Louis Silverstein's H.D. Chronology, Part One (1605-1914)

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 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 [LHS note: Laura Ben‚t 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 Ben‚t 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 September 17. [Submitted by Theodore D. Sargent, author of The Life of Elaine Goodale Eastman, who writes about a postcard of his, "The...card is postmarked the day before the one [below] ("Buffalo, N.Y. Sep 17 11 - PM 1908"), and is a single-back card (addressee only, and is written out to Miss Priscilla Perrry exactly as on the card [below]). The front of the card is an engraving titled "American Falls, from Goat Island, Niagara Falls, N.Y." And the handwritten message on the front of the card (with the date "Sept. 17-") reads, "The falls are wondeful. I am going to see the "Red Mill tonight! With love - H. D. -] Images of the address side of the card and other side with the picture & message courtesy of Ted Sargent.

1908 September 19. [Also submitted by Theodore D. Sargent about a postcard of his, "[It] is what is known as a "real photo" postcard, with a real photograph of H.D. on the front (approximately 2 in. x 2 in.). The photo is a little more than head-and-shoulders, and she is seated in a chair, with Niagara Falls in the background, and she is wearing a wonderful hat! To the right of the photo, in her handwriting, are two lines - "Buffalo - New York -" and "September 19th 1908". The back of the postcard is a divided back, with the correspondence to the left, and the name and address of the addressee to the right. Her message reads, "Thanks for your corking letter. We start home tonight. having had the time of our lives. With love - H. D. -" The addressee is "Miss Priscilla Perry c/o Arthur Perry Esq. Rindge Terrace Marblehead Mass- " The post office postmark on the back reads - "Buffalo, N.Y. Sep 18 4 - PM 1908".] [See also 1909 August 9] Images of the front and back of the card courtesy of Ted Sargent.

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 August 9. [Submitted by Theodore D. Sargent, who writes: Finally, the third card, also addressed to Miss Priscilla Perry (at the same address as the previous two cards), is postmarked "Prides Crossing Mass 1909 Aug 9 8 AM". The front of this card is a real photo of what is titled "The Old Dexter Place Beverly" and the name of the photographer, "Smith," is also present. The message on the back (a double-back card) is, Thank you for your perfectly great letter - Do you recognize this? With love H. D."] [See also 1908 September 17 & 19.]

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.úin 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/Paris-Plage: "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 ChaumiŠre (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 Th‚rŠse 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 Colis‚e, just off the Champs Elys‚e; 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 Th‚rŠse 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

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

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 Gaudier-Brzeska, 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).