Louis Silverstein's H.D. Chronology, Part Three (April 1919-1928)

Introduction--Part One (1605-1914)--Part Two (1915-March 1919)--Part Three (April 1919-1928)--Part Four (1929-April 1946)--Part Five (May 1946-April 1949)--Part Six (May 1949-1986, Misc. Info)
Copyright Monty L. Montee; reproduced here with the kind permission of Monty L. Montee.

H.D. Chronology: Part III

1919 April(?). While H.D. is still at St. Faith's Nursing Home, Ealing, Richard Aldington brings her bunches of daffodils and solemnly asks her to come back to him (Autobiographical notes).

1919 April. H.D. rejoins Richard Aldington at the Hotel du Littoral in Shaftsbury Avenue, then two days later they are separated (divorce Statement of Facts). {Zilboorg says that the Hotel du Littoral was on Moor Street across from the Palace Theatre in Soho (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 255).}

1919 April - ? Perdita first in Hampstead Nursery, found by Brigit Patmore, then is moved to the Norland Nursery (Autobiographical notes).

1919 April 5. D.H. Lawrence writes to Amy Lowell: "Hilda also had pneumonia some weeks ago, and it left her weak. I hear her baby, a girl, was born last Sunday, and that both are doing well. We shall be going to London soon, and may see her" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1722).

1919 April 7. D. H. Lawrence writes to S. S. Koteliansky: "Heard from Arabella: Hilda's baby born last week: a girl; 'Gray behaving wretchedly, Richard very fine' (quots. Arabella). A. herself seems in low water. -- Hilda and baby doing well"; later adds: "Don't say anything about Hilda -- except to Sonia" (Lawrence, D.H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, #1723).

1919 April 10. H.D. writes to Bryher [from St. Faith's Nursing Home]; comments "I worried about Clement [Shorter]--but now I am amused. I think once free, I can get R [Richard Aldington] out of his bombastic Victorianism" (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 254).

1919 April 13. H.D. in St. Faith's Nursing Home; writes postcard to Bryher; Richard Aldington has visited her that day; Bryher is expected to visit the next day (Zilboorg notes).

1919 April 17. H.D. in still in St. Faith's Nursing Home; Richard Aldington writes to Clement Shorter, apologizing about late proofs: "They would have been earlier but H.D. asked me to let her read them" (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 257). Aldington also writes to F.S. Flint, giving Hotel du Littoral as his address (Zilboorg notes).

1919 April 18. H.D. in St. Faith's Nursing Home; is visited by Richard Aldington (Zilboorg notes: H.D. to Bryher, 19 Apr 1919).

1919 April 19. H.D. in St. Faith's Nursing Home; writes to Bryher; refers to having been visited by Aldington the previous day; refers to forthcoming release (Zilboorg notes).

1919 April 22. H.D. moves to Soho (Zilboorg notes: H.D. to Bryher, 19 Apr 1919; also Aldington to Amy Lowell, 19 Apr 1919). Bryher writes to H.D. that she will return to London from the country the next day (Zilboorg notes); refers to deteriorating relationship with Clement Shorter (Zilboorg, C. "A New Chapter in the Lives of H.D. and Richard Aldington," p. 254). Aldington takes a room for H.D. at the Hotel du Littoral then orders H.D. to leave, apparently calling Bryher and saying "Hilda must get out of here at once" (see H.D.'s letter to John Cournos, 4 Feb 1925).

*1919 April 23. H.D. and Bryher leave on trip. Perdita left behind in nursery. [Note: this tidbit from cards kept by LHS while cataloging papers; source forgotten.] [LHS comment: this entry may be totally incorrect.]

1919 April 26. Richard Aldington writes to H.D.; gives address as c/o Miss Ellerman, 1 South Audley Street; says that he will hand the matter over to a lawyer (Zilboorg notes).

1919 May 6. Frances Perdita Aldington registered in Sub-District of Brentford in the County of Middlesex; place of birth given as 26 North Park Road, Ealing, U.D. [LHS note: I may not have transcibe street correctly as I can't read my own note (may have been Mount Park)--will have to recheck sometime].

1919 Spring/Summer. H.D. says she spent time at this point at Ezra's flat in Holland Place [see entry for June 11, 1919]; comments that Bryher brings her parrot-tulips and other flowers from Eastbourne (Autobiographical notes).

1919 June 11. Ezra Pound writes a postcard from Toulouse, France, to his mother-in-law, Olivia Shakespear: "Have told dryad [sic] she can return to H.P.C." [i.e. Holland Place Chambers] (Collecott notes from EZRA POUND: THE LONDON YEARS [exhibition catalogue]. Sheffield University Library, 1976, item #28).

1919 June - July.. H.D. and Bryher go to Cornwall (Scilly Islands); "jelly-fish" and "bell-jar" experiences occur; writes and describes experience in NOTES ON THOUGHT AND VISION (Autobiographical notes). Inscribes her copy of Farnell's Cults of Greek States: "H. D. Aldington, Mullion Cove, Cornwall, Summer 1919."

1919 June 26. H.D. in Cornwall with Bryher; writes to Amy Lowell (Zilboorg notes: Houghton).

1919 July. "Leda" published in THE MONTHLY CHAPBOOK.

1919 July 19. H.D. writes a long letter to Amy Lowell [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton])].

1919 August(?) - 1920 August(?). H.D.'s London address is 16 Bullingham Mansions, Kensington, not far from Norland Nursery (where Perdita is) which H.D. visits daily; is visited by Richard Aldington and Ezra Pound (H.D. says she finally has to exclude both from flat [?]); works on essays on Greek subjects [LHS speculates that these could have been parts of "Notes on Euripides ..."]; Bryher "is back and forth from Audley Street, strange and uneven, but always staunch and loyal"; Brigit Patmore borrows the rooms and has du Lac there; other visitors include Arthur Waley; Cole [Dorothy Cole Henderson], Olivia Shakespear, John Cournos (Autobiographical notes). During this period H.D. inscribes a copy of Edward McCurdy's edition of LEONARDO DA VINCI'S NOTE-BOOKS (London : Duckworth, 1908) with "Hilda Aldington Kensington, 1919."

1919 August. Richard Aldington records in his notebook of monthly literary earnings that he has recieved ten pounds from H.D. (Zilboorg, C. Richard Aldington in transition, p. 493).

1919 October 1. Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell; says "Hilda is living with the Ellermans" (Zilboorg notes: Houghton).

*1919 Autumn(?). H.D. sees Havelock Ellis in Brixton (Autobiographical notes). Introduced by Daphne Bax (Guest, HERSELF DEFINED, p. 120) [LHS comments: 1. How does Guest know this? 2. Grosskurth (p. 267-268) identifies Daphne Bax who was a friend of Edith Ellis) as the wife of the playwright Clifford Bax--in trying to do further checking LHS discovered that the DLB entry on Clifford Bax does not mention him as having been married to a "Daphne"] . "Rainbow stream" incident occurs (Grosskurth, HAVELOCK ELLIS, p. 331-332) (Guest, HERSELF DEFINED, p. 121). [LHS note this entry needs to reconciled with entries for February and March 1919.]

1919 November 17. Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company at 8 rue Dupuytren, Paris (Fitch, SYLVIA BEACH AND THE LOST GENERATION, p. 39-40).

1919 December 25. H.D. spends Christnas Day at 16 Bullingham Mansions, Kensington with a small tree (she and Bryher modelled a bird and a clay elephant to put under it); Havelock Ellis comes in and John Cournos brings a Greek testament (Autobiographical notes).

1920?/1921. "Asphodel" written (date from cardboard cover on mss).

1920. "Pontikonisi (Mouse Island)" written. [Note: information gleaned from letter written by H.D. to Richard Johns; published in A RETURN TO PAGANY (Boston: Beacon Press), p. 444].

1920. DEVELOPMENT by Bryher published (London : Constable).

1920 January 1. H.D. in London at 16 Bullingham Mansions; writes, as if from Perdita, to Barbara and Susan Jordan; says Perdita was named thus because she was born on the last day of March--There is a girl in a play called Perdita who brought flowers and daffodils that take the winds of March with beauty"; says that she may take a trip to Greece for six weeks, leaving Perdita behind (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]).

1920 January 7 (?) Erich Heydt born in Stuttgart (year of birth from "Compassionate Friendship", p. 2--month and day from Sylvia Dobson's notes--Dobson thought the year of birth was 1927; place of birth from Dobson)

1920 February 3. Amy Lowell writes to H.D.; discusses Harriet Monroe and POETRY (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 160).

1920 February 7 - May (early). H.D. and Bryher travel; go to Greece and Corfu, by way of Gibraltar and Malta; they set off with Havelock Ellis on the Borodino; Ellis apparently remained with them in Athens {staying in a modest pension while they "were comfortably ensconced in the most luxurious hotel"} through March at which point he decided to return to England supposedly because H.D. and Bryher couldn't make up their minds when they were going to leave (Grosskurth, HAVELOCK ELLIS, p. 296-297); Peter Rodeck on board ship as well (Friedman DLB 45:128); "Hippolytus Temporizes [poem] written (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 62).

1920 February 7. H.D., Bryher, and Havelock Ellis leave London on the Borodino [LHS thinks this was the supply ship operated by the Junior Army and Navy Stores during World War I; among the books from H.D.'s library was a book describing this venture]; Marguerite Tracy (friend of Ellis) comes on board to see them off off with a cake (Grosskurth, HAVELOCK ELLIS, p. 296).

1920 February 8. Travellers are off or at the Isle of Wight (Autobiographical notes).

1920 February 9. Travellers are off the coast of Portugal (Autobiographical notes).

1920 February 27. Travellers arrive at Piraeus (5? miles from Athens); H.D. sees the Acropolis (Autobiographical notes).

1920 February 28(?) - March (end?). While in Athens, H.D. and Bryher stay at the Hotel Grand Bretagne (Autobiographical notes).

1920 February 28. H.D. in Athens; visits the Acropolis and the British School (Autobiographical notes).

1920 February 29. H.D. in Athens; goes to the Museum [LHS assumes it was the National Archaeological Museum] (Autobiographical notes).

1920 March 1. H.D. in Athens; visits the stadium, Ilissos [the stream which runs in the south of Athens near the Stadium] and the Theatre [of Dionysus or of Herodes Atticus?] (Autobiographical notes).

1920 March 2. H.D. in Athens; goes to Kaiseriani [i.e. Kaisariani: a monastery church 7 km. SE of Athens] situated on the slopes of Mount Hymettos which H.D. walks up (Autobiographical notes).

1920 March 3. H.D. in Athens; goes to Kolonos [the quarter of Athens E of the Academy] and Lykabettos [i.e. Lycabettus] (Autobiographical notes).

1920 March 4. H.D. in Athens; explores the streets of Athens (Autobiographical notes). Writes to Viola Jordan, giving Ionian Bank, Athens, Greece, as the address; has had a letter from Viola, forwarded from London; comments that they are rushed about so and that she can't really write impressions--"they will flood over me when I leave; describes the Acropolis as beautifully compact and small; comments on the space and the colors; says she has "been crawling about, existing under mist and fog for many years"; describes visiting Hymettos with Bryher where they "found early hyacinths and great rose-coloured anemonies among the rocks" ... "the oilives seem to leap suddenly, when the wind catches them, like the belly of a dolphin or great fish leaping above the grey stones like water" (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]).

1920 March 5. H.D. in Athens; goes to the Tower of the Winds, Thesion [i.e. Theseum?] and Eleusis (14 miles from Athens) (Autobiographical notes).

1920 March 7. H.D. in Athens; goes to Lykabettos (Autobiographical notes).

1920 March 8. H.D. in Athens; goes to the Acropolis (Autobiographical notes).

1920 March 9. H.D. in Athens; goes to the Theatre of Dionysios (Autobiographical notes).

1920 March 10. H.D. in Athens; goes to Kallirhoe [?] and the Theatre of Dionysios (Autobiographical notes).

1920 March 11. H.D. in Athens; goes to the Acropolis (Autobiographical notes).

1920 March 12. H.D. in Athens; has tea with Miss Palmer [?] (Autobiographical notes).

1920 March 13. H.D. in Athens; goes to Lykabettos (Autobiographical notes).

1920 March 24. H.D. goes to Piraeus [port of Athens], Salamis [largest island in the Saronic Gulf], Corinth, and Patras (Autobiographical notes). [LHS wonders if H.D. and Bryher could have taken some sort of cruise on this and the following two days enroute to Corfu (possibly on the S.S. Helene)--or perhaps they were visiting places trying to decide where to settle for the next stage of their trip.]

1920 March 25. H.D. goes to Astakos, Mytikos, Kalamos, Santa Maria, and Pervesa [i.e. Pr?veza: town situated at the entrance to the Ambracian Gulf] (Autobiographical notes).

1920 March 26. H.D. goes to Parga [costal town on the mainland south of Corfu] and Corfu (Autobiographical notes).

1920 March 26/27 - April. H.D. and Bryher at the "Hotel Angleterre et Belle Venise," Corfu {for approximately 5 weeks} (Autobiographical notes); H.D. has her "writing-on the-wall" experience (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 32).

1920 March 27. H.D. on Corfu; walks towards Canone [i.e. Kanoni: 4 km from the city of K?rkyra, which has a view of the two small islands of Pontikonisi ("Mouse Island")] (Autobiographical notes).

1920 March 28. H.D. on Corfu; goes to Pelleka (Autobiographical notes).

1920 March 29. H.D. on Corfu; walks among olives (Autobiographical notes).

1920 March 30. H.D. on Corfu; drives around Potomo (Autobiographical notes).

1920 March 31. H.D. on Corfu; goes to Paleokattrizza [i.e. Palaiokastritsa: location of a monastery] (Autobiographical notes).

1920 April 3. Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell; mentions having had a letter from Bryher from Greece (Zilboorg notes: Houghton).

1920 April 29 or 30. H.D. and Bryher possibly leave Corfu on the ?MDUL?S.S. Arcadia?MDNM? then stay overnight at the Hotel Europe, Brindisi, Italy (Autobiographical notes).

1920 May 1. H.D. and Bryher take the train to Rome; stay at the Grand (Autobiographical notes).

1920 May 15. Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell; mentions having heard from Bryher from Greece (Zilboorg notes: Houghton).

1920 May 20. Charles Melvin Doolittle marries Dorothy Whiting of Phadelphia (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 37).

1920 May 21. H.D. at Mullion Cove Hotel, Mullion, S. Cornwall; writes to F.S. Flint about the death of his wife Violet and their third child; asks after his daughter Ianthe and his son; mentions plans to go to California the next winter; mentions that her friend W. Bryher "is interested in education and children (particular types) and we were wondering if perhaps in a few years (if she starts her out of doors school) Ianthe might by a miracle join in with us"; says she imagines the coast in California is "Hellas + Cornwall"; says Bryher began her serious discoveries of French literature after reading an article by F.S. Flint on that subject; discusses Violet's death and her own experience: "I feel so utterly understanding as I went through it all almost exactly as she did. And then I wanted to stop breathing - not from anguish of life but, as it were, from perfection of being - as the tide pauses a moment when it turns"; says she is trying to work again on the Attic choruses (H.D. to F.S. Flint. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, v. 10, no. 4, p. 585-586).

1920 June 12. H.D. writes to Amy Lowell; mentions reading Lowell's long Chinese poem while at Corfu [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton])].

1920 June 17. Richard Aldington writes to Amy Lowell; mentions having had letters from both H.D. and Bryher (Zilboorg notes: Houghton).

1920 July 6. H.D. in London at 16 Bullingham Mansions, Church Street, Kensington; writes to Marianne Moore; asks why she doesn't see more of Moore's poetry; tells of plans to come to the US in September; does not yet know where she will be staying; explains that she will be accompanied by "a friend, W. Ellerman who (as W. Bryher) has just written a very fine little 'adventure'"; is also bringing Frances Perdita and her nurse; apologizes for not having done more to help Moore and comments "I have had such a struggle just living through the war - and pneumonia last winter just did not finish me. I want to survive somehow"; is enroute to California for the winter and indicates that she might settle there "as the fog & mist here grow more & more compact & my lungs are so busy digesting fog that there is no time left for shouting poetry" (unpl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation).

1920 September 1(?) - 10. H.D., Perdita, Perdita's nurse, and Bryher crossing the Atlantic on the S.S. Adriatic (Autobiographical notes).

1920 September 10. H.D., Bryher, Perdita, and nurse arrive in New York City and stay at the Hotel Belmont where the cost is $10.00 per day excluding food (Autobiographical notes). They are met by Amy Lowell and Ada Russell who escorted them to the Belmont and drove them around the city (Guest, HERSELF DEFINED, p. 129-130). They are at the Belmont for about five hectic days (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter], Jan. 16, 1921).

1920 September ca. 20? H.D., Bryher and Perdita in Los Angeles at the Hotel Alexandria (Autobiographical notes).

1920 September 21. Eric Doolittle dies (entry in Helen Wolle Doolittle's birthday book in H.D.'s handwriting. Pearson. Biog. notes file [unpubl.])..

1920 September 23. Doris Banfield marries Clement King Shorter (Shorter, Clement King. C.K.S.: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, p. xv-xvi).

1920 September 24. H.D., Bryher, and Perdita with nurse at "El Encanto Hotel & Cottages, Santa Barbara, California; Bryher writes to Marianne Moore that we are disappointed with Santa Barbara ... we have been advised to go north to Carmel" (unpl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation).

1920 October - November(?) H.D., Helen Wolle Doolittle, Perdita, and Bryher at the Carmel Highlands Inn, Carmel-By-the-Sea, Calif. (Collecott. Images at the Crossroads, p. 323).

1920 October 1. H.D. writes to Alida Monro, from the Carmel Highlands (Collecott. Images at the Crossroads, p. 323).

1920 Autumn. H.D. worked on "Notes on Euripides, Pausanius, and Greek Lyric Poets" while in the Carmel Highlands.

1920 October 27. H.D. at the Carmel Highlands Inn, Carmel-By-the-Sea, Calif.; empty envelope addressed to Marianne Moore by H.D., postmarked from Carmel exists (unpl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation).

1920 November. "Helios," "Phaedra Remembers Crete." and "Phaedra Rebukes Hippolyta" published in THE DIAL, LXIX, p. 509-513.

1920 November 8. Ezra Pound writes to Scofield Thayer; comments on the H.D. poems which appeared in the November 1920 issue of THE DIAL: "H.D. touch of real thing, in spots. No longer stamina enough to stand crtiticism. = 'Think, O my soul' [a repeated line in 'Phaedra remembers Crete'] is idiotic rhetoric. // However 'les femmes' This not crit. of you for printing the poems -- but of my boyhood's friend -- geni? [g?nie?] -- et maintenant -- malhereusment -- femme des lettres // part conceit -- part nervous breakdown // But damn it all the real thing is there in the poems // which is assez scarce. So far as I can see the quantum is exactly what it was in 1912 -- nothing added -- nothing learned -- no development possible // Suppose we ought to be thankful for what there is. // A touch in her, in Williams -- a touch of something very different in T.S.E. & elsewhere desolation = howling, bluff -- barnstorming -- vacuity" [EP to ST, unpubl. letter; copied from transcriotion by Walter Sutton].

1920 November 25. H.D., Bryher and Perdita with the Howards [Clifford, Hattie, and Hildegarde] for Thanksgiving (Autobiographical notes).

1920 December 22. H.D. in Santa Barbara, California. (Wrote to Amy Lowell from there.)

1920 December 25. H.D., Bryher and Perdita entertain the Howards for Christmas (Autobiographical notes).

1921. HYMEN published by the Egoist Press in London. Bryher subscribed for 300 copies and arranged for a bulk purchase of sheets for sale in America (Lidderdale & Nicholson, DEAR MISS WEAVER, p. 190).

1921. "Paint it Today" written.

1921. H.D. and Bryher take it upon themselves to arrange for Harriet Shaw Weaver's Egoist Press to publish Marianne Moore's POEMS without Moore's permission or approval. Bryher pays the whole cost of the printing (Lidderdale & Nicholson, DEAR MISS WEAVER, p. 190).

1921 January l6. H.D. at 'Leven Oaks Hotel, Monrovia, California; writes to Viola Jordan; thanks her for books which she has sent for Perdita; comments that she "put off writing in the sort of family atmosphere of the holidays and then some writing grew over & about me& I could not [burrow?] my way through it and into decent communication with the world again"; says she is already thinking of New York and comments that they hope to get there about the end of March--expects that they will stay about a month; comments that she had no opportunity to explore the depth of Greenwich Village when they were in New York; asks where they can meet and asks advice on hotels "l. Not too grand 2, Not too bohemianm 3. not too out of the center of things 4. where one could properly receive visitors"); cooments "this sounds an impossible combination but I am still in search of the imp[ossible"; comments that the Belmont, where they spent their five hectic days, was a little large & impossible; mentions that she will be with her "little novelist friend Winifred Bryher"; she will leave Perdita with her mother in Orange for a few weeks; says they will be meeting a few editors and serious people on business matters; after New York they plan to settle in the country with Perdita for another bout of work (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]).

1921 January l7. H.D. and Bryher at 'Leven Oaks Hotel, Monrovia, California; writes to Marianne Moore; Moore has apparently written about Dial connections and H.D. offers to send a manuscript of an unpublished essay, which is part of a series which she is hoping to do for a volume; is doscouraged as she is having difficulties writing; Bryher and she now want to settle in New York for about three weeks on their return in the spring; comments "I am beginning to feel as if the world approved of me - and I can't write unless I am an out-cast"; wants "above all things, to see odd pages of an opus by M.M. - full of ironical, satirical [?] jibes" (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation).

1921 February(?). H.D. and Bryher return to New York (travelling on the Santa Fe Railroad with a half hour stop in Alburquerque and a brief stopover in Chicago where they stayed at the La Salle Hotel for a few hours (Autobiographical notes).

1921 February. H.D. and Bryher at Hotel Brevoort, New York (Collecott. Notes) (Autobiographical notes).

1921 February. H.D. writes to Amy Lowell; mentions having had a wonderful long talk with Frost [Robert?] whom she had known prior to the war [Friedman notes: not seen by LHS (H.D. to Amy Lowell, [unpul. letter, Houghton])].

1921 February 14. Bryher marries Robert McAlmon (Autobiographical notes) at City Hall in New York (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 40).

1921 February 17. H.D. at the Hotel Brevoort, New York; writes to Viola Jordan; has just received a letter fron Jordan which was forwarded from the west coast; "we are in a terrible confusion of packing & unpacking & repacking"; asks if Jordan can come in to dinner with them; comments that they are probably sailing again in about ten days; wishes that she had time to visit the Jordans and comments that she cannot even get to her relatives in Orange; speculates that she might be back the following autumn; says that they ended up at the Brevoort "or the recommendation of some English friends, though Americans seem to consider it a little too gay" (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]).

1921 February(?). H.D., Bryher, Perdita, and Robert McAlmon sail for Europe on the S.S. Celtic (Autobiographical notes).

1921 Febrary 24(?) [dated Thursday]. H.D. on board the S.S. Celtic; writes to Marianne Moore; will get to Liverpool on Monday; comments that Bryher keeps talking about doing things with "Dactyl" [Moore]; everyone has had the sulks; describes Robert as being good with Perdita; comments that Bryher "knows what she wants and how much & how little she wants"; refers to an afternoon spent with Moore and her mother at the "Goddess" (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation).

1921 February (end?). H.D. in London; stays at l South Audley Street (residence of Sir John and Lady Ellerman) (Autobiographical notes).

1921 March (end?) - April(?). H.D. at 131 Prior's House, St. James Court, 41-54 Buckingham Gate, S.W.1 (Collecott. Notes); while at St. James Court worked on "Paint it To-day" (Autobiographical notes).

1921 March 31. H.D. at St. James Court; Perdita celebrates her second bithday there, having been brought over from the Norland Nurseries by a nurse (Autobiographical notes).

1921 April 11. H.D. at 131 Prior's House, St. James Court, Buckingham Gate; writes to Marianne Moore; is working on a sort of prose-poem novel [Paint it To-Day]--says she writes two [?] paragraphs a day and is exhausted--"a sort of of criticism of the Anglo-American ..."; characters include two girls on their first trip to Europe who criticize each side from the point of view of the other; wants Moore to send her pages from New York to help H.D. keep a balanced perspective--says Moore is one of "the tribe to which these two girls, Josepha & Midget, belong"; if she ever finishes Josepha & Midget she will attach Bryher and Dactyl as they are also "somewhat abstract, trans-international types"; comment that Robert McAlmon and Bryher seem settled and writing novels although Robert says he is going to Germany; comments that Bryher "is wonderful, so good, intense & radiant. a 'baby Macenas' I call her"; comments on difficulty of adjusting back to England (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation).

1921 Summer (early?). H.D. flies to Paris; sees Ezra and Dorothy Pound; then possibly goes to Zermatt and stays at Mount Cervin; then to Montreaux and stays at the Eden; then returns to Paris where she has breakfast at the Continental; then to London, staying at the Metropole and at Queen Anne's Mansions; then returns too Paris, staying at the Continental; then back to the Hotel Eden, Montreaux where a Mrs. Dixie brings Perdita out from the Norland Nursery (Autobiographical notes).

1921 July 9. H.D. on Lahe Geneva (Territet?); writes to Marianne Moore; gives Lloyds Bank, London as addressed but envelope postmarked from Montreaux; thanks Moore for her "litle critique" of a book she has written [referring to Paint it To-Day]--Brigit Patmore also read the book and made a similar comment--their comments make H.D. want to change the title of the book "but Bryher objects very strongly"; asks Moore to sit tight on the manuscript as she is "at present in communication with a London firm"; comments " I am waiting breathlessly to know what you think of the distinguished little volume, newly set up by the Egoist Press" [LHS note: H.D. is referring to the volume of Moore's poems which she and Bryher had urged Harriet Shaw Weaver to publish without Moore's knowledge]; comments that she and Moore "are to be sort of twins or cousins or something, in format" as "I am trying very hard for some sort of blue check or blue flowered pinafore for my baby `Hymen'"; describes Moore's "Poems" as being in a "Cretan pottery pattern" wrapper; refers to the "white catalpa" tree in bloom under her window: "this tree is an old love of mine"; describes Lake Geneva and a brown fish hawk who swings up, a fish in his claw (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation).

1921 July 27. By this date Sylvia Beach has moved and reopened Shakespeare and Company at 12 rue de l`Odeon, Paris (Fitch, SYLVIA BEACH AND THE LOST GENERATION, p. 91).

1921 (Summer ?). Helen Wolle Doolittle joins H.D., Perdita and Bryher in Territet; joined by her sister Laura Jenkins by Christmas 1921; remained with them until l925 [LHS comment: probably with occasional visits to America] (Friedman. DLB 45:129, emmended in telephone conversation 8/26/87).

1921 Autumn (early ?). H.D. and Bryher settle in Switzerland (Riant Chatteau?).

1921 October 5. Bryher writes to Norman Douglas after having read his THEY WENT (Holloway, NORMAN DOUGLAS, p. 301)

1921 December 25. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; has Christmas tree there (Autobiographical notes).

1922(?) - 1924(?) H.D.'s London residence is Washington Hotel, Curzon Street, Mayfair, W. 1 (Collecott. Notes; from Guest; corrected by Friedman).

1922 January 9. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Marianne Moore; thanks her for gifts and review--comments on review; agrees with comment that Moore has apparently made--that Rober McAlmon "is all riot and no construction"--builds on construction imagery; is eager to go south and escape snowy, slushy, and rainy weather which she experiencing--possibly to some common Capri hostel" (only the really second-rate go to Capri (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation). nowadays)";

1922 January 10. Birth of Doreen Clement Shorter (daughter of Clement King Shorter and Doris Banfield) (Shorter, Clement King. C.K.S.: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, p. xxiii).

1922, January 18. Russell Howard dies (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 31).

1922 February 14. H.D. at the Baglioni in Florence with Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle; meets Norman Douglas (Autobiographical notes).

1922 February 22. Brigit Patmore writes to Bryher; had visited Violet Hunt the previous Saturday and she happened to mention that "she was going to hear Richard Aldington read his own and H.D.'s poems at the Sitwells studio"; Brigit asked if she might go with Violet so Violet rang up to ask if she might bring a friend [LHS gathers that this was some sort of organized lecture series as Brigit says "I believe holy members pay ?1.1 per annum"]; reading held at "the sacred house of Sitwell in Carlyle Square"; as they entered the house Brigit heard Richard's voice and she recognized part of Hymen; described Richard reading: "He read H.D. very well - not frightfully well chosen but of course it sounded lovely & was exquisite to hear"; then Edith Sitwell read some Sacheverell Sitwell; then Richard read some of his own war poems: "Blood of the young men, blood, blood, blood!!!"; afterwards Brigit was sitting besides Violet and May Sinclair--Richard comes up and shakes their hands, then Violet says "of course you remember B." then "he held out a very dubious hand, which I shook, complimenting him on the reading"; Brigit further comments that when Violet had rung up the secretary she had explained that Violet was a great friend of H.D.'s and the Secretary had inquired "There won't be a fracas?"; describes Richard: "looks common somehow - coarsened - an inclination of middle waistcoat button to protrude"; F.S. Flint was there with his second wife (deceased wife's sister); also Sturges Moore and Harold Munroe. Brigit has had tea with Cecil Gray at the Metropole- location chosen "so that H.D.'s spirit might trouble him"; Brigit goes on to say that she is going to have tea at Gray's rooms on Monday" & think I can then bring up the subject of H.D. Am going warily indeed. He says he has much on his conscience, that inaction is almost a madness with him ... I have never forgiven myself for not going at him long ago at the time when it was necessary & so musn't bungle this!"; tells Bryher to be happy in Florence (Patmore to Bryher [unpubl. letter]).

1922 February 25. Brigit Patmore writes to Bryher; Bryher has apparently written to Brigit that the "Scotch hare [Cecil Gray] ... "Should go to a psychoanalyst"; Gray himself has made the same observation to Brigit the evening she last saw him "He feels something is wrong but won't do anything. Nothing would persuade him to go to one. I think the only thing is for me to keep in touch with him & try a gradual unnoticeable pressure. One has to go frightfully carefully because of the strange fear of people that makes him perverse. He himself had the courage to approach the subject of his conduct to H." (I had spoken of her conversationally until he could stand it no longer) Apparantly he is so tangled up with horror of what he did [arrow pointing left] feeling he must justify himself that he doesn't allow himself to realize what an awful thing it is to leave a child - to say nothing at all of a woman. He says: `You must think me the greatest cad on earth, but everything was so awful & I had the [undecipherable word] on me & so on & so on'"; without identifying Bryher, Brigit told Gray how H.D. would have died if it hadn't been for her--at which Brigit says Gray "went green"; apparently during this conversation Gray "of course he would look after Perdita"--Brigit says she left it at that although she didn't beleive in his words; Gray told Brigit that his family had suffered heavily in the financial losses of the previous year so that money was scarce for him; Brigit comments that at least Gray hasn't run away from her and that "he seems divided between a hatred & disgust with his own part in it & a consequent weak determination to shut it out completely, & a sort of equally weak desire to make it all right, - which one must bolster up in all ways" (Patmore to Bryher [unpubl. letter]).

1922 February (end?) - March 10. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Venice at the Danielle (Autobiographical notes).

1922 March 7. Islay de Courcey Lyon born at 5:30 A.M. in Wales (Dobson. Notes [unpul.], p. 631).

1922 March 10. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle leave Venice (right by St. Mark's) at 6:30 PM on the S.S. Leopolis (Autobiographical notes). The S.S. Leopolis was from the Lloyd Triestio line; they steamed out slowly by St. Mark's and the Lido to sea (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1922 March 11. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle at sea (Autobiographical notes). "saw land from about 3 o'clock onward (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1922 March 12. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle at sea; Bari and Brindisi, Italy (Autobiographical notes). They arrived at Bari about 10:30 AM and Brindisi in the afternoon; walked ashore (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1922 March 13. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle land at Corfu at 6:00 AM and drive towards Canone (viewing Almond flowers, cherry, a few roses, many violets, iris, oranges and anemones), returning to the boat about 10:00 AM; boat leaves Corfu about 12:00 noon and sails past Paxos and Antipaxos, passing Parga about 2:30-3:00 PM, then Ithaca at 6:00 PM (Autobiographical notes) also (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1922 March 14. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle land at Piraeus and leave boat at 10:30 AM; take a cab to the Monastiriki [Bryher spells it Monasteriki] Station; go to Athens, see the Acropolis and the Museum, lunch at the Hotel Grand Bretagne; return by car to Pireaus about 5:00 PM and reboard boat (Autobiographical notes). Met the Schollenbergers (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1922 March 15. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle sail along the Asia Minor coast, passing Tenedos, Lemnos [i.e. Limnos], viewing the plain of Troy over the hills, Dardanelles and the Hellespont (Autobiographical notes). Also passed Imbros (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1922 March 16. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Constantinople; go to the museum [Efkat?], see wonderful Sidonian remains, Santa Sophia, Meridan with three columns, the remains of the Hippodrome, burnt column and the great bazaar (Autobiographical notes). Stay at the Pera Palace Hotel (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1922 March 17. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Constantinople; go past Bazaret mosque to mosque with Byzantine mosaics, view remains of Constantine's palace, the great walls, and Marciam's column (Autobiographical notes).

1922 March 18. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Constantinople; view column (?), the Bath of Theodora, the Resevoii, small Saint Sophia, and bazaars (Autobiographical notes). In the afternoon they boarded the Celio (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1922 March l9. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle sail past Tenedos, Mount Ida?, Mytilene [on the Island of Lesbos]--(Friedman. DLB:129 seems to think that they stopped briefly there--source might be the apocryphal tale that Francis Wolle tells in A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 58), and Scyros [i.e. Skiros] (Autobiographical notes).

1922 March 20 - April 3. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens (Autobiographical notes).

1922 March 20. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle arrive back at Athens; afternoon devoted to errands (Autobiographical notes). Bryher comments that they had difficulty finding rooms but they stayed at the Hotel Grande Bretagne (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1922 March 21. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens; visit the Acropolis and walk past the Theatre of Dionysus (Autobiographical notes).

1922 March 22. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens; go to the Museum (Autobiographical notes).

1922 March 23. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens; go to the Station and gardens; walk in the evening (Autobio~graphical notes).

1922 March 24. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens; make side trip to Eleusis, walk around towards Stadium (Autobiographical notes).

1922 March 25. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens; go to the Theatre of Dionysus, garden, shops, walk (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1922 March 26. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens; maake side trip to Cape Sunion [68 km. SE of Athens]; Bryher comments that it is like Cornwall, many flowers; they have a perilous trip back then walk in gardens (Autobiographical notes, dates this on the 25 however Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher dates this on the 26)

1922 March 29. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens; go to the British School (Autobiographical notes).

1922 March 30. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens; walk in the city (Pearson ?MDBO?Notes?MDNM?, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1922 March 31. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens; go to the Brittish School Helen Wolle Doolittle gives H.D. flowers with heather wrapped around stems in honor of Perdita's third birthday (Autobiographical notes).

1922 April 1. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens; take care of passports; talk with the Schollenbergers (Autobiographical notes).

1922 April 2. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Athens; go to the Acropolis; walk in the afternoon and observe the sunset on Lykabettos (Autobiographical notes).

1922 April 3. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle leave Athens by boat (S.S. Leopolis); sail through Corinth Canal, view Corinth and Parnassos from boat (Autobiographical notes).

1922 April 4. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle stop at Corfu; drive around Potamo (Autobiographical notes).

1922 April 5. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle at sea, pass the Lissa Islands [?] (Autobiographical notes).

1922 April 6. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle arrive in Venice; stay at the Danielli for seven days (Autobiographical notes).

1922 Spring, Summer and Fall and probably into the Winter of 1923.. H.D. indicates the following sequence: Beau Rivage, Montreux (3 weeks)--Regina, Territet (33 weeks)--Hotel Washington, Curzon Street, London--Royal, Dieppe (4 days)--Wagram, Paris (4 days)--Pension Jundt, Territet--Excelsion (6 weeks)--Wagram, Paris (11 days: Bryher is in London at this time: probably end of August-beginning of September)--Pension Jundt, Territet (6 weeks)--Baglioni, Florence (3 weeks)--Albion, Florence (2 months) (Autobiographical notes).

1922 July 14. H.D. receives from Margaretta Schuyler a copy of her Poems [S.l. : s.n., 1922?] inscribed "To 'H.D.' with Margot's love. Territet, Suisse. July fourteenth 1922." Bryher also recieved a copy inscribed "To Bryher who made them possible ... July 13, 1922."

1922 August 26. Brigit Patmore writes to Bryher; tells Bryher that the Hare [Cecil Gray] is in London; refers to the possibility of seeing Bryher in London at the beginning of September; says that she wishes H.D. were coming as well "but it is rather a long way to come for a week" (Patmore to Bryher [unpubl. letter]).

1922 August 29. Brigit Patmore writes to Bryher; has recieved a letter from Bryher about tackling the Hare [Cecil Gray]; says that if she were to go with Bryher to talk to Gray that he would never get over it and that he would refuse to see me ever again; indicates that she she doesn't know how much good she will be able to do by remaining on friendly terms with Gray but that she feels that her doing so is their only hope; proposes instead to invite him to tea with Bryher, thus providing the opportunity for Bryher to meet him, and then Bryher could make arrangements to meet him separately; mentions fact that Gray always spends Sunday evening with his mother and that the Lawrences always spoke of her as 'Lady' Gray but now she is listed as 'Mrs'; further discusses pros and cons of how best to approach Gray; refers to Bryher's having had a terrible journey over; asks if H.D. is in Paris (Patmore to Bryher [unpubl. letter]).

l922 September 6. Brigit Patmore writes to Bryher; has spent the previous evening with Cecil Gray discussing the repayment of Bryher and providing financial aid for Perdita, getting no further than "I don't know where the money is to come from"; Gray did suggest selling his books but said they'd only amount to ?l00, etc.; Brigit told Gray that Bryher wanted ?1000 as a return for her expense over Perdita & some kind of a fund for her and that H.D. had only ?150 & that her mother can do nothing; Gray seemed to indicate that he seriously wanted to do something but failed to know where the money was going to be obtained; Brigit asked Gray if he would discuss the matter with either Bryher or H.D.--Gray "was silent - & then said: not from any desire to run away but simply "I don't see how discussion can alter the facts" [LHS concludes that Bryher has not talked to Gray]; Brigit thinks that Gray is on the verge of running away from the situation mentally too but he has said he would see her the following week (Patmore to Bryher [unpubl. letter]).

1922 September 10. While travelling on the Orient Express towards Italy, Nancy Cunard sends Ezra Pound a note with the cryptic statement: "Beneath me not H.D., but her remplacant" (Wilhelm, James J. "Nancy Cunard: a sometime flame, a stalwart friend" in PAIDEUMA, v. 19, no. 1/2, p. 206).

1922 September 12. Brigit Patmore writes to Bryher; apparently Bryher had not recieved the letter of September 6 so Brigit repeats what she has already written; comments on H.D.'s having influenza (Patmore to Bryher [unpubl. letter]).

l922 September 13. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; was glad to hear from H.D.; comments on Cecil Gray: "I understand so well what a dangerous person he is; so reasonable & thoughtful in theory & in the little immediate occurencies, but such hopeless paralysis of will when the thing is of the slightest difficulty ..."; Brigit will suggest an allowance as Bryher has suggested; comments that Gray has shown her a pot of hashish which he claimed he only took occasionally; says she thinks H.D. should see Gray; asks if H.D. has overcome "fear of boats & sea" [LHS was unaware of such a fear--thought H.D. had a fear of Flying]; refers to [Dorothy] Cole; asks if H.D. remembers a Milly Defries--came to see Brigit about starting a sort of international arts society (Austin Harrison is to handle the literary side) (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1922 September 24. Brigit Patmore writes to Bryher; thanks Bryher for gift of ?10; has been running errands for her; has not seen Gray again though she plans "to ask him here & ask what conclusion he's come to"; has seen some of Man Ray's portraits in an American magazine and is anxious to see what he makes of Bryher (Patmore to Bryher [unpubl. letter]).

1922 November 7. H.D. in Florence; writes to George Plank on Grande Albergo Baglioni stationary; says "I get awfully home-sick for England at times but I know I am best out of it. and there are delightful English people here & I [love?] Florence after two years monastic seclusion along Lake Geneva"; advises Plank to avoid Switzerland as "it isexpensive and grandiose and almost American. Good health, good spirits, optimism, no tradition and yet something seething [...?] putrid underneath ... But there is gayiety here and real vital emotion & sanity"; asks about the Whitalls; says "I am busy on a cinematographic ultra-modern novel. I love the thing - all about nothing - but when will I ever finish?"; asks for news of London people and things; gives him both Lloyds Bank in London and Cook & Son in Florence as addresses where she may be reached--says Cook "is my address for some months I hope" (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]).

1922 December 23. H.D. in Florence; writes to George Plank; sends Christmas greetings and asks that he convey them to the Whitalls as well; says that she agrees that from certain angles Floresence is a "detestible hole"; comments "I have been in a frenzy of work & have entirely devoted my energies to my own very precious & very tiny circle, including a large child who is having her fourth tree to-morrow"; asks what he thinks of John Cournos' Babel; says "I hear from him in the states - half & halfish, seems improved, in a way and vaguely (as always) insecure un another" (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]).

1922 December 25. H.D. in Florence; spends Christmas with Perdita, Bryher, Helen Wolle Doolittle, and Aunt Laura [Wolle Jenkins] (Autobiographical notes).

1923 - 1948. Stories that make up "The Moment" written (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 41).

1923(?). "Secret Name" written soon after H.D.'s return from Egypt (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 7).

1923. AMERICAN POETRY SINCE 1900, edited by Louis Untermeyer, published; includes photograph of H.D. (taken in Greece); according to Francis Wolle, H.D. reacted strongly to having had the initials H.D. linked with a photograph of herself (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 58).

1923. TWO SELVES by Bryher published in Paris by Contact Publishing Co.; includes account of her meeting H.D..

1923. Frances Gregg divorces Louis Wilkinson; has two children, Oliver and Elizabeth Josepha (EP to DP, note, p. 149).

1923. At some point, while both are in Paris, Bryher gives H.D. a copy of THE WISDOM OF THE CHINESE, edited by Brian Brown (London : Brentano's, 1922).

1923 (?). H.D., Bryher, and Robert McAlmon visit Mary Butts and Cecil Maitland on Crowley's Island of Cefalu (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 108).

1923. H.D. meets H.P. Collins and gives him a letter of introduction to Louis Wikinson (Collins, H.P. "Louis and Lulu," Recollections of the Powys Brothers, p. 78).

1923 January 18. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle leave Florence for Rome; comfortable journey; tea on train; stay at the Hotel Continental (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 January 19. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle go for a cold drive on Pincio; see winter roses; eat at Hotel; leave Rome for Naples (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 January 20. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Naples at the Excelsior; walk in the afternoon and have tea at Miss Middleton's tea shop (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 January 21. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Naples at the Excelsor; go to the museum and the acquarium (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 January 22. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Naples at the Excelsor; walk in the morning; board S.S. Adriatic about 4:00 PM, sailed at 5:00 PM (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 January 23. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle at sea; reach the Straits of Messina at dawn; calm voyage (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 January 24. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle at sea (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 January 25. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle landed at Alexandria around 11:00 AM; go through customs; leave on train for Cairo around 3:00 PM; pass camels, mud huts, palms, natives; have lunch around 4:00 PM; arrived in Cairo around 6:00 PM (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). Stayed at Shepherd's Hotel (Autobiographical notes).

1923 January 26. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cairo at Shepherd's Hotel; drive to the Pyramids; see the Sphinx; lunch at Mena House (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 January 27. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cairo at Shepherd's Hotel; go to the Museum, Hatorius [?.] in the afternoon; "Fete Hippique" (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 January 28. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cairo at Shepherd's Hotel; go to the old mosque, Coptic churches, the Island of Rodah, the Citadel and Alabastar Mosque (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 January 29. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cairo at Shepherd's Hotel; walk in gardens and go to the zoo (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). Receives from Bryher a copy of Arthur Weigall's The Life and Times of Akhnation Pharaoh of Egypt (new & rev. ed.) (London, T. Butterworth, 1922)

1923 January 30. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cairo at Shepherd's Hotel; go to the Mosque of Sultan Hassan and another mosque, bazaars; in the afternoon they go to the Hatorin [?] Bazaars [etc.] (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 January 31. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cairo at Shepherd's Hotel; shopped; left in the evening at 7:30 PM for Luxor (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). Writes this date in her copy of Arthur Weigall's A Guide to the Antiquities of Upper Egypt (2nd ed.) (London, Methuen, 1913).

1923 February 1. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle arrived in Luxor at 9:00 AM; first went to the Winter Palace Hotel which they found to be crowed and noisy; then they moved to the Luxor Hotel; slept in the afternoon, then walked and saw Karnak by moonlight (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 2. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Luxor at the Luxor Hotel; they sailed in a boat across the Nile to the West Bank then drove in a sand cart to the tombs in the Valley of the Kings; they viewed the new entrance to Tutank~hamun's tomb; they then visited the tomb of Amenhotep II with its mummy and wall paintings; then returned to the new tomb (Tutank~hamun's) where they watched a guarded stretcher being carried out by natives bearing a small chariot wheel; later they saw another stretcher with horns and small objects; then they took the easier path over the hill to the Cook's Rest House for lunch; then they visited the Temple at Deir al Bahri; joined an expedition to Punt [?] and H[------?]; drove back by the Colossi of Memnon; sailed back across the Nile to Luxor; saw Karnak by moonlight and climbed up the pylon (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 3. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Luxor at the Luxor Hotel; they shop and walk and go to the Temple of Luxor (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 4. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Luxor at the Luxor Hotel; go to Karnak where they see the Hoopocs [?]; walk in the evening (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 5. H.D., Bryher and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Luxor at the Luxor Hotel; walk and shop (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 6. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Luxor at the Luxor Hotel; walk; make arrangements to sail on the S.S. Rosetta; visit shops and go to the Winter Palace Hotel for tea (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 7. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Luxor at the Luxor Hotel; walk; have tea at the Winter Palace Hotel; board the S.S. Rosetta (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 8. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle on the S.S. Rosetta, cruising on the Nile; at 10:30 AM they reach Esna where they walked up a sandy slope passing by water carriers and basket vendors and visit the Temple of Esna; in the afternoon they have a hot walk of about a half hour in order to visit the Temple of Edfu (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 9. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle on the S.S. Rosetta, cruising on the Nile; visit the Temple of Sobek and Horus at Kom Ombo in the morning; reach Aswan about 3:00 PM and have tea at the Cataract Hotel (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 10. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle on the S.S. Rosetta, cruising on the Nile; take a motor launch through two locks to barrage [?]; go across in a trolley; take a row boat (manned by four rowers with a boy to steer) to visit the submerged island of Philae (water was at its highest level); return to Aswan by trolley and motor launch; lunch at the Cataract Hotel; [additional details undecipherable] (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 11. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle on the S.S. Rosetta, cruising on the Nile; still at Aswan; drive by the unfinished obelisk and the first of the Northern Quarries and {undecipherable] camps; return through bazaars and shops; have tea at the Cataract Hotel and sail back to the S.S. Rosetta in the dark (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 12. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle on the S.S. Rosetta, cruising on the Nile; experienced a sand storm; journey resumed at a quick pace; pass Esna; land at Luxor about 5:00 PM (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 13. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Luxor at the Luxor Hotel; walk; visit the Temple of Luxor; tea at the Winter Palace Hotel (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 14. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Luxor at the Luxor Hotel; go to Karnak and visit the Temple of Ptah; walk; tea at the Winter Palace Hotel (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 15. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Luxor at the Luxor Hotel; {Helen Wolle Doolittle visited mission [?]}; walk in the gardens of the Winter Palace Hotel and see gazelles; walk and shop in the area of the Winter Palace Hotel; "bought cat" [LHS comment: this is probably the turquoise-blue cat described by Perdita Schaffner in "The Egyptian Cat," p. 142-l46 of Hedylus (Redding Ridge, Conn. : Black Swan Books, c1980)]; [details of other objects obtained: "fly whisks and giant scarab and key of life"] (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 16. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Luxor at the Luxor Hotel; walk and shop; in the evening they boarded the train to Cairo; heard the news of Tutankhamun's tomb being opened (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). The opening of the tomb later becomes subject of short story "Hesperia" (Thorn Thicket, p. 35).

1923 February 17-22. While staying at Shepherd's Hotel Helen Wolle Doolittle brings H.D. a bunch of red roses and a small book of Lawrence's poems; H.D. hardly thanks her and does not mention it afterwards; H.D. later described the room as having a palm framed in the window and palm-doves in the little garden court-yard below; describes the February heat as instilling life - radiant soft life; "but my heart contracted when I opened the book and found the poem he had sent me to Corfe Castle, when I was there near Richard - was it 1917? .. There was that other poem when you are dead, I will bring roses and roses to cover your grave"; H.D. later commented: "It seems I had been dead but the roses were to come later" ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 50-51).

1923 February 17. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle arrive in Cairo about 9:30 AM; stay at Shepherd's Hotel (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher). [Note: on this date the wall to the burial chamber of King Tutankhamun's tomb was pulled down (Friedman note from: Desroches-Noblecourt, LIFE AND DEATH OF A PHAROAH: TUTANKHAMEN, p. 49).]

1923 February 18. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cairo at Shepherd's Hotel; go to the Egyptain Museum and concentrate on the lower rooms and early dynasties (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 19. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cairo at Shepherd's Hotel; go to the Egyptain Museum; Lizieri [?] for tea (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 20 H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cairo at Shepherd's Hotel; Helen Wolle Doolittle went to the University; afternoon spent on errands and making arrangements to return to Naples via the S.S. Umbria (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 21 H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cairo at Shepherd's Hotel; shopped (references to Ahmed Suleiman {Khan el Khahli}, Hatsun"s {Muski Street} and Indian Shop) (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 22 H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Cairo at Shepherd's Hotel; depart for Alexandria at 9:00 AM; reached the S.S. Umbria about 2:30 PM; H.D. and Helen Wolle Doolittle go for a drive in Alexandria (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 23-27. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle on board the S.S. Umbria; sail from Alexandria early; very rough and stormy voyage (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 26. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle on board the S.S. Umbria; reach the Straits of Messina and the Calabrian coast at night (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 27. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle on board the S.S. Umbria; have a difficult landing at Naples; stay at the Excelsior (Autobiographical notes) (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 February 28. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Naples at the Excelsior; go to the aquarium (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 March l. H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle in Naples at the Excelsior; walk and packed (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 March 2. H.D. departs Naples for Capri (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher); stays at the Hotel Quisissima for three weeks then moves to the Pension Lomdres [on Capri?] for three more weeks (Autobiographical notes).

1923 March 3. Helen Wolle Doolittle goes to Florence from Naples (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 March 4. Bryher joins H.D. on Capri (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher).

1923 March 5. H.D. and Bryher at the Hotel Quisissima, Capri; Norman Douglas arrives (Pearson Notes, transcribed from missing journals kept by Bryher) and Bryher meets him at the harbour (Holloway, NORMAN DOUGLAS, p. 313-315 {probably cribbed from HEART TO ARTEMIS}).

1923 March 6. H.D. and Bryher at the Hotel Quisissima, Capri; Bryher has dinner with Norman Douglas that night (he is "wildly gloriously drunk") (Holloway, NORMAN DOUGLAS, p. 313-315 {probably cribbed from HEART TO ARTEMIS}).

1923 March (?). Nancy Cunard arrives on Capri; Bryher and Norman Douglas meet her at a cafe (Holloway, NORMAN DOUGLAS, p. 313-315).

1923 March 9. H.D. at the Hotel Quisissana, Capri; writes to Marianne Moore; thanks her for an article, apparently on H.D.; comments "that article is like some rare Florentine silver work surrounding some quite ordinary but pleasant agates or some sort of nice blue pebbles" [the article which H.D. refers to is probably Moore's review of HYMEN (BROOM, 4 (January 1923), 133-135; reprinted in THE COMPLETE PROSE OF MARIANNE MOORE, 79-82]; comments on dream of having a place of her own--wants Moore and her mother to join them (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation).

1923 March 31. H.D., Helen Wolle Doolittle, and Bryher in Capri; Perdita is brought to join them for her fourth birthday by Laura Wolle Jenkins (Autobiographical notes). Also recalled in "Compassionate Friendship", p. 14; Perdita was brought from Florence.

1923 June [12]. Bryher in Paris; writes to H.D.; includes gossip about Mary Butts, Djuna Barnes, Thelma Wood, William Carlos Williams, and Norman Douglas (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 41).

1923 June l4. Bryher in Paris; writes to H.D.; describes visits to Man Ray's studio, Brancusi's studio, to Gertrude Stein, to Ezra Pound, and ended her day at "Le Boeuf sur le Toit."

1923 July 17. Brigit Patmore writes to Bryher; has just heard something about the Hare [Cecil Gray] which will amuse Bryher; a former housekeeper of the Patmore's is now working for Jacob Epstein's wife; Mrs. Epstein had asked if Isobel (the housekeeper) had known H.D. & commented on "what a wonderful woman she is - so beautiful * brilliant"; they had gone on comparing friends and finally, not in connection with H.D., Mrs. Epstein had spoken of Cecil Gray as a "rich young man" to which Isobel had exclaimed that he was always talking of being poor -- to which Mrs. Epstein had responded "Oh yes always poor to women, but men can get anything out of him: men have a great influence on him"; Brigit then asks if Bryher can't come disguised as a male or get Robert McAlmon to talk to him; gives Bryher his hareship's [Cecil Gray] mother's address as Rosehill Lodge, Porchester Gate; volunteers to try to help snare him in September when Bryher will be in London again (Patmore to Bryher [unpubl. letter]).

1923 July 17. Brigit Patmore writes to Bryher; has heard more 'dirt'-- "Mrs Epstein said to Isobel. 'Gray was very fond of H.D. but Van Dieren said "no"'"; refers to death of Olivia Shakespear's husband (Patmore to Bryher [unpubl. letter]).

1923 August 8. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; responds to a query from H.D. about hotels in the Channel Islands; refers to the Whitalls whom she'd like to see; comnments that "the Epstein revelations of Gray are illuminating. I suppose they are true - or mostly so - Van Dieren is, as you always thought, the evil demon. He it is that directs the cowardice. According to Peggy E[pstein] V.D. has had at least ?3000 from Gray one way or another. And one of the reasons for Mama gathering her son into a fold is because she had to repay ?500 that C.G. had borrowed from someone to 'help' V.D. Also C.G. paid Epstein ?100 for the bust of V.D. that he has" (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1923 August 30. H.D. in London at the Hotel Washington, Curzon Square; writes to George Plank; will be delighted to have lunch with him a little before one the following Wednesday at her hotel even though the food is awful (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]).

1923 Fall - 1924 June (?). Francis Wolle claims?PRLHS has never seen any concrete evidence for this? that, when he entered Columbia University to begin work towards a Ph.D., his mother, Belle Robinson Wolle, "went to Paris to be with her sister-in-law, Helen Wolle Doolittle, and with her daughter Hilda, and Perdita, and Bryher for nine months. They moved on to Territet, where they spent most of the time, though for the six coldest weeks of the Winter they went south to Mentone on the Riviera (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 58).

1923 November 25. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; thanks her for having sent her a copy of SPEED THE PLOUGH, a collection of stories by Mary Butts--refers specifically to "In Bayswater"; implies that Dorothy Richardson and Alan Odle are currently visiting H.D.; refers to Cole and Oppie and comments on taking them to [Jacob] Epstein as possible candidates for heads; H.D. had apparently asked Brigit about Ethel Colburn Mayne as Brigit responds: "Violet [Hunt] loves Ethel Colburn Mayne. What do you want to know? Everything there is?" (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1923 December 9. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; refers to letter which H.D. has apparently written to Dorothy Cole: "I love your snippets [?] of Odleing. She read me the part about D.R. [Dorothy Richardson] putting you in your place & you could see our heels in the air as we shouted with laughter"; passes on gossip about Violet Hunt and May Sinclair; has run into John Cournos and passes on the message that Horace Liveright wants to see some of H.D.'s prose and Cournos wants H.D. to send Liveright some of it. (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1924. "Pilate's Wife" begun.

1924. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet with Helen Wolle Doolittle; THE HEDGEHOG begun at request of a well known Boston publisher who did not like the result (Thorn Thicket, p. 26, 29).

1924. HELIODORA AND OTHER POEMS published in London by Jonathan Cape and in New York by Houghton Mifflin.

1924 February(?). H.D. apparently in Florence (see entry for February 9).

1924 February 9. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; refers to letter which H.D. has written to her from Florence by which H.D. tantalizes Brigit by referring to "delicate indelicacies"; asks if H.D. is back in Territet; gossips about Cole (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

l924 February 16. H.D. writes to to Brigit Patmore; sends Brigit a copy of the prospectus in which Robert McAlmon announces the joining of forces with William Bird--comments "Robert is ( or was ) inclined to be a little over independant, and I think ... that the way to get a good public is not always the offensive ( I use the term in its military as well as its social sense )" (H.D. to Patmore [unpubl. letter]).

1924 February l9. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; comments that H.D. must have hated leaving Florence; thanks her for photographs of Perdita and friend and picture of Norman Douglas ((apparently by this time H.D. knows Douglas--it is clear that Brigit has not yet met him); sends addresses for possible places for Helen Wolle Doolittle to stay (or live?) in London (supposes that the middle of May is when she wants to come); gossips about Oppie (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1924 February 26. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; letter begins "Sweetheart - do I not get the situation! You must not be upset - if he had the sense to give you adoration & love you were right to enjoy it, But I'm glad it hasn't gone deep - don't let it, please ... But some more will come along surely - perhaps from the same quarter" [What this refers to, LHS has no idea at this point, September 11, 1987]; then Brigit asks "What is Mary B. really like? [LHS is sure this refers to Mary Butts.; Brigit then delivers a discourse on H.D.'s relations with men; refers to Violet Hunt and comments that she (Brigit) never says anything about anyone's affairs--then asks "Does he write to you? (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1924 February 26. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; has just received letter from H.D.; comments that she had not connected 'Charles' with "In Bayswater [a short story by Mary Butts included in SPEED THE PLOUGH]; more oblique references to situation hinted at in previous letter (February 26); apparently H.D. has described Mary Butts to which Brigit comments "Your pictures of M. make my appreciative nerves shriek with joy, 'magenta - mouthed' is gorgeous" (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1924 March 6. H.D. writes to Violet Jordan, using Riant Chateau letterhead; asks for her sister's address as a friend is interested in possibly acquiring one of her sculptures; refers to the sister's having cut herself off from everyone; comments that she has had news of William Carlos and Florence Williams although she has not seen them (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. lettter]).

1924 March l8. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; letter begins "I am furious with H.E. [Havelock Ellis] - in absolute understanding with you. Of course he thinks, I suppose, that it is an honour to be a 'case' - and worthy to be written about - discussed ... Well, with Violets & Fords about, who leave not a nerve unturned & unpublished, it is difficult to realize any reserve"; but Brigit does comment that to outsiders the case would probably be unrecognizable; says "H.E. is too absorbed in the scientific side to think of personalities"; says "I suppose when Violet & F[ord] were young they awarded each other medals for each published adultery ..." (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1924 April 28. H.D. writes to Brigit Patmore; will be in London late the following day; asks if she can see Brigit on Wednesday [April 30) around 7 (H.D. to Patmore [unpubl. letter]).

1924 April 29. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; accepts invitation for the following day (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1924 May 5. H.D. in London; Brigit Patmore writes to her to accept invitation for Tuesday luncheon (12:45); apparently a party for H.D. has been proposed but H.D. has indicated that she doesn't relish it (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1924 June 1. H.D. in Paris; is dining at Adrienne Monnier's along with Bryher, Sylvia Beach, and Florence and William Carlos Williams; Pound's voice is heard calling from the street (Wilhem, J.J. Ezra Pound in London and Paris, p. 338)

1924 June 3. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; H.D. had apparently gone from London to Paris; refers to some sort of a shock which H.D. has had involving what Brigit refers to as an "old Uncle"; refers to herself having received a note from Jack White [whom H.D. mentions in "Autobiographical Notes"--entry for 1916]; refers to H.D. having met Ford and to her (H.D.) having seen John Cournos and his wife off (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1924 June 10. H.D. in Territet?; sends postcard to Adrienne Monnier; refers to not wanting to miss any parties given by Monnier (asks her please not to give any more until she comes back--implying that she has been there recently) (H.D. "Letters across the Abyss," p. 119).

1924 June 10. Brigit Patmore writes to Bryher; says "How I liked your story of the golden robed young man. Mary Butts is a treasure of romance"; refers to unsucessful attempts to seeing the Hare [Cecil Gray] "but have collected some very dirty dirt ... to the effect that he has had another child by a young married woman" [LHS comment: not confirmed by Pauline Gray in her "Afterword" to the 1985 Hogarth Press edition of MUSICAL CHAIRS, although she admits she doesn't know how many illigetimate offspring Gray spawn--knows only of Perdita--quotes Gray's entry in one of his notebooks: "The world is full of my daughters. It pulluates with them. You can't escape them. They are all over the place. I keep on running into them"]--this tidbit has come from Peggy Epstein who does not tell lies but however doesn't trouble to verify tales (Patmore to Bryher [unpubl. letter]).

1924 June 19. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; has received a picture of H.D. and comments "He's got something very vivid & flamming & vibrant" [could this possibly have been one by Man Ray?]; refers to going with Jack White to a lecture on psychoanalysis held at the "Minerva Cafe (yes, Minerva!) (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1924 July 21. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Brigit Patmore; has received a wire from Brigit (?) about some unpaid bill which dates back to before she and Bryher went to America (bill apparently had been sent to Richard Aldington--comments "How Arabella & he must be gloating over my 'debts.' I feel so horrid"); says Norman Douglas is here with a "cook" downstairs at Pension Jundt--goes on to explain that Douglas has his meals with them and that the so-called "cook" is a 12 year old (a male) with a "skin like wild cyclamen spread over yellow roses" whom Douglas is training to wait on tables (theirs)--"O - quel vie!!! Does anyone ever have such combinations of sordid & excatatic [sic]"; says Douglas bores her--describes him as heavy & Anglo-Indian; he leaves, she hopes in a week; mentions Siamese cats who have been very sick with distemper; refers to "the dreadful little old Auntie got off & mercifully P[erdita] is greatly humanized since"; asks of "that little whippet Collins whom she thinks she has failed since he asked her to befriend a female friend (and she couldn't because of their peculiar situation (H.D. to Patmore [unpubl. letter]).

1924 July 28. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; comments on Siamese kittens; has been around to see Smith [tailor?] about bill mentioned in H.D.'s letter of July 21--had been turned over to collection agency--agency had sent it to Aldington--Brigit expresses doubt over the validity of the bill, but finally decided to turn over the cheque which H.D. has sent fer payment of the bill; refers to pretty frocks which H.D. has given her; mentions novel which she is writing: "I find myself writing intense bits to you - about you & what I feel for you. H.D. (Her Doing!)"; has not seen Collins (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1924 July 30. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Brigit Patmore; thanks her for sending back THE ENORMOUS ROOM [e.e. cummings] and JENNIFER LORN [Elinor Wylie]; is sending back her copy of "CLEOPATRA" [?]; thanks her for dealing with tailor's bill--says that Brigit's suspicions about the validity confirmed her own--further explains that Richard Aldington had sent the bill to Harriet Shaw Weaver who sent it to H.D.; tells Brigit that the McAlmons will spend August and half of September in England; suggests that Brigit and Derek (her son) come to Paris after that time so that they could all be together; says that R[obert] certainly is a charming host in Paris and that he really is not happy in London; refers to the Sitwells; mentions having stayed at the Hotel Unic, Rue de Rennes (near the Gare Montparnasse)--cheap; H.D. comments that she hated other more expensive hotels which she has been to in Paris and says she was only reconciled to Paris after her stay at the Unic; indicates that the Williamses [William Carlos and Florence?] had stayed at the Unic when she did, along with Bryher and Robert McAlmon; refers to Siamese cats--Ty (now called Tiger) and Nefert (H.D. to Patmore [unpubl. letter]).

1924 August 19. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Brigit Patmore; assures Brigit that the Hotel Unic is very cheap and not sordid; says she had most meals at Trianon, around the corner; also refers to the Rotunde and another haunt (Doffure?); tells her to look up Miss Beach, 12 rue de l'Odeon (Shakespear & Co.); gives her Ezra Pound's address: 70 bis rue Notre Dame des Champs (I think) (H.D. to Patmore [unpubl. letter]).

1924 September 9. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; implication is that H.D. is in London as Brigit, whow is in Sussex, asks if H.D. is at the Washington (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1924 September 23. H.D. in London; sees Brigit Patmore (inferred from unpubl. letter from Brigit Patmore to H.D., September 24, 1924).

1924 September 24. H.D. at the Hotel Washington, London; writes to Viola Jordan; doesn't write or gossip more because all her efforts go into her writing; describes Dorothy Shakespear: "Mrs. Ezra is a tall girl - (well, not "girl", she's my age within about a week.) She has fairish hair, not actually "yellow", & greyish eyes, not actually grey, not blue. She used to dress in a very pretty, rather fussy Gainsboroughish manner. Not at all "arty" but picturesque. I don't see her (or him) much now"; plans to leave London in a few days; continues comments on "Mrs. E.": "Mrs. E, spends a few months every year with her mother here in London ... Yes E. is "married" but there seems to be a pretty general concensus of opinion that Mrs. E. has not been "awakened" whatever that may mean. She's very English & cold & I personally like her although she is unbearably critical & never has been known to make a warm friend with man or woman. She loathes (she sauys) children! However, that may be a little pose. She is a bit addicted - little mannerisms. I don't think she can be poignantly sensitive or or she could never have stuck Ezra. Ezra is [? kind or blind] but blustering and really stupid. He is adolescent. He seems almost "arrested" in development"; comments on photograph [Man Ray?] which she sent Viola: "I wear my hair shorter at the back & curl it every day - rather a mop... better cut than in the picture"; continues describing the Pound's: "The E's live in a sort of studio with, I believe, several little rooms off. However I don't know. They cook in the studio, that is Ezra does it all. She says she can not boil an egg" (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]).

1924 September 27. H.D. in London; sees Brigit Patmore (inferred from unpubl. letter from Brigit Patmore to H.D., September 28, 1924).

1924 September (end) - October (early). H.D.. Bryher, and Robert McAlmon take Harriet Shaw Weaver on an impromptu trip to Paris; Bryher and McAlmon prepared Weaver for the trip by taking her to a London Music hall where they heard Norah Bayes sing "No-one ever loved like Samson and Delilah"; after their arrival in Paris McAlmon planned a party at Bricktop's cabaret after which the group moved to dinner at L'Avenue where they are joined by Thelma Wood, Djuna Barnes, and William Bird--H.D. and McAlmon insist that Harriet Shaw Weaver, who never drank at all, drink some wine--Pound arrived on the scene and, noticing that Harriet had a partially consumed glass of wine in front of her, accused her jokingly of being drunk--H.D. gasped, then, along with McAlmon, let out a gasp of laughter, then both looked at Harriet and turned scarlet--Harriet was mortified and sat as if she had been struck--Djuna Barnes unsucessfully tried to save the situation, then since it was after 10:00, H.D. escorted her to her hotel; McAlmon called on Harriet the next morning and took her to Fouquet's for coffee and tries to change her perspective on the incident; Bryher later claimed that Harriet had relaxed after several people assured that no malice had been intended (Lidderdale & Nicholson, DEAR MISS WEAVER, p. 244-247).

1924 October 9. Harriet Shaw Weaver writes to Bryher (who with H.D. had left Paris); thanks the McAlmons for "having pressed me to come to Paris in your party" (Lidderdale & Nicholson, DEAR MISS WEAVER, p. 247) (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 145).

1924 October 25. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Brigit Patmore; has stopped in Paris before returning to Territet; saw zra Pound who spoke very affectionateky of Brigit (H.D. to Patmore [unpubl. letter]).

1924 November 2. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; refers to the Eliots who are moving from Clarence Gate Mansions; has run into Richard Aldington while coming out of the British Museum (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1924 November 22. H.D.'s bankbook itemizes a check to Man Ray (Zilboorg notes).

1924 November 29. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Brigit Patmore; refers to Richard Aldington's literary productivity; comments on Gray's publishing a book: "I am surprised though that he has managed to get through his inhibitions to the extent of publishing a book at all"; has been working terribly and has managed to get her eyes into a state of a blurr that is uncommonly uncomfortable; says she may be going to Florence after Christmas; has heard from H.P. Collins (H.D. to Patmore [unpubl. letter]).

1924 December. "People of Sparta" published in THE BOOKMAN, with illustrations by Rockwell Kent.

1925. COLLECTED POEMS OF H.D. published in New York by Boni and Liveright..

1925. A selection from HEDYLUS published in Paris in Robert McAlmon's anthology, CONTACT COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS.

1925. WEST by Bryher published by Jonathan Cape in London.

1925. SEX IN RELIGION by Clifford Howard published (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 29).

1925 January 8. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Marianne Moore; thanks her for her review of Heliodora and other Poems (in The Dial, October 1924); says that Helen Wolle Doolittle is currently in Paris (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation).

1925??PRCape published HELIODORA in 1924--dating of this letter depends on whether or not H.D. was expecting Cape to continue to publish her; however H.D. apparently saw the Williams in the summer of 1924; also Amy Lowell died in 1925? Jan 10. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Viola Jordan; mentions plans to go to Paris in two months as well as the gfact that she must go to London to see her publisher, Cape; comments that Amy Lowell is due to arrive in London in May; comments on her writing: "I have to get a certain amount of stuff ready for Cape for Spring. I have in some way to justify my existance, and then it is also a pure "trade" with me now. It is my "job"; comments "I do love Suiss but it is utterly cut off. But then I like this too, as I am more and more hating of people. By the way, I thought Williams most banal. Don't tell him so, and Florence we all thought was too silly. She tried to carry onlike a movie vamp and it didn't become her and it was so futile with a husband in the background. They both wanted "relationships" we all thought. But no one was having any from either of them. I thought Williams common-place, common and banal. Don't say so to anyone. I can't afford to make enemies. But really, really there are limits" (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]).

1925 January 31. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; H.D. has apparently written to Brigit that she is planning to set up a home in London--Brigit writes about real estate opportunities and offers her help when the time comes (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1925 February 3. H.D. sees John Cournos (H.D. to John Cournos, [unpubl. letter] 4 Feb 25?PRThis data from copy supplied to LHS from Friedman; check Hollenberg file to make sure this letter is from Harvard; it could be one of the Bryn Mawr letters?).

1925 February 4. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to John Cournos; refers to having seen him the day beefore; has been to Vey [ie. Vevay?] to investigate a possible place for Cournos and his family to settle--has asked about schools, etc.; refers to being upset about possibility of R. [Aldington] descending upon her; comments "I think a man must prove at least a years `chastity' before he can come down on a wife whom he has already literally kicked out. Remember I had friends come to see me in the room HE GOT FOR ME at the du Littoral, and how can he prove I deserted him then at any rate. He literally called up Bryher and said `Hilda must get out of here at once.' That was after he arranged the room for me. You see he can't get around that. I have very reliable witnesses of his whole attitude and all the letters during that period, a half year before the actual break"; says she investigate the legal aspects thoroughly just to be on the safe side; invites him and Helen to come again (H.D. to John Cournos, [unpubl. letter]?PRThis data from copy supplied to LHS from Friedman; check Hollenberg file to make sure this letter is from Harvard; it could be one of the Bryn Mawr letters?).

1925 February 6. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; H.D. has apparently wired and written to Brigit to get information on the possibility of Aldington divorcing her; Brigit rang up Stanley Passmore who "said emphatically that theres no divorce for a man except misconduct, & moreover it he knows of the said horrid word, & has condoned it, that finishes the chance of divorce. He can get a judicial separation for desertion that's all"; Brigit has taken it upon herself to write to Richard Aldington, mentioning having seen him at the British Museum [the previous November]; the whole thing apparently was started by Cournos suggesting that Aldington might seek a divorce--[LHS comment: Cournos may or may not have implied that Aldington might seek custody of Perdita]; Brigit rang up Eliot to confirm that Aldington's address was Padworth; refers to having gotten a note from H.P. Collins (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1925 February 16. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; has found out that it is not worthwhile for H.D. to bother about a judical separation--the only way she could get it would be by "collusion" with Aldington and she would not be better off than she is now; has not found out anything about such action would affect Perdita; has gotten a nice response from Aldington to her note--quotes part of it "Your letter seems to accuse me of neglecting you. I think I might more legitimately adopt that tone since it was you - doubtless for good reasons - allowed our friendship to drop"--Brigit comments that she certainly didn't accuse him of neglecting her; has not answered him because she doesn't want to unless it might make a difference in either H.D. or Perdita's affairs; will await instructions from H.D.; Brigit thinks the next thing she has to do is to find out mout the law points and costs (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1925 February 18. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Brigit Patmore; tells Brigit not to worry about Aldington; says it is only a matter of separation--that she had never dreamt of the possibility of divorce; says that separation seems to be a respectable way of "protecting the children"; she doesn't really care--Richard can have his "A."--"what I can never get over is the fact that even now SHOULD I care for any one or want a little freedom, HE can come down on me. Perhaps just a PHOBIA. I don't know. If he were really a `gentleman' I would not think twice about it. But we know in certain ways he is totally unreliable. I think, still think, he is a little cracked ... However, i am inclined to be charitable, only it is the baby. Bryher seems to think R. might later stand in the way"; tells Brigit to keep on friendly terms with Aldington and "try to find out any `dirt'" discretely (H.D. to Patmore [unpubl. letter]).

1925 February 22. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; has gotten some more information: "1. Cost of separation about ?150. Its almost as much bother as divorce & even if R. did not defend, you would have to be examined. 2. Time: about 2 or three months probably longer. 3. Baby. Supposing at any time he wished to make trouble & claim her (a fantastic supposition, because he could never keep her) you would win easily. He cannot deny parenthood"; comments that Aldington can't come down on H.D. because he is not innocent; tries to assure H.D. that there is nothing Aldington can do and also that she is likely to be hurt by "talk"--that she she has done a good job of restructuring her life and the other life has receded into the past (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1925 February 22. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; has apparently received a letter from H.D. thanking her for the information and in which idea of having Bryher and Robert McAlmon adopt Perdita has been mentioned; says "Yes, the young must be protected. It's almost all that matters. I can't help feeling that for Bryher and Robert to adopt her would be the best protection"; discusses the matter in more detail pointing that H.D. would be relieved of the strain of bringing Perdita up yey Perdita at the same time "must not be deprived of such a wonderful mother"; has been taking to Tom Eliot on the telephone about H.P. Collins--Eliot told Brigit that since November 22, he and Vivien have had a more than usually terrible time (Brigit comments "I love that precision"); mentions D.H. Lawrence's memior of Norman Douglas [?] and says the she "felt somehow that Lawrence had shut his eyes and spat"; then asks "Do you remember how he'd haunch up on a stool like a cat with a bad liver?" (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1925 March 2. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; discusses issue of whether or not Aldington might or could fight possibility of Bryher adopting Perdita; suggests it could be done by private deed witnessed by responsible people; appears to be very supportive of adoption idea (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1925 March 4. Bryher writes to Brigit Patmore; "On arrival here a few weeks back, I found H. in a terribly nervous state as the result of Cournos having sprung some theory on her that after seven years R. A. might try some divorce for desertion stunt. It's perfectly riculous but I personally don't trust R.A. a scrap. Now I suggest, and Robert is very kind and helpful and says that I may, that Robert and I adopt, legally and fully, Perdita. She will take our name, have an immediate settlement on her as regards money, and her education and everything provided for. I have no wish to take her from Hilda's care, in fact that is the only stipulation that Robert makes, that it does not mean that I drag an infant round with me. My hands are tied unless she is mine, becausethere is no fun in providing an expensive education and either having a fight with R.A. in the middle of it, or else having some beastly struggle in the courts of justice. There is one complication - that is nationality. If it could be arranged I should prefer that the whole thing was kept silent, that only the parties interested know about it, and that as she was born in England she still stayed on her mother's passport. It is simply a question that I am not prepare to pay down money for an expensive education and have R.A. making a mess of things in the middle. I wonder whether you could quite privately find out, perhaps from mr Allen, how the law stands as regards adoption. Having always in mind that we are American citizens. It does not matter but I should like a little light on the subject before coming to any definite decision on the matter. You see, everything depends on Robert and I shall have to make a clear statement to him before I could take any definite steps. I expect to be in London in April but before I come over should like to know a little how the law stands. But please do not mention this matter to anybody as if the thing is carried through it must be done as secretly and quietly as possible. Please don't go out of your way on the matter but as you know the whole story it is easier than writing to someone to whom the story would have to be explained. Of course I hall have to see a lawyer about it in Paris or London but I must put a clear statement of the matter in front of Robert before he gives his final consent. If H. could get a legal separation with custody of child, things would be different. But I will not spend a lot of money on the infant's education and have R.A. stick his nose in, in the middle." Shorttly after this letter was written, Bryher wrote another undated note to Brigit: "A hurried line to ask you ( in view of your letter this morning ) to leave matters as they are till we get over. It is very important the thing should be kept private. On arrival in England Robert will see what he thinks best to be done" (Bryher to Brigit Patmore [unpubl. letters]).

1925[?] March 6. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to George Plank; refers to a photograph: "Alas, I hate to say so, but do you know I agree with you about that photograph, but do you know I agree with you about that photograph. I should say those, as there were three, each worse than the last. You would never have seen it, nor would Louis U. had it not been that a friend generously shoved me into Man Ray's Paris studio and then ungenerously shoved my photographs at various agents, Louis U. being the most (I should say I suppose the least) objectionable. Pleas tell no one that I thin Louis U. objectionable and please breathe to no one that I do not altogether love the photographs. They are SUPPOSE to be wonderful. Well, they are. They do scare off all manner of vermin. Louis U. not among the least"; says she hopes to be in London the following month and would like to see him; asks if he has seen Quo Vadis; says the Whitalls sent her a charming photograph of themselves; refers to Dorothy Cole who she says has a tendress for Jim; comments on photograph again: "And please DO NOT TELL that I positively agree with you about the Medea"; refers to the Cournos' having turned up in Territet on their "way to Chateau d'[?ex], an awful hole up in the mountains where I told them not to go" and continues with gossip commenting "Now this is sheer CAT" (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]).

1925 March 31. H.D. in London at the Hotel Washington; writes to George Plank; it is Perdita's sixth birthday; comments on how much his talking to her the other day meant to her; refers to being confused and the need to think clearly; says that she does not want him or anyone else to "spy ... on Richard"; says "it is and has always been my very deep affection for him that has kept me from asking awkward questions. I would myself write him as he asked me (through Miss Weaver) to do some ten months ago, But how do I know who will open that letter? What possible quarantee have I that it is not some lawyers trick or some try-on of sorts? I myself would be too easily trapped, though this may well be the most innocent and heart-rending of attempts to get in touch with me again. But what do I know? I have to protect the little girl first, don't I?"; is glad to have been able to unburden herself to him and hopes that he will allow her to do the same for him someday; refers to the Whitalls and comments "I am positively embarassed about my MSS which Jim wants to look over for his firm. And do you know something holds me back. I can't offer them to him. I can't see him reading them. It is very awkward as it is or should be a matter of business. But the things I write are all indirectly ( when not directly ) inspired by my experiences"; says she will write him when she gets back to Suisse; says she leaves London early next week; comments "I just had to tell you in a hurry before I had time to think about it, how much it means to be getting in touch with the London ( which I suppose indirectly means Richard ) I knew and loved for so many years and in which I so intensely suffered" (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]).

1925 April 26. May Sinclair writes to H.D. (Zilboorg notes).

1925 April 28. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; has not heard from H.D. for some time but Cole has reported that she had a note from H.D. so Brigit feels assured that H.D. is okay; mentions not having yet received a manuscript of H.D.'s yet from May Sinclair which she is looking forward to reading [LHS surmises this is probably PALIMPSEST]; indicates that she has given up trying to bring T.S. Eliot and H.P. Collins together (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1925 May 7. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to George Plank; thanks him for a "wise letter" and comments: "No, I long ago decided that well enough was best let [severely ?] alone. After all, it is only sentiment, a desire to link up with the past & I might loose even the illusion of that past if it were broken across. If things happen they happen! That is again different. But I don't see that there can be any possible move this end, considering my temperament. I am really supremely happy in my present state. Naturally we all have `moments' of sorts"; is sending him a copy of COLLECTED POEMS and points out two typographical errors which she jokes were caused by SLUGS (p. 214: foul = four; p. 191: tea = bee); has apparently written to James Whitall (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]).

1925 May 12. Amy Lowell dies (Heymann., AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY, p. 275).

1925 May 13. H.D. writes to H.P. Collins; discusses her prose writing and comments "I seem a very between-worlds person" (Friedman. Penelope's web, p. 19).

1925 June 16. Brigit Patmore writes to H.D.; has apparently heard from H.D. that she is coming to London soon (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1925 June (after 16th) - July. H.D.'s address is 37 Park Mansions, Knightsbridge (with Helen Wolle Doolittle and works on HIPPOYTUS TEMPORIZES? Cf. Thorn Thicket, p. 29); fact that H.D. worked on HIPPOYTUS TEMPORIZES at Park Mansions confirmed by her ms.notation on letter from Brigit Patmore, dated July 17, 1925 (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl.]); H.D. applies for membership in the [British] Society of Authors (Collecott. Notes; from H.D.'s correspondence with the Society of Authors).

1925 June 22. Harriet Shaw Weaver writes to Sylvia Beach: "I saw Bryher for an hour or so on Thursday. The flat is secured but needs much adaptation ... I have just missed H.D. who is to be in London for two months with mother and daughter in a furnished flat" (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 146).

1925 June 22. H.D. in London at 37 Park Mansions, Knightsbridge; writes to Marianne Moore; at the request of H.P. Collins asks about finding an American periodicle to publish the enclosed article on Housman which is due to appear in the Adelphi in August; explains that she and her mother and Perdita have sub-let a flat for two months--describes it as being mid-Victorian "whose prim inhabitants belong to shabby-genteel court circles"; says she sees Bryher and McAlmon ancomments "I hear Kitty C. [?] is in town and am to see her later" (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation).

1925 July (early?). H.D.in London at 37 Park Mansions, Knights~bridge; writes to Brigit Patmore; says she is "EXTREMELY happy to be in London in a funny little place that my mother and various friendly agents dug out her in Knightsbridge"; suggest several times when Brigit might come to tea or supper; goes on to say "We are opposite Knightsbridge underground on a sort of island below Harrods, above Scots House, above the tail of a rampant ( slightly ) general" (H.D. to Patmore [unpubl. letter]).

1925 July 9. Maria Rudge born at Bressanone in the Italian Tyrol; daughter of Olga Rudge and Ezra Pound (Capenter, Humphrey. A serious chracter, p. 448)

1925 August 1. H.D. in London at 37 Park Mansions, Knights~bridge; writes to Marianne Moore; thanks her for her review of Collected Poems of H.D. (in The Dial, August 1925); complements Moore on being at the helm of The Dial; is hoping to find a place of her own soon?PRThe verso of this letter was not photocopied? (unpubl. letter, Rosenbach Foundation).

1925 August (late?) - l932 August. H.D.'s London address is 169 Sloane Street (Collecott. Notes). A letter from Brigit Patmore to H.D. shows that as of August 18 arrangements had not been finalized (Patmore to H.D. [unpubl.]).

1925 September 9. H.D. in London; sees Brigit Patmore in the afternoon (possibly at Fullers (Patmore to H.D. 5/IX/25, 10/IX/25 [unpubl.]).

1925 November 27. H.D. in London; writes to Viola Jordan; says she has found a tiny attic here in London at 169 Sloane Street where she hopes to spend her summers; howver she pans to return to Territet on Wednesday of next week [December 2?]; the London flat has no proper steam-heating; apologizes for having neglected writing to Viola--"I was terribly rushed and crowded this summer, finding tghis flat"; comments that her mother has been there this summer as well as her two brothers and many friends (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]).

1925 (?) December. Helen Wolle Doolittle writes letter to Perdita; refers to Christmas and packages arriving; apparently has been visiting Melvin, Dorothy, and Mundell Doolittle in Orange, N.J.; refers to having received a copy of Mr. Collins new book rwith references to H.D.; is going to visit the Harold Doolittles and gives address as 6953 Edgerton Ave., Pittsburg, Pa. (HWD to PS [unpubl. letter]).

1925 December 22. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet (deduced from letter from Brigit Patmore to H.D. of that date).

1926. PALIMPSEST (consisting of three stories: "Hipparchia", "Secret Name" and "Murex") published in Paris by Contact editions and in New York by Houghton Mifflin. McAmon sold 700 sets of sheets to Houghton Mifflin, un unprecedented event for a Contact publication; the number of American reviews which the book elicited was also unusual for a Contact edition (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 206).

1926. "Asphodel" reworked.

1926. Date linked with short story "The Moment" {Elaine = Frances Josepha Gregg} (Thorn Thicket, p. 35, 36).

1926. THIS IMPASSIONED ONLOOKER by Brigit Patmore published; dedicated to H.D. (as Belgarda) (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 250).

1926. H.P. Collins comments: "In late 1926 began my acquaintance, which was never to be more than a written one, with Frances Gregg. H.D., who was ever over highly-strung, and whose kindness was too often invaded, asked me if I would get in touch with Frances, who said she was, or fancied herself, in great difficulties" which Collins did and he attempted to market unsuccessfully two manuscripts by Frances--a collection of short stories and an autobiographical novel; Collins further comments that Louis Wilkinson "wrote to H.D. and asked her to persuade me to let him see these manuscripts of which the rumour had very much interested him. I was terribly embarrassed (though scarcely more so than H.D.) as Frances appeared far from cordial towards her former husband; ... I never complied with the suggestion" (Collins, H.P. "Louis and Lulu," Recollections of the Powys Brothers, p. 80-81). Collins also says that Frances was operated on for cancer in St. George's Hospital in the autumn of 1926 and that "she made a good recovery; and after working for John Lewis in Oxford Street as editor of a staff magazine she was appointed to take charge of the children's side of the News Chronicle, to which she contributed juvenile stories" (p. 82).

1926 (?) March 29. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes to Viola Jordan; is hoping to leave for London in about ten days; comments "I am bringing out a volume of prose, semi-private in Paris. No one really much likes my prose but I can't be held up by what the critics think H.D. ought to be like. I am just going on and writing the most purple stuff to my hearts content. Funny how people think anything at all one writes must be a resum? of ones own life. I have a purple sex story (though highly spiritualized) about a Greek girl in Rome which I like but people don't think 'worthy' quite of H.D. I say WHO is H.D. ? They all think they know more about what and why she should or should not be or do than I ... Printing in Paris does not preclude later publishing in England or U.S. so this is by way of an experiment"; comments on Pound: "Ezra went for some of my prose but between you and me, I look upon the dear boy as just a little ageing and more than a little jaundiced"; refers to having a book by Williams which she has not yet read; says she has been busy with visitors from London (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]).

1926 June 14. Harriet Shaw Weaver writes to Sylvia Beach ; has seen Bryher in London who "took me across the street to see H.D.'s little apartment where she seems very happy" (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 147).

1926 July 8. Joan Leader Waluga born (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.), p. 666)

1926 September 10. Omar Pound born in the American Hospital in Paris (Neuilly) (Capenter, Humphrey. A serious chracter, p. 453)

1926 September 22. H.D. in London; party given by Jean Starr and Louis Untermeyer in London occurs; guests include D.H. and Frieda Lawrence, Bryher, Dorothy Richardson and Alan Odle, and George Plank; H.D. later recalls this event in "Compassionate Friendship" (p.53) when she is reflecting on Lawrence and comments "Bryher met them both at a party that Jean and Louis Untermeyer gave; I was asked to that, too. I remember how I struggled with myself in my little flat on Sloane Street - shall I? Shan't I? I did not go to the party. Afterwards Bryher came and told me that Lawrence had said, `give my love to Hilda. Mind you, you are to give my love to Hilda'"; [LHS note: in her autobiography, PRIVATE COLLECTION (p. 114-117), Jean Starr Untermeyer says, probably erronously, that H.D. was there; Lawrence himself wrote on September 23, 1926 to Mabel Dodge Luhan of seeing the Louis Umtermeyers the day bvefore (LORENZO IN TAOS, p. 310); checking Sagar (A D. H. LAWRENCE HANDBOOK, p. 236) indicates that the Lawrences were in London between September 16 and 28].

1926 November 19. Death of Clement King Shorter (Shorter, Clement King. C.K.S.: AN AUUTOBIOGRAPHY, p. xxiii).

1926 December. Frances Gregg sends Kenneth Macpherson to meet H.D. ("December" from note in Pearson's biog files).

1927. HIPPOLYTUS TEMPORIZES: A PLAY IN THREE ACTS published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin.

1927. POOLREFLECTION and GAUNT ISLAND by Kenneth Macpherson published by Pool in Territet, Suisse.

1927. HER written. [Date on title page on earliest surviving draft of manuscript.]

1927 (?). Francis Wolle recalls that he saw H.D. in London; that she had him to dinner with T.S. Eliot at a Chinese basement restaurant; and that she arranged for Violet Hunt to invite them to tea; on the night that he arrived in London, H.D. had obtained tickets for the Cockran [Cochran?] Revue, in memory of the old Philadelphia days; on the night before H.D. left London to rejoin Bryher in Germany for planning artistic movies, she and Wolle had dinner in an Italian restaurant in Soho and talked until the restaurant began to lock up--she told him about the strains of World War I, the break up with Aldington, "about the kindness and lack of emotional understanding on the part of her brother Harold, and about her poetic goals"; Wolle comments that he did not see Perdita who was "down in the country" but that H.D. did make a dancing date for him with Kenneth Macpherson's sister [Eileen?] (Wolle. A MORAVIAN HERITAGE, p. 59).

1927 February. H.D. makes film debut in WING BEAT, filmed by Kenneth Macpherson near Territet (Friedberg. Writing about cinema, p. 344).

1927 (?) February 24. H.D. writes to Viola Jordan; thanks her for sending a book by Mrs. A. W. but cautions Viola that she would rather receive "American things as I think I pretty well get ahold of stuff going this side" [LHS conjectures that Mrs. A. W. might have been Anna Wickham, as H.D. comments "I knew Mrs. A.W. at one time in London and always admired your work"]; says she trys "to get all the modern stuff I hear has any power or sting"; has been "reading a good deal on the `darky' problem lately" and asks if Viola cares for Van Vechten; comments "I hear E.P. has a son?PR[Omar Pound]?. I don't hear much about it. It seems not to be any too strong and stays with a skilled nurse but I don't know. That was some time ago. It is probably with them now"; asks if Viola herars from W.C. Williams; comments "I am full of work and trying to keep `young' - have friends near, this winter, who insist on my dancing and dancing AND dancing" [LHS comment: this might be a reference to Kenneth Macpherson] (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]).

1927 March 21. Helen Wolle Doolittle dies.

1927 Spring. While in Venice, H.D. inscribes a copy of Hugh A. Douglas' VENICE ON FOOT (London : Methuen, 1925).

1927 May l(?). H.D., Bryher, and Kenneth Macpherson in Venice; events written about in "Narthex (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 59)..

1927 May. Bryher and Kenneth Macpherson in Berlin; Bryher meets Sigmund Freud (Friedman. DLB 45:133) (Friedberg. Writing about cinema, p. 344).

1927 May. In "A Poet's Novel," Alyse Gregory reviews PALIMPSEST in THE DIAL, v. 82, p. 417-419.

1927 June. Bryher divorces Robert McAlmon.

1927 June 6. H.D. writes to Viola Jordan; asks her to let her know of the films she sees--"I am now intensely interested"; refers to doing critical work for the forthcoming publication, CLOSE-UP; comments that she understands that the German and Austrian films are badly cut and distorted in the States; says they get [in Switzerland?] all the big American productions and mentions THE BIG PARADE and QUO VADIS; comments that though there are fine houses in London there are not always enough good movies; says "Yes. I do care. I feel it is the living art, the thing that WILL count but that is in danger now from commercia; and popular sources"; she will send a copy of the new paper in a few weeks; comments that she has still shorter hair--"I think it so much more comfortable and nice" (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]).

1927 June 27. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; writes postcard to George Plank; comments on doing regular critical work for CLOSE-UP; will try to send him the first number; mentions subscription costs; hopes to be in London in a few weeks; has heard from both Untermeyers [who have apparently separated]; asks if he received POOLREFLECTION which she sent him (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]).

1927 July - 1933 December. CLOSE UP published; it first ran monthly then changed to quarterly; advertised itself as "An International Magazine Devoted to Film Art"; financed by Bryher who also organized the business details and assisted Kenneth Macpherson with the editing (Hanscombe & Smyers, WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES, p. 195).

1927 August 23. H.D. in London at 169 Sloane Street; writes to George Plank; thanks him for coming the day before; gives her phone no. as Sloane 3835; tells him that Bryher and Kenneth's phone no. is Sloiane 5510 and that their address is 45 Parkside, Knightsbridge; says she has a little Swiss maid named Sophie who does not speak English; comments "You are a curious link with the past and that is perhaps why I am sometimes off-hand and shy about seeing you. But since you have seen Br and K., I feel you are with me in the present too and that very rare future which I feel is K's inheritance" (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]).

1927. September. "Conrad Veidt: the Student of Prague" appears in CLOSE UP

1927 September 1. Bryher marries Kenneth Macpherson in the Registry Office in Chelsea.

1927 September 17. H.D. writes to Viola Jordan; letter headed from 169 Sloane St., London; this is a very tactfully worded and carefully typed letter which H.D. says she has dictated to a friend [LHS suspects it was actually written by Bryher]; says she is frightfully busy on a new book which has to be done before Winter; thanks her for her subscription and comments on the quality of their equipment (mentions Kleig lamps--says they have the best camera--all of the equipment cost around $4,000); says "our photographer who is an expert on all technical points of photo~graphy is very scornful of the obvious lighting in most American filkms. He achieved some wonderful effects with shadow and half-lights"; comments tha she appreciates Viola's candid criticim [of films] in her letters and that she has shown them to the ditor of CLOSE UP who wants to print exerpts from them; very tactfully explains why she is returning a rejected contribution by William Carlos Williams which Viola has apparently sent for consideration for CLOSE UP; says "My dear Viola, we appreciate you sending us the Williams article but I want you to understand a rather delicate situation in the matter of accepting it. I am sure you will. And I need only explain that Williams is a great friend of McAlmon, who recently was divorced from Bryher, our sub-editor and it makes a slightly awkward situation. So you must not be hurt that I send it back. Much as I like the article there is a further complication in the fact that McAlmon and Williams ran Contact magazine together and as Contact passed on to publishing we do not want to have POOL books in any way linked up in the public mind with this" (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]).

1927 November. Bryher and Kenneth Macpherson in Berlin; Bryher meets Hanns Sachs (Friedberg. Writing about cinema, p. 344).

1928 (end) - 1928 (Spring). Production of FOOTHILLS (POOL film) in which H.D. appears; filmed in studio at Clarens, Switzerland (data compiled from Autobiographical Notes; confusion about details in Friedberg. Writing about cinema, p. l34-138, 344). In a letter to George Plank (June 12, 1928) H.D. describes the plot this: "a dame from the city (H.) comes to the country village for rest ... all the complications of village life and gossip and a sort of idealistic encounter with the young intelligent lout who is K. in Vaudois farm clothes" (unpubl. letter.)

1928. THE USUAL STAR written in London (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 57)..

1928. HEDYLUS was printed by the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-Upon-Avon for Basil Blackwell, Oxford and published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin.

1928. "Narthex" published in THE SECOND AMERICAN CARAVAN: A YEARBOOK OF AMERICAN LITERATURE in New York by Macaulay.

1928. Perdita attends Brickwell.

1928 January 3. H.D. at Riant Chatteau, Territet; writes postcard to Viola Jordan; thanks her for film magazines but suggests that she not send any more as they "have been following all the magazines for years"; comments that they "have not approached the thing I assure you in an amateurish manner. There is NOTHING that comes by way of Hollywood that we don't see as we have special correspoindent there too" (H.D. to Viola Jordan, [unpubl. letter]).

1928 March 26. Date of adoption order of Frances Perdita Macpherson; ordered by High Court of Justice, Chancery Division; registered on May 11, l928.

1928 March 29. H.D. in Switzerland?; writes to George Plank; mentions that she has had a week in Venice; mentions a book of Isadora Duncan [MY LIFE]; asks if he saw her dance and says "I did in youth and was indirectly, through friends, in a way in touch with her ideas ... so this was a queer sort of adventure, this "my life" sort of thing of the Duncan. If one didn't know people who had met people who had known Isadora, perhaps it wouldn't have been any fun at all. As it was, I was feverishly excited ... though all her ideas and that 'posturing' seems so effete, so old-fashioned now"; refers to Kenneth and Bryher being there off and on; then a casual house party for Christmas; then they went off to Paris and she to Venice; refers to Kenneth's trying to finish a film; says "they have now a tiny little cameo of a studio and a very good small but clear and smooth 'projector' and various impedimenta of that sort"; CLOSE UP is being well received; asks what he knows of THE FILM GUILD of New York (Kenneth and Bryher getting mixed information); refers to attempts to get GAUNT ISLAND published in America; comments that Kenneth apparently asked a fee which publishers seem to consider "infra dig"; comments "Why plumbers are paid and not poets has always been a problem ... not that I worry for I never did take up the cudgels for AHRT for AHRTS sake. I believe in beauty and such work as Kenneths and such ideals as yours and mine and the ravens do feed people of the 'salt' of the earth variey [sic]" (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]).

1928 April 26. H.D. in Switzerland; writes postcard to George Plank; is sending him MY LIFE; comments that she thinks that the book was sent to her to review but she doesn't see her way to doing so; tells him to keep it until her return to London, probably about the middle of June; says it seems to be authentic; refers to the Damrosch orchestra in Philadelphia; Kenneth and Bryher are there now; says "Gardens are important, Mine now is apple and white lilac and wysteria-colured wysteria. Also red tulips and red geraniums to match ... wrong but exotic and making summer a reality" (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]).

1928 May/June. H.D. lends flat at 169 Sloane St, which has been closed since the winter, to Ezra and Dorothy Pound (Collecott notes from EP/H.D. correspondence in the Pound Archive, Beinecke).

1928 May 11. Registration date of Perdita's adoption by Bryher and Kenneth Macpherson; registered at General Register Office, Sonmerset House, London.

1928 June 12. H.D. in Switzerland; writes to George Plank; begins with phiosophical discourse on aging and spending time with younger people; remarks that she is sending "snips" of negatives from film (which she calls "silver-shadow") of herself and Kenneth; discusses the plot and the making of FOOTHILLS; comments "There is a great handicap in the quota law, and certain taxes (exorbitant) on foreign film. Ours is "foreign" in that it was made abroad thougfh all the staff is English"; mentions possibility of showing it in Paris; says she may go to Berlin for two weeks at the beginning of July; afterwards she hopes to be in London; has heard from Pound who has asked her to get a job for John Cournos who is in Geneva--says she was "MAD" and wrote Pound "a fresh and rather undignified letter" which she fears has been forwarded to Cournos; comments "as an experiment that is an actual work of extreme beauty, this Foothills is really unique. And O, the glory of escape through another medium"; comments that Bryher and Kenneth now have a small projector which she spends hours working alone when they arte away; inquires as whether Plank knows if Jean Starr Untermeyer is in Berlin now (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]).

1928 November. Bryher begins analysis with Hanns Sachs (Friedman (DLB 45:133) (Friedberg. Writing about cinema, p. 346 ). [Friedman no longer certain about November--Heart to Artemis indicates that it began much earlier in 1928, continuing through the summer and on until 1932].

1928 November. H.D. has an abortion in Berlin (Friedman (DLB 45:132) (Autobiographical notes). [Note: LHS has seen references in Bryher/H.D./Macpherson correspondence (as well as references to the usage of a Haire ring). Hollenberg has found two 1928 letters from Macpherson to H.D. from Berlin to London with direct references to abortion with plans being made by Hanns Sachs; refers to a V.S. (female) [?] who has encouraged H.D. to carry it to term.]

1928 (late). H.D. sees Richard Aldington and Brigit Patmore in Paris after they had seen D.H. Lawrence at Port-Clos; she inquires after Lawrence and they "shook their heads and pronounced him an omelet made of bad eggs, or something of the sort"; it is at this time that H.D. learns that Aldington had destroyed (burnt) the letters from him and Lawrence which she had led left stored in a suitcase in the basement at Mecklenburgh Square; H.D. later commented that "It was at this time, that I was working or beginning work on Pilate's Wife. for I remember in Paris, Richard's speaking of the title, `in itself, it should sell the book'" ("Compassionate Friendship", p. 61).

1928 December 8. H.D. in Berin (?); sends postcard to George Plank; says "greeting from 'that Bad City' from which I (do you wonder) am now fleeing Swisserward" (H.D. to GP, [unpubl. letter]).

1928 December 25. H.D. at Riant Chateau, Territet; Perdita joins her from Brickwell; Stephen Guest is there as well (Auto~bio~gra~phical notes).


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