge (with Helen Wolle Doolittle and works on HIPPOYTUS TEMPORIZES? Cf. Thorn Thicket, p. 29); fact that H.D. worked on HIPPOYTUS TEMPORIZES at Park Mansions confirmed by her ms.notation on letter from Brigit Patmore, dated July 17, 1925 (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl.]); H.D. applies for membership in the [British] Society of Authors (Collecott. Notes; from H.D.'s correspondence with the Society of Authors). 1925 June 22. Harriet Shaw Weaver writes to Sylvia Beach: "I saw Bryher for an hour or so on Thursday. The flat is secured but needs much adaptation ... I have just missed H.D. who is to be in London for two months with mother and daughter in a furnished flat" (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 146). 1925 June 22. H.D. in London at 37 Park Mansions, Knightsbridge; writes to Marianne Moore; at the request of H.P. Collins asks about finding an American periodicle to publish the enclosed article on Housman which is due to appear in the Adelphi in August; explains that she and her mother and Perdita have sub-let a flat for two months--describes it as being mid-Victorian "whose prim inhabitants belong to shabby-genteel court circles"; says she sees Bryher and McAlmon ancomments "I hear Kitty C. [?] is in town and am to see her later" (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation). 1925 July (early?). H.D.in London at 37 Park Mansions, Knights~bridge; writes to Brigit Patmore; says she is "EXTREMELY happy to be in London in a funny little place that my mother and various friendly agents dug out her in Knightsbridge"; suggest several times when Brigit might come to tea or supper; goes on to say "We are opposite Knightsbridge underground on a sort of island below Harrods, above Scots House, above the tail of a rampant ( slightly ) general" (H.D. to Patmore [unpubl. letter]).

1925 July 9. Maria Rudge born at Bressanone in the Italian Tyrol; daughter of Olga Rudge and Ezra Pound (Capenter, Humphrey. A serious chracter, p. 448) 1925 August 1. H.D. in London at 37 Park Mansions, Knights~bridge; writes to Marianne Moore; thanks her for her review of Collected Poems of H.D. (in The Dial, August 1925); complements Moore on being at the helm of The Dial; is hoping to find a place of her own soon? PRThe verso of this letter was not photocopied? (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation). 1925 August (late?) - l932 August. H.D.'s London address is 169 Sloane Street (Collecott. Notes). A letter from Brigit Patmore to H.D. shows that as of August 18 arrangements had not been finalized (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl.]). 1925 September 9. H.D. in London; sees Brigit Patmore in the afternoon (possibly at Fullers (Patmore to H.D. 5/IX/25, 10/IX/25 [unpubl.]). 1925 November 27. H.D. in London; writes to Viola Jordan; says she has found a tiny attic here in London at 169 Sloane Street where she hopes to spend her summers; howver she pans to return to Territet on Wednesday of next week [December 2?]; the London flat has no proper steamheating; apologizes for having neglected writing to Viola--"I was terribly rushed and crowded this summer, finding tghis flat"; comments that her mother has been there this summer as well as her two brothers and many friends (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1925 (?) December. Helen Wolle Doolittle writes letter to Perdita; refers to Christmas and packages arriving; apparently has been visiting Melvin, Dorothy, and Mundell Doolittle in Orange, N.J.; refers to having received a copy of Mr. Collins new book rwith references to H.D.; is going to visit the Harold Doolittles and gives address as 6953 Edgerton Ave., Pittsburg, Pa. (HWD to PS [unpubl. letter]). 1925 December 22. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet (deduced from letter from Brigit Patmore to H.D. of that date). 1926. PALIMPSEST (consisting of three stories: "Hipparchia", "Secret Name" and "Murex") published in Paris by Contact editions and in New York by Houghton Mifflin. McAmon sold 700 sets of sheets to Houghton Mifflin, un unprecedented event for a Contact publication; the number of American reviews which the book elicited was also unusual for a Contact edition (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 206). 1926. "Asphodel" reworked. 1926. Date linked with short story "The Moment" {Elaine = Frances Josepha Gregg} (Thorn Thicket, p. 35, 36). 1926. THIS IMPASSIONED ONLOOKER by Brigit Patmore published; dedicated to H.D. (as Belgarda) (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 250).

1926. H.P. Collins comments: "In late 1926 began my acquaintance, which was never to be more than a written one, with Frances Gregg. H.D., who was ever over highly-strung, and whose kindness was too often invaded, asked me if I would get in touch with Frances, who said she was, or fancied herself, in great difficulties" which Collins did and he attempted to market unsuccessfully two manuscripts by Frances--a collection of short stories and an autobiographical novel; Collins further comments that Louis Wilkinson "wrote to H.D. and asked her to persuade me to let him see these manuscripts of which the rumour had very much interested him. I was terribly embarrassed (though scarcely more so than H.D.) as Frances appeared far from cordial towards her former husband; ... I never complied with the suggestion" (Collins, H.P. "Louis and Lulu," Recollections of the Powys Brothers, p. 80-81). Collins also says that Frances was operated on for cancer in St. George's Hospital in the autumn of 1926 and that "she made a good recovery; and after working for John Lewis in Oxford Street as editor of a staff magazine she was appointed to take charge of the children's side of the News Chronicle, to which she contributed juvenile stories" (p. 82). 1926 (?) March 29. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Viola Jordan; is hoping to leave for London in about ten days; comments "I am bringing out a volume of prose, semi-private in Paris. No one really much likes my prose but I can't be held up by what the critics think H.D. ought to be like. I am just going on and writing the most purple stuff to my hearts content. Funny how people think anything at all one writes must be a resum? of ones own life. I have a purple sex story (though highly spiritualized) about a Greek girl in Rome which I like but people don't think 'worthy' quite of H.D. I say WHO is H.D. ? They all think they know more about what and why she should or should not be or do than I ... Printing in Paris does not preclude later publishing in England or U.S. so this is by way of an experiment"; comments on Pound: "Ezra went for some of my prose but between you and me, I look upon the dear boy as just a little ageing and more than a little jaundiced"; refers to having a book by Williams which she has not yet read; says she has been busy with visitors from London (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1926 June 14. Harriet Shaw Weaver writes to Sylvia Beach ; has seen Bryher in London who "took me across the street to see H.D.'s little apartment where she seems very happy" (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 147). 1926 July 8. Joan Leader Waluga born (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.), p. 666) 1926 September 10. Omar Pound born in the American Hospital in Paris (Neuilly) (Capenter, Humphrey. A serious chracter, p. 453) 1926 September 22. H.D. in London; party given by Jean Starr and Louis Untermeyer in London occurs; guests include D.H. and Frieda Lawrence, Bryher, Dorothy Richardson and Alan Odle, and George Plank; H.D. later recalls this event in "Compassionate Friendship" (p.53) when she is reflecting on Lawrence and comments "Bryher met them both at a party that Jean and Louis Untermeyer gave; I was asked to that, too. I remember how I struggled with myself in my little flat on Sloane Street - shall I? Shan't I? I did not go to the party. Afterwards Bryher came and told me that Lawrence had said, `give my love to Hilda. Mind you, you are to give my love to Hilda'"; [LHS note: in her autobiography, PRIVATE COLLECTION (p. 114-117), Jean Starr Untermeyer says, probably erronously, that H.D. was there; Lawrence himself wrote on September 23, 1926 to Mabel Dodge Luhan of seeing the Louis Umtermeyers the day bvefore

(LORENZO IN TAOS, p. 310); checking Sagar (A D. H. LAWRENCE HANDBOOK, p. 236) indicates that the Lawrences were in London between September 16 and 28]. 1926 November 19. Death of Clement King Shorter (Shorter, Clement King. C.K.S.: AN AUUTOBIOGRAPHY, p. xxiii). 1926 December. Frances Gregg sends Kenneth Macpherson to meet H.D. ("December" from note in Pearson's biog files). 1927. HIPPOLYTUS TEMPORIZES: A PLAY IN THREE ACTS published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin. 1927. POOLREFLECTION and GAUNT ISLAND by Kenneth Macpherson published by Pool in Territet, Suisse. 1927. HER written. [Date on title page on earliest surviving draft of manuscript.] 1927 (?). Francis Wolle recalls that he saw H.D. in London; that she had him to dinner with T.S. Eliot at a Chinese basement restaurant; and that she arranged for Violet Hunt to invite them to tea; on the night that he arrived in London, H.D. had obtained tickets for the Cockran [Cochran?] Revue, in memory of the old Philadelphia days; on the night before H.D. left London to rejoin Bryher in Germany for planning artistic movies, she and Wolle had dinner in an Italian restaurant in Soho and talked until the restaurant began to lock up--she told him about the strains of World War I, the break up with Aldington, "about the kindness and lack of emotional understanding on the part of her brother Harold, and about her poetic goals"; Wolle comments that he did not see Perdita who was "down in the country" but that H.D. did make a dancing date for him with Kenneth Macpherson's sister [Eileen?] (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 59). 1927 February. H.D. makes film debut in WING BEAT, filmed by Kenneth Macpherson near Territet (Friedberg. Writing about cinema, p. 344). 1927 (?) February 24. H.D. writes to Viola Jordan; thanks her for sending a book by Mrs. A. W. but cautions Viola that she would rather receive "American things as I think I pretty well get ahold of stuff going this side" [LHS conjectures that Mrs. A. W. might have been Anna Wickham, as H.D. comments "I knew Mrs. A.W. at one time in London and always admired your work"]; says she trys "to get all the modern stuff I hear has any power or sting"; has been "reading a good deal on the `darky' problem lately" and asks if Viola cares for Van Vechten; comments "I hear E.P. has a son?PR[Omar Pound]?. I don't hear much about it. It seems not to be any too strong and stays with a skilled nurse but I don't know. That was some time ago. It is probably with them now"; asks if Viola herars from W.C. Williams; comments "I am full of work and trying to keep `young' - have friends near, this winter, who insist on my dancing and dancing AND dancing" [LHS comment: this might be a reference to Kenneth Macpherson] (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1927 March 21. Helen Wolle Doolittle dies.

1927 Spring. While in Venice, H.D. inscribes a copy of Hugh A. Douglas' VENICE ON FOOT (London : Methuen, 1925). 1927 May l(?). H.D., Bryher, and Kenneth Macpherson in Venice; events written about in "Narthex (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 59).. 1927 May. Bryher and Kenneth Macpherson in Berlin; Bryher meets Sigmund Freud (Friedman. DLB 45:133) (Friedberg. Writing about cinema, p. 344). 1927 May. In "A Poet's Novel," Alyse Gregory reviews PALIMPSEST in THE DIAL, v. 82, p. 417-419. 1927 June. Bryher divorces Robert McAlmon. 1927 June 6. H.D. writes to Viola Jordan; asks her to let her know of the films she sees--"I am now intensely interested"; refers to doing critical work for the forthcoming publication, CLOSEUP; comments that she understands that the German and Austrian films are badly cut and distorted in the States; says they get [in Switzerland?] all the big American productions and mentions THE BIG PARADE and QUO VADIS; comments that though there are fine houses in London there are not always enough good movies; says "Yes. I do care. I feel it is the living art, the thing that WILL count but that is in danger now from commercia; and popular sources"; she will send a copy of the new paper in a few weeks; comments that she has still shorter hair--"I think it so much more comfortable and nice" (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1927 June 27. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes postcard to George Plank; comments on doing regular critical work for CLOSE-UP; will try to send him the first number; mentions subscription costs; hopes to be in London in a few weeks; has heard from both Untermeyers [who have apparently separated]; asks if he received POOLREFLECTION which she sent him (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1927 July - 1933 December. CLOSE UP published; it first ran monthly then changed to quarterly; advertised itself as "An International Magazine Devoted to Film Art"; financed by Bryher who also organized the business details and assisted Kenneth Macpherson with the editing (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 195). 1927 August 23. H.D. in London at 169 Sloane Street; writes to George Plank; thanks him for coming the day before; gives her phone no. as Sloane 3835; tells him that Bryher and Kenneth's phone no. is Sloiane 5510 and that their address is 45 Parkside, Knightsbridge; says she has a little Swiss maid named Sophie who does not speak English; comments "You are a curious link with the past and that is perhaps why I am sometimes off-hand and shy about seeing you. But since you have seen Br and K., I feel you are with me in the present too and that very rare future which I feel is K's inheritance" (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1927. September. "Conrad Veidt: the Student of Prague" appears in CLOSE UP 1927 September 1. Bryher marries Kenneth Macpherson in the Registry Office in Chelsea.

1927 September 17. H.D. writes to Viola Jordan; letter headed from 169 Sloane St., London; this is a very tactfully worded and carefully typed letter which H.D. says she has dictated to a friend [LHS suspects it was actually written by Bryher]; says she is frightfully busy on a new book which has to be done before Winter; thanks her for her subscription and comments on the quality of their equipment (mentions Kleig lamps--says they have the best camera--all of the equipment cost around $4,000); says "our photographer who is an expert on all technical points of photo~graphy is very scornful of the obvious lighting in most American filkms. He achieved some wonderful effects with shadow and half-lights"; comments tha she appreciates Viola's candid criticim [of films] in her letters and that she has shown them to the ditor of CLOSE UP who wants to print exerpts from them; very tactfully explains why she is returning a rejected contribution by William Carlos Williams which Viola has apparently sent for consideration for CLOSE UP; says "My dear Viola, we appreciate you sending us the Williams article but I want you to understand a rather delicate situation in the matter of accepting it. I am sure you will. And I need only explain that Williams is a great friend of McAlmon, who recently was divorced from Bryher, our sub-editor and it makes a slightly awkward situation. So you must not be hurt that I send it back. Much as I like the article there is a further complication in the fact that McAlmon and Williams ran Contact magazine together and as Contact passed on to publishing we do not want to have POOL books in any way linked up in the public mind with this" (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1927 November. Bryher and Kenneth Macpherson in Berlin; Bryher meets Hanns Sachs (Friedberg. Writing about cinema, p. 344). 1928 (end) - 1928 (Spring). Production of FOOTHILLS (POOL film) in which H.D. appears; filmed in studio at Clarens, Switzerland (data compiled from Autobiographical Notes; confusion about details in Friedberg. Writing about cinema, p. l34-138, 344). In a letter to George Plank (June 12, 1928) H.D. describes the plot this: "a dame from the city (H.) comes to the country village for rest ... all the complications of village life and gossip and a sort of idealistic encounter with the young intelligent lout who is K. in Vaudois farm clothes" (unpubl. letter.) 1928. THE USUAL STAR written in London (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 57).. 1928. HEDYLUS was printed by the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-Upon-Avon for Basil Blackwell, Oxford and published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin. 1928. "Narthex" published in THE SECOND AMERICAN CARAVAN: A YEARBOOK OF AMERICAN LITERATURE in New York by Macaulay. 1928. Perdita attends Brickwell. 1928 January 3. H.D. at Riant Chatteau, Territet; writes postcard to Viola Jordan; thanks her for film magazines but suggests that she not send any more as they "have been following all the magazines for years"; comments that they "have not approached the thing I assure you in an amateurish manner. There is NOTHING that comes by way of Hollywood that we don't see as we have special correspoindent there too" (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]).

1928 March 26. Date of adoption order of Frances Perdita Macpherson; ordered by High Court of Justice, Chancery Division; registered on May 11, l928. 1928 March 29. H.D. in Switzerland?; writes to George Plank; mentions that she has had a week in Venice; mentions a book of Isadora Duncan [MY LIFE]; asks if he saw her dance and says "I did in youth and was indirectly, through friends, in a way in touch with her ideas ... so this was a queer sort of adventure, this "my life" sort of thing of the Duncan. If one didn't know people who had met people who had known Isadora, perhaps it wouldn't have been any fun at all. As it was, I was feverishly excited ... though all her ideas and that 'posturing' seems so effete, so oldfashioned now"; refers to Kenneth and Bryher being there off and on; then a casual house party for Christmas; then they went off to Paris and she to Venice; refers to Kenneth's trying to finish a film; says "they have now a tiny little cameo of a studio and a very good small but clear and smooth 'projector' and various impedimenta of that sort"; CLOSE UP is being well received; asks what he knows of THE FILM GUILD of New York (Kenneth and Bryher getting mixed information); refers to attempts to get GAUNT ISLAND published in America; comments that Kenneth apparently asked a fee which publishers seem to consider "infra dig"; comments "Why plumbers are paid and not poets has always been a problem ... not that I worry for I never did take up the cudgels for AHRT for AHRTS sake. I believe in beauty and such work as Kenneths and such ideals as yours and mine and the ravens do feed people of the 'salt' of the earth variey [sic]" (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1928 April 26. H.D. in Switzerland; writes postcard to George Plank; is sending him MY LIFE; comments that she thinks that the book was sent to her to review but she doesn't see her way to doing so; tells him to keep it until her return to London, probably about the middle of June; says it seems to be authentic; refers to the Damrosch orchestra in Philadelphia; Kenneth and Bryher are there now; says "Gardens are important, Mine now is apple and white lilac and wysteriacolured wysteria. Also red tulips and red geraniums to match ... wrong but exotic and making summer a reality" (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1928 May/June. H.D. lends flat at 169 Sloane St, which has been closed since the winter, to Ezra and Dorothy Pound (Collecott notes from EP/H.D. correspondence in the Pound Archive, Beinecke). 1928 May 11. Registration date of Perdita's adoption by Bryher and Kenneth Macpherson; registered at General Register Office, Sonmerset House, London. 1928 June 12. H.D. in Switzerland; writes to George Plank; begins with phiosophical discourse on aging and spending time with younger people; remarks that she is sending "snips" of negatives from film (which she calls "silver-shadow") of herself and Kenneth; discusses the plot and the making of FOOTHILLS; comments "There is a great handicap in the quota law, and certain taxes (exorbitant) on foreign film. Ours is "foreign" in that it was made abroad thougfh all the staff is English"; mentions possibility of showing it in Paris; says she may go to Berlin for two weeks at the beginning of July; afterwards she hopes to be in London; has heard from Pound who has asked her to get a job for John Cournos who is in Geneva--says she was "MAD" and wrote Pound "a fresh and rather undignified letter" which she fears has been forwarded to Cournos; comments "as an experiment that is an actual work of extreme beauty, this Foothills is really unique. And O, the glory of escape through another medium"; comments that Bryher and Kenneth now have a

small projector which she spends hours working alone when they arte away; inquires as whether Plank knows if Jean Starr Untermeyer is in Berlin now (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1928 November. Bryher begins analysis with Hanns Sachs (Friedman (DLB 45:133) (Friedberg. Writing about cinema, p. 346 ). [Friedman no longer certain about November--Heart to Artemis indicates that it began much earlier in 1928, continuing through the summer and on until 1932]. 1928 November. H.D. has an abortion in Berlin (Friedman (DLB 45:132) (Autobiographical notes). [Note: LHS has seen references in Bryher/H.D./Macpherson correspondence (as well as references to the usage of a Haire ring). Hollenberg has found two 1928 letters from Macpherson to H.D. from Berlin to London with direct references to abortion with plans being made by Hanns Sachs; refers to a V.S. (female) [?] who has encouraged H.D. to carry it to term.] 1928 (late). H.D. sees Richard Aldington and Brigit Patmore in Paris after they had seen D.H. Lawrence at Port-Clos; she inquires after Lawrence and they "shook their heads and pronounced him an omelet made of bad eggs, or something of the sort"; it is at this time that H.D. learns that Aldington had destroyed (burnt) the letters from him and Lawrence which she had led left stored in a suitcase in the basement at Mecklenburgh Square; H.D. later commented that "It was at this time, that I was working or beginning work on Pilate's Wife. for I remember in Paris, Richard's speaking of the title, `in itself, it should sell the book'" ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 61). 1928 December 8. H.D. in Berin (?); sends postcard to George Plank; says "greeting from 'that Bad City' from which I (do you wonder) am now fleeing Swisserward" (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1928 December 25. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; Perdita joins her from Brickwell; Stephen Guest is there as well (Auto~bio~gra~phical notes). .D. Chronology: Part IV 1929. First draft of "Pilate's Wife" completed. 1929. RED ROSES FOR BRONZE published in New York by Random House as part of its POETRY QUARTOS. [Note: this poem is said to be about Paul Robeson.] 1929. POOL publishes FILM PROBLEMS OF SOVIET RUSSIA. 1929. NO TOMORROW by Brigit Patmore published; H.D. appears as Helga (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 250). 1929. H.D. and Richard Aldington resume correspondence. 1929 January 1. H.D. writes to Viola Jordan; comments that she is fond of the Post <?> and subscribes to it--refers to a two part Rebecca West story of which she had read the first part in Berlin <Jordan has apparently sent her a copy of the issue with the second part>--comments that writing a Post story "would be as foreign to me as painting a picture or acting ... but then I know

that I could paint a picture and act if the right moment demanded it"; refers to her living situation: "friends, Kenneth and Bryher have definitely taken on this place, I have my rooms and all appurtances but could not have afforded it alone. It is lovely this way ... as they do all the horrible house keeping details. I have a tiny flat in London but will not be able to keep it on much longfer unless I live there all the time and I don't want that"; comments that Kenneth and Bryher are getting a car; remarks on the success and difficulties of CLOSE UP; has become interested in a woman who does readings from numbers and birthdays and offers to have a reading <horoscope> done for Viola if she will send her the relevant data; comments "It sounds silly but isn't really. Tendencies, why certain slack times and failure, etc., etc." (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1929 January 29. H.D. writes to Robert McAlomon; discusses difficulities of getting things published and comments "I agree it blocks one not to have things published" (Friedman. Penelope's web, p. 20). 1929 February. H.D. at Riant Chatteau, Territet; writes to John Cournos; refers to a communication from Saxty [unidentified] whom she has not heard from for ten years--comments that she had already heard from the Poetry Bookshop that she was on the prowl; asks if he has heard that Aldington and Arabella "have had a violent and final quarrel" and asks if he has heard anything more but also asks that Cournos not spread the fact that she was asking; apparently Aldington has sold his books; comments on another rumor that Aldington "said he must have more 'sex expression'"does want to help both of them though not in material ways; says she wants to see him if she gets across this summer (H.D. to John Cournos, [unpubl. letter], PRThis data from copy supplied to LHS from Friedman; check Hollenberg file to make sure this letter is from Harvard; it could be one of the Bryn Mawr letters). 1929 February 4(?). H.D. at Riant Chatteau, Territet; writes to George Plank; comments that Kenneth and Bryher are there now, having acquired a car ("a buick with special hill-climbing devices") so she has been on many rides "spinning me up into the clouds and breaking all the rules of probabilities by swift weather changes";' describes the chaffeur as a delight--about four feet high and just exactly as broad; comments that she has "heard from very reliable source that Arabella and Richard have parted"--they went to Paris and quarreled irrevocably around Christmas; Richard has broken up the cottage in England and has put all his books out to be sold; is concerned a,s while Arabella was not suitable for marriage, she did fulfill some need in him; comments on Aldington's saying that he must have fresh "sex experience" and says "I am under the impression that he has gone temporarily mad. He was, I am quite certain, all but 'certifiable' that season just before I finally left him"; says she cared too much for Aldington to carry on an Untermeyer type of relationship with him; recalls "he appeared to me 'I shall go mad between the TWO of you, it MUST be one or the other.' It seemed feasable all round to step out completely. There has always been a gap in my psyche and I don't suppose anything could 'heal' me, never"; comments that plank was the first person, other than Bryher, to whom she had spoken to of Aldington ("that day at the Berkeley"); tells Plank that Bryher has adopted Perdita and that she would now be willing to go through divorce proceedings if Aldington wanted; comments "He asked me before NOT to do it"; indicates that she would be willing to let desertion be the grounds--"Desertion of course, would be easy as I have lived away from him and in no way communicated with him for ten years"; asks Plank to let her know if he can shed some light and says "Also in speaking or writing to Bryher, don't let her know as she has always been very

(justly) hard on R. and I must just joke about him to the two of them, if I speak at all. Not that K. isn't exquisite always ... they just don't understand" (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1929 February 16. H.D. at Riant Chatteau, Territet; writes to George Plank; reassures Plank that Aldington is okay and there is no need to worry about him; comments that she believes that Aldington is now with a group of people near Rapallo; comments that she has heard that Aldington's selling of the books is not for financial reasons but psychological--"sort of spite against himself"; discusses her feelings for Aldington --appreciation that he is alve and not dead-makes a comparason with her mother dying; concludes letter by saying "Don't read Hedylus. It is so long-wined" (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1929 March 13. H.D. at Riant Chatteau, Territet; writes postcard to George Plank, wishing him a happy birthday (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]). 1929 March l8. H.D. inscribes a copy of HEDYLUS: "To K.C. Kyte with the kindest wishes and remembrance of 'H.D.'/ Territet Mar. 18 - l029" (listed in William Reese Company, CATALOGUE SIXTY-NINE: A MISCELLANY OF BOOKS FROM SEVERAL CENTURIES, [l988]; the dealer notes that "the recipient was quite possibily Ernest Cockburn Kyte, the AngloCanadian editor and bibliographer"). 1929? April? 26? H.D. in Switzerland? writes to Brigit Patmore; tells of plans to come to Paris; could not get a sleeping birth until Tuesday night (April 30?); but may take a day train and stop in Dyjon [sic]; hopes to be in Paris sometime May 1st or 2nd; will see Ezra Pound first (immediately) and then contact Brigit; will be travelling with Egon [Eileen Macpherson, sister of Kenneth Macpherson]--is coming to help Egon find a job in Paris; says "I came in contact a short time ago with aa wonderful woman <LHS has no idea who this is> who has taught me a new approach to life. I think when one is ready to be helped one is helped ... But her great catch word is : the innocent never suffer. As she herself was an invalid for almost five years owing to the brutality of circumstance, her attitude is really Christ-on-earth. It IS so odd how just one person can help one"; says she is in a process of sheedding old leaves and growing new blossoms; says she feels "so much happier and stronger since being in touch with Richard and with you" (H.D. to Patmore [unpubl. letter]). 1929 May. THE LITTLE REVIEW publishes questionnaire with H.D.'s responses. 1929 May 4. H.D. sends postcard, postmarked Lausanne, to Viola Jordan; wants to write but is "tied up in a MSS!"; sends her birth date (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1929 May 19. Walter Lowenfels writes to H.D. for Richard Aldington in order to let her know that Aldington had been in a colision of taxicabs the previous evening (Zilboorg notes) 1929 May 24. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Viola Jordan; thanks her for sending a book and explains that she has arranged for Harold Doolittle to send her a check ; comments on astrology and refers to a book by Cheiro; describes the woman from whom she has been getting astrological charts--"an invalid, a sort of physically doomed being who by an effort of will, remade herself"; comments further on the dangers of such activities; comments that she herself would like to write an anonymous pamphlet abut astrology; says that she is due in London about

the lst of July--probably with a few days in Paris in transit (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1929 June 19. H.D. in Paris (Zilboorg notes--deduced from letter from Richard Aldington to H.D.). 1929 June 30. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. (Zilboorg notes). 1929 July. Bryher, Kenneth Macpherson, and Robert Herring take trip to Iceland to shoot film (Friedberg. Writing about cinema, p. 347). 1929 July 3. H.D. at 169 Sloane Street, London; writes to John Cournos <LHS note: she has apparently had a scathing letter from him in response to her letter of February 5 and is trying to mollify him>; will be at Sloane Street till mid-September; mention compilation for 1929 Imagist anthology and asks if he wishes to contribute; says that about the same time she wrote him that little note, Aldington had written to her and the been in close touch ever since;; they saw each other much in Paris; says "we are very, very close to one another intellectually and spiritually"; says "there may some definite a separation later, but if there is, it will be because of friendliness and nothing else"; there is no question of their becoming "intimate" again; says that she wrote him about Dorothy Yorke because there was no bitterness in her heart; reflects on her past relationship with Cournos; apologizes for having thought that he could share her feelings and return to the past with her; apparently was accused by Cournos of wanting to use him as a spy (H.D. to John Cournos, [unpubl. letter] This data from copy supplied to LHS from Friedman; check Hollenberg file to make sure this letter is from Harvard; it could be one of the Bryn Mawr letters). 1929 September. H.D. records in Autobiographical Notes": Autumn in Berlin; Kenneth Macpherson begins sketches for BORDERLINE (Friedberg. Writing about cinema, p. 348). 1930. KORA AND KA written in Vaud (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 57). 1930. IMAGIST ANTHOLOGY 1930 (London : Chatto & Windus) published; includes forewords by Ford Madox Ford and Glenn Hughes; contains four poems by H.D.: "In the Rain," 'If you will let me sing," "Chance meeting," and "Chorus Translations; other contributors are Richard Aldington, John Cournos, John Gould Flechter, F.S. Flint. Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, and William Carlos Williams. *1930. "Two Americans" written in Vaud; a short story about H.D.'s relationship with Paul Robeson (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 57). 1930/1931. Kenwin built in the foothills above Lake Geneva at Burier-La-Tour. Designed by Hans Henselmann. In her ASSIGNMENT OF ALL RIGHTS Bryher gave the full address as Villa Kenwin, Chemin de Vallon, 1814 Burier-La-Tour, Vaud, Switzerland.

1930(?). Period of the monkeys: Lady, Tsme, Sister, Bill, Gibb. etc. <Friedman note to LHS comments that the period of the monkeys began earlier--can document from H.D./Bryher correspondence>. 1930(?)-1931(?). Kenneth Macpherson has affair with Toni Slocum. 1930 February 12. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Viola Jordan; refers to a book entitled YOUR PLACE IN THE SUN which she says she often consults and which Viola has apparently sent to her <possibly referred to in letters of May 24, 1929 and March 10, 1930>; has tried to do and does an 10 point analysis of what 1930 will bring for Viola (as she has requested); requests that Viola not tell Bill Williams about this (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1930 March 10. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Viola Jordan; comments on a mystical experience (with symbols) which Viola has apparently experienced and written of to H.D.; refers to a woman in London who has had a similar experience and is writing about it and urges Viola to do the same; has done a Tarot reading for Viola and writes the details of the results--this is the second reading H.D. has done for Viola, the other with a different set of cards; apparently Tarot cards were mentioned in an astrological book which Viola had sent to her and H.D. then saw in a shop window in Lausanne (and presumably bought) a French book on astrological tarot; comments that she doesn't do these cards very often and only when she really wants to help; comments: "As I said before, this is between ourselves. I mean, you KNOW what people are like. And I don't advise people playing with these things, forces, etc. Only you see I have had some sort of "initiation." I am sure you know I am not boasting. I mean ... what I do, sometimes I believe is "directed"; encloses "Reading of SEVEN. Viola. March 10." (4 p.) (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1930 March 20-30. Period of the filming of BORDERLINE in Territet, Switzerland; stars H.D., Paul Robeson, his wife, Eslanda Goode (Essie Robeson); Gavin Arthur; other players include Bryher, Blanche Lewin, SharlanePRspelling needs to be checked Arthur, and Robert Herring; filming done by Kenneth Macpherson. No one was paid and the total cost of making the film was two thousand dollars. In her diary, Essie Robeson treated the experience as being some thing of a lark for them and apparently "they had `great fun,' in part because they liked everuone connected with the filming; when they were shooting the interiors, Essie wrote in her diary: 'Kenneth and H.D. used to make us so shriek with laughter with their naive ideas of Negroes that Paul and I often completely ruined our make-up with tears of laughter, had to make up all over again. We never once felt we were colored with them'"; with regard to the exterior shots and the hike up the mountains outside Montreux, Essie commented "Paul and I were frightened out of our wits"; in the village of Lutry they were followed by crowds; (Duberman, M.B. PAUL ROBESON, p. 131). Filming took nine days (Duberman, M.B. PAUL ROBESON, p. 132). 1930 March 20. Paul and Essie Robeson arrive in Territet (Duberman, M.B. PAUL ROBESON, p. 130). 1930 March 30. Paul and Essie Robeson leave Territet (Duberman, M.B. PAUL ROBESON, p. 130).

1930 May ? H.D. writes to Eslanda Robeson about BORDERLINE: "It is without question a work of art and that satisfies us" (Duberman, M.B. PAUL ROBESON, p. 131). 1930 June 15. H.D. writes to Viola Jordan; reassures Viola that the letters and papers which she sends her are kept confidential;; cooments that her friends [Bryher and Kenneth] "take their work very seriously and in that capacity, I am so proud to be allied with them"; refers to the making of BORDELINE--"the work was terribly hard but dramatically more thrilling than anything I have ever done"; encloses some cuttings; comments "I use the name HELGA DOORN as nom de guerre"; comments that a film personality is separate from one's everyday self; offers to help Viola get published in the area of film psychology; comments on Japanese interest in film and fact that CLOSE UP has about 100 subscribers from Japan alone; recalls Viola coming to see her "in that tiny room in Patchin Place (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1930 July. H.D. in Monte Carlo, then back to Territet. <Friedman note to LHS comments that H.D. was with Kenneth then and that "Mira Mira was written about this visit.> 1930 July 2. Robert Herring reminds H.D. in a letter: "You wrote to me not very long ago ... how awful it was to collect manuscriots and have them out by to 'revise'" (Friedman. Penelope's web, p. 19). 1930 August. H.D. in Monte Carlo. 1930 Fall (?). H.D. in Prague; sends postcard to Kenneth Macpherson (Collecott note) 1930 October 13. BORDERLINE screened in London (Friedberg. Writing about cinema, p. 349). 1930 December. H.D. in Monte Carlo; disastrous visit with Kenneth forgetting an appointment with H.D. as is pending all his time with Toni Slocum; Kenneth possibly contracts a venereal disease; H.D. writes "Low Tide" about all this and later destroys it <Friedman note to LHS; factual confirmation needed>. 1931. RED ROSES FOR BRONZE <collection> published by Chatto & Windus in London. 1931 February 13. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. (Zilboorg notes). 1931 March 17. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. (Zilboorg notes). 1931 March. Kenneth Macpherson meets Norman Douglas (Macpherson. OMMES EODEM COGIMUR : SOME NOTES WRITTEN FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF NORMAN DOUGLAS ...). 1931 Spring. H.D. acquires Mary Proctor's THE BOOK OF THE HEAVENS (London : George G. Harrap, 1926). 1931 April - July (?). H.D. stays at 31 Tavistock Square (before going to the South of France with Mary Chadwick) (Collecott notes from EP/H.D. correspondence in the Pound Archive,

Beinecke). Reference to H.D.'s staying in a hotel in Tavistock Square also found in Pearson papers (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). 1931 April 13. H.D. begins analysis with Mary Chadwick (Friedman. DLB 45:133) (Friedberg. Writing about cinema, p. 350). Has 24 sessions ending on July 6 (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpul.]; Autobiographical Notes). {In Autobiographical Notes, H.D. writes: "I am happy at first, then Chaddie comes about with us, to K parties, to Wunderbar. I am distressed at mixing the "lives" or ps-a with ordinary affairs. This is against rules, but I could not openly criticize Chaddie; K is with her too and Eileen and this ccomplicates things as Chaddie expects me to act as "example" to them, when it is I who really need the help after the shock of K break-down. K and Eileen visit me in my room, and Chaddie reproves ME for our all talking together.} 1931 July. Kenwin finished in Burier, Switzerland (Friedberg. Writing about cinema, p. 350). 1931 July 6. H.D. has twenty-fourth and final session of analysis with Mary Chawick (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpul.]). 1931 Summer (late). NIGHTS, except for prologue, written (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 57). 1931 August 3. Mamie Smith Howard dies; wife of Norman Howard (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 31). 1931 August 21. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. (Zilboorg notes). 1931 September l. Kenwin moved into. 1931 November. H.D. begins psychoanalytic sessions with Hanns Sachs, who was primarily Bryher's analyst (Friedberg. Writing about cinema, p. 350). 1931 December 16. H.D. in Berlin (?); sends postcard to Marianne Moore; will return to Kenwin (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation). 1931 December 30. H.D. in Vienna; sends post card to Viola Jordan; gives address as "Case Postale 72, La Tour-Vevey-Vaud-Suisse" and comments "my own box now!"; is over-come with opera in Vienna (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1932 January l4. H.D.'s address is "Case Postal 72, La Tour, Vevey, Suisse. [Note: information gleaned from letter written by H.D. to William Rose Benet.] 1932 February (?). Kenneth Macpherson travels to Tunisia with Norman Douglas (Holloway, NORMAN DOUGLAS, p. 393). 1932 February 21. Richard Aldington writes to H.D. (Zilboorg notes).

1932 March 14. H.D.'s address is "Case Postal 72, La Tour, Vevey, Suisse. [Note: information gleaned from letter written by H.D. to Richard Johns; published in A RETURN TO PAGANY (Boston: Beacon Press). 1932 April [11?-21?]. H.D. goes on Hellenic cruise, with Perdita and Alice Modern. This cruise later becomes subject of short story "Aegina" (Thorn Thicket, p. 35). 1932 April 11. H.D. on Hellenic Cruise; writes to Bryher; refers to lecture on Plato on board ship (conjectured date, Gregory notes). 1932 April 12. H.D. on Hellenic Cruise; writes to Bryher; possibly at Ithaca(?) (conjectured date, Gregory notes). 1932 April 13. H.D. on Hellenic Cruise; writes to Bryher; at Delphi (conjectured date, Gregory notes). 1932 April 14. H.D. on Hellenic Cruise; writes to Bryher; says they will miss Olympia but are going to Pylos (conjectured date, Gregory notes). 1932 April 15. H.D. on Hellenic Cruise; writes to Bryher; refers to lecture-conversation on board ship: "tell C., the Wigram states there were mothe-cults under all the Zeus-cults, from Dodona, down the coast!" (conjectured date, Gregory notes). 1932 April 17. H.D. on Hellenic Cruise; writes to Bryher; refers to Nauphia, Tyrus, Schliemann's excavations, Mycene and the beehive tombs (conjectured date, Gregory notes). 1932 April 18. H.D. on Hellenic Cruise; writes to Bryher; refers to Aegina, says they are now ploughing the water toward Piraeus--Acropolis is in sight (conjectured date, Gregory notes). 1932 April 20. H.D. sends Ezra Pound a postcard from her cruise ship: "Aegina yesterday ... Crete tomorrow!!!!! It's like that" (Collecott notes from EP/H.D. correspondence in the Pound Archive, Beinecke). Sends Bryher a postcard of statute of Nike Delos, National Museum, Athens (Gregory notes). 1932 April 21. H.D. on Hellenic Cruise; writes to Bryher; says they can't land on Crete and are going to Corfu by way of west coast (conjectured date, Gregory notes). 1932 June 13(?) - 1932 June 29(?). Bryher in Berlin with Perdita: sees Lotte, Sachs, and Japanese film. *1932 June. H.D. at Kenwin, reporting to Bryher on staff crisis (Claire's pregnancy). <LHS should verify this; may be other way around.> 1932 August(?) - l934. H.D.'s London address is 26 Sloane Street, Knightsbridge (Collecott. Notes); decorated by Kenneth Macpherson -- a gold Buddha beside the brocaded divan bed, rich Persian rugs, damask curtains, Laligue glass wall wall brackets with a single carved gold

Cathedral lamp faience vase, white bone-china cups with the green dragon motif -- as described by Silvia Dobson (Dobson. Notes [unpul.], p. 4). 1932 July/September. "Pontikonisi (Mouse Island)" appears in PAGANY under pseudonym Rhoda Peter. 1932 November 13. Freud writes to Bryher; recalls his meeting her, particularly with respect to her relationship with Havelock Ellis and her life in Switzerland; is attracted by her present offer and is willing to take her cousin (the poet) in analysis; explains his fee structure; indicates that the amount of money which Bryher has suggested (100 pounds) is insufficent for an analysis--the amount suggested would only cover one month and he considers three months to be the shortest possible time limit for a trial period (translation from German supplied to LHS by S. Friedman). 1932 November 27. Freud writes to Bryher; apologizes to Bryher for having misdiagnosed her and is pleased that she does not hold it against him and that she is willing to allow him three months for her cousin's analysis; apparently does not not know the cousins name as he asks under what name she is known as a poet as it would help if he has read her writings; comments that he hopes that it can be arranged for her cousin not to live totally alone in Vienna as as the character of the analysiis will not permit her to mingle with his family; suggests charging $15.00 per hour and settling matters at the end of each month; says he expects to have time avaiilable after Christmas or New Year's (translation from German supplied to LHS by S. Friedman). 1932 December l8. Freud writes to H.D. about preparations for her forthcoming analysis. 1932 December 28. H.D. writes to Havelock Ellis; recalls having dinner in late 1918 or early 1919 in a Soho restaurant with Aldington, his father, and his sister, Molly--comments that Aldington was still in uniform <therefore it has to have been in November 1918> (Zilboorg notes). 1932 (late). Norman Howard moves his mother, Agnes Angelica Seidel Howard from Washington D.C. to Warsaw, Indiana, to live with him and invites her sister, Laura Rebecca Wolle Jenkins, to come from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to help care for her (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 32). 1933-1939. Bryher helps more than 100--mostly Jewish--refugees escape from from Nazi controlled areas (Friedman. DLB 45:135). 1933. "The Islands" included by William Rose Bent in FIFTY POETS: AN AMERICAN AUTO-ANTHOLOGY publushed by Duffield and Green in New York. 1933 January 9. H.D. at Kenwin [?]; writes to Viola Jordan; comments on astrological matters and war discussions; describes her existence--breakfast in bed; then work at notes ther; then lazy bath; write letters until noon; asks Viola to get her copy of an astrological book which she has apparently referred to; comments that she had a note from Pound, who is at the same place in Italy, the other day; comments that she is spending the rest of the winter in Vienna where, although she will go often to the opera, she is "to be with an American friend, a brilliant woman

who is a student with Anna Freud there. I am keenly interested though never 'dabbled' in psychoanalysis when there was the first superficial post-war wave of it. I read much now, however ; and and have had many revelations, find it terrificially [sic] absorbing. I will see much of these people there, and will gain much, I know" (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1933 February. Bryher gives H.D. a copy of George M. Lansa's MY NEIGHBOR JESUS (New York ; London : Harper, 1932). 1933 February 27. Bryher and Kenneth Macpherson see H.D. off for Vienna from Zrich. 1933 March 1 - 1933 June 12. H.D. in analysis with Sigmund Freud in Vienna. 1933 March 24. H.D. writes to Ezra Pound and tells him of her analysis with Freud. 1933 April 3. Bryher in Vienna with Norman Douglas >?>; Douglas is interviewed by Freud (Holloway, NORMAN DOUGLAS, p. 399). 1933 June. H.D. at Kenwin; visited by Gretchen Wolle Baker and her husband, Prescott Baker; Bryher is away (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpul.]). 1933 June. "Quex" episode (another staff crisis at Kenwin). 1933 July 16. H.D. at Kenwin. Sir John Ellerman dies. Buried at Putney Vale Cemetary, near Wimbledon Common (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 402). 1933 July 20. H.D. writes from Kenwin to Robert McAlmon, telling him of reactions to Sir John's death and of her analysis with Freud, 1933 Summer. Elsie Volkart comes to Kenwin to be Bryher's housekeeper. 1933 Summer(?) After Sir John Ellerman's death the trust fund which Bryher had set up for H.D. (as well as one for Dorothy Richardson) had to be renegotiated. These funds yielded 250 a year (Friedman. DLB 45:132). 1934. KORA AND KA and THE USUAL STAR printed at the Imprimerie Darantire in Dijon. 1934. "Pilate's Wife" revised. 1934. Initial attempts at writing short story "Hesperia" which was "assembled from rough pages left over from the original story, "Secret Name" (Thorn Thicket, p. 36, 37); later (mid-September) becomes desperately ill while working on this manuscript due to the news of Van der Leeuw's death. <Or was it in August?> 1934. H.D. meets Horace Gregory (Collecott. Images at the Crossroads, p. 347).

1934 January. H.D. writes to Silvia Dobson: I live above Jaegar's, 26 Sloane Street. Use the side door beside a window bulging with bras, panties, stockings, suspender belts" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 4). 1934 January 14. H.D. in London; wites to Viola Jordan; refers to usage of tarot cards and offers to get her a pack; asks if Viola knows the Curtiss books, THE KEY TO THE UNIVERSE and THE KEY OF DESTINY; comments "Yes, Ezra upset me, too. I had to stop writing! It is such a pity!" <Pound had apparently upset Viola by refusing to comment upon her sister's artistic talents; for his alienation of H.D. see entry of June 1, 1934>; comments on havening lent "PLACE AMONG THE STARS to a friend, who was passing through a suicidal phase -- he now says; `I am literally listening to the music of the spheres'"; sends her a check asking Viola to either buy one of her sister's pictures from her mother's collection or to get herself some Tarot cards and the Curtiss books (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1934 February 14. Silvia Dobson meets H.D. at 26 Sloane Street. H.D. twists a yard-long string of amber beads which breaks forming a star pattern on the floor. H.D. presents Dobson with her COLLECTED POEMS and RED ROSES FOR BRONZE (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 4-5). 1934 February 28(?). H.D. writes to Silvia Dobson: refers to Frances Gregg "(whose mother was a van Ness"), astrology, Pieter Rodeck ("there WAS a sort of manifestation of that Pieter in Greece"), signed A. van R. -- for Adrianne Van Raalte, a nom-de-plume which Silvia Dobson psyched up for H.D. (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 4-5). 1934 March 2 or 8(?). H.D. writes to Silvia Dobson, thanking her for an announcement lily and confirming expected visit from Silvia the following day; refers to Bryher and Lady Ellerman visiting on a farm with Doris Long <possibby Trenoweth> (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 11-13). 1934 March 26 or 27 - April 13 (?). H.D. in Venice at a pension on the Zattere, near the flat shared by Ezra Pound and Olga Rudge; invites Silvia Dobson to spend Easter there with her; together they visit places shared with Pound, Bryher, and Kenneth Macpherson--"Harry's glittering Bar, Saturn `in an elegant niche', the Ca D'Ora, the Tintorettos, all those churches ... walked through a maze of calles, cul-de-sacs, crossed bridges to the Piazzale Roma, the Serenissima, the Piazza di San Mateo"--met at Florian's for morning coffee and Quadri's for afternoon tea, etc " (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 14-16). [Exact dates from Autobiographical notes.] 1934 April 8. H.D. in Venice; Silvia Dobson arrives (Auto~bio~graphical notes). 1934 April 9. Silvia Dobson returns to London from Venice (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 28). 1934 April 11 (11:25 A.M.). H.D. writes to Silvia Dobson from Florians in Venice; has collected another indulgence card at St. Marks; has purchased some Italian cigarettes and a glass lizzard for Perdita; is reading FINCH'S FORTUNE by Mazo De la Roche (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 1720).

1934 April 12 (4:10 P.M.). H.D. writes to Silvia Dobson from Quadri's in Venice; reports that she plans to join a procession from Holy Moses to St. Mark's Basilia at 17:00; purchases a volume called ONE THOUSAND SAINTS with her glove-money and a latin book of psalms and invocations (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 21-25). 1934 April 15(?). H.D. leaves Venice (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 28). 1934 April 17. H.D. at Kenwin; sends postcards to Silvia Dobson, dated April 17 & 18 (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 27, 28). 1934 April 20. H.D. at Kenwin; sends Viola Jordan a postcard postmarked La Tour; comments that the lovely picture <by Viola's sister> awaited her return from Venice; refers to return of friends <Bryher and Kenneth?> from America (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1934 May 12. H.D. writes to Silvia Dobson from Kenwin, commenting on Silvia's writing (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 32-33). 1934 May 21. H.D. writes to Silvia Dobson from Kenwin; indicates that she plans to return to London in about ten days or two weeks; refers to writing of NIGHTS; speaks of psychoanalytical process (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 34-35). 1934 Summer. Prologue to NIGHTS written (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 57). 1934 June 1. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Viola Jordan; asks her to use her London Lloyd's Bank address--Viola apparently is still using Riant Chateau address; is about to go to London but plans to return to Kenwin later in the Summer; refers to picture painted [?] by Viola's sister and is sending money--urges Viola to pass money on to her sister and not return it--comments "I had a little wind-fall some time ago and when I can, I try to get a tiny little sum to some artist, one who is really worthy"; comments that she has been able to check on her birth-hour which makes a difference in astrology; comments on Evangeline Adams books (which Viola had initially sent her) and has bought three different sets for friends; refers to Pound's having struck out at her the previous Summer after Sir John had died and he wrote asking her to help with influencing Bryher to give money to Emanuel Carnevall--H.D. had replied saying that Bryher was not in a state to approached for money and Pound had attacked both Bryher and H.D.--comments "So sad, some lack of fundamental respect for death and birth and in that sense a non-understanding of the crative -drive that touches one as birth and death do. ...There is such a deep frustration somewhere in Ezra, and these things corrode as one gets older. It did not matter with me" (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1934 June. H.D. in London, preparing for the future move to No. 10, Lowndes Square {then under construction} (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 36). *1934 July (a Monday which was Ascension Day [note: date could be wrong: Ascension Day is usually in May: this year it would have been May 7 or l4]). H.D. vacates her apartment for the day so that Silvia Dobson could have a psychoanalytical session with Hanns Sachs, who was

shortly to leave for the USA to take up a teching position in Boston {the session was arranged by Bryher} (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 37). 1934 July 18. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson about preparations for Silvia's forthcoming arrival with Sheila Barnard; Kenneth is in the south of France; asks Silvia to do astrological chart for Alice Modern; refers to having lent all her E. Adams books to M. C. [Murray Constantine] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 42). l934 July 20(ca.). Silvia Dobson and Sheila Barnard visit Kenwin for a few days; Silvia loved Kenwin and contrasts it to a bed-sitting room in London; H.D. throws tantrum, presumably misreading Silvia's relationship with Sheila (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 43-44) 1934 September. Silvia Dobson enters analysis with Walter Schmideberg, partially paid for by Bryher (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 47) 1934 September(?). Conrad Aiken asks Bryher to get him into analysis with Freud. 1934 September 12. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to psychoanalysis, Murray Constantine, Elizabeth Bergner (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 49-50). 1934 September(mid?). H.D. suffers brief breakdown when she hears about the sudden death of Dr. J. J. Van der Leeuw (Friedman. DLB 45:133); he crashed in Tanganika on a solo flight (Thorn Thicket, p. 37). 1934 September 16. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to Bryher and Perdita having gone off on an all day trip to visit Gertrude Stein; refers to readings in psychoanalysis and the shock of learning of the death of Dr. J. J. Van der Leeuw; refers to Darantire publications (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 51-52). 1934 September 26. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; mentions possible plans to go to Vienna to see Freud in mid-October; asks for astrological chart of Cornelia Brookfield (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 55-57). 1934 October 2. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to possibility of Kenneth Macpherson's going into analysis with Schmideberg; refers to a little myth which Murray Constantine had written and published herself (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 58-59). 1934 October 10. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to astrological matters; Stephen Guest is visiting at Kenwin; reports that Kenneth Macpherson has started analysis with Schmideberg (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 60-63). 1934 October 22. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to Cornelia Brookfield and her background {American mother, British father} (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 66-69). 1934 October 31 - 1934 December 2. H.D. in analysis with Sigmund Freud in Vienna. H.D.'s address in Vienna: Hotel Regina, Freiheitsplatz 16, Wien IX (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 69).

1934 November. Frances Gregg Wilkinson living at 46 Beach Road, Happisburgh, Norfolk <there are 5 letters from Frances Gregg to H.D., written at this time, in the possession of Silvia Dobson>. 1934 November 10. H.D. in Vienna; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to resuming her analysis with Freud; comments on the recognition of the fact that the experience of her father's accident when she was nine led to the development of her own fear of death while travelling; spends much time in churches and plans to see Lohengrin the next afternoon (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 73-76). l934 November 23. H.D. in Vienna; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to plans to leave Vienna December 2, arriving in Zrich on December 3, is not certain when she plans to come to London but hopes to be well established at Lowndes Square in late December (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 77-78). *1934 December. H.D. moves to 49 Lowndes Square, Flat l0, Knightsbridge. This was her London address until she left London for the last time in May 1946. The flat was sublet until Bryher closed it in ?. 1934 December 8. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to her love for Frances Gregg (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 79-80). 1934 December 13(?). H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to after effects of her analysis with Freud; speaks of her "Peter Rabbit books" <which is what H.D. called the volumes printed by the Imprimerie Darantire> and to Robert Herring's CACTUS COAST; reports that Frances has begun to write letters to her lately and encloses one which she asks Sylvia to keep safely for her (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 8l-82). 1934 December 17. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; mostly about Frances and her explosive qualities; encloses more letters which she has received from Frances; refers to the forthcoming return to London, "D.V., Sat., next" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 8l-82). 1934 December 2l. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; fights mother-confessor image that she seems to think those close to her have of her; refers to plans to leave the next day for London (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 85-86). 1934 December 22. H.D. leaves Kenwin for London to take up residence at No. 10, 49 Lowndes Square (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 85). *1935-1938. H.D. in analysis with Walter Schmideberg (Friedman. "A Most Luscious Vers Libre Relationship: H.D. and Freud, p. 322). In "Compassionate Friendship" (p. 66) H.D. says she began her psycho-analysis him at Gloucester Place in London in 1936. However, in Autobiographical notes she gives 1935 as the starting date. 1935. NIGHTS printed at the Imprimerie Darantire in Dijon.

1935. "The Dancer" written (LIFE AND LETTERS-TODAY, v. 13 no. 1 (Sept. 1935), 225: "We are particularly glad to have obtained from her a poem, written this year."). "The Poet" written (LIFE AND LETTERS-TODAY, v. 13 no. 2 (Dec. 1935), 234: "written this year"). "The Master" probaby written (Friedman. DLB 45:134). 1935. Date linked with short story "Jubilee" (Thorn Thicket, p. 35). 1935. Bryher buys LIFE AND LETTERS; renames it LIFE AND LETTERS TO-DAY; and installs Robert Herring and Petrie Townsend [Note: LHS to check spelling] as editors. 1935 January -May. H.D. in London; writes sequence of undated letters to Silvia Dobson; refers to writing letters to Freud about certain incidents <if only one could get into the Freud Archives>; referecences to Cornelia Brookfield, Ellen Hart, Murray Constantine; Kenneth Macpherson (who is in America), Eileen Macpherson (who has concluded two years of psychoanalysis and is very much together, having overcome a case of "arrested development'); to "Poor Pieter (apparantly a curate at St. Clements Church--Silvia Dobson isn't sure if this was actually Peter Rodeck or another manifestation of him; H.D.. Silvia Dobson and Cole Henderson attended a production of a miracle play at St. Clements (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. l03-121). 1935 January. Bryher and Perdita go to the U.S. *1935 January 16. H.D. reads NOT I, BUT THE WIND by Frieda Lawrence (l934) and writes [to Bryher?] "how grateful I am ... that I never slept with D. H. L." (Friedman. DLB 45:127). <LHS should check this quotation; may be June rather than January.> 1935 February 15. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; invites her for "cat scraps" the following evening (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 102). 1935 March 2. H.D. in London at 49 Lowndes Square; Bryher and Perdita return from the U.S. (H.D. to Marianne Moore, unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation, 2/III/35). 1935 March 2. H.D. in London at 49 Lowndes Square; writes to Marianne Moore; refers to return of Bryher and Perdia, bearing news of Moore--they apparently brought H.D. a drawing from Moore; speaks of a letter from Moore and communications with T.S. Eliot (after she had not seen him for 16 years); refers to life as a tapestry weaving (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation). 1935 May l8. H.D. writes to Havelock Ellis about writing an article for LIFE AND LETTERS TO-DAY. 1935 May l9. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks Silvia for gift of a lily (one of the many which Silvia gave to H.D.; refers to Kenneth Macpherson who is back in London from New York (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 122-123). 1935 May 2l. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; invites Silvia over; says that either Kenneth Macpherson or T.S. Eliot might be there also {Silvia recalls that she did not meet T.S. Eliot until years later} (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 107, 124).

1935 May (end)-June (beginning). H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; expresses her reservations about Silvia's moving into the Tite Street flat in Chelsea in which Peter Warlock had committed suicide; gives an idyllic description of life at Kenwin (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 126-127, l37-l38). 1935 June 22. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; tells Silvia that she will not be able to vist here in the Tite Street flat <LHS note: because of associations: Peter Warlock Aleistar Crowley Cecil Gray> (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 139-140). 1935 June 28. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; urges Silvia to meet Robert De Bruce, an astrologer friend of Kenneth Macpherson from Philadelphia (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 141142). 1935 June (end)-July (beginning). H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; comments that Bryher and Kenneth Macpherson "are spending the day on a trip to Gertrude Stein who is on the French side, not far from Geneva" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 143-144). 1935 July 12. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; written to accompany a letter from Kenneth Macpherson; once again urges Silvia to get in touch with Robert De Bruce; discusses active social life led by Bryher and Kenneth (which H.D. is able to escape); refers to possibility of Thornton Wilder's being in the neighourhood ("a shy over-intellectual little man, very nice, really") (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 145-146). 1935 July 27. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; Kenneth Macpherson due to leave that day for the south of France (Cannes); Lotte Reiniger, silhouette artist, is visiting Kenwin with her husband, also Alice Modern; a crowd of nine is expected for lunch (the others are Gertrude Stein, Thornton Wilder and a friend; refers to NIGHTS as "a sort of veiled (not so veiled) study in sex, auto-eroticism and the wrong people making love. I wrote it the first year of Kenwin, inspired by some rather devestating memories of R. A., and my attempts to 'find myself' ... Also, I use a new name, and it seems to have come off, JOHN HELFORTH, who you may remember, was the mouth-piece of some of my ideas in Kora and Ka"; refers to book by Charubel [on astrology?] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 150-153). 1935 [August 4]. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to Perdita getting her certificate at the 'cook and wash'; Bryher to leave that evening for Cornwall; refers to astrology, Lotte Reniger and Dr. Koch; refers to Thornton Wilder wanting her "to finish up a Greek play for him to take back to America" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 154-155). 1935 August (mid). H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to ION: "I got out an old MSS of a play I partly translated in '18"--Thornton Wilder had expressed interest in using it for a group of his students; Kenneth Macpherson's address given as Villa sull'Onda, Boulevarde de Littoral, Juan les Pins, A.M., France; both Bryher and Perdita are at St. Keverne (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 156-159). 1935 August 31. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; reports that Bryher and Kenneth Macpherson are due back in London; Perdita is still in Cornwall (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 160-161).

1935 September. First issue of revamped LIFE AND LETTERS TO-DAY appears; edited by Robert Herring and Petrie Townshend; includes H.D.'s "The Dancer," Gertrude Stein's "English and American Language in Literature," Mary Butt's "The Guest," Lotte Reiniger's "Bristol," Murray Constantine's "The Power of Merlin," Havelock Ellis' "Rousseau To-day," and Kenneth Macpherson's "Out of the Air"; also includes contributions by Eric Walter White, Horace Gregory, Andre Gide, Osbert Sitwell, and Sergei N. Eisenstein. 1935 September 12. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; Bryher has returned to Kenwin (was away exactly 5 weeks); Kenneth Macpherson in London, resuming analysis with Schmideberg; mentions that she is thinking of getting a literary agent; refers to difficulties of writing letters while trying to do creative work "outside the one daily, to Br that was by way of duty-cum-affection"; refers with appreciation to the zodiac note-book which Silvia and Mollie Dobson had made for H.D. <note: it is now among the H.D. papers at Beinecke> (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 162-165). 1935 September 17. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; gives Silvia Kenneth Macpherson's address: 4 Kinnerton Street, Wilton Crescent, S.W. [London]; mentions that she hopes to come to London mid or early October and that she will try to begin seeing Schmideberg herself (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 166-169). 1935 September 25. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to description of Schmideberg which Silvia has apparently sent to H.D.; apparently Schmideberg's office was in a house shared with his mother-in-law (Melanie Klein); refers to Robert Herring having taken over the hour of analysis with Schmideberg recently vacated by Cole Henderson (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 170-173). 1935 October 5. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; reports that Bryher has been to Paris; indicates that she is ready to face up to the eventuality of another war (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 174-176). 1935 November. Norman Howard dies (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 32). 1935 November 20 (The exact year of this letter depends on what time of year THE HEDGEHOG was actually published). H.D. write to Viola Jordan on Lowndes Square stationary;; refers to the forthcoming publication of THE HEDGEHOG; coments "I was asked eleven years ago to do a 'peace,' `war-orphan' book but was told it was 1too mystical' though the Boston publisher wanted me to finish George Plank wanted it to illustrate & it was set up at long last. 'Peace on earth' anyhow, is a seasonable motto"; discusses her astrological signs (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1935 December. "The Poet" published in LIFE AND LETTERS TO-DAY. 1935 December 2. H.D. in London at 49 Lowndes Square; sends postcard bearing Christmas grettings to Marianne Moore as well as a separate one to Mary Warner Moore (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation).

1935 December 16. H.D. and Perdita go to Kenwin, planning to remain for "most of the winter (H.D. to Marianne Moore, unpl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation). 1935 December 21. Laura Rebecca Wolle Jenkins dies (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 32). 1936. THE HEDGEHOG published by Brendin Publishing Company. Printed in Plaistow, London, at the Curwen Press, it included illustrations by Geeorge Plank.. 1936. "Ear-ring" (by Delia Alton) published in LIFE AND LETTERS TO-DAY, vol. 14, no. 4 (Summer l936) 1936. Date linked with short story "The Last Time" (Thorn Thicket, p. 35). 1936 February 26. H.D. writes to Bryher; quips, regarding the Chatto and Windus acceptance of ION, that Schmideberg "says a publisher is a proper 'father' for a MSS, so ION will have a legalized position" (Friedman. Penelope's web, p. 21). 1936 Spring. "The Last Time," one of the stories from "The Moment," written (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 44). 1936 Summer. Perdita moves into Tite Street flat with Silvia and Mollie Dobson (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 181-182). 1936 July? can't really make out month in postmark 31. H.D. in London; sends post card to Viola Jordan; refers to having some "'Pyramid' folders" sent to her; says "As we D.V. go out of 'Low passage' about time of my 50th birthday, I take it for good omen!!!" (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1936 August. Bryher in Czechslovakia. 1936 September 3, H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; Kenwin has been redecorated; Hanns Sachs has been in the neighbourhood that summer, recovering from a slight break-down (old T.B. symptoms) but is due to leave for Boston that evening (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 193-196). 1936 October 6. H.D. writes to Viola Jordan on Lowndes Square stationary; refers to Perdita's having had six weeks experience at "'Old Vic"'this summer with rather eclectic circles, Michael Saint Denis, John Guilgud in Shakespear"; however this has not continued due to winter cutbacks and she is going on with her tap dancing; refers to the Pyramid being a try-on--links it with having been there in 1923 and says "everyone I sent Pyramid to, did respond, in some way, & that makes a link anyhow" LHS is totally perplexed as to what the pyramid refers to--see entry for July 31, 1936 (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1936 November 27. Agreement signed with Chatto and Windus for publication of EURIPIDES ION.

1937. EURIPIDES ION published in London by Chatto & Windus and in Boston by Houghton Mifflin. 1937 January 4. H.D. in London; writes to Viola Jordan on quill stationary; thanks her for book; comments that" Perdita has just come back, very keen on N.Y. & all its ways"; refes to feelings of homesickness and the desire to maintain contact with the states; refers to the feather on her new letter-head--thinks it is a spread eagle plume and says "it was designed for me for a surprise. I would never have dared choose it"; refers to fog and dreadful air in London; refers to Switzerland as "too self-contained & insulated" (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1937 January 12. Birthdate of pseudonym "D. A. Hill" (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpul.]). 1937 January l5. Richard Aldington writes to H.D., requesting a divorce. 1937 February 2. H.D. in London; writes to Bryher; says she has signed a cheque for fifty pounds "to cover half or more of my share" of divorce (H.D. to Bryher [unpubl. letter]). 1937 February 6. H.D. in London; writes to Bryher; "this is R.'s [Aldington] 4th honey-moon in the heel and toe of Italy an environs, very Byron?" (H.D. to Bryher [unpubl. letter]). 1937 February 14. H.D. at Kenwin; Bryher writes letter to Silvia Dobson with note added by H.D.; they are making an overnight trip to Zrich (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 197-198). 1937 February 20. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; Bryher in Paris; H.D. happy to be at Kenwin; (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 201-202). l937 March 2. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; Bryher at Kenwin (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 203-204). 1937 March 5. Mary Butts dies (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 112). l937 March 11. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; discusses out pouring of her writing {LHS comment:this and preceding letters demonstrate that her writer's block is a thing of the past}; refers to divorce proceedings; refers to forthcoming arrival at Kenwin and Perdita [for Easter?] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 205-208). 1937 March/April (?). Silvia Dobson visits Kenwin with Perdita; meets Osbert Sitwell and David Horner; then Silvia and Bryher go to Paris where Bryher introduces Silvia to Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 209). 1937 May 12. H.D. at Kenwin with Perdita and Bryher; makes Mass Observation Report about the Cornation of George VI (Collecott. "H.D.'s London" [unpubl.].

1937 November 16. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; is sending over decorations fron past Christmas trees; is getting ready to depart with Bryher for New York; gives Bryher's address as 4 East 64th Street (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 218-219). 1937 December - l938 January. H.D. and Bryher in New York. *1937 December 14. H.D. in New York (Apt. 4D, 4 East 84th St. <LHS assumes that this was Kenneth Macpherson's apartment>); writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; thanks Pearson for having come and invites hiim to come again on Monday next [December 20?] as Kenneth was sorry to have to rush off; apparently has had a discussion with Pearson about literary rights {probably in the context of including some of her poems in THE OXFORD ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE}; indicates that she has had difficulties involving Boni and Liveright and Jonathan Cape with the publication of one of her books <LHS assumes this was the 1925 COLLECTED POEMS and conjectures that H.D. had signed an agreement with Jonathan Cape for an English edition of the volume and that the stippulation mas made that she would receive a copy of the galleys to check for errors--apparently Cape had made an arrangement with Boni and Liverignt to issue the volume in America--and H.D. had never received any galley proofs for that issue, nor the proposed Cape edition, if such is the case> and she had taken the matter to the Society of Authors with the result that about 50 letters passed between their lawyers and Jonathan Cape, to no avail--comments that the royalties which she had received from Boni and Liveright were beyond any managed by Houghton Mifflin--further states that the legal expense of getting the matter straightened out was such that finally she simply withdrew her consent for Cape's setting up the volume [comment: correspondence with the Society of Authors should be checked for further clarification if possible]; says she would be grateful if Pearson were to attempt to try to straighten out the problem of the rights to reprint her poems; is expecting Perdita to join them for Christmas (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1937 December. H.D. visits Bethlehem with Bryher and Mary Herr. 1938. H.D. included in THE OXFORD ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE (New York, Oxford University Press), edited by William Rose Bnet and Norman Holmes Pearson. 1938. Robert McAlmon's BEING GENIUSES TOGETHER published in London by Secker and Warburg. *1938. H.D. receives the Helen Haine(sp?) Levenson prize of POETRY magazine for "Sigel XV" and "Callypso Speaks.". 1938 January 2. Mary Palmer Howard; wife of Russell Howard dies (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 31). 1938 January 8. H.D. in New York; sends postcard to Viola Jordan (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1938 January 14. H.D. leaves New York.

1938 February. Silvia and Mollie Dobson and Perdita discover, fall in love with and lease Woodhall, twenty-nine miles from London (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 220-222, 225). 1938 February 5. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; thanks him for his efforts on behalf of "H.D.";; has had an alarming letter from Bryher, full of orders about collecting old agreements, etc.; has seen Chatto & Windus but no discussion about contracts yet; comments on Abraham Doolittle's tombstone being in Wallingford and the fact that she always meant to see it; wants him to let her know if he comes over--"I am always happy to see people at tea-time (4ish) or sherry (6ish) but keep myself to myself most of the rest of the day (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1938 February 18(?). Bryher returns to England. 1938 April 14. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson ; thanks him for having spoken to Mr. Ober; indicates that there must have been some misunderstanding as she has heard from Ober that his firm is apparently only interested in reissuing the COLLECTED POEMS whereas she is interested in finding a publisher who would be interested in reprinting all of her work and Bryher had assured her that Ober was interested in doing this (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1938 May 6. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; she and Bryher are planning to sit by the radio all day, possibly awaiting word that the Western Allies had repulsed a German threat to Czechoslovakia; goes to a tea shop in Vevey (?) to sit and write in the mornings which gives her a feeling that she is in Paris or Vienna; speaks of Schmideberg and expresses opinion that "he knows his onions, though I presonally [sic] would as soon try somebodie [sic] elses brand"; hopes to be back in London about the 24-25th of the month (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 222, 230-231). 1938 May 13. H.D. in London; writes to Bryher; divorce has been heard in court that day; comments "Aldington is suppose to pay 'costs' whatever that is" (H.D. to Bryher [unpubl. letter]). 1938 June 9. Richard Aldington calls at Lowndes Square (Auto~bio~graphical notes; event described in letter to George Plank, [June 16? 1938]). H.D. describes event to Bryher; Aldington had telephoned to ask if he might call; he is there for over two hours; Sylvia Dobson there initially by pre-arrangement; asks H.D. to pay the costs of the divorce as he has no money; child is due at the end of June and they want it to be legitimate; H.D. comments to Bryher thty Aldington bewails the size of Netta's pelvis (H.D. to Bryher [unpubl. letter]) <letter skimmed by LHS>. Silvia Dobson asked by H.D. to be present at Lowndes Square while she met Richard Aldington; Silvia describes him as "a plump, middle-aged business type cynic, exuding dissimulation spiced by plum-pudding shrewdness (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 200). 1938 June 17. H.D. sees Freud in London. 1938 June 21. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; has received her "Absolute" but it will not be made public until the following day (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 232-233).

*1938 June 22. Divorce of H.D from Richard Aldington finalized (H.D. given the final decree). <Note: H.D. may have spent the day with Perdita; Guest to be checked on this.> <Also: Francis wolle (in A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 58) claims that in order to prove that H.D. was not also guilty of of adultery (the grounds under which the divorce was filed) she suffered the humiliating ordeal of being shadowed by detectives for several months--LHS will have reread H.D.'s letters to George Plank to see if there is any mention of this.> 1938 September 11. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to QUEST FOR CORVO and to Sir Compton MacKenzie's GREEK MEMORIES (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 224, 238241). 1938 September 25. Agnes Angelica Seidel Howard dies (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 32). 1938 September (late). H.D. pays first visit to Woodhall (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 224-225). 1938 Autumn (Early?). H.D. back in London, after having paid a visit to Cornwall (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 246-250). 1938 October 28. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; plans to return to London midNovember; Bryher has been deep in rescue work and is now in Paris (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 251-254). *1938 October/November. Last time H.D. and Ezra Pound met in person (Guest, p. 246-249). Also mentioned in END TO TORMENT. 1938 November 4. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; Bryher has been at Audley St. with Lady Ellerman but is apparently leaving for New York the next day on the "Normandie" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 255-256). 1938 November 24. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; sends him some saints for his health [he has had a graft on his left hip and is hospitalized in Chicago]; tells him that a visual image of him as Philip of Spain in a ruff has emerged--"I always ssee you in romantic accoutrement"; mentions frustration with political climate and approaching war (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1938 December 2. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; tells him that the ANTHOLOGY has arrived--"I have not the heart to pen it, feel a little sad that so much of your strenth and integrity should have gone into the making of it" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1938 December 7. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 257). 1939 Summer. "Madrigal" (later published as BID ME TO LIVE) roughed out; wrote as far as middle of chapter 10 (Thorn Thicket, p. 27).

1939 June 16. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; is sending her two books by May Sarton; Bryher is on one of her trips (incog) to the North (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 270). 1939 July (end?). Walter and Melitta Schmideberg visit Kenwin; H.D. fretting because Melitta has insisted on borrowing H.D.'s typewriter to take with her on a trip (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 264). 1939 August 3. Silvia Dobson arrives at Kenwin for a two week visit (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 263). 1939 August 19. Silvia Dobson leaves Kenwin (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 264). 1939 August 22. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; H.D. apparently had acquired a kitten named "Sir Gay" for her London apartment which was being looked after by Sheila Barnard {Silvia Dobson comments that Sir Gay did not last long}; the Schmidebergs are still at Kenwin; Bryher and H.D. apparently had gone to a costume fete in Zrich (here H.D. refers to having conquered a "fundamental fear" of expositions); plans to stay at Kenwin until after September 10; Bryher has begun taking taking flying lessons {Silvia comments that Bryher never did "get into the air"} (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 263-264, 271-272). 1939 September 3. Date H.D. regarded as being the date of the outbreak of World War II (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 281). *1939 September 9 (?). H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; Bryher had been gone on a consulate job at Zrich, but is now back at Kenwin; the outbreak of World War II has occurred; Walter Schmideberg has been stranded at Kenwin; {in her note Silvia refers to Ernst Modern having gotten his permit in time to sail for New York--says that Bryher sponsored so many psychologists, doctors, lawyer and intellectuals that she had over spent her quota and that many of the refugees on Bryher's list failed to escape--earlier that summer, June, Bryher had asked Silvia to apply for a Mrs. Henrietta Barsis as their house-keeper--she never made it to Woodhall and Silvia thinks she probably perished in the concentation camps <LHS remembers seeing correspondence from an Olga Barsis in the Bryher papers whom he thinks may have been Hanns Sachs' sister and that she survived; LHS to check for further information>}; Perdita in Corwall (with Lady Ellerman?) (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 265-266, 273-274). 1939 September 16. Lady Hannah Glover Ellerman, Bryher's mother, dies in Cornwall. Buried at Putney Vale Cemetary, near Wimledon Common (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 402). 1939 September 23. Sigmund Freud dies in London. 1939 September 25. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; Schmidebergs still at Kenwin; now talking about leaving at end of July on the Orient Express with Bryher; Bryher will stay with H.D. while she goes through Lady Ellerman's "personal effects"; Perdita wires that she is back in London; news of Freud's death has also reached Kenwin; Norman Douglas has been at Kenwin; Kenneth Macpherson has been instructed by Bryher to stay in New York (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 274B, 280-281).

1939 October 20. H.D. at Kenwin; writes to Silvia Dobson; H.D. has had a spot of flu; talks of flying from Paris to London; is going to Dr. Galbreath for tea (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 274B, 282). 1939 November 16. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; Bryher is still in Switzerland; found trip over very harrowing ("crossed in a life-belt") (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 275, 283284). 1940 - 1941. "Within the walls" written (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 39). 1940 Summer. "Before the Battle" written; earliest sketch written for "Within the Walls" (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 39). 1940 June 40. H.D. in London at 49 Lowndes Square; writes to Marianne Moore; is worried about Bryher who has been able to leave Switzerland--has not communicated with her since the final collapse of France; speaks of George Plank; since Moore can still communicate with Bryher, H.D. asks her to let Bryher know that she is well; says "We are living in this burning light of LIFE. Life is so beautiful and chairs and tables so important and every day one is grateful for the wall about one, the roof, the unbroken windows. All very primitive-"; speaks of Robert Herring who's mother has died but he stays on in Eastbourne working in a hospital; Perdita is well and working on a novel of sorts which she calls "Pre-War"; says that Boni and Liveright are "threatening" to bring out her COLLECTED POEMS again--she says "threatening" because H.D. had wanted to get the copyright out of their control after they failed; she has put the matter in the hands of one of Bryher's lawyers; comments that she had told Boni and Liveright and Houghton Mifflin that she was anxious not to publish anything until after the war was over; asks Moore if she will read proofs for her if it becomes necessary; though she hates publicity she does plan to fight this one because of the principal [sic]; describes a wartime expience where apparently there was a warning at night, she dressed and went to find a "shelter" but no one was there so she came back, then she went and sat across the hall with some neighbors--around 3:00 AM her phone rang, she answered and it was Walter Schmideberg who said that the occupants of basement apartments had turned loose their gramophones and that it was a lovely night (he had been for a long walk) and suggested that she go back to bed so she did <Check histories of World War II to see if something happened around the evening of June 26, 1940 which made Londoners rejoice> concludes letter by saying "I am glad you are spared all this but somehow sorry, too, as our fervour and intensity gives new life to the very bones" (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation). 1940 July 6. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; talks of either going to Cornwall, as Bryher wanted her to do or coming down to Woodhall (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 293-294). 1940 August. H.D. spent time at Woodhall with Silvia Dobson (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 290). 1940 September. Marianne Moore acting for H.D. on matter of a new edition of collected poems and has consulted with a Mr. Smith of Liveright; H.D. consulting with the Society of Authors in London. 1940 September 24. H.D. in London at 49 Lowndes Square; writes to Marianne Moore; tells Moore of letter received from her with enclosures--there was an official slip saying one postcard

had been omitted or lost; refers to Mr. Smith's letter commenting that mistakes in COLLECTED POEMS OF H.D. had never been brought to his attention--indicates that it is a sham; books are not being sent over now; has experienced nearly three weeks of constant hammering [bombing?]; comments that it is strange how naturally they have begun to take this "nine o'clock symphony"; many of her fiends have had narrow escapes; Perdita, too, experienced a bombing directly across the street, outside her flat so H.D. has her staying with her in the little ground floor box room (H.D.'s flat is on the 4th floor (British count) or 5th floor (American count); Perdita is awaiting new work as her centre was evacuated and only a fraction of the staff were taken; Bryher is in Lisbon (staying at Hotel Astoria in Estoril and has a young friend [?] with her) and has sent various cable and her lawyer is trying to get her back to London but there are long waiting lists and Bryher is not in with the embassy set there; wonders if Bryher will take a ship to the US; has sent wires to Bryher though they are asked to keep wires and telephone calls down as much as possible; will send a letter to Harold Doolittle to ask him to advance some money to Moore to cover expenses; comments that it begins to look as if they may have to buy back the Boni copyright; asks Moore to get something for her mother from H.D. ; comments that "every morning is a sort of special gift ; a new day to be cherished and loved , a DAY that seems to love back in return... life should always have been like that, the wasted days,years! Every new morning is like a return from a bout of fever ... and strangely I, personally and others who have been able to stick it, seem to feel more alive and physically stronger than for years"; "and there is such heroic power here and wonderful miraculous courage, in simple people, the `unknown warriot' that Mr. Churchill speaks of" (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation). 1940 September 28. H.D. in London; finds Bryher sitting on her suitcase in the entrance to 49 Lowndes Square (Collecott. "H.D.'s London" [unpubl.]). 1940 October 26-27 (?). H.D. and Bryher spend the weekend in Cambridge; amount of bombing seems a pin-prick after London; H.D. rides down the river and enjoyed the literary associations (H.D. to M. Moore, unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation, 30/X/40). 1940 October 30. H.D. in London at 49 Lowndes Square; writes to Marianne Moore; notes arrival of two volumes of Collected Poems of H.D.; asks Moore to remain her agent; comments "Death becomes the one important idea- and that idea is so familiar- I just didn't want to leave things untidy"; views her situation as being in a sort of fortress with the steel girders though they sleep in the box room; has recently had 7 weeks on "constant hammering"; tells Moore that fir the first time since her return from Switzerland (November 1939) she has had a train trip--they went to Cambridge for last weekend--an incredible experience; comments that Bryher is considering taking a cottage in Cambridge for continuing Life and Letters; comments that the lovely old room in the Inner Temple where Shakespear presented one of his plays to Queen Elizabeth was gutted-was a very great shock; comments "and now the Harvest Moon and the Hunter's Moon are over, we may perhaps hope for quieter nights - the fog is on us and we greet it with paens of thanksgiving; though it goes not make the city fool-proof, it means ice often above and the Nazi wings can't take it" (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation). 1940 December 31. H.D. apparently at the Bull Hotel, Cambridge, with Bryher; writes to Silvia Dobson on hotel stationary (Dobson. Notes[unpubl.], p. 299-300). 1941 - 1943. THE GIFT written (Friedman. DLB 45:136) (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 14).

1941. Frances Gregg Wilkinson and her daughter are killed in the blitz on Plymouth (EP to DP, note, p. 149). [Frances's mother was also killed at this time. (Comment made by Sylvia Dobson to LHS, June 1988.)] 1941 March 30. H.D. in London; writes to Viola Jordan; thanks her for sending food, but indicates that they have plenty now; reflects on some crackers that brought back memories of hot chocolate after school; speculates that she may go to Derbyshire for Easter to get away from the "NOISE"; refers to the "serbs tanding up so splendidly"; comments "our daily ESCAPE is our great adventure"; comments "thank you for news of Ezra but I can't say I agree with his attitude, though don't know what he said exactly to USA"; refers to sending LIFE AND LETTERS with a piece by "'voluntary worker' on driving mobile canteen, who is Perdita" [on April 30, 1941, H.D. further explains in a letter to Viola Jordan that Perdita is "the second canteen worker in the 2 articles on mobile canteens"] (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1941 Spring. "The Ghost" written; the last of the sequence of sketches in "Within the Walls" (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 39). 1941 April 24. H.D. in London; writes to Viola Jordan; thanks her for sending magazines; seems to especially appreciate NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW; refers to being heartsick about Greece; refrs to possibly going to Robert Herring's (Northlands, Station Road, Derbyshire) (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1941 May 1. H.D. in London; writes to Viola Jordan; refers again to enjoyment of NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW; refers to news of Ezra Pound and comments "he always said something vile against Jews or [?]isting political institutions when he wrote me, too, but I have not heard for a long time"; comments that heard rumors in Paris (?) that Pound was definitely doing Nazi work though she doesn't know if that was true "but if so, he would be obliged to run down Jews whenever possible- it seemed silly, as I have been right in rescue work, years back, and anyhow, am not violently pro-Jew and certainly not anti-Jew. They come like the rest of us, as they come, some good, some utterly dull and tiresome"; comments that she had not known of Maria's existence until a few years ago and that Pound had sent her pictures of her--"has his wonderful hair"; refers to Tarot cards but claims she doesn't take them seriously--"its the link up with star-symbolism that I find so fascinating" (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1941 May 5. H.D. in London; writes to Viola Jordan; warns Viola not to send cigarettes (possible double-duty and general cutting down); jokingly says that when she is in her seventies she will come and enjoy Viola's garden and finish her autobiography there; speculates on what the New Jersey sea coast towns are like now; recalls her childhood [?] visit to Point Pleasant and how much she loved it; repeats what she said about Pound [cf. entry for May 1, 1941] except this time says that the rumors had him linked to the Italian dictator; assures Viola that the aid from from The USA is very much appreciated by the British (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1941 (?) June 21. H.D. in London; writes to Viola Jordan; refers to having gone to Sherwood Forest and encloses a post card of the "Major Oak"; comments that when Pound was in London to dispose of Olivia Shakespear's possessions, he had brought her back to Lowndes Square in a taxi but would not come up to see the flat (possibly off to a concert) (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). [LHS comment: dating of this letter is uncertain but if H.D. and Bryher had

gone to visit Robert Herring [cf. entry for April 24, 1941] they would have been close enough for a side trip to Sherwood Forest.] 1941 (?) June 30. H.D. in London; writes to Viola Jordan; thanks her for cigarettes and chocolate [apparently quite a sizable amount of both], however, because of the cigarettes this morning they had a visit from a government official because of the number of packets they had recieved lately--they were allowed to keep them but had to pay a little duty; refers to a little book, PROPHESIES OF THE WAR (links up with astrological researches) which she will try to have sent to Viola (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1941 July. "A Letter from England" published in the BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE BULLETIN. 1941 (?) July 2. H.D. in London; writes to Viola Jordan; refers to "little Flower," Saint Therese of Liseux and to Henri Gheon's THE SECRET OF THE LITTLE FLOWER--comments that she has everything that she can lay hands on regarding Saint Therese--refers to "roses" (or blessings-messages?) that Saint Therese said she would let fall after her death!); says she loves hearing from Viola; comments "I am deep in biblical lore, along with the srar research. The Aquarian age that is coming in with such agony, as was always predicted, is a women's age an we must stick together" (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1941 July 14. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; has just seen the notice of Ethne Dobson's death in the MANCHESTER GUARDIAN; plans to follow Bryher to Cornwall (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 302-303, 308-309). 1941 September 7. H.D. in Cornwall; writes to Silvia Dobson (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 310311). 1941 September. After return from Cornwall meets the RAF boy written about in "R.A.F."; later published in WHAT DO I LOVE (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 39; "Compassionate Friendship", p. 47). 1941 October 5. H.D. in London; writes to Viola Jordan; thanks her for a birthday card and comments "it was touching to habe USA clover sent me for my 55 birthday"; says she had a wonderful six weeks in Cornwall; refers to news of Ezra sent by Viola; refers to having a chicken in the oven ("a great treat") which she is waiting to serve to Bryher; explains that Bryher feels thwarted and frustrated as she had hopes of getting a job in Egypt--Bryher was offered work in washington at the beginning of the war but she did not want to leave England-comments "now I wish she had managed to go, she is very intelligent, too cerebral, and always thinking and helping others- the very essence of Virgo"; indicates that the talk of the supernatural provides escape from mundane realities (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1941 October 30. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; writes of plans to go to George Plank's with Bryher; has been to Cambridge the previous week; may go to Cambridge again the following week; Perdita is in Cornwall (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 312-313).

1941 November 4. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 313314). 1941 November 10. H.D. in London; writes to Viola Jordan; defends her actions in not having returned to America when the war started-"if one has taken joy and comfort from a country, one does not want to leave it when there is trouble about"; assures Viola that her gifts have meant a great deal to her; refers to William Carlos Williams having writing a scathing article on Pound in New Directions--Pound apparently mentioned Williams on one of his broadcasts from Italy (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1941 November 19. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; "I feel 20 years older and about 50 years younger, old values return ... there is NOTHING to say about what we have been through"; speaks of Perdita, who is in the country, using her languages on war-work-formerly she was driving a mobile canteen for firemen and pioneer works; hopes that during the forthcoming year (l942) he will be spared the experiences experiences which they have had; congratulates him on his marriage; comments that "Bryher frets sometimes, as she spent so much of her time on the continent, but she is very good and adaptable ..."; asks to be remembered to William Rose Bent (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1941 December. Sylvia Beach forced to close Shakespeare and Company due to Nazi harrassment (H.D. "Letters across the Abyss," p. 120). 1941 December 15, H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 316317). 1942 - 1944. Volumes of TRILOGY written. 1942 January 16. Violet Hunt dies at South Lodge of pneumonia and senile dementia at age 79 (Belford, VIOLET, p. 280) 1942 February 23. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to plans to go with Bryher to go to Violet Hunt's house to pick over her personal effects {Silvia Dobson says that Bryher bought H.D. a desk there, rumoured to have belonged to the Empress Eugenie--now in Silvia's possession} (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p.301-302, 306-307). [LHS note: Barbara Belford in VIOLET (p. 280-281) says that Gerald Henderson was Violet Hunt's literary executor, and the South Lodge's possessions were autioneered of on April 16, l942 Warn Diana Coolecott that this entry was moved from 1941 after I found out when Violet Hunt died; Sylvia had dated it 1942.] 1942 (?) March 25. H.D. in London; writes to Viola Jordan; refers to cosmopolitan nature of London; went of a Vienna Cafe place the other day and then to see PARIS CALLING (with Elisabeth Bergner?); has seen references to Pound, calling him the Italian-American Hee-Haw; comments that a friend who works for the B.B.C has seen scripts of Pound's broadcasts and reported that "they were too, too terrible, illiterate and dull" (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]).

1942 April 28. H.D. in London; writes to Viola Jordan; says she goes on writing, a little every day, and working on tapestry ("it sounds inane but there is nothing like it for keeping ones mind off things"; comments on London taking on a village-like appearance; asks Viola if there are any spiritualist chuches or theosophical societies in America as she knows a young half-Indian student of religion who wants to to the U.S.A. after the war [Arthur Bhaduri?] (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1942 May 19. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; having dental problems (abscess); says she has not been out of London since the previous September (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 318319. 321-322). 1942 July 4. H.D. in London; writes to Viola Jordan; thanks her for a V bag which included shoes which she is having repaired; draws comparasion between herself and Bryher as "Spratt and Mrs. J.S. complete"--Bryher tends to squirrel things away, H.D. wants to use them immediately; bewails not being able to travel--feels "very shut in after almost three years of this"; apologizes for bothering Viola about "occult" matters [LHS commrent: Viola must have made a negative response in relation to H.D.'s query about churches in April 28 letter]; refers to having seen an unchanged Ezra at time of Olivia Shakespear's death; comments that she and Perdita went to a concert at Albert Hall the previous evening (Michel Hambug doing Beethoven's 4th concerto-comments "most worth-while, not the power nor perception of our old Phila. Symphony Orchestra, which spoiled me horribly for enjoyment of the usual music"; describes parquet circle as having seats removed and people standing while listening--says it is impressive like a ballroom (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). l942 July 17. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; about to depart for an unspecified place with Bryher (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 323-324). 1942 July 26 (?). H.D. in London; writes to Viola Jordan; mentions that she is going to Kent to a lovely spot near Tonbridge (about a two hour car ride from London [Woodhull]; Bryher and Perdita plan to leave this coming Wednesday for Cornwall--H.D. could not face the trip--too long; comments on rumors that Ezra is now cursing England too on the radio; describes Perdita as being very dark, has slav-eyes, tall but not as tall as H.D. --striking, handsome rather than beautiful or pretty; refers to Viola sending quotes from her father's book (?); refers to her periodic attacks of interest in the occult though "I think any sort of medium stuff (in excess) does drain one's vitality and is dangerous"; refers to a young man [Bhaduri?] who "is very gifted, in fact, he is a `seer', but I am not `mixed up' with him or anyone of the sort"; comments that he says that she is to travel in 1943 and renew many friendships; refers to arrival of another package from Viola; comments that B is writing a little book based on the blitzes [BEOWULF?]; asks if Viola has seen Miss Miniver--"It is silly in parts but gives a very good picture of the Dunkirk rescue boats going out and the blitz parts, the shelter and so on, very well done - if you want to see what we went through it is good from that point of view"; mentions some cultural life in general terms; says she is nearly 56 (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1942 August 30. H.D. at Woodhall, Shipbourne, Kent; writes to Viola Jordan; thanks her for papers which she sent on to Bryher in Cornwall; has had a busy month here [at Woodhull] picking fruit, collecting vegetables; glad now to be going back as she feels a little cut off from civilization; comments "they are intelligent, perceptive girls but 3 years on the land has reduced

all conversation to hen and goat"; comments that "just 3 years ago this week that war started"; refers to her girlhood love of New Jersey, especially Point Pleasant; referring to Viola's feelings for her son says "But I was one girl with 5 brothers so I think I know as well as most what `mothers of boys' feel. I know indeed that it is a different thing- there is always some sort of veiled biological rivalry among the women of a family- it has to be so"; thinks Bryher comes back to London about the 8th [September]; describes the locale and refers to riding in a horse driven cart; has been doing hedging (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]). 1942 Autumn. H.D. spends a few days at Woodhall (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 319). 1942 October 12. Clifford Howard dies (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 31). 1942 November 16. H.D. in London; writes Christmas card to Norman Holmes Pearson (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1942 November 23. H.D. in London; writes to Viola Jordan; 1942 December 30. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to astrological charts of Osbert and Edith Sitwell which Silvia had drawn up for her; refers to "little Bhaduri" who "is rather a pet in his way" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 319, 325-326). 1943 - 1944. "Majic Ring" written (Friedman. DLB 45:137; source: "Compassionate Friendship", p. 30). 1943 January (?). H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; both H.D. and Perdita have had "a sort of germ, flu or grippe"; the news that Sylvia Beach is in an internment camp in the south of France has reached H.D. and Bryher by way of New York (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 335-336). 1943 April (?). Ivy Compton-Burnett and Margaret Jourdain, who are in London in connection with the Poet's Reading, have tea at Lowndes Square with H.D. and Bryher and there meet the three Sitwells; H.D. and Bryher went to tea with Ivy Compton-Burnett and Margaret Jourdain around this time (Sprigge, E. Life of Ivy Compton Burnett, p. 105) 1943 April 12. Norman Holmes Pearson arrives London (Winks, Robin W. CLOAK AND GOWN,, p. 310). 1943 April 13. H.D. in London; receives telephone call from Norman Holmes Pearson who has arrived for service in the OSS the previous day; tells him that he must come to the "Reading" the following day (Winks, Robin W. CLOAK AND GOWN, p. 310). 1943 April 14. H.D. in London; reads poem, "Ancient Wisdom Speaks," in "A Reading by Famous Poets ..." at the Aeolian Hall In aid of the French in Great Britain; attended by the Queen and the two princesses. 1943 April 18. H.D. in London at 49 Lowndes Square; writes to Marianne Moore; encloses one of the programs from the poetry reading--one of the few extra ones which Osbert Sitwell let her

have; quotes review in the TIMES to Moore; Queen Elizabeth had requested that the two princesses sit besides poets--describes seating arrangements; comments that "the two little girls were exceptionally well-behaved and charming at the same time"; would have written sooner but they were asked not to mention the plans of the Royal Party; cooments that she had never read in public before and now feels that it is the best way to present poetry; has had lots of parties; refers to the fact that Norman Holmes Pearson is in England (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation). 1943 April 24. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to reading Walter De La Mare's MEMOIRS OF A MIDGET; refers to Allies (or Alleys as H.D. and Bryher called it) the Knightsbridge cafe which H.D. and Bryher frequented before finding the T-Kettle (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 328, 337). 1943 May 2. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; has recently had a tooth removed; refers to the little room downstairs where they could put him up should the need arise (which they have kept rather a secret--Faith Compton MacKenzie has stayed there--she had to be prodded out to make room for someone else to whom they had promised it); describes flat as being "on the 4th floor- USA 5th floor"; refers to the reading of "Famous Poets": "We had such fun at the Reading of `Famous Poets' ... that we forgot the war for a whole week and now I have got into a happy frame of mind and want to go on forgetting it"; describes Bryher's actions ("good deeds and constant care"); refers to death of Stephen Vincent Bent and says she grieved when she heard the news over the radio--following so soon after that of Laurence Binyon; says she looks forward to introducing Pearson to some of their friends (Robert Herring, the Sitwells, Ivy Compton-Burnet, Margaret Jourdain, and Elizabeth Bowen); mentions a "haven in Cornwall, a great farm or manor house" [Trenoweth] (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1943 May 15. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; says that she, who does not write letters, feels impelled to write because of a "`brook and river meet' feeling"; has been starting to read and list her own books as well as put bookplates in them; refers to also having received a list from Buffalo library [probably Poetry Collection, Lockwood Memorial Library-should check to see if Mary Barnard was there in 43]; has been very slack in the past about answering University letters--must now make an effort; tells Pearson of titles not on his list which she may be able to supply; comments that she has a strange feeling that she may be going to the USA as soon as possible once the war is over; is collecting literary data (letters from publishers, etc.) that might be of use; ; is going to jot down a list of the Doolittles for Pearson (enclosed) (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1943 May 29. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; supplies Silvia with Walter Schmideberg's address (199 Gloucester Place N.W. 1); still having weekly treatments at the dentist (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 328-339). 1943 June (?) 23 [Silvia Dobson has as August 23, letter dated Tues. 23]. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; more about plans for coming down to Woodhall; comments on bombing "rather noisy last night, mostly at Ealing, they say. But I will be glad to get out of it. Had quite enough in the big blitz-time and the noise gives me blitz-headaches now; though I stood it in the beginning, I don't fancy a repetition on the old scale- heaven forbid!"; mentions that she is trying to learn to knit; asks if a chamber pot will be available for her (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 347-348).

1943 July 8. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; has apparently recently spent an evening with Pearson--refers to an orgy of delicous food; mentions possibility of going away for a few weeks in August; refers to interest which Pearson has taken in Perdita (and refers to Perdita's "young gent with his dramatic alarums and excursions"); mentions attempts to find a new position for Perdita; had an unexpected vistor ("the son of a friend-of-a-friend ... right out of some operational work, a child from highschool, a navigator") the previous evening for whom they could do nothing except chat for a half hour as they had to go out (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). l943 July 12. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; thanks him for the form which he sent for Perdita to fill out as part of her application for a job with his office; Perdita has spent the previous weekend with George Plank; apparently H.D. and Bryher had told Perdita that there was a possibility of another a different job coming but not wanting to implicate Pearson yet, they had named another friend as the source--H.D. comments they that had stopped Perdita in the nick of time from writing to the other person about the possibility, a fact which indicates to H.D. that Perdita is eager for a change; Pearson has mentioned (in a letter of July 9) his reservations about breaking some one in only to have them leave and H.D. tells him that that "Bryher will deal with all that in her business-like manner"; refers to war activities, commenting "I wonder if Ezra knows how near 'we' are?"; adds a postscript telling Pearson that George Plank had done the feather on the stationary and the rose bookplate (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). l943 July 13. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson, enclosing the form that Perdita has filled out; tells Pearson how to get in touch with Perdita (mentions that Perdita has been sharing a house with two other Foriegn Office girls at 29 Ovington Street); comments on Perdita filing out the form, including the chewing of then pen over the question on "ciphering experience" which Bryher said to leave blank {since it apparently would have been a breach of confidentiality to have answered it} (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1943 July 28. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; discusses holiday plans--Bryher to go to Cornwall, H.D. to got to Woodhall (August 9 or l0) (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 340-341). 1943 August 3. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; Bryher doing hectic packing, hopes to get off for Cornwall the following evening; H.D. posting some boxes ahead to Woodhall including wool [for tapestries and hooked rugs] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 342-343). 1943 August 7. H.D. in London; is visited by Norman Holmes Pearson in the evening (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter of August 9, 1943]). l943 August 9. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; is posting him a copy of the manuscript of THE GIFT--says "Houghton Mifflin have copy in Boston but as Chapter 4 and Chapter 7 were badly cut about by censor, and the point of the whole story lost, I asked them to hold it with a book of poems they have, till later. I do not think they are any too keen, anyhow but I had to get it off my chest so sent over, air-mail, single chapters ... so there is that copy anyhow. I usually destroy originals but find I have my first rough typed copy (I work direct on machine) and would be glad to hand it over to you for your collection, later, if you want it. The Gift is a thing I have worked at, off and on, for 20 years- but it only finally snapped into shape after I had scrapped all early efforts, during the bad raids, when I began this final copy, and it had

to be worked through the minds of the children or the child"; says she thought Pearson "might understand a few things in it, as hardly anyone can or will"; indicates that she plans to leave for Woodhall the next day; thanks Pearson for coming in on Saturday and [they must have had a long serious conversation as she] refers to "a deep unconscious strain, all the time, really, being in a `foreign' country" and "I feel happier already about Bryher' (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1943 August 10(?). H.D. goes to Woodhall by train. 1943 August 14(?). H.D. at Woodhall, Shipbourne, Kent; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; thanks Pearson for an extra last minute effort on Perdita's behalf; reports that Perdita has written to say that she is finding the work very interesting--but even more hush-hush than her previous position; refers to the fact that her last week-end out of town was during the previous August; describes life at Woodhall--picking plums and berries--taking jaunts for hay--the enemy flies overhead but not as near as in London; has even had what she calls an "orgy"--to the "`Plough' at Ivy Hatch" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). [In June 1988 Sylvia Dobson explained to LHS that "the orgy" was in a pony trap--and that the "plough" was a pub which which hung out sacks of hay for horses.] 1943 August 26. H.D. at Woodhall, Shipbourne, Kent; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; gives a philiosophical discourse and refers to "the 'latter-day twice-born' (as I call them or us, in one of my new poems}"; muses on her relationship with Bryher--sees herself as moving on and Bryher as sliding back--remaining stuck at a certain level; plans to return to London early in the week; mentions NIGHTS and says "it represented a rather lost, sad period (maybe about 1932)" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1943 August 30. H.D. returns to London from Woodhall; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to having the Oxford University Preess express interest in a book, probably THE WALLS DO NOT FALL ("but I hate the cheap and nasty little brochure they offer as a sample"); refers to wanting Silvia to see THE GIFT sometime, "the thing I took so long to get off my chest"; refers to plans to see her, Norah, and the twins (Mollie and Mervyn) at Lowndes on Thursday (September 2), the birth date the twins shared with Bryher (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 349-350). Writes to Norah Dobson thanking her for her visit to Woodhall; will expect them for elevenses on the 2nd; Bryher is expected back from Cornwall on Wednesday (September l) (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 351354). 1943 September 5. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; apparently Pearson has been away and missed an affair at Edith Sitwell's--there is to be another one on the 14th which she and Bryher must attend--invites Pearson to join them; there is to be another gathering on Thursday the 16th at Edith's club, the Sesame Club, 44 Grosvenor Street (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1943 September 7. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to illness of George Plank (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 355-356). Writes to Norman Holmes Pearson [date supplied by Pearson]; apparently Edith Sitwell plans to have another party at 4:30 the following day and wants Pearson to attend; H.D. and Bryher plan to attend; suggests that Pearson could even come back to the flat afterwards for sherry (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1943 October 1. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; invites him to come have a snack with her on Monday (Oct. 4) [Pearson responded the next day that he would be unable to come]; Bryher is away--expected back on Tuesday or perhaps Monday; refers to Arthur Bhadhuri who has been in for a drink; Perdita is there for dinner and is "busy with Mozart" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1943 October 2. NHP responds to H.D. that on the following night he is firewatching and on Monday night he has two professional guests lined up; asks for Edith Sitwell's address so that he can send her a copy of Thoreau's WEEK ON THE CONCORD AMD MERRIMAC RIVERS which she has asked for and which Maggas has found for him; has been to the ballet that evening which included "A Rake's Progress" with sets by Rex Whistler and a free arrangement of Walton's music for Facade (NHP to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1943 October 4. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; supplies Edith Sitwell's address; encloses an invitation to an affair at "Belge and Luxumborg [sic]"; Hester MasdenSmedley will be staying at the flat for two nights and he could casually (?) meet her there; says Hester's husband is in some important government department; refers to the Preston (?) with whom Pearson has gone to the ballet on the previous Saturday; says she is going up to see George Plank who is ill and talk to him about "home" [Philadelphia?]--he will only see people from there thus the responsibility evolves on her and Logan Pearsall Smith (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1943 October 5. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; sends him the first draft of THE GIFT--says she is unable to move on with the notes and appendix until this is out of the house; Bryher has returned; says "I am sure we are going to be less clausta-phobic this winter, no matter what happens outside or inside"; refers to plans to attend a lecture (?) at "the Belge place" [L'Institut Belge] (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1943 October 15. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; inquires when he can come to dinner; George Plank, who apparently came close to death's door, is now on the road to recovery; implies that Pearson will be helping to get Plank back to America (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1943 October 20. H.D. hears Lord Dowding lecture on spirit messages (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 14) (Autobiographical notes). [LHS note: in "Compassionate Friendship", p. 30, H.D. says she wrote "Writing on the Wall" in 1944 before she encountered Dowding, but later, p. 47, says that she began writing Lord Dowding after she head him lecture in October 1943 then she says she met him in February 1945]. 1943 October 29. H.D. attends seance and has viking ship vision (Friedman. DLB 45:138). 1943 November - December. H.D. sits on a committee to make the first awards of the Society of Authors "Travelling Scholarship Fund" [donated anonymously by Bryher--Cf. her correspondence with the Society of Author]; other members include Harold Nicholson (Chairman), Edith Sitwell, Stephen Spender, John Lehmann, Raymond Mortimer and W. E. Williams (Collecott. Notes).

The letters to Susan Pearson which are stored in a bank vault might help to date this particular letter through the reference to eating together at "The Grill."1943 October (end) - November (before the 23). H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; refers to his possibly having eaten with them at "The Grill" which she and Bryher have started to go to again now that "our poor Speranza is now on the down-grade"; refers to how much being with him--"just the sound of your voice"--helps to allieviate her feelings of homesickness for the U.S. [LHS comment--see stanzas 22 and 23 of THE WALLS DO NOT FALL]; discusses the creation of THE WALLS DO NOT FALL for several pages, presumably a response to his having asked for a descriptive letter before he attenpted to write the blurb for Sir Humphrey Milford which appears on the back wrapper of the Oxford University Press edition (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1943 December 20. Society of Authors "Travelling Scholarship Fund" grants awards to Cecil Day Lewis, V. S. Pritchett and William Sansom (Collecott. Notes). 1944. WHAT DO I LOVE? containing "May 1943," "R.A.F.," and "Christmas 1944" published by the Brendin Publishing Co. in London. 1944. THE WALLS DO NOT FALL published in London by Oxford University Press. 1944. "Writing on the Wall" written ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 30) 1944 February 23. H.D. in London; is visited at Lowndes Square by Norman Holmes Pearson (deduced from H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter, 24 II 1944]). 1944 February 24. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; says that she has just heard from Sir Humphrey Milford that the American branch of the Oxford University Press wants to bring out an American edition of THE WALLS DO NOT FALL--a 10% royality has been suggested; refers to series of bombs that they are experiencing; refers to his having been there the previous evening (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1944 March 31. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; reflects on Perdita's twenty-fifth birthday; refers to Edith Sitwell's "Still Falls the Rain" ("Yes- I was a little shocked and agast at Edith's last poem - it does look as if the blight of this present bitter-time had bitten very deep. Ther[e] is no HOPE in it- but she has been having a dreary lonely time, in that great house, with few contacts and few fires - unlike our own rampant heartening blazes at Woodhall") (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 359-360 [here, Silvia Dobson comments that H.D. had reported to Francis Wolle on Osbert Sitwell's review of THE WALLS DO NOT FALL and that the line "we want, we need more ..." "so bedazzled me that I sat down the last two weeks of May and did another series, the same length, a sort of premature peace poem], 370-371). 1944 April 15. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; plans to come to Woodhall April 20 or 21; comments that the doctor has said that her muscular rheumatism is due to the nerve strain of the blitzes (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 372). 1944 April 21-27(?). H.D. at Woodhall (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 361).

1944 April 28. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks her for her stay at Woodhall; refers to Bryher's attempts to get John Macpherson (Kenneth Macpherson's father) to the USA [he, Pop, apparently stayed at Lowndes Square for period of time] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 372). 1944 May 21. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; Perdita is apparently visiting (?); refers to a manuscript [unidentified by LHS] which is ready to be sent to him and which needs to have a quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes verified--it is possibly being printed in LIFE AND LETTERS (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). [1944 June 6. D-Day: day of the invasion of Western Europe by Allied forces.] 1944 June 7. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to excitement of D. Day (June 6) (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 375-376). 1944 June 20. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson;has been unable to reach him at the number which he gave to her; wants him to come to supper on Thursday [June 22] (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1944 July 5. The flat occupied by Gerard and Cole Henderson was hit by a "doodlebug"; Gerard, Librarian at St. Paul's loses an eye (Bryher. DAYS OF MARS, p. 134). 1944 July 9(?). H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to the Henderson's misfortune and to Bryher's having helped with the "final clean-out"; discusses holiday plans, possibly going to Cornwall (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 385-386). 1944 July 20, H.D. and Bryher arrive in Cornwall (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter, 31 July 1944]). 1944 July 23. H.D. and Bryher in Cornwall; send postcard to Norman Holmes Pearson (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1944 July 24. H.D. in Cornwall; sends postcard to Norman Holmes Pearson (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1944 July 27. H.D. at Trenoweth, St. Keverne, Cornwall; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; gives a lyric description of surroundings; refers to Pearson's handling of American edition of THE WALLS DO NOT FALL and says "I think that the Peace poem (not yet christened) has a hearing later' (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1944 July 31. H.D. at Trenoweth, St. Keverne, Cornwall; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; refers to negotiations re American edition of THE WALLS DO NOT FALL; supplies Dir Humphrey Milford's address at the Oxford University Press; says she is still wallowing in the quiet and that "I have my `Puritan' conscience out of its cupboard & it is making me feel wretched and `guilty' at leaving you all there in bomb-alley"; says she presumes that they will be in Cornwall for a month and that they arrived on July 20th; Bryher will go to Ecklington for a bit after they get back (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1944 August 4. H.D. at Trenoweth, St. Keverne, Doris Long's flower farm in Cornwall; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to having heard from Walter de la Mare; [note: this letter was cut into by the Censor] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 377-380). Also sends postcard to Norman Holmes Pearson (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1944 August 2. NHP writes to H.D.; refers to a mysterious flyer on Oriental porcelain which Merrill Moore had sent to H.D. from New Zealand--the flyer was for an exhibition which had been held before the war and everyone seems puzzled as to why it should surface now (NHP to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1944 August 6. H.D. at Trenoweth, St. Keverne, Cornwall; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; refers to "The Jewel in the Lotus" folder which Merrill Moore had sent and encloses another clipping which he had sent, from THE AUCKLAND STAR (March 30, 1944) which describes Moore's discovery that a good many American servicemen read and become interested in Hitler's MEIN KAMPF; describes experience of having encountered a cat with its hind leg caught in a trap--wonders if it is from such experiences that legends such as Cornish Ghoulies develop (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1944 August 14. H.D. in Cornwall; sends post card to Norman Holmes Pearson (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1944 August 20. H.D. at Trenoweth, St. Keverne, Cornwall; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; she and Bryher are beginning to talk of returning to London--perhaps in 7 or 10 days or they might stay on an additional week; is reading a marvelous book, THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE by Lt. Gen. Sir George Macunn [Note: Macunn appears to have been corrected in ms. to something else but LHS cannot make out what it is], which she says was one of the books sent to LIFE AND LETTERS for review back in 1939 (author seems to claim that the American Rebellion was hang-over of the British Civil Wars "come to roost" in New England and that it was really one of the seven wars with France); says she has written Marya G[regory] "that no matter HOW many letters N.P. owed them, it is THEY who should write him" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1944 August _LHS copied wrong day here; if he ever gets to verify Dobson letters again he should check for correct day.. H.D. at Trenoweth, St. Keverne; writes to Silvia Dobson; plans to stay on a few more weeks; refers to the liberation of France--to her it means "something special and regenerating"; refers to the fact she has been corresponding with Lady St. Levan, the sisterin-law of Vita Sackville West, who has apparently invited them to visit St. Michael's Mount [according to Silvia Dobson: H.D. did go to St. Michael's Mount from which she sent Silvia a postcard] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 365, 381-384). 1944 August 22. H.D. at Trenoweth, St. Keverne, Cornwall; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; is wondering about the possibility of getting Bryher a subscription to YANK for her birthday {Pearson had sent them an issue and Bryher had liked it; H.D. comments that Bryher likes gifts of magazine subscriptions} (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1944 August 26. H.D. and Bryher in London; Bryher writes to Silvia Dobson; has just returned from a marvelous two plus months in Cornwall; H.D. adds postscript; Perdita has been there as well as Doris Long's daughter, Dean (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 432-433). 1944 August (end). Paris liberated. 1944 September 9. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks Silvia for gift of Walter De la Mare's MEMOIRS OF A MIDGET; refers to plans for Silvia to come to tea on Wednesday, September l3th ; Bryher has come close to developing a case of Jaundice, mercifully checked in time; had sent Walter De la Mare a handful of daffodil bulbs from Trenoweth (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 366, 387-38). 1944 September 10. H.D. in London; celebrates her birthday with Bryher, Perdita and Norman Holmes Pearson; Pearson has obtained a supply of American corn which he supervises the cooking of (H.D. to Susan Pearsonz, [unpubl. letter] 9/12/44). 1944 September 11. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; thanks him for having read her Angel series [TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS]; is uncertain whether it should be published now or wait to see if she writes a third part ("I haven't the foggiest of what the 3rd is to be about and am rather harrassed and wrote the 2nd under compulsion"); is thinking of dedicating the ANGELS to Osbert Sitwell (or to Edith Sitwell) and if she does write a 3rd it should be dedicated to Norman Holmes Pearson; comments that Bryher did not approve of a protestant making a gesture towards Our Lady, but that she, H.D., thought she "had made it clear that she was `Our Lady universally', a spirit- from the days of Numa and what-not. Anyhow, the sequence happened like that and the dreaam conveniently arranged itself for me, or my own sub-conscious took over"; Pearson has apparently sent over some figs and H.D. has been enjoying them intensely; continues to reflect upon Our Lady as a symbol (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1944 September 12. H.D. in London; writes to Susan Pearson; thanks for a wonderful box which she has sent and which arrived during their absence; explains that they have been away for about six weeks; comments on combs, desert puddings, and bottle caps; comments that Norman had gotten her some American corn for her birthday and they insisted that he share it with them; he not only shared but also directed the cooking of it--boing water and then just ten minutes with a pinch of salt [sic]; Perdita was also there; comments that Norman is looking well--that is, well for London standards; comments that they try to go away every summer to escape the strain of the blitz; regretted leaving Perdita behind though she was in good hands under Pearson; Norman has been such a delight to them, keeping them supplied with news and magazines, though they don't see nearly enough of him; thanks Susan for looking up bibliographical data; comments on having had a manuscript [?] which she sent to the USA badly cut about by the censor; comments on current hiatus in the war and says "There just comes a moment, when one cannot absorb any more intensity or drama- and yet I would not have missed this time for anything"; has really appreciated the combs which Susan sent; hopes to meet someday and comments that she was happy to hear that he had found her (H.D. to Susan Pearson, [unpubl. letter]). 1944 October 19. H.D. in London; writes to Adrienne Monnier; has apparently just learned that she and Sylvia Beach are safe; concludes "This is just a greeting across the Abyss (H.D. "Letters across the Abyss," p. 120).

1944 October 29. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 394395). 1944 November. TRIBUTE TO FREUD written (Thorn Thicket, p. 28) (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 17). 1944 November 18. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to plans that afternoon to go with Robert Herring to see RICHARD III (will have lunch at the "Coquille" near the New Theatre); comments that she and Bryher never go anywhere to eat except "our Allies" {Silvia Dobson comments that H.D. feared eating out during the war--that she suspected that chicken might really be disguised cat}; refers to having seen Schmideberg about her Freud letters--"I am trying to get my notes done on Vienna and my work there. All very serious yet somehow rewarding work- yet I question- WHO will read this ????"; has seen PEER GYNT with Perdita (and Bryher?) and comments that "the last time I saw it was in Philadelphia when I was 18" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 391, 396-397). 1944 December 5. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; primarily comments on TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS; started the poems at odd moments "as a poet should"--the first atop a bus enroute to Putney, brushing through those chestnut trees; says "they link on to the firstI purposely tried to to keep the link, but carry on from the black tunnel of darkness or "initiation", at least toward the tunnel entrance. I really DID feel that a new heaven and a new earth were about to materialize. It lasted as you know, for a few weeks- then D-day! And the `re-athering, thundering storm'"; goes on to discuss origins of the names for the angels; discusses dedication to Osbert Sitwell; indicates that she and Bryher expect to see Pearson on Sunday; refers to two contracts, signed and sealed, are in order--Sir Humphrey Milford said that he would set up TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS as soon as could get the paper--possibly for Spring publication; says they "did enjoy Sunday last" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1944 December 13. Bryher receives her first letter in five years from Sylvia Beach. 1944 December 15. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; says "Bryher is in a state of permanent rush, hysteria I call it" referring to Christmas preparations; says that both "Old Pop" [John Macpherson] and George Plank have gotten to USA; refers to having heard from the States that Kenneth Macpherson has been completely "out of circulation" but now he is taking a place in the country; has recieved Dr. Sachs book on Freud ("quite interesting") and a new Kay Boyle; has "finished my vol. on Vienna memories, plus the Professor- quite a hair-raising job- and Br and Herring like it. I had old notebooks done at the time but did not use them- but the fact that they were there, gave me the impetus-"; says "I see Bear [Walter Schmideberg] now and again as he was helping me to brave the Freud notes- he didn't DO anything- but his being there helped" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 391, 398-399). 1944 December 25 (?). Apparently for Christmas, Pearson gave to H.D. the typescript of the blurb which he had written which was published on the back wrapper of the Oxford University Press edition of TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS (with: NHP to H.D. [unpubl. letters]). 1945 - 1946. "Writing on the Wall" (later renamed TRIBUTE TO FREUD) published in LIFE AND LETTERS.

1945. TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS published in London by Oxford University Press. 1945 January 10. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 408409). 1945 January 30. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; reminiscences on her l923 trip to Egypt {Silvia is now stationed in Egypt}; refers to having heard from Kenneth Macpherson, who has rented a large estate in the USA with a house, guest house, out houses, three swiming pools, a stream, and an avenue of pine trees; refers to Hilton's LOST HORIZON and remarks that she has gotten "rather Tibet-minded" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 410-411). 1945 February. Meets Lord Dowding ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 47). 1945 February 12. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to worries about Molly Hughes's welfare; they are now able to get ice cream at Harrods; refers to astrology and the advent of a new "`fan' a doctor in the north of England" {Silvia Dobson identifies this as Dr. Elizabeth Ashby}--has "come to the conclusion that Bryher has ram rising. Don't you think it goes with her head-long and break-neck methods of HELPHING [sic] and butting through all obstructions? Anyhow Br took to RAM and has begun to 'play' a little- she would never play properly at `stars' with me before" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 404, 412-413). 1945 March 3. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to the time when she saw Yugo from the deck of a Hellenic Cruise boat and visited Dubrovnick; awaiting departure of Perdita who is being moved to Paris; George Plank, who had returned to USA, is very unhappy in North Carolina and is attempting to return to England ; refers to having finished up some notes on the old Professor [Writing on the Walls] and that LIFE AND LETTERS wants to set some of it up; her next book of poems [TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS] has been set up and she "did a 3rd, as to finish `war' trilogy" [FLOWERING OF THE ROD] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 414-415). 1945 March 28. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to reading Huxley's new book {identified by Silvia Dobson as reissued BRAVE NEW WORLD with it's new preface}; Perdita has left, is in "western Europe"; refers to "Bryher's old Madame Blancquaert who had a huge elephant tusk delivered a day or so ago ... part of her dead-husband's effects and Br had kept saying she would not like the risk of keeping it here ... Bryher's room now is half-tusk, half books and herself completely swamped or barracaded in"; says "I think of the Bells in Venice; I got them into my TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS ["Annael- this is another voice ... with the weight of massive bees"], poems which are due out in April ... They are planetary Angels & a planetary Lady to bring you joy & peace soon, we trust" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 406, 416-417). 1945 April 8. H.D. in London; Norman Holmes Pearson dines with H.D. and Bryher at the flat; cannot stay too long (H.D. to Susan Pearson, [unpubl. letter] 4/14/45). 1945 April 13. H.D. in London; Norman Holmes Pearson comes for a little supper with her and Bryher to celebrate his birthday with a cake which they managed to have made (H.D. to Susan Pearson, [unpubl. letter] 4/14/45).

1945 April 14. H.D. in London; writes to Susan Pearson; thanks her for a illustrated collection of Grimm's fairy tales; comments that she has never found one comparable to the first one which she had which was left behind when they moved from Bethlehem to Philadelphia; she does have the two volumes of the original Margaret Hunt translation which she is delighted to note has bbeen used in the present edition; comments on the illustrations, by Josef Scharl; describes Pearson's visits of the 8th and the 13th; comments that Perdita, thanks to Norman, has gone off in USA uniform to "Europe" and is very happy--is now in touch with some some of their friends about whom they have been concerned since the war started; was shocked to hear of Roosevelt's death; comments on the mourning that is being done in London--"the people seem to feel that the President really belongs to them here. We did feel all along so grateful to him for his attitude to this island when `we stood alone' and WHAT a time that was! Well- peace seems well on the way now"; comments "N. looks very well but rushed all the time - however we think he rests here, snuggles in an arm-chair & reads our old USA papers while we get our simple Sunday evening supper!" (H.D. to Susan Pearson, [unpubl. letter]). [1945 May 8. V-E Day: day of victory in Europe for the Allies.] *1945 May 16. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; peace is here; refers to the 1934 time in Venice with Silvia and says that she has heard no Victory bells to equal the ones in Venice; planes overhead are flying very low so that returning prisoners can have a look at London; Gerald Henderson has stuck flags up for H.D. and Bryher inside their windows [DC note this--possible picture for London book]; trying to get to Stratford--refers to having "had the birthday there. It was wonderful. We all laid our posies on the stone in the church to the sound of Wedding March and peal of bells" [LHS note this--did H.D. spend Shakespeare's birthday in Stratford in 1945?]; has seen DUCHESS OF MALFI and a good many Shakespeare productions [film?] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 406, 418-419). 1945 May 27. H.D. in London; sees Norman Holmes Pearson (inferred drom H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter], 31 May 1945). 1945 (Not certain this that this letter is 1945--however it was removed from NHP's copy of TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS--and reference to blurb could be to that which Pearson wrote--also in March 1945, H.D. wrote to Silvia Dobson that TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS was being set up.) May 31. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; welcomes him to his new home (?); refers to having seen him the previous Sunday; comments that Edith [Sitwell] will be in London in mid-June and that she will want to see Pearson; confides that Edith told Bryher that Pearson reminded her of [T.S.] Eliot (apparentlly a real tribute from Edith); says "I particularly recommend the gem-like prose of the back folder!!" [probably referring to Pearson's blurb for TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS since this letter accompanied a copy] (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1945 June 2. H.D. and Bryher attend the Society of Authors' "Diamond Jubilee Conversazione" at Grosvenor House, London. John Masefield (President) and Osbert Sitwell (Chairman of the Committee of Management) have leading roles (Collecott. Notes). 1945 June 5. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; has been having some injections from Doctor Blum[berg] who says she has very low blood pressure [in her notes, Silvia Dobson says

that this same "good Doctor Blumberg took a precious gift of radium, paid for by Bryher, to Paris"]; hopes to get off for Stratford for a few days; is hoping that Churchill is re-elected; a publisher (?) has expressed interest in "Writing on the Wall" which has appeared in LIFE AND LETTERS; Perdita was back for a weeks visit; refers to "that day at the Allies" [in her notes Silvia Dobson explains that they had escaped death or manglement by a few feet] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 421, 423-424). 1945 June 7. H.D. in London; writes postcard to Norman Holmes Pearson; [possibly written just prior to leaving for Stratford-on-Avon] (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1945 June 15. H.D. in London; writes to Norah Dobson; has just gotten back from "a rare week on Avon; says that Bryher is going down to Cornwall, June 27 or 28 (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 427-428). 1945 July 20. H.D. in Stratford on Avon, at the Swan's Nest Hotel; writes to Silvia Dobson; has seen all but one of the eight plays being offered; plans to see MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING that evening; plans to go to Chipping Campden on the edge of the Cotswolds on Wednesday [July 26] for a week, then plans to return to Stratford on Avon to a room and breakfast place;; Bryher is in Cornwall--says "I think separation is good, in fact a necessity"; thinks they will be back in London before the birthdays (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 425-426). It is possibly on this trip that as she later wrote to Pearson "at the moment, just now, I remember a wonderful box of chocolates that I gobbled all alone at the Swan Inn, that later summer 1945 visit to Avon" [implication that it had come from Pearson] (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter] 2/8/49). 1945 July 29. H.D. at Noel Arms, Chipping Camden, Gloucestershire; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; refers to a review [unidentified; possibly YALE REVIEW, Spring 1945] of THE WALLS DO NOT FALL and the juxtapositions contained therein (with mention [?] of Eliot, Joyce and Thornton Wilder)--says it seems to include or predict the FLOWERING OF THE ROD; says " only here, have I had time & real space in which to browse and brood. I shall brood a bit longer on our Rod--feel I do not want it or them to leave the nest"; has not show the series to anyone except him; refers to having gone on a wonderful trip with her lady-doctor [LHS thinks this is possibly Dr. Elizabeth Ashby] (by way of Stow-on-the Wold, Bourton-on the-Water, Fosse Bridge to Bibury); describes Chipping as a Christmas card town; refers to recent elections; Bryher is writing her sustaining letters from Cornwall; refers to chocolates which she brought along with her which Pearson must have given her; will return to Stratford-on-Avon on Wednesday [August 1]; gives him her next address as (from Aug. 1 - 15) c/o Mrs. Denny, 19 Old Town, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1945 September. "The Guardians" (about the Scottish Nannie of the Dobson family) written (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 40). 1945 September 1. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; refers to his having flown back to America to be with Susan Pearson who has just had her second operation for that Summer; refers to Perdita who is looking forward to her new work; refers to reading Emily Dickinson; says that Unwin does not want the Freud memoir--has had another second rate publisher ask for it but says she will not let it go except to the best; seems pleased with its appearance in LIFE AND LETTERS; thanks him for parcels (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1945 September 3. H.D. attends seance and hears urgent messages from some of Lord Dowding's dead RAF pilots warning of an imminent third world war (Friedman. DLB 45:138) (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 11). 1945 September 16. Battle of Britain Sunday: H.D. attends Westminster Abbey (Thorn Thicket, p. 21) (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 11). 1945 October 26. Arthur Pell of Liveright Publishing Company writes to H.D. that l.) Marianne Moore has written to him now that the war is over they are to communicate directly with H.D. instead of through Moore and 2.) Liveright would like to add more poems to THE COLLECTED POEMS OF H.D. and to reissue the book (Pell's letter interfiled in H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letters]). [See also entry for April 2, 1946.] 1945 November 8. H.D. in London; writes to Katharine E. McBride of Bryn Mawr about plans to lecture and requesting information about lodging, etc. (referred to in letter from H.D. to Norman Holmes Pearson, December 27, l945). 1945 November 26. H.D. in London at 49 Lowndes Square; writes to Marianne Moore; sends Christmas greetings; tells Moore of having been asked to lecture at Bryn Mawr, second term, February through mid-Hune [1946]; does not not if she will get off, but has gotten her provisional visa that day--"a step on, out of the depression and stagination here"; asks Moore to help by giving her a list of approximately twelve of her favorite lyrics or short selections from longer poems or plays--mentions that two of her own choices are "Queen & Huntress" by Ben Jonson and "Go. Lovely Rome" by Waller (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation). 1945 November 30. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to a ms. of Silvia's which she has read; comments that she seems to go from cold to cold (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 438439). 1945 December 10. H.D. in London; writes a formal note to Norman Holmes Pearson authorizing him to look after her literary affairs in the United States until she herself is able to cross "which will be, as you know, in the near future" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1945 December 23. H.D. and Bryher at Perdita's; exchange presents (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 440). 1945 December 25. H.D. and Bryher have Christmas dinner at Robert Herring's house with a big tree and wonderful turkey (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 440). 1945 December 26. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; she and Bryher are going out to the theatre with Perdita after lunch; refers to proposed trip to USA "I am still in doubt about my trip but am going ahead all the same, with my lecture notes and bookings etc."; refers to Melitta Schmideberg having gone to New York, leaving Walter Schmideberg all of her patients on top of his own (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 440-441).

1945 December 27. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; has posted him (on December 17) a copy of the American edition of TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS; has had a cable from Bryn Mawr (Katharine E. McBride) offering to help with arrangements for the trip to America--coincidentally enough "as we are all three [H.D., Bryher and Perdita(?)] due at rendezvous chez Miss Windsor [LHS comment: Rita Windsor was Bryher's travel agent and, if I remember correctly, she later sublet the Lowndes Square flat] at II this morning"; comments that one of the Ministries is vetting her papers; has asked that her travel plans be booked for late February or early March; is worried about having a place to stay (had written to Katharine McBride about it on November 8)--has had invitations from people in Pennsylvania but feels that if she is really to lecture then she should be lodged near the college "as I am pretty breathed out and even a short train trip might tire me for talk afterwards" [LHS comment: H.D. appears to have been looking forward to the teaching experience]; says she doesn't want to LIVE with people--"want to be private and at least partially alone ; a `room of my own." I am not a-social or anti-social, just have reserve strength, at least until I get my bearings"; mentions responses to requests for lists including Walter de lar Mare, the old Pearsall Smith people, and Osbert Sitwell [LHS comment: H.D. had apparently asked people for lists of poems, possibly favorite or what they consided to be the most important ones--one of these letters will eventually turn up and then we can see exactly what she asked for]; reminds Pearson that she does want his list--but not as a "critic"--phrases query to Pearson as "What would you take across Lethe if you were RATIONED as to memory, about 12 short poems or sections of lines from dramatists, Latin tag if you want or French"; says she will want more lists from people in America--she "did write at length to one 'representative'old lady for her list--individual wrote back she didnit have her books at hand--not the sort of response H.D. wanted at all: "I don't want things looked up and selected from BOOKS. Its what is there and what you want to stay there. I think this is a good attitude ; poetry in general, through the minds or hearts of the more modern writers"; thanks Pearson for all that he did for them all these years; has had a hectic Christmas--Edith Sitwell turned up with a friend of hers from Paris, a Madame Weil--they will be here another week, then she and Bryher will get a bit of a rest (socially); refers to social faux pauses on her own and Georgia Sitwell's parts; refers to the Bhaduris; has had a letter from Sarah Lawrence College [apparently asking her to lecture] and one from Marya Zaturenska, as well--but she doesn't even know if she could cope with Bryn Mawr--will use letters in being vetted by the ministries; sends the very best to all 4 Pearsons; they hope to get their affairs settled soon "and then over the hills and far away" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1946 - l947. "The Sword Went Out to Sea" written (Friedman. DLB 45:138); Part I dated May 6 [1947] {Ksnacht, Lausanne}, Part II. dated July 17 [1947] {Lausanne, Lugano} (Thorn Thicket, p. 28); begun before Christmas 1946 (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 30). 1946. THE FLOWERING OF THE ROD published in London by Oxford University Press. [See entry for July 4, l946.] 1946 January 1. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; describes Oswald Blakeston (was in films, has done quite a few books, was C.O. during the war and is still involved in hospital duties); refers to a Dobson clan gathering on January 5 (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 445-446). 1946 January 5. H.D. in London; has visit from members of the Dobson family (Silvia, Norah, Mollie and Mervyn) in the morning [in her notes Silvia Dobson comments that she saw little of

H.D. that January--"Bryher guarded her zealously, indicating that association with war time data was bad for her" but that H.D. did talk about "the dead pilots of her dreams, one called Larry" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 442-443). 1946 January 6. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson, adding to letter from Bryher; {Bryher apparently was all set to leave for America but has had to postpone journey because a lawsuit with H.M.'s government over Lady Ellerman's estate had to be postpone from January 7 to Febrary 8--now hopes to get off about February 20; they are tryiing to get Perdita off on February 3--Bryher has written to Rene Wormser asking him to keep an eye out for Perdita and gives Pearson Rene's address so that he can get in touch with Perdita; Bryher describes H.D.'s having been terrified by descriptions of what the plane trip across would be like--possibility of a sea trip for H.D. is being investigated--they are now aiming to get H.D. out the first week of March}; H.D. now comes in; refers to Pearson's having missed an appointment with a G. Cumbers because he took his cab to the wrong address--H.D. has now had a letter from Cumbers and that he says "that the firm could not see their way to doing the Professor Freud Notes I think he himself wanted to do it - and the older ones or Sir H.M. objected" [LHS wonders if if G. Cumbers was connected with Oxford University Press and later formed Geoffrey Cumberledge?]; comments: "I see that Br has outlined our plans in her usual lurid fashion"; has heard from friends near Bryn Mawr that they would put her up for a short time and run her around while she looked for a place however she saw Alys Russell the other day (78 and the oldest Bryn Mawr "girl"-entered in 1885) who said that they would probably put H.D. up at THE DEANERY; she also say Alys' brother, Logan Pearsall Smith, and they read pages of Donne aloud--"I dare say it is good practice for the seminar"; refers to lists again and comments that Edith Sitwell was slightly coy and wouldn't play (De la Mare's list included some sea-chanties) (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1946 January 29. H.D. in London; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; she is excited about his trip to Mexico; says "Yucatan is just the ONE place that I have always thought about"; thanks him for sending his list--feels that his is the best "starter" that she has had; the only one that they both had on their respective lists was "Full fathom five"; the chief repeater on the lists from others is Nashe "Adieu, farewell ..."; has received four lists so far, including her own; has had two days of the flu or grippe then a wonderful week of convalescence during which she says she consumed Lady Ellerman's Veuve Cliquot Ponsardin. 1926; discusses lists some more; has heaard that she is to go to the Deanery at Bryn Mawr; Miss Windsor hopes to get H.D. off March 1 or 2; Perdita is due to leave for America on Sunday (February 3); apparently is sending Pearson the typescript of "Writing on the Wall" as she includes about a page of comments on pencilled corrections; says Schmideberg never wholly qualified in England though he did get his doctor[ate] abroad; gives corrections for LIFE AND LETTERS printing; two sections of the typescript were deleted by Robert Herring and she thinks, on the whole, that she agrees with those cuts (crossed out on tpescript, pages 113-114 and 140-141; makes other comments re typesetting and use of quotation marks; has deleted part of a reference to E[zra Pound] on page 145 per Pearson's suggestion made while he was still in England; thinks an acknowledgement ought to be given to LIFE AND LETTERS; would like to have the opportunity toproofread it if it does appear in America; comments that "Bryher says the older people here still have some odd feling about the Professor (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1946 February 14. H.D. in London; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to a procession of Queens {Silvia Dobson thinks this was a formal peace celebration involving possibly Queen Wilhemina

and Princess Juliana, ex-Queen Frederika of Greece, Queen Elizabeth and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, the ex-Queens of Italy, Yugoslavia and Albania, and the Danish, Norweigian, and Swedish Queens}; in this letter, the last Silvia received before H.D.'s breakdown, one senses a withdrawal: "And the past years are marked and shaped somehow, by memories of various incidents, all so full of change and terror too, of those war years. Just take this little note with love to all" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 443-444, 447). 1946 Spring. In her notes Silvia Dobson comments that Dr. Blumberg told her that H.D. had meningitis; further "he described how she climbed to the roof of 49 Lowndes Square, meaning to throw herself down. Instead she tossed a fur coat Bryher had recently given her into the street"; Silvia also remembers that when Virginia Woolf committed suicide, H.D. had said "She had a perfect right to end her life, but why did she have to drown herself?" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 443-444). 1946 March 3. Robert Herring writes to Walter Schmideberg describing H.D.'s mental condition. *1946 April. H.D.'s breakdown; attended by Dr. Denis Carroll. [Note: this tidbit from cards kept by LHS while cataloging papers; source forgotten.] 1946 April 2. Arthur Pell of Liveright Publishing Corporation writes to H.D.; has been advised by Marianne Moore that he should communicate directly with H.D.; is sending a statement and a check [for $22.00] for royalities to December 31, 1945; expresses interest in issuing a new and enlarged edition of COLLECTED POEMS OF H.D.; if she is willing to send them additional material he offers a further advance of $500 against future earnings (filed in H.D. to NHP correspondence [unpubl.]). [See also entry for October 26, 1945.] 1946 April 6. H.D., Bryher, and Perdita send birthday telegram to Norman Holmes Pearson (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). H.D. Chronology: Part V 1946 May. H.D. taken to Seehof, Privat Klinik Brunner, Kusnacht (on Lake Zurich), near Zurich by Dr. Denis Carroll, arranged for by Bryher and Walter Schmideberg, who preceeded H.D. to Kusnacht. 1946 May 13. According to a letter from H.D. to Ezra Pound, this the date that H.D. left London (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter, 22/9/48], Lilly Library). 1946 June 11. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; (addressed at top to him c/o The American Embassy, 1 Grosvenor Square, London W.l England); has just received a postcard from Mexico (Oaxaca); didn't get to Bryn Mawr after all but she has brought her notes with her and is continuing her work; describes her setting: "I am in a fabulously romantic 18th Century Manor House, with garden to match; the roses are especially beautiful and most of them have been brought from Versailles ..."; asks him to write again and not to forget a "stack of cards" [?] which he promised her; says "I am staying on here, as the change is re-making me altogether"; though she was disappointed about Bryn Mawr, she was cheered on receiving THE

FLOWERING OF THE ROD; says "I am so glad that you suggested the title to me" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1946 June 22. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Silvia Dobson; says she is happy and is being taken on walks through the gardens; says she is "continuing my Writing on the Wall, this second volume, like the first, you remember, is a tribute to Sigmund Freud; H.D. goes on to say " Things seem so much better now, don't they. since the ending of the war, three months ago. I feel now, we will all be much happier and able to continue our writing in real content & security" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 448-449). 1946 July 4 thinks it is "4th" but photocopy is poor and original will have be checked?. Publication date of THE FLOWERING OF THE ROD (date from a copy of the Review List in Pearson's letters from H.D.) 1946 August 21. Bryher writes to Silvia Dobson from Kenwin: "Hilda is much better but the doctor is very anxious for her to remain out here in the sanitorium for the winter. She is having a consultation with another doctor from outside about Sept lst, and then we shall know more. With conditions as they are in England, I do hope Hilda will be sensible and stay here. She got a medical permit to remain from the British Consulate"; Bryher also tells Silvia that Lowndes Square has been let to a Mrs. Irwin, a friend of her mother's (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 454455). 1946 September 5. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; says "the grapevine and the Virginia creeper that frame my windows, remind me of all the beautiful things we share together"; says she is comfortable and delighted with everything around her; refers to an edition of Grimm which Pearson had sent to her (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1946 September 12. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Norah Dobson; describes her setting as "a beautiful 18 century manor house with a huge garden"; says she is allowed to help with the garden by repotting slips for next Spring; reminiscences about incidents at Woodhall (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 456-457). 1946 September 19 - November 1. "The Guest" section of BY AVON RIVER written (Friedman. DLB 45:138) (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 29). 1946 September 20. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; "I can never, never thank you, and my frenzy was due entirely to the separation and anxiety. I gave up writing and had the London note-books destroyed here. It is true what you said: I had gone too far with the table and all that, and what happened then, is fortunately clear fixation - dissolved not completely"; comments that no one except Perdita seemed to matter very much when she lost touch with Bryher and that "it must not happen ever, ever again" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). In another letter to Bryher, dated the same day, H.D. writes "there is so much to live for. I was never really afraid, until the `shock treatment', then I was so damned mad. I sort of got well, so perhaps that was good, too" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1946 September 21 (?). H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; "Please do not be afraid of infection, my letters are gone over, before sending out from Canton. You would not receive them, if there were any germ of any sort" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). Later the same day: H.D. apparently is expecting a visit (or rescue attempt?) from Bryher and Walter Schmindeberg "Come right up to my room. The Bear knows the way. Park the car where you can keep an eye on it. I am ready & waiting, only trying to round up the 3 rugs and some precious washing that be "too late", in return. Please stand no nonsense. Trll the Bear to bring his gun and some extra gun-men, if necessary. I had a sort of "shock-treatment." They locked me in the bed-room, with window & shutters barred. There were 5 of us, 3 hefty men and a nurse. One of the men left with the nurse, when I refused an injection. I thought they were trying to kill me. I suppose this is "dementia praecox." I begged for a few minutes. An enormous prize-fighter, weighing a ton, ordered me to lie down on the bed. I refused & tried to dodge them. I have been severely shocked: if that is what they wanted to do, they succeeded. It was worse or "better" than the most lurid film. They spotted my sheets with some sort of real or chemical "urine". I did not find this until long after mid-night, when I opened the bed. The stench was frightful--"bed-wetting" child memories, I presume! I must leave here. They did not kill me. I refused food, as I was heart-broken about you & pup, so then, I suppose they wrote me up as "paranoia" or "schiz." and for a time I lived on your coffee and cigarettes. I do not know why I am here. There is T.B. on the towels. I am also apparently mad. However, we will laugh soon & I feel, dear Fido, I can now discuss with you intelligently, the Tibetan Book of the dead (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1946 September 23. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; "You may think that I am, mad, but I am pretty certain that this apartment is wired throughout - in fact, I think all of Seehof is"; reflects on the trip over: "I thought of Lost Horizon, all the 10 hours out, for this might have been Tibet, for all I knew"; indicates that at some point she thought Bryher was dead; says "Fido - you must not come here. They may trap us both & then I would never be free. Trust no one [underlined twice] (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1946 September 24. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Dr. Denis Caroll (28 Weymouth St., London W.1) [LHS note: this letter, which is written in pencil on lined paper from a school exercise book was found among the H.D. papers and may be a draft which possibly was never sent]; thanks him for his "great help and kindness to me in London, and for bringing me to this lovely Seehof"; comments that Dr. Brunner sees her twice a day; describes her room (large and panelled); has spent time in the garden and taken little excursions with Dr. Brunner; comments "I did feel a little depressed after my illness, but I am sure there will be better conditions altogether, since the war ended three months ago"; hopes to meet him again in London (Collecott Notes, not seen by LHS). 1946 September 25. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; "I am so glad I destroyed the note books. I want now to keep on the rails; later, perhaps some authentic dreams with the Professor's letters, but even that can wait. The Writing saved my life in Corfu, in Vienna & and now here. All, inspired by darling Fido (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1946 September 26. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; has visit from Bryher and Walter Schmideberg, then begins writing letters. Writes to Bryher; "I could find a little place in Lausanne, quite apart from you all, & make new friends. All the war years, Fido, I stood aside, so that you could see

people in the flat and be along [?] with friends as well downstairs, in the little room. Now, I am no longer needed. I could weep for the mistakes I have made, but you are free now, & I spent 30 years of my life trying to give you freedom. I am not free?" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). In another letter to Bryher, dated the same day and giving the Lowndes Square address, H.D. writes: "Dr. Brunner said that he knew I had been "treated" there [London] and in Vienna. I replied that Professor Sigmund Freud received no "invalids" at that time, 1932-1934. The Professor had refused, you remember even to consider certain candidates, who wished to study with him. He said, he liked working with creative artists, & I was there soley [sic] as a student of psychology and a friend. I then went on to explain that owing to the Professor's grave illness, I continued the research work with Dr. Walter Schmideberg; with the thought of a coming war, I wished to prepare myself, in case of therapeutic emergency" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). In still another letter to Bryher, written on the same date, H.D. says with regard to Dr. Denis Carroll?PRThis name and spelling should be checked?: "Will you find out on whose authority he took over the case? He came in only 6 times in 2 months & gave the impression of being in complete control. I thought the telephone wire was cut, in my room, as messages were never given to me. Neither letters nor were personal callers admitted. I realized there was some sort of revolt ur revolution, as there was confusion at all hours, gun-shots, police dogs & whistles & the infiltration of nasuous gas-fumes. I am ready to appear as witness in this case, here or in England. My break-down was due: (1) to anxiety as to your welfare (2) bomb repercussion & possible percussion (3) famine neurosis (4) superimposition of last war illness & anxiety about birth & future of Perdita (5) infiltration of poisonous gas (6) injections to induce hysteria (7) after-effects of the same. Clearance must be made, re physical health & sanity. Charge of insanity is libelous & law in England can be very strict in these matters. Charge of insanity would affect future will or wills, securities, my public carreer [sic] as writer & lecturer & my daughter's whole inheritance, material & spiritual" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). On the same date H.D. writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; says "I want you to know that I am making every effort to get away from here"; thinks that much mail was never delivered to her; wants to get back to London, perhaps making the lecture tour after all; does not want to get stuck in Bryn Mawr; says "I was very ill for 2 months in London, cerebral menengitis that was precipitated by the fact that I came across Bryher, lying unconscious (or dead, for all I knew) in her bed, in that little bed-room. She had talked of suicide from the earliest days, when she came to see me, before Perdita was born. She tried it, Spring 1920 in Zermatt, where I was completely cut off & helpless with a stranger, a Miss Wallace, whom Bryher had asked along, to do some typing for us. I was always afraid she would make away with herself during the Blitz. Then, one terrible night she injected herself & lay moaning on the same bed. There is no doubt that we were both a little crazy but I do not yet fully know why I was brought to this place. I was here 4 or 5 months enduring shock treatment of a most pernicious nature. My papers were taken away, I was locked up without food or water & injected with - I don't know what. To-day, for the first time in 7 [?]Despite implications of Robert Herring's letter to Bear, LHS is wondering if Bryher did go to America after all and return to find H.D. in the throes of the break-down and if H.D. finding Bryher unconscious as she described was a hallucination, created to explain Bryher's absence by H.D.'s hysteric mind. Much, much work needs to be done this. Perhaps the Bryher/Pearson correspondence will help us here.? months, I saw Bryher with Walter Schmideberg. She seemed well and happy. I don't understand it at all. The flight alone, after 2 months in bed, was enough to kill one. It was my first day up, & after a long moter-run, I was [bundled?] into a curious plane by a Doctor whom I scarcely knew. It took us 10 hours to get here instead of the usual 2"; mentions all the letters which she wrote

which she thinks were never sent out then asks "Could you send P. a wire & say I am all right, that I hope to get to London, then USA, to see her. I am sure Bryher meant it all for the best. Please do not disallusion [sic] her" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1946 September 29. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; "It was funny when Bear asked me, if I remembered. For 7 months, I have been doing nothing but remember, scenes, pictures, from the first hour I met you at Bosigran, to the last, when I met you & bear here" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). Also writes to Norman Holmes Pearson in Chicago; is sorry to hear of his illness; says his thanking her for THE FLOWERING OF THE ROD should be turned the other way--that "It was your idea & your constant thoughtfulness & rare goodness that made `The Flowering' possible"; says that though she has been very happy there she is now homesick for old friends and surroundings; says "I am grieved and sorry that I was such a trouble to everyone";; refers to having heard there from Horace [Gregory] and Marya [Zaturenska] (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). On the same day Bryher wrote to H.D.: "My darling Hilda, You want to know what has happened and why you are at Kusnacht. Last February you were taken very ill and for a time I think you did not know any of us. It was then that Dr. Carroll - who is Irish - came to take charge. He wanted to send you to a sanatorium in England but the food and heating conditions had got so much worse that the Bear and I thought that the only thing to do was to try to get you to Switzerland. The Bear and I came ahead to find a place for you. We consulted with a great friend of Professor Freud in Basel [Note: Erich Heydt, in a letter to Eileen Gregory, Feb. 22, l989, has identified this friend as Dr. Philip Sarasin, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Basel] and we found See Hof through him. I saw some other places but you would not have been happy in them, for they were like hospitals. We arranged with great difficulty to have you flown out to Zurich. We could not get a whole plane so had to agree to share with a lady who was coming out with her children. You flew first to Paris, there they had to land to re-fuel and then on to Zurich. Dr. Carroll brought you out with one of the nurses. They returned to England two days later. There are no enemy countries now. And no upheavals. All your friends have been told that you had meningitis and that you are recovering - as indeed you are - in Switzerland, as you had had to be in the mountains after the last war. Until you have recovered no doctor anywhere would let you leave the sanatorium for you might become very ill without proper care. It is no question of sanity or otherwise, it is just that you like hundreds of other English people, have suffered a terrible strain through the war and lost temporarrily your memory" (Morris NOTES from Bryher's letters to H.D., not seen by LHS). H.D. also writes to Dr. Denis Carroll [LHS note: this letter, which is written in pencil on lined paper from a school exercise book was found among the H.D. papers and may be a draft which possibly was never sent]; comments that she has been happy at Kusnacht but is anxious about her personal affairs in England and would like to return; asks what the best manner of travelling is, if he could loan her a small suitcase, and whether London or a place in the country would be best for her; comments "I felt secure in London because of Dr. Schmideberg and then, he brought you to Lowndes Square. I am sorry I caused so much trouble with my break-down in every way. You knew how ill I was & how the last war had upset me and the sad and beautiful time in Vienna with the Professor. It was healing to speak of him with you"; comments that she has been promised a visit from Dr. Schmideberg but he has not arrived "and I am starred and anguished by all our past misery"; inquires after her papers; would like to return to the flat but does not want to cause him further trouble; asks if he could find someone to help her (Collecott NOTES, not seen by LHS).

1946 October 2. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; "About loss of memory, Fido darling, that is a pure myth. I remember everything, painful as it is" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). Also writes postcard to Silvia Dobson; refers to "continual censorship" but implies that is over; is looking towards moving on, near Bryher (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 458-459). 1946 October 5. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; says "Everything is different since I saw you, September 26 - I shall always remember it - September is so full of hopes and tender memories" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1946 October 6. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; "Do not worry about Voices, Fido dear. That is all over now. But there is still the common-or-garden voice of inspiration & of Love - may I keep that? I did go too far. You were quite right. Are you afraid of me, Fido? I won't live with you any more. I only need your help to get away from here, then, I will make some arrangements of my own, through Aldington or the Bryn Mawr or the Friends' Central people or my brother. I love & appreciate all you have done for me in the past - but the future is yours to do with what you will. The Bear & you can go on together. I thought the Bear liked me - I seem to be mistaken ... Has the Bear, too, some phobia about me? Dear God - why don't you explain this? I am ready to vanish quite out of your lives. Would that make you happier?" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1946 October 8. Bryher writes to H.D.; explains "When you were so very ill in London you seemed to worry whenever I was there, so Dr. Carroll said I must not be with you then or write, but all the time I was in touch with Dr. Brunner to how you were. I wrote the moment it was felt you were well enough for letters" (Morris NOTES from Bryher's letters to H.D., not seen by LHS). 1946 October 10. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; has apparently heard from Bryher that she is planning a trip to London and H.D.is obviously upset (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1946 October 15. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; "I am now "paying guest" and no longer "invalid" - official! It makes a great difference to my peace of mind"; has been working on "The Body's Guest"; asks what Bryher thinks of the title for a general resume for 100 Elizabethan poets; refers to a book with notes which are full of references to Professor Schelling whom H.D. says she had in a superficial "Teacher's course"; says she can use "The Body's Guest" for lectures; says she began the essay in January though she hadn't the temerity to deal with the whole of them; comments "I feel now, the whole (almost) of poetry following Herrick, is a reflex or reflection or simply the crest of the wave, broken, spreading & loosing its intensity"; says she hopes she is not "trespassing" on Bryher's "period" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). Also writes to Silvia Dobson; states "I thought I was forgotten by the great world. But Bryher now writes, the Doctor (Carroll) who brought me out, thought a complete break with all past associations was good for a time. I was really very angry when I found out. I thought Churchill censorship, at the time, caused loss or delay of letters, & when I did write, I was under the impression that there was still strict censorship, so I kept to impersonal descriptions of house, gardens, etc."; has been promoted from "patient" to "paying guest; will be there for a few weeks longer, as Bryher is shutting Kenwin for the Winter and they will go into a

pension in Lausanne; says "I finished a poem sequence about Stratford just before I came out" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 463-464A). 1946 October 17. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; refers to "The Body's Guest" and says "Compared to Edith it sounds very unsophisticated, but it is not meant to be too profound & subtle - just the most obvious lovely things strung together (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1946 October 18. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; refers to "The Body's Guest" and says "I want to dedicate it to Bryher. The dates will be September 19 - 1946/November l9, 1946, as a tribute to your coming to Kusnacht. See that you do get back to Zurich for the 19th (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1946 October 22. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; says that she expects to there another month; asks him to thank Susan [Pearson] for having had Perdita there in the Summer; comments on writings by the Sitwells; comments that "Fortunately I did some rough notes on Elizabethan poets, before I read her [Edith Sitwell] FANFARE [FOR ELIZABETH], otherwise, I would be afraid to touch the period. But as it is, I got the greatest comfort in reassembling the 100 poets of the period & a few, before & after- about 50 in all. It has turned out quite a formidable title resum? & I want to publish it. I call it The Body's Guest & quote Raleigh on what I hope will, some day, be the title-page ... I hope my "arrant" may not be quite thankless. In any case my work on the lecture notes gave me an incentiive, in the early part of 1946, I got so excited - I expect I over-did things, as usual. Well, it earned me this holiday at any rate" mentions that in another month she expects to be at the Alexandria Hotel, Lausanne; asks after literary people ("Wilder, Ben?t & [Robert?] Sherwood whose There shall be no night helped us so, in London (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1946 October 28. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; refers to A LITTLE TREASURY OF MODERN POETRY which Bryher has sent and asks Bryher to tell Marianne Moore "that, though steeped in 16th century, at the time of reading her four long contributions, these 20th century poems were not diminiished by comparison. It is a great test, I think"; comments that "It is so difficult to pick up the threads, once one lays MSS aside, as I have found out, to my cost"; has returned to working on tapestry: "Now, I am so entranced with the tapestry, it gives me back precious hours at Lowndes with Pup reading & you polishing! I cannot thank you enough. I work slowly & it comforts me so!" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1946 November 1. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; "I was a little shocked to find that my London note-books had not been destroyed. I gave them over all crossed out to young Dr. B I asked in the Bureau if they had been burnt & they told me, they had given them to Bear. I hope you did not read them. I was working on a subconscious fantasy & intended to change all names etc. & turn it into a dream of the Id bubbling up into the consciousness. It did not seem to time to do it, all too recent, so I decided to scrap it after making some excerps [sic]. I used some of the early notes & the Viking sequence & our trip to Greece. Dowding came in, too, as Arthur had rathered featured "work" to be done, but he always said, not in England. Well, I think Arthur was right in that. I have heard from Lord D. & he sent me his last, "Gods Magic". the same sort of thing. It is still a mystery about Z. - apparently his Z. has "helped" him but it is not, as you once

said, our sort of work. I would like to talk about this to Arthur sometime" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1946 November 2. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; "I have finished The Body's Guest. Sept. 19 - Nov. 1 are the dates I give "To Bryher." Now, I will have all the fun of verifying the dates and so on" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1945 November 9. Norman Holmes Pearson writes to H.D. that Perdita had visited the Pearsons the previous weekend for her first taste of American football--"looked absolutely brimming with health and good spirits, having just graduated from her DuBarry Success School, where for the past six weeks she has evidently been pummeled and dieted and given minute instructions on voice, carriage, and the tinting of her lips. The results are quite ravishing, and she was full of tales of lost weight, slendered waist, and diminished thighs. It has given her a lot of confidence in herself, and was pychologically a stroke of genius on her part. Now she wants to attend a secretarial school and become one of the workers of the world (although not politically of course). At any rate she is now a demon for fruit, juice, cold carrots and cabbage, and nibbles her dry biscuits with a pardonable pride in the results"; they had a few people in whom Perdia had known overseas (NHP to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1946 November 7. Bryher writes to H.D.; "You know, I am getting divorced from Kenneth, was in the middle of this when you were taken ill" (Morris NOTES from Bryher's letters to H.D. not seen by LHS). 1946 November 19. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; thanks him for his letter and "the very funny description of Perdita" who "has told me nothing of all this"; thanks Pearson for his offer to help with finding a publisher for "The Body's Guest; asks if he kows anyone on Atlantic Monthly (old [Logan] Pearsall Smith was her last link with it); comments on Bryher's difficulties in getting published and tells Pearson of BEOWULF; says "I thought L. & L. would do it but she will elbow herself out of the magazine"; she will see Bryher tomorrow, who writes that she has a car to move H.D. to Lausanne; speculates that they will stop in Berne for lunch (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1946 November 27. NHP writes to H.D.; reports that Perdita began her studies at the Moon Secretarial School the day before; says he is relieved that Pup wants to work as well has continue to write her novels (NHP to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1946 November (20 or 21) - 1947 April. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel Alexandra. 1946 November 22. H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; is visited by Bryher and Elsie Volkert (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 467). 1946 November 23. H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; spent two wonderful days in Z?rich with Bryher prior to coming to Lausanne; saw an exhibition of Austrian paintings in Z?rich--had seen many of the pictures in Vienna in l933-1934 during her work with the Professor; Bryher & Elsie Volkart & three dogs (Claudi, Taro, & Fifi) are five minutes away by trolley bus; is writing while having elevenses in a wonderful tea-room., "Cafe Croisant:; plans to go see Bryher and Elsie Volkart the next day; has "a lovely room with a balcony. It looks out

on the Scottish or Scotch Church, a pretty little steepled Swiss building"; has heard at last from Kenneth who may be coming over in the Spring (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 465-468). 1946 December 5. H.D. in Lausanne at the Alexandra Hotel; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; sends her last passport photograph ("another Doolittle relic"); says "I can not tell you how comforting it is, to be `on the shelf' at Yale"; is getting a new typewriter in the new year and will send another manuscript then; expects to get to London in the Spring and will then sort over manuscripts; is happy that Bryher will be shelved wwith her; referss to Bryher's having done "a most scholarly day-by-day resum? of certain Elizabethan periods"; refers to a Mrs. Carrick who came to see her being anxious to have the Freud notes--she is puzzled by this--says that this is the third time the notes have been asked for; describes her surroundings--"It is lovely, so old yet so fresh & stimulating, a romantic European University town left, an oasis, in the midst of desolation"; says she would like a flat there but she still has another year to go on her lease at Lowndes Square; Bryher is only a half hour walk from the hotel "& I see her almost every day"; says there are good fiilms & music & libraries nearby; thanks him for his news of Perdita and for having helped her get to the Moon Secretarial School; refers to the plate which Pearson has sent her saying that if she had not already had a bookplate, that one should have been it--and comments "I never felt quite `at home' with the two I had"; the plate was by an eighteenth century Doolittle and was intended to illustrate the convexity of the earth and its effect on vision--H.D. comments "I feel very important with such distinguished relatives. I am sure you must be a longlost cousin. Do look yourself up, carefully!" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1946 December 7. H.D. in Lausanne at the Alexandra Hotel; writes two postcards to Susan and Norman Holmes Pearson; comments that she and Bryher are quite gay with Nativity plays and concerts (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1946 December 8. NHP writes to H.D.; gives H.D. a further description of the Doolittle engraving which he had sent her in his previous letter--quote: ?IP5,5?Doolittle, Amos. "Plate to Shew the Figure of the Earth" Doolittle sc. N.H. (New Haven). (Boston, 1790). Rare. From the First American Geography, Second Edition (not in First). Human figures sit at the Poles, one of whom is observing the effect of the earth on the visibility of three Ships, located respectively in the Artic, opposite Scandinavia, and at the equator (this one has passed beyond his vision). A beautiful anachronism,, conveying its idea exceedingly well, by means of a degree of exaggeration which has no part of text-book illustrations for, say, a hundred years. The figures are 1000 miles tall"; Pearson also tells H.D. that Pantheon Press has turned down the Freud book because of its prior circulation in LIFE AND LETTERS; thinks he will try Vangard next; says he is upset at the Oxford Universuty Press as they have issued the American edition of THE FLOWERING OF THE ROD in the the same paper boards as the English edition, instead of having them properly bound as were the other two volumes, and are charging the high price of $2.00 (NHP to H.D. [unpubl. letter]). 1946 December 14. H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; has visits to Montreux once or twice a week; is reading French and German again (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 469-470). 1946 December 20. H.D. in Lausanne at the Alexandra Hotel; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; seems to be thanking Pearson for a book on folk art which has arrived that morning (apparently a

book on Pennsylvania, the first of a series of folk art designs search from the WPA project); sounds as if Bryher will shortly leave for New York as H.D. is urging Pearson to see Bryher in New York; comments that "Bryher says the one person in USA, on whose opinion she depends, is one N.P."; comments on the Freud volume--"I don't really care if the book does not appear. The record will be safe on my shelf at Yale"; Bryher has begun to talk of finishing her preNorman romance; comments that the last time she saw Thornton Wilder was with Stein, Toklas, and Basket at Kenwin; comments that she meets Bryher "almost every day in a fabulous, wooden old `Pennsylvania' bakery for chocolate & an inch of whipped cream & ambrosia croisants" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1946 December 21. H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; is writing from the "Cafe Croisant"; thanks Silvia for gift of King Penguins, including a "lily-book"; is going to have a goose at Pully on the 25th; Norman Douglas is now in Capri (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 461, 471-473). 1947 - 1948 Summer. "White Rose and the Red" written. (Friedman. DLB 45:139) (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 50a). 1947 January 2. H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; may have been reading Hesse: H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; 'I do think that the stars are right, when they say Virgo folk have the very best, after 50. I count out the 10 years, pre-war, war & just after, as that was a cosmic calamity. You will get tired of my harping on H.H. but I am able to loose [sic] myself in the Dichter and Marchen & he is quite un-spoiled by association with the 20ies & 30ies. I prefer the 40s, in spite of all our terrible trials, & I am sure now we are being rewarded" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1947 January 13. H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; comments that she has heard from May Sarton that she had arranged an H.D. reading at Harvard--feels flattered and that she would like to do it; feels envious at the bradcasts that Edith Sitwell has been making; has heard from Bryher who is in America and hopes that Pearson will get to see her; comments on the Bryn Mawr [or Briarcliff?] article on William Carlos Williams-remembers his mother so well and recalls having played a duet with her (possibly Mozart) once when she had gone with Ezra to the Williams home (Williams apparently refers to H.D. in the article)--also recalls Williams having performed the role of Polonius in a Mask and Wig production of HAMLET (dressed in mixed purples and wore a beard)--also recalls having spent "a short time" at a party at Point Pleasaant with the Lambertons [this probably refers to the time in mid-June 1906 when H.D. almost drownwed]; has heard from Viola Jordan that Dorothy Pound is near and that the other child [Mary de Rachewiltz] was being married to a RussianItalian; thanks Pearson for his suggestion re the trilogy and asks if he will christen it as he did THE FLOWERING OF THE ROD--cooments that on the whole she is pleased with the three especially the last; has been "boiling down some old notes; Bryher writes that Perdita may be coming baback on a "flip" with--H.D. objects to the use of the word "flip"; recalls Francis Wolle and his toy theatre [as later described by Wolle in A MORAVIAN HERITAGE]; comments that she must get "The Guest" copied for Pearson (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1947 January 13. H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; Robert Herring has been in Lausanne on the way to Zermatt; Bryher has gone to New York, via Azores

and Canada--is due back with Perdita in February (booked to leave January 27)--Perdita only staying a short time; is reading Hermann Hesse; goes up in the hills, 1/2 hour outside Lausanne, to walk at Chalet-en-Gahot [this may not be spelled right, difficult to make out] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 477-479). 1947 January 19. H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; "I can not tell you what the sun was like, with black, but black silouette [sic] shadows - it is so long since I have seen sun and shadow like that. The shadows are like black-crystal too" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1947 January 17. Bryher writes to H.D.: "They have fixed my divorce for the 20th Feb. and am booked to Geneva the 21st" (Morris notes, letter not seen by LHS). 1947 February 13. H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; Perdita expects to get to Lausanne on the 19th; wanders around an estate just above the hotel, called Mon Repos (where Voltaire and other celebrities stayed)--there are aviaries and an orangery; is reading M. V. Hughes LONDON FAMILY (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 480-483). 1947 February 20. Bryher divorces Kenneth Macpherson (data deduced from Bryher's letter of January l7, 1947; to be verified). 1947 February 29. H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; has the loan of a typewriter; has read "a most interesting ps-a book, called Dark Dominion, by Marianne Hauser, published Random House, N.Y. ... about a Swiss girl who marries her analyst with dire results, but so well told, one feels one is having analysis oneself, all the time"; talks of future plans to go to the Tessin, to Lugana [sic] which is right on the edge of Italy (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 485-486). Writes to Viola Jordan; has received peanuts and communications from Viola; refers to finances of Marianne Moorend her mother; tells Viola that a friend {Bryher?} had settled money on them and that she herself unsuccessfully tried to help them before the War; comments "there is absolutely nothing we can do this end. It is no good forcing money on them, if they won't spend it. We have had distressing accounts of the situation from various people"; says "tell the person who asked you you write me, that an ADEQUATE allowance was given over, years ago. It is of course, possible that they just took the money for the sake of avoiding argument and but it in the bank, and have never touched it ..." [LHS note--is it possible that Pound asked Viola to write--this letter is one of the ones that Viola sent on to Pound]; says "I hear she won't eat because her mother is on a strict diet and she will eat only what her mother is allowed to have- ..." (H.D. to V.J., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). 1947 March 18. H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to plans to travel about the Tessin; hopes to leave about April 9 and spend one night in Lucerne; Perdita still in Lausanne (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 487-489). 1947 April - 1947 December(?). H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva. 1947 April. Bryher moves back to Kenwin from Chemin des Plateires, Pully, Vaud (Morris NOTES).

1947 April. Parts of BY AVON RIVER published in LIFE AND LETTERS TO-DAY. 1947 April. Kenneth Macpherson joins Norman Douglas and lives with him on Capri (Macpherson. OMMES EODEM COGIMUR : SOME NOTES WRITTEN FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF NORMAN DOUGLAS ...); by August they had moved into the Villa Tuoro, situated on Tuoro or Telegrafo hill, overlooking the Certosa (Holloway, NORMAN DOUGLAS, p. 475). 1947 April 27. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; is writing from Saipa Paticceria; describes the Hotel Minerva as being on a slope above the town; ; is exploring the towns parched on the slopes of Monte Br? and San Salvatore; has been to Grandia the previous day; Bryher is back at Kenwin and Mrs. Ash is visiting there; H.D. rides the post buses which deliver the mail and take passengers along toout of the way villages (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 492-495). Also writes to Bryher; [Asks Bryher for papers]" There are three rather shabby notebooks, the first pink, the others, blue. I started "notes" in Ch. Campden and Strat., 1945. I think I call it "Unfinished Notes," if I put the three in big envelope together. It is a re-incarnation story and starts, "My name was Elizabeth Dyer . . . " I may have labelled it, "The White Stag" but that? is not the final name. I wish I could have these, as I want to type for Miss W.; will you register . . . and put your return address, as I could never re-assemble this "Dyer" story again. I have been at work getting the oher Elizabethan literary notes, too, in order" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1947 April 29. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher; "Thank you for the three Stratford note-books" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1947 May 17. H.D. writes to Silvia Dobson; has just been to Morcate (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 496-497). 1947 May 27. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher; [Asks for the typescript of SYNTHESIS OF A DREAM] "I want to make some corrections" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1947 May 29. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; plans to go to Montreux mid-July; hasn't attempted any more excursions because of Easter holiday crowds (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 498-499). 1947 June 10. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher; [Has seen Cocteau's La Belle et Le Bete] "It is directed by Cocteau and I must say, having held out against C., for so many years, I am completely wonn over. Do try to see it - wonderful photography, on the same high level as paradise and Pastral. The Beast is a wonderful Lion, done up in Eizabethan king-clothes, with great ruffs and so on. The girl is so charming. There is wonderful fantasy dream effect of the enchanted castle and at the same time, it is entirely ps-a in content" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). Writes to Viola Jordan; comments on careless handling of May Sinclair legacy--"Miss S. left E. and self and Aldington each ?50 - fifty pounds - and I heard as well, a choice of 50 books. The lawyers finally wrote me, sent me long list of books to choose from. I selected about 30, mostly presentation copies given Miss S. by people I know ..." [lists other titles]; doesn't know if Pound has been notified; refers to birth of Walter De Rachewiltz;

describes her setting in Lugano at length; refers to the Cocteau film (H.D. to V.J., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). 1947 June 16. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher; mentions that she is thinking of translating Hesse and that Richard Aldington thinks he can place the translations (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1947 June 19. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher; "THANK YOU for the lovely butterfly book. Not only is it an inspiration and a joy, but I will have all those heavenly WORDS to con over, to purr over, complete with picture-book pictures. I do thank you, Fido. Who but you would have thought of such a thing?" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1947 June 20. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher; "will you ask old Bear [Walter Schmideberg] to send me the VERY ROUGHEST jotting of the Butterfly translation - or O, Fido, if ONLY YOU WOULD DO IT. Please get it for me, as I feel I must make a little effort to present myself as the most distantly yet possible-possible transcriber of his [Hesse's] verses" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1947 June 30. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher; has received a French butterfly book from Bryher; "I mean the French does fit the creatures, there is no doubt about it, better than the German- I found the painted-lady, she is as I imagined the thistle-butterfly of the German and my, my- that isn't enough, the French call her BELLE DAME- funny isn't it-and such wonderful gem and jewel names, at least, the very words are. How odd, when French comes back with a rush like that- I do, do thank you Fido" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1947 July. Parts of BY AVON RIVER published in LIFE AND LETTERS TO-DAY. 1947 July 1. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher; "I am so busy on this new work ["The Sword went out to Sea"]. I can not tell you how funny it is, a sort of War and Peace cum The Last Days of Pompeii. Please do not mention save to the elite, the most advanced eliteas I am sort of superstituous of it. ?It will be one huge fat Vic. vol., or two or three short or longshort "novels" - I have not sent on Cuth. [Aldington] letters, as I sent him the first vol. or section, just to get an outside opinion. Much to my surprise and alarm, he said he had seen nothing like it, it was so good but - with all?proper humility - I should re-work, add here and there and make a BEST SELLER of it. I am on the second vol. now. I call them WINTERSLEEP and SUMMERDREAM- sleep and dream and so-called "reality" values contrasted. I did not want to worry you with the war part- but later, when Cuth. sends back the first MSS., I will hope that you can find time to read it. It is also re-incarnation- but on a rather mosaic or Bulwer L. Pompeii style, scenes with the players at Delphi- worked up from my Stratford experience. My dear- that too, to thank you for. This is to explain why I have not been writing more fully, lately. I just sit down and automatic-write. I feel I have a gattling-gun in my hands- whatever a gattling-gun is. It is a fight to the finish of war and peace!" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1947 July 11. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher; "I don't want any note-books now, but later, I want to sort over the old ps-a lot, and re-work some of the notes. I am glad they did not set the Professor notes up in book-form, for later, I have an idea of enlarging the first batch, and calling the whole TO-MORROW- don't you think it a good title, for a sort of autobiography- stole in in reverse, from Hitches- we don't want the hyphen, just TOMORROW. Instead of going back into time, time has got to catch up to us and especially to the professor- I am so delighted with this, Vol II, could be TOMORROW AND TOMORROW and Vol III, I leave you to guess. This idea fills me with glee" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1947 July 15. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher; is thinking of July 17th; "It is really a sort of Capri-Crete-Corfu here. Madame asked again last night about you. She would be bitterly disappointed not to see you. I have talked so much about "my cousin" and the Villa" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1947 July 17. "The Sword Went Out to Sea" finished (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 50a). 1947 July 29. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher on a postcard with picture of path above Lugano; I can never begin to thank you, dear Fido, for showing me the "path" here & for all the Greek & Italian journeys that this recalls. I live for the moment that I shall greet you at the station again" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1947 August 5. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; comments that "Sir Cuthbert [Aldington] sent me copy of B.B.C. broadcast he did last spring, Imagists but mostly `Aitch Day'" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1947 August 7. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; "The Story of the Glittering Plain" by William Morris . . . has been waiting for your birthday at Life and Letters office, since July 22 ... in any case, the story should be kept in the family, as the hero of Glittering Plain is called Hallblithe. I did not give you Richard's letters to read as much of them were about Morris and this fact that he himself gave me, after reading my MSS Synthesis of a Dream. I told you it was about the war-years in London. It all centered round the table and the "messages" and the story of the Viking ship that Arthur gave me. Richard to my surprise, seemed even more intrigued than I was about the Morris table and so on, and wrote me at once asking if I knew that the hero of glittering Plain was not Hal Brith but Hallblithe? It could hardly have been an accident that- as Arthur said the name, and you accepted it- then Arthur said, "yes- but they pronounce it differently." Fortunately, I wrote all that in my Synthesis, before knowing about Hallblithe. I wanted you to have the book there where we did the work and where the table still is - I hope ... Don't worry, but if poss., I would like the satisfaction of having the pile of ps-a notebooks to go over. Please do not, if possible, let anyone else open. There are, as I wrote, some early pure word-reaction and long dream sequences that better be private ... This can hardly be a birthday letter - yet it is. I won't repeat what I feel about all you have done- well ... please, Fido, accept from your old Kat eternal devotion. Like Lord Brooke, Fulke Greville as is, I would have engraved on my tombstone this: `The Friend of Bryher'" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1947 August l0. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; I would like the ps-a note-books, simply, I do not like them lying around and even put away. I worked up much of them in L. and L. Freud. But if you can get them easily, will you send or bring, so that I can sort out parts I want to re-work and so that I can scrap the rest. Much of it is "private", sort of early word reaction stuff and so on, and I don't want "outside" to see it" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1947 September 10. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; Perdita and Bryher are there celebrating the birthdays; the three of them plan to go up the hills to Carona (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 510). 1947 September 17. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; "I had Joan Grant travel-book from Silvia- I will keep it for you to read here" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1947 September 18. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; "The Joan Grant "Vague Vacation" is too wonderful and I take it to lunch. I suppose the reviewers had a sort of pompous Higher Arcana idea of the Winged Ph., this is full of the funniest and most intimate details of their various little hotels in a trip in summer 1946" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1947 September 19. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 511). 1947 September 27. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; "It is sheer HEAVEN now, with mountains like lumps of clouded jade, clear jade, amber and dull red; the cloud-banks rolled up like a curtain and it is clearer and more majical than ever" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1947 Fall. "Madrigal" (BID ME TO LIVE) completed (Thorn Thicket, p. 28). 1947 October 7. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Viola Jordan; drewsribes recent Fiesta della Vendemmia amd comments that a cicle of pipers reminded her of some of the instruments that Dolmetch used to have in London; comments "I heard Dolmetch so long ago, before War I; he had three children in 17 c constumes [sic], playing pipes as I remember and one small child at one of his famous harpsicords"; has used the opportunity to send old clothes to Italy via the Red Cross as an excuse to get new ones--"they have such lovely things here and it was good to get rid of the war associations"; has been re-reading William Morris; comments: "I was flattered by a `stinging' criticism of my last book of poems. It said that H.D. was `writing down' to William Morris"; recalls "I knew people in the very early days who had known Morris and I had some curtains given me that Violet Hunt had embroiidered from an original design, I was told, that William Morris had done for her personally. I also had given me some of her old tapestry wool bit it made me rather sad to work with it. I did get a great joy out of tapestry work during those terrible waiting hours in the Blitz"; refers to the memories that October holds for her--the Hallowe'ne [sic] parties that the Snively's used to give; mentions that Margaret still lives on a Norfolk farm, thaat Muriel married a man in Honolulu or New Zealand, that de Forest is in the church in New England some~where--he had a tragic marriage (wife was eith blown off or

slipped off a cliff at night and drowned), and Ethelwyn (the middle one) married a clergyman (H.D. to V.J., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). 1947 October 14. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; gives new address as of Oct. 25 as Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; has read Joan Grant's VAGUE VACATION; has been to a vintage or vendemmia fair twice (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 512-513). 1947 November 18. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher, who is apparently in London; "This is just to welcome you to the little flat where so much happened, and which gave me my Dream or now, as per enclosed - do you not think Synthesis of a Dream might not be better as sub-title? I enclose the list of contents and I think THE SWORD WENT OUT TO SEA gives the clue and the title to Hallblithe" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1947 December(?) - 1948 July(before 11?). H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix. 1947 December 25. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks Silvia for ELYSIUM (a book by Joan Grant); Bryher is in the West Indies; has THE PAVILION by Pearl Buck (given to her by Elizabeth Ashby (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 514, 517-518). 1948. "Advent" written; later published in the 1974 edition of TRIBUTE TO FREUD (Friedman. DLB 45:134). 1948 February 3. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; discusses astrological occurences (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 519, 523-525). 1948 February 13. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; "I am reading now the new PSYCHE mags I got with this week flower-money. They do manage, in a new astonishing way, to combine or harmonize Ps-A, hard-boiled ordinary science, ultra-violet (physical and spiritual) with va.ious tit-bits [sic] of "spiritual" experience, the traditional ouija and so on" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). *1948 March 19 H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; (?). H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; asks Silvia Dobson to do a star plan (or star reading) for an unidentified individual: "I am stuck for some material for a character I know part model for a person in a MSS that I am at work on. The original gent was born April 24, 1882 - just 3 1/2 years before myself. The place, I imagine in or around London; also refers to her writing: "I have no hope really of publishing and don't know that I am in a hurry to do this last and the one I am now on, which is London 1830-1860, during and after Crimean War" [LHS note: Silvia Dobson is not sure she has this letter is the right place--it is headed Tuesday, March 10--and the perpetual calendar says that in 1948 March 10 was a Wednesday--she could be referring to "The Sword went out to Sea' and the "White Rose and the Red"; could the "gent" be Lord Dowding? In 1947 March 10 was a Monday, but H.D. was at the Hotel Alexandria, Lausanne] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 520, 526).

1948 April 17. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; "I have a very nice Neuchatel Jean Capart little folder on "Les Hieroglyphes." I had great fun in the book-shop. Later, I would be happy to have a glimpse of the little Budge volume of glyphs; it is of course the classic and so easily spaced, but this is a very charming French story of discouvery [sic] and inspiration. I have been thinking of Joan Grant, too, and will be glad now for that story ... I am not taking them [the glyphs] too seriously, they simply come in with our work, and I was reading in the volumes during the classic table-years'" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1948 April 20. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; "Will Sylvia translate Adrienne's article for L. and L. or MUST I? I started a little resume of it as an article under Delia Alton (to be her first appearance)"; refers to the writing of "White Rose and the Red": has found a Swedenborgian shop and bought an edition of Heaven and Hell] "I do not think I will be tempted but I felt that if I approached in the right manner, "guidance" could be found from some of them or some related "book-shop." All this amused me so much. But have no fear - I am too deep "communicating" with the Pre-Raffs at the moment, to have time for the other. Do not be shocked at my purchase, I have enough left for some pansies for this week, but E.P. gave me this book when I was 19 and I never saw it since- it is always a help to get back a `lost book'" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1948 April 22. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks her for the star reading; expresses interest in seeing Silvia again, possibly in Lugano; hopes to leave on April 29 for the Hotel Minerva in Lugano [LHS Note: she didn't make it]; French edition of Bryher's BEOWULF published in Paris on April 18--apparently Bryher has been in Paris for a reception; Adrienne Monnier did a remarkable article on Bryher in the March MERCURE DE FRANCE; tells Silvia that "Fido did the vol. [Beowulf] during the early Blitz at Lowndes Square (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 527). 1948 May(?) - 1948 October 21. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva. 1948 May 3. H.D. at ?; writes to Bryher; refers to having had a letter from Joan Grant (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1948 May 11. H.D. at ?; writes to Bryher; "I am deep in work at Italian, of all things; I had the paper-backed Dante-set that must really show you, some of the text in French and the D. G. Rosetti [sic] Vita, so it is a giro of mixed langauges, and all this helps, as I have also a beautiful print Basel edition of Vita, with German trans. on opposite page. I felt I should know something of Dante as it comes into the Rossetti saga- a funny way to get to Dante, but it is most stimulating, seen as through their eyes and 100 years ago in London ... The book should last me some time, if I fill up the gaps as I go along; I mean, I don't want to rush it through; it is a comfort like that great tapesty pannel [sic] that I have with me and look at, though I have done no stitching. This Rossetti "true tale" should not be hurried. Anyhow, I have done no "writing" since here, just working with great joy at my languages" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1948 May 13. H.D. at ?; writes to Bryher; comments "I have such a lot of reading to do before I go on with the Red Rose" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 May 14. H.D. at ?; writes to Bryher; "Please do not worry over RED ROSE; it is good however that you find it authentic, as you are infallable [sic] on that kind of criticism. I as as I wrote you, working over Dante; I simply feel I must have a superficial FE?FEEL of him before getting on too far. I think it most fascinating that old Rossetti pere, was working on a "system", but I don't drag that in much ... It is funny, I don't really care about publishers; even Jean U. can't cope with the commercialism. But I like to feel the Opus-es are in order"; refers to Byher's success with BEOWULF: "I am really more and more delighted with Beowulf!" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1948 May 17. Bryher in London (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1948 May 29. H.D. at ?; writes to Bryher; "I am busy on the Dante VITA. That is my research and I have done about one fifth already, in the Italian. I have the German beside it, and that helps me with the German too. I can't go on with my own RED ROSE, til I see further" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1948 May 21 [LHS note: this letter may be incorrectly dated]. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; discloses that she always uses two sheets of paper in the typewriter when typing; a Z?rich firm has expressed interest in doing a book of H.D. with German parallel-pages (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 528).?PRDee to check this letter for LHS.? 1948 May 22. H.D. at ?; writes to Bryher; "I am really so happy, over-doing Dante a bit, but am inspired here" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1948 May 26. H.D. at ?; writes to Bryher; "you have saved my life or my RED ROSE book again, by sending me the Jean Burton "Wizard". It has some of my own "characters" and though I do not want to bring in this wizard in particular, there was apparently a lot of it going on. I have already an "invented" one in RED ROSE. I don't know if you have ordered yourself a copy. If not, I would like to order you one? Let me know at once. The book is so charming and witty and balanced,?it takes away that slight repugnance one had in reading the London Library small-print Victorian-type tomes. This is marvelous, Fido- and it helps too, in other ways. She puts Swedenbourg [sic] so clearly too, and his influence there in New England at the time on Emerson and others ... The second book [of Sword?] really deals in part with the same theme, and they are historically placed and in TIME and poetic and scientific, and they can wait" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1948 May 30. H.D. at ?; writes to Bryher; "I have ordered the WIZARD for you ... She does say, yes, those levitations and other phenom. were scientifically tested and so on, but the conclusion seems to be that they get boring as repeated in his case, hundreds of times, and that they "lead nowhere" spiritually, in the end, sensational to that extent. Mrs. Browning writes reams to her sister Henrietta, but H. must not mention in return, Browning almost bust a blood-vessel when he met Home once in his own dining-room. Dickens loathed him. Ruskin after years and years of anti-psychic activity, fell completely ... Also Napoleon III. You will, I hope, wallow. It does clear up that point however, as to the reality or actuality of the maanifestations"; there were no wires or accomplaces [sic], it did happen, so much we know how. It was the "manifestations" that were so

astonishing; actually, it appears his "messages" were very vague, for the most part, and undistinguished" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1948 June 3. H.D. at ?; writes to Bryher; comments "I am back now with my conversation piece; I have got Hal and Lizzie to Hampton Court" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1948 June 20. H.D. at ?; writes to Bryher; comments that she suffering from "the blitz head" because of so much rain and so many violent thunder storms (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1948 July 4. Perdita Macpherson watches the sun rise in Colorado, possibly on Pikes Peak (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter], July 17, 1948). 1948 July 11. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; refers to visiting her Melissa book-shop; refers to fierce storms which she has been experiencing in Lugano; refers to an issue of the SEWANEE REVIEW with a review by H.H. Watts ("I am in most important company")?PRLHS has tried to figure out unsuccessfully in Bryer what H.D. is referring to here; will have to check the SEWANEE REVIEW; perhaps Michael Boughn knows?; discusses her need to plunge into Dante ("another star-whirlpool")--linked with "Pre-Raff notes and romance" and Rossetti's translations; comments that Dante's Italian is not very difficult--that it is close to Latin; has been using a three volume paperback illustrated edition; refers to the help that Pearson gave them, especially Perdita who has been out west to visit Francis and Muriel Wolle; Bryher has been there for a few weeks and leaves the next Sunday but will be back in September; asks Pearson to tell Thornton Wilder how much she likes THE IDES OF MARCH; comments that POETRY has written asking her to write some sort of autobiographical article on poets she has known--she has not responded--too immersed in her romances; is glad to be in Lugano; Robert Herring has also been in Lugana--he leaves tomorrow; she and Bryher have been exploring the surrounding area (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1948 July l7. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; celebrates with Bryher, the anniversay of their meeting thirty years ago (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 533). Receives telegram from Norman Holmes Pearson announcing the acceptance for publication of BY AVON RIVER. Sends telegram to Norman Holmes Pearson; is delighted that Macmillan wants to publish BY AVON RIVER and gives her approval subject to seeing proofs (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). Also writes letter to Pearson; referring to proofreading of BY AVON RIVER, comments that Robert Herring has already found a few errors which she notes later in letter; comments that it was Pearson's idea that "The Guest" and "Good Frend" be brought together; is rather shattered as the news of the acceptance of BY AVON RIVER has reached on the thirtieth anniversary of the day on which she met Bryher;; comments that Bryher is there, returns to Vaud the next day, but will return to Lugano in September; comments that Perdita has been in Colorado but that she hopes that she will join them in Lugano in September; comments on the writing of BY AVON RIVER: "it was soda-biscuit technique, I mean I just added a pinch and a pinck [sic] of that like the old mammy with the corn-pone. I would have got heavy, the cake would have tasted dough if I had gone right, left, centre looking out dates and my own discrepencies would have weighed heavy in the hand. As it is, I do find on re-reading that this is a delightful festive-cake, light as angel-cake and full of plums at the same time. Do you not think my list at the end, is astonishing ? It's true, I

merely mentioned half of them, but I feel very pround of my plums. It goes back and forth too; in a neat way without cheating, it comes via Herrick almost to I8c and goes back, via Henry VIII, Henry VII almost another I00 years. Then back to the beginning, with Sh. Cymbeline and so on" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1948 July 18. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; sends him the text which she intends to appear as the dedication to the "Good Frend" part of BY AVON RIVER; asks him to have someone check the spelling in the quotation; lists errors in "The Guest"; is concerned that Pearson might not have the whole of "Good Frend" and lists the three sections; reminds him that the two parts of BY AVON RIVER are to have separate dedications; refers to a Spanish anthology (Spanish and English) which she has received (from Jos? Jan?s of Barcelona) and asks if Pearson had anything to do with it--she has given it to Bryher for the 17th; and has just received and glanced at an Oscar William's TREASURY; refers to a magazine with a startling MYTH which Pearson has sent (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1948 July l9. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; "I have a clue now, re T.S.E.; I am very interested in following it up. You once said, you thought he had been through some sort of "initiation" and didn't get right through- he has of course, references to various things, but now I seem to see in the Anthology poems in the new book, quite a new set of values. I think his "Waste Land" was messages, perhaps table, some circle or "circles", and he maybe, overdid the "work", got ill; wasn't he at Lausanne after last war or in mid-twenties? I think he wrote W.L.there, or part of it. I know he has the note-references and so on, but I thought it purely intellectual and poss. destructive- but I think now, he was putting down, dreams, messages, circle experience- that prob. proved blind alley. He was so very ODD at one time- this psychologically explains much. If you have any extra T.S.E., later I would like to pick over some of it. I am very pleased to get the answer or part-answer" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1948 July 20. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Viola Jordan; discusses Eliot; says "I never seemed to be able to give my undivided attention to my own contempories between wars"; comments that Bryher has just left a few weeks--she came to celebrate their 30th anniversary; refers to two friends from St. Moritz who went to Venice; refers to an anthology from Barcelona edited by Jos? Jan?s Mutaner with whom she has corresponded; also comments on A LITTLE TREASURY OF AMERICAN POETRY edited by Oscar Williams; is trying to get back into Dante and refers to seeing a copy of Vita Nouva with Rossetti's Dante's Dream as a frontispiece at the Skidmores in Long Island (they were friends of Ezra and had a boat); comments "Louise S. dropped out of my life years ago, but it was from her (I was 16, I think) I first heard that "HE WRITES POETRY". We discussed this "he" who was at the time her friedmine in a general way- but she had had revelationin their drawing-room set abot with chunks of semi-precious stone on marble-tables in N. Philadelphia. It all comes back! Mrs. Skid. was a C.S. and rather fussy, the old fellow was a prof. of sorts, it was his boat that E. went out in, Port Jefferson-" (H.D. to V.J., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). 1948 July 31. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; thanks him for his long letter "and the feeling of having you round again"; confirms that the title is to be, as Pearson first suggested, BY AVON RIVER; mentions changes to "The Guest"; says she is trying write Horace Gregory to thank him for his efforts; comments that she is now at work on

"my very lovely book, White Rose and the Red"; tells Pearson that Marya [Zaturenska] "wrote asked Br if I could tell her the story of William Morris and Jane Morris, re Rosseti after the death of Elizabeth Siddall Rossetti. I could not write, as I told Br to explain, as all that is in my story, or my story leads up to it; I will prob. end with the death of Elizabeth Rossetti"; refers to book which Pearson has sent her [about the Pre-Raphaelites?]; comments that she is "writing it under a real nom de plume, I mean, one that fits me"; the nom de plume started as she wrote a book about the experiences of the last war which was "too near and too intimate for H.D.," "The Sword Went out to Sea (Synthesis of a Dream)"; tells Pearson that he is represented as Howard Wilton Dean and that Susan, who "sends us pudding powders," is Mary Ann Dean; comments that Bryher says that the main character might get mad [if the book were to be published]--"It can wait"; comments that here old London friends never referred to the Morris-Gabriel tangle, perhaps out of loyalty; asks Pearson to sign any papers for her with respect to BY AVON RIVER; explains that Harold Doolittle has a power of attorney for her and supplies Pearson with his address; then says "O - do not apologize for thoes POETS. My only way to write, to continue writing, is to keep right out of any spot-light" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1948 August 5. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; while discussing the publishing of BY AVON RIVER comments "But as I said of SYNTHESIS and as I now say of the ROSE book, I have satisfied myself, and after nearly a life-time of "writing", that is, I suppose, something" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). Writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; states that she wants any earnings kept in the USA, either by Harold Doolittle or by Pearson, himself; comments that Harold has had the power of attorney since before the war which Bryher fixed up from Switzerland before there was open war-talk; refers to trouble with Boni and copyrights that Marianna [sic] Moore had charge of; tells him that the nom de plume is Delia Alton and comments that one reader who had wanted her to send the first part of the SWORD to Viking had said it would need a "nom de guerre"; gives approval for giving Macmillan the world rights to BY AVON RIVER and for getting someone to check the quotations; explains that the galleys of "Good Frend" were set up by Robert Herring as a present for her--she thinks there were just two copies; queries whether or not they should acknowledge LIFE & LETTERS in the book (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1948 August 14. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes [air-letter, single spaced] to Norman Holmes Pearson; is having Robert Herring send him the copy of the manuscript of "The Sword went out to Sea" which is housed in the LIFE AND LETTERS offices; thanks him for the list of the Morris manuscripts--fears that she bit off a pretty large idea and that if she asks for any of the manuscripts she will allow herself to become intimidated and won't have the nerve to finish the "rose" book; comments on the approaching birthdays, the future arrival of Perdita, possibly Faith Mackenzie (who is due at Gandria, a little village near Lugano), and Robert Herring may be there for a week; is in favor of publication of the "Rose" as soon as it is ready provided the authorship is given as by Delia Alton; asks Pearson if it would be good if he had a "power of attorney" in addition to that which Harold Doolittle has--just for MSS and anthology rights--has written to Harold and discussed the matter with Bryher; refers to Howard Wilton Dean and "his imposing portfolio"; oh yes, she does want a photograph of the miniature [of William Morris]; plans to stay in Lugano through most of October, depending on the weather; then will go back to her room at La Paix [in Lausanne]. Writes another letter [surface mail, double spaced] to NHP; encloses two photographs including the passport picture [1946] represents her closes to the time AVON was written; doesn't know if Macmillans's will want to use a photograph but she hopes

they will; mentions that her typist whom she likes so much, MIss Woolford, is getting rather old and was bombed--her eyes went weak--was Havelock Ellis's typist; had sent a copy of Book I to Rene Wormser to hold--"I was at first rather keen to ventilate the MSS" but then got involved in the "Rose" and Bryher thought Howell [Dowding] might kick up a row; discusses the "Sword" and her feelings about it; comments on Howell's [Dowding] behavior towards her; comments that Bryher liked Book II; "Herring seemed impressed but told Br confidentially, that Dowding (Howell) was known to be rather pernickety just now, about write-ups, about the Battle of Britain"; comments that she did write Dowding a letter later, from Kusnacht and that had a friendly response; comments that she did get in Dowding's bad graces before she became ill and explains that Herring had wanted to print something of Dowding's in LIFE AND LETTERS and, after H.D. had written to him of this, Dowding had offered a section of his first book (a book which the British Government had asked him politely but firmly to withdraw just before it was about to be published)--just about about that time Dowding had two other books (badly printed) published by a third-rate publisher, which H.D. describes as being "perfectly pedestrian and not very original"--as a result Herring (and Bryher) decided that he (they) did not want to publish anything by Dowding in the magazine--therefore H.D. was placed in the position of having to write to Dowding and say that Herring had already filled up the issues for the next six months; comments that she had sent Dowding the synopsis of of the chapters of the "Sword"; the manuscript was sent to Rene Wormser in New York because H.D. wanted Wormser to look it over from a legal point of view; comments that Aldington had wanted H.D. to send the manuscript to Viking but H.D. had not done so; comments "He [Aldington] by the way, I suppose, was rather relieved that John Geoffrey Alton turned out to be `in a small way, a hero'"; comments that she thinks Dowding is sincere in his "psychic-reaearch work" though he could have let himself into "the racket"; encloses a list of the "dramatis personae"; asks Pearson to correct really crazy spelling; comments that "Robert's chief scream was that Lord Howell `stood out of the book like the Matterhorn among the hills' but I cannot see how I could disguise him"; tells Pearson that her original title was "Synthesis of a Dream" but Aldington thought that would be a good subtitle so she took "The Sword Went Out to Sea" from William Morris (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1948 August 15. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; comments "The ROSE gets more lurid" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1948 August 16. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; sends lists of corrections for "The Sword Went Out to Sea"; comments on Aldington's reaction to the manu~script--he liked Book I but found Book II to be "simply a lot of short episodes strung together" and told H.D. that she needed a "A central idea for a NOVEL"; says that Aldington thought at first that it would be crazy to writeas other than H.D. but later seemed to veer towards the use of Delia Alton; comments that both Bryher and Herring seem to think of political repercussions from both the "Right" (for seeming to cash in on Lord Howell) and the "Left" ("because the book is, in spirit, aristocratic or special and non-political"); Kenneth Macpherson read it but seemed to regard it as a sort of tour-de-force and said "the dimensions are balanced, like a juggler with crystal balls" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1948 August 20. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; comments "I got a book from the New Directions of E., written in camp at Pisa, it looks very odd" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 August 23. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; Bryher is due in Lugano on Sat., Perdita has sailed from New York and is due for the 2nd, to stay on over the 10th; afterwards Bryher and Perdita heading for Kenwin where Doris and John Long are due from Cornwall; Elizabeth Ashby may turn up in Lugano on the 2nd as well; refers to Macmillans of N.Y.'s interest in "world rights for a book I have done of Elizabethan lyric-poets, plus my own Shakespeare poems" [BY AVON RIVER] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 529). Writes to Ezra Pound; thanks him for sending her his Cantos (refers to LXXX); comments on London's condition when she left and mentions spending six months with "a doctor's family near Z?rich, a lovely place called Seehof,on the lake, but it took me a long time to believe in the unbelievable, whole glass wondows and CLEAN glass at that"; mentions forthcoming publication of BY AVON RIVER; says her first visit to Stratford-on-Avon since before World War I was on April 23, 1945 [LHS note: this is incorrect--it was probably in early June 1945]; says she had news of him from Viola Jordan [LHS note this sounds as if it is H.D.'s first letter to Pound since 1939]; refers to Violet Hunt bequest (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). 1948 August 27. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; has heard from Robert Herring that the Sword has been sent off to Pearson; says that she has now completed the "White Rose and the Red" but that it has to be cut shorter; says that that she concludes the story with the meeting of William Morris and Jane Burden in Oxford; the period of the book, with flashbacks, is l855-1857; doesn't want to do any more with it until after Christmas as she has worked pretty tirelessly the past two years with AVON, "Sword," and "Rose"; would be graateful for Pearson's opinion; comments that she sort of has taken over from Violet Hunt, whose THE WIFE OF ROSSETTI she, H.D., suggested the title for; asks Pearson to make a correction to BY AVON RIVE--"it is the sort of thing that might be picked on ... just the sort of thing that keeps one awake all night"; points out other corrections to be made; comments that she views "Sword" and "Rose" as being "near related" "as they all deal with the old mystical ideas of Round Table, brought into harmony or brought into step with the period"--"in SWORD. with that `present-day England' of the last war"--"in ROSE, with the England of just 100 years earlier"; says she could not have attempted "Rose" without having gotten "Sword" off of her chest; comments that Bryher is due the next day and the Perdita will follow in a few days (has had a wire that Perdita had sailed); will get "Rose off to Pearson, probably after Bryher arrives as she is brining part of the carbon-copy that H.D. had left in Lausanne (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1948 September 16. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher; asks Bryher to forward some notebooks: "it is old ps-a notes; Lordy, I did try sorting them out in the actual Blitz, just couldn't face it. The later books have some authentic notes that I did in Vienna, I do not think I will want to keep them but I would like to run through. The first are pre-Chaddie, just dream or stream-of-consciousness thought-association, just letting words C O M E. And there are very funny things; so please see that no one looks inside. Perhaps, it is not safe to post them? ... I used to worry so, thinking the note-books had got into the "wrong hands." just nerves. I will prob. destroy the lot" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1948 September 18. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks Silvia for sending her a copy of Thornton Wilder's THE IDES OF MARCH--had read it in Lausanne but did not own a copy--wants to reread it--"I like Thornton Wilder and hope to see him again some day, when perhaps he can sign this for me"; refers to "such a crowd" having been there [for the birthday celebration]--Perdita, Bryher, Robert Herring, Dr. Elizabeth Ashby, Faith Compton-

MacKenzie; refers to approaching visit of Silvia Dobson with Enid Scase and suggests that they meet at Saipa Cafe, where she goes twice a day for coffee at 10:00 A.M. and tea at 3:00 P.M.-gives directions--go first to the main square, entering it from the lake side, turn left into the arcades, almost at the end, just past a Baily shoe-shop--H.D. usually sat upstairs in the smaller room on the lake side (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 533-533A). 1948 September 21. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to having startled Silvia on the platform at the railroad station {Silvia writes: "On the day we left. I put Enid and the luggage in a carriage and walked down the platform to take a last look at Minerva Hotel. It was here H.D. startled me. We embraced, lived again lost Venice fantasies"}; thanks Silvia for beautiful roses; refers to area which she calls "the village"--a halfway section around the Croce Bianca, where various hotels are where various people have stayed (i.e. Walter Schmideberg at Erica, Perdita at Amilia, Robert Herring in rooms in the Sport-Garni) but Saipa was always the central meeting place; refers to Enid Scase's problems with psychoanalysis and recommends a Dr. Franklin (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 530-531, 534). 1948 September 22. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Ezra Pound; says she left London on May 13, 1946, after almost three months illness; says "there was nothing wrong, only shell-shock. I am stronger now that I have ever been"; describes her fluctuations between Lausanne and Lugano; says she doesn't write many letters; refers to having hunted unsuccessfully, during her first Lausanne winter, for books for Pound which Viola had mentioned that he wanted; mentions recent writing ["Sword went out to Sea" and "The White Rose and the Red"]; refers to the forthcoming harvest celebration with the pan-pipes players; refers to having read Dante's Vita in the original and recalls the first time that she saw it--possibly at the Skidmores in Port Jefferson (comments that she has not heard of any of the Skidmores for thirty years); mentions readings in William Morris, currently Jason; also mentions Hesse (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). 1948 September 27. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Enid Scase; refers to having written Walter Schmideberg about Enid's having had a difficult analysis with Heidi Schwarz (a Viennese refugee who was trained by the Viennese there and in London)--Schmideberg confirms H.D.'s suggestion and agrees that "Dr. George Franklin, who is much more fluid and very kind, would be the best to cure the shock"; urges Enid to take the initial step of getting in touch with Dr. Franklin; says she and Bryher would possible offer to help with finances once Enid is established with Dr. Franklin (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 535). 1948 September 25. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; "I am deep in Dante. It is all one huge Church of Love "true tale"; I have found the strangest clues, which I will holdforth on to you one day, at Zust. I suppose those in the know, keep up the myth or the mystery and those who don't just go on in the prescribed conventional way. I am very happy with this but it will take me about 2 years to absorb what I would want for a sort of BY ARNO RIVER to go with the AVON. Or else- who know [sic]- it may flare out into a `historical novel'... I feel now that these last books have settled my problems and I want to go on to the Dante" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1948 October 3. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; is concernd as to whether or not the manuscript of "White Rose and the Red" has reached him as

she has had a query from James Putnam about it; has received the contract for BY AVON RIVER; comments that "I was tempted to go on with ROSE, as I have so much material, Algernon Swinburne and the strange tragic tangle of the Morris family after the death of Elizabeth Siddall Rossetti"; has been reading her Morris JASON; plans to move to Lausanne shortly--her room has been booken there from October 21; comments that Perdita got back to New York, Bryher has been back and forth to London (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1948 October 5[?]. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; refers to a letter from Pound with enclosure of letter from Olivia Rossetti Agresti about the Rossettis which she is sending on; has received THE PISAN CANTOS from New Directions; has heard from J. Laughlin who commented that "E. seemed not too `unhappy' but that his delusions were worse and he asked that they do not try to get him out of the hospital till later" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1948 October 8. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Ezra Pound; refers to an enclosure which she is sending which reminds her of a Wiss. Drive [?] in Pennsylvania as well as "some of the woods and streams and mill-ponds ... where we all used to walk and picnic; has just written to Margaret Snively; refers to having written to Olivia Rossetti Agresti; doesn't knpow when the "red Rose and the White will see print--BY AVON RIVER due out in the Spring; says the story only goes to 1857, before Elizabeth Siddall married Rosetti; refers to the "vendemmia" and the crowds--and describes the painting of the outside of the palaces; refers to Mary and her son; is re-reading Jason and recalls first hearing "Ah, quelle est Belle, La Marguerite" "under some apple-trees, and you shoutin the `Ha Ha' and the `Two Red roses' at the same session- my first introduction to William Morris" (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). 1948 October 9. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; refers to the Dante illustrated by Dore which Bryher has sent her: "Yes, the pictures are fascinating and revealing, like my old child-memory of Dore Bible"; discusses Ezra Pound "I wonder if ANYONE knows just what went wrong with E.? He was the FIRST person I knew who had even so much as heard of Freud and he had some of the early books and quoted; and I met some ps-a people in Paris, in 1912 or pos. early 1913, who E. introduced me to. I can't for the life of me remember their names, a Us [i.e., American] Doctor and his wife, both practicing ps-a, I gathered, at the time. I wonder if E.'s bitterness at the Professor, is because he may have played with the idea of ps-a for himself at one time? It is very mysterious"(Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1948 October 11. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; "I am so grateful for the Spirt [sic] of Romance; I did glance it over but had not the Dante them. Not that I have it now. But the book is so mature and balanced- such a tragedy all that" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1948 October 12. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; "Thank you for sympathetic interest in Ezra. It was astonishing how all that sequence re-shaped itself. I had two letters from him, I will hand over to you later. I think it was his handwriting, after all these years; the mid-years, the few times I heard, he wrote shocking type-script. He said Mary Marshall had been to see him "in jail" and the whole Snively quartet. Margaret did not tell me" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 October 13. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; "Thank you so much for comment on Ezra. I have thought a lot about it all, as I have been re-reading Spirit of Romance, and it is amazing there, how un-affected he is yet original. His chapter on Dante is really very fine; I can see that now. Dante is so difficult to treat simply. I wonder so much what DID HAPPEN. It may have been confusion about last war, being there and not being in it, and E. was made much of by many people; I know how they changed in tempo during first war, and he may have felt they were no longer interested in the same way. He appears to me now, to have BEGUN the down-curve at end of or just after World War I. I know no one who could better critize the Pisan Cantos than you have done in the paragraph. I wanted to get the book out of the place, as it did rather upset me yet drove me crazy with curiosity to "analyse" various lines and the general trend. I think there are really, more lines of sheer beauty in the Pisan than in any of his later work, flowers, that lynx (Dante has lynx or panther, of course) the wasp building a nest, the darky who makes a table from an old box and says "don' tell"; then, startling classic allusions, but the catch is, they may be Ovid or Horace or some transcription from Provence or even Dante again. He does quote line on Primavera out of the Vita Nuova, that I got and you said you recognized some old Saxon, I think"; goes on to reflect about Pound: "I am rather curious about Ezra, "poor old Ez." ... Anyway, I feel there was some sort of definate [sic] break or repercussion or even percussion in or at end of War I, that sent him back to the old shock of being asked to leave Hamilton College- that is a mystery and I never, never gossiped about it, but it terribly upset the parents and at the time, Mr. Pound more or lesss formally asked me not to "drop" Ezra. E. went to Spain, on a presumed "travelling fellowship" but Hamilton would not have given it and I know U. of P. would not, at that time. (This is private). I supposed Mr. Pound sort of pooled his little all, they gave up quite a nice house at Wyncote (a charming suburb) and lived in really very cramped quarters near the mint, in a cheap, un-residential part of Philadelphia. I suppose Mr. Pound or E. invented the "scholarship," though I may of course, be wrong. But I have been trying to face-up to that somewhat unresolved part of my life; it is nothing to worry about, but it is odd that I could not speak-out about any of this to Chaddie, Turtle, the Professor or Bear. That is what makes me think it must have all cut me up pretty badly; on the other hand, the jolt got me out of the University groove, set me with my face toward Europe, eventually led to my staying on in London ... Ezra fenced at U. of P. gymnasium, he was as a "freshman" in the Greek play, his then best friend, William Brooke Smith (a student at the Art Academy) died of T.B.; E. dedicated this Venice book A Lume spent to him" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1948 October 15. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; "I have been going over the old American scene and the 1914 pre-war Paris and a number of things now crop up, signposts that relate various phases of Ezra to certain things (I will hold forth at Zust, one day) and certainly, the main factor was I think with you, his father being in Mint; E. saw shelves of gold which to a child anyway, were in his father's hands, and he had no use of it; all so very, very obvious - his "usury" (whatever that is) complex that crops up again and agian in the Cantoes. I also agree about Dorothy and have some data there, relating to the ONE person who I think would have brought out his best, and who in the beginning, DID bring out his best. All very private and spec on my part- but the girl who shot herself in Paris was I believe an old friend, not as E. rather implied, just one of a crowd. He had had some sort of very intense contact with "an older woman" as Mr. Pound called her, a musician of someimportance. I met this Margaret, she was older, but only lately I seem to realize that she was the one who when E. was 16, brought him on, prob. it was she who gave him Freud, Swedenburg, Balzac Seraphita and her books

(including Yogi series) that E. brought to me. It just came in a flash as I was going over things. I think it was she who got E. to Venice; Rummel said when he received a postumous [sic] or postmortem letter from her, "but this is not possible- it was Ezra that she cared for." She sent letter to Rummel who was just engaged, saying she had been (I gather) un-balanced or "broken" by his engagement. It was just about then that Rummel told ME that Mrs. S had told HIM, in strictest confidence, that E. and Dorothy were engaged, but no announcement to be made and they were not to see each other for a year. Well- it sounds like Aldington's idea of a Seller. But it all came back to me- thanks for ps-a and putting 2 and 2 together. (This is all PRIVATE.) Apparently this Margaret (I think, related to the poet- Sydney Lanier? I am not sure of name, of the South of US) was in with very distinguished group, and she it was, I am sure, brought Rummel and E. together. Well, I won't go on- it was mother-fix, father-envy, all so very clear. Margaret Lanier (?) about ten or even 15 years older, wealthy, influential, just slightly his mother's typ... but enough ... Ezra repeated this, by leaving Dorothy and living with violinist Olga in Venice, the very place the first poems came from, privately printed, probably by Margaret- though E. never made the clean break with Dorothy who by that time, having his name becomes his mother-image!" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). [LHS Comments: H.D. is confusing two women in this letter: (1) Katherine Ruth Heyman, the concert pianist wh was fifteen years older than Ezra, who introduced him to the books which H.D. recalls, and whom he joined in Venice in 1908 and (2) Margaret Craven of Madison Indiana and a relative of the poet Sidney Lanier, who became Pound's patron and who committed suicide in June 1912 in Paris after learning of Walter Rummel's engagement (?).] 1948 October 17. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; "I have never had such a lot of "findings" since the old Vienna days; the whole of the E.P. saga re-shapes itself as I only now realize the "older woman" (Homer Pound speaking) "whole influence on Son was not for the best, but (apologetically) once you heard her music, you could understand Son's feelings." Ezra gave me a pearl ring of hers as engagement-ring but never, never so much as hinted that the Paris Margaret was this same "older woman". Mr Pound may have feared I would hear of it, as it was about then that the so-called "engagement" was getting more than a bit lop-sided, and the Pounds (both) were very anxious that I should keep on with "Ray." actually, I gave E. the ring back and always had a sort of romantic notion of this musician. E. said in a lofty way, "she is taking lessons from Rummel". He did not want me to know that Margaret was the early infatuation, and prob. it went on. I am now certain that she did not shoot herself; it must have been tablets; it was E. who told Richard and myself that she slept for years with a revolver under her pillow. Why should she? ?It is not possible, if she feared suicide. I never asked of course; in those days, it would not occur to me that E. could "cook" such a thing and anyway, one was deeply shocked, and R. almost more than I was. E. gave impression that he had feared this for years, as if he were a sort of support and prop to a deadly neurosis. ... I knew E. went to meals at Margaret's appartment; he took me out a great deal in London; he never came near me that time in Paris, except once - until Richard turned up. I do not say he was "living" with her, but it was one of those things; they apparently went about (I am sure); but this is not a fiction, yet pretty much entre nous. It makes me understand the Philadelphia years- some sort of tangle- and the parents anxious to break the "influence." It was that I am sure, that was responsible for getting E. started. But I suppose I am the only person in the world now, who has an inkling of the pattern. ... All this is strictly hush-hush. But it clears much tangle from my own bewilderment and wonder at Ezra's strange, contradictory actions and manners" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 October 19. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; thanks him for the photograph of William Morris; has hanother letter from James Putnam who is awaiting the manuscript of "White Rose and the Red"; comments that she had not realized until she started receiving clippings from London that 1848 is the exact centenary year of the formation of the Pre-Rapaelite Brotherhood; suggests that Pearson not bother to read the "Rose but that he send it on to Putnam for an appraisal; comments that that she has many notes and manuscripts which have been saent on from Lowndes Square awaiting her in Lausanne; plans to go on with Delia Alton--"she looks to the future" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1948 October 21 - 1949 April 21. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de La Paix. 1948 October 21. H.D. leaves Lugano for Lausanne; is handed a letter from Olivia Rossetti Agresti by the Minerva Padrone as she is waiting for the Luzerne train (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], 28 Oct 48, Lilly Library). 1948 October 28. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; has been back in Lausanne just a week; had a day at Kenwin--"the trees have grown to groves and forests, they make the house look smaller or more compact or domestic"--had lunch on the terrace; expects Bryher to come in that afternoon; Bryher movess to Pully [for the winter?] on Monday; comments on "White Rose and the Red" (P.R.B. founded l848 -- her book written 1948--didn't realize the aptness when she began the book); her room is wonderful--second to the top, with a huge built-in sort of alcove balcony--on the end--right-hand neighbors cut off by a wall; refers to Enid Scase's analysis with Franklin (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 554-555). Writes to Ezra Pound; reflects on their age overlap--at the moment they are both 62 but soon he will be 63 [LHS note: October 30]; has seen some intelligent reviews of the CANTOS; her room looks over Lac L? main; has heard from James Laughlin that he has seen Pound but most of her news of him comes from Viola Jordan; asks about Dorothy--where she is, etc.; comments on having received a letter from Olivia Rossetti Agresti as she was leaving Lugano; is rereading the PISAN CANTOS; asks if he ever got his bequest from May Sinclair--her books from Sinclair have arrived; asks of Walter Rummel and comments: "What sheer bliss his music was; I will never forget that concert at your summer house, outside Philadelphia, can't remember, but across country from the Observatory. Frances was with us; I have heard nothing of or about her for well over ten years"; concludes "This again, with all memories and very best hopes for inspired years to come. from Dryad" (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). 1948 October 30. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; includes statement which she wants to appear at the beginning of "The Guest," after the dedication to Bryher [in BY AVON RIVER]; thanks him for the work which he has done; wants to leave the dates which she had for Spenser alone--most others can be changed; comments on other suggested changes and hopes that the statement that she has written will allow for some variance o(H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).?PRPrintout made for Doona Hollenberg at this point.? 1948 November 10. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; insists that she prefers her own "thanks are due" statement to that drafted by Pearson [for BY AVON RIVER] but concedes that it can go on the page following the dedication instead of on the dedication page; agrees with him about all changes which he has proposed except that with regard to Spenser's birth date; comments "I have made it clear in the text that I am [crossed out an

"was" written in] not a professed scholar but a very sick woman with a `will and testament' to leave"; also comments "I `owe' you the book in another way and almost equally with Bryher"; is sending Pearson a questionnaire which was sent to her [presumably by Macmillan] but which she cannot cope with (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1948 November 16. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; asks for THE MAN WHO DIED (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1948 November 18. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; "I do not hear from Norman, about the two "novels", but that does not in the least deter me. I have just sent off to Woolford, the last of my third "Delia Alton", the Bloomsbury that I had written so often but this time, I cut out all reference to you and Pup in Cornwall, brought in (I think) an unusual appreciation of Lawrence at the end- Frederico or Rico. It ended up on the genius of the place, Land's End and "writing" and genius in general, dragging in Vincent van Gogh. It is not patchy, I simply took the?fi fist part from the old MSS you brought me, kept about one third, left out you and Pup and she, Julia this time, wrote at the end, a general appreciation as to Frederico or "old Rico" whom she will not see again. It is really rather dynamic and like all the rest, I owe it to you, though it is sans dediction. That makes the 3rd, Delia Alton. It is a relief to feel I have written FINIS to the whole Bloomsbury episode ... I am now tackling more note-books; it is relief to find the best parts, were sort of done in the Freud L. and L., and also in the Gift, which I will tackle again, later" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1948 November 21. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to Enid Scase's having entered analysis with Dr. Franklin and asks about financial situation and repeats that help would be avaiable from her and/or Bryher once they know what might be needed; has been re-reading D.H. Lawrence and is curious about his "stars"--asks Silvia to do a map ("he was born September ll, 1885. so for my birthday, one day a year, we were twins or are twins"); speculates on, if D.H. Lawrence had lived, if he could have worked with the Professor [Freud]; says Lawrence's death in 1930 was a shock to her, though they had not seen each other since end of World War I; refers to "going over a heap of note-books I did in the 1930 period or decade rather. They are not as bad as I had feared. I was terrified to touch them, wrote but never read- and the notes I did in Vienna" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 536). 1948 November 22. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; thanks Bryher for another batch of MSS; "nothing important but it is good to be collecting the whole lot"; comments "but will have a spot of tedium typing out bits later. However, that I will do or WILL to do, as there is interesting material. I call the volume (sic) That's for Remembrance and will quote the 3 or 4 line Ophelia rosemary, pansy, violet verse on frontpage. In am now (in For Remem.) about to embark for Vienna. That is, it is getting on toward March 1933. I am surprised to find how happy these notes make me" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1948 November 24. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; thanks Bryher for all the help in sending the "goods" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 November 29. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks Silvia for Lawrence's chart; asks "Did you ever read The Man Who Died? A friend told me that he meant the Priestess to be H.D.; if so, or even if not, it was a comfort to me, the last book Lawrence wrote before his death"; refers to her writing: "I have been writing like mad on notes assembled in Vienna 1933 and l944 [sic]"; refers to her year off--"it is a comfort to me now, to feel that I have, by the Grace of God, been granted the year, I hope- years in which to tidy-up properly, to boil down and excavate and altogether let some alchemy do its own job, while I just tap away like mad"; refers to fact that all help to France has been cut off which worries both her and Bryher because not being able to help Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 537). 1948 December. Reworking of short story "Hesperia" (Thorn Thicket, p. 36, 37). 1948 December 3. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Ezra Pound; encloses card by Sulamith W?lfing and comments on her work; comments "I am snowed under with neglected MSS, of the past 20 years" (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). 1948 December 3. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; says it is good the "White Rose and the Red" has gone to Macmillan and that she appreciates the comments which he has made on it; explains that she had been subtly working up to Elizabeth Siddall's suicide, trying to pinpoint a sort of "submerged war-phobia (rather than Rosetti's actual neglect) as being the reason for it"; will wait for Macmillian's verdict before trying to rework it; comments that she had never sent Pearson the questionnaire which Macmillan had sent her--she had gotten stuck on it--asks Pearson to just make it out for her--says he knows the requested dates better than she does; with regard to the proofs of BY AVON RIVER says "I simply wanted to be sure of my own poems and certain that my own ( and your ) corrections were seen to"; comments that she has not heard from Robert McAlmon and "I am rather grieved that ordinary, friendly little notes should be `for sale.' I am however, very, very touched that you should get them"; refers to the Sitwell's being in America and says that Perdita had a day with Edith; thanks Pearson for all that he has done: "I do thank you again for all work on AVON and for AVON itself"; comments that she has received a letter from LIFE asking her to appear with the Sitwells in a photograph of "important modern poets" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1948 December 13. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes postcard to Norman Holmes Pearson; thanks him for the Thoreau which has just arrived and wishes him a happy new year (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1948 December 18. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; which apparently referred to William Rose Ben?t and Bethlehem; discusses Bethlehem and indicates that her memory is of a town which was almost all woods; tells him of her collection of Moravian documents which Bryher had gotten for her (including a letter from Zinzendorf and a valentine from Christian Renatus) which someday should be housed [at Yale]--recognizes its interest to research workers; goes on to reminiscence--recalls being in the Delsarte (?) and says "I was the tail of the class and was only let in because my best friend insisted. I was no good at dumb-bells, but I think I was only 6"; recalls the kindergarten run by the MacMullen's and thinks that she and William Rose Ben?t were both enrolled there and went on to the parochial school [Moravian Parochial School] where she remembers a little boy named Bill mocking her for

wearing one of Gilbert's sailor hats; she also remembers being taken by Charles Leander Doolittle to see a room full of stuffed birds at Lehigh University and comments that she never knew where her father had "lived over the other side" during his first marriage?MDBO??MDNM?; refers to a picture ("fraktur") which Pearson has sent her (she asks if it respresents the Bennu from WALLS, XXV) and which she has propped up on her dressing-table alongside the William Morris miniature (which is now in a dull blue leather frame); says that she has arranged her thre wise men, which Bryher had gotten for her in Z?rich her first Christmas here, in front of the bennu with a beeswax candle from last year; Bryher has ordered a tiny tree for her (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1949 - 1951. "The Mystery" written (Friedman. DLB 45:139). 1949. BY AVON RIVER published by Macmillan in New York. 1949. "Madrigal" (later published as BID ME TO LIVE) polished 1949 January 3. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Ezra Pound; comments on Perdita's activities and her visiting Viola Jordan and her family at Tenafly; wonders of Dorothy had sent her an article from LIFE on the Sitwells; has heard from Margaret Snively Pratt who's daughter, Peggy, is waiting to go to New Zealand to join her husband--Margaret also has two boys (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). 1949 January 5. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Adrienne Monnier; refers to being deep in Rimbaud [LHS note: perhaps a volume sent by Monnier as a Christmas gift. 1949 January 8. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks her for gift of powder and puff; had a tiny tree with trimmings that Robert Herring got for her--he was there for a week and is soon off to the West Indies; refers to her writing: "I have been happy going over new and old MSS, and decided ... that it was time I had a Sabbatical year. It is really ny NINTH sabbatical. It never occured to me before to consider a year "off" and it has given me such peace, feeling I have pro tem, done my bit and can now just enjoy a real, grand tidy-up"; has been going over stacks of old cards, putting them in bundle--"I do not keep any letters but I can never throw away a picture-card and it is quite a majic-lantern illustrated lecture of the past years - the far past and the recent ones. I kept all the Bear [Walter Schmideberg] cards, such funny ones, I think he sent to us all, at one time";; explains earlier reference to nineth sabbatical ("that is I am 7 times 9 or 63 next September") (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 541-542). 1949 January 10. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; finds the proposed jacket statement which he written for ?MDBO?BY AVON RIVER?MDNM? to be excellent; exxpresses her appreciation to him for thinking of so many details [i.e. the list of individuals to whom copies should be sent]; says one copy of the galleys will be quite sufficient; comments: "I am however, thinking you a bit of a rougue or a scamp. as I think I told you that I was making a sabbatical year of this - I never voted myself one before. And now, egged on by you, I actually got down to picking over some of the hay-stack of notes and loose leaves and old MSS that Bryher ... brought out here. Well- the worst of it is, I can't make a bonfire in the backyard as I had hoped. I have notes done in situ, 1940, 1941 which I never even re-read and they make my every hair stand on end. They are just impressions and little day-by-day jottings of

impressions the inferno- and I have just now written my poor old typist who broke her arm last month, to see if she is well enough to type these and some odd pages of poems and if she can do the work, I will send these things over. The notes can be published if wanted by anyone, in short or shortish sections and I will do my best bravely to un-earth ... old poems and you do what seems indicated with them- or shelve them on the shelf. It is a good thing I know, to tidy-up and your interest is a spur and inspiration"; refers to her Moravian document collection again; says she finds Pearson's introduction to the Thoreau most illuminating; returns to the topic of her sabbatical: "O why did I ever give myself a Sabbatical? I find work ( thanks to you and that shelf ) piling up seven-times-seven, a tide-wave, a seventh wave of MSS."; is off to meet Bryher that afternoon; adds that she has heard from Robert McAlmon (the letter had been wandering)-she wrote and told him that he could do what he wanted with her old letters (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1949 January 21. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; speaks of reworking and retyping some of her "period stuff": "I have a few strange rather ghost-story things, one of an experience in Aegina, my last trip to Greece, one of three women talking in my first little Sloane Street flat ... The period-pieces bring back the people and there are always good moments in sometimes seemingly long banal pedestrian stretches"; expects Bryher in to tea; Kenneth Macpherson is now living with Norman Douglas in Capri and H.D. encloses a picture of their garden [in the notes accompaining this letter Silvia Dobson comments that it was Norman Douglas who, in 1938, told Perdita the identity of her father, Cecil Gray] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 578, 581-582). 1949 January 23. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Adrienne Monnier; refers to Rimbaud again [see entry forJanuary 5, 1949] (H.D. "Letters across the Abyss," p. 121). 1949 January 28. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Robert McAlmon; comments on her "hay-stack" of increasing manuscripts (Friedman. Penelope's web, p. 20). 1949 January 29. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; says that Miss Woolford seems able and wants to do her typing; comments that Miss Woolford's little house at Wandsworth Common is only now being repaired from the bombing; comments that "8 to 10 sketches of the 1940-1942 period and a rather delightful (I think) Bethelehem shortish sketch that I did winter 1943, called The death of Martin Presser" are now being typed; will post them off to Pearson along with some poems, etc., as soon as they come back from Wandsworth; comments on LaForgue, recalling some sort of a vogue and that T.S. Eliot identified with him--recalls an anecdote relating to Osbert Sitwell and Eliot; comments with regard to Pearson's request for clarification of Philadelphia relationships "I do not think, Norman, that E.P. was even instructor instructor at U. of P. He got in rather wrong as he would hold forth at the time, to our very dear saintly and blessed Felix Emmanuel Schelling (of Elizabrthan fame) on the fact that really Shaw was greater or at least as great as Shakespeare. This held up lectures, caused comment, did not make it easy for E. when he tried to get some sort of official recognition or travelling scholarship; he wanted me to `work' my family to throw in their weight but we were all devoted to Felix and anyhow there were other things"; goes on to comment on Pound's teaching at Hamilton with veiled hints as to the scandal; explains that Marianne Moore was not part of the Philadelphia group; while H.D. had met her at Bryn Mawr, she was not brought into the group until after Aldington and H.D. had published her poems in the EGOIST; says "I did not

know Williams very well and onl through Ezra; comments "I boast that I am being shelf-ed at Yale" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1949 February 6. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; has not not yet received the galley's to BY AVON RIVER thus does not understand some of Pearson's queries; comments that she hopes that Pearson will pay particular attention to the lettering of "H.D."--she had made a special request to Oxford for the trilogy and liked the result; is mailing the 1940-1942 sketches off to him and 4 poems that she had omiitted from THE FLOWERING OF THE ROD and one Christmas poem-has a few more war period and later poems; says "I find the 1930 ones I have, seem rather lifeless and dull and deadwood" but she will try to assemble and have those typed; says she wrote THE GIFT after the sketches--wants to re-shape it later); thinks there are 14 sketches; will send the gift list for BY AVON RIVER along; has gotten into Dante again; referring to the sketches, says she has "not re-worked them, better as they are, just as I wrote them in extremis" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1949 February 8. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; has received the galleys for BY AVON RIVER which intially went to Lugano; is happy with them but lists corrections; recalls "at the moment, just now, I remember a wonderful box of chocolates that I gobbled all alone at the Swan Inn, that later summer 1945 visit to Avon" [implication that it had come from Pearson] (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1949 February 14. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; includes list with addresses of individuals to who she wishes to send complimentary copies of BY AVON RIVER (Gretchen Baker, Silvia Dobson, Robert Herring, Viola Jordan, Richard Aldington, Sylvia Beach, Horace and Marya Gregory, Hattie Howard, Kenneth Macpherson, Elizabeth Ashby, Harold Doolittle, Ellen Hart and Cornelia Brookfield, Mary Herr, Perdita Macpherson [at 113 East 36 St, New York], Marianne Moore, George Plank, Alice Smith, Francis and Muriel Wolle, John Masefield, Norman Holmes Pearson, Osbert Sitwell, and Andrew Gibson); asks that Pearson be sure that Macmillan's has the La Paix address and comments that La Paix is very good about forwarding mail; expresses gratitude to Pearson for what he has done for BY AVON RIVER (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1949 February 14. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; includes list with addresses of individuals to who she wishes to send complimentary copies of BY AVON RIVER (Gretchen Baker, Silvia Dobson, Robert Herring, Viola Jordan, Richard Aldington, Sylvia Beach, Horace and Marya Gregory, Hattie Howard, Kenneth Macpherson, Elizabeth Ashby, Harold Doolittle, Ellen Hart and Cornelia Brookfield, Mary Herr, Perdita Macpherson [at 113 East 36 St, New York], Marianne Moore, George Plank, Alice Smith, Francis and Muriel Wolle, John Masefield, Norman Holmes Pearson, Osbert Sitwell, and Andrew Gibson); asks that Pearson be sure that Macmillan's has the La Paix address and comments that La Paix is very good about forwarding mail; expresses gratitude to Pearson for what he has done for BY AVON RIVER (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1949 Febrary 20. Library of Congress announces that Ezra Pound's THE PISAN CANTOS has received the first annual award of the Bollingen Prize for poetry (Stock. Life of Ezra Pound, p. 426).

1949 February 20. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; discusses shipment of copies of BY AVON RIVER; comments on a few corrections; with reference to the influence of science on her as a poet comments: "It has been rails to run on, but at times, in the past, threatened to become a squirrel-cage. Running so fast, to get away from it"; plans to send the manuscript of "Madrigal (Bid Me To live) by Delia Alton" and comments "I call it my Bloomsbury novel and I have written at it for twenty years, before I got it. I did get it. It is the old last-war saga, but strangely tidied up at long last ... I don't want particularly to push it into print ... I had to put in corrections in pencil, as my Wandsworth Common typist strung it together. You have met some of this story before in Synthesis of a Dream and early work, but for once, it is complete, rounded out ... I actually wrote FINIS to it, the summer in Vaud, before I crossed over to England, autumn 1939. But I left the MSS out here. I was going to detroy it and found that I couldn't. I boiled it down here, before Christmas, shortened it considerably and tightened up the last two chapters, which say good-bye to Frederico or Rico"; in referring to tidying up process, comments "I feel now, that I have really done the most difficult or most painful part of the whole job" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). Writes to Ezra Pound; has just learned by way of the TRIBUNE DE LAUSANNE that Pound has been awarded recognition for THE PISAN CANTOS--it was shown to her by Austrian doctor [Walter Schmideberg] with whom she normally has coffee on Sunday mornings at the cafe in the La Paix; explains that the doctor "was on Russian front during the last was and was taken prisoner by the Italians after the (ironically) was over. He had a very grave prison experience for almost a year in Italy but he minimizes it"; apparently Pound has expressed interest in Sulamith W?lfing's work as she discusses trying to get reproductions made; is deep in Dante and says "I have a wonderful, really wonderful Vita N. idea ... I would like to do another volume, to companion AVON, showing that the AVON altogether was the high tide of the middle-age, no stucco, plaster-cast renaissance"; plans to go on with Dante again this summer at Lugano where there is a magnificant library [Ticino Cantonal Library]; has heard from Robert Duncan and wishes she "had more time and energy to give him"; comments on photograph which Duncan has sent her with his head resting on volumes by H.D. and Pound (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). 1949 February 24. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Robert McAlmon; comments on relief of getting things published--says she feels "tangled or confused" in the web of undone work (Friedman. Penelope's web, p. 20). 1949 February 27 (?) - March (26?). Bryher in America; visits Norman and Susan Pearson in New Haven; returns to Switzerland by March 27 (deduced from H.D./Pearson correspondence and from Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher). 1949 February 27. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; "I have been working over the MSS, got off all the oddments of 1930 poems to be typed by Miss W., and have now about cleard [sic] up, except for the three very early MSS and a few odd notes that can be left" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1949 March 1. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to Ezra Pound's having received an important prize from the Literary Committee of the Library of Congress [see entry for l949 February 20]; fills Silvia in on Pound's wartime activities; of THE PISAN CANTOS, H.D. says "they are very intense and strange and of course, all over the place, but with passion and drive and tragedy"; refers to sent Pound a clipping from the GAZETTE DE

LAUSANNE of February 20--Dorothy Pound had wriiten to H.D. to say they would be glad of any clippings; tells Silvia to send any clipping she might find to her and she will send them on to Pound (doesn't want Silvia's name on the St. Elizabeth's Hospital list, "a purely Gvt. asylum for inmates and other `suspects'") (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 543). Writes to Dorothy Pound; is responding to letter from Dorothy dated Feb 25; has sent the clipping from the TRIBUNE DE LAUSANNE to Ezra [see Feb. 20 entry] along "with a postcard that Heron-Aleen must have sent me at least 20 years ago, in Latin, on friendship"; asks if Dorothy remembers Heron-Allen who died just before or after the war [LHS has no idea who Heron-Allen is]; has written to Sylvia Beach to send any clippings she finds directly to Ezra and mentions having written to a friend in England [Sylvia Dobson] and is writing to another friend near Naples [Macpherson ?]; discussion ofOlivia Rossetti Agresti; refers to the library at Lugano (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). 1949 March 1. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; tells Silvia of her plans to depart for Lugano (Hotel Croix Blanche) on April 21; Bryher is apparently in New York; refers to her writing: "I have a very beautiful story, called `The Guardians,' one of a collection of 7 long and long-short stories ... you must read it, as it is about Woodhall and old Nannie"; asks after Enid Scase's progress with analysis; asks if Silvia has read either Elizabeth Bowen's HEAT OF THE DAY ("it is so good") or Townsend Warner's CORNER (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 544). 1949 March 2. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher (Letter II); [has been reading Bryher's Harald] "I am sure you were THERE, your feeling for wet-bow strings and all the miseries, hopes, fears and spiritual triumphs?is so astute" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1949 March 5. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher (Letter II); "I am so glad now, to have pretty well the whole of the MSS `under control.' It has been fun, since I got the very worst over, beginning Jan.; I don't know what I will do when it is all shipped off, with proper copies here, to Yale" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1949 March 9. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; "Just finished MSS of Pilate's Wife, and not having looked at it since 1934, I am surprised and happy with it now. I did some revisions but will send this later, D.V., when I get it back, to Yale-shelf" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1949 March 11. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; "having spent now, practically all of this my third Lausanne winter, on re-sorting my old MSS; it was a great chore, a back-break, a head-ache at first, but now that I have the old MSS boiled-down, dated and retyped, I do feel so happy about it all, un-even though the years may appear" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1949 March 15. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Ezra Pound; has just seen Schmideberg who identified one of the clippings which she had sent Pound as coming from GAZETTE DE LAUSANNE; hopes to go to Luggano in April; refers to her shelf at Yale; mentions hearing from Robert McAlmon; says she did get to Lake Como in 1947 [LHS has no

record of this] but she found nothing that Ceresio (or Lake Lugano) did not have to offer; describes more of Lugano (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). 1949 March 16. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson: is sending two stories, "Aegina" and "Hesperia"; they are to be added as the second and third stories, following "The Moment," in the collection THE MOMENT, of which she has already sent him five stories; comments that every story in that collection "hinges on a decision taking place in, as it were, "`a moment'"; discusses a series of poems, called "A Dead Priestess Speaks" (which is also the title of the first poem "and rather describes [or described--the final letter is typed over] my own feelings") which follow after RED ROSES FOR BRONZE but are "better technically"--does not want to publish this; does eventuall want to publish the Rossetti novel and the other Delia Alton pieces"; comments "you will file or place them on that famous `shelf,' and someday, we can talk about their sequence and value"; has carbons of everything; comments "I can see, taken all in all, that there is a sequence, it is my COMMEDIA"; indicates that her reason for not wanting to publish "Priestess" is that "it seems so far away and strange, after the published Trilogy"; comments on plans to move to the Hotel Croix Blanche in Lugano for the summer hopefully by the end of April (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).,/p. 1949 March 17. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; adds note to March 16 letter to Norman Holmes Pearson; has just head from Bryher who commented on how happy she was with the Pearsons (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1949 March 27. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson: indicates at top that she will be at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano after April 21; Bryher has returned; while in America Bryher went with Perdita to visit Viola Jordan at Tenafly, N.J.; comments on quandary of whether or not to take the Benu-bird to Lugano--thinks she will leave it with manuscripts; refers to squares? (sent by Pearson via Bryher?); discusses "Advent" which she has just sent which should be added to "Writing on the Wall" piece; comments " I repeat incidents that I later bring into the child-story, THE GIFT, but I felt they should be assembled in their order as they first manifested with the dream-work with Freud in Vienna, in 1933"; is getting THE GIFT cut up into smaller paragraphs, etc.--will send later from Lugano (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1949 April 1. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson: mentions that she is going with Bryher that afternoon to their favorite MUTRUX tea-room; refers sending to the manuscript of the old Greek essays that Bryher has unearthed from London (NOTES ON EURIPIDES, PAUSANIUS ...)--"they are sort of high-flown school-girl essays but Br says it is better to have everything assembled"; is also sending World War II poems which are not part of TRILOGY; includes a list of what she has sent Pearson and comments that THE GIFT and PILATE'S WIFE are still to come; says "I have some odd flosam-jettsam bits-and-pieces of between-wars poetry but I really think that can wait. I won't destroy anything more, but I do feel there is such a weight of all this, though it does go back 30 years (some of it) and shows the general trend and developement. It ?MDUL?is?MDNM? path-finding - and the miracle is, I did find the way in the end"; comments "I want to thank you, that is all, and thank you. I said to Bryher yesterday at our little tea-table, that there was only ONE person to mention in the same breath with W. Bryher, and that was, as you may guess, N. Pearson - for loyalty, I said and steadfastness, there was really no one else" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1949 April 8. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson: has heard from Virginia H. Patterson, Publicity Director of Macmillan, who inquired if the Sitwells, Marianne Moore, and Horace Gregory could be approached for publicity comments; she has sent her Osbert's article on the poems that were published during the war--also suggested that Mrs Patterson contact Pearson at Yale if need be; comments "I was a bit alarmed when I found that `you would be willing to get comments' but on the other hand, grateful to you for suggestion"; has been deep in Pursuit of the Horizon [?; sent by Pearson] another Macmillan book; refers to having had some of the Catlins [?] in London and to Loyd [sic] Haberly's poetry--asks if Pearson has encountered him; comments that Bryher has been talking of living in New Haven in case of another war (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1949 April 18. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; "all this new lease of life comes from you, as did the old, after WAR I. I think tenderly of my years in London, but now feel that is at an end, that?is for a base; [refers to ASPHODEL as] a continuation of HER. But I went over these two here. I have used the best of ASPHODEL in the final version of my Bloomsbury novel, now called MADRIGAL (Bid me to Love.) It is a beautiful title, brings in Lawrence and gives my version of the Mecklingburgh Square crowd; it is in its odd way, not indiscreet. She finally breaks the know or cuts the know, by going off to Cornwall, but stays only as it were, discreetly; you and Perdita do not come in. Anyway, we can go into that. But will you, if it just happens, destroy those two bulky MSS. I will later, perhaps, re-work some of HER, but I have a complete copy of it here." (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1949 April 19. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; "There are one or two D. A. HILL (Hil-D-A) articles or stories, one on Greek scene, I have copy here, down, down, down in the btm. of my sea-chest. . . . There might be a list made of H.D. in L. and L., and D.A. Hill. I think there were only two of D.A. Hill" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1949 April 20. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; plans to depart for Lugano the next day; refers to possible visit by Silvia Dobson; says "I have two other friends who say they are stopping over; one wants me to motar [sic] down to Florence,he is doing some research there [LHS note: this was Norman Holmes Pearson]. The other ... this Andrew Gibson wants to see me .. a great friend of my oldest friend [Frances Gregg] ... says he and I are the only people Frances ever really cared for" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 545). Writes to Norman Holmes Pearson: plans to leave the next day for Lugano (Hotel Croix Blanche); thanks him for Poet and Science lecture and comments "you steer a middle-course between very dangerous shoals. You keep to to your formula though you allow for THAT fourth-dimension. I feel like one of your fog-makers in relation to your one-track steel-rails to infinity; indeed I have made `fog-maker' my own. Thank you for teaching me that word"; is happy with Pearson's interest in manuscripts; comments that if she wanted to she could write an amazing critique of the poet and life; comments on his turning 40; mentions Bryher's having discussed the foundation or fund with Pearson; comments that she has never heard of Millett bibliography [which Pearson has mentioned in his last letter]; explains that she gave the only copies of the Sunday school pieces which she had kept to Bryher years ago (has asked Bryher to look for them); mentions usage of name Edith Gray or Grey and the column-length newspaper stories for the Maclure Syndicate which Mary Marshall had gotten published--it was she and her sister who suggested Sunday

School publications as they paid well; says she wrote all those things before she left for Europe in 1911; mentions use of D.A. Hill in LIFE AND LETTERS; comments that she has taken the same room in Lausanne for next winter--plans to stay in Lugano till Autumn; comments on Pearson's plans--hopes he will come to Lugano--advises him fo follow Bryher's advice re rooms there; more comments on Pearson's Poet and Science lecture and whether or not it should be published in LIFE AND LETTERS despite its limited appeal in England; comments "I liver here because it is central, that is, it centralizes me, my USA stability and prosperity feelings are satisfied, yet I am in touch with linquistically anyhow, with the old French, German and Italian vibrations. After all, I belong to the Henry-James, Pound, Eliot vibration- in time, I mean" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1949 April 21 - 1949 October (end). H.D in Lugano at the Hotel Croix Blanche (or Croce Bianca). 1949 April 23. H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Ezra Pound; thanks him for an issue of KAVITA; decribes the beauty of Lugano; mentions having a book by Helen Rossetti Angeli [?] which she finds fascinating; mentions the WHITE ROSE AND THE RED and BY AVON RIVER; mentions that she has been asked to go to Florence with a friend who is doing research (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). 1949 April 29. H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to Oliver Wilkinson and Andrew Gibson (says she had tried to get in touch with Wilkinson with no success); says that "Frances wrote rather grim stories at one time, realistic-psychic"; comments "if only Frances (Frances Josepha Gregg) could have had some ps-a"; speculates that Frances and her daughter had gone to Plymouth to be near a port of landing for Oliver--Frances was working in a canteen--before that she had been settled in a little place in Cornwall; is writing on Villa Kenwin stationary because Bryher had asked her to use up the paper as it had the wrong phone number on it (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 545). H.D. Chronology: Part VI 1949 May 1. H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Bryher: "I am all right alone, if it is cold or rains, as I have all this MSS and have been so happy going over two of the "novels", Madrigal and Pilate's Wife; I am so satisfied with the work" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1949 May 2. H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Bryher: "I am reminded of Venice so much here- and of course, Cornwall. It?is a "Synthesis" invented for me, I always feel" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1949 May 3. Date announced by PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY as being the publication date of BY AVON RIVER (NHP to H.D. [unpubl. letter], 16/II/49); later changed to June 12 (NHP to H.D. [unpubl. letter] 13/IV/49). H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Bryher: "I have destroyed those notes. If at any time, you find any of the notes of "meetings" or other, having to do with that period, and can not get them to me, will you destroy? I thought I had destroyed this lot, but you say there are some pages and notes in the old folder in the file. I do not want them, just to look over and destroy" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1949 May 5. H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Bryher: "Emblems always intrigue me and there is much in them, connected with the old "secret" legends, myth and fantasy. I have the Herrnhuters, I will be glad to re-read. As a matter of fact, you did give me this. I have it with the Magg collection, but this Rimius is very valuable and difficult to get and though I told you not to send out any of the books, I am especially glad for this, in connection with the German Swiss Zin. that you gave me. Rimius is down on the lot, but for that reason, he gave all the lurid details" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1949 May 7. H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Ezra Pound; thanks him for 2 notes and some Cocteau poems which Dorothy had sent earlier; refers to Mary to whom she will try to write; mentions that Pearson will be there in July or August and the he and "a friend" want her to go to Florence with them on the track of some Hawthorne relics [LHS note: the friend is course Bryher--LHS doesn't think H.D. dares to mention Bryher to Pound or else she deliberately avoids doing so] (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). 1949 May 8. H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Bryher: "I would like you to send me P A L I M P S E S T, if you can find it in Kenwin. I did a sequel, short, that I had retyped and have been reading it and the other MSS, here" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1949 May 11. H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Bryher: "I am happy about my 5 opus-es, all neat and tidy, whatever happens, Madrigal, Pilate's Wife, Advent (short prelude or sequel to Writing on the Wall), For this Moment (seven long-short stories) and The Gift. Those are all self-contained, as it were. And I have the two last-summer's Synthesis books, The Sword and The Rose. Of course, this represents one way and another, about 30 years re-working and "synthesizing"" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1949 May 13. H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Bryher: "I do depend so, as I wrote, on my simple luxuries, cold water, coffee, cigarettes" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1949 May 18. H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Bryher: [mentions her two daily trips to Saipa cafe, one at 10 AM and one at 3 PM, where she reads Bryher's letters and tends to meet visitors to Lugano, people like Silvia D. and Miss Butler (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1949 May 21. H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Bryher: "I have an idea, which please note "if I should die to-night." I think Algernon was ?MDUL?revenant?MDNM?, Shelley come back. There is the sea, swimming, the same sort of background, Eton and Oxford "scandal", intense political ideas, the Greek (both, I think wrote Greek verses), the Italian background. This is a "fancy" of mine but I just dream into it. By the same token, Rossetti might have been Byron" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1949 May 30. H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Bryher: mentions reading more Joan Grant (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1949.June 6. H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Bryher: "I found or thought I found another "lost" character in the Tempest, the son of the usurping duke of Milan, Antonio. He is mentioned only once. I like this idea of lost, hidden or invisible characters and am on the hunt for more of them, having got-away, as it were with Claribel.... I do FEEL that I have a little flaire [sic] for the "invisible players" ... I am so happy about AVON and that it belongs to you" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1949 June 9. H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Bryher: "I have been re-reading some of the Zinzendorf booklets you gave me, it is all very odd indeed! 1949 June 10 H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Bryher: "I have an idea for a Prague sequence but really must not begin writing again. It keeps me happy though; just to look up dates and 18 c. people is not so much fun, if you have no idea of "story" or sequence. It is really most illuminating, getting Garrick, Siddons, Mozart, Cagliostro and so on and so on, all nicely sorted out" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1949 June 11. H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Bryher: "I really have got caught up again in this Prague sequence; there is so much, revolving round there; I haven't the exact date, but it is before French Revolution; there really is a meley [sic] of marvelous "characters" though I am being very stern with myself and insist that I am not writing a book until all these other MSS have got settled. . . [sic] not necessary to publish but to get them into my own sequence, so that I do not re-write. Yes, you and I can claim we have "books" to finish, but I don't think we will have much trouble, especially if Bear is here" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1949 July 5. H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Bryher: "Will you, when convenient, go over all the Bryher letters to H.D., and, as far as that goes, other letters in file. I think Aldington's 1918 Cornwall bundle + Dowding's bundle could be kept separate, or sent me later. Not now. I am glad you have sorted the lot of mine. I have also with me, my Freud collection" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1949 July 12. H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Bryher: "I am so glad you have gone over letters. Please destroy when silly or aimless or, as I said before, "frivolous + uninspiring." I will hand over the Br. packets. There is only the Seehof gap, it can be noted that doctors, at time, forbid letters. Occassionally [sic], I destroyed a train-letter, or pencil P.C., written en route, but all others are there, though not in sequence" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1949 July 14 & 15. H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Bryher: tells story of visit to Hesse (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). 1949 July 15. H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to future arrival of Norman Holmes Pearson; has decided not to go along with him to Florence; says she is sending her the carbon of "The Guardians"; has had beautiful reviews of BY AVON RIVER; refers to her MSS being mostly in Pearson's charge; refers to a Pallas Athen? shield-pin which she wears almost every day (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 551-553).

1949 August. Norman Holmes Pearson in Europe; visits H.D. in Lugano; Bryher and Perdita also present--they go with Pearson to Florence after he sees H.D. [LHS note: since Pearson refers (29 VIII 49) to a letter written by H.D. on August 16 [missing] assume this was in early August; also Pearson sent H.D. a postcard from Florence, postmarked 8 VIII 49)]. 1949 October (end) - 1951 April. H.D in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix. [Comment: H.D. did not go to Lugano in 1950 in case Perdita sent for her and Bryher to come to her wedding (Thorn Thicket, p. 38)] 1949 December (?) H.D. has a touch of the flu (source:NHP to H.D. [unpubl. letter], 23 XII 49). 1949 December 12. "H.D. by Delia Alton" begun (Thorn Thicket, p. 38); later titled "Notes on Recent Writing" by Norman Holmes Pearson. 1949 December 21. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; "I have been asked to list papers and MSS, was in fact, supposed to have done this, some time back but I have really got interested now, in places, dates and my reasons for writing poetry or prose and my `catalogue' is actually begun"; refers to reading Elizabeth Taylor's HARBOUR (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 556-557). 1949 December 24. Perdita decides to marry John Valentine Schaffner. 1950 January - June. Works on "H.D. by Delia Alton" (Thorn Thicket, p. 38). 1950 January 4. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Ezra Pound; thanks him for a letter dated December 17; is sending him some more Greek cards; refers to "Notes on Pausanius, Euripides, and Greek Lyric Poets": "Yes, I did have quite a time qith [sic] Pausanius. I wrote an essay on Messina chapter or book, and one actually was published (on Sparta) but this was long ago, after War I. I never published any but the Sparta, it was illustrated by Rockwell Kent, appeared in a magazine, I forgot the nane. I was so fascinated with the tiny towns, fountains, paths, statues, offerings, etc., that I was afraid I would never do anything else at all, if I went on delving. I have not gone back to the volume or volumes; one could wander in and around the tiny bays and inlets, pick up the pebbles, see pictures in the sacred fountains. But as I say, that is a life-work and I was experimenting and have continued to do so, on records or `novels'"; tells Pound of his role as Allen Flint in "The Sword went out to Sea" mentions that "the H.D. of the tale ... goes back through her life, collecting and `synthesizing' her emotional experiences"; returns to discussion of the `Pausanius' saying "Well, I counted it as the reward of 30 years work on the ART of wrting and the Pausanius, lovely as it was, and the Greek translations in general were taking me out of my path; but the were and are stepping-stones and I treasure my memories of them"; expects to stay in Lausanne for the Summer (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). 1950 March 12. H.D in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; comments that Bryher has proofs which she is bringing over for H.D. to see; remarks "I don't suppose it was the fault of Bryn Mawr that I didn't like it. My second year was broken into or across by my affair with E.P., who after all, at that time, proved a stimulus and was the scorpionic sting or urge that got me away - at that time, it was essential - felt there, I had fallen between two

stools, what with my mother's musical connection and my father's and half-brother's stars. I did find my path- thanks partly to E.P., also R.A., Lawrence and the rest"; comments on Mary Herr who found Bryn Mawr to be an escape and fulfillment from an unhappy home life--comments that Mary Herr was also a link with Bethlehem as she was at the old seminary (which H.D. says she hated) and that Mary Herr was sort of adopted [nourished?] by the J. Fred Wolle family; Pearson and H.D. seem to be once again trying to get control of the Collected Edition [Collected Poems]; refers to writing a formal note if needed; asks Pearson to obtain additional copies of BY AVON RIVER (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1950 March 14. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; discusses difficulties of getting things published--"They don't seem to want my Rosetti novel just now, though say they are ready to do my War II novel, but I can not publish it (or do not want to) because it brings in too many personal matters. That can wait" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 560562). 1950 March 24. H.D in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; thanks him for a Valentine; discusses SWORD WENT OUT TO SEA, referring to publication possibility as well as another ms. which is still in London; thinks she needs to clear something in Book I with Howell before publication; has not made any Summer plans; refers to having heard from Howell who seemed favorably impressed with BY AVON RIVER [LHS comment: indication within this letter that not having heard from Pearson is causing H.D. some disquiet and she is backing off from pushing him] (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1950 April. "To William Morris (l834-1896)" published in LIFE AND LETTERS TO-DAY. 1950 April 14. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; has received cards (twelve different desert blooms) from an old cousin in California [LHS note: possibly Hildegarde Wilde]--she is using them "to let a few of our friends know that Perdita announced her engagement on March 3l, when she was 31, to John Schaffner with whom she has been working (Literary Agent) for sme time now. He is 36 and seems to have very nice connections, his father is some sort of forest or tree specialist and has his laboratories near New Haven"; gives Silvia Perdita's address: Apt. 45, 112 East 54th St., N.Y. 22; they are being married quietly in Maine (at the insistance of a friend of his whose proteg? he was while at college there); does not plan to go far afield until the wedding is over (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 563). 1950 May 22. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; mentions that she plans to visit Perdita and John in New York in the Fall; has heard from Una Cherverton that Rachel Barnard is getting married to a Mexican [Max Araoz] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 559, 564-565). 1950 June 24. Perdita and John Schaffner married at the Pulsifer farmhouse, ten or fifteen miles outside of Brunswick, Maine. Perdita is given in marriage by Norman Holmes Pearson. Preason described Perdita thus: "She looked really lovely--one of the guests called her a glamorous English girl--in a soft blue dress, rather lacy in effect, with a wide blue hat to match, and carrying a small bridal bouquet of white flowers rimmed with yellow roses, and white lace, with little stramers of white flowers flowing down from it"; ceremony performed by the college [? that John attended in Brunswick] Episcopalian rector although John is an Unitarian (NHP to H.D. [unpubl.

letter], 27 VI 50). H.D in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; letter headed "Midsummer Day Wedding Day June 24, I950"; thanks him for letter--is taking it to Mutrux this afternoon where Bryher is meeting her for tea; is distressed about Pearson's having been overworked; refers to having received two books from New haven--one on Ezra Pound and one on the Peabody Sisters of Salem--has already begun to read the Pound book and comments on it; comments on photographs which he has sent (taken the previous summer); "YOU are excellent, there with Gandria for your background and Perdita and Bryher is PERFECT. And so is H.D. if a mummy can be perfect and there is something so very stark about that photograph, not really grim but authentic sort of MUMMY. It is not `good', is is [sic] dreadful but it is `grand'"; comments that she wasn't really concerned about his not pushing manuscripts, in fact, she is rather relieved that he hasn't been doing so "as I have at last, had time to go over MSS and have had some re-types made and am learning something of punctuation"; goes on to say "But I did feel with AVON that I had crossed literally my Rubicon, all, be-it AVON y-clept!"; refers to wedding--has heard from John Schaffner about gold orchids; is glad that the Pearsons are to be there; refers to request for permission to quote from old letters and thank him for keeping track "I am a little amazed and appaled that the old letters should be quoted - but you, I feel, will always censor"; comments that Aldington had just written of a similar experience--perhaps from the same group of letters--he wrote that the extracts "were not too personal though he seemed a little puzzled and slightly uneasy about some `rather regrettable jokes about Ezra and Lorenzo which the campus proletariat may take au pied de la lettre'"; comments on deaths of William Rose Benet and John Gould Fletcher" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). 1950 September 10. H.D. celebrates her birthday at Kenwin with Bryher and Doris Long (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 568). 1950 September 12. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks Silvia for a pillow sent for her birthday [in her notes Silvia explains that H.D.'s zodiac pillow came from San Sebastion]; mentions War II book ["The Sword went out to Sea"}--Pearson wants to publish it "But the person about and around whom it is written, doesn't want `the story' published"; is not going to New York as Perdita has written "in frantic joy" that she is expecting in late Spring--they have already named the baby Valentine, be it a boy or a girl (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 566, 568-569). 1950 November 28. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to Christmas preparations and "the very difficult but happy job, of finding Bryher SOMETHING"; says "I have a little booklet, I will send one or two to the family [Dobsons], depending on how many are left. Robert Herring had it set up for me from his printer before L. and L. folded up. ... It is a set of poems `left over', from the war trilogy [in her notes Silvia Dobson identifies this as WHAT DO I LOVE] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 567, 570-571). 1950 December 19. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Mollie Dobson; recalls the time "about ten years since you stood on my Lowndes Square roof to watch the over-heard `incidents'" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 572-573). 1950 December 22. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks her for gifts; has no tree this year and has given her little collection of tree things from the past four

years to the floor maid; seems to be thinking of moving to the USA--perhaps "settle somewhere, not too far from Perdita and our-John" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 574-575). 1950 December 29. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Adrienne Monnier; refers to books by Paul Valery sent from Paris for Christmas by Monnier and Beach (HISTOIRES BRISEES and LES FOUQUET DE LA BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE); comments that she is going to the bank--"always a source of anxiety"; refers to her forth-coming status as a grandmother; comments on Schaffner cats ("Petunia." "Magnolia" and "Dr. Hugh de P. Van Brugh, Ph.D."); incates that the Schaffners plan to name the child Valentine, be it a boy or a girl; refers to reading THE FLORA OF THE UNICORN TAPISTRIES, which Bryher has brought her from New York; writes to Sylvia Beach too (H.D. "Letters across the Abyss," p. 121-123). 1951 - 1961. Hildegarde Howard Wylde serves as Chief Curator of the Division of Science, Los Angeles County Museum (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 31). 1951 February 15. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; plans to fly to New York in early April, plans to stay a month then return to Lausanne to pick up Summer things and go on to Lugano; Perdita expects baby end of of March [LHS note: Perdita and John Schaffner regularly told H.D. that her grandchildren were expected a month later then the actually were so that she wouldn't worry as the actual time of birth drew near; this fact confirmed by Silvia Dobson in her notes]; will stay at a little hotel across the street from them; says she has been invited several places, "a cousin from Nova Scotia has been nagging me for years" [LHS note? this would be Gretchen Wolle Baker], old school-friends at Martha's Vineyard suggest I go there [unidentified by LHS and Silvia Dobson], "and the Pearsons want me in their neighbourhood outside New Haven, where they have a summer place" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 579, 583). 1951 February 21. Valentine Schaffner born. 1951 March 18. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; gives Perdita's address as of April 1 (328 East 51st St.); is excited about forthcoming trip--will fly from Paris, stop at Shannon for tea and Gander for breakfast; Perdita returned home on Febrary 21 (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 584). 1951 March 31. H.D. flies from Paris via Shannon to New York. *1951 April 1 - April 20. H.D in New York at the Beekman Tower Hotel on the East River, on the 22nd floor, five minutes from Perdita; during this time she was driven by Mary Herr to Bethlehem [this fact needs to be confirmed]. 1951 April 11. H.D. in New York at the Beekman Tower Hotel; sees Marianne Moore (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter, 12 April 51], Lilly Library). 1951 April 12. H.D. in New York at the Beekman Tower Hotel; writes to Ezra Pound; says she had hoped to get to Washington as the Library of Congress wanted her to do some recordings but she just can't make it; will leave on the 20th--Pan-Am to Shannon, 2 nights in Paris & Swiss Air

to Geneva; came to see Valentine and has gotten to the Cloisters; Valentine is to be christened in New Haven on Sunday so she plans to go to the Pearsons for the week-end; is to have Lunch with Viola; saw Marianne Moore yesterday; hopes to have summer in Lugano (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). 1951 April 20. H.D. leaves New York for Paris, via Shannon; stuck in Shannon overnight. 1951 April 22. H.D in Paris at the Hotel Lancaster; later told Dorothy Pound that she never left the Hotel (H.D. to D.P., [unpubl. letter, 25 Sept 51], Lilly Library). 1951 April 23 - 1951 May 31. H.D in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix. 1951 April 26. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; she had a wonderful time though New York was over-stimulating and most exciting flights, both ways; comments on Valentine's lovely hands; plans to go to the Hotel Bristol in Lugano "(a large, more conventional hotel, at the top of the steps above the Angeli church") (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 585). 1951 May 31 - 1951 September(Mid). H.D in Lugano at the Hotel Bristol. 1951 July 28. H.D. at the Hotel Bristol, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; has had a visit from Silvia Dobson with Enid Scase; has also had a wonderful 10 day visit from Bryher; mentions that Perdita should be there in August (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 586-587). 1951 September 2. H.D. at the Hotel Bristol, Lugano; John and Perdita Schaffner visiting. 1951 September 11. H.D. at the Hotel Bristol, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; Bryher is there now; plans to return to Kenwin on the 17th for two weeks to visit Valentine and Perdita; refers to her writing: "My last novels seem to be very acceptible to the `few', but` not suitable for publication' by the many" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 590-591). *1951 September (after the l7th?)-October (begining). H.D. in Burier-la-Tour at Kenwin; Perdita was visiting with Valentine at that time; John Schaffner was there initially but returned to Ne York earlier than Perdita. [LHS thinks H.D. went back to Lugano briefly after Perdita left, but he isn't sure.] 1951 September 25. H.D. in Burier-la-Tour at Kenwin; writes to to Dorothy Pound; says she will be there for another week or so; thanks her sending quills [?]; has heard from Ellen Hart who lives with Cornelia Brookfield [LHS note: implication is that Ezra and Dorothy Pound knew Ellen Hart]; expresses concern over Ezra; has heard of Dorothy's living situation through one of Pearson's students; describes her own life in Lugano and Lausanne; mentions Schaffner's visit (H.D. to D.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). 1951 October 4. Perdita and Valentine left Kenwin (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 596). 1951 October - 1952 May 28. H.D in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix.

1951 December 12. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; has just gotten over five weeks of very hard grippe; expects to spend Christmas day at Kenwin (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 595-596). 1952. Harold Doolittle retires from Kopper's Coal and Coke Company in Pittsburgh (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 37). 1952 January 4. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Adrienne Monnier; refers to hyacinth which Robert Herring has given to her for the new year (Herring is visiting); refers to reading Robert Ambelain's DANS L`OMBRE DES CATHEDRALES apparently sent by Monnier or Beach; also refers to volume called TAPISERIE by Peguy apparently just sent from Paris (to Kenwin?) and brought over by Bryher the day before; refers to a forthcoming visit from Perdita and the possiblity of going to Paris; refers to sending a "`buget' box" (H.D. "Letters across the Abyss," p. 123-125). 1952 January 5. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Ezra Pound; thanks him for THE PEABODY SISTERS OF SALEM which she already had; has heard from Margaret Snively and has sent her two copies of the Squares series (one for DeForrest); (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). 1952 January 5. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks Silvia for Christmas gifts of a puff and Culpeper; refers to the failure of Mervyn Dobson's marriage; says she has advised him to turn to Bryher for practical advice [in her notes Silvia explains that a few years earlier Bryher had sent Mervyn Dobson funds to take a trip abroad--on this trip he met his future wife, Audrey] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 599, 605-606). Writes to Norah Dobson; says she has had "some editorial letters from America- just for scraps of poems but it seems best to keep the pot-boiling so that I am not altogethers forgotten in the `H.D.' world - whatever and wherever that happens to be"; describes her Christmas decoration--"a flat holly and one wreath on top of my book-case. with my three Wise Men, some stars and many candles"; Robert Herring, who is at Kenwin for the holidays, has brought her a blue hyacinth for the New Year (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 607-608). 1952 January 17. Bryher writes to Silvia Dobson, from Kemwin, giving her twelve hundred and fifty pounds (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 609-610). 1952 January 23. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 611). 1952 February 8. Norman Douglas dies (Macpherson. OMMES EODEM COGIMUR : SOME NOTES WRITTEN FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF NORMAN DOUGLAS ...); had swallowed a supply of pills on February 5; Kenneth Macpherson and Islay Lyons were staying with him at the time (Holloway, NORMAN DOUGLAS, p. 491). 1952 April 8. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson;; Kenneth Macpherson has been staying at the Hotel de la Paix with a friend, Islay (pronounced Eye-la) de Courcey Lyon; asks Silvia to do astrological chart for Islay, born March 7, l922; both Kenneth and Islay were with Norman Douglas at the end; Perdita apparently coming in May; H.D. plans to

leave Lausanne about mid-May, stay at or near Kenwin to visit Valentine, then go to Lugano; comments that Bryher has had the proofs of her THE FOURTEENTH OF OCTOBER, "a lovely reconstruction of Hastings" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 614-615). 1952 May 26. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; sends birthday greeting on postcard; about to depart for Lugano (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 616). 1952 May 28 - 1952 November(Mid). H.D in Lugano at the Hotel Bristol. 1952 Summer. While in Lugano H.D. reads E.M. Butler's THE FORTUNES OF FAUST and SILVER WINGS ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 30); later credits THE FORTUNES OF FAUST with having started her on her own Helen sequence ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 21, 30, 62). 1952 July 14. H.D. goes with Perdita to Locarno, where Perdita departs on the Centovalle mountain local for Domodosola (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 618). 1952 August 30. H.D. at the Hotel Bristol, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; asks if Silvia can find anything by Randolph Hughes for other than his LESBIA BRANDON, which she already has--is particularly interested in anything else he has written on Swinburne; Bryher is there now (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 616-617). 1952 September - 1954. HELEN IN EGYPT written. 1952 September 8. H.D. at the Hotel Bristol, Lugano; writes to Mervyn Dobson; comments that she had taken Perdita over to Locarno, when she left July 14, on the Centovalle Mountain local, for Domodosola and hence back to Bryher; Bryher is there now as well as Robert Herring; Bryher has been in New York; John and Perdita Schaffner have moved to a new house, not far from the first house; Perdita is expecting again--baby to be named either Miranda or Nicholas (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 618). 1952 September 10(?). HELEN IN EGYPT begun: wrote 8 of the initial sections in 3 days (H.D. to NHP, 23 Sept 52; Thorn Thicket, p. 50). 1952 October 2. H.D. at the Hotel Bristol, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks her for gift of the Swinburne Pasipha; refers to the Schmidergs--Melitta is settled in New York--Walter seems to go back and forth; tells Silvia that she has stated a HELEN IN EGYPT series of love and war poems; comments that she has not written or wanted to write poetry for over five years (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 621). 1952 October 24. H.D. at the Hotel Bristol, Lugano; writes to Viola Jordan; says she is leaving Lugano on the 29th; sends special love to Dorothy Pound via Viola; discusses the Schaffners and gives her their new address (312 East 53rd Street, N.Y. 22); comments that in returning to Lausanne she has to change trains at Lucerne and at Berne (H.D. to V.J., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library).

1952 November - l953 January. H.D in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix. 1952 November 7. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to the fact that Silvia has gotter LUCRETIA BORGIA for her for the forthcoming Christmas; Bryher is having new bookshelves made for H.D. as her Christmas gift; gives her Perdita's new address (312 East 53rd Street) (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 622). 1952 December 21. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; has reveived the LUCRETIA BORGIA; Rober Herring is due out and Kenneth Macpherson and Islay Lyon will be staying at the Hotel de la Paix [in her notes at this point, Silvia Dobson interjects the comment that "H.D. had once told me, after listening to Dolmetsch instruments with Pound, she decided to become a musicsian] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 604, 623). 1952 December 31. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Norah Dobson; describes her Christmas decorations--the three wise men on the bookcase, an angel or two, a wooden bird hovering abome on a thread--carnations, Christmas roses, and branches of evergreens with cones (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 624-625). 1953 - 1961. H.D. in analytical consultance with Erich Heydt. 1953. THE PLAYER'S BOY by Bryher published in New York by Pantheon Books; dedicated to H.D. 1953 January 4. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Ezra Pound; discusses Sulamith W?lfing and her work; Pound has apparently ask for more reproductions as H.D. is trying to get Perdita to investigate possibilities for publication (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). 1953 January l6. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; has lost astrological charts for Kenneth Macpherson and Islay Lyon and asks Silvia to replace them; refers to waiting for Miranda-Nicholas; "as I hear from friends that Perdita's second baby is nearer than they led me to imagine. They put the date ahead, so I will not worry" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 629-630). 1953 January - 1953 March. H.D in Lausanne at the Clinique C?cil (operated on for abdominal intestinal occlusions). Describes experience in "Compassionate Friendship" (p. 11); was examined and operated upon by a Dr. Perret; after operation, is informed "that he had unknotted and removed a length of `innards', as long as this - and he stretches out his long arm. I hear from another doctor, that it was a brilliant surgical - opus, shall we say?" Later writes "Dr. Perret in his green semi-transparent X-ray coat and close-fitting rubber cap was a Mephisto image, but he saved my life ("Compassionate Friendship". p. 39). 1953 January 28. Nicholas Schaffner born. 1953 March 25. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes postcard to Ezra Pound; is being lent Phyllis Bottome's last book; recalls that Ezra sent H.D. to see Phyllis Bottome in Rome, Winter 19122--comments that she thinks much of her but can't recall when she las saw her,

possibly in Paris 1924--thinks she last saw Pound in London, 1938 (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). 1953 March (end). H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; describes herself as a "frustrated convalescent" [in her notes Silvia Dobson comments that H.D. had told her "quite casually that she had had part of her intestine removed. `It was too long anyway. They just took a tuck in it'"] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 627. 631-632). 1953 April 3. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Adrienne Monnier; comments that this is her first letter in 2 or 3 months; Bryher is urging her to send some manuscripts--is thinking of "The Sword went out to Sea", the second of a series; regards "White Rose and the Red" as the first of the series; will talk to Bryher this afternoon and decide wheither or not to post it; refers to Sylvia Beach's going to America; comments briefly on use of Delia Alton; refers to SWORD as being "wildly `occult'"; comments on Pearson's prying to get it published in 1940 when the hero, Lord Dowding, finally said that he had no right to prevent its publication (H.D. "Letters across the Abyss," p. 126-127). 1953 April 4. Adrienne Monnier writes to H.D., expressing interest in seeing "White Rose and the Red" (H.D. "Letters across the Abyss," p. 127-129). 1953 April l6. H.D. at Beekman Tower Hotel, New York (Collecott. Notes). 1953 April - 1953 July. H.D in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; Book I of HELEN IN EGYPT completed (Thorn Thicket, p. 50) 1953 May 30 - June (mid ?). H.D. at Clinique C?cil. 1953 May 30. H.D. writes to Bryher that she has taken room no. 70 at the Clinique (Morris notes, letter not seen by LHS). 1953 May 31. H.D. writes to Bryher; tells Bryher that the Dr. thinks he can perform a minor operation without cutting (Morris notes, letter not seen by LHS). 1953 June 3. H.D. writes to Bryher; she has to stay flat in bed till early the next week (Morris notes, letter not seen by LHS). 1953 July - 1954 June. H.D? in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner (Am Strand). 1953 July 7. H.D. takes up residence at Kusnacht (exact date of arrival from "Compassionate Friendship", p. [1], 36); is received by Dr. Brunner, his son, and a visiting specialist; is attended by Sister Gr?til; has been brought to Kusnacht by car by Bryher, Walter Schmideberg, and Miss Divorne (of the Clinique C?cil); Brunner wants her moved to the Sanatorium where there are day and night nurses but she begs to be allowed to remain in his own house, Am Strand ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 25).

1953 July 8 (?). H.D. at Kusnacht, Am Strand; is attended by Erich Heydt for the first time--who says as he jabs in a hypodermic needle "You know Ezra Pound, don't you?" ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 25). 1953 July 14. H.D. writes to Bryher; tells her of meeting Erich Heydt (Morris notes, letter not seen by LHS). 1953 Summer (late). H.D. begins Book II of HELEN IN EGYPT (Thorn Thicket, p. 50-51). 1953 September 8. H.D? in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner (Am Strand); writes to Silvia Dobson; Bryher is due over on Thursday, then she (Bryher) will go to Lugano; comments that it has been seven years since she first came to Kusnacht and reflects on the cycles of mystic 7 (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 636-637). 1953 December (?). Walter Schmideberg becomes a patient at the Klinik Brunner; arrives before Christmas ("Compassionate Friendship". p. 36). Bryher and Robert Herring are there to be with him; Herring is charmed with Erich Heydt and he and H.D. agree that Heydt is like the early Conrad Veidt whose film personality had so fascinated H.D. ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 39). 1953 December 7. Adrienne Monnier writes to H.D. at Kusnacht; comments on preparations to have "White Rose and the Red" translated by Francoise Hartmann with the assistance of a Mr. Allan of the British Institute (H.D. "Letters across the Abyss," p. 129-130). 1953 December 12. H.D? in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner; writes to Adrienne Monnier; says Bryher is due over on Friday, hopes to keep her there a few days and perhaps go down to Lugano on the 22; is reading Monnier's LES GAZETTES D`ADRIENNE MONNIER, 1925-1945; refers to Francoise Hartmann and translating of "White Rose and the Red"; comments on acknowledgement to be made to Violet Hunt (H.D. "Letters across the Abyss," p. 131-132). 1953 December 31. H.D? in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner (Am Strand); writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks her for Christmas flowers (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 638). Also wrote to Norah Dobson (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 639). 1954. ROMAN WALL by Bryher published in New York by Pantheon Books; H.D. is represented by the character called Fabula. 1954. John (Pop) Macpherson, Kenneth's father, dies. 1954 January. H.D. Begins Book III of HELEN IN EGYPT; continues it in Lugano in September (Thorn Thicket, p. 5l). 1954 June l0. H.D. in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner; writes to Silvia Dobson; has noted date that Silvia Dobson and Enid Scase will be in Zurich; tries to suggest that they come to Lugano instead; is upset because Bryher has sent on a cart load of Books and MSS from Kenwin to go into in a little room under the roof at Am Strand which she has been given for storage purposes;

is trying to dodge several interviewers--wishes Bryher were there to handle them (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 646). 1954 June 29. H.D. leaves Kusnacht to journey to Lugano ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 66). 1954 June (end) - 1954 November. H.D in Lugano at the Hotel Bristol. 1954 July 9. H.D. at the Hotel Bristol, Lugano; receives a postcard from Walter Schmideberg, dated this date, saying that Erich Heydt has left Kusnacht and is now in Munich "?" ("Compassionate Friendship". 66) 1955 July 17. H.D. at the Hotel Bristol, Lugano; expects Erich Heydt to stop in Lugano on his way back to Zurich from Munich; receives a card from him while he is staying with a widow friend in Innsbruck explaining that he will not be stopping in Lugano--H.D. iis relieved as she wanted time to settle in and get back to the old Lugano atmosphere ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 66). 1954 September 12. H.D. at the Hotel Bristol, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson from Saipa Cafe; Bryher has left; Perdita is due over soon for about two weeks, and Bryher will return to Lugano then (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 619). 1954 September 22. H.D. at the Hotel Bristol, Lugano; receives a telephone call from Erich Heydt who tells her that Walter Schmideberg has died in a clinic in Zurich at 4 A.M.; H.D. had just finished the third section of Helen in Egypt ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 36). 1954 September 24. H.D. at the Hotel Bristol, Lugano; Erich Heydt arrives late evening ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 36). 1954 September 26. H.D. at the Hotel Bristol, Lugano; Erich Heydt leaves Lugano for Venice; asks H.D. to go to Venice with him but she declines since she is expecting Harold and Nettie Doolittle as well as Bryher and Perdita to arrive soon; H.D. commented later "I felt caught for a moment, the first dash for liberty that had tempted me, for years, for centuries" ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 36-37). 1954 September 30. H.D. at the Hotel Bristol, Lugano; Erich Heydt stops in Lugano , returning to Zurich from Venice; H.D., Bryher, and Perdita have dinner with him and then they rushed him up to the station ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 37). 1954 October 9. H.D. at the Hotel Bristol, Lugano; Perdita flies back to America (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 648). l954 October 11. H.D. at the Hotel Bristol, Lugano; Bryher leaves Lugano (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 648). 1954 October 12. H.D. at the Hotel Bristol, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; says that they have been reading "flying saucer" books; refers to Walter Schmideberg's death--"Dr. Brunner wrote

me that he really had been ill for years, & his end was merciful, as he would only have lingered on, in a state of misery, mental, physical"; has had many visitors--her brother & wife, Perdita, Byher, Erich Heydt (twice, going to and from Venice); is reading Iris Murdoch's UNDER THE NET (apparently Iris Murdoch was reccommended to H.D. by Silvia Dobson) (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 648-649). 1954 October 18. H.D. at the Hotel Bristol, Lugano; has dinner with Erich Heydt who has stopped there enroute to Rome and takes him to the station to catch the train; has a discussion with him about her reluctance to let unknown admirers come to see her ("I am not Goethe")--in particular, Eckhardt, the brother of a friend of Heydt's from East Berlin; H.D. feels shattered by this idea and resists it; also discusses the fact that she is happy as she is and does not want to alter her situation ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 64-5). 1954 October 27. H.D. at the Hotel Bristol, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; is sending her a flying saucer book; is planning to return to Kusnacht in about a week or ten days; talks of going to Rome around Christmas time--Kenneth Macpherson is urging that the spend Christmas together; Norman Holmes Pearson is due at Kusnacht with Bryher for a short visit around November llth so she must sort out more and more papers; is desperately trying to find a suitable apartment in Zurich (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 650). 1954 November - 1954 December. H.D in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner (Am Strand). *1954 November 4. H.D in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner (Am Strand); writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks Silvia for doing an astrological chart of Erich Heydt; tells Silvia that Heydt "is training for ps-a in Zurich and he wants me to type out details [of the chart] for him to take into his analyst"; recalls that Schmideberg had "no truck with our astrology";; "Erich is, I should say very good at his job, assistant doctor here and general ps-a factotem- they call him the psychiatrist; he doesn't do our classic ps-a but just talks to people, when `down' ... He is a very balanced person, in life- but has such a wealth of knowledge outside his `profession', books and music. He is an accomplished musician and linguist ... (he is NOT with the Jung analysts, but someone who knew the Bear in Berlin)"; Bryher has shut up Kenwin for some weeks as she is away--H.D. says she doesn't know where, but possibly USA (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 651). [LHS must watch this carefully as well as the one for December 6, l954 to be sure it is really 1954; did H.D. and Bryher go to Lugano and Rome both? Definitely to Rome.] 1954 November 11-16. H.D in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner (Am Strand); is visited by Bryher and Norman Holmes Pearson; makes out a script of selections from Helen in Egypt with short introductions to each separate poem ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 15) *1954 December 6. H.D in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner (Am Strand) (?); writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks Silvia for doing a second astrological chart of Erich Heydt; refers to Christmas plans--Bryher is to come over on the 21st and they will travel to Lugano on the 22 where she will stay at the Hotel Bristol; plans to return to Kusnacht "as I have a marvelous apartment now, with glassed-in balcony-room, overlooking the lake, and I have made friends here and I have trips into Zurich" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 652). [LHS must watch this carefully as well as the one for November 4, l954 to be sure it is really 1954; did H.D. and Bryher go to Lugano and Rome both? Definitely to Rome.]

1954 (?) December 21 (?). H.D. at Kusnacht with Bryher; hears broadcast of Euripides Ion, "the Tuesday of Xmas week", as referred to in "Compassionate Friendship" (p. 28, 71). 1954 December 23 - 1955 January 4. H.D. makes trip to Rome with Bryher. 1954 December 23. H.D. and Bryher leave for Rome; H.D. receives a phone call at the air-field from Erich Heydt who has been in London; they have a rough flight ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 38); Erich Heydt later tells H.D. that Bryher told him that "everyone on the plane was upset but you" ("Compassionate Friendship". p. 64). 1955 - 1956. Prose interludes for HELEN IN EGYPT written (Friedman. DLB 45:140). 1955 January 4. H.D. and Bryher return to Kusnacht from Rome ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 8). 1955 January 26. First recording session of HELEN IN EGYPT in Zurich at the Studio W.H. von der M?hll; H.D. is alone and reads selections; in "Compassionate Friendship" (p. 14-16) H.D. comments "I was a little surprised myself when Herr von der M?hll ran off the first long-record for me, in the studio. I was alone and felt that I had an alter-ego, this Helen, speaking with my own voice, but with a self-assurance that I generally lack in every-day life"; Herr von der M?hll wanted to take H.D. to the station but she rushed off, "a little over-charged", intending to catch the 4.21 Stadelhofen train back to Kusnacht; however she does not make it as Heydt, who escorted her to the studio and left her there, and who has returned there to meet her but missed her but has heard a little of the recording, catches up with her outside of the station and "accosts" her in raptures; H.D. has insctucted Herr von der M?hll not to mail of the recording air-mail to Pearson yet as "I don't want it to get there too early. I want to have time to catch up." 1955 January 30(?). H.D. at Kusnacht; Erich Heydt takes her to "an unmitigated magic-mountain, a little Inn, ?MDUL?Wasberg?MDNM?, where we sat at a wooden table and had a goblet each of red wine" ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 10). 1955 February 2. Second recording session of HELEN IN EGYPT in Zurich at the Studio W.H. von der M?hll; this time Erich Heydt is with her--Heydt insists that the second tape go to Pearson air-mail; comments "I thonk the Helen has two god-fathers, for when Erich sat behind my right shoulder at the second reading, I seemed to lose myself, to be myself, as hardly ever in my life before. It seemed that I had missed my vocation. This is what I would have liked to have done always - always and always. It wasn't singing, it wasn't acting but it was both" ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 14-16). 1955 February 18 - September 21. "Compassionate Friendship" written. 1955 February 18. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); begins notes entitled "Compassionate Friendship"; describes going to Erich Heydt's apartment in "Geduld" (one of the houses at the Brunner Sanitarium) for tea; comments "I have no real excuse to stay on [at Kusnacht] except that I seem to love them and Dr. Erich says they love me"; comments on her storage room upstairs and the little bedroom where Bryher stays and where Norman Holmes Pearson has

stayed; refects on Aldington and his comments on T. E. Lawrence's sexuality--has discussed them with Heydt; continues to reflect on Aldington and the attempts to suppress his book (unpubl. ms.). 1955 February 19. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; comments on reviews of Aldington's book on T.E. Lawrence; reflects on her own interest in T.E. Lawrence and comparing it with her interest in Lord Dowding; appreciated fact that after Aldington read the the first part of "The Sword Went Out to Sea" he wrote her that it was publishable; says that for some years she had not realized its implications--"It was aimed at a Great Secret, the secret that held the Roman empire together, that held the British empire together"--it was Aldington who first recognized it; comments "one of my oldest and sympathetic London friends, wrote, `don't publish the book. It will turn like a scorpion and sting you to death,' Perhaps Aldington's book has turned like a scorpion but it won't sting him to death"; has been reading Ellen Glasgow's The Woman Within, sent by Bryher; comments "Ellen Glasgow died in 1945, she was born in 1873. I was born in 1886 - and in 1945, my own apotheosis or re-birth took place. That is a long, long story and my Sword tried to tell it"; agrees with Ellen Glasgow that "our lives begin, some of them, when we are 60"; is awaiting a visit from Heydt since they have missed their usual tea-hour; comments that she lent him two of her early books and wonders why this disturbs her; remarks that Bryher sent her The Missing Macleans which may have been a mistake to begin; disturbed by talk of another German translation; concludes "True, I have lived too much, seen too much, travelled too much - been too cerebrally aware of events ... that war, the recrudescence of memories with the Lawrence, the `other' Lawrence whom I knew at one time and I think adequately portrayed in my own novel, Madrigal" (unpubl. ms.). Reports the next day in "Compassionate Friendship" that Heydt had visited her after she had writing what she had; Bryher calls at 6:15 from Pully, Lausanne (the usual time); it has been snowing at Pully so H.D. discourages Bryher from making a trip over to Kusnacht; after call, H.D. gets into fur coat and snow-boots for her walk over to the House for dinner; Heydt catches up with her enroute-they discuss the fact that Dr. Rudolph {Brunner}'s broken arm had disrupted Heydt's plans for a holiday in Sicily; Heydt suggests that H.D. join him and she laughingly rejects the idea. 1955 February 20. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; discusses her relationship with Heydt and comments "There is a great deal of inner conflict in my semi-professional relationship with Erich"; reflects on her fur coat which Bryher gave her as being "the wages of sin" much to Heydt's bewilderment; reflects upon the proximity of Thomas Mann and Carl Jung--in reference to Jung, H.D. comments "I take my alchemists straight", explaining to Heydt about her readings in Robert Ambelain; comments on her intensive readings in Ambelain and Jean Chaboseau during her last winters in Lausanne before she collapsed and was taken to the Clinique C?cil--reflects that Pearson had once asked where she got her "Isis information"; reflects on her examination and the resulting operation at the Clinique C?cil; Heydt comes a little before 2:30, having ordered the house car which has not arrived yet, and sits down to discuss translation difficulties--his friend, Ivan, has tried to translate "Mid-Day" with difficulty--H.D. comments "a poem that I must have written before War I or early in the war. I cannot remember when I wrote it; it has made me too sad to look at these early poems"; continues "I was shuffling through some fallen leaves, in front of the British Museum. one late summer day when I wrote that or Sitalkas"; while riding in the car H.D. tells Heydt "I am surprised at the sadness in these poems - you see, I have never been able to discuss them. I don't think it was personal - that is - I had a - a - married life. There was something that I was looking for. I could

not have reached artistic maturity in the America of that day. We had no sign-posts, at that time. I was married in England in 1913, and then the - the - I call it the Iron curtain, a term we all understand. That iron-curtain fell between me and my somewhat - well - not hot-house, but in a way, very comfortable surroundings - I mean, I had in a way, a very petted and spoiled America life - one girl with brothers - I don't know. It is hard to explain it. We say (old-fashioned people used to say) when someone dies, he or she has gone home. I was looking for home, I think. But a sort of heaven-is-my-home, I was looking for that - that super-ego - that father-lover - I don't know - How can I explain it?"; they stop the car and walk, continuing their diiscussion, focusing on one of the patients at Kusnacht, stopping at a inn, different from the one two weeks earlier; H.D. catches sight of a child sweepiing snow off its leggings with a broom and comments "I am always reminded of Rose-white and rose-red when I see a broom sweeping snow" (unpubl. ms.) 1955 February 21. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; reflects that Valentine Schaffner is 4 to-day and recalls Perdita's fourth birthday; comments on Ellen Glasgow's The Woman Within and the sense that she is "not alone in finding that those years between wars seemed almost to be marking time"; reacts to acclaim that Pearson has given to two her Helen recordings; recalls that she had been asked in 1951 to do some records for the Library of Congress but did not feel inspired to undertake the project; during Pearson's recent visit, November 11-16, 1954, she had made out a script with short introductions; reflects on the experience of making the recording and comments "I had found myself, I had found my alter-ego or my double - and that my mother's name was Helen has no doubt something to do with it. This is myself, Helen out of the body, in another world, the eidolon of the legend. Bryher ut she is not alone. There, she meets the legendary Achilles, a phantom but a reality. There I, there Helen lives out her war - her wars. There in the second long-playing disc, is Helen with Achilles on one side, on the other, Helen with Paris. There is the conflict solved - as The Woman Within asks `Is it true, I wonder, that the only way to escape a war is to be in it?'" (unpubl. ms.) 1955 February 22. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; thinking of a letter which she received from Philip Frere before Christmas, she reflects on her will and her conversations with her brother, Harold, who had visit her the previous summer with his wife, Nettie, about spend the money left to H.D. by Helen Wolle Doolittle which Harold had built into a considerable sum over the years--H.D. comments "I am not extravagant, I want only peace and security and such stamina as I can accrue or accumulate, so as to finish my work"--the will which she Had made out through Bertram Baylis, "left everything unconditionally to Bryher, to be dealt with, as she thought suitable for friends who needed help" and thinking then of Perdita--howver Perdita is now taken care of, throuugh John and Bryher--Is currently thinking of establishing a trust, minus legacies for her nieces and tokens for the Schaffners, for the Kinik Brunner to assist with expenses for patients who need to stay longer but can't afford it; comments that the Klinik Brunner had started two generations earlier as a sort of Kurhouse, treatment with baths, which still exist; Frere had suggested, prompted H.D. felels by Bryher, that she leave her money directly to Perdita; Frere also asked how H.D. would like to be buried--will not answer now but continue to think about it; has heard from Pearson, who has been in touch with Eva Hesse, about interest of Arche Verlag in doing a German/English edition of her poems; Pearson wants her to do more readings, this time of early poems with explanatory captions; he also wants her to do more translations of Euripides to make up a new volume which would include Ion (which was broadcast three times from London); she is to write similar captions for the whole Helen sequence--to all this, H.D. comments "I need space and time and at the moment, so happy

with the Woman Within"; has heard from Aldington who has enclosed a laudatory letter abot the T.E. Lawrence biography, writeen by Colonel Breese to the editor of the Illustrated (unpubl. ms.). 1955 February 23. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; Bryher is due on Friday in Zurich about 3:00; plans a week of activities, including seeing an Etruscan exhibition at the Museum; reflects on recent excursions; and thinks of herself in relation to her contemporaries and their illnesses, paticularily E.M. Butler, whose Fortunes of Faust she says ""really struck the spark that started my Helen in Lugano, in the summer of 1952"; has read Silver Wings, which most of her friends don't like, at least 10 times; dreams of a Magic Mountain sort of place where her friends could come, stay, rest, get proper treatment, etc.; Heydt has brought her a recent Arche publication, Fisch und Schatten--English/German poems of Ezra Pound (translations by Eva Hesse; Pearson has sent The Pound Newsletter: 5, asking her to check pp. 22 ff for queried identifations of the Cantos--comments "Norman has done so much for me that I would like to `have a little game', as he writes, `with the queried identifications'. If I do I must drop this simple, single world" (unpubl. ms.) Heydt has a free day and takes a group of H.D.'s books to Arche Verlag where he learned and reported to H.D. that Elisabeth Schnack is going to America and will look over the books and consult with Norman Holmes Pearson there ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 26) 1955 February 24. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; has been up to the attic-den for some clothing; reflects on having heard the broadcast of Ion; pulls down Ezra's Cantos and turns to Canto XXI, reads and reflects on it--"but long ago, I stepped out of the track of this particular whirlwind, this phychic landslide"; comments "I think, however, that I, like T.S. Eliot, have always credited Ezra with my own first awakening"; reflects on pain of early gathering volumes for Erich to take to Arche Verlag, as Pearson wishes--"it was one of those early poems that Ezra scrutinized and with a flourish of a large lead-pencil, in the British Museum tea-shop, deleted and trimmed or pruned or chiselled into the then unfamiliar freeverse"; comments that Ezra did not like her later work and told her so, and that he wanted her to translate Callimachus--"I was a little surprised recently when he wrote me `crawl out of your pigsty'"; rereads Canto XX and reflects on the little edition, Tre Cantos, which Mary de Rachewiltz had sent her; is transported back to pre-War I London when Ezra had pruned "Hermes of the Way" ("a rough translation of a short poem from the Greek Anthology, into vers libre")--"Hermes, actor, charlatan, magician. Ezra was the first of these initiators. There were no more initiations, I had thought, after my final experience in the London of the second war. But there is another Hermes, musician, healer, actor, charlatan, maybe - a very subtle actor, if I may presume to challenge certain affirmations - I mean, a woman of my age should not be taken in, when a German of 34 says that it would be wonderful if we could go to Sicily together"; comments that Heydt, "our latest Hermes is the assistant physician and psycho-analyst here," reminds her at times of the psycho-analyst in T.S. Eliot's Cocktail Party--views her present envirionment as similar--instead of cocktails "there is a vibration, intoxication in the air, induced, you might say, for me at any rate, by the companionship of this latest Hermes"; relects on her arrival at Kusnacht and her first encounter with Heydt [in July 1953] (unpubl. ms.). Meets Erich Heydt on the terrace at the door of the House at night and records conversation (re the moon) the next day. comments that she has written Pearson that Heydt took a collection of her books to the Verlag on Wednesday; goes to her attic room to get the Cantos and decides to take the volume along with a

copy of the Pound Newsletter 5, so that he can play with rubrics; Pearson has requested an article on Pound in a Stuttgart Merkur which Heydt will get for him; Heydt asks for a sample of Pounds handwriting so that he can loan it to one of the Zurich analysts; after H.D. greets Bryher she find's Pound's last letter for Heydt; notes reading that v. 4 of Jung's collected works has been published and comments "Geduld, patience, perhaps I will collect my scattered volumes sometime" (unpubl. ms.). 1955 February 26. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; reads through Hippolytus Temporizes, making corrections, chiefly commas (has added 172 commas, a few dashes, and corrected a few mis-spelt words) ; will send Pearson one of the corrected copieshas three copies; recalls that Schmideberg used to say "I am in a comma"; reflects on it's publication and creation; comments "I can see why I was so careless about proof-reading. The stanzas and lines run on and into the abstract [LHS note: the word "abstract" replaces the word "infinite" which H.D. crossed out] - realised by rock and shale and snow and wind and foam and storm. I was realising a self, a super-ego, if you will, that was an octave above my ordinary self and fighting to realise it ..."; relects that she was working on prose at the same time and that she must return to that sometime--is thinking specifically of PALIMPSEST; she runs upstairs and gets the only copy she still has (unpubl. ms.). 1955 February 27. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); H.D. and Bryher meet Erich Heydt for tea at Hug then they go to Heydt's room where he plays the first tape of H.D.'s reading for Bryher ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 29). 1955 February 28. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; has been rereading "Hipparchia" in PALIMPSEST; agrees with Edith Sitwell that the writing is "hallucinated"; though the writing is un-even, has held and astonished her--doesn't think she has read it for 20 years; "it is it actually the same story as the much later ?MDUL?Madrigal? MDNM?, where I assemble the same set of players in modern dress; it took me twenty years or more to get the Greek characters into time. They are out-of-time in the Greek scene, the only way that I could assemble them in the early or mid-twenties"; reflects on hearing the tape the previous day and comments "There the Helen always satisfys me, the final and complete solution of the life-long search for the answer - the companion in-time and out-of-time together"; reflects on Jung, whom she has read very little of--also has never read all of Freud--but she has studied her mysticism directly from the French writers; comments on when she wrote various pieces; reflects that she had thought that she had satisfied herself with her novels of the late 40's and would not touch on the mystery or romance again but with her reading of E. M. Butler in Luganao, Summer 1952, she found herself returning to thr Greek scene in poetry; comments "But it was the old serpent of the Gnossis, biting its tail. Around, around it all, was the fulfilment, the actuality of the "love story" and of the religious or mystical search, the alchemy and the hermetism of the old grimoires, affirmed and realised together"; comments on a print of Freud in his study which she has on the wall above her couchand reflects that without her work with the Professor she could not have faced this final stage of the initiation. (unpubl. ms.). 1955 March 4. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; describes having gone [with Bryher?] to an exhibition of Etruscan treasures at the Zurich Kunsthaus; sees in it the Troy of her Helen sequence; hopes to go in again this evening to see the effect under wall and ceiling lights--thinks that it will be like walking into a furnace; comments that they have

played the second disc for Bryher in Heydt's rooms; has beeen trying to collect poems for another recording session as requested by Bryher and Norman Holmes Pearson but "after the Helen, I do not feel that I can go back to the lesser phases of the initiation or processus [sic]"; Bryher has just brought her flowers--carnations and her favorite freezias (unpubl. ms.). 1955 March 6. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; sees Erich Heydt for a half-hour before she and Bryher go out for tea--"A word opens doors and we play our old game of word association" ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 33). 1955 March 7. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; reflects on Erich Heydt as an actor--"He fills in the background of the psychic map, weaves over from the War I, Magrigal days, through to War II"; he and Ivan (now at Durham University) have translated her poem "Mid=Day"; has been receiving beautiful letters from Aldington and is enjoying the folders of miniatures being sent to her from the Metropolitan Museum of Art via Norman Holmes Pearson; Bryher is still there (unpubl. ms.) 1955 March 13. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; goes out in the car and walks with Erich Heydt ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 34). 1955 March 14. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; comments that Bryher has been gone almost a week but she is due back from Rome at Easter; reflects on the beautiful time they had there with Kenneth and Islay last Christmas and the fact fact she would have liked to have talked more with Kenneth--they talked alone very little--once about Eileen's recent death in America and his mother's going in London; comments that Pop (Kenneth's father) was staying with her and Bryher in London when she roughed out "Magic Ring" (1943) beginning it with carobon copies of the letters which she had written to Dowding; commentts "I managed at last, in Magic Ring, to present the earlier mystery of Peter van Eck (as I called him) and the phenomena of that 1920 Greek trip with Bryher ..."; has just received a book which Pearson has sent her on Lawrence [Harry T. Moore's THE INTELLIGENT HEART]-Pearson wants her to check references to H.D.--"I have not the courage to do this , at the moment"; Heydt has had the grippe but comments that they were able to order the car and go out on one of their trips the previous day; has reread the Maclean book and sent it back to Bryher and experienced a short period of escapism with Elizabeth Bowen's latest novel [A WORLD OF LOVE?] (unpubl. ms.). Glances at the Lawrence book and as a result had a wretched night ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 35) 1955 March 15. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; reflects on Lawrence and his place in her sequence of seven initiators--lists them as 1. Pound, 2. Aldington, 3. John Cournos, 4. Lawrence, 5. Cecil Gray (whom she identifies as "the friend of his and Frieda's), 6. Macpherson ("as a later double, as iit were of Gray"), 7. Schmideberg--"now Erich comes in here as a sort of inheritor od the bear and hence of the whole group"; says she saw nothing of the Lawrences afrer leaving Richard though he did come into dreams rarely and his name came up occasionally when she was with Freud--"It was something of a shock to find a letter from him to her printed in the book"--wonders how that letter came to be at large; reflects "this sort of thing works destruction"--both Pearson and Horace Gregory want her to verify statements relating to H.D. and Amy Lowell--"this would waste hours and hours and would take me away from myself - jerk me out of my radius"; comments "But within the circumference of

my circle, the legendary duality of the Typhon-Osiris, Mephisto-Christ is stressed by the Madrigal memory of the Frederico, old Rico of my own story. And that story conditioned me to deception, loss, destruction. The later Lord Howell was the perfected Image" (unpubl. ms.). 1955 March 16. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; comments that she ought to be writing letters "But I feel drawn to this letter to - myself? To whom? To Walter Schmideberg, the Bear of the fairy-tale, Rose-red and Rose-White? I only thought of him yesterday, as the last of my minor initiatord"; comments that he came to Kusnachtt before Christmas, 1953; and that he is mentioned in "Writing on the Wall"; recalls the circumstances of his death and its occurring just as she finished Helen in Egypt and comments "I have satisfied myself with my final Helen poems, and with a certain corelation of entities, my friend who feature in these books (mostly unpublished) and I feel I have made my peace with Freud, with God, with poor Schmideberg"; reflects on her relationship with Heydt and his friends; comments on publication plans of translations--Urzidil has arranged for BY AVON RIVER to be published in Frankfurt--Heydt wants TRILOGY published in German; says Heydt has revitalized her interest in getting things published; descriibes Heydt's room as being "gay with modernistic bright sketches of a young German-Swiss, one of his proteges"; reflects on her fear of Heydt and their relationship as well as his impact on her; recalls her conversations with Schmideberg who cast Heydt in the role of a spy and called him "Spy Number I" and his friend Ivan "Spy Number II"--Bryher claimed that the Bear had paranoia and saw everyone as spies and she refused to play the game; describes playing the spy game with Schmideberg (unpubl. ms.). 1955 March 18. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; comments that she has a sense of guilt about writing these notes; has been reading the D.H. Lawrence volume; thinks of heer will and comments that she has written Harold Doolittle and Mr. Baylis (in London) that Bryher and Norman Holmes Pearson are to take of all MSS and papers; has had a sleepless night, thinking of D.H. and Frieda Lawrence; recalls her experience exchanging experimental autobiographical sketches or stories with Stephen Guest and never having been able to retrieve hers from him--it included a reference to Lawrence and she wonders where and when it will turn up; links Erich with Eric, her favourite half-brother; has sent Pearson the photograph of Freud and Yo-Fi for the American edition of TRIBUTE TO FREUD; mentions that she has cracked an important bridge tooth but Dr. Hanhart, a dentist in the nearby village, has been able to temporarily repair it; has put up another photograph of Freud; has ordered the car for the next day in order to meet Joan Leader Waluga, whom Bryher has asked them to have at Kusnacht for about 10 days--"Erich is to talk to her, to help her if he can, over the shock of the disappearance of a very sketchy Polish husband whom she married by proxy, a few years ago" (unpubl. ms.). [LHS note: Joan Waluga was the daughter of Ethel Banfield Leader, the sister of Doris Banfield Shorter Long, who was one of Bryher's oldest and closest friends from Queenswood days.] 1955 March 19. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; mentions her daily habit of breakfasting at 8 then crawliing back to bed for an hour; comments on Father Brunner's having been in to find out what she knows about Joan Waluga (unpubl. ms.). Goes to Kloten to meet Joan at the air-port ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 44). 1955 March 20. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); has tea with Joan Waluga at the Kunstube and shows her Seehof, "the Manor House beyond the great barn" ("Compassionate Friendship", p 44.)

1955 March 21. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; Erich Heydt has reported to her that Joan Waluga "is in no way un-balanced, simply suffering from normal emotional shock"; has been reading the D.H. Lawrence biography and comments "I do not think I was disloyal to Lawrence as this Mr. Moore implies. It was a matter of life and death, spiritual as well as physical. I have already told that story in Madrigal"; mentions that she is going to Erich at the usual time (four); they discuss Joan's background (formative years in India, sent back to England to school)--supposedly she is to be there for only 10 days; Heydt tells H.D. when she says that she thinks that she ought to to have tea with Joan at 4:00 then meet with Heydt "You must come at 4, every day. You see you are the control, this is control-analysis, you give me" (unpubl. ms.). 1955 March 22. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; comments on Joan Waluga: "She is like the Little Mermaid and I can almost weave her into my Helen sequence, the idol or eidolon on Achilles' ship"; has been discussing Joan with Erich; remembers seeing her as a child at Tregonning when Joan asked her to go to a lily-pool with her but H.D. didn't, feeling restrained by social pressures; also thinks she saw her in Cornwall, Summer 1941; compares Joan with one of Kipling's characters who is sent back to England from India; recalls, prompted by reading in Harry T. Moore volume, a "picture which she had hanging at Mecklenburg Square while the Lawrences were staying there (which she did not mention in MADRIGAL), and has a mental image of Lawrence sitting across or sideways from her at the table where they ate their meals discussing the picture which she describes as a scene possibly set in India and now thinks that somehow it relates "to the meeting of the Priestess of Isis and the deposed Prophet in The Man Who Died, though there Lawrence has invoked or created a small marble temple on the coast of Lebanon" (unpubl. ms.). 1955 March 23. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; comments on Lawrence biography: "I follow the story now with interest, seeing as it were, a sort of minor arcana of initiations with women and men, too, many of whom I knew personally or had met occassionally or heard of"; comments that she continued to read Lawrence after she went to Greece with Bryher though she found some of the heavy going (i.e. KANGAROO) but "When I read The Man Who Died first in London, in the early thirties, I did feel that that was Lawrence, the Man I had contacted and known briefly. The other was to me a dangerous Maelstrom - and this is merely a personal reaction. I particularly disliked and distrusted his books on the `unconscious.' I spoke of this once to Barbara Low, who said, yes, it was perhaps a pity and she in a way, blamed herself for having suggested his writing psycho-analytic criticism or comment" (unpubl. ms.). 1955 March 24. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; recalls Helen Wolle Doolittle bringing her a bunch of red roses and a small book of Lawrence's poems in Cairo in 1923; reflects on her reaction; remarks that she has a card from Bryher who is in Rome, off to Paestum, to stay three days in Capri, possibily to return to Anticoli where Kenneth and Islay have their villa and where Lawrence once stayed; recalls a vision which she had while staying on the top floor of the pension where she was was waiting for Perdita's birth and where she had double-pneumonia [LHS Note: this vision is described in the entry for March 3, 1919]; H.D. wonders if her mother bring her the roses and the book was actually one of her "visitor" experiences like the doctor from St. Faith's in her vision; says she has used "this changing apparition of the `Visitor'in my Mystery"; comments "He [Lawrence] never wrote me after I told

him I was expecting this child"; recalls Amy Lowell taking her and Aldington to see the Lawrences in their Cottage at Chesham in Bukinghamshire where they met Katherine Masefield and Mark Gertler; recalls the dinner party at the Berkely and comments that "In Magrigal, I overlap time a little to bring the occasion into the first week of the war"; recalls that in 1926 Brigit Patmore came to see H.D. and told her that the Lawrences were anxious to see people and asked if H.D. would go to see them; H.D. comments "I do not know if Lawrence suggested this but I was apprehensive and did not make the effort to contact him again. Bryher met them both at a party that Jean and Louis Untermeyer gave; I was asked to that, too. I remember how I struggled with myself in my little flat on Sloane Street - shall I? Shan't I? I did not go to the party. [LHS note: this affair occurred on September 22, l926--see entry for that date] Afterwards Bryher came and told me that Lawrence had said, `give my love to Hilda. Mind you, you are to give my love to Hilda'; recalls that at that time she had been planning "Pilate's Wife" (which she did not finish for some years afterwards), inspired by her reading of a George Moore story about the Christ taken down half dead from the cross, and she had told Brigit of this story; comments "I always felt she must have told Lawrence, in any case, my own story followed the pattern of The Man Who Died"; further comments "perhaps some picture of the bearded Lawrence did impose itself in Pilate's Wife, though I did not comsciously think of him or use him as a model for the Christ image"; comments also "It was only in 1939, the summer before War II, that the War I story bubbled up, fully into consciousness as Madrigal. The important last section of the story, however, the letter that Julia writes to Rico as from Cornwall, late summer, 1918, "I will never see you again," was not finished until Winter 1948, in Lausanne"; says that in general Lawrence did not come into World War II although "once in a sark, bomb-shattered night, I had a dream of him. It was a fiery golden Lawrence, it was nothing but a fleeting presence and the words, `Hilda, you are the only one of the whole crowd, who can really write'"; Erich Heydt has been in before tea, talking about Joan Waluga and saying that she should stay at least three more weeks; H.D. hopes that Joan stays on, at least until Bryher comes about April 5th; has seen Elisabeth Schnack, who is going to America where she expects to meet Norman Holmes Pearson and go to New Mexico to be near Frieda Lawrence in Taos-they have had a stimulating conversation about writing and writers--"I have not had such an intelligent contact for years" (unpubl. ms.). 1955 March 25. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; comments on a little cluster of roses and lily-of-the-valley which Elisabeth Schnack had brought her the day before; has continued reading the Lawrence biography: "I am not, assuredly, important like Lawrence but I feel the swooping wings of the kites or vultures, as many of my generation must do. This is a new departure, this minute and painstaking detective-like survey of the private lives of the comparatively recent dead"; reflects on THE INTELLIGENT HEART and comments "the Harry T. Moores of this world give a vitality to the present with their reviews of the past ... but ... Who else waits the descent of the kites?'; comments that in the process of lapping time over in Madrigal, she brought in the suppression of The Rainbow which was not actually suppressed until summer 1915 (unpubl. ms.). 1955 March 28. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; wonders if she has been unfair to to Harry T. Moore in her letters to Aldington and to Pearson; reflects on a conversation which she had with Frieda Lawrence about love and about Lawrence: "Frieda said that she had had a friend, an older man [Otto Gross?] who had told her that `if love is free, everything is free'. There had been the scene the night before or shortly before, in which Lawrence said that Frieda was there for ever on his right hand, I was there forever - on his left.

Frieda said when we were alone, `but Lawrence does not really care for women. He only cares for men. Hilda, you have no idea of what he is like.' Was she trying to break across this possible relationship? If so, she was doing the physically immature and frustrated Julia (of Madrigal) a very good turn, indeed"; reflects on Frieda's remarks about Esther Andrews and recalls going to meet her and her `man,' Robert Mountsier, at Lawrence's request--they lived in a pleasant oldworld flat on the river in Chelsea; recalls Lawrence jeering at the name "Doolittle"; comments that at that time Lawrence had had more guidance than she in psycho-analysis, through Frieda and Dr. Eder, the step-father of Stephen Guest; reflects again on the loss of the pages whichh she had written to help Stephen Guest and wonders if he gave them to Barbara Low and if it was Barbara Lpw who gave the impression that H.D. was disloyal to Lawrence: "`Actually, Lawrence mistrusted H.D.'s loyality,' I quote direct from Mr. Moore, page 415 of the book"; recalls that she and Barabara Low had an intense argument in H.D.' London flat after she had her analysis with Freud--"I could not swallow D.H.L. whole" (in reference to the Fantasia); reflects on Aaron's Rod and the Julia character "a tall stag of a thing" who "sat hunched up like a witch" (unpubl. ms.). 1955 March 29. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; recalls Stephen Guest telling her that Brigit Patmore had written a novel featuring this Julia ("a sort of witch-woman or girl who enticed or excited men and then did not satisfy them") which had been published in America and then mysteriously withdrawn; reflects on the loss of her letters from Lawrence--"I left them in a suit-case in the basement of 44 Mechlenburg [sic] Square, with great stacks of Richard's letters. When I saw Richard and Brigit in Paris, after the Port-Cros episode, I asked Richard what had become of my old letters. He said he had burnt them, `I'm sorry, Dooley'"; recalls that Aldington had picked up the use of her school-girl nick-name when he me Margaret and Muriel Snively in London, just before or during the first war; recalls seeing Aldington and Brigit Patmore in Paris, just about the time she bagan "Pilate's Wife" after they had seen Lawrence at Port-Clos (October 1928) and asking after Lawrence; reflects on Richard's breaking off with Arabella (Dorothy Yorke) and taking up with Brigit (unpubl. ms.). Begings reading G. Wilson Knight's THE MUTUAL FLAME which Bryher had ordered for H.D. ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 62). 1955 March 30. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; comments that Erich Heydt has been away for three days with Kurt Forster and that he found a paperback of LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER in St. Moritz which they discuss; recalls finding G. Wilson Knight's THE OLIVE AND THE SWORD in Stratford, 1945; confesses that she has a passion for Knight's writings and equates them with those of E. M. Butler; wonders if they are as happy with their works as she is with her own; refers to the Frankfort edition of BY AVON RIVER and how happy she is that it is being set up there; reflects on her Achilles as opposed to that of Knight; has tea with Heydt in his room and feels disturbed when he tells her that he is going to Rome on the 10th (Easter Sunday) for 15 days; Comments "I am quite self-contained alone. But I feel the responsibility for Joan. Erich went away to London at Christmas-time, suddenly. That was a surprise. I always feel that he may go at any time, and go for good" (unpubl. ms.). 1955 March 31. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; reflects that it is Perdita's birthday; Heydt did not show up at lunch and one of the patients was in tears; later Heydt, in a state as the patient had said that she wanted to throttle him, rang up H.D. and asked her to join him for tea and they discuss the case and his relationship with the Brunners;

[LHS note: it is obvious that Heydt found H.D. to be a calming and supportive influence as well as a quick thinker and someone to be relied upon to handle situations--at one point while Heydt was in St. Moritz he had rung up H.D. and when Dr. Brunner had asked her why he had called her, she had come up with a logical explanation]; H.D. reflects "Poor Erich - the Bear [Schmideberg] always said it was too much for him (or anybody) to have to live daily with one's analysands"; H.D. asks Heydt why he doesn't leave and he replies that he can't practice independantly in Switzerland and that he is still finishing his analysis with Dr. Medard Boss; Heydt tells H.D. : "You seem so - so retiring and - and timid. Then you are the strongest of all. Like the flight to Rome, before Christmas in that dreadful storm. Bryher said everyone on the plane was upset but you"; Heydt shows H.D. three volumes of translations by Elisabeth Schnack, including one of stories of D. H. Lawrence with a picture of Lawrence on the cover which H.D. recognizes as being one which was on the cover of the TAOS volume which she had on her table in the hotel Regina in Vienna at the time of her sessions with Freud (unpubl. ms.). 1955 April 2. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; has received a wire from Bryher in Rome who will arrive on Tuesday for a few days, probably will stay over Easter; gives Heydt an old letter of Pound's and one from Ethel Leader, Joan Waluga's mother, to have the handwriting analyzed, warning him that she does not want the letters sold or "lost and refers to her phobia about old letters suddenly appearing in printed volumes; has a reverie about her Mata-Hari complex and refers to the spy game which she and Schmideberg played (unpubl. ms.). 1955 April 4. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; refers to the impending arrival of one of Heydt's friends from Vienna, the "widow" with her neurotic daughter; has spent her after-breakfast "meditation' working on a phrase from Jean Chabosseau, "le Quaternaire"-- this meditation leads to recollections of the Bull, a hotel in Cambridge here she and Bryher stayed one year and where she experienced one of her "visitors" in the little outer hall-- this "visitor" she now links with the boy on the train on the September 1941 return from Cornwall to London [LHS note: possibly the one written of in the poem "R.A.F."]--and links this with an image from the tarot deck which in turn links onto "this perhaps entirely imaginative `game' of poor Schmideberg and myself, during his last year ..."; has been absorbed by or into G. Wilson Knight's THE MUTUAL FLAME following his analysis of Shaakespeare's sonnets and has begun to add her own links--leadin once gain to the "vistor" at the Bull--all of these "vistor" experiences have been assimilated [LHS's word--H.D. uses "outlined"] into "The Mystery" (unpubl. ms.). 1955 April 5. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; is going to Kloten to meet Bryher'Swiss air plane from Rome; is visited by Father Brunner; worries about photograph of Freud which Pearson reports that they cannot use for TRIBUTE TO FREUD as the bottom is damaged (H.D. comments that Yo Fi's paw were stuck to the glass of the frame and she had soaked them off and sent them to Pearson air-mail the previous day; comments that Heydt was excited at dinner and ordered the taxi, she presumes to meet the "widow" (unpubl. ms.). Meets Bryher at Kloten at 1:40; in the car enroute to Kusnacht they discuss Joan Waluga--Heydt has said that Joan is in a very critical state (suicidal); Heydt comes in after dinner and the three of them continue to discuss Joan; since Heydt is going to Capri for about two weeks, H.D. is to keep things balanced, if she can ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 70).

1955 April 6. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; compares Joan, Erich, and herself to an Elusinian circle (Demeter, Persephone, and Dionysus); comments that she wants to translate two Greek plays--the other two oracle plays from [?] the Paris edition ("Les Belles Lettres") which she has, translated by Henri Gregoire--"Helen" and "Iphingenia in Taurus" and discusses them, commenting at thend "And Helen? She is lost, to be found again. So I lived my Helen sequence and must live. And if I have gifts of understanding of the latter-day psycho-analytic mysteries, I seem fated to transfer or transfuse them in this strange relationship with this young German psycho-analyst, Erich Heydt (unpubl. ms.). In the afternoon has a cup of coffee with Bryher before having her hair done.In the evening she argues (or "fights") with Erich Heydt during which she apparently says that she hero-worships him with reservations as do others. At night, dreams of Ezra Pound which she seldom does--"a young but mature Ezra" ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 72-73) 1955 April 7. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; reflects on her dream of Pound and draws parallels between him and Heydt; discusses Heydt as one of the seven initiators of which Pound was the first--still regards Dowding as the largest "?toile"; comments on her fight with Heydt--"It is the sort of fight that I `belong to' in the D.H. Lawrence saga, in that I re-created him and Frieda (or Rico and Elsa) in Madrigal" and the drama that is evolving around her at Kusnacht with Heydt and his women as well as Madame Herf and others; comments that Bryher "is companionable and understanding" and reflects on memories of Schmideberg; comments to Bryher that she is irritated with Heydt's habit of having intimate telephone-talks when she has been invited in to tea and makes an association with past experiences: "I can watch other Maenards, the Bella and Morgan of my Madrigal. I can feel the old insufficiency and frustration but I never flared out at Richard or at the earlier Ezra with his relay or chorus" (unpubl. ms.). 1955 April 8. H.D. at Kusnacht (Am Strand); writes on "Compassionate Friendship"; xxx 1955 June 14 (?)/July. H.D in Lugano [at the Hotel Bristol?]. 1955 June 19. Adrienne Monnier dies, deliberately taking an overdose of sleeping pill--she suffered from Meni?re's Syndrome (H.D. "Letters across the Abyss," p. 133-134). 1955 June 21. Bryher rings H.D., who has recently arrived in Lugano, to tell her of Adrienne Monnier's suicide. 1 955 June 22. H.D. in Lugano; writes to Sylvia Beach; writes of Adrienne Monnier and sympathizes with Beach's loss; says "My thoughts are with you both. Bryher said, poor Adrienne was so ill + one must only be thankful that she is at peace. Please, please accept my heart's devotion-a double devotion--for I can never think of you apart" (H.D. "Letters across the Abyss," p. 134). 1955 August 3. H.D. writes to Norman Holmes Pearson from Lugano; comments that Erich Heydt is at Kusnacht and that he has recently been ringing (telephoning) her almost every evening at Lugano. This entry is incomplete and needs to be filled in.

1955 August 12 (?) - 1955 September(end). H.D. in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner. 1955 September 12. H.D. writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; plans to go to Lugano towards the end of the month as Perdita leaves New York about the 27th and H.D. and Bryher plan to be in Lugano to greet her; [apparently H.D. returned to Kusnacht from Lugano about the second week of August for dental bridge work]; comments that while she was in Lugano, you came over from St. Moritz for a half day--I think primarily because of problems with the Frankfurt edition of Avon and a Dr. S. (possibly Elisabeth Schnack. This entry is incomplete and needs to be filled in. 1955 September(end) - 1956 May(end). H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Bristol; revises proofs for TRIBUTE TO FREUD. 1955 October 4. H.D. writes to Norman Holmes Pearson from Lugano; hopes to stay at least into November; refers to getting some sort of a "fistula" [?] and what an angel Erich Heydt was, coming to see her. This entry is incomplete and needs to be filled in. 1955 November 25. H.D. at the Hotel Bristol, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; Bryher is in Neww York, will join H.D. for Christmas; Perdita and John Schaffner were there the past Summer for a few weeks; Perdita is expecting her third baby in June--is hoping for an Elizabeth Bryher; "I have been happy and busy with a long, long, long Helen sequence. I have done 161 poems in sequence in 3 books, with notes in addition. Well over 200 pages in typescript. I have spent 3 years on it, that is working in intense periods of 2-3 months, each year"; tells of making the recording the previous Winter--says Norman Holmes Pearson got her to do them--says "they have been run off at Yale and they want the rights, but Norman is holding on to them, as for disks to go with the books- when and however it may come out" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 658). 1955 November 26. H.D. writes to Norman Holmes Pearson from Lugano. This entry is incomplete and needs to be filled in. 1955 December 9. H.D. writes to Norman Holmes Pearson from Lugano; says that she decided to stay there and that Bryher is due for Christmas; maybe she will not go back to Zurich until middle or end of January. LHS note: She seems not to want to go back to Kusnacht when she does go back to Zurich--I get the sense that something unpleasant happened at Am Strand-possibly in relation to Belinda and Joan Waluga]. This entry is incomplete and needs to be filled in. 1955 December 16. H.D. at the Hotel Bristol, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; has decided to stay in Lugano well into January; Bryher is joining her there; refers to HELEN IN EGYPT--"if it comes out, I will indicate a few special `Greek' poems for you, though it is all Greek-Troy, superimposed on my own war experience" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 659). 1955 December 24. H.D. writes to Norman Holmes Pearson from Lugano; says she is wild to move out of Am Strand and mentions the Sonnenberg as a possibility. This entry is incomplete and needs to be filled in.

1956. "Majic Mirror" written; a novel consisting of material reworked from "Compassionate Friendship" (Thorn Thicket, p. 5l). 1956. TRIBUTE TO FREUD published in New York by Pantheon. 1956 January 17. H.D. writes to Norman Holmes Pearson from Lugano; mentions staying there until February. This entry is incomplete and needs to be filled in. 1956 January 28. Norman Holmes Pearson writes to H.D., commenting "One puzzles over Erich so, and ?MDUL?his?MDNM? future. A kind of casualty, I fear, indirectly from the war." This entry is incomplete and needs to be filled in. 1956 January 31. H.D. writes to Norman Holmes Pearson from Lugano; mentions staying there at least another month; in response to Pearson she says "Yes, I puzzle over Erich too- wish I could talk it all over. But Br saw him when she went to Z to see Mr. Beney- he now has a flat of his own, very nice, Br says, and is more independent." This entry is incomplete and needs to be filled in. 1956 February 2. Robert McAlmon dies in Desert Hot Springs. 1956 March 7. H.D. writes to Norman Holmes Pearson from Lugano; will be there at least through Easter; mentions that the whole Brunner crowd came down with bad grippe; also mentions Erich Heydt's new flat which is not far from the station and that you have been feverish there but have been looked after and have telephoned to Lugano that you are alright; no longer as anxious to move to the Sonnenberg; says she has not seen Heydt for six months and that you were to have come to Lugano when you caught the grippe and couldn't go; mentions her Kusnacht novel ["Majic Mirror"] and the difficulty of finding a name for Erich Heydt--asks Pearson to help and says she has written to Heydt for help but that he has not found her one. This entry is incomplete and needs to be filled in.? 1956 March 17. H.D. writes to Norman Holmes Pearson from Lugano; asks about time limit for having photographs taken for TRIBUTE TO FREUD and mentions that Erich Heydt wants her to go to a special place in Zurich [LHS note: this probably refers to the Obrecht photographs]; says that Heydt was in Lugano to visit her yesterday and says that the name for the Heydt character in "Majic Mirror" has been found--Eric Heller! "He will be Eric Heller- a simple enough name but he says not really common-place and he likes the idea of the Heller, light - and relationship with the Hellen - and he did help with those recordings, etc." This entry is incomplete and needs to be filled in. 1956 March 20. Pearson responds to H.D.; will omit photographs from TRIBUTE TO FREUD but does want her to go to your man in Zurich for publicity photographs; says "I'm delighted that Eric could come, and with the name, `Heller'. It is excellent and perceptive. He does have that quality. What a hard winter he has had of it. What are his long-range plans now?" This entry is incomplete and needs to be filled in.

1956 March 28. H.D. writes to Norman Holmes Pearson from Lugano; comments "I feel rather guilty staying on here but really with weather conditions and heavy grippe in Zurich, it does seem better to stay"; goes on to say "Erich takes his spring-holiday, a whole month this year, April 18th. I may wait just till he gets off as confusion of his last days there may be a bit trying." This entry is incomplete and needs to be filled in. 1956 April 10. Sylvia Beach writes to Francoise Hartmann that Bryher was unhappy with her translation of "White Rose and the Red" and felt that it would have to be completely revised before it was ready for publication (H.D. "Letters across the Abyss," p. 130). 1956 April 20. H.D. writes to Norman Holmes Pearson from Lugano; now speaks of going back at beginning of May; Father Brunner is in hospital--son very secretive; Erich Heydt was due to leave for Sicily but because of the illness was asked to wait; says that Heydt came down to Lugano yesterday and that the two of them walked and talked all day; refers to trying to show Heydt how to distinguish between gardenias and camillas; H.D. and Heydt discussed problems Pearson was having getting permission to publish Freud's letters to H.D. in TRIBUTE TO FREUD. This entry is incomplete and needs to be filled in. Between April 20 and 24, 1956, Father Brunner dies. This entry is incomplete and needs to be filled in. 1956 April 26. H.D. writes to Norman Holmes Pearson from Lugano; mentions trying Die Sonne first, then moving to the Sonnenberg. This entry is incomplete and needs to be filled in. 1956 May 15. H.D. writes to Norman Holmes Pearson from Lugano; speaks of going back to Zurich May 23 or 24; Bryher checked out Die Sonne and found it to be charming and old-world but filled to the brim with students and, as a result, noisy; the Waldhaus is another possibility, if not Sonnenberg which is her first choice--~~~Bryher has been there and found it perfect but very hard to get to; Erich Heydt is in Sicily and will be there until the end of May, she believes. This entry is incomplete and needs to be filled in. 1956 May 21. H.D. writes to Norman Holmes Pearson from Lugano; has apparently decided to go back to Kusnacht and go into Verena, if it can be arranged. This entry is incomplete and needs to be filled in. 1956 May(end) - 1956 September. H.D. in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner (Villa Verena). 1956 May 31. H.D. writes to Norman Holmes Pearson from Villa Verena, Kusnacht This entry is incomplete and needs to be filled in. 1956 June 20. Elizabeth Bryher Schaffner born. 1956 September 8. H.D. leaves on Swissair for New York with Bryher and Doris Long (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 664). 1956 September - 1956 October. H.D. in New York at the Beekman Tower Hotel.

1956 September. H.D. in New Haven for the 70th birthday exhibition in Yale's Sterling Memorial Library. 1956 September 22. H.D. in New York at the Beekman Tower Hotel; writes to Silvia Dobson; tells of going to New Haven to see the H.D. Exhibition; enjoys Perdita and the three enchanting children; TRIBUTE TO FREUD has been published as well as Bryher's BEOWULF (both have had very good reviews; "If only I had more time & strength. N.Y. is sheer Arabian Nights, Bagdad, ... a hint of Chartres, more than a hint of campannili [?] and minarets! I can't cope with it, but find it fascinating. I really loved New Haven trips, we went to Mystic Seaport"; expects to Zurich in about 10 days, after Elizabeth Bryher's christening on the 29th; tells Silvia of forthcoming SELECTED POEMS OF H.D. (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 663-664). 1956 September 25. H.D., Bryher and Norman Holmes Pearson in Bethlehem. 1956 October - 1956 November. H.D. in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner (Villa Verena). 1956 October 20. H.D. in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner (Villa Verena); writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks her for sending Mary Renault's THE LAST OF THE WINE; has not yet settled down fron her New York trip; describes Elizabeth Bryher as being like a Dresden doll--"I was quite excatic about her, with pretty bronze hair and lovely hands and feet. The middle boy is tough and funny, the old one is rather philosophical"; Bryher is back at Kenwin (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 663-665). 1956 October 26. H.D. in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner (Villa Verena); writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks her again for sending Mary Renault's THE LAST OF THE WINE which she has enjoyed--"it has given me so much, as I was struggling last Winter with notes of the period for some Euripides I was asked to do- but can't undertake now. This clears up the scene for me as none of the historical references did"; asks for astrological chart for Joan Leader Waluga, born in India or Pakistan, July 8 l926 between 12 and 2 P.M., who married a Pole who got lost in Argentina--has been there about a year and a half--can't make up her mind what to do (go back to England or stay in analysis at Kusnacht)--parents divorced and remarried each other (this affected Joan) (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 666). 1956 November - 1957 February/March. H.D. in Zurich at the Hirslanden Klinik. 1957 - 1959. Unpublished "Hirslanden Notebooks" written. 1957. SELECTED POEMS OF H.D. published in New York by Grove Press. 1957 March - 1960 May 13(?). H.D. in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner (Villa Verena). 1957 April 15 - May l3. "Vale Ave" written in five weeks with no interruptions {Lord Dowding linked with "Vale Ave" = Lucifer; H.D. = Lilith} (Thorn Thicket, p. 12, 15, 14, 18, 19).

1957 June 9 - 1958 Winter (early). Sagesse written; composition interrupted during Erich Heydt's absence; section XI written after Erich Heydt returns to Kusnacht {Erich Heydt is Germain; Freud is Senciner} (Thorn Thicket, p. 2-3, 19). 1957 August 3. Before departing for the United States, Erich Heydt sends H.D. gardenias (Thorn Thicket, p. 4). 1957 August 4. Section VII of "Sagesse" written (Thorn Thicket, p. 4). 1957 August. Erich Heydt goes to the United States. 1957 October. Erich Heydt returns from the United States (Thorn Thicket, p. 12). 1957 October 17. H.D. returns to writing of "Sagesse" with section VIII (Thorn Thicket, p. 4). 1958. H.D. receives Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize for $100.00 for three poems printed in December 1957 issue of POETRY: "In Time of Gold," "Nails for Petals," and "Sometimes and After" (amount of award from Pearson. Misc. files [unpubl.]). 1958 March 7 - July 13. "END TO TORMENT" written (Thorn Thicket, p. 51). 1958 April 2. H.D. at Kusnacht; writes to Dorothy Pound; is awaiting Pearson's report of his visit to St. Elizabeth's; apparently has a photograph of the house where Dorothy is living but doesn't recognize it [apparently H.D. has the mistaken impression that Dorothy is living in the Wyncote home of the Pounds--photograph may be one taken by Erich Heydt]; refers to Erich Heydt with whom she has talked much of the Pounds; he met them in 1953 when he was a visiting specialist at St. Elizabeth's (?); is reading MOTIVE & METHOD, sent by Pearson, and DICTUNG UND PROSA, per Eva Hesse; refers to Peter Demetz article which Heydt brought her which apparently describes Dorothy sitting in a car in the rain (H.D. to D.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library). *1958. Pound plans to visit H.D. at Kusnacht. Meeting forbidden (?) by Bryher (Guest, p. 248 and p. 314). [LHS to verify in Guest]. 1958 Summer. First ten sections of "Sagesse" published in the EVERGREEN REVIEW, no. 5 (Thorn Thicket, p. 4). 1958 July 7. Erich Heydt sends gardenias to H.D. (Thorn Thicket, p. 4). 1958 August 9. Erich Heydt goes away for his summer holiday; brings H.D. MODERATO CANTABILE (Thorn Thicket, p. 4). 1958 August l6. H.D. in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner (Villa Verena); writes to Sylvia Beach: refers to a yearning to travel; mentions having been sent the various publications relative to the two exhibitions honoring Shakespeare and Company (published in SYLVIA BEACH, 18871962. [Paris?] : Mercure de France, 1963: p. [158]).

1958 August l8. H.D. in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner (Villa Verena); writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks Silvia for an enchanting Greek travel book; Bryher has gone to Greenland on a Danish boat--she should be back in Copenhagen about August 22 and at Kusnacht around August 25; Norman Holmes Pearson, "my Yale guide and inspiration," will be there at the end of the month (in Zurich for about 5 days) (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 670-672). 1958 September 9. Erich Heydt returns from holiday (Thorn Thicket, p. 4). 1958 September 12. H.D. takes oath of allegiance to regain United States citizenship. 1958 September 16. H.D. in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner (Villa Verena); writes to Silvia Dobson; Bryher has been there during the September 2-10 period and Norman Holmes Pearson for a week going over old MSS; "then on the 12th, I went in to the Consulate here, & renewed my American status. I had been urged to do this for some time- anyhow, it meant getting all sorts of documents in order & going over the past. I dreaded it, but feel better now"; Bryher's GATE TO THE SEA is getting good reviews (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 673-674). 1958 November 3. Erich Heydt tells H.D. of his engagement to Dori Gutscher (Thorn Thicket, p. l, 5, 32). 1958 December 16. Erich and Dori Heydt married (Thorn Thicket, p. 5). 1958 December 19. H.D. and Bryher call upon Erich and Dori Heydt (Thorn Thicket, p. 5). 1959 January 3 - April 5. "Winter Love" written (Thorn Thicket, p. 50). 1959 January 4. H.D.in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner (Villa Verena); writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks Silvia for a bag which she has sent her for Christmas {in her notes Silvia describes bag as being of Portuguese peasant work, made at Loule}; Bryher is there with Elsie Volkart who is sick in Zurich; is reading Kazantzakis' THE ODYSSEY: A MODERN SEQUEL--sent by John Schaffner (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 675, 679-680). 1959 April 7. H.D. receives the Brandeis University Creative Arts Award for Poetry (Thorn Thicket, p. 38). 1959 May. Section XIV of the "Segesse" series published in POETRY with title "Regents of the Night" {given by Norman Holmes Pearson} (Thorn Thicket, p. 17). 1959 August 7-6. Erich and Dori Heydt leave on trip to the United States (Thorn Thicket, p. 5,6). 1959 September 9. H.D.in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner (Villa Verena); writes to Silvia Dobson (possibly dictated to and typed by Bryher); thanks her for an "archiac square" which Silvia had had designed for her birthday; tells of "Madrigal" being accepted for publication; Bryher is there for her birthday (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 681-682). 1959 September 29(?). H.D. and Bryher meet Catha Aldington.

1959 October 8. H.D. writes to Harold Doolittle; refers to the manuscript of THE GIFT; comments "I will have to re-work some of it, if I ever get aaround to it. Chapter V, THE SECRET is rather long and obscure" (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 55). 1959 October 11. Annie ("Birdie") Jenkins Peiter dies (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 28). 1959 December 16. H.D. sees Erich Heydt (Thorn Thicket, p. 8). 1959 December 18. H.D. sees Erich Heydt (Thorn Thicket, p. 8). 1960. BID ME TO LIVE published by Grove Press in New York. 1960. "Thorn Thicket" written. 1960(?). H.D. receives Longview Award of $300 for "Regents of the Night" {Poem XIV of the "Sagesse" series} (Thorn Thicket, p. 17). 1960. H.D. receives citation for Distinguished Service, Bryn Mawr College. 1960 January l3 - l4(?). H.D. reading proofs of BID ME TO LIVE (Thorn Thicket, p. 15). 1960 February 5. H.D. and Erich Heydt have a "row" (Thorn Thicket, p. 39). 1960 February 14. Bryher at Kusnacht for a few days. 1960 February 17. H.D. sees Erich Heydt for the first time since February 5--he had the grippe (Thorn Thicket, p. 40). 1960 February 26. H.D. goes to the 'bosquet' with Erich Heydt (Thorn Thicket, p. 40). 1960 February 29. Timothy Schaffner born. 1960 March 8. Judith Schmidt of Grove Press writes to H.D. that BID ME TO LIVE was now available and that a copy has been sent via air mail. 1960 March 13. H.D.in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner (Villa Verena); writes to Silvia Dobson; announces the birth of Timothy Schaffner; BID ME TO LIVE to be published on April 27; mentions proposed trip to America (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 683-684). 1960 March 17. Pearson sends H.D. a telegram advising her that "NEWSWEEK magazine wishes friendly interview to accompany their book review of MADRIGAL stop they will fly man immediately from Paris to Kusnacht If this telegram is quoted in a document then LHS should check to see how it was spelled?[sic] but will telephone you beforehand from Paris for appointment stop I said you would see him stop love Norman."

1960 March 18. H.D. receives the first copy of BID ME TO LIVE (Thorn Thicket, p. 41). 1960 March 22. H.D. receives special edition of BID ME TO LIVE (Thorn Thicket, p. 41). 1960 March 24. Richard Aldington due at Kusnacht (Thorn Thicket, p. 42). 1960 March 25. H.D. and Bryher plan to lunch with Richard Aldington and his Australian friends, the Duttons (Thorn Thicket, p. 42). 1960 April 4(?). H.D. meets Lionel Durand (Thorn Thicket, p. 42). 1960 May 2. Lionel Durand's article on BID ME TO LIVE appears in NEWSWEEK (Thorn Thicket, p. 46). 1960 May 12. H.D. flies, with Blanche Brunner, Swiss-Air, Kloten, Zurich, to Idlewilde, New York (Thorn Thicket, p. 44). 1960 May 13 - 1960 June 26. H.D. in New York at the Hotel Stanhope.] 1960 May 24. Lionel Durand writes to H.D. (Thorn Thicket, p. 47). 1960 May 25. H.D. becomes first woman to receive the Award of Merit Medal for Poetry, American Academy of Arts and Letters (includes $1000). 1960 June. H.D. approached by Elizabeth Kray of the Poetry Center (New York) to give a reading--suggestion made that Pearson would introduce her--suggested for Fall 1960; H.D. also approached by the Institute of Contemporary Arts (Washington D.C.) (Pearson. Misc. files [unpubl.]). 1960 June 26. H.D. and Blanche Brunner depart from New York to return to Zurich; Perdita, John Schaffner, Valentine and Norman Holmes Pearson see them off at Idlewilde (Thorn Thicket, p. 44). 1960 June 27 - 1961 January. H.D. in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner. 1960 June 27. Erich Heydt visits H.D. (Thorn Thicket, p. 44). 1960 July 5. Erich Heydt visits H.D.; H.D. and Heydt have confrontation (Thorn Thicket, p. 4749). 1960 July 10. Bryher at Kusnacht (Thorn Thicket, p. 49). 1960 August 2. H.D. driven out to the "bosquet" and discovers that it is being demolished (Thorn Thicket, p. 52). 1960 August 11. H/D. has another discussion with Erich Heydt (Thorn Thicket, p. 52).

1960 August 17 - 1961 February. "Hermetic Definition" written (Thorn Thicket, p. 53). 1960 December 27. H.D.in Kusnacht at the Klinik Brunner (Villa Verena); writes to Silvia Dobson; 1961. HELEN IN EGYPT published in New York by Grove Press. 1961 January(/). H.D. receives news of Lionel Durand's death. 1961 April 27 - l961 July. H.D. in Zurich at the Hotel Sonnenberg. 1961 May 1. Bryher writes to Silvia Dobson; explains that the owner of Villa Verena, Kusnacht, had sold the property and everyone had to move--thought they had until August to resettle but a couple of days later it was learned that they had to be out by the end od April; describes Hotel Sonnenberg as being on the hills and not at lake level; H.D. was moved there last Thursday [April 27]; says that the food is much better but that H.D. only has a room and a bath with a bit of flat balcony; says that other occupants had a very difficult time with relocating: "Most of them were old ladies of eighty and over and we had one attempted suicide because they were so distressed at having to move from their rooms where they had been, some of them almost twenty years" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 689). 1961 May 17. Bryher writes to Silvia Dobson; is staying with H.D. for three days to see how she is getting on; will return to Kenwin on the 19th; (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 690). 1961 May l8. H.D. at the Hotel Sonnenberg, 98 Aurorastrasse, Zurich; writes to Silvia Dobson (dictated to Bryher but signed by H.D.); has been there approximately three weeks; the Hotel is located on the side of a beautiful hill looking down into Zurichh; refers to the idea of going to Charleston, South Carolina the following winter (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 688). 1961 June 6. H.D. has stroke; "at first she was completely paralyzed on the right side but by evening the use of her hand and leg came back to her but it has affected her speech" {Bryher wrote this to Norah Dobson, August 4, l961} (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 693). 1961 June 14. ~ Bryher writes to Silvia Dobson; tells Silvia of H.D.'s heart attack: "Fortunately I had just come to Zurich when she had a bad heart attack and had to be moved to to the Roten Kreuz Spital, Zurich, a week ago. She had already consulted a heart specialist a couple of days previously and he rushed round and prevented serious damage. He insists that she remains in the hospital, writes nothing and rests for at least another three weeks, it may be the altitude at the Sonnenberg is too high, but he wants to send her for the summer to a place where there is a resident doctor ... The specialist said that organically her heart is sound, it was over doing it with packing and the great shock of having to move so suddenly from Kusnacht."; Perdita was sent for and has been there a week but is leaving the next day; RUAN to be published in England in July (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 691). 1961 August 4. ~ Bryher writes to Silvia Dobson; has been to Zurich and stayed a week with H.D.: "Physically she is better than she has been for years and she even walks more easily. On

the other hand, the speech has not yet made much progress and we have had some difficulties because the hospital will not keep her any longer, saying she is not a hospital case any more, and it is very difficult to find a nursing home that takes these stroke cases. However her very good doctor has found one and she will be moved there shortly with her own nurse. They will then begin with physiootherapy, and her doctor is quite convinced that within six months to a a year she will be quite herself again. Meantime it is very difficult as although we know she understands most of what we say, she can only reply in one or two words and she has not yet enough strength to write anything on a pad. Curiously enough, she can manage her crutches (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 692). Bryher also writes to Norah Dobson; "Physically she is very much better, the strange thing is she seems to walk more easily but they say that is the effect of the anticoagulant drugs. The trouble is, until she can get the muscles working near the throat and lips she cannot say more than a few words" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 693). 1961 September 15. Bryher writes to Silvia Dobson; "When I was last here Hilda was so much better that she was going out twice a day in the park in a wheel chair. Then both her doctors went on holiday and she got gastric flu. When I arrived five days ago, I did not think she could last the night, it had been five days since she had kept down any food. I made a fuss and they began giving her injections and she is a tiny bit better but dreadfully weak. Her own doctor returns next week and I pray and hope that they may be able to get her strength up so that she may be flown to a very nice home that has been found near New Haven, where her friends the Pearsons could visit her and it is not too far away from Perdita, but I don't know whether she will recover enough for the joutney though by jet it is only seven hours. I simply dont trust them here unless I am all the time on the spot to control and that means I cant do my own work. Her mind is as active as ever, but she cannot read, write, nor speak yet"; Bryher also tells Silvia that if possible she has to go back to Kenwin the following day but "her own doctor whom I can trust is back on Monday" and she will be back in a few days (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 696-697). 1961 September 10. Bryher reads to H.D. (in a subconscious state) Eric Walter White's poem TRIBUTE TO H.D. (ON HER 75TH BIRTHDAY) which is subsequently privately printed at the Baynard Press. 1961 September 25. Bryher writes to Silvia Dobson from Kenwin; is going to Zurich on the weekend; "The situation at present with her [H.D.] is this - she lost tremendous ground with the attack of gastric flu. She is only now beginning to pull round again, I think however that we may be able to get her transferred within the next few months to an extremely nice home that they have found near New Haven where her friends the Pearsons can get to her regularly. It is a place where they only take elderly people or a few cases of people who have had strokes, like she has had. The situation in Europe is so difficult that I shall be much more relieved in mind if she is with her friends. It will be so difficult to move her in a hurry" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 698). 1961 September 27. H.D. dies in the Klinik Hirslanden in Zurich. 1961 October l. Bryher writes to Silvia Dobson from Kenwin; "The doctor rang me up last Wednesday night to tell me that Hilda had died in her sleep that evening at seven o'clock. He had seen her at five, she had the usual heart injection and as usual, dozed off after it. The nurse noticed her breathing, called the hospital physician but while he was looking at her, she died without recovering consciousness. She will be cremated tomorrow at Zurich. THen the ashes will

be flown to Bethlehem, Pa. and then Perdita, her brothers, and other relatives can all be present when they are buried in the family grave. Although I shall miss her terribly, I do feel it is merciful. She was losing strength all the time and her mind got sharper and clearer and she minded the frustrations so dreadfully and towards the end could hardly take any food" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 699). 1961 October 2. H.D. supposedly cremated in Zurich (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 699). 1961 October 11. Bryher writes to Silvia Dobson from Kenwin; agrees that H.D.'s death was merciful-- "We had wanted to move her for two reasons, the one political because should anything happen over Berlin we are front line here and know it, (the Swiss call the western politicians cowardly swine and say that it all stems from their refusal to act when the German troops crossed the Rhine in the thirties) and from the fact that had Hilda remained as she was in August, the hospital could not have have kept her, wanting the room for urgent cases and we should have had to move her into a Swiss home with only one person talking English, very bad for her attempts to regain her speech. The whole thing was forced on us but we had not told Hilda that we might have to move her. Her doctor has now written to me that he knew after mid August that it was only a question of weeks" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 700). 1961 October 14. Richard Aldington writes to Harry T. Moore: "Catha arrived and we drove to Zurich, where H.D.'s friend put us up at the very comfortabke Hotel Glockenhof--which has Bibles in the bedrooms, the first time I ever saw that outside the US. At the last minute the two specialists only allowed C. to visit H.D. --I suspect she didn't want her former husband to see her in that state. Catha reported `Hilda looks very sick.' There was nothing we could do, so we returned (by car) to Sury ... On the morning of the 27th Sept. H.D. received and looked over an advance copy of her `Helen' poem, sent by Pearson and was pleased and interested. She died that night and was cremated on the 2nd Oct. (anniversary of her wedding!) [LHS comment: Aldington was mistaken here--they were married October 18] in Zurich. The ashes will be flown home, and will be placed beside her parents in Bethlehem, Pa. She had been just fifty years in Europe (quoted in Harry T, Moore's memoir of Aldington published in RICHARD ALDINGTON: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT (Carbondale : Southern Ilinois Press, 1965), p. 102). 1961 Fall. "H.D. by Marianne Moore" published in the BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE BULLETIN. 1961 November 11. Alice B. Toklas writes to John Schaffner; has heard from Sylvia Beach of H.D.'s death; comments: "It is impossible to believe in Bryher without H.D."; recalls that H.D. and Bryher came to the rue de Fleurus years ago and also that Bryher had her, Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder to lunch at Burier la Tour (Toklas, STAYING ON ALONE, p. 406). 1962. THE HEART TO ARTEMIS; A WRITER'S MEMOIRS by Bryher published by Harcourt, Brace, & World. 1962. Perdita meets Ezra Pound (as described in "Merano 1962"). 1962 October 6. Sylvia Beach is found dead, apparantly of a heart attack (THE VERY RICH HOURS OF ADRIENNE MONNIER, p. 65).

1963 February. Charles Melvin Doolittle dies (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 38). 1965. "Death of Martin Presser" published in the QUARTERLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE. 1965 October. Ivy Compton-Burnett helps Hester Marsden-Smedley to arrange a memorial reading at the Poetry Society as a tribute to H.D.; Bryher attends, flying over from Switzerland (Sprigge, E. Life of Ivy Compton Burnett, p. 165) 1968. Harold Doolittle dies 1973. THE WALLS DO NOT FALL, TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS, and THE FLOWERING OF THE ROD brought together under title TRILOGY, edited by Norman Holmes Pearson and published by New Directions. 1974. TRIBUTE TO FREUD reissued in Boston by David Godine with a forward by Norman Holmes Pearson and an introduction by Kenneth Fields. 1976. Selections from "The Mystery" published in Eric Walter White's IMAGES OF H.D. (London, Enitharmon Press). 1979. END TO TORMENT: A MEMOIR OF EZRA POUND edited by Norman Holmes Pearson with Michael King published by New Directions in New York. 1981. "Her" published by New Directions with title HERMIONE . 1982. THE GIFT published by New Directions in an edited version. Includes "Unless a Bomb Falls ..." by Perdita Schaffner. 1982. NOTES ON THOUGHT AND VISION & THE WISE SAPPHO published by City Lights Books in San Francisco. 1982. "Vale Ave" published in NEW DIRECTIONS IN POETRY AND PROSE. 1983. BID ME TO LIVE reissued by Black Swan Books (Redding Ridge, Ct.) with an afterword by Perdita Schaffner, "A Profound Animal." 1983. H.D. COLLECTED POEMS 1912-1944, edited by Louis L. Martz, published by New Directions. *1983 January 28. Bryher dies [according to Silvia Dobson; LHS to check]. 1986. NIGHTS reissued by New Directions with an introduction by Perdita Schaffner.

1986 September 10 - l986 November 16. H.D.: A LIFE OBSERVED [exhibition held in New Haven at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in honor of the 100th anniversary of H.D.'s birth]. ***************************************************************** Misc info to be incorporated when possible Lady Ellermann's birthday: January 3. Richard Aldington's visit to Kusnacht (five meetings with H.D.) Summer l959 (Cf. Thorn thicket). "Death of Martin Presser" written after THE GIFT (Thorn Thicket, p. 35). Loophole to watch for: Guest apparently, according to Silvia Dobson (p. 226), says that Walter and Melitta Schmideberg followed H.D. to Kenwin in the Autumn or Winter of 1938; Silvia says that their first visit to Kenwin was in the Summer of 1939. Silvia Dobson has placed a letter dated September 10 in l954, written from the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne, which indicates that H.D. may have left Lugano briefly for dental check up ; has just received German translation of BY AVON RIVER (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 647). Margaret Snively Pratt born January 6 (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpul.]). Muriel Snively born February l8 (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpul.]). Ethelyn Snively Crosby born March 1 (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpul.]). Doris Leslie born March 9 (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpul.]). Dr. S. Snively born June 10 (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). Alfred Doolittle born June 14 (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). Matilda Wells Palmer born August 14 (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). De Forest Snively born August l8 (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). Gretchen Wolle Baker born August 23 ,A Moravian Heritage can be checked for year] (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). Clara Macpherson (mother of Kenneth Macpherson) born September 14 (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). John Macpherson (father of Kenneth Macpherson) born October 21 (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). Sara Doolittle (Wife of Eric Doolittle) born November 12 (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. (Pearson. Biog. notes file

[unpubl.]). Lillian Jenkins born November 21 (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). Mundell Doolittle born December 5 (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. (Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.]). Walter Schmideberg's birthday: April 5 ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 73)

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)

Contributing Editor: Susan Stanford Friedman

Classroom Issues and Strategies

Like much modernist poetry (e.g., Pound, Eliot), H.D.'s poetry is "difficult" for students. Mythological and biblical allusions are common in her poetry. Her imagist poetry is "impersonal" (like Eliot's)--that is, its relationship to human emotion is often deeply encoded. Her epic poetry is vast and complex in scope; its linguistic, religious, and psychological dimensions are sophisticated and multi-layered. Her perspective as a woman is quite different from the modernist male poets with whom she shares a great deal. I have found students very responsive to H.D. when I have used the following strategies. Contextualize H.D.'s work in relationship to (1) modernism (students often expect a male poet to be "difficult," but resist having to work hard to read a woman poet); (2) women's poetry and feminist theory--especially feminist concepts of revision of patriarchal myths and traditions; (3) the mythological allusions (get students to relax and see that without footnotes, H.D. provides all the information they need); (4) the musical and syntactic structures of her poetic language. Her imagist poems can be read as poems about the (female) self resisting stereotypical femininity (they are not "nature" poems). I have had great success in teaching Trilogy as a poem about war from a pacifist perspective akin to Virginia Woolf's in Three Guineas. Students are intrigued by the following: (1) Gender. They are fascinated by H.D. as a window into the problems and achievements of women's creativity. They love, for example, to read her famous "sea garden" poems (e.g., "Sea Rose") as encoded statements of female vulnerability and rejection of a suffocating femininity. (2) War and peace. Students are very interested and moved by her response to war. They are intrigued by the goddesses and matriarchal religions. (3) Initially, students are afraid of H.D.--real "poetry anxiety." They think they won't be able to understand it because it has so many allusions. But when they are given a framework for thinking about the poetry, they are very responsive.

Major Themes, Historical Perspectives, and Personal Issues

The headnote summarizes the major themes. To summarize, I think H.D. should be taught with emphasis on the following themes: 1. her attempt to understand the roots of cataclysmic violence and propose a revision of renewal and peace 2. the intersection of the historical and the personal in her stance as a woman 3. her characteristically modernist sense of quest in a shattered and war-torn world 4. her sense of the sacred, manifested in both female and male forms 5. her exploration of language--its magic (as logos), its music, its power as something women can claim to reconstitute gender and a vision of the cosmos

Significant Form, Style, or Artistic Conventions

H.D. is best taught as a modernist and a woman writer. The selections give you the opportunity to show her development from an imagist poet in the teens to an epic poet of the 1940s and 1950s. Her imagist poetry--represented here by two poems from Sea Garden ("Sea Rose" and "The Helmsman") and her most frequently anthologized poem "Oread" (often discussed as the "perfect" imagist poem)--was highly innovative in its form and a central influence on modern poetry. Imagism, however, became a craft in the service of larger visions after 1917. "Helen," published in the 1920s, is characteristic of a large number of revisionist myth poems that she began writing in her post-imagist phase and that have had a strong influence on contemporary women's poetry. In writing epics (some critics prefer the term "long poem"), H.D. went against the engrained masculine conventions of the genre to forge a woman's epic form. The selections from The Walls Do Not Fall and Tribute to the Angels (the first two volumes from Trilogy) emphasize the poet's placement in history (literally, in London, during the nightly bombing raids of World War II) and the syncretist mythmaking of the modernist poet-prophet. These sequences can be taught in the context of religious poetry, but students should be encouraged to compare her female-centered vision with those traditions that she transforms. In teaching any of H.D.'s poetry, its strong musical quality can be emphasized. Within the vers libre tradition, she nonetheless established complex patterns of sound based on assonance, dissonance, occasional rhyme (including internal and off rhymes), rhythmic and syntactic patterns, and repetition.

Original Audience
H.D.'s work should always be grounded in its historical period. H.D.'s imagist verse was written in the exhilarating prewar world of the avant-garde and then during the devastating Great War. Her epic poetry was written in the forties and fifties after another great war. Her audience during these years was in effect primarily the avant-garde that was "making news" in all the arts. She was not a "popular" poet, but has often been

known as a "poet's poet." Since the second wave of feminism, she has been widely read by women and men who are interested in women's writing.

Comparisons, Contrasts, Connections

1. Male modernists: Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Robert Hughes, W. B. Yeats, and D. H. Lawrence. Like these men, she experimented with poetic language. Like them, she increasingly wrote quest poetry in which the poet figures as a central mythmaking figure creating new meanings in a world whose symbolic systems have been shattered. 2. Female modernist writers: Marianne Moore, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, and Djuna Barnes are modernist women writers with whom H.D.'s reconstructions of gender share a great deal-- thematically and linguistically. 3. Fruitful comparisons can also be made with William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Dante, and Homer.

Questions for Reading and Discussion/Approaches to Writing

Explication assignments work well with H.D.'s imagist poems. But the best papers I have received from undergraduates ask the students to examine how H.D. engages in a genderinflected revisionist mythmaking in her poems. The students trace the conventional myth H.D. invokes and then examine thematically and linguistically how she uses and transforms the tradition.

Bibliography
Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Views: H.D. New York: Chelsea House, 1989. Especially essays by Morris, Friedman, Gubar, Martz, and Gelpi. DuPlessis, Rachel Blau. H.D.: The Career of That Struggle. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1986. Edmons, Sussan. History, Psychoanalysis, and Montage in H.D.'s Long Poems. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. Friedman, Susan Stanford. Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of H.D. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981. Especially 56-59, and Chapters 7 and 8. --. Penelope's Web: Gender, Modernity, H.D.'s Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Introduction and Chapter 1. Friedman, Susan Stanford and Rachel Blau DuPlessis, eds. Signets: Reading H.D. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. Especially essays by Morris, Pondrom, Gregory, Laity, Gubar, Gelpi, and Ostriker.

Laity, Cassandra. H.D. and the VIctorian Fin de Sicle: Gender, Modernism, Decadence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Rich, Adrienne. "When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision." In On Lies, Secrets, and Silences: Prose. New York: Norton, 1979. 33-49. Showalter, Elaine. "Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness." In The New Feminist Criticism. edited by Elaine Showalter. New York: Pantheon, 1985. 243-70. Voice of the Poet: Five American Women Gertrude Stein, H.D., Edna St. Vincent Millay, Louise Bogan, Muriel Rukeyser The most recent addition to Random House's Voice of the Poet series is devoted to five American women poets, Louise Bogan, H.D., Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gertrude Stein, and Muriel Rukeyser. This selection addresses no discernible gender imbalance in the series to date, consisting as it does of three men (W.H. Auden, James Merrill, Robert Lowell) and three women (Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop). It is possible that no one of the five left sufficient recorded material to have her own (and if the rumored Voice of the Poet for Randall Jarrell appears, the balance will again be redressed). This latest installment does, however, move through a broader range of the twentieth century than we have yet witnessed, giving us poems (if not recordings as such) from as early as the 1920s. Gertrude Stein is the odd woman out in this collection, her fame owing as it does to a broad array of achievements. As an experimentalist, adjudicator, patroness, and novelist, we observe a pivotal figure in modernist art and Parisian bohemian stirrings in the first half of the century, but, perhaps unavoidably, the poetry seems a lesser fixture of this ambitious life work. Her writings have remained undervalued to the present for two reasons. The first is simply that she and her company have grown conveniently unfashionable over the past few decades (there is some evidence that this may change soon). Those with whom she is most often associated are simply untrendy, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, even Picasso (who has attained the status of a Beethoven, universally revered but no longer anyone's favorite player, at least in these fifty States). The second reason is the sheer (one must admit overwhelming) volume of her work. A would-be student of her oeuvre must face that her central works alone include Three Lives, The Making of Americans, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons, Useful Knowledge, Geography and Plays, Composition as Explanation, An Acquaintance with Description, Lucy Church Amiably, How To Write, Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded, Operas and Plays, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Portraits and Prayers, Lectures in America, Narration, The Geographical History of America or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind, What are Master-pieces, Everybody's Autobiography, Picasso, The World is Round, Paris France (which remains among this dissipated Bold Typer's favorite Paris companions), Ida, A Novel, Wars I Have Seen, and Brewsie and Willie. In addition to this, Yale has produced eight enormous volumes of her unpublished work; the possible student has by now switched majors to garbology or even proctology, anything that requires less rummaging and probing. Stein charges through a long sequence of poems (recorded in January 1935 at Columbia University, upon her return to the states after thirty years in Europe to attend a performance of

Four Saints in Three Acts, an opera she had written with Virgil Thompson), as though the recording were merely a perfunctory act of archival drudgery. She leaves no silence between lines or even discreet pieces. Perhaps this impersonal, even machine-like, reading tactic is perfectly suited to her philologically self-conscious and psychologically-affective style. Her poems approach musico-poetic transcendence (one thinks as much of the Tone Poems of Arthur Bliss as Guillaume Apollinaire's Calligrammes, Calvin S. Brown's Melopoetics as Piet Mondrian's middle-early compositional quest for a "universal pictorial language"). She establishes a sensation, a rhythm, rather than a stage for philosophical inquiry or emotional vent, resembling more the aural yield of a new millennium trance DJ than a mid-century jazz combo.
Presently. Exactly do they do. First exactly. Exactly do they do too. First exactly. And first exactly. Exactly do they do. And first exactly and exactly. And do they do. At first exactly and first exactly and do they do. The first exactly. And do they do. The first exactly. At first exactly. First as exactly. At first as exactly. Presently. As presently. As as presently. He he he he and he and he and and he and he and he and he and and as and as he and as he and he. He is and as he is, and as he is and he is, he is and as he and he and as he is and he and he and and he and he.

These poems mimic the visual textures and patterning of post-cubist painters, many of whom would have been familiar with Stein's drawing room on the rue de Fleurus. By her own admission, she envisioned a breach with the linearity that had defined most of Western art up to the twentieth century. She sought a "continuous present", and in this she was hardly alone. She was, however, one of the few women engaging in such language experiments in English. Her writing owes a great deal more to the painters and sculptors than to the writers of the era, and she worked in what we call broad strokes. She approached her project with the grand sense of purpose we associate with the bolder modernists, from her fellow American Ezra Pound to the Italian playboy Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, both of whom dashed off manifestos that resemble in tone Stein's remark that "Paris was the place that suited us who were to create the twentieth century art and literature." This should be taken with a grain of Odyssean sea salt, but she is not entirely wrong in believing this to be true. From the bullish, domineering Stein the recordings move on to H.D., Hilda Doolittle, whom Pound considered too "demure". Her poems are chiseled and cool with sea wind and sand, embracing the classical gods and heroes despite the Imagist determination to avoid such inherited ornamentation. Having fallen in love with Ezra Pound while he was at the University of Pennsylvania (she was up the road at Bryn Mawr), she later moved to London to be near him. Pound, with his gift for manufacturing seemingly historical events, sent a group of Doolittle's poems to Harriet Monroe's Poetry magazine in Chicago on which he claimed that the author's name was H.D., Imagiste. The initials remained with her from then on, and the Imagist movement had its first publication. The selection that appears in these recordings is from her last major work, Helen in Egypt, an account of Helen and Achilles through the voice of the Greek lyric poet Stesichorus (her Helen is transposed to Egypt from Greece, Helen of Troy a phantom, the Trojan War an illusion created by jealous gods). The recordings were made in Switzerland between September and November 1955 (a full six years before the book itself would appear). Doolittle sounds remarkably frail at times (she was 69 years old at the time), but this only adds to the rapturous distress conveyed by the poem (she had experienced her share of romantic difficulty, having married an unfaithful Richard Aldington and leaving him, while pregnant with his child, for the writer Winifred Ellerman, known to his readers as Bryher; Helen's Egypt can reasonably understood as Doolittle's Switzerland). Her reading becomes more effective as it builds, leaving the listener with a haunted sense of loss and anguish by the end:
why did he let me go? did he hear the whirr of wings, did he feel the invisible host surrounding and helping me? was he afraid of the dead?

Edna St. Vincent Millay enjoyed the status of a best-selling poet in the 1920s, when her slim volumes could be found in every genteel home in the nation (Huntsman, What Quarry sold 60,000 copies in its first month in 1939, respectable sales even by today's tumescent best-seller standards). She was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize, then in its seventh year. She

was thought of as a very "feminine" poet, and this drew as much criticism as devotion. It inspired some very ill-considered comments; in fact it is difficult to determine which sounds less considered, John Crowe Ransom's assertion that she displayed a womanly "indifference to intellectuality" or the series editor's charged remark that she was the "Sylvia Plath of the 1920s." She enjoyed herself, to be certain, after moving to the West Village; she was a regular at the right parties and had numerous affairs (including one with Edmund Wilson). Later in life, through depressed and drinking extravagantly, she actively protested the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti and the German "annexation" of Czechoslovakia. She reads her poems, as if about to break into song, straining to contain some great joy. The final recorded poem, 'Recuerdo', is perhaps her best-known poem (barring the brief poem "My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-- / It gives a lovely light"). She brings a soft youthfulness to the undated recording of the very youthful poem:
We were very tired, we were very merry-We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear, From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere; And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold, And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.

Louise Bogan--who has been described as a poet's poet, whose work W.H. Auden described as drawing "beauty and truth out of dark places"--lived a typically tumultuous life (allowing for certain Philip Larkinesque exceptions, most poets in the twentieth century seem to have lived unpredictable and, it must be said, exciting lives in the byronic tradition). After marrying young and losing her husband young (he died at 32), she moved to New York City and supported her daughter by working as a librarian. She married the wealthy (and largely forgotten) poet and novelist Raymond Holder. A litany of "poetic" events followed: her house burned down taking with it her manuscripts; she suffered two nervous breakdowns; a divorce from Holden; a turbulent affair with the poet Theodore Roethke. After this, however, her life settled. She served as the New Yorker's poetry editor for thirty-eight years and won nearly every major prize available to a poet in the United States. Her recordings are the clearest of the five assembled here. Her voice is very even, controlled; her poems advance and resolve effortlessly. She places very little emphasis and brings no dramatic flair to the readings. This allows the reader to experience a more crystalline expression of the poems as they exist on the page rather than lifted off of it:
The glass does not dissolve; Like walls the mirrors stand; The printed page gives back Words by another hand.

And your infatuate eye Meets not itself below: Strangers lie in your arms As I lie now.

The recordings end with Muriel Rukeyser, a woman as often associated with feminism as literature. She wrote generously outside of the poetry world, publishing a novel, plays, film scripts, translations, children's books, and three biographies (she was also generous within the poetry world, publishing no fewer than eighteen collections of poems). She gave the feminist movement one of its most potent slogans: "No More Masks" (from 'The Poem as Mask'). Her reading style is both casual and classical, and her poems will strike today's readers as the most clearly modern (as opposed to modernist). Section IX of her long poem 'The Speed of Darkness' is a capable summation of the lifeworks of the five authors in this excellent collection:
Time comes into it. Say it. Say it. The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

--Ernest Hilbert

NoRuleofProcedure: H.D.andOpenPoetics

(excerptedfromatalkbyAliciaOstrikerpresentedattheE.D./H.D.Conference,SanJoseState University,1987) AnessentialcharacteristicoftheversificationinTrilogyisitslightness.Ifyouholdone ofthegreatmonumentsofmeditative/visionarypoetryinEnglishuptoyourmind's eyeParadiseLostorThePrelude,saywhatdoyousee?Solidblocks,pillarsoflanguage, weightylooking,mightylooking;onemightevensayintimidating.Ifyouholdthemto themind'sear,whatdoyouhear?Blankverseparagraphs.Organtones.Sententious sentences.Astrong,energetic,relentlessflowofverseinthelongline,thepentameter line,whichsincethelate16thcenturyhasbeenthestandardvehicleforpublicpoetry; thelineinwhichtragedy,weightynarrative,andmoraldiscourseofallsortstakeplace;

theline,insum,ofpoeticauthority.IfwelookandlistentoH.D.'smalecohortsthe visualsolidityhasbrokenupbutthesoundofpowerandauthorityremain,thesea surgemodulatingintothedidactinPound,theliturgical,magisterialtonesofEliot. HoldH.D.uptotheeyeandearandwehavesomethingquitedifferent,something whichincludesagreatdealmorespace,moresilencearoundthewordsasifpausing wereasimportantasspeaking...ratherlikeastillsmallvoice:not"authoritative"but intimate.Forthelinesarefirstofallshortandslightthreestressestotheline, sometimesfour,quiteoftenonlytwo,seldom(untillaterinthepoem)five;andthe unstressedsyllablestendtooutnumberthestressedones.Thevoicehasadefinite forwardmomentum("persistence,"ittellsusinWDDF6,isitsvirtue)initsrunonlines andenjambedleapingofstanzabreaks,aswellasitslongsuspendedsentences,butitis alsofullofpauses,hesitations,littleloopingsofrepetitionandqualification. WhatdoesthisaspectofTrilogy'smusicthecombinationofforwardmomentumwith lightnessandhesitationcontributetothepoem'smeaning? Ultimatelywearebeinginvitedtotrustnotastillpointoutsideofourselves, transcendingthisworld,butourowninteriority. Andwhatofrhyme?Hereagainthereisabalancing,andthisisoneofthepoet'smost importantandsubtletechniques.Trilogyis,onemightsay,apoemthatisneither rhymednornotrhymed.Tothecasualreaderitwillnotsoundrhymed,forthereisno rhymeschemeinit,norecurrentabbaorwhatever,andbecauseH.D.isamistressofthe inconspicuousoffrhyme,aswellasofallsortsofinteriorsoundlinkages.Listentothe openingof"Walls"forafewofthethreadsofsound.Wehave(withbracketsforinterior rhymewords): (here)there/(your)square/colour/hare...(thereashere),enter/doors,(here)there,endures, (everywhere)air.Andlater,fissure/endure/fire/floor/terror/ember/whatfor?Notethe contrastingsoundandmeaningclusterofpurpose/lapis/papyrus...stalksus/overtakes us/teachus;andagainroom/gloomasagainstLuxorbee...prophecy...sky...eternity. Amongthealliterativeandassonantalconstructionswehavegone/guns,pursue/pur pose,prophecy,papyrus,tomb/temple,shrine/sky,ruin/roof/roomgloom. AllthroughTrilogytherearechainsofendrhymeswhichmaybelocalormayrun throughwholelyrics,butwhicharealwaysinconspicuousandunpredictablein frequency,andwhicharereinforcedbyinteriorsoundechoesofallsorts.Thereader experiencesthese,Ibelieve,notasrhymebut(withoutthinkingaboutit)asbeautyand coherence.Andthissoundplay,Ibelieve,isaformalcorrelativeofthepoem'spremise thatorder,beautyandmeaningremainpermanentlypresentinourshatteredworld,but notpermanentlyobvious,andthatthewaytorecoverthemisthroughthereceptive

psychicstatesofdreamandvisionwhicharetothe(semantic)WordastheWordisto theSword(WDNF11,20). AliciaOstriker AliciaOstrikeristheauthorofStealingtheLanguage:TheEmergenceofWomen'sPoetryin America,UniversityofMichiganPress.Hernewpoemcollection,GreenAge,isjustout fromUniversityofPittsburghPress.Thecompletetextofthistalkwillbepublishedin theforthcomingessaycollection,Signets:ReadingH.D.,editedbySusanStanford FriedmanandRachelBlauDuPlessis,UniversityofWisconsinPress. Masquerading: EdnaSt.VincentMillayandNancyBoyd WhenEdnaSt.VincentMillaysubmitted"Renascence"toTheLyricYear,itseditors wrotebackaglowinglettertoE.VincentMillay,Esq.thatbegan"DearSir."Evenafter Millay'sgenderandage(nineteen)wererevealedand"Renascence"publishedin Novemberof1912,ArthurDavidsonFickeandWitterBynner,establishedlyricpoetsof theperiod,remainedskeptical:"Thelittleitemaboutherinthebackofthebookisa marvelofhumor.Nosweetyoungthingoftwentyeverendedapoempreciselywhere thisoneends:ittakesabrawnymaleoffortyfivetodothat."However,Ficke,writing forthetwoofthem,hastenedtoreassuretheeditor:"...ifit'sarealsecret,werespect thewriterofsuchapoemtoomuchtowanttoplague'her.'..."(1)

MillaywascalledVincentbyherfamilylongbeforeshemasqueradedasalyricDavid whoseemed,forabriefmoment,capableoftopplingtheloominggiantofmodernism. Aslateas1924,Bynnercompared"Renascence"favorablywith"TheWasteLand,"but JohnCroweRansomsettherecordstraightinhistakeonMillay,"ThePoetasWoman," (c.1936)whichislessanattackonMillaypersethanitisyetanotherskirmishinthe battlebetweenthepoetictraditionalistsandthespokesmenfortheNewCritical masters:Pound,Eliot,Yeats,et.al.Bythispoint,thelyrichasbeendebasedand feminized.Itiswoman'sprovince,generallyspeakingheronlyprovince,thoughevery onceinawhileaMarianneMoorewillprovetobeofasufficientlymasculinecast;

similarly,menthemselvesmaysometimeschoosethe"lesser"lyricrealm.Actually, Ransomisn'talwayswrongaboutMillaybutoncehemakesherthegenericwoman poet,hehas,ineffect,barredwomenfromthemodernistcanon. Maybethisisoneofthereasonswedon'tlikeEdna.Ifwomenhadn'twrittengushy romanceplotpoetryforsomanyyears,Ransommighthavebeenforcedtoaddress MindLoyorH.D.Instead,Millayplayedrightintohishandswithherhistrionics,her "poetess"act.Herflamboyantpublicguises,asGreenwichVillagebohemian,and,later, asprimadonnaofthepoetryreadingcircuit,madeherasRichardWilburhas remarkedthemostthespianofpoets.

Butsuchtheatricality,suchasignatureofexcess,ispreciselyoneofthethingsIfind intriguingaboutMillay.Itbringsmetoissuesofsubjectivityandmasqueradeof subjectivityasmasqueradeandbacktoFicke'sinitialinsistenceonafakefeminity,a "her."Inher1929piece,"WomanlinessasaMasquerade,"JoanRiviere,whowasFreud's translatorandcolleague,undercutshisfamousfeminityessaybysuggestingthatnoline canbedrawnbetween"genuinewomanlinessand'themasquerade.'"(2)Initsmost playfulform,masqueraderevealsthesocialconstructionofsubjectsbyexaggerating gendercharacteristicstothepointofburlesque.Inlessovertfashionitpointstofictional "duplicity"inseeminglystraightforwardautobiographicalpieces.Theunifiedselfmay bealmosttooeasyatargetatthispoint,butwhatwouldhappenifonewereto reexaminethose(stylistic)identitiesthathavebeenviewedasonenote(nomatterhow finetheirmusic)andlackingincomplication? Forseveralyears,Millaywroteshort,satiricmagazinepiecesunderthepseudonymof NancyBoyd,anameasbluntanddiscordantasEdnaSt.VincentMillayisdignifiedand mellifluous.IfMillaywrites:"Andyouaswellmustdie,belovddust,/Andallyour beautystandyouinnostead,"Boydcounters:"Scene:Astudiedstudio,inwhichnine o'clockteaandthingsarebeingservedbyMissBlack,agracefulsculptress,toMr. White,amanofparts,butbadlyassembled.MissBlackistattoedwithbatik;Mr.White isimpeccablyattiredfortheeveningasaprofessionalviolinist."Collectedand publishedunderthetitleDistressingDialogues,andboastingaforewordbynoneother

thanEdnaSt.VincentMillay,theNancyBoydpiecesoftentaketheformofplayletsin whichthedeliberatelyoverdonestagedirectionsproliferate,threateningtosuffocatethe dialogueproperwiththeirlistsofcostumesandcoyposes.BoydsatirizesGreenwich Villagelife(Iimaginethiswouldgooverwellwithherreaders),butwhenshespeaksof thegirlswhostandaroundongolflinkswhileArnoldGenthetakestheirphotograph,I rememberthefamousportraitofMillayunderthemagnoliatreesatVassar,takenby noneotherthanArnoldGenthe,andwonderaboutherownsenseofherrole. Fortified,asitwere,byNancyBoyd,IplantokeepreadingMillay.Didshegainher artisticmajority,ordidsheforeverplay,adeptly,theingenuetoagratefulhousethat wasloathetoofferheranotherpart?Someplacestolookforanswers:thefrightening, perhapssubversivelysentimentalmaternityin"TheBalladoftheHarpWeaver";the debrisofmarriageandidentityin"SonnetsfromanUngraftedTree";herdedicationof FatalInterviewtoElinorWylie,whichsuggeststhathertruestlovesarea(Donneian) formanditsinitiates. DeborahWoodard 1MacDoughall,AllanRoss(ed.),LettersofEdnaSt.VincentMillay,NewYork,Grosset& Dunlop,1952,p.18. 2Riviere,Joan,"WomanlinessasaMasquerade,"inVictorBurgin,JamesDonald,Cora Kaplan(eds.),FormationsofFantasy,London,Methuen,1986,pp.3544. DeborahWoodardisacandidateintheEnglishPh.D.ProgramattheUniversityof WashingtoninSeattle.NewpoemsappearinSouthCoastPoetryJournal.Otherworkhas appearedinSenecaReview,AntiochReview,CarolinaQuarterly,BeloitReview,andPoetry Journal.... VisualsinthispiecebySusanBee,coeditorwithMiraSchorofM/E/A/N/I/N/G. TheActivityofWriting ...Neitherentirelypersonalnorpurelyhistorical,amodeofwritingisinitselfa function.Anactofhistoricalsolidarity,itdenotes,inadditiontomy/thewriter's personalstandpointandintention,arelationshipbetweencreationandsociety.Dealing exclusivelywitheitheroneofthesetwoaspects,therefore,provesvainasanapproach. Sodoesthepreachingofrevolutionthroughawritingmoreconcernedwithimposing thanraisingconsciousnessregardingtheprocessbywhichlanguageworks,or regardingthenature,activityandstatusofwritingitself....

Noradicalchangecanoccuraslongaswritingisnotrecognized,precisely,asamodeof socialinscriptionoras"thechoiceofthatsocialareawithinwhichthewriterelectsto situatetheNatureof(her)/hislanguage."(R.Barthes).Thiscallsforaconceptionof writingthatcannolongernavelybereducedtoameansofexpressingarealityorof emittingamessage.Tolayemphasisonexpressionandonmessageistoforgetthat,even ifartissaidtobea"windowontheworld,"itisonly"asketchedwindow."(V. Shklovsky).Andjustassketchedwindowshavetheirownrealities,writingasasystem byitselfhasitsownrulesandstructuringprocess. TheABClessonsaysthatforletterstobecomewordsandforwordstotakeonmeanings theymustrelatetootherletters,tootherwords,tothecontextinwhichtheyevolvebe itverbalornonverbalaswellastootherpresentandabsentcontexts.(Wordsarethink tanksloadedwithsecondandthirdordermemoriesthatdieharddespitetheirever changingmeanings.)Thus,writingconstantlyreferstowriting,andnowritingcanever claimtobefreeofotherwritings.... Sowheredoyougofromhere?WheredoIgo?Andwheredoesacommittedwoman writergo?Findingavoice,searchingforwordsandsentences:saysomething,onething ornothing;tie/untie,read/unread,discardtheirforms;scrutinizethegrammatical habitsofyourwriting,anddecideforyourselfwhethertheyfreeorrepress.Shake syntax,smashthemythsand,ifyoulose,slideon,UNEARTHsomenewlinguistic paths.Doyousurprise?Doyoushock?Doyouhaveachoice? TrinhT.Minhha, fromWomanNativeOther,justpublishedbyIndianaUniversityPress.Filmmaker,writer andcomposer,Minhha'sworksindudeEnminiscules(poems),LeMeridian,Paris,and hermostrecentfilm,SurnameVietGivenNameNam,premieringthisOctoberinSan Francisco.

AGiftofSong:MyEncounterwithH.D.
byFrancesJaffer MonthsafterIhadreturnedfromaMediterraneancruise,myparentsasked me,"Whatdidyouenjoymostaboutthetrip?"WithouthesitationIsaid,"The

Parthenon." ItwasmyeleventhbirthdayinMarch,1932.WhileourshipwasdockedinPiraeus,I climbedtheAcropolistotheParthenoninthecompanyofthehandsomeGermancruise directorwithwhomIwassecretlyinlove.Hewasbeingtransferredtoanothership,and Iwasintears.TheParthenonwasawesomeitspalemarblehadalyricalausteritythat dominatedtheAcropolis.Myfather,astructuralengineer,hadrelentlesslytaughthis onedaughteraboutarchitectureandreligion.Thoughintears,Iwashappytorecognize thattheParthenon'scolumnswereDoricandthatIhadactuallyabsorbedwhatmy fatherhadtaught.ThatMarchday,Ihadmyfirstmysticalexperience,whatIwould nowcallaspreadingsenseofspiritwhichmanifesteditselfasapremonitionofmy father'sdeathlaterthatyear.WalkingunderHomer'ssky,wecameupontwoGreek children,youngerthanIperhapssixorsevenyearsoldwhoseemedtobewaitingto bephotographed.Theystoodwiththeirbackstoafence,andIwatchedthephotograph happen.Theboy'sgreenjacketandthegirl'sreddresssignifiedsomethingboth knowableandunknowable,anopeningintotherealworldoftimeandloss.Inthe instantofthephotographofthesetwoGreekchildren(meandnotme),Ifeltthetouch ofsorrowthatsubtlycolorsourexperienceofArt.Whattoanelevenyearoldwasa stirring,evenecstatic,experience,becameoneofthedeterminingmomentsofmylife. Decadeslater,whenIdiscoveredH.D.'spoemsonthedirtyfloorofaSanFrancisco bookstore,Ithought,"Again,Greece."ItwasasthoughH.D.hadbeenwaiting.Ihad foundapoetrythatopenedanddeepenedtheworldformeinawaythatfeltakinto thatinstantattheParthenonyearsago. IbegantoreadpoemsseriouslyinmyearlyfiftieswhenIdecidedthatitwastimeto makeupfornothavinghadaformalliteraryeducation.Ireadintenselyinorderto cometosomeunderstandingofwhatthecanonwas.Readingextensivelyinthemajor anthologies,IwassickenedwhenIdiscoveredthealmostuniversalneglect,even absence,ofwomenaswritersofanysignificanceorastrulyhumanactorsinthepoems ofmen.Therewashardlyapoemintheanthologiesthatwasnotdismissiveofwomen inoneformoranother.AlthoughIhadnopoliticalagenda,lesbianorotherwise,Iwas extremelydepressedbywhatIwasreading.Thesewerethepoemswomenareregularly handedandaskedtoidentifywith.IdecidedthenthatforalongtimeIwouldreadonly poemsbywomen;afterall,myliteraryeducationwasminetocreate.Iwantedtoknow whatwomenhadwritten,butweweretoldthatitwasn'tverygood,thatthepoetry womenwritehasalwaysbeenirrelevant,thatitwasn'tArt.But,asCarolynKizerinsists in"ProFemina":"wearethecustodiansoftheworld'sbestkeptsecret:/merelythe privatelivesofonehalfofhumanity."Iwantedthelivesofthatexcludedhalfina poetryfreeofmisogynistattitudes.AndIfoundinH.D.,whatIhadbeenlookingfor. ThefirstpoemIreadinH.D.'sSelectedPoemswas"TheHelmsman."Init,Iheardamusic

thatstilldelightsme: Obeswift wehavealwaysknownyouwantedus. ... Weforgotweworshipped, wepartedgreenfromgreen, wesoughtfurtherthickets, wedippedourankles throughleafmouldandearth, andwoodandwoodbankenchantedus ... Wewereenchantedwiththefields, thetuftsofcoarsegrass intheshortergrass welovedallthis. Butnow,ourboatclimbshesitates drops climbshesitatescrawlsback climbshesitates Obeswift wehavealwaysknownyouwantedus. Itwasanewsongthatheldme,intenseattimesandurgent,butalsotenderlyerotic. Theinsistenceofrhythmanditshesitation,itsconstantvariationandrepetition,seemed atoncefreelyactiveandconstrained.Therewasadoublemood,persistentandself questioning.Andtheambivalencetowardviolentresolutionwasbothsubjectofthe poemandacharacteristicofitsvoice.In"HermesoftheWays,"H.D.embracesthis irresolution,affirmingitsvalue: Hermes,Hermes, thegreatseafoamed, gnasheditsteethaboutme; butyouhavewaited, whereseagrasstangleswith shoregrass. Here,beforethesea,H.D.invokesagod"ofthetriplepathways"whoalonehas waitedforher.Buthehimselfis"dubious,"avacillator,unsettled."Facingthreeways," oneofwhichisdeath,Hermesisagodofchange.Inthispoem,H.D.affirmslifeinallits contradiction,forsherisksembracingagodofinconstancy,aconstantinaworldof

violentupheavals. Reflectingonmyfirstreadingsofthesepoems,Irecallmydelightinhavingfounda womanwriterforwhomtherewasviolenceineverylandscapeandwhoserealitywas nota"shelteredgarden"with"borderonborderofshelteredpinks"("Sheltered Garden").AndsoIenteredhergardenwithitsreeds"slashedandtorn/butdoubly rich"("SeaLily")."SeaRose,"oneofH.D.'secstaticflowerpoemsthatbearswitnessto therough,darksideofbeauty,beginsbyinvoking"Rose/harshrose,marredwithstint ofpetals,/meagreflower."Here,theclicheofpoeticbeautyis "caught...stunted...flung...acrid"and"hardened"asH.D.searchesforanewkindof beautythatwillcompromiseneitherstrengthnorlife.Again,in"Orchard,"thelyrical voicepleadstobefreeoftheobjectofitsdesire.Beautywillneverbeasourceofcomfort andthispoemisaprayerto"spareusfromloveliness."H.D.'sexperienceofbeauty seemedverydifferentfromthatofmenforwhomdangermeantthebeautyofwomen ratherthanthebeautyofnature.HerewasnoBelleDameSansMerci. Discoveringthesepoemswasaturningpointforme.Iwasfifty,justdiagnosedwith cancerandbeginningtowrite.AndIhadfoundagreatpoet. Itwas1976.Forthefirsttimeinseventeenyearsofmarriage,Ihadtakenatripby myself:aweekinPalmSpringswhereIcouldwrite,andswim.Iwassittinginthesun thumbingthroughananthologyIhadpickeduptotakealongwithme, TheVoiceThatIs GreatWithinUs(HaydenCarruth,ed.,1970).IwaslookingforpoemsIlikedand admired,writtenbywomen. TosaythatH.D.'s"Eurydice"changedmylifemaysoundhyperbolic,butitisnotan exaggeration.Ifoundmyselfshakingwithangrypleasure.Herewasavolcanicpoem, anangrypoemthatdealtpassionatelywiththedifficultrealityofwomen'slives.The language,too,exceededthelimitsprescribedbythefeministpoemsofliteralstatementI haduntilthenconsideredappropriatemodels: Soforyourarrogance andyourruthlessness Iamsweptback wheredeadlichensdrip deadcindersuponmossofash Intheearlyyearsoffeminism,statingthefactsofwomen'sliveswasconsidered artisticallysufficient.Butherewasapoemuntamedbythemould.Iread"Euydice"out loudtomyselfmanytimes.Andwiththesongcamethepowerfulreversal,Eurydice's defiance.Herlossoftheupperworldoflightbecomesatriumphantdiscoveryand embraceofherself: againsttheblack

Ihavemorefervor thanyouinallthesplendorofthatplace, againsttheblackness andthestarkgray Ihavemorelight. Nolongerdidthestorybelongtotheman,norwasthewomanapossession.This remarkablepoemwrittenbefore1920,longbeforethesecondwaveoffeminism strengthenedmeinmyfragile,feministidentity. IwasamiddleagedhousewifestrugglingtogivemyselfpermissiontowritewhenI discoveredH.D.'sversionofSappho's"FragmentThirtySix": Iknownotwhattodo, mymindisreft: issong'sgiftbest? islove'sgiftloveliest? ... Mymindisquitedivided, mymindshesitate, soperfectmatched, Iknownotwhattodo: eachstriveswitheach astwowhitewrestlers standingforamatch, readytoturnandclutch yetnevershakemusclenornervenortendon; Itoowastornbetweenthedemandsofartandthedemandsoflove.Echoingmyown struggle,H.D.'sextrapolationofthefragmentacknowledgedandhonoredmydifficulty. Iwastrulyencouraged. AsIcontinuedtoreadIwassurprisedbytheflatnessofmanyofthepoemsin Red RosesForBronze;thismastercouldstumble.Butinthelategreatepicworks,I rediscoveredhermusic,thoughinaradicallydifferentform.Theearlypoemswere purelylyricalwithvaryinglinelengthsandirregularstanzas.InTrilogy,herflexible twolinestanzassustainanarrativevoicewhichrangesfromtheearlylyricismto ordinaryspeech.Anynumberofpassagesmightillustratehowthisformisableto accommodatetheseextremes.Insection32ofTheWallsDoNotFall,forexample,H.D. summarizesalltheobjectionsthatmightberaisedagainsther,thenanswersthemina flyingaffirmationofpossibility: Depthofsubconsciousspewsforth toomanyincongruentmonsters

andfixedindigestiblematter suchasshell,pearl;imagery donetodeath;perilousascent, ridiculousdescent;rhyme,jingle, overworkedassonance,nonsense, juxtapositionsofwordsforwords'sake ... youfindallthis? ... separatedfromthewanderingstars andthehabitsofthelordlyfixedones, wenotedthateventheerraticburntoutcomet hasitspeculiarorbit. H.D.wasalmostsixtyyearsoldandwritingatthepeakofherpowers.Butevenafter thisgreatepicwork,shecontinuedtowritestrongpoemsthroughoutalonglife.Infact, shewrotesomeofhermostbeautifulandrevealingseriesofpoemsinthelastyearsof herlife;WinterLoveforexample.Manyolderwomenmightfindthisseriesofpoems embarrassingbecausetheeroticlifeofoldpeopleistaboo.ButH.D.hadthecourageto declarehervulnerability. HowcouldIloveagain,ever? repetition,repetition,Achilles,Paris,Menelaus? Butyouareright,youareright, thereissomethingleftover, thefirstunsatisfieddesire thefirsttime,thatfirstkiss, theroughstonesofawall, thefragranceofhoneyflowers,thebees, andhowIwouldhavefallenbutforavoice, ... Helen,Helen,comehome; therewasaHelenbeforetherewasaWar, butwhoremembersher? Uponreadingthesepoems,Ithoughttomyselfthatnotmanywomenwouldtake

thisriskandIwasdeeplymovedandinspired. EnthusiasmforH.D.'sworkledmetoawideningcircleoffeministpoets.Reading periodicalslikeSignsandFeministStudies,IfoundfrequentreferencestoH.D.Acrossthe countryImadecontactwithfellowenthusiasts.Inmylocalcommunity,mygoalwasto introducehertoasmanywomenaspossibleandIproceededaggressively.Igave readingsofH.D.'spoemsandlectured.Tomydelight,an"H.D.Network"developed. Allthewhile,ofcourse,withgrowingfreedomandenergy,Iwaswritingmyown poems.Atthattime,IhadtodealwiththeknowledgethatIhadcancer.Suddenly,one afternoon,apoemcametome,quickly,thewaysomepoemsdo.Inthemiddleofalong seriouspoemaboutthecancer,apieceinspiredbyH.D.'slanguageandimageappeared: Ohthetomb,delicateseashell,H.D.said thetempleorthetomb,butthereare thewavesholdingthemoon,theflicker thatholdslight,thespace betweencolumnswhereshape dances,brightfogsings therideundersea,theleap sprayingtheworldpink,thesun swingsonthesea Iwon'tsitstill IfeltthiswasthemostlyricalpoemIhadwritten.IwasecstaticbecauseIhadbeen abletowriteapoemwhosesongIlovedandbecauseitwassoaffirmative.Itseemedto signifyaconnectionbetweenH.D.andmyselfaspoets. MyintroductiontoH.D.notonlyopenedmetotheworkofagreatpoet,buttothe realizationthatmuchofwhatweknowasModernismwasperhapsinauguratedand sustainedbyanentiremilieuofwomen,longneglectedoriginatorsontheleftbankof ParisandinLondon.WhenH.D.'sworkwasrevered,asitwasbyPound,itwas admiredashedefinedit,notassheherselfwouldcometounderstandit.Shewould,of course,eventuallyabandonPound'snarrowrequirementsinordertobecomeherown poet.This,ofcourse,isthesubjectofmuchofher autobiographicalprose. Ihavedealtalmostexclusivelywiththepoetry,butIdon'twanttooverlookher unpredictableandbeautifulworkinprose.HERmione,Palimpsest,andBidMetoLiveall excitedandsurprisedme.Withconsiderableeffort,IhadtolearntoreadHERmione.

Initially,Iwasafraidofit.IthoughtshewastoocrazyandIwasputoffbyheruseof theobjectivecase: Iamtheword...thewordwaswithGod...Iamtheword...HER.Hermione GarthuggedHERtoHermioneGart.IamHER.Thethingwasnecessary. Itwasnecessarytohugthisthingtoherself.Itwasaweightholdingher down,keepingherdown.Herownnamewasballasttoher lightheadedness.(p.33) ButasItaughtmyselftoreadit,Iwasstruckbyitsintendedpsychologicalandliterary effect.Itwasbeautifuldesperation.Iwaseventuallycaptivatedbythisperfectrendering ofayoungwoman'sstruggletoholdontohersubjectivity.Andalthough BidMeToLive ismoreconventionalthenHERmione,itbearstheimprintofaremarkablesensibility exploringthecreativeself. EversincemyfirstvisittotheAcropolis,I'dbeendrawntotheGreekmyths. IwasfascinatedbytheirresponsibilityoftheOlympians,theirhijinx,theirpeculiar morality,theirbeautyanddrama.Formetheysignaledacontinuoussensuous awarenessofthecosmosanditsunmanageableauthority.H.D.'sobsessionwiththem enhancedmyown. Formanyyears,IhadbeenhopingtogetbacktoGreece.Thetruthis,Ihadbecome fixatedonthegoddessAthena.Ihadfoundanimageofherthatastoundedme,aphoto ofastatueofthegoddesswithouthermilitaryheaddress.Shewassoftlybeautifuland sweetfaced,morematernalthanIhadeverimagined.Thisstatuewasonlyaboutfour incheshigh.Butthatwasenough.IknewIhadtogotoGreeceandfindthisgoddess. Wakingfromadreamonemorning,Ihadapropheticvision.Iheardawomansternly orderingmetogotoGreece.Andinthis dream,therewasaWomaninaboat.Ababywasbesideherandagreensnakesweetly swimming.Fromthetopofahill,thegoddessshoneagreatbeaconintothenight.She wouldprotectthebaby,shewasAthenaleadingmebacktoGreecewithH.D. InGreeceagain,onPatmos,thesmallwhitebuildingslookedliketoysandmarked theturnsonhillsides.Andtherewerethepowerfulicons.Ifoundapicturepostcard captionedVirginAlmightyandGuiding,andbeganmysearchforthisChristianvision ofthevirgingoddess.Abreathlesswomaninhighheelsandablackskirtcametripping downthestonypathfromtheTwelfthCenturymonastery.Gleefullyshesaid, "TomorrowisAscensionDay!ItsagreatdayfortheVirgin!"Ifollowedalittleboywho tookmetothewomanwhocaredforthechurchwhich housedtheiconIwasseeking.Yearslater,Iwouldrecallthisquestinapoem: TheIkon staresfromtheshadowsattheback,

Iknowher!Zeus'motherlessDaughter.She holdsanangryChild. WhenIrecallwritingthis,thecentraldebttoH.D.isclearandIammovedbythe recollection.Itwasshewhoinspiredthisreligiousquest,justasshehelpedmesee AthenaintheimageoftheVirgin.Indeed,myindebtednessgoesfarbeyondthis discoveryonPatmos:H.D.sanctionedmeasafullyhumanwomanandartistopento thedeepunityofexperience. Intheyearssincemyastonisheddiscoveryof"Eurydice,"H.D.hasgaineda greatfollowing.Hercollectedpoemshavebeenpublished,bookshavebeenwritten aboutherlifeandherworks,anditseemsstrangetorememberthedayswhenmost women,andmen,wouldsay,"Oh,thatImagist.Ihaven'treadmuchofherwork."I havetoadmit,Imisssomeoftheintensityofthosemissionarydays;tobealoverof H.D.'spoemsnolongerexcitescomment.Atarecentfeministliteraryconference,the embattledweretheoneswho(courageously)stoodupandsaid,"I don'tlikeH.D.!" Ididn'tfeelitwasnecessarytoargue.H.D.'sreputationisrelativelysecure. Disagreementsaremerelyinteresting.AndeverytimeIopenapagetooneofher poems,I'mtransportedagainbyhersong. FrancesJaffer'sessaywillbepublishedbytheUniversityofIowaPressin H.D.andPoets After,ed.DonnaK.Hollenberg.

Ovid and H.D.'s "Thetis" (Hymen Version)

by Eileen Gregory
Copyright Eileen Gregory. This article originally appeared in The H.D. Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring 1987), p. 7-9 and is reproduced here with the kind permission of Eileen Gregory. H.D's use of classical sources in her early poetry is not so pyrotechnic as that of contemporaries like Eliot or Auden or Pound--to whom, it sometimes seems, erudition is a gentleman's coat-ofarms, a badge of membership. Taking the ironic, self-reflexive postures of these male poets as norms of presentation, critics until recently have assumed, from H.D.'s lyric strategies of

appropriating texts, that her real knowledge of classical poetry is modest, that she picks from it arbitrarily with preciosity (avoiding the hard parts, as Eliot says in his review of her translations of Euripides), and that her Hellenism is largely derivative from late nineteenth century writers. These assumptions are simply untrue, as anyone knows who attempts to trace her allusions to their sources. In her conversation with classical works H.D. shows intimate knowledge of original texts and a keen awareness of their possible interplay with her own. Take, for example, her poem "Thetis" in Hymen (1). Anyone who has been puzzled by the sensuous obscurity of this poem may turn to Ovid's Metamorphoses 11.229-37. (2) There is a curving bay in Thessaly, Shaped like a sickle; two long arms run out And were the water deeper there would be A harbour. Smooth across the shallow sand The sea extends; the shore is firm; it holds No footprints, slows no passage, slopes unlined By seaweed. Myrtles grow near by, a grove Of double-coloured berries. In their midst There lies a grotto, formed maybe by art, Maybe by nature, rather though by art, Where Thetis used to come, naked, astride Her bridled dolphin. "Thetis" clearly echoes this exquisite configuration: the white cresent-shaped [sic] beach of the "island disc," the myrtle-wood, the descent into water astride the dolphin which undulates beneath its jewelled harness. In her poem H.D. captures the complex tonality of this original moment, which evokes the untouched purity of sand and shore (crescent/moon qualities) as well as the Aphroditic richness of myrtle grove and charged nakedness. H.D. also elaborates the explicit Ovidian theme of the confluence of art and nature: indeed part of the obscurity of "Thetis" is in its rich confusion of these two states. Sensing the acumen within H.D.'s reading of Ovid, we may then notice a deeper play with her source. In her creation of lyric presence H.D. reimagines voice and perspective. Ovid's narrative voice possesses detachment and breadth of vision. In this moment the narrator pauses to set a scene, to demarcate spatial territories, within yet another story of violent sexual assault. But in "Thetis" H.D. interiorizes the scene, rendering the intimacy of this moment. An a-spatial, atemporal lyric presence (not "speaker," not "narrator" or "I") clairvoyantly describes the moving goddess whose image is vividly manifest. It is as though, having conjured this waking dream, the seer hovered at the treshhold (neither inside nor outside) of the goddess' body: "On the paved parapet / you will step carefully / from amber stones to onyx / flecked with violet / mingled with light ... reflecting your white feet." Our presence to this erotic body becomes progressively more intense as we merge liminally with the _eidolon_ of Thetis as she descends into water. The image of the glittering and swaying dolphin's body riding beneath the goddess conjures her own watery, incandescent nakedness more than could any simple words. In "Thetis" the image of descent into water renders a descent into the sensually awakened body. In the lyric terms that H.D. assumes, body is by no means a clear fact--rather, it is (or it arrives at being) a presence, experienced through manifold erotic thresholds.

In a more complex play with Ovid, H.D. contextualizes the moment rendered in "Thetis" within the structure of Hymen. The ambivalent domain of "hymeneal" initiation encompasses all the poems in Hymen. "Thetis" seems somewhat anomalous among the other poems in the volume, like "Simaetha" and "Circe" (the two poems which directly precede and follow it) in that it describes a (divine) woman's sexual self-sufficiency, her radical "virginity" or erotic selfpossession. But when "Thetis" is seen in the context of Hymen, an elided but indelible portion of Ovid's story becomes visible. In the lines immediately following those quoted above, Ovid tells: "There [in the grotto], as she lay lapped / In sleep, Peleus surprised her and, his fond / Entreaties all repulsed, assaulted her" (238-40). Thetis avoids rape in this case by Protean metamorphosis (into a bird, into a tree, and, finally, into a tigress). But Proteus gives Peleus directions for capturing Thetis--to bind her arms apart while she sleeps--and she is finally forced to reveal her true shape and to yield to this urgent mortal against her will. Then "He held her ... to his side / And filled with great Achilles his fair bride" (264-65). It is an old story, especially relished by classical writers, and still employed in rationalizations of rape: such virginal self-sufficiency, such possession of a sacred territory apart from the cycle of generation, necessarily calls forth violation. The virgin is provocative, perilous. This ominous erotic configuration is clearly fascinating to H.D. "Thetis" with its classical subtext echoes other poems in the volume (with other figures initiated more or less violently, like Evadne, Leda, Hippolyta, and the Persephone-like bride of "Hymen"). H.D.'s Thetis is an image of erotic/bodily wholeness, yet also of metamorphic evasion and of the fatal mystery within a qualified surrender to mortal violence. "Thetis" also suggests in its images (elaborated subsequently in a second poem entitled "Thetis" in Heliodora) a symbolic matrix central to her life-long work: the erotic, inviolable, visceral, elusive, many-formed sea-mother of the brilliant son. "I take my alchemists straight," the old H.D. remarked in voicing her aversion to Jung (quoted in Walsh, (3)). The same might be said of the early (equally adept) H.D. in her relation to classical writers: here too is a characteristic surety of aim and a directness that we have yet fully to appreciate. Why? Because though she hits the mark she is aiming, always, other than where one expects. H.D. is always lyrically on target: her use of allusion, her intertextual play with classical material, directs us toward affective, intimate territories, not toward abstraction or cultural commentary--conceptual formulation, or "ironic juxtaposition" leading to wise dismay. Just as do her male contemporaries, she does indeed point to cultural crevases, to sexual/political disasters. But these moments are part of a larger history of body and of desire. They matter at all because they matter first to feeling. 1. H.D.: Collected Poems 1912-1944. Ed. Louis L. Martz. New York: New Directions, 1983. 116-17, stanzas I and II only. 2. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses are by A.D. Melville (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1986). 3. King, Michael, ed. H.D.: Woman and Poet. Man and Poet Series. Orono, Me.: National Poetry Foundation, 1986. p.62.

H.D. and R.A.: Early Love and the Exclusion of Ezra Pound
by Caroline Zilboorg
Copyright Caroline Zilboorg. This article originally appeared in The H.D. Newsletter, vol. 3, no. 1, p. 26-34 and is reproduced here with the kind permission of Caroline Zilboorg. Please be sure to see Prof. Zilboorg's comments at the end of the article, written since its publication. H.D., Richard Aldington, and Ezra Pound met often in London in the first months of 1912. H.D. had decided in late 1911 to remain in England and to work on her writing; a small allowance from her parents gave her a measure of security and permitted her to spend long hours reading at the British Museum and relishing a city rich in art and literature. Pound had introduced Aldington to Brigit Patmore early in the year; at a party at her house he met H.D. and was immediately attracted to her. H.D. in turn responded to him as a colleague, an intellectual equal, and a romantic partner. Pound liked to introduce people; he liked to bring young artists together, to quicken one person with another, to send new work to editors, to electrify the chemistry of a gathering. He was often brilliant in doing all these things; he was more awkward in his reactions to the consequences of what he had done: initially cordial working relations with editors often became after a time impossible, and he alternately perplexed and outraged friends and acquaintances when he no longer controlled their activities. From his perspective, people seemed to have changed, or to be different from the way he had initially perceived them, or to be acting oddly. He never quite grasped that H.D. and Aldington were falling in love with each other. Aldington was working hard in the spring of 1912 to establish himself as a literary critic and poet and was also regularly writing articles on subjects of more general interest. With a small monthly allowance from his parents, he managed to support himself. When H.D. left for a visit to France in May of 1912, an enamored Aldington soon joined her. Pound was also in Paris that summer and the three sometimes toured the city together, although H.D. and Aldington were clearly at this point close companions and their relationship was deepening. They went regularly together to museums, and their shared experience of visual as well as literary art was an obvious element in their romance. H.D. showed her diary to Aldington, and during these months in Paris, it occasionally even became a joint enterprise: on May 28, 1912, Aldington wrote humorously in the diary about the art they were seeing; on July 4, in response to a painting they had both seen in the Louvre, he composed a sonnet, "Angelico's Coronation," and dedicated it "To H.D." In the octave he remarks on the attraction of the Christian painting for him, its delicacy and calm; in the sestet, he rejects the peace of Fra Angelico for a hellenic life and love: ...the blithe wild earth, Scurry of satyr-hooves in dewy lands,

Pan-pipes at noon, the lust, the shaggy fur, White bosoms & swift Dionysiac mirth.(1) H.D. and Aldington thought of themselves as "Greeks"; on June 15 H.D. noted in her diary that they had spent the morning in the Luxembourg Gardens, "R deep in Greek choruses H-sketching caste of gladiator-" They probably also consummated their love that summer. When Pound joined them for tea on June 10, H.D. recorded in her diary that she said to Pound, "'You see I am taking your advice.' (The advice weeks since in Luxembourg gardens 'You better marry Richard')." On the facing page is a poem by H.D. beginning "I love you. . . . "The diary also reveals the emotionally intense but formally conventional poems both were producing. They are writing on the Greek or the personal subjects that would become characteristic of their mature poetry but in strict meter and rhyme, formal elements that both would soon reject for the vers libre of early modernism.(2) After their return to London in August, H.D. and Aldington went back to their respective work and probably in late September of 1912 had their now famous encounter in the British Museum tea-room during which H.D. showed her poems to Pound and he, impressed with what he read, signed them "H.D. 'Imagiste' "and sent them off in October to Poetry. Three of Aldington's early poems, also written before Pound labeled him an "Imagist," appeared as Imagist works in Poetry in November, 1912; H.D.'s poems appeared two months later in January, 1913. The two were by no means established poets from this time forward, but their debut in Poetry was a significant introduction of their verse to serious readers who sensed a new awakening of poetry at the very beginning of the modernist movement. Both H.D. and Aldington had published poems in newspapers, but neither had before received the critical consideration each would receive from now on. The translations on which they would each work--free, poetic and impressionistic renditions of Greek verse, more precise and conventional translations of contemporary French prose--became parallel if not occasionally collaborative efforts from this point, and their reading and writing, their shared discussions of books and their own work became an integral part of an increasingly intimate relationship. In October of 1912 H.D. left England for another trip to the continent. She spent some time in Paris, where she saw Pound who was also briefly there, before travelling south to Italy to meet her parents and Margaret Snively and her father, who made the trip to Europe with them. The Snivelys were neighbors of the Doolittles in Upper Darby, and Margaret had been a close friend of H.D. since girlhood. The Doolittles missed their only daughter, whom they had not seen for fifteen months, and were curious and probably somewhat concerned about her activities and her future plans. They landed at Genoa on October 14; on October 18 they left for Florence, stopping at Pisa on the way.(3) The Doolittles and Snivelys saw the sights; Mrs. Doolittle bought H.D. a dress; H.D., Professor Doolittle, and Margaret Snively took Italian lessons together until the end of November. On December 2, the Snivelys left Florence for Nice where Dr. Snively, an Episcopalian minister, had an appointment. On December 4, the Doolittles took the train from Florence to Rome. On December 5, they began their sightseeing and Mrs. Doolittle noted without further commentary that there was "--mail for Hilda." In H.D.'s absence Aldington worked furiously in London, managing before the end of the year to persuade A. R. Orage, editor of The New Age, to accept a proposed series of articles on Italy.

With this small measure of security he left London for the continent, arriving in Rome in early December. H.D. and Aldington did not return to London until August of 1913, and their eight months of traveling essentially together, primarily in Italy but also in France, took them as far south as Naples. This period was certainly not the family visit that Pound felt the Doolittles expected.(4) Aldington was clearly in love with H.D. and she increasingly inclined to him, although according to Pound H.D. was influenced by her parents(5) and Aldington finally needed Pound's permission to pursue his courtship seriously.(6) Even as late as May, 1913, Pound observed rather insistently that despite H.D.'s time alone with Aldington, "she doesn't seem much more in love"; with patent obtuseness, Pound declared the next day, "I think they must be in love."(7) They were in love. Pound is not a particularly reliable source for this period.(8) H.D. in her few surviving letters to others from this time tended to write of the sights and climate she experienced and did not mention Aldington.(9) Aldington was similarly discreet in his many postcards to his father and sister during his travels, never once mentioning the Doolittles or H.D. by name nor even indicating that he was courting someone; his postcards refer to his work, the sights he was seeing, the weather, his changes of address. (10) Both writers are also reticent about this period in their later autobiographical work. H.D. does not discuss this trip in End to Torment, for example, which focuses on her early relationship with Pound. In Life for Life's Sake, Aldington writes that he left London in December because of the fog as well as because of a postcard from "a friend in Genoa" (clearly H.D.) telling him that in Italy the blossoming almond trees "'will be full out in a few weeks."'(11) He does not mention spending most of his trip abroad with H.D., but focuses instead on amusing characters, local sights, and the fine climate in conveying the beauty and delight he discovered during these months in the south. He indicates with only slight ambiguity that it is Italy he is in love with rather than a woman, writing that ... we can never quite regain the first fine careless rapture of discovering Italy. Perhaps the course of true love runs all the truer for not being smooth; and very possibly my enjoyment of these wanderings was made the keener because I had been forced to wait so long, overcome difficulties and take risks. In spite of very high expectations, I was not disappointed.'(12) While Aldington is writing here of his affection for Italy and his financial constraints, he is also I think equating the experience of Italy with the realization of his love for H.D. He implies that their relationship, despite their insecure finances and the pressure of other people and even of other lovers, was, like the almond trees on the postcard, about to come into full bloom. Further, H.D. had for years identified herself with trees. Pound may well have called her "Dryad" as early as the poem "The Tree" which he wrote for her and gave her bound together with other poems in "Hilda's Book" in 1907; surely Aldington called her "Dryad" in 1913. Thus the "friend's" postcard increases in significance and becomes an erotic invitation to join H.D. in Italy. On December 12, 1912, Mrs. Doolittle noted that H.D. was spending time with her "English friends"; on December 16, Mrs. Doolittle wrote, "Hilda had tea with her English friends," Aldington presumably by this time among them. Mrs. Doolittle's travel diary for 1912-1913 is an important source for understanding the early love between Aldington and H.D. She was clearly an outsider, but her entries are regular and specific, though brief and generally without reflection or commentary. The details reveal the texture of H.D.'s and Aldington's days and Mrs. Doolittle's

affectionate encouragement of their courtship. While Pound's version suggests all sorts of tensions within and without the relationship, Mrs. Doolittle's diary conveys a much happier and smoother friendship. On December 18, she noted that "Hilda was feeling particularly well." On December 20, she mentioned Aldington for the first time: "Hilda out with R.A." H.D. spent much of each day sightseeing with Aldington, occasionally with her mother and father, but generally without them. By Christmas Eve Mrs. Doolittle was calling him "Richard." When the Doolittles left Rome for Naples on February 12,1913, Aldington followed two days later, and he and H.D. resumed their pattern of days out together at museums and local sights, then teas and dinner at which her parents might join them. When Professor and Mrs. Doolittle left Naples for Venice on March 6, she noted that "H. & R.A. came on later train." On March 14, the Doolittles and Aldington took a boat to Capri and Anacapri, where they all stayed. Mrs. Doolittle throughout their travels seems to have been quite close to her daughter. She evidently accepted and respected H.D.'s intimacy with Aldington, confining her maternal solicitude to buying H.D. nice clothing: she purchased her daughter a dress in Florence (25 October 1912), blue fabric for another dress in Rome (9 December 1912), and material "for Hilda's new nightdress" in Capri (19 March 1913). On March 23, Mrs. Doolittle wrote, "make plans--Hilda remains here [on Capri] while we [the Doolittles] go to Sicily." The Doolittles took the boat to Naples on March 25, then went on to Sicily, returning to Naples on April 11, then taking the train to Rome. On April 14, the Doolittles arrived for a brief stay in Bologne, finally reaching Venice on April 17. H.D. and Aldington remained unchaperoned on Capri for six weeks; Mrs. Doolittle's diary reveals no signs that she was the least upset with her daughter's decision, nor could she have been the least deluded about the intimacy of H.D.'s relationship with Aldington. Mrs. Doolittle regularly noted her correspondence with her daughter, and letters and postcards passed constantly between them throughout March and April of 1913. On May 4, Mrs. Doolittle wrote, "Ezra P.--looked for us--found us here [in Venice ]--we came back to the hotel together--he had dinner with us--stayed until midnight." On May 5, "Ezra called this afternoon & had dinner again with us." The impression conveyed is that Pound was rather lonely. On May 7, H.D. and Aldington arrived in Venice, and during the next week they and Pound and the Doolittles spent time together; on May 8, "Ezra gave a gondola party this evening . . . wonderful! Hilda & Richard in one & E & I in another--back 11:30--" Professor Doolittle left the entourage on a business trip on May 15. On May 21, Mrs. Doolittle was again devoting herself to her daughter's wardrobe: "Bought blue crepe for blouse for Hilda--have nearly finished it." Aldington seems to have grown quite close to Mrs. Doolittle in late May and June. He and she and H.D. traveled together to attend a Bach festival at Verona on May 30, moving on from there to Lake Garda on June 4. On June 5, Mrs. Doolittle noted that she "Had long row on lake with Richard"; on June 6, she was making and having a dressmaker make clothes for H.D.; on June 7, "Richard took me out boating"; on June 10, "After dinner Richard took us on the lake--moonlight & very beautiful--" On June 22,1913, they left the lake for Verona where Professor Doolittle met them on June 25; Aldington went with them part of the way, then continued on to Paris. On July 6, H.D. left her parents in the Alps to join Aldington; her mother commented, "I know H. will enjoy settling down for a little but we shall miss her." The Doolittles went on to tour Switzerland, Austria, and Germany; Aldington and H.D. spent the rest of July together in Paris. After their return to London in early August, they moved into separate flats at Churchwalk, Kensington: H.D. lived at Number 6, Aldington two doors up at

Number 8; Pound lived at Number 10. The Doolittles arrived in London on September 4 and were greeted by H.D. and Aldington. Professor Doolittle soon became ill, however, and the Doolittles stayed in town only long enough to celebrate H.D.'s twenty-seventh birthday on September 10 before going to Bournemouth where it was thought that Professor Doolittle could best recover. On September 19, Mrs. Doolittle recorded: "Eventful day. Richard and Hilda came for the day to talk about the future--Such a lovely time & I am happy for them both!" She added exuberantly that she felt "happy & peaceful!!" On September 28, the Doolittles returned to London to "prepare for [H.D.'s] marriage." H.D. and her mother went shopping daily for "towels & c." and "to get Hilda's things together" (30 September 1913). On October 18, 1913, in the presence of Pound and the Doolittles, Aldington and H.D. were married. Shortly after the wedding, her parents returned to the United States and the Aldingtons together moved into a flat of their own at 5 Holland Place Chambers; Pound soon moved, too, into a flat just across the hall. Pound's intrusive presence during the Aldingtons' courtship and the early months of their marriage was disconcerting and sometimes awkward for them. The direct influence Pound had had on H.D.'s formative work before 1908 was, like their engagement, long since over, and H.D. had grown into a poet in her own right. A significant part of the attraction between Aldington and H.D. was their independently-arrived-at but shared ideas of poetry: its subjects, purposes, techniques, language, emotional effects. The many versions of Pound's initiation of Imagism all suggest that when he read H.D.'s poems over the famous tea, they appeared new to him: he was apparently not familiar with them in earlier drafts, and his enthusiasm arose in part because of his genuine surprise at what he immediately claimed in his naming of H.D. and the movement as his own discovery and invention. In his desire to direct and to control and sometimes by his mere presence, Pound was an intruder. Aldington recalled in Life for Life's Sake that in the spring of 1912, "Ezra had been butting in on our studies and poetic productions, with alternative encouragements and the reverse, according to his mood." (13) And H.D., too, remembered in End to Torment her disconcerted surprise when she discovered Pound examining the apartment across the narrow hall from the Aldingtons'; he was looking for a place to live with Dorothy Shakespear after their wedding: I found the door [to the opposite flat] open one day before they were married, and Ezra there. "What--what are you doing?" I asked. He said he was looking for a place where he could fence with Yeats. I was rather taken aback when they actually moved in. It was so near. She added rather pointedly, "But we went soon after [in January, 1915] to Hampstead. . . . After that we did not see much of Ezra . . . "(End to Torment: A Memoir of Ezra Pound. [New York: New Directions, 1979] 5). Pound was finally willing to accept even if he could not understand the Aldingtons' partnership. Ironically, it was to Pound that both Aldingtons finally turned in late 1928 and early 1929 in their attempts to begin to create new grounds for their then-shattered relationship. The correspondence from Aldington and H.D. to Pound during this period recalls the emotions of their courtship,

revealing not only their abiding love for each other but their continuing relationship with Pound, which worked best when they were able to keep him at a distance. NOTES 1. Barbara Guest misrepresents this poem by quoting only the sestet as if it were the whole. She also mistranscribes "crownest" as "crowned" (line 10) and "blithe" as "white" (line 11); see Guest, Barbara. Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1984) 53. In its entirety, the poem reads: Angelico's Coronation [To H.D.]

Almost indeed thou drawest me to thy feet Frail gentle Christ, almost thy sway Might take me from the pride of my straight way, Almost I were content in my defeat; I am most glad to know thee, where the sweet Saints hymn thee & the cherubim essay Their music like the tremor of the day, Still echoes which the golden hills repeat; But if I loved thee, & thy fragile hands Tenderly touched me as thou crownest her I should grow weary for the blithe wild earth, Scurry of satyr-hooves in dewy lands, Pan-pipes at noon, the lust, the shaggy fur, White bosoms & swift Dionysiac mirth. It is worth pointing out as well that Guest cites this poem as evidence of the difference between Aldington and H.D. It is rather evidence of their shared conflict: they were both moved by the Christian art they saw and were part of the twentieth-century which was to a large measure Judeo-Christian; they simultaneously felt themselves by sensibility and obligation both Greek and pagan. I cannot let pass without comment the factual errors Guest records when commenting on this poem. She states that it was composed in Florence in the spring of 1913; it was, however, written in Paris in July of 1912. She notes that Aldington sent a copy of it to H.D. in 1958 and that she kept it in the diary as a memento; in fact, he wrote it in a page of the diary itself. I would like to thank Alister Kershaw and the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale, for permission to publish this poem. 2. H.D.'s unpublished 1912 diary, from which the quotations in this paragraph are taken, is at the Beinecke Library. The author thanks Perdita Schaffner and the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book Manuscript Library, Yale, for permission to quote from this source.

3. This information and all subsequent details and quotations about this trip, unless otherwise noted, are taken from the unpublished 1912-1913 travel diary of Helen Wolle Doolittle, H.D.'s mother, and are used by permission of Perdita Schaffner and the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale. 4. Pound found the Doolittles "disconsolate on the piazza [In Venice) yesterday afternoon & spent the evening consoling them for the absence of their offspring" (Ezra Pound to Dorothy Shakespear, May 1913, in Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear, Their Letters: 1909-1914, ed. Omar Pound and A. Walton Litz [New York: New Directions, 1984] 220). 5. Pound wrote to Dorothy Shakespear, 8 May 1913, that H.D.'s "family distresses her & seems to drive her more fawn-wards" (Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear 224). 6. Pound wrote to Dorothy Shakespear, 21 April 1913, that he expected to be amused by Aldington and H.D. together in Venice. On 29 April Pound sent Dorothy a first version of "The Faun" (published in revised form in Poetry and Drama, 2 [March 1914]). In this poem he addresses Aldington (nicknamed "Faun" by H.D. and Pound), accusing him of "sniffing and snoozling about among my flowers," but finally the speaker, conceding defeat, states, "But take it, I leave you the garden" (Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear 207, 213). 7. Pound to Dorothy Shakespear, 8 and 9 May 1913, Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear 224, 226. 8. Neither is Barbara Guest a reliable source. I have not attempted to draw attention to numerous errors of fact nor to what appear to me peculiar interpretations in her portrait of the courtship between Aldington and H.D. in Herself Defined (47-56). Guest may mistakenly, however, have based her version in part on Pound's responses (as evidenced in his letters to Dorothy Shakespear), although her taking Pound's view as truth would only account for a few of the problems in her treatment of this period. 9. For example in H.D.'s unpublished letters to Isabel Pound, Pound's mother, 5 and 30 December 1912 at the Beinecke Library. 10. Aldington sent 21 postcards to his father and sisters between 12 December 1912 and 25 June 1913; these unpublished cards are in the Rare Book and Manuscript Collection of the Temple University Library and I am grateful to Robert Spoo for drawing them to my attention. 11. Richard Aldington, Life for Life's Sake: A Book of Reminiscences (New York: Viking, 1941)121. 12. Life for Life's Sake 122. 13. Life for Life's Sake 134.

Prof. Zilboorg's Comments, written since the article's publication (Last revised, August 30, 1998)
I now think that EP probably introduced HD to RA at a tea at Brigit Patmore's in late 1911. Early 1912 simply seems, from all else I know now, to be too late. I think the famous Imagism scene must have occurred at a tearoom outside the British Museum itself. Remember at only 20, Aldington couldn't use the library yet; it seems more likely that they would have met, from what Aldington says in his late letters, outside the museum. I think HD spent a few days at most in Paris in October 1912 on her way to Italy. I feel now that Helen Doolittle was at least at first unhappy about HD's long stay abroad. RA's advent on the scene in Rome must have relieved her considerably. Further, anyone interested in tracing HD through this Italian period should look closely at RA's essays on Italy which appeared at the time in Orage's New Age. They reveal him vividly as a young man trying hard to develop the right voice (both skeptical and romantic, aloof at 20 and moved by both nature and art)-- and of course add rich detail to the art and architecture, the hills and cities he and HD saw together during those months of their early love in 1913. I previewed some fascinating Aldington material about to go up for auction a couple of weeks ago in London. Among the items was a book of essays. The Renaissance, by Pater. Aldington had written his name in it on the front flyleft in ink. Under this, in pencit and in his handwriting, he had written "Dedit H.D.". On the back flyleaf is what I am convinced is the first draft of "Angelico's Coronation", much revised. Under it is a poem to my knowledge never published; both are in his hand in pen and revised in pen. The second poem is dated May 1912 and "Louvre". All this is intriguing stuff for the biographer, but makes me feel now that my initial reading was right-- "Angelico's Coronation" was written for H.D. (as "H.D.", I might add) in May that summer of 1912 and the revised version copied into her diary soon afterwards. [Anyone wishing to discuss these points with Prof. Zilboorg may send email to me, at hh@imagists.org, and I will see that the mail is forwarded.]

H.D.'s Volume of Dickinson's Poems; and, a Note on Candor and Iniquity

by Eileen Gregory
Copyright Eileen Gregory. This article originally appeared in The H.D. Newsletter, vol. 3, no. 1, p. 44-46 and is reproduced here with the kind permission of Eileen Gregory.

Among H.D.'s books in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale is The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, with an introduction by Martha Dickinson Bianchi (Boston: Little, Brown, 1924). As she did on occasion with other collections, H.D. made special note of some of the poems in the volume; on the inside back cover she listed by number poems in section 5 of this edition. (1) Here is her list of numbers and, given in brackets, the first line of each corresponding poem as well as the standard number according to the edition of Thomas H. Johnson.(2) 1. [Adventure most unto itself: stanza four of 822 (This Consciousness that is aware) ] 36. [She died at play: 75] 48. [March is the Month of Expectation: 1404] 54. [A Cap of Lead across the sky: 1649] 58. [Lightly stepped a yellow star: 1672] 71. [Not any sunny tone: 1674] 98. ["Sown in dishonor": 62] 104. [The Bible is an antique Volume: 1545] 109. [Candor--my tepid friend: 1537] 114. [The Sea said "Come" to the Brook: 1210] Of course more of Dickinson's poems captured H.D.'s attention than these few, noted casually in a book at an indeterminate time and within fairly inscrutable contexts of association. One is tantalized to imagine some of those contexts, some of the play of mind and imagination at work within this fairly unusual selection. One poem in particular (1577) suggests a remarkable mirroring between Dickinson's poetic disposition and that of H.D. Candor - my tepid friend Come not to play with me The Myrrhs, and Mochas, of the Mind Are its iniquity Dickinson is well aware that according to the then current norms of lyric poetry-- sincerity of sentiment, earnestness, piety--she would be considered "iniquitous." In an uncanny way she anticipates her critics. Remarks by Harold Monro, though relatively late (1925), suggest the characteristic acerbity of early commentators: "She gives the impression of wanting to keep some secret. Clarity of thought is constantly veiled in obscurity of expression. She was not candid; she does not seem to have been moved by any overruling instinct for truth." (3) She refuses simply to reveal herself; she is not "straight"; she is not "true." But her motive in rejecting "candor," in choosing covert operations, is not merely to disguise or veil. It comes from an erotic preference: friend candor is tepid, but the elect imaginative playmates are, one infers, hot. "The Myrrhs, and Mochas, of the Mind"--sensuous, exotic, subliminal in their affects (fragrance or taste or color), cloudy with primary associations--this was a preferred imaginative territory for Dickinson, one that, itself obscure, profited all the more through the graceful, oblique concealment of lyric expression.

Like Dickinson, H.D. as a lyric poet understands this primary conflict between "Myrrh/Mocha" and censorious "candor." Though the restrictive poetic norms that govern her time are different from those of Dickinson (for sincerity read objectivity and impersonality), she too is prone to iniquitous luxuries. Myrrh-mindedness by its nature is aphroditic, illicit, incestuous.(4) It works by indirection, affective confluence, and latency; and it is always in conflict with a disposition toward the straight and clear. However much in her early poetry H.D. realized the severe tenets of Imagism grounded in the direct, clear presentation of the image, she had other poetic agendas. Her words in a review of a volume by fellow Imagist John Gould Fletcher describe her own dispositions: "[H]ow much more than the direct image to [the lover of beauty] are the images suggested by shadow and light, the flicker of the purple wine, the glint across the yellow, the depth of the crimson and red?"(5) A certain "candor"--an apparent simplicity or directness--is for these two poets part of the lyric fiction; but that fiction is continuously animated by desire and the play of mind within mood. Much as H.D. admired in Dickinson a parallel to her lyric, "crystalline" qualities,(6) she also remarked the erotic substrata, which, as in her own poetry, give the crystal its depth of color and light. NOTES 1. For permission to publish these marginalia I am grateful to Perdita Schaffner and to the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 2. The Poems of Emily Dickinson (Cambridge: Belnap Press of Harvard University, 1955). 3. Criterion 3 (1925): 324. 4. See the discussion of Aphroditic rites, myrrh and the myth of Myrrha (the mother of Adonis through incestuous union with her father) in Marcel Detienne, The Garden of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology, trans. J. Lloyd (Hassocks: Harvesters, 1977); and for a discussion of this myth in H.D.'s work, see Judith Roche, "Myrrh: A Study of Persona in H.D.'s Trilogy," Line no. 12 (Fall 1988): 88 ff. 5. A review of Fletcher's Goblins and Pagodas, The Egoist 3 (1916): 183. 6. H.D. in a 1924 letter to Bryher speaks of Dickinson's poetry as "really very nice crystalline stuff"; quoted in Susan Stanford Friedman, "'Remembering Shakespeare Always, But Remembering Him Differently': H.D.'s By Avon River," Sagetrieb 2.2 (Summer-Fall 1983): 47, fn.7. For a discussion of the poetic convergences between Dickinson and H.D., see the note by Martha Nell Smith, "Not Each in Isolation," H.D. Newlsetter 2.1 (Spring 1988): 48-51.

H.D.'s The Gift A review by Charlotte Mandel

Reprinted here with the kind permission of the author; originally published in English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, September 1999 (42:3), p.344-348.

H.D.'s The Gift

H.D. The Gift: the Complete Text. Jane Augustine, ed. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 1988. xvi + 318 pp. $49.95. H.D.'s The Gift, written in London between 1941 and 1943, exploded into her consciousness during nightly bomb raids that sounded apocalyptic destruction and fire from the sky. This prose work of revelation, which she termed "autobiographical fantasy," vibrates with energy that will generate and sustain her breakthrough long poem of endurance and regeneration, Trilogy, written immediately after. The Gift, an arresting work in itself for its style and musicality, proves to be the realization of H.D.'s most profound vision of the significance of her art. More than fifty years since its creation, readers have been gifted indeed by publication of the definitive text, superbly annotated and edited with scholarly excellence by Jane Augustine. Publication of this volume rectifies a skewed impression of the work given by the 1982 New Directions edition which had been severely--and silently--truncated. Nearly a third of H.D.'s 1944 final typescript was cut, from entire chapters to intermittent lines and paragraphs, as well as the entire section of H.D.'s "Notes" (94 pages) comprised of historical material she considered integral, to be included upon publication. The misleading effect of such arbitrary literary surgery was noted by Rachel Blau DuPlessis at the time the abridged version appeared (Sulfur 1984). Chapters of the missing text have been made available in journals: "The Dream" (Contemporary Literature); "The Fortune Teller" (Iowa Review); and "Dark Room" with related "Notes" (Montemora). The New Directions edition aimed for simple storytelling as a memoir of H.D.'s childhood in Pennsylvania recollected in World War II London, thereby neglecting primary material concerning the mystical religion and history of her Moravian heritage. Truncation also lost the stylistic resonance of H.D.'s deliberate echoing of images and names. The present edition obeys H.D.'s final decisions on textual order, punctuation and syntax. In its completeness, the volume demonstrates that The Gift is central to full appreciation of H.D.'s unique status as a visionary artist of the twentieth century. She saw herself as a receptor of mystical truths, her writing as inscription of spiritual energy towards universal love and peace. In 1886, Hilda Doolittle was born into a family extended not only by siblings, grandparents and cousins, but also by the community of her mother's Moravian Church. Details of the history and naming of the settlement of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, are painstakingly reported by H.D. in her "Notes" following the seven chapters of impressionistic memoir. H.D. quotes from various sources she has assiduously sought out; the "notes" parallel italicized phrases in the text and

explore earliest references to the Unitas Fratrum, founded in Bohemia in 1457. Jane Augustine's "Editor's Notes" verify, with painstaking references, H.D.'s historical readings. An insightful essay by Adalaide Morris, "H.D. and the Spirit of the Gift" (Contemporary Literature, 1986), correlates H.D.'s ways with finances, authorial signatures, and motherhood, with upbringing in a cultural "gift economy." By tracing European dispersions of names, H.D.'s "Notes" incarnate personalities linked to Brethren and Sisters who brought their beliefs to America in the early eighteenth century. These are the child Hilda's spiritual as well as blood ancestors. The main body of the text is told through that child's consciousness. The canon of H.D.'s prose works has only gradually been revealed through posthumous publication. Her early autobiographical romans clef HERmione, Paint It Today, and Asphodel enact in syntax the knots and spasms of the author's adolescent consciousness, the discoveries of first loves and poetic vocation. Sentences feel subject to the author's inner tensions, as: "Back beat of waves beating now against her, this isn't fair" (HERmione). For H.D. in her fifties, The Gift, although evoked during firebomb attack, enlists the child Hilda's close-up view of the world as her spiritual lens with assured purpose and masterly control of language flow. H.D. opens with a single declarative sentence given importance as a separate paragraph: "There was a girl who was burnt to death at the Seminary, as they called the old school where our grandfather was buried." Immediately, principal configurations of memory/image/idea are set forth: fire; a girl's fear of mortal danger; generational heritage; Moravian religious teaching. Fire re-emerges in the narrative like a note in varying chords: burning girl; shooting star that ignites grandmother Mamalie's trance-like psychic memories; child Hilda's hand bearing a holiday "light-of-heaven" beeswax candle; industrial glow of Bethlehem's new steel mill furnaces; and the London fire-bombs which will trigger H.D.'s breakthrough into memory. One advantage the abridged New Directions edition does offer the reader is the introduction by Perdita Schaffner, H.D.'s daughter, who was present at the time of the London Blitz and the writing of the book. According to her daughter, H.D. had felt "haunted, trapped" by a confused child's concept of a mysterious "Gift" which carried hints of "transmigration of souls, the weight of past events." Yet, experienced as incarnation of an ancient evil terror from the sky, the bombings catapulted H.D.'s power to recall. The psyche, she believed, could "inherit" memories of ages past. Further insight into H.D.'s quest can be gained from her coeval short fiction, "The Death of Martin Presser" (Quarterly Review of Literature, 1965) which recreates an eighteenth-century event of massacre, the burning of a village of Moravian settlers. The story blends historical figures named in the "Notes" section of The Gift with a mystical vision of The Lady, later to echo in Trilogy. H.D.'s account of Martin Presser's thought at the instant of dying is useful as a guide to her artistic goals: "He had striven to understand the terrible break in Christian consciousness. More than love, he had wanted the absolute reconciliation of the irreconcilable. He wanted ... to weave back through History, to the beginning of the break or the several breaks in Christian continuity, and at least to show how those breaks occurred, with the not quite impossible hope of (in time) healing old wounds." H.D.'s major long poems strive to heal breaks in time, to weave language "back through History." Anciently bitter "marah-mar" evolves as "mer, mere, mre, mater, Maia, Mary,//Star of the Sea/Mother"; and one of the Magi receives a vision of "Paradise/before Eve" (Trilogy).

The Gift offers a developmental lead to H.D.'s complicated conflations of divine/mythological figures which resonate throughout Trilogy and Helen in Egypt. Jane Augustine, a scholar of the theology and cultural forms of Moravian sects, discussed H.D.'s interpretation of Moravian figures as reincarnated divinities in an article on a later (unpublished) novel, "The Mystery Unveiled: The Significance of H.D.'s 'Moravian' Novel" (H.D. Newsletter, Spring 1991 [4:1]). The Gift is a pivotal work for H.D., significantly modernist in the style of its self-searching consciousness and representation of time. Her experiences with cinema editing are in evidence as mental realities of time perceived are defined by pictorial pace. The traumatic event of ten-yearold Hilda's father appearing bloodied and in shock from a trolley accident is rendered in cinematic rhythm, slowing duration for emphasis. Similarly transposed techniques operate in a later narrative long poem (charted in my article, "Cinematic Dynamics in the Style of H.D.'s Helen in Egypt). The essentiality of cinema to literary modernism is the premise of a new anthology based on Close Up, a pioneer magazine on film art, founded and edited by H.D.'s close companions Kenneth Macpherson and Bryher (Close Up: 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism, edited by James Donald, Anne Friedberg and Laura Marcus). It is Bryher who is with H.D. during the bombing scene of the final chapter of The Gift, and who represents family stability. The factor of Bryher's presence in H.D.'s earlier life and work has been noted, but not adequately considered so far in respect to H.D.'s later writings. Bryher is generally cited as a pragmatic rescuer in times of illness, but less recognized for her support of H.D.'s sense of mystical purpose and search for vision that could touch upon the occult. Writing, to H.D., as inscription of vision, is a sacred trust. She has inherited a "Gift"; she is chosen to be receiver and transmitter; the way is by words. Grandmother Mamalie in her psychic trance remembers there are words anciently inscribed on parchment, which were lost in fire. H.D.'s art must re-inscribe, in modern terms, the lost words. The Gift takes us to her first glimpses of vision. Language immerses the child, and the reader, in early sensory experience--sound, smell, taste, and touch as well as the visual sense which dominates most of her poetry and prose. An out-of-time experience here, the "Old Man" who gives her a lily in the snow, anticipates later projections. Certain "out-of-time" experiences affected her life-long, as told in Tribute to Freud, the memoir of her analytic sessions with the founder of psychoanalysis. Susan Stanford Friedman has examined The Gift as self-analysis by H.D.--the apparition/memory of the Old Man "repeats and mythologizes" her paternal figures (Penelope's Web: Gender, Modernity, H.D.'s Fiction, 1990). In the opening chapter, "Dark Room," H.D. plays upon the concept of a photographic darkroom as she explores mystical concepts of connection: It would be possible with time and with the curious chemical constituents of biological or psychic thought-processes...to develop long strips of continuous photographs, stores in the darkroom of memory...[The self is] an actual psychic entity...which contains cells or seeds which can be affiliated to the selves of people, living or long dead. A bit of me can really "live" something of a word or phrase, cut on a wall at Karnak...a little cell of my brain responds to a cell of someone's brain, who died thousands of years ago. A word opens a door.

In a jagged world, H.D. sought permeable boundaries. In Bethlehem, siblings and cousins passed easily from one house to another; neighbors shared communal religious rituals, holiday preparations, music and pageants. Where the geography of exile may inform modernist sensibility, The Gift erases borderlines. H.D. reaches into all-time. This edition is beautifully designed, and includes many well-chosen photographs not previously published. The cover photograph shows a brightly smiling very young Hilda Doolittle standing with family before a trellised blooming vine. An element not usually associated with H.D. is laughter. Mamalie in her trance tells the child Hilda: "it was laughing, laughing all the time...like scales running up and down...it was the laughter of leaves, of wind, of snow swirling, it was...outpouring of the Mystic Chalice...it poured from the sky or from the inner realm of the Spirit." If the letters of the lost mystical "Secret" can be written, they will spell peace, love, joy. H.D. sought balm in The Gift, and readers now are her beneficiaries. Charlotte Mandel, Cedar Grove, New Jersey