Louis Silverstein's H.D. Chronology, Part Five (May 1946-April 1949)

H.D. Chronology: Part V

1946 May. H.D. taken to Seehof, Privat Klinik Brunner, Kusnacht (on Lake Zurich), near Zurich by Dr. Denis Carroll, arranged for by Bryher and Walter Schmideberg, who preceeded H.D. to Kusnacht.

1946 May 13. According to a letter from H.D. to Ezra Pound, this the date that H.D. left London (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter, 22/9/48], Lilly Library).

1946 June 11. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; (addressed at top to him c/o The American Embassy, 1 Grosvenor Square, London W.l England); has just received a postcard from Mexico (Oaxaca); didn't get to Bryn Mawr after all but she has brought her notes with her and is continuing her work; describes her setting: "I am in a fabulously romantic 18th Century Manor House, with garden to match; the roses are especially beautiful and most of them have been brought from Versailles ..."; asks him to write again and not to forget a "stack of cards" [?] which he promised her; says "I am staying on here, as the change is re-making me altogether"; though she was disappointed about Bryn Mawr, she was cheered on receiving THE FLOWERING OF THE ROD; says "I am so glad that you suggested the title to me" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1946 June 22. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Silvia Dobson; says she is happy and is being taken on walks through the gardens; says she is "continuing my Writing on the Wall, this second volume, like the first, you remember, is a tribute to Sigmund Freud; H.D. goes on to say " Things seem so much better now, don't they. since the ending of the war, three months ago. I feel now, we will all be much happier and able to continue our writing in real content & security" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 448-449).

1946 July 4 thinks it is "4th" but photocopy is poor and original will have be checked?. Publication date of THE FLOWERING OF THE ROD (date from a copy of the Review List in Pearson's letters from H.D.)

1946 August 21. Bryher writes to Silvia Dobson from Kenwin: "Hilda is much better but the doctor is very anxious for her to remain out here in the sanitorium for the winter. She is having a consultation with another doctor from outside about Sept lst, and then we shall know more. With conditions as they are in England, I do hope Hilda will be sensible and stay here. She got a medical permit to remain from the British Consulate"; Bryher also tells Silvia that Lowndes Square has been let to a Mrs. Irwin, a friend of her mother's (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 454-455).

1946 September 5. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; says "the grape-vine and the Virginia creeper that frame my windows, remind me of all the beautiful things we share together"; says she is comfortable and delighted with everything around her; refers to an edition of Grimm which Pearson had sent to her (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1946 September 12. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Norah Dobson; describes her setting as "a beautiful 18 century manor house with a huge garden"; says she is allowed to help with the garden by repotting slips for next Spring; reminiscences about incidents at Woodhall (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 456-457).

1946 September 19 - November 1. "The Guest" section of BY AVON RIVER written (Friedman. DLB 45:138) (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 29).

1946 September 20. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; "I can never, never thank you, and my frenzy was due entirely to the separation and anxiety. I gave up writing and had the London note-books destroyed here. It is true what you said: I had gone too far with the table and all that, and what happened then, is fortunately clear fixation - dissolved not completely"; comments that no one except Perdita seemed to matter very much when she lost touch with Bryher and that "it must not happen ever, ever again" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). In another letter to Bryher, dated the same day, H.D. writes "there is so much to live for. I was never really afraid, until the `shock treatment', then I was so damned mad. I sort of got well, so perhaps that was good, too" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1946 September 21 (?). H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; "Please do not be afraid of infection, my letters are gone over, before sending out from Canton. You would not receive them, if there were any germ of any sort" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). Later the same day: H.D. apparently is expecting a visit (or rescue attempt?) from Bryher and Walter Schmindeberg "Come right up to my room. The Bear knows the way. Park the car where you can keep an eye on it. I am ready & waiting, only trying to round up the 3 rugs and some precious washing that be "too late", in return. Please stand no nonsense. Trll the Bear to bring his gun and some extra gun-men, if necessary. I had a sort of "shock-treatment." They locked me in the bed-room, with window & shutters barred. There were 5 of us, 3 hefty men and a nurse. One of the men left with the nurse, when I refused an injection. I thought they were trying to kill me. I suppose this is "dementia praecox." I begged for a few minutes. An enormous prize-fighter, weighing a ton, ordered me to lie down on the bed. I refused & tried to dodge them. I have been severely shocked: if that is what they wanted to do, they succeeded. It was worse or "better" than the most lurid film. They spotted my sheets with some sort of real or chemical "urine". I did not find this until long after mid-night, when I opened the bed. The stench was frightful--"bed-wetting" child memories, I presume! I must leave here. They did not kill me. I refused food, as I was heart-broken about you & pup, so then, I suppose they wrote me up as "paranoia" or "schiz." and for a time I lived on your coffee and cigarettes. I do not know why I am here. There is T.B. on the towels. I am also apparently mad. However, we will laugh soon & I feel, dear Fido, I can now discuss with you intelligently, the Tibetan Book of the dead (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1946 September 23. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; "You may think that I am, mad, but I am pretty certain that this apartment is wired throughout - in fact, I think all of Seehof is"; reflects on the trip over: "I thought of Lost Horizon, all the 10 hours out, for this might have been Tibet, for all I knew"; indicates that at some point she thought Bryher was dead; says "Fido - you must not come here. They may trap us both & then I would never be free. Trust no one [underlined twice] (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1946 September 24. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Dr. Denis Caroll (28 Weymouth St., London W.1) [LHS note: this letter, which is written in pencil on lined paper from a school exercise book was found among the H.D. papers and may be a draft which possibly was never sent]; thanks him for his "great help and kindness to me in London, and for bringing me to this lovely Seehof"; comments that Dr. Brunner sees her twice a day; describes her room (large and panelled); has spent time in the garden and taken little excursions with Dr. Brunner; comments "I did feel a little depressed after my illness, but I am sure there will be better conditions altogether, since the war ended three months ago"; hopes to meet him again in London (Collecott Notes, not seen by LHS).

1946 September 25. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; "I am so glad I destroyed the note books. I want now to keep on the rails; later, perhaps some authentic dreams with the Professor's letters, but even that can wait. The Writing saved my life in Corfu, in Vienna & and now here. All, inspired by darling Fido (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1946 September 26. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; has visit from Bryher and Walter Schmideberg, then begins writing letters. Writes to Bryher; "I could find a little place in Lausanne, quite apart from you all, & make new friends. All the war years, Fido, I stood aside, so that you could see people in the flat and be along [?] with friends as well downstairs, in the little room. Now, I am no longer needed. I could weep for the mistakes I have made, but you are free now, & I spent 30 years of my life trying to give you freedom. I am not free?" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). In another letter to Bryher, dated the same day and giving the Lowndes Square address, H.D. writes: "Dr. Brunner said that he knew I had been "treated" there [London] and in Vienna. I replied that Professor Sigmund Freud received no "invalids" at that time, 1932-1934. The Professor had refused, you remember even to consider certain candidates, who wished to study with him. He said, he liked working with creative artists, & I was there soley [sic] as a student of psychology and a friend. I then went on to explain that owing to the Professor's grave illness, I continued the research work with Dr. Walter Schmideberg; with the thought of a coming war, I wished to prepare myself, in case of therapeutic emergency" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). In still another letter to Bryher, written on the same date, H.D. says with regard to Dr. Denis Carroll?PRThis name and spelling should be checked?: "Will you find out on whose authority he took over the case? He came in only 6 times in 2 months & gave the impression of being in complete control. I thought the telephone wire was cut, in my room, as messages were never given to me. Neither letters nor were personal callers admitted. I realized there was some sort of revolt ur revolution, as there was confusion at all hours, gun-shots, police dogs & whistles & the infiltration of nasuous gas-fumes. I am ready to appear as witness in this case, here or in England. My break-down was due: (1) to anxiety as to your welfare (2) bomb repercussion & possible percussion (3) famine neurosis (4) superimposition of last war illness & anxiety about birth & future of Perdita (5) infiltration of poisonous gas (6) injections to induce hysteria (7) after-effects of the same. Clearance must be made, re physical health & sanity. Charge of insanity is libelous & law in England can be very strict in these matters. Charge of insanity would affect future will or wills, securities, my public carreer [sic] as writer & lecturer & my daughter's whole inheritance, material & spiritual" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). On the same date H.D. writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; says "I want you to know that I am making every effort to get away from here"; thinks that much mail was never delivered to her; wants to get back to London, perhaps making the lecture tour after all; does not want to get stuck in Bryn Mawr; says "I was very ill for 2 months in London, cerebral menengitis that was precipitated by the fact that I came across Bryher, lying unconscious (or dead, for all I knew) in her bed, in that little bed-room. She had talked of suicide from the earliest days, when she came to see me, before Perdita was born. She tried it, Spring 1920 in Zermatt, where I was completely cut off & helpless with a stranger, a Miss Wallace, whom Bryher had asked along, to do some typing for us. I was always afraid she would make away with herself during the Blitz. Then, one terrible night she injected herself & lay moaning on the same bed. There is no doubt that we were both a little crazy but I do not yet fully know why I was brought to this place. I was here 4 or 5 months enduring shock treatment of a most pernicious nature. My papers were taken away, I was locked up without food or water & injected with - I don't know what. To-day, for the first time in 7 [?]Despite implications of Robert Herring's letter to Bear, LHS is wondering if Bryher did go to America after all and return to find H.D. in the throes of the break-down and if H.D. finding Bryher unconscious as she described was a hallucination, created to explain Bryher's absence by H.D.'s hysteric mind. Much, much work needs to be done this. Perhaps the Bryher/Pearson correspondence will help us here.? months, I saw Bryher with Walter Schmideberg. She seemed well and happy. I don't understand it at all. The flight alone, after 2 months in bed, was enough to kill one. It was my first day up, & after a long moter-run, I was [bundled?] into a curious plane by a Doctor whom I scarcely knew. It took us 10 hours to get here instead of the usual 2"; mentions all the letters which she wrote which she thinks were never sent out then asks "Could you send P. a wire & say I am all right, that I hope to get to London, then USA, to see her. I am sure Bryher meant it all for the best. Please do not disallusion [sic] her" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

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

1946 October 2. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; "About loss of memory, Fido darling, that is a pure myth. I remember everything, painful as it is" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). Also writes postcard to Silvia Dobson; refers to "continual censorship" but implies that is over; is looking towards moving on, near Bryher (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 458-459).

1946 October 5. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; says "Everything is different since I saw you, September 26 - I shall always remember it - September is so full of hopes and tender memories" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1946 October 6. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; "Do not worry about Voices, Fido dear. That is all over now. But there is still the common-or-garden voice of inspiration & of Love - may I keep that? I did go too far. You were quite right. Are you afraid of me, Fido? I won't live with you any more. I only need your help to get away from here, then, I will make some arrangements of my own, through Aldington or the Bryn Mawr or the Friends' Central people or my brother. I love & appreciate all you have done for me in the past - but the future is yours to do with what you will. The Bear & you can go on together. I thought the Bear liked me - I seem to be mistaken ... Has the Bear, too, some phobia about me? Dear God - why don't you explain this? I am ready to vanish quite out of your lives. Would that make you happier?" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1946 October 8. Bryher writes to H.D.; explains "When you were so very ill in London you seemed to worry whenever I was there, so Dr. Carroll said I must not be with you then or write, but all the time I was in touch with Dr. Brunner to how you were. I wrote the moment it was felt you were well enough for letters" (Morris NOTES from Bryher's letters to H.D., not seen by LHS).

1946 October 10. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; has apparently heard from Bryher that she is planning a trip to London and H.D.is obviously upset (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1946 October 15. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; "I am now "paying guest" and no longer "invalid" - official! It makes a great difference to my peace of mind"; has been working on "The Body's Guest"; asks what Bryher thinks of the title for a general resume for 100 Elizabethan poets; refers to a book with notes which are full of references to Professor Schelling whom H.D. says she had in a superficial "Teacher's course"; says she can use "The Body's Guest" for lectures; says she began the essay in January though she hadn't the temerity to deal with the whole of them; comments "I feel now, the whole (almost) of poetry following Herrick, is a reflex or reflection or simply the crest of the wave, broken, spreading & loosing its intensity"; says she hopes she is not "trespassing" on Bryher's "period" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). Also writes to Silvia Dobson; states "I thought I was forgotten by the great world. But Bryher now writes, the Doctor (Carroll) who brought me out, thought a complete break with all past associations was good for a time. I was really very angry when I found out. I thought Churchill censorship, at the time, caused loss or delay of letters, & when I did write, I was under the impression that there was still strict censorship, so I kept to impersonal descriptions of house, gardens, etc."; has been promoted from "patient" to "paying guest; will be there for a few weeks longer, as Bryher is shutting Kenwin for the Winter and they will go into a pension in Lausanne; says "I finished a poem sequence about Stratford just before I came out" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 463-464A).

1946 October 17. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; refers to "The Body's Guest" and says "Compared to Edith it sounds very unsophisticated, but it is not meant to be too profound & subtle - just the most obvious lovely things strung together (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1946 October 18. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; refers to "The Body's Guest" and says "I want to dedicate it to Bryher. The dates will be September 19 - 1946/November l9, 1946, as a tribute to your coming to Kusnacht. See that you do get back to Zurich for the 19th (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1946 October 22. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; says that she expects to there another month; asks him to thank Susan [Pearson] for having had Perdita there in the Summer; comments on writings by the Sitwells; comments that "Fortunately I did some rough notes on Elizabethan poets, before I read her [Edith Sitwell] FANFARE [FOR ELIZABETH], otherwise, I would be afraid to touch the period. But as it is, I got the greatest comfort in re-assembling the 100 poets of the period & a few, before & after- about 50 in all. It has turned out quite a formidable title resum? & I want to publish it. I call it The Body's Guest & quote Raleigh on what I hope will, some day, be the title-page ... I hope my "arrant" may not be quite thankless. In any case my work on the lecture notes gave me an incentiive, in the early part of 1946, I got so excited - I expect I over-did things, as usual. Well, it earned me this holiday at any rate" mentions that in another month she expects to be at the Alexandria Hotel, Lausanne; asks after literary people ("Wilder, Ben?t & [Robert?] Sherwood whose There shall be no night helped us so, in London (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1946 October 28. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; refers to A LITTLE TREASURY OF MODERN POETRY which Bryher has sent and asks Bryher to tell Marianne Moore "that, though steeped in 16th century, at the time of reading her four long contributions, these 20th century poems were not diminiished by comparison. It is a great test, I think"; comments that "It is so difficult to pick up the threads, once one lays MSS aside, as I have found out, to my cost"; has returned to working on tapestry: "Now, I am so entranced with the tapestry, it gives me back precious hours at Lowndes with Pup reading & you polishing! I cannot thank you enough. I work slowly & it comforts me so!" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1946 November 1. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; "I was a little shocked to find that my London note-books had not been destroyed. I gave them over all crossed out to young Dr. B - I asked in the Bureau if they had been burnt & they told me, they had given them to Bear. I hope you did not read them. I was working on a subconscious fantasy & intended to change all names etc. & turn it into a dream of the Id bubbling up into the consciousness. It did not seem to time to do it, all too recent, so I decided to scrap it after making some excerps [sic]. I used some of the early notes & the Viking sequence & our trip to Greece. Dowding came in, too, as Arthur had rathered featured "work" to be done, but he always said, not in England. Well, I think Arthur was right in that. I have heard from Lord D. & he sent me his last, "Gods Magic". the same sort of thing. It is still a mystery about Z. - apparently his Z. has "helped" him but it is not, as you once said, our sort of work. I would like to talk about this to Arthur sometime" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1946 November 2. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Bryher; "I have finished The Body's Guest. Sept. 19 - Nov. 1 are the dates I give "To Bryher." Now, I will have all the fun of verifying the dates and so on" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1945 November 9. Norman Holmes Pearson writes to H.D. that Perdita had visited the Pearsons the previous weekend for her first taste of American football--"looked absolutely brimming with health and good spirits, having just graduated from her DuBarry Success School, where for the past six weeks she has evidently been pummeled and dieted and given minute instructions on voice, carriage, and the tinting of her lips. The results are quite ravishing, and she was full of tales of lost weight, slendered waist, and diminished thighs. It has given her a lot of confidence in herself, and was pychologically a stroke of genius on her part. Now she wants to attend a secretarial school and become one of the workers of the world (although not politically of course). At any rate she is now a demon for fruit, juice, cold carrots and cabbage, and nibbles her dry biscuits with a pardonable pride in the results"; they had a few people in whom Perdia had known overseas (NHP to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1946 November 7. Bryher writes to H.D.; "You know, I am getting divorced from Kenneth, was in the middle of this when you were taken ill" (Morris NOTES from Bryher's letters to H.D. not seen by LHS).

1946 November 19. H.D. at Klinik Kusnacht; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; thanks him for his letter and "the very funny description of Perdita" who "has told me nothing of all this"; thanks Pearson for his offer to help with finding a publisher for "The Body's Guest; asks if he kows anyone on Atlantic Monthly (old [Logan] Pearsall Smith was her last link with it); comments on Bryher's difficulties in getting published and tells Pearson of BEOWULF; says "I thought L. & L. would do it but she will elbow herself out of the magazine"; she will see Bryher tomorrow, who writes that she has a car to move H.D. to Lausanne; speculates that they will stop in Berne for lunch (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1946 November 27. NHP writes to H.D.; reports that Perdita began her studies at the Moon Secretarial School the day before; says he is relieved that Pup wants to work as well has continue to write her novels (NHP to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1946 November (20 or 21) - 1947 April. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel Alexandra.

1946 November 22. H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; is visited by Bryher and Elsie Volkert (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 467).

1946 November 23. H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; spent two wonderful days in Z?rich with Bryher prior to coming to Lausanne; saw an exhibition of Austrian paintings in Z?rich--had seen many of the pictures in Vienna in l933-1934 during her work with the Professor; Bryher & Elsie Volkart & three dogs (Claudi, Taro, & Fifi) are five minutes away by trolley bus; is writing while having elevenses in a wonderful tea-room., "Cafe Croisant:; plans to go see Bryher and Elsie Volkart the next day; has "a lovely room with a balcony. It looks out on the Scottish or Scotch Church, a pretty little steepled Swiss building"; has heard at last from Kenneth who may be coming over in the Spring (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 465-468).

1946 December 5. H.D. in Lausanne at the Alexandra Hotel; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; sends her last passport photograph ("another Doolittle relic"); says "I can not tell you how comforting it is, to be `on the shelf' at Yale"; is getting a new typewriter in the new year and will send another manuscript then; expects to get to London in the Spring and will then sort over manuscripts; is happy that Bryher will be shelved wwith her; referss to Bryher's having done "a most scholarly day-by-day resum? of certain Elizabethan periods"; refers to a Mrs. Carrick who came to see her being anxious to have the Freud notes--she is puzzled by this--says that this is the third time the notes have been asked for; describes her surroundings--"It is lovely, so old yet so fresh & stimulating, a romantic European University town left, an oasis, in the midst of desolation"; says she would like a flat there but she still has another year to go on her lease at Lowndes Square; Bryher is only a half hour walk from the hotel "& I see her almost every day"; says there are good fiilms & music & libraries nearby; thanks him for his news of Perdita and for having helped her get to the Moon Secretarial School; refers to the plate which Pearson has sent her saying that if she had not already had a bookplate, that one should have been it--and comments "I never felt quite `at home' with the two I had"; the plate was by an eighteenth century Doolittle and was intended to illustrate the convexity of the earth and its effect on vision--H.D. comments "I feel very important with such distinguished relatives. I am sure you must be a long-lost cousin. Do look yourself up, carefully!" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1946 December 7. H.D. in Lausanne at the Alexandra Hotel; writes two postcards to Susan and Norman Holmes Pearson; comments that she and Bryher are quite gay with Nativity plays and concerts (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1946 December 8. NHP writes to H.D.; gives H.D. a further description of the Doolittle engraving which he had sent her in his previous letter--quote: ?IP5,5?Doolittle, Amos. "Plate to Shew the Figure of the Earth" Doolittle sc. N.H. (New Haven). (Boston, 1790). Rare. From the First American Geography, Second Edition (not in First). Human figures sit at the Poles, one of whom is observing the effect of the earth on the visibility of three Ships, located respectively in the Artic, opposite Scandinavia, and at the equator (this one has passed beyond his vision). A beautiful anachronism,, conveying its idea exceedingly well, by means of a degree of exaggeration which has no part of text-book illustrations for, say, a hundred years. The figures are 1000 miles tall"; Pearson also tells H.D. that Pantheon Press has turned down the Freud book because of its prior circulation in LIFE AND LETTERS; thinks he will try Vangard next; says he is upset at the Oxford Universuty Press as they have issued the American edition of THE FLOWERING OF THE ROD in the the same paper boards as the English edition, instead of having them properly bound as were the other two volumes, and are charging the high price of $2.00 (NHP to H.D. [unpubl. letter]).

1946 December 14. H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; has visits to Montreux once or twice a week; is reading French and German again (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 469-470).

1946 December 20. H.D. in Lausanne at the Alexandra Hotel; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; seems to be thanking Pearson for a book on folk art which has arrived that morning (apparently a book on Pennsylvania, the first of a series of folk art designs search from the WPA project); sounds as if Bryher will shortly leave for New York as H.D. is urging Pearson to see Bryher in New York; comments that "Bryher says the one person in USA, on whose opinion she depends, is one N.P."; comments on the Freud volume--"I don't really care if the book does not appear. The record will be safe on my shelf at Yale"; Bryher has begun to talk of finishing her pre-Norman romance; comments that the last time she saw Thornton Wilder was with Stein, Toklas, and Basket at Kenwin; comments that she meets Bryher "almost every day in a fabulous, wooden old `Pennsylvania' bakery for chocolate & an inch of whipped cream & ambrosia croisants" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1946 December 21. H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; is writing from the "Cafe Croisant"; thanks Silvia for gift of King Penguins, including a "lily-book"; is going to have a goose at Pully on the 25th; Norman Douglas is now in Capri (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 461, 471-473).

1947 - 1948 Summer. "White Rose and the Red" written. (Friedman. DLB 45:139) (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 50a).

1947 January 2. H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; may have been reading Hesse: H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; 'I do think that the stars are right, when they say Virgo folk have the very best, after 50. I count out the 10 years, pre-war, war & just after, as that was a cosmic calamity. You will get tired of my harping on H.H. but I am able to loose [sic] myself in the Dichter and Marchen & he is quite un-spoiled by association with the 20ies & 30ies. I prefer the 40s, in spite of all our terrible trials, & I am sure now we are being rewarded" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1947 January 13. H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; comments that she has heard from May Sarton that she had arranged an H.D. reading at Harvard--feels flattered and that she would like to do it; feels envious at the bradcasts that Edith Sitwell has been making; has heard from Bryher who is in America and hopes that Pearson will get to see her; comments on the Bryn Mawr [or Briarcliff?] article on William Carlos Williams--remembers his mother so well and recalls having played a duet with her (possibly Mozart) once when she had gone with Ezra to the Williams home (Williams apparently refers to H.D. in the article)--also recalls Williams having performed the role of Polonius in a Mask and Wig production of HAMLET (dressed in mixed purples and wore a beard)--also recalls having spent "a short time" at a party at Point Pleasaant with the Lambertons [this probably refers to the time in mid-June 1906 when H.D. almost drownwed]; has heard from Viola Jordan that Dorothy Pound is near and that the other child [Mary de Rachewiltz] was being married to a Russian-Italian; thanks Pearson for his suggestion re the trilogy and asks if he will christen it as he did THE FLOWERING OF THE ROD--cooments that on the whole she is pleased with the three especially the last; has been "boiling down some old notes; Bryher writes that Perdita may be coming baback on a "flip" with--H.D. objects to the use of the word "flip"; recalls Francis Wolle and his toy theatre [as later described by Wolle in A MORAVIAN HERITAGE]; comments that she must get "The Guest" copied for Pearson (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1947 January 13. H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; Robert Herring has been in Lausanne on the way to Zermatt; Bryher has gone to New York, via Azores and Canada--is due back with Perdita in February (booked to leave January 27)--Perdita only staying a short time; is reading Hermann Hesse; goes up in the hills, 1/2 hour outside Lausanne, to walk at Chalet-en-Gahot [this may not be spelled right, difficult to make out] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 477-479).

1947 January 19. H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; "I can not tell you what the sun was like, with black, but black silouette [sic] shadows - it is so long since I have seen sun and shadow like that. The shadows are like black-crystal too" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1947 January 17. Bryher writes to H.D.: "They have fixed my divorce for the 20th Feb. and am booked to Geneva the 21st" (Morris notes, letter not seen by LHS).

1947 February 13. H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; Perdita expects to get to Lausanne on the 19th; wanders around an estate just above the hotel, called Mon Repos (where Voltaire and other celebrities stayed)--there are aviaries and an orangery; is reading M. V. Hughes LONDON FAMILY (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 480-483).

1947 February 20. Bryher divorces Kenneth Macpherson (data deduced from Bryher's letter of January l7, 1947; to be verified).

1947 February 29. H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; has the loan of a typewriter; has read "a most interesting ps-a book, called Dark Dominion, by Marianne Hauser, published Random House, N.Y. ... about a Swiss girl who marries her analyst with dire results, but so well told, one feels one is having analysis oneself, all the time"; talks of future plans to go to the Tessin, to Lugana [sic] which is right on the edge of Italy (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 485-486). Writes to Viola Jordan; has received peanuts and communications from Viola; refers to finances of Marianne Moorend her mother; tells Viola that a friend {Bryher?} had settled money on them and that she herself unsuccessfully tried to help them before the War; comments "there is absolutely nothing we can do this end. It is no good forcing money on them, if they won't spend it. We have had distressing accounts of the situation from various people"; says "tell the person who asked you you write me, that an ADEQUATE allowance was given over, years ago. It is of course, possible that they just took the money for the sake of avoiding argument and but it in the bank, and have never touched it ..." [LHS note--is it possible that Pound asked Viola to write--this letter is one of the ones that Viola sent on to Pound]; says "I hear she won't eat because her mother is on a strict diet and she will eat only what her mother is allowed to have- ..." (H.D. to V.J., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library).

1947 March 18. H.D. at the Alexandra Hotel, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to plans to travel about the Tessin; hopes to leave about April 9 and spend one night in Lucerne; Perdita still in Lausanne (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 487-489).

1947 April - 1947 December(?). H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva.

1947 April. Bryher moves back to Kenwin from Chemin des Plateires, Pully, Vaud (Morris NOTES).

1947 April. Parts of BY AVON RIVER published in LIFE AND LETTERS TO-DAY.

1947 April. Kenneth Macpherson joins Norman Douglas and lives with him on Capri (Macpherson. OMMES EODEM COGIMUR : SOME NOTES WRITTEN FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF NORMAN DOUGLAS ...); by August they had moved into the Villa Tuoro, situated on Tuoro or Telegrafo hill, overlooking the Certosa (Holloway, NORMAN DOUGLAS, p. 475).

1947 April 27. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; is writing from Saipa Paticceria; describes the Hotel Minerva as being on a slope above the town; ; is exploring the towns parched on the slopes of Monte Br? and San Salvatore; has been to Grandia the previous day; Bryher is back at Kenwin and Mrs. Ash is visiting there; H.D. rides the post buses which deliver the mail and take passengers along toout of the way villages (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 492-495). Also writes to Bryher; [Asks Bryher for papers]" There are three rather shabby note-books, the first pink, the others, blue. I started "notes" in Ch. Campden and Strat., 1945. I think I call it "Unfinished Notes," if I put the three in big envelope together. It is a re-incarnation story and starts, "My name was Elizabeth Dyer . . . " I may have labelled it, "The White Stag" but that?is not the final name. I wish I could have these, as I want to type for Miss W.; will you register . . . and put your return address, as I could never re-assemble this "Dyer" story again. I have been at work getting the oher Elizabethan literary notes, too, in order" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1947 April 29. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher; "Thank you for the three Stratford note-books" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1947 May 17. H.D. writes to Silvia Dobson; has just been to Morcate (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 496-497).

1947 May 27. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher; [Asks for the typescript of SYNTHESIS OF A DREAM] "I want to make some corrections" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1947 May 29. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; plans to go to Montreux mid-July; hasn't attempted any more excursions because of Easter holiday crowds (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 498-499).

1947 June 10. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher; [Has seen Cocteau's La Belle et Le Bete] "It is directed by Cocteau and I must say, having held out against C., for so many years, I am completely wonn over. Do try to see it - wonderful photography, on the same high level as paradise and Pastral. The Beast is a wonderful Lion, done up in Eizabethan king-clothes, with great ruffs and so on. The girl is so charming. There is wonderful fantasy dream effect of the enchanted castle and at the same time, it is entirely ps-a in content" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). Writes to Viola Jordan; comments on careless handling of May Sinclair legacy--"Miss S. left E. and self and Aldington each ?50 - fifty pounds - and I heard as well, a choice of 50 books. The lawyers finally wrote me, sent me long list of books to choose from. I selected about 30, mostly presentation copies given Miss S. by people I know ..." [lists other titles]; doesn't know if Pound has been notified; refers to birth of Walter De Rachewiltz; describes her setting in Lugano at length; refers to the Cocteau film (H.D. to V.J., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library).

1947 June 16. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher; mentions that she is thinking of translating Hesse and that Richard Aldington thinks he can place the translations (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1947 June 19. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher; "THANK YOU for the lovely butterfly book. Not only is it an inspiration and a joy, but I will have all those heavenly WORDS to con over, to purr over, complete with picture-book pictures. I do thank you, Fido. Who but you would have thought of such a thing?" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1947 June 20. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher; "will you ask old Bear [Walter Schmideberg] to send me the VERY ROUGHEST jotting of the Butterfly translation - or O, Fido, if ONLY YOU WOULD DO IT. Please get it for me, as I feel I must make a little effort to present myself as the most distantly yet possible-possible transcriber of his [Hesse's] verses" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1947 June 30. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher; has received a French butterfly book from Bryher; "I mean the French does fit the creatures, there is no doubt about it, better than the German- I found the painted-lady, she is as I imagined the thistle-butterfly of the German and my, my- that isn't enough, the French call her BELLE DAME- funny isn't it-and such wonderful gem and jewel names, at least, the very words are. How odd, when French comes back with a rush like that- I do, do thank you Fido" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1947 July. Parts of BY AVON RIVER published in LIFE AND LETTERS TO-DAY.

1947 July 1. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher; "I am so busy on this new work ["The Sword went out to Sea"]. I can not tell you how funny it is, a sort of War and Peace cum The Last Days of Pompeii. Please do not mention save to the elite, the most advanced elite- as I am sort of superstituous of it. ?It will be one huge fat Vic. vol., or two or three short or long-short "novels" - I have not sent on Cuth. [Aldington] letters, as I sent him the first vol. or section, just to get an outside opinion. Much to my surprise and alarm, he said he had seen nothing like it, it was so good but - with all?proper humility - I should re-work, add here and there and make a BEST SELLER of it. I am on the second vol. now. I call them WINTERSLEEP and SUMMERDREAM- sleep and dream and so-called "reality" values contrasted. I did not want to worry you with the war part- but later, when Cuth. sends back the first MSS., I will hope that you can find time to read it. It is also re-incarnation- but on a rather mosaic or Bulwer L. Pompeii style, scenes with the players at Delphi- worked up from my Stratford experience. My dear- that too, to thank you for. This is to explain why I have not been writing more fully, lately. I just sit down and automatic-write. I feel I have a gattling-gun in my hands- whatever a gattling-gun is. It is a fight to the finish of war and peace!" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1947 July 11. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher; "I don't want any note-books now, but later, I want to sort over the old ps-a lot, and re-work some of the notes. I am glad they did not set the Professor notes up in book-form, for later, I have an idea of enlarging the first batch, and calling the whole TO-MORROW- don't you think it a good title, for a sort of autobiography- stole in in reverse, from Hitches- we don't want the hyphen, just TOMORROW. Instead of going back into time, time has got to catch up to us and especially to the professor- I am so delighted with this, Vol II, could be TOMORROW AND TOMORROW and Vol III, I leave you to guess. This idea fills me with glee" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1947 July 15. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher; is thinking of July 17th; "It is really a sort of Capri-Crete-Corfu here. Madame asked again last night about you. She would be bitterly disappointed not to see you. I have talked so much about "my cousin" and the Villa" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1947 July 17. "The Sword Went Out to Sea" finished (H.D. by Delia Alton, p. 50a).

1947 July 29. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher on a postcard with picture of path above Lugano; I can never begin to thank you, dear Fido, for showing me the "path" here - & for all the Greek & Italian journeys that this recalls. I live for the moment that I shall greet you at the station again" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1947 August 5. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; comments that "Sir Cuthbert [Aldington] sent me copy of B.B.C. broadcast he did last spring, Imagists but mostly `Aitch Day'" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1947 August 7. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; "The Story of the Glittering Plain" by William Morris . . . has been waiting for your birthday at Life and Letters office, since July 22 ... in any case, the story should be kept in the family, as the hero of Glittering Plain is called Hallblithe. I did not give you Richard's letters to read as much of them were about Morris and this fact that he himself gave me, after reading my MSS Synthesis of a Dream. I told you it was about the war-years in London. It all centered round the table and the "messages" and the story of the Viking ship that Arthur gave me. Richard to my surprise, seemed even more intrigued than I was about the Morris table and so on, and wrote me at once asking if I knew that the hero of glittering Plain was not Hal Brith but Hallblithe? It could hardly have been an accident that- as Arthur said the name, and you accepted it- then Arthur said, "yes- but they pronounce it differently." Fortunately, I wrote all that in my Synthesis, before knowing about Hallblithe. I wanted you to have the book there where we did the work and where the table still is - I hope ... Don't worry, but if poss., I would like the satisfaction of having the pile of ps-a note-books to go over. Please do not, if possible, let anyone else open. There are, as I wrote, some early pure word-reaction and long dream sequences that better be private ... This can hardly be a birthday letter - yet it is. I won't repeat what I feel about all you have done- well ... please, Fido, accept from your old Kat eternal devotion. Like Lord Brooke, Fulke Greville as is, I would have engraved on my tombstone this: `The Friend of Bryher'" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1947 August l0. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; I would like the ps-a note-books, simply, I do not like them lying around and even put away. I worked up much of them in L. and L. Freud. But if you can get them easily, will you send or bring, so that I can sort out parts I want to re-work and so that I can scrap the rest. Much of it is "private", sort of early word reaction stuff and so on, and I don't want "outside" to see it" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1947 September 10. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; Perdita and Bryher are there celebrating the birthdays; the three of them plan to go up the hills to Carona (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 510).

1947 September 17. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; "I had Joan Grant travel-book from Silvia- I will keep it for you to read here" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1947 September 18. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; "The Joan Grant "Vague Vacation" is too wonderful and I take it to lunch. I suppose the reviewers had a sort of pompous Higher Arcana idea of the Winged Ph., this is full of the funniest and most intimate details of their various little hotels in a trip in summer 1946" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1947 September 19. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 511).

1947 September 27. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; "It is sheer HEAVEN now, with mountains like lumps of clouded jade, clear jade, amber and dull red; the cloud-banks rolled up like a curtain and it is clearer and more majical than ever" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1947 Fall. "Madrigal" (BID ME TO LIVE) completed (Thorn Thicket, p. 28).

1947 October 7. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Viola Jordan; drewsribes recent Fiesta della Vendemmia amd comments that a cicle of pipers reminded her of some of the instruments that Dolmetch used to have in London; comments "I heard Dolmetch so long ago, before War I; he had three children in 17 c constumes [sic], playing pipes as I remember and one small child at one of his famous harpsicords"; has used the opportunity to send old clothes to Italy via the Red Cross as an excuse to get new ones--"they have such lovely things here and it was good to get rid of the war associations"; has been re-reading William Morris; comments: "I was flattered by a `stinging' criticism of my last book of poems. It said that H.D. was `writing down' to William Morris"; recalls "I knew people in the very early days who had known Morris and I had some curtains given me that Violet Hunt had embroiidered from an original design, I was told, that William Morris had done for her personally. I also had given me some of her old tapestry wool bit it made me rather sad to work with it. I did get a great joy out of tapestry work during those terrible waiting hours in the Blitz"; refers to the memories that October holds for her--the Hallowe'ne [sic] parties that the Snively's used to give; mentions that Margaret still lives on a Norfolk farm, thaat Muriel married a man in Honolulu or New Zealand, that de Forest is in the church in New England some~where--he had a tragic marriage (wife was eith blown off or slipped off a cliff at night and drowned), and Ethelwyn (the middle one) married a clergyman (H.D. to V.J., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library).

1947 October 14. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; gives new address as of Oct. 25 as Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; has read Joan Grant's VAGUE VACATION; has been to a vintage or vendemmia fair twice (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 512-513).

1947 November 18. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher, who is apparently in London; "This is just to welcome you to the little flat where so much happened, and which gave me my Dream or now, as per enclosed - do you not think Synthesis of a Dream might not be better as sub-title? I enclose the list of contents and I think THE SWORD WENT OUT TO SEA gives the clue and the title to Hallblithe" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1947 December(?) - 1948 July(before 11?). H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix.

1947 December 25. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks Silvia for ELYSIUM (a book by Joan Grant); Bryher is in the West Indies; has THE PAVILION by Pearl Buck (given to her by Elizabeth Ashby (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 514, 517-518).

1948. "Advent" written; later published in the 1974 edition of TRIBUTE TO FREUD (Friedman. DLB 45:134).

1948 February 3. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; discusses astrological occurences (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 519, 523-525).

1948 February 13. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; "I am reading now the new PSYCHE mags I got with this week flower-money. They do manage, in a new astonishing way, to combine or harmonize Ps-A, hard-boiled ordinary science, ultra-violet (physical and spiritual) with va.ious tit-bits [sic] of "spiritual" experience, the traditional ouija and so on" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

*1948 March 19 H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; (?). H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; asks Silvia Dobson to do a star plan (or star reading) for an unidentified individual: "I am stuck for some material for a character I know - part model for a person in a MSS that I am at work on. The original gent was born April 24, 1882 - just 3 1/2 years before myself. The place, I imagine in or around London; also refers to her writing: "I have no hope really of publishing and don't know that I am in a hurry to do this last and the one I am now on, which is London 1830-1860, during and after Crimean War" [LHS note: Silvia Dobson is not sure she has this letter is the right place--it is headed Tuesday, March 10--and the perpetual calendar says that in 1948 March 10 was a Wednesday--she could be referring to "The Sword went out to Sea' and the "White Rose and the Red"; could the "gent" be Lord Dowding? In 1947 March 10 was a Monday, but H.D. was at the Hotel Alexandria, Lausanne] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 520, 526).

1948 April 17. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; "I have a very nice Neuchatel Jean Capart little folder on "Les Hieroglyphes." I had great fun in the book-shop. Later, I would be happy to have a glimpse of the little Budge volume of glyphs; it is of course the classic and so easily spaced, but this is a very charming French story of discouvery [sic] and inspiration. I have been thinking of Joan Grant, too, and will be glad now for that story ... I am not taking them [the glyphs] too seriously, they simply come in with our work, and I was reading in the volumes during the classic table-years'" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 April 20. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; "Will Sylvia translate Adrienne's article for L. and L. or MUST I? I started a little resume of it as an article under Delia Alton (to be her first appearance)"; refers to the writing of "White Rose and the Red": has found a Swedenborgian shop and bought an edition of Heaven and Hell] "I do not think I will be tempted but I felt that if I approached in the right manner, "guidance" could be found from some of them or some related "book-shop." All this amused me so much. But have no fear - I am too deep "communicating" with the Pre-Raffs at the moment, to have time for the other. Do not be shocked at my purchase, I have enough left for some pansies for this week, but E.P. gave me this book when I was 19 and I never saw it since- it is always a help to get back a `lost book'" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 April 22. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks her for the star reading; expresses interest in seeing Silvia again, possibly in Lugano; hopes to leave on April 29 for the Hotel Minerva in Lugano [LHS Note: she didn't make it]; French edition of Bryher's BEOWULF published in Paris on April 18--apparently Bryher has been in Paris for a reception; Adrienne Monnier did a remarkable article on Bryher in the March MERCURE DE FRANCE; tells Silvia that "Fido did the vol. [Beowulf] during the early Blitz at Lowndes Square (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 527).

1948 May(?) - 1948 October 21. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva.

1948 May 3. H.D. at ?; writes to Bryher; refers to having had a letter from Joan Grant (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 May 11. H.D. at ?; writes to Bryher; "I am deep in work at Italian, of all things; I had the paper-backed Dante-set that must really show you, some of the text in French and the D. G. Rosetti [sic] Vita, so it is a giro of mixed langauges, and all this helps, as I have also a beautiful print Basel edition of Vita, with German trans. on opposite page. I felt I should know something of Dante as it comes into the Rossetti saga- a funny way to get to Dante, but it is most stimulating, seen as through their eyes and 100 years ago in London ... The book should last me some time, if I fill up the gaps as I go along; I mean, I don't want to rush it through; it is a comfort like that great tapesty pannel [sic] that I have with me and look at, though I have done no stitching. This Rossetti "true tale" should not be hurried. Anyhow, I have done no "writing" since here, just working with great joy at my languages" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 May 13. H.D. at ?; writes to Bryher; comments "I have such a lot of reading to do before I go on with the Red Rose" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 May 14. H.D. at ?; writes to Bryher; "Please do not worry over RED ROSE; it is good however that you find it authentic, as you are infallable [sic] on that kind of criticism. I as as I wrote you, working over Dante; I simply feel I must have a superficial FE?FEEL of him before getting on too far. I think it most fascinating that old Rossetti pere, was working on a "system", but I don't drag that in much ... It is funny, I don't really care about publishers; even Jean U. can't cope with the commercialism. But I like to feel the Opus-es are in order"; refers to Byher's success with BEOWULF: "I am really more and more delighted with Beowulf!" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 May 17. Bryher in London (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 May 29. H.D. at ?; writes to Bryher; "I am busy on the Dante VITA. That is my research and I have done about one fifth already, in the Italian. I have the German beside it, and that helps me with the German too. I can't go on with my own RED ROSE, til I see further" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 May 21 [LHS note: this letter may be incorrectly dated]. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; discloses that she always uses two sheets of paper in the typewriter when typing; a Z?rich firm has expressed interest in doing a book of H.D. with German parallel-pages (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 528).?PRDee to check this letter for LHS.?

1948 May 22. H.D. at ?; writes to Bryher; "I am really so happy, over-doing Dante a bit, but am inspired here" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 May 26. H.D. at ?; writes to Bryher; "you have saved my life or my RED ROSE book again, by sending me the Jean Burton "Wizard". It has some of my own "characters" and though I do not want to bring in this wizard in particular, there was apparently a lot of it going on. I have already an "invented" one in RED ROSE. I don't know if you have ordered yourself a copy. If not, I would like to order you one? Let me know at once. The book is so charming and witty and balanced,?it takes away that slight repugnance one had in reading the London Library small-print Victorian-type tomes. This is marvelous, Fido- and it helps too, in other ways. She puts Swedenbourg [sic] so clearly too, and his influence there in New England at the time on Emerson and others ... The second book [of Sword?] really deals in part with the same theme, and they are historically placed and in TIME and poetic and scientific, and they can wait" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 May 30. H.D. at ?; writes to Bryher; "I have ordered the WIZARD for you ... She does say, yes, those levitations and other phenom. were scientifically tested and so on, but the conclusion seems to be that they get boring as repeated in his case, hundreds of times, and that they "lead nowhere" spiritually, in the end, sensational to that extent. Mrs. Browning writes reams to her sister Henrietta, but H. must not mention in return, Browning almost bust a blood-vessel when he met Home once in his own dining-room. Dickens loathed him. Ruskin after years and years of anti-psychic activity, fell completely ... Also Napoleon III. You will, I hope, wallow. It does clear up that point however, as to the reality or actuality of the maanifestations"; there were no wires or accomplaces [sic], it did happen, so much we know how. It was the "manifestations" that were so astonishing; actually, it appears his "messages" were very vague, for the most part, and undistinguished" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 June 3. H.D. at ?; writes to Bryher; comments "I am back now with my conversation piece; I have got Hal and Lizzie to Hampton Court" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 June 20. H.D. at ?; writes to Bryher; comments that she suffering from "the blitz head" because of so much rain and so many violent thunder storms (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 July 4. Perdita Macpherson watches the sun rise in Colorado, possibly on Pikes Peak (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter], July 17, 1948).

1948 July 11. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; refers to visiting her Melissa book-shop; refers to fierce storms which she has been experiencing in Lugano; refers to an issue of the SEWANEE REVIEW with a review by H.H. Watts ("I am in most important company")?PRLHS has tried to figure out unsuccessfully in Bryer what H.D. is referring to here; will have to check the SEWANEE REVIEW; perhaps Michael Boughn knows?; discusses her need to plunge into Dante ("another star-whirlpool")--linked with "Pre-Raff notes and romance" and Rossetti's translations; comments that Dante's Italian is not very difficult--that it is close to Latin; has been using a three volume paperback illustrated edition; refers to the help that Pearson gave them, especially Perdita who has been out west to visit Francis and Muriel Wolle; Bryher has been there for a few weeks and leaves the next Sunday but will be back in September; asks Pearson to tell Thornton Wilder how much she likes THE IDES OF MARCH; comments that POETRY has written asking her to write some sort of autobiographical article on poets she has known--she has not responded--too immersed in her romances; is glad to be in Lugano; Robert Herring has also been in Lugana--he leaves tomorrow; she and Bryher have been exploring the surrounding area (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1948 July l7. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; celebrates with Bryher, the anniversay of their meeting thirty years ago (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 533). Receives telegram from Norman Holmes Pearson announcing the acceptance for publication of BY AVON RIVER. Sends telegram to Norman Holmes Pearson; is delighted that Macmillan wants to publish BY AVON RIVER and gives her approval subject to seeing proofs (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). Also writes letter to Pearson; referring to proofreading of BY AVON RIVER, comments that Robert Herring has already found a few errors which she notes later in letter; comments that it was Pearson's idea that "The Guest" and "Good Frend" be brought together; is rather shattered as the news of the acceptance of BY AVON RIVER has reached on the thirtieth anniversary of the day on which she met Bryher;; comments that Bryher is there, returns to Vaud the next day, but will return to Lugano in September; comments that Perdita has been in Colorado but that she hopes that she will join them in Lugano in September; comments on the writing of BY AVON RIVER: "it was soda-biscuit technique, I mean I just added a pinch and a pinck [sic] of that like the old mammy with the corn-pone. I would have got heavy, the cake would have tasted dough if I had gone right, left, centre looking out dates and my own discrepencies would have weighed heavy in the hand. As it is, I do find on re-reading that this is a delightful festive-cake, light as angel-cake and full of plums at the same time. Do you not think my list at the end, is astonishing ? It's true, I merely mentioned half of them, but I feel very pround of my plums. It goes back and forth too; in a neat way without cheating, it comes via Herrick almost to I8c and goes back, via Henry VIII, Henry VII almost another I00 years. Then back to the beginning, with Sh. Cymbeline and so on" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1948 July 18. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; sends him the text which she intends to appear as the dedication to the "Good Frend" part of BY AVON RIVER; asks him to have someone check the spelling in the quotation; lists errors in "The Guest"; is concerned that Pearson might not have the whole of "Good Frend" and lists the three sections; reminds him that the two parts of BY AVON RIVER are to have separate dedications; refers to a Spanish anthology (Spanish and English) which she has received (from Jos? Jan?s of Barcelona) and asks if Pearson had anything to do with it--she has given it to Bryher for the 17th; and has just received and glanced at an Oscar William's TREASURY; refers to a magazine with a startling MYTH which Pearson has sent (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1948 July l9. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; "I have a clue now, re T.S.E.; I am very interested in following it up. You once said, you thought he had been through some sort of "initiation" and didn't get right through- he has of course, references to various things, but now I seem to see in the Anthology poems in the new book, quite a new set of values. I think his "Waste Land" was messages, perhaps table, some circle or "circles", and he maybe, overdid the "work", got ill; wasn't he at Lausanne after last war or in mid-twenties? I think he wrote W.L.there, or part of it. I know he has the note-references and so on, but I thought it purely intellectual and poss. destructive- but I think now, he was putting down, dreams, messages, circle experience- that prob. proved blind alley. He was so very ODD at one time- this psychologically explains much. If you have any extra T.S.E., later I would like to pick over some of it. I am very pleased to get the answer or part-answer" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 July 20. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Viola Jordan; discusses Eliot; says "I never seemed to be able to give my undivided attention to my own contempories between wars"; comments that Bryher has just left a few weeks--she came to celebrate their 30th anniversary; refers to two friends from St. Moritz who went to Venice; refers to an anthology from Barcelona edited by Jos? Jan?s Mutaner with whom she has corresponded; also comments on A LITTLE TREASURY OF AMERICAN POETRY edited by Oscar Williams; is trying to get back into Dante and refers to seeing a copy of Vita Nouva with Rossetti's Dante's Dream as a frontispiece at the Skidmores in Long Island (they were friends of Ezra and had a boat); comments "Louise S. dropped out of my life years ago, but it was from her (I was 16, I think) I first heard that "HE WRITES POETRY". We discussed this "he" who was at the time her fried- mine in a general way- but she had had revelationin their drawing-room set abot with chunks of semi-precious stone on marble-tables in N. Philadelphia. It all comes back! Mrs. Skid. was a C.S. and rather fussy, the old fellow was a prof. of sorts, it was his boat that E. went out in, Port Jefferson-" (H.D. to V.J., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library).

1948 July 31. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; thanks him for his long letter "and the feeling of having you round again"; confirms that the title is to be, as Pearson first suggested, BY AVON RIVER; mentions changes to "The Guest"; says she is trying write Horace Gregory to thank him for his efforts; comments that she is now at work on "my very lovely book, White Rose and the Red"; tells Pearson that Marya [Zaturenska] "wrote asked Br if I could tell her the story of William Morris and Jane Morris, re Rosseti after the death of Elizabeth Siddall Rossetti. I could not write, as I told Br to explain, as all that is in my story, or my story leads up to it; I will prob. end with the death of Elizabeth Rossetti"; refers to book which Pearson has sent her [about the Pre-Raphaelites?]; comments that she is "writing it under a real nom de plume, I mean, one that fits me"; the nom de plume started as she wrote a book about the experiences of the last war which was "too near and too intimate for H.D.," "The Sword Went out to Sea (Synthesis of a Dream)"; tells Pearson that he is represented as Howard Wilton Dean and that Susan, who "sends us pudding powders," is Mary Ann Dean; comments that Bryher says that the main character might get mad [if the book were to be published]--"It can wait"; comments that here old London friends never referred to the Morris-Gabriel tangle, perhaps out of loyalty; asks Pearson to sign any papers for her with respect to BY AVON RIVER; explains that Harold Doolittle has a power of attorney for her and supplies Pearson with his address; then says "O - do not apologize for thoes POETS. My only way to write, to continue writing, is to keep right out of any spot-light" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1948 August 5. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; while discussing the publishing of BY AVON RIVER comments "But as I said of SYNTHESIS and as I now say of the ROSE book, I have satisfied myself, and after nearly a life-time of "writing", that is, I suppose, something" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). Writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; states that she wants any earnings kept in the USA, either by Harold Doolittle or by Pearson, himself; comments that Harold has had the power of attorney since before the war which Bryher fixed up from Switzerland before there was open war-talk; refers to trouble with Boni and copyrights that Marianna [sic] Moore had charge of; tells him that the nom de plume is Delia Alton and comments that one reader who had wanted her to send the first part of the SWORD to Viking had said it would need a "nom de guerre"; gives approval for giving Macmillan the world rights to BY AVON RIVER and for getting someone to check the quotations; explains that the galleys of "Good Frend" were set up by Robert Herring as a present for her--she thinks there were just two copies; queries whether or not they should acknowledge LIFE & LETTERS in the book (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1948 August 14. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes [air-letter, single spaced] to Norman Holmes Pearson; is having Robert Herring send him the copy of the manuscript of "The Sword went out to Sea" which is housed in the LIFE AND LETTERS offices; thanks him for the list of the Morris manuscripts--fears that she bit off a pretty large idea and that if she asks for any of the manuscripts she will allow herself to become intimidated and won't have the nerve to finish the "rose" book; comments on the approaching birthdays, the future arrival of Perdita, possibly Faith Mackenzie (who is due at Gandria, a little village near Lugano), and Robert Herring may be there for a week; is in favor of publication of the "Rose" as soon as it is ready provided the authorship is given as by Delia Alton; asks Pearson if it would be good if he had a "power of attorney" in addition to that which Harold Doolittle has--just for MSS and anthology rights--has written to Harold and discussed the matter with Bryher; refers to Howard Wilton Dean and "his imposing portfolio"; oh yes, she does want a photograph of the miniature [of William Morris]; plans to stay in Lugano through most of October, depending on the weather; then will go back to her room at La Paix [in Lausanne]. Writes another letter [surface mail, double spaced] to NHP; encloses two photographs including the passport picture [1946] represents her closes to the time AVON was written; doesn't know if Macmillans's will want to use a photograph but she hopes they will; mentions that her typist whom she likes so much, MIss Woolford, is getting rather old and was bombed--her eyes went weak--was Havelock Ellis's typist; had sent a copy of Book I to Rene Wormser to hold--"I was at first rather keen to ventilate the MSS" but then got involved in the "Rose" and Bryher thought Howell [Dowding] might kick up a row; discusses the "Sword" and her feelings about it; comments on Howell's [Dowding] behavior towards her; comments that Bryher liked Book II; "Herring seemed impressed but told Br confidentially, that Dowding (Howell) was known to be rather pernickety just now, about write-ups, about the Battle of Britain"; comments that she did write Dowding a letter later, from Kusnacht and that had a friendly response; comments that she did get in Dowding's bad graces before she became ill and explains that Herring had wanted to print something of Dowding's in LIFE AND LETTERS and, after H.D. had written to him of this, Dowding had offered a section of his first book (a book which the British Government had asked him politely but firmly to withdraw just before it was about to be published)--just about about that time Dowding had two other books (badly printed) published by a third-rate publisher, which H.D. describes as being "perfectly pedestrian and not very original"--as a result Herring (and Bryher) decided that he (they) did not want to publish anything by Dowding in the magazine--therefore H.D. was placed in the position of having to write to Dowding and say that Herring had already filled up the issues for the next six months; comments that she had sent Dowding the synopsis of of the chapters of the "Sword"; the manuscript was sent to Rene Wormser in New York because H.D. wanted Wormser to look it over from a legal point of view; comments that Aldington had wanted H.D. to send the manuscript to Viking but H.D. had not done so; comments "He [Aldington] by the way, I suppose, was rather relieved that John Geoffrey Alton turned out to be `in a small way, a hero'"; comments that she thinks Dowding is sincere in his "psychic-reaearch work" though he could have let himself into "the racket"; encloses a list of the "dramatis personae"; asks Pearson to correct really crazy spelling; comments that "Robert's chief scream was that Lord Howell `stood out of the book like the Matterhorn among the hills' but I cannot see how I could disguise him"; tells Pearson that her original title was "Synthesis of a Dream" but Aldington thought that would be a good subtitle so she took "The Sword Went Out to Sea" from William Morris (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1948 August 15. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; comments "The ROSE gets more lurid" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 August 16. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; sends lists of corrections for "The Sword Went Out to Sea"; comments on Aldington's reaction to the manu~script--he liked Book I but found Book II to be "simply a lot of short episodes strung together" and told H.D. that she needed a "A central idea for a NOVEL"; says that Aldington thought at first that it would be crazy to writeas other than H.D. but later seemed to veer towards the use of Delia Alton; comments that both Bryher and Herring seem to think of political repercussions from both the "Right" (for seeming to cash in on Lord Howell) and the "Left" ("because the book is, in spirit, aristocratic or special and non-political"); Kenneth Macpherson read it but seemed to regard it as a sort of tour-de-force and said "the dimensions are balanced, like a juggler with crystal balls" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1948 August 20. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; comments "I got a book from the New Directions of E., written in camp at Pisa, it looks very odd" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 August 23. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; Bryher is due in Lugano on Sat., Perdita has sailed from New York and is due for the 2nd, to stay on over the 10th; afterwards Bryher and Perdita heading for Kenwin where Doris and John Long are due from Cornwall; Elizabeth Ashby may turn up in Lugano on the 2nd as well; refers to Macmillans of N.Y.'s interest in "world rights for a book I have done of Elizabethan lyric-poets, plus my own Shakespeare poems" [BY AVON RIVER] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 529). Writes to Ezra Pound; thanks him for sending her his Cantos (refers to LXXX); comments on London's condition when she left and mentions spending six months with "a doctor's family near Z?rich, a lovely place called Seehof,on the lake, but it took me a long time to believe in the unbelievable, whole glass wondows and CLEAN glass at that"; mentions forthcoming publication of BY AVON RIVER; says her first visit to Stratford-on-Avon since before World War I was on April 23, 1945 [LHS note: this is incorrect--it was probably in early June 1945]; says she had news of him from Viola Jordan [LHS note this sounds as if it is H.D.'s first letter to Pound since 1939]; refers to Violet Hunt bequest (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library).

1948 August 27. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; has heard from Robert Herring that the Sword has been sent off to Pearson; says that she has now completed the "White Rose and the Red" but that it has to be cut shorter; says that that she concludes the story with the meeting of William Morris and Jane Burden in Oxford; the period of the book, with flashbacks, is l855-1857; doesn't want to do any more with it until after Christmas as she has worked pretty tirelessly the past two years with AVON, "Sword," and "Rose"; would be graateful for Pearson's opinion; comments that she sort of has taken over from Violet Hunt, whose THE WIFE OF ROSSETTI she, H.D., suggested the title for; asks Pearson to make a correction to BY AVON RIVE--"it is the sort of thing that might be picked on ... just the sort of thing that keeps one awake all night"; points out other corrections to be made; comments that she views "Sword" and "Rose" as being "near related" "as they all deal with the old mystical ideas of Round Table, brought into harmony or brought into step with the period"--"in SWORD. with that `present-day England' of the last war"--"in ROSE, with the England of just 100 years earlier"; says she could not have attempted "Rose" without having gotten "Sword" off of her chest; comments that Bryher is due the next day and the Perdita will follow in a few days (has had a wire that Perdita had sailed); will get "Rose off to Pearson, probably after Bryher arrives as she is brining part of the carbon-copy that H.D. had left in Lausanne (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1948 September 16. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Bryher; asks Bryher to forward some notebooks: "it is old ps-a notes; Lordy, I did try sorting them out in the actual Blitz, just couldn't face it. The later books have some authentic notes that I did in Vienna, I do not think I will want to keep them but I would like to run through. The first are pre-Chaddie, just dream or stream-of-consciousness thought-association, just letting words C O M E. And there are very funny things; so please see that no one looks inside. Perhaps, it is not safe to post them? ... I used to worry so, thinking the note-books had got into the "wrong hands." just nerves. I will prob. destroy the lot" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 September 18. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks Silvia for sending her a copy of Thornton Wilder's THE IDES OF MARCH--had read it in Lausanne but did not own a copy--wants to reread it--"I like Thornton Wilder and hope to see him again some day, when perhaps he can sign this for me"; refers to "such a crowd" having been there [for the birthday celebration]--Perdita, Bryher, Robert Herring, Dr. Elizabeth Ashby, Faith Compton-MacKenzie; refers to approaching visit of Silvia Dobson with Enid Scase and suggests that they meet at Saipa Cafe, where she goes twice a day for coffee at 10:00 A.M. and tea at 3:00 P.M.--gives directions--go first to the main square, entering it from the lake side, turn left into the arcades, almost at the end, just past a Baily shoe-shop--H.D. usually sat upstairs in the smaller room on the lake side (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 533-533A).

1948 September 21. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to having startled Silvia on the platform at the railroad station {Silvia writes: "On the day we left. I put Enid and the luggage in a carriage and walked down the platform to take a last look at Minerva Hotel. It was here H.D. startled me. We embraced, lived again lost Venice fantasies"}; thanks Silvia for beautiful roses; refers to area which she calls "the village"--a halfway section around the Croce Bianca, where various hotels are where various people have stayed (i.e. Walter Schmideberg at Erica, Perdita at Amilia, Robert Herring in rooms in the Sport-Garni) but Saipa was always the central meeting place; refers to Enid Scase's problems with psychoanalysis and recommends a Dr. Franklin (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 530-531, 534).

1948 September 22. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Ezra Pound; says she left London on May 13, 1946, after almost three months illness; says "there was nothing wrong, only shell-shock. I am stronger now that I have ever been"; describes her fluctuations between Lausanne and Lugano; says she doesn't write many letters; refers to having hunted unsuccessfully, during her first Lausanne winter, for books for Pound which Viola had mentioned that he wanted; mentions recent writing ["Sword went out to Sea" and "The White Rose and the Red"]; refers to the forthcoming harvest celebration with the pan-pipes players; refers to having read Dante's Vita in the original and recalls the first time that she saw it--possibly at the Skidmores in Port Jefferson (comments that she has not heard of any of the Skidmores for thirty years); mentions readings in William Morris, currently Jason; also mentions Hesse (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library).

1948 September 27. H.D. at the Minerva Hotel, Lugano; writes to Enid Scase; refers to having written Walter Schmideberg about Enid's having had a difficult analysis with Heidi Schwarz (a Viennese refugee who was trained by the Viennese there and in London)--Schmideberg confirms H.D.'s suggestion and agrees that "Dr. George Franklin, who is much more fluid and very kind, would be the best to cure the shock"; urges Enid to take the initial step of getting in touch with Dr. Franklin; says she and Bryher would possible offer to help with finances once Enid is established with Dr. Franklin (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 535).

1948 September 25. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; "I am deep in Dante. It is all one huge Church of Love "true tale"; I have found the strangest clues, which I will hold-forth on to you one day, at Zust. I suppose those in the know, keep up the myth or the mystery and those who don't just go on in the prescribed conventional way. I am very happy with this but it will take me about 2 years to absorb what I would want for a sort of BY ARNO RIVER to go with the AVON. Or else- who know [sic]- it may flare out into a `historical novel'... I feel now that these last books have settled my problems and I want to go on to the Dante" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 October 3. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; is concernd as to whether or not the manuscript of "White Rose and the Red" has reached him as she has had a query from James Putnam about it; has received the contract for BY AVON RIVER; comments that "I was tempted to go on with ROSE, as I have so much material, Algernon Swinburne and the strange tragic tangle of the Morris family after the death of Elizabeth Siddall Rossetti"; has been reading her Morris JASON; plans to move to Lausanne shortly--her room has been booken there from October 21; comments that Perdita got back to New York, Bryher has been back and forth to London (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1948 October 5[?]. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; refers to a letter from Pound with enclosure of letter from Olivia Rossetti Agresti about the Rossettis which she is sending on; has received THE PISAN CANTOS from New Directions; has heard from J. Laughlin who commented that "E. seemed not too `unhappy' but that his delusions were worse and he asked that they do not try to get him out of the hospital till later" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1948 October 8. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Ezra Pound; refers to an enclosure which she is sending which reminds her of a Wiss. Drive [?] in Pennsylvania as well as "some of the woods and streams and mill-ponds ... where we all used to walk and picnic; has just written to Margaret Snively; refers to having written to Olivia Rossetti Agresti; doesn't knpow when the "red Rose and the White will see print--BY AVON RIVER due out in the Spring; says the story only goes to 1857, before Elizabeth Siddall married Rosetti; refers to the "vendemmia" and the crowds--and describes the painting of the outside of the palaces; refers to Mary and her son; is re-reading Jason and recalls first hearing "Ah, quelle est Belle, La Marguerite" "under some apple-trees, and you shoutin the `Ha Ha' and the `Two Red roses' at the same session- my first introduction to William Morris" (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library).

1948 October 9. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; refers to the Dante illustrated by Dore which Bryher has sent her: "Yes, the pictures are fascinating and revealing, like my old child-memory of Dore Bible"; discusses Ezra Pound "I wonder if ANYONE knows just what went wrong with E.? He was the FIRST person I knew who had even so much as heard of Freud and he had some of the early books and quoted; and I met some ps-a people in Paris, in 1912 or pos. early 1913, who E. introduced me to. I can't for the life of me remember their names, a Us [i.e., American] Doctor and his wife, both practicing ps-a, I gathered, at the time. I wonder if E.'s bitterness at the Professor, is because he may have played with the idea of ps-a for himself at one time? It is very mysterious"(Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 October 11. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; "I am so grateful for the Spirt [sic] of Romance; I did glance it over but had not the Dante them. Not that I have it now. But the book is so mature and balanced- such a tragedy all that" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 October 12. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; "Thank you for sympathetic interest in Ezra. It was astonishing how all that sequence re-shaped itself. I had two letters from him, I will hand over to you later. I think it was his handwriting, after all these years; the mid-years, the few times I heard, he wrote shocking type-script. He said Mary Marshall had been to see him "in jail" and the whole Snively quartet. Margaret did not tell me" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 October 13. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; "Thank you so much for comment on Ezra. I have thought a lot about it all, as I have been re-reading Spirit of Romance, and it is amazing there, how un-affected he is yet original. His chapter on Dante is really very fine; I can see that now. Dante is so difficult to treat simply. I wonder so much what DID HAPPEN. It may have been confusion about last war, being there and not being in it, and E. was made much of by many people; I know how they changed in tempo during first war, and he may have felt they were no longer interested in the same way. He appears to me now, to have BEGUN the down-curve at end of or just after World War I. I know no one who could better critize the Pisan Cantos than you have done in the paragraph. I wanted to get the book out of the place, as it did rather upset me yet drove me crazy with curiosity to "analyse" various lines and the general trend. I think there are really, more lines of sheer beauty in the Pisan than in any of his later work, flowers, that lynx (Dante has lynx or panther, of course) the wasp building a nest, the darky who makes a table from an old box and says "don' tell"; then, startling classic allusions, but the catch is, they may be Ovid or Horace or some transcription from Provence or even Dante again. He does quote line on Primavera out of the Vita Nuova, that I got and you said you recognized some old Saxon, I think"; goes on to reflect about Pound: "I am rather curious about Ezra, "poor old Ez." ... Anyway, I feel there was some sort of definate [sic] break or repercussion or even percussion in or at end of War I, that sent him back to the old shock of being asked to leave Hamilton College- that is a mystery and I never, never gossiped about it, but it terribly upset the parents and at the time, Mr. Pound more or lesss formally asked me not to "drop" Ezra. E. went to Spain, on a presumed "travelling fellowship" but Hamilton would not have given it and I know U. of P. would not, at that time. (This is private). I supposed Mr. Pound sort of pooled his little all, they gave up quite a nice house at Wyncote (a charming suburb) and lived in really very cramped quarters near the mint, in a cheap, un-residential part of Philadelphia. I suppose Mr. Pound or E. invented the "scholarship," though I may of course, be wrong. But I have been trying to face-up to that somewhat unresolved part of my life; it is nothing to worry about, but it is odd that I could not speak-out about any of this to Chaddie, Turtle, the Professor or Bear. That is what makes me think it must have all cut me up pretty badly; on the other hand, the jolt got me out of the University groove, set me with my face toward Europe, eventually led to my staying on in London ... Ezra fenced at U. of P. gymnasium, he was as a "freshman" in the Greek play, his then best friend, William Brooke Smith (a student at the Art Academy) died of T.B.; E. dedicated this Venice book A Lume spent to him" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 October 15. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; "I have been going over the old American scene and the 1914 pre-war Paris and a number of things now crop up, sign-posts that relate various phases of Ezra to certain things (I will hold forth at Zust, one day) and certainly, the main factor was I think with you, his father being in Mint; E. saw shelves of gold which to a child anyway, were in his father's hands, and he had no use of it; all so very, very obvious - his "usury" (whatever that is) complex that crops up again and agian in the Cantoes. I also agree about Dorothy and have some data there, relating to the ONE person who I think would have brought out his best, and who in the beginning, DID bring out his best. All very private and spec on my part- but the girl who shot herself in Paris was I believe an old friend, not as E. rather implied, just one of a crowd. He had had some sort of very intense contact with "an older woman" as Mr. Pound called her, a musician of someimportance. I met this Margaret, she was older, but only lately I seem to realize that she was the one who when E. was 16, brought him on, prob. it was she who gave him Freud, Swedenburg, Balzac Seraphita and her books (including Yogi series) that E. brought to me. It just came in a flash as I was going over things. I think it was she who got E. to Venice; Rummel said when he received a postumous [sic] or post-mortem letter from her, "but this is not possible- it was Ezra that she cared for." She sent letter to Rummel who was just engaged, saying she had been (I gather) un-balanced or "broken" by his engagement. It was just about then that Rummel told ME that Mrs. S had told HIM, in strictest confidence, that E. and Dorothy were engaged, but no announcement to be made and they were not to see each other for a year. Well- it sounds like Aldington's idea of a Seller. But it all came back to me- thanks for ps-a and putting 2 and 2 together. (This is all PRIVATE.) Apparently this Margaret (I think, related to the poet- Sydney Lanier? I am not sure of name, of the South of US) was in with very distinguished group, and she it was, I am sure, brought Rummel and E. together. Well, I won't go on- it was mother-fix, father-envy, all so very clear. Margaret Lanier (?) about ten or even 15 years older, wealthy, influential, just slightly his mother's typ... but enough ... Ezra repeated this, by leaving Dorothy and living with violinist Olga in Venice, the very place the first poems came from, privately printed, probably by Margaret- though E. never made the clean break with Dorothy who by that time, having his name becomes his mother-image!" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS). [LHS Comments: H.D. is confusing two women in this letter: (1) Katherine Ruth Heyman, the concert pianist wh was fifteen years older than Ezra, who introduced him to the books which H.D. recalls, and whom he joined in Venice in 1908 and (2) Margaret Craven of Madison Indiana and a relative of the poet Sidney Lanier, who became Pound's patron and who committed suicide in June 1912 in Paris after learning of Walter Rummel's engagement (?).]

1948 October 17. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Bryher; "I have never had such a lot of "findings" since the old Vienna days; the whole of the E.P. saga re-shapes itself as I only now realize the "older woman" (Homer Pound speaking) "whole influence on Son was not for the best, but (apologetically) once you heard her music, you could understand Son's feelings." Ezra gave me a pearl ring of hers as engagement-ring but never, never so much as hinted that the Paris Margaret was this same "older woman". Mr Pound may have feared I would hear of it, as it was about then that the so-called "engagement" was getting more than a bit lop-sided, and the Pounds (both) were very anxious that I should keep on with "Ray." actually, I gave E. the ring back and always had a sort of romantic notion of this musician. E. said in a lofty way, "she is taking lessons from Rummel". He did not want me to know that Margaret was the early infatuation, and prob. it went on. I am now certain that she did not shoot herself; it must have been tablets; it was E. who told Richard and myself that she slept for years with a revolver under her pillow. Why should she? ?It is not possible, if she feared suicide. I never asked of course; in those days, it would not occur to me that E. could "cook" such a thing and anyway, one was deeply shocked, and R. almost more than I was. E. gave impression that he had feared this for years, as if he were a sort of support and prop to a deadly neurosis. ... I knew E. went to meals at Margaret's appartment; he took me out a great deal in London; he never came near me that time in Paris, except once - until Richard turned up. I do not say he was "living" with her, but it was one of those things; they apparently went about (I am sure); but this is not a fiction, yet pretty much entre nous. It makes me understand the Philadelphia years- some sort of tangle- and the parents anxious to break the "influence." It was that I am sure, that was responsible for getting E. started. But I suppose I am the only person in the world now, who has an inkling of the pattern. ... All this is strictly hush-hush. But it clears much tangle from my own bewilderment and wonder at Ezra's strange, contradictory actions and manners" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 October 19. H.D. in Lugano at the Hotel Minerva; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; thanks him for the photograph of William Morris; has hanother letter from James Putnam who is awaiting the manuscript of "White Rose and the Red"; comments that she had not realized until she started receiving clippings from London that 1848 is the exact centenary year of the formation of the Pre-Rapaelite Brotherhood; suggests that Pearson not bother to read the "Rose but that he send it on to Putnam for an appraisal; comments that that she has many notes and manuscripts which have been saent on from Lowndes Square awaiting her in Lausanne; plans to go on with Delia Alton--"she looks to the future" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1948 October 21 - 1949 April 21. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de La Paix.

1948 October 21. H.D. leaves Lugano for Lausanne; is handed a letter from Olivia Rossetti Agresti by the Minerva Padrone as she is waiting for the Luzerne train (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], 28 Oct 48, Lilly Library).

1948 October 28. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; has been back in Lausanne just a week; had a day at Kenwin--"the trees have grown to groves and forests, they make the house look smaller or more compact or domestic"--had lunch on the terrace; expects Bryher to come in that afternoon; Bryher movess to Pully [for the winter?] on Monday; comments on "White Rose and the Red" (P.R.B. founded l848 -- her book written 1948--didn't realize the aptness when she began the book); her room is wonderful--second to the top, with a huge built-in sort of alcove balcony--on the end--right-hand neighbors cut off by a wall; refers to Enid Scase's analysis with Franklin (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 554-555). Writes to Ezra Pound; reflects on their age overlap--at the moment they are both 62 but soon he will be 63 [LHS note: October 30]; has seen some intelligent reviews of the CANTOS; her room looks over Lac L?main; has heard from James Laughlin that he has seen Pound but most of her news of him comes from Viola Jordan; asks about Dorothy--where she is, etc.; comments on having received a letter from Olivia Rossetti Agresti as she was leaving Lugano; is rereading the PISAN CANTOS; asks if he ever got his bequest from May Sinclair--her books from Sinclair have arrived; asks of Walter Rummel and comments: "What sheer bliss his music was; I will never forget that concert at your summer house, outside Philadelphia, can't remember, but across country from the Observatory. Frances was with us; I have heard nothing of or about her for well over ten years"; concludes "This again, with all memories and very best hopes for inspired years to come. from Dryad" (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library).

1948 October 30. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; includes statement which she wants to appear at the beginning of "The Guest," after the dedication to Bryher [in BY AVON RIVER]; thanks him for the work which he has done; wants to leave the dates which she had for Spenser alone--most others can be changed; comments on other suggested changes and hopes that the statement that she has written will allow for some variance o(H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).?PRPrintout made for Doona Hollenberg at this point.?

1948 November 10. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; insists that she prefers her own "thanks are due" statement to that drafted by Pearson [for BY AVON RIVER] but concedes that it can go on the page following the dedication instead of on the dedication page; agrees with him about all changes which he has proposed except that with regard to Spenser's birth date; comments "I have made it clear in the text that I am [crossed out an "was" written in] not a professed scholar but a very sick woman with a `will and testament' to leave"; also comments "I `owe' you the book in another way and almost equally with Bryher"; is sending Pearson a questionnaire which was sent to her [presumably by Macmillan] but which she cannot cope with (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1948 November 16. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; asks for THE MAN WHO DIED (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 November 18. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; "I do not hear from Norman, about the two "novels", but that does not in the least deter me. I have just sent off to Woolford, the last of my third "Delia Alton", the Bloomsbury that I had written so often but this time, I cut out all reference to you and Pup in Cornwall, brought in (I think) an unusual appreciation of Lawrence at the end- Frederico or Rico. It ended up on the genius of the place, Land's End and "writing" and genius in general, dragging in Vincent van Gogh. It is not patchy, I simply took the?fi fist part from the old MSS you brought me, kept about one third, left out you and Pup and she, Julia this time, wrote at the end, a general appreciation as to Frederico or "old Rico" whom she will not see again. It is really rather dynamic and like all the rest, I owe it to you, though it is sans dediction. That makes the 3rd, Delia Alton. It is a relief to feel I have written FINIS to the whole Bloomsbury episode ... I am now tackling more note-books; it is relief to find the best parts, were sort of done in the Freud L. and L., and also in the Gift, which I will tackle again, later" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 November 21. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to Enid Scase's having entered analysis with Dr. Franklin and asks about financial situation and repeats that help would be avaiable from her and/or Bryher once they know what might be needed; has been re-reading D.H. Lawrence and is curious about his "stars"--asks Silvia to do a map ("he was born September ll, 1885. so for my birthday, one day a year, we were twins or are twins"); speculates on, if D.H. Lawrence had lived, if he could have worked with the Professor [Freud]; says Lawrence's death in 1930 was a shock to her, though they had not seen each other since end of World War I; refers to "going over a heap of note-books I did in the 1930 period or decade rather. They are not as bad as I had feared. I was terrified to touch them, wrote but never read- and the notes I did in Vienna" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 536).

1948 November 22. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; thanks Bryher for another batch of MSS; "nothing important but it is good to be collecting the whole lot"; comments "but will have a spot of tedium typing out bits later. However, that I will do or WILL to do, as there is interesting material. I call the volume (sic) That's for Remembrance and will quote the 3 or 4 line Ophelia rosemary, pansy, violet verse on frontpage. In am now (in For Remem.) about to embark for Vienna. That is, it is getting on toward March 1933. I am surprised to find how happy these notes make me" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 November 24. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; thanks Bryher for all the help in sending the "goods" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1948 November 29. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks Silvia for Lawrence's chart; asks "Did you ever read The Man Who Died? A friend told me that he meant the Priestess to be H.D.; if so, or even if not, it was a comfort to me, the last book Lawrence wrote before his death"; refers to her writing: "I have been writing like mad on notes assembled in Vienna 1933 and l944 [sic]"; refers to her year off--"it is a comfort to me now, to feel that I have, by the Grace of God, been granted the year, I hope- years in which to tidy-up properly, to boil down and excavate and altogether let some alchemy do its own job, while I just tap away like mad"; refers to fact that all help to France has been cut off which worries both her and Bryher because not being able to help Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 537).

1948 December. Reworking of short story "Hesperia" (Thorn Thicket, p. 36, 37).

1948 December 3. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Ezra Pound; encloses card by Sulamith W?lfing and comments on her work; comments "I am snowed under with neglected MSS, of the past 20 years" (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library).

1948 December 3. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; says it is good the "White Rose and the Red" has gone to Macmillan and that she appreciates the comments which he has made on it; explains that she had been subtly working up to Elizabeth Siddall's suicide, trying to pinpoint a sort of "submerged war-phobia (rather than Rosetti's actual neglect) as being the reason for it"; will wait for Macmillian's verdict before trying to rework it; comments that she had never sent Pearson the questionnaire which Macmillan had sent her--she had gotten stuck on it--asks Pearson to just make it out for her--says he knows the requested dates better than she does; with regard to the proofs of BY AVON RIVER says "I simply wanted to be sure of my own poems and certain that my own ( and your ) corrections were seen to"; comments that she has not heard from Robert McAlmon and "I am rather grieved that ordinary, friendly little notes should be `for sale.' I am however, very, very touched that you should get them"; refers to the Sitwell's being in America and says that Perdita had a day with Edith; thanks Pearson for all that he has done: "I do thank you again for all work on AVON and for AVON itself"; comments that she has received a letter from LIFE asking her to appear with the Sitwells in a photograph of "important modern poets" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1948 December 13. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes postcard to Norman Holmes Pearson; thanks him for the Thoreau which has just arrived and wishes him a happy new year (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1948 December 18. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; which apparently referred to William Rose Ben?t and Bethlehem; discusses Bethlehem and indicates that her memory is of a town which was almost all woods; tells him of her collection of Moravian documents which Bryher had gotten for her (including a letter from Zinzendorf and a valentine from Christian Renatus) which someday should be housed [at Yale]--recognizes its interest to research workers; goes on to reminiscence--recalls being in the Delsarte (?) and says "I was the tail of the class and was only let in because my best friend insisted. I was no good at dumb-bells, but I think I was only 6"; recalls the kindergarten run by the MacMullen's and thinks that she and William Rose Ben?t were both enrolled there and went on to the parochial school [Moravian Parochial School] where she remembers a little boy named Bill mocking her for wearing one of Gilbert's sailor hats; she also remembers being taken by Charles Leander Doolittle to see a room full of stuffed birds at Lehigh University and comments that she never knew where her father had "lived over the other side" during his first marriage?MDBO??MDNM?; refers to a picture ("fraktur") which Pearson has sent her (she asks if it respresents the Bennu from WALLS, XXV) and which she has propped up on her dressing-table alongside the William Morris miniature (which is now in a dull blue leather frame); says that she has arranged her thre wise men, which Bryher had gotten for her in Z?rich her first Christmas here, in front of the bennu with a beeswax candle from last year; Bryher has ordered a tiny tree for her (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1949 - 1951. "The Mystery" written (Friedman. DLB 45:139).

1949. BY AVON RIVER published by Macmillan in New York.

1949. "Madrigal" (later published as BID ME TO LIVE) polished

1949 January 3. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Ezra Pound; comments on Perdita's activities and her visiting Viola Jordan and her family at Tenafly; wonders of Dorothy had sent her an article from LIFE on the Sitwells; has heard from Margaret Snively Pratt who's daughter, Peggy, is waiting to go to New Zealand to join her husband--Margaret also has two boys (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library).

1949 January 5. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Adrienne Monnier; refers to being deep in Rimbaud [LHS note: perhaps a volume sent by Monnier as a Christmas gift.

1949 January 8. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; thanks her for gift of powder and puff; had a tiny tree with trimmings that Robert Herring got for her--he was there for a week and is soon off to the West Indies; refers to her writing: "I have been happy going over new and old MSS, and decided ... that it was time I had a Sabbatical year. It is really ny NINTH sabbatical. It never occured to me before to consider a year "off" and it has given me such peace, feeling I have pro tem, done my bit and can now just enjoy a real, grand tidy-up"; has been going over stacks of old cards, putting them in bundle--"I do not keep any letters but I can never throw away a picture-card and it is quite a majic-lantern illustrated lecture of the past years - the far past and the recent ones. I kept all the Bear [Walter Schmideberg] cards, such funny ones, I think he sent to us all, at one time";; explains earlier reference to nineth sabbatical ("that is I am 7 times 9 or 63 next September") (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 541-542).

1949 January 10. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; finds the proposed jacket statement which he written for ?MDBO?BY AVON RIVER?MDNM? to be excellent; exxpresses her appreciation to him for thinking of so many details [i.e. the list of individuals to whom copies should be sent]; says one copy of the galleys will be quite sufficient; comments: "I am however, thinking you a bit of a rougue or a scamp. as I think I told you that I was making a sabbatical year of this - I never voted myself one before. And now, egged on by you, I actually got down to picking over some of the hay-stack of notes and loose leaves and old MSS that Bryher ... brought out here. Well- the worst of it is, I can't make a bonfire in the back-yard as I had hoped. I have notes done in situ, 1940, 1941 which I never even re-read and they make my every hair stand on end. They are just impressions and little day-by-day jottings of impressions the inferno- and I have just now written my poor old typist who broke her arm last month, to see if she is well enough to type these and some odd pages of poems and if she can do the work, I will send these things over. The notes can be published if wanted by anyone, in short or shortish sections and I will do my best bravely to un-earth ... old poems and you do what seems indicated with them- or shelve them on the shelf. It is a good thing I know, to tidy-up and your interest is a spur and inspiration"; refers to her Moravian document collection again; says she finds Pearson's introduction to the Thoreau most illuminating; returns to the topic of her sabbatical: "O why did I ever give myself a Sabbatical? I find work ( thanks to you and that shelf ) piling up seven-times-seven, a tide-wave, a seventh wave of MSS."; is off to meet Bryher that afternoon; adds that she has heard from Robert McAlmon (the letter had been wandering)--she wrote and told him that he could do what he wanted with her old letters (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1949 January 21. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; speaks of reworking and retyping some of her "period stuff": "I have a few strange rather ghost-story things, one of an experience in Aegina, my last trip to Greece, one of three women talking in my first little Sloane Street flat ... The period-pieces bring back the people and there are always good moments in sometimes seemingly long banal pedestrian stretches"; expects Bryher in to tea; Kenneth Macpherson is now living with Norman Douglas in Capri and H.D. encloses a picture of their garden [in the notes accompaining this letter Silvia Dobson comments that it was Norman Douglas who, in 1938, told Perdita the identity of her father, Cecil Gray] (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 578, 581-582).

1949 January 23. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Adrienne Monnier; refers to Rimbaud again [see entry forJanuary 5, 1949] (H.D. "Letters across the Abyss," p. 121).

1949 January 28. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Robert McAlmon; comments on her "hay-stack" of increasing manuscripts (Friedman. Penelope's web, p. 20).

1949 January 29. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; says that Miss Woolford seems able and wants to do her typing; comments that Miss Woolford's little house at Wandsworth Common is only now being repaired from the bombing; comments that "8 to 10 sketches of the 1940-1942 period and a rather delightful (I think) Bethelehem shortish sketch that I did winter 1943, called The death of Martin Presser" are now being typed; will post them off to Pearson along with some poems, etc., as soon as they come back from Wandsworth; comments on LaForgue, recalling some sort of a vogue and that T.S. Eliot identified with him--recalls an anecdote relating to Osbert Sitwell and Eliot; comments with regard to Pearson's request for clarification of Philadelphia relationships "I do not think, Norman, that E.P. was even instructor instructor at U. of P. He got in rather wrong as he would hold forth at the time, to our very dear saintly and blessed Felix Emmanuel Schelling (of Elizabrthan fame) on the fact that really Shaw was greater or at least as great as Shakespeare. This held up lectures, caused comment, did not make it easy for E. when he tried to get some sort of official recognition or travelling scholarship; he wanted me to `work' my family to throw in their weight but we were all devoted to Felix and anyhow there were other things"; goes on to comment on Pound's teaching at Hamilton with veiled hints as to the scandal; explains that Marianne Moore was not part of the Philadelphia group; while H.D. had met her at Bryn Mawr, she was not brought into the group until after Aldington and H.D. had published her poems in the EGOIST; says "I did not know Williams very well and onl through Ezra; comments "I boast that I am being shelf-ed at Yale" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1949 February 6. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; has not not yet received the galley's to BY AVON RIVER thus does not understand some of Pearson's queries; comments that she hopes that Pearson will pay particular attention to the lettering of "H.D."--she had made a special request to Oxford for the trilogy and liked the result; is mailing the 1940-1942 sketches off to him and 4 poems that she had omiitted from THE FLOWERING OF THE ROD and one Christmas poem-has a few more war period and later poems; says "I find the 1930 ones I have, seem rather lifeless and dull and deadwood" but she will try to assemble and have those typed; says she wrote THE GIFT after the sketches--wants to re-shape it later); thinks there are 14 sketches; will send the gift list for BY AVON RIVER along; has gotten into Dante again; referring to the sketches, says she has "not re-worked them, better as they are, just as I wrote them in extremis" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1949 February 8. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; has received the galleys for BY AVON RIVER which intially went to Lugano; is happy with them but lists corrections; recalls "at the moment, just now, I remember a wonderful box of chocolates that I gobbled all alone at the Swan Inn, that later summer 1945 visit to Avon" [implication that it had come from Pearson] (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1949 February 14. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; includes list with addresses of individuals to who she wishes to send complimentary copies of BY AVON RIVER (Gretchen Baker, Silvia Dobson, Robert Herring, Viola Jordan, Richard Aldington, Sylvia Beach, Horace and Marya Gregory, Hattie Howard, Kenneth Macpherson, Elizabeth Ashby, Harold Doolittle, Ellen Hart and Cornelia Brookfield, Mary Herr, Perdita Macpherson [at 113 East 36 St, New York], Marianne Moore, George Plank, Alice Smith, Francis and Muriel Wolle, John Masefield, Norman Holmes Pearson, Osbert Sitwell, and Andrew Gibson); asks that Pearson be sure that Macmillan's has the La Paix address and comments that La Paix is very good about forwarding mail; expresses gratitude to Pearson for what he has done for BY AVON RIVER (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1949 February 14. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; includes list with addresses of individuals to who she wishes to send complimentary copies of BY AVON RIVER (Gretchen Baker, Silvia Dobson, Robert Herring, Viola Jordan, Richard Aldington, Sylvia Beach, Horace and Marya Gregory, Hattie Howard, Kenneth Macpherson, Elizabeth Ashby, Harold Doolittle, Ellen Hart and Cornelia Brookfield, Mary Herr, Perdita Macpherson [at 113 East 36 St, New York], Marianne Moore, George Plank, Alice Smith, Francis and Muriel Wolle, John Masefield, Norman Holmes Pearson, Osbert Sitwell, and Andrew Gibson); asks that Pearson be sure that Macmillan's has the La Paix address and comments that La Paix is very good about forwarding mail; expresses gratitude to Pearson for what he has done for BY AVON RIVER (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1949 Febrary 20. Library of Congress announces that Ezra Pound's THE PISAN CANTOS has received the first annual award of the Bollingen Prize for poetry (Stock. Life of Ezra Pound, p. 426).

1949 February 20. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson; discusses shipment of copies of BY AVON RIVER; comments on a few corrections; with reference to the influence of science on her as a poet comments: "It has been rails to run on, but at times, in the past, threatened to become a squirrel-cage. Running so fast, to get away from it"; plans to send the manuscript of "Madrigal (Bid Me To live) by Delia Alton" and comments "I call it my Bloomsbury novel and I have written at it for twenty years, before I got it. I did get it. It is the old last-war saga, but strangely tidied up at long last ... I don't want particularly to push it into print ... I had to put in corrections in pencil, as my Wandsworth Common typist strung it together. You have met some of this story before in Synthesis of a Dream and early work, but for once, it is complete, rounded out ... I actually wrote FINIS to it, the summer in Vaud, before I crossed over to England, autumn 1939. But I left the MSS out here. I was going to detroy it and found that I couldn't. I boiled it down here, before Christmas, shortened it considerably and tightened up the last two chapters, which say good-bye to Frederico or Rico"; in referring to tidying up process, comments "I feel now, that I have really done the most difficult or most painful part of the whole job" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]). Writes to Ezra Pound; has just learned by way of the TRIBUNE DE LAUSANNE that Pound has been awarded recognition for THE PISAN CANTOS--it was shown to her by Austrian doctor [Walter Schmideberg] with whom she normally has coffee on Sunday mornings at the cafe in the La Paix; explains that the doctor "was on Russian front during the last was and was taken prisoner by the Italians after the (ironically) was over. He had a very grave prison experience for almost a year in Italy but he minimizes it"; apparently Pound has expressed interest in Sulamith W?lfing's work as she discusses trying to get reproductions made; is deep in Dante and says "I have a wonderful, really wonderful Vita N. idea ... I would like to do another volume, to companion AVON, showing that the AVON altogether was the high tide of the middle-age, no stucco, plaster-cast renaissance"; plans to go on with Dante again this summer at Lugano where there is a magnificant library [Ticino Cantonal Library]; has heard from Robert Duncan and wishes she "had more time and energy to give him"; comments on photograph which Duncan has sent her with his head resting on volumes by H.D. and Pound (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library).

1949 February 24. H.D. in Lausanne at the Hotel de la Paix; writes to Robert McAlmon; comments on relief of getting things published--says she feels "tangled or confused" in the web of undone work (Friedman. Penelope's web, p. 20).

1949 February 27 (?) - March (26?). Bryher in America; visits Norman and Susan Pearson in New Haven; returns to Switzerland by March 27 (deduced from H.D./Pearson correspondence and from Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher).

1949 February 27. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; "I have been working over the MSS, got off all the oddments of 1930 poems to be typed by Miss W., and have now about cleard [sic] up, except for the three very early MSS and a few odd notes that can be left" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1949 March 1. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to Ezra Pound's having received an important prize from the Literary Committee of the Library of Congress [see entry for l949 February 20]; fills Silvia in on Pound's wartime activities; of THE PISAN CANTOS, H.D. says "they are very intense and strange and of course, all over the place, but with passion and drive and tragedy"; refers to sent Pound a clipping from the GAZETTE DE LAUSANNE of February 20--Dorothy Pound had wriiten to H.D. to say they would be glad of any clippings; tells Silvia to send any clipping she might find to her and she will send them on to Pound (doesn't want Silvia's name on the St. Elizabeth's Hospital list, "a purely Gvt. asylum for inmates and other `suspects'") (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 543). Writes to Dorothy Pound; is responding to letter from Dorothy dated Feb 25; has sent the clipping from the TRIBUNE DE LAUSANNE to Ezra [see Feb. 20 entry] along "with a postcard that Heron-Aleen must have sent me at least 20 years ago, in Latin, on friendship"; asks if Dorothy remembers Heron-Allen who died just before or after the war [LHS has no idea who Heron-Allen is]; has written to Sylvia Beach to send any clippings she finds directly to Ezra and mentions having written to a friend in England [Sylvia Dobson] and is writing to another friend near Naples [Macpherson ?]; discussion ofOlivia Rossetti Agresti; refers to the library at Lugano (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library).

1949 March 1. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; tells Silvia of her plans to depart for Lugano (Hotel Croix Blanche) on April 21; Bryher is apparently in New York; refers to her writing: "I have a very beautiful story, called `The Guardians,' one of a collection of 7 long and long-short stories ... you must read it, as it is about Woodhall and old Nannie"; asks after Enid Scase's progress with analysis; asks if Silvia has read either Elizabeth Bowen's HEAT OF THE DAY ("it is so good") or Townsend Warner's CORNER (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 544).

1949 March 2. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher (Letter II); [has been reading Bryher's Harald] "I am sure you were THERE, your feeling for wet-bow strings and all the miseries, hopes, fears and spiritual triumphs?is so astute" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1949 March 5. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher (Letter II); "I am so glad now, to have pretty well the whole of the MSS `under control.' It has been fun, since I got the very worst over, beginning Jan.; I don't know what I will do when it is all shipped off, with proper copies here, to Yale" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1949 March 9. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; "Just finished MSS of Pilate's Wife, and not having looked at it since 1934, I am surprised and happy with it now. I did some revisions but will send this later, D.V., when I get it back, to Yale-shelf" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1949 March 11. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; "having spent now, practically all of this my third Lausanne winter, on re-sorting my old MSS; it was a great chore, a back-break, a head-ache at first, but now that I have the old MSS boiled-down, dated and re-typed, I do feel so happy about it all, un-even though the years may appear" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1949 March 15. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Ezra Pound; has just seen Schmideberg who identified one of the clippings which she had sent Pound as coming from GAZETTE DE LAUSANNE; hopes to go to Luggano in April; refers to her shelf at Yale; mentions hearing from Robert McAlmon; says she did get to Lake Como in 1947 [LHS has no record of this] but she found nothing that Ceresio (or Lake Lugano) did not have to offer; describes more of Lugano (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library).

1949 March 16. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson: is sending two stories, "Aegina" and "Hesperia"; they are to be added as the second and third stories, following "The Moment," in the collection THE MOMENT, of which she has already sent him five stories; comments that every story in that collection "hinges on a decision taking place in, as it were, "`a moment'"; discusses a series of poems, called "A Dead Priestess Speaks" (which is also the title of the first poem "and rather describes [or described--the final letter is typed over] my own feelings") which follow after RED ROSES FOR BRONZE but are "better technically"--does not want to publish this; does eventuall want to publish the Rossetti novel and the other Delia Alton pieces"; comments "you will file or place them on that famous `shelf,' and someday, we can talk about their sequence and value"; has carbons of everything; comments "I can see, taken all in all, that there is a sequence, it is my COMMEDIA"; indicates that her reason for not wanting to publish "Priestess" is that "it seems so far away and strange, after the published Trilogy"; comments on plans to move to the Hotel Croix Blanche in Lugano for the summer hopefully by the end of April (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).,/p.

1949 March 17. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; adds note to March 16 letter to Norman Holmes Pearson; has just head from Bryher who commented on how happy she was with the Pearsons (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1949 March 27. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson: indicates at top that she will be at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano after April 21; Bryher has returned; while in America Bryher went with Perdita to visit Viola Jordan at Tenafly, N.J.; comments on quandary of whether or not to take the Benu-bird to Lugano--thinks she will leave it with manuscripts; refers to squares? (sent by Pearson via Bryher?); discusses "Advent" which she has just sent which should be added to "Writing on the Wall" piece; comments " I repeat incidents that I later bring into the child-story, THE GIFT, but I felt they should be assembled in their order as they first manifested with the dream-work with Freud in Vienna, in 1933"; is getting THE GIFT cut up into smaller paragraphs, etc.--will send later from Lugano (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1949 April 1. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson: mentions that she is going with Bryher that afternoon to their favorite MUTRUX tea-room; refers sending to the manuscript of the old Greek essays that Bryher has unearthed from London (NOTES ON EURIPIDES, PAUSANIUS ...)--"they are sort of high-flown school-girl essays but Br says it is better to have everything assembled"; is also sending World War II poems which are not part of TRILOGY; includes a list of what she has sent Pearson and comments that THE GIFT and PILATE'S WIFE are still to come; says "I have some odd flosam-jettsam bits-and-pieces of between-wars poetry but I really think that can wait. I won't destroy anything more, but I do feel there is such a weight of all this, though it does go back 30 years (some of it) and shows the general trend and developement. It ?MDUL?is?MDNM? path-finding - and the miracle is, I did find the way in the end"; comments "I want to thank you, that is all, and thank you. I said to Bryher yesterday at our little tea-table, that there was only ONE person to mention in the same breath with W. Bryher, and that was, as you may guess, N. Pearson - for loyalty, I said and steadfastness, there was really no one else" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1949 April 8. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Norman Holmes Pearson: has heard from Virginia H. Patterson, Publicity Director of Macmillan, who inquired if the Sitwells, Marianne Moore, and Horace Gregory could be approached for publicity comments; she has sent her Osbert's article on the poems that were published during the war--also suggested that Mrs Patterson contact Pearson at Yale if need be; comments "I was a bit alarmed when I found that `you would be willing to get comments' but on the other hand, grateful to you for suggestion"; has been deep in Pursuit of the Horizon [?; sent by Pearson] another Macmillan book; refers to having had some of the Catlins [?] in London and to Loyd [sic] Haberly's poetry--asks if Pearson has encountered him; comments that Bryher has been talking of living in New Haven in case of another war (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1949 April 18. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; "all this new lease of life comes from you, as did the old, after WAR I. I think tenderly of my years in London, but now feel that is at an end, that?is for a base; [refers to ASPHODEL as] a continuation of HER. But I went over these two here. I have used the best of ASPHODEL in the final version of my Bloomsbury novel, now called MADRIGAL (Bid me to Love.) It is a beautiful title, brings in Lawrence and gives my version of the Mecklingburgh Square crowd; it is in its odd way, not indiscreet. She finally breaks the know or cuts the know, by going off to Cornwall, but stays only as it were, discreetly; you and Perdita do not come in. Anyway, we can go into that. But will you, if it just happens, destroy those two bulky MSS. I will later, perhaps, re-work some of HER, but I have a complete copy of it here." (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1949 April 19. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Bryher; "There are one or two D. A. HILL (Hil-D-A) articles or stories, one on Greek scene, I have copy here, down, down, down in the btm. of my sea-chest. . . . There might be a list made of H.D. in L. and L., and D.A. Hill. I think there were only two of D.A. Hill" (Morris NOTES from H.D.'s letters to Bryher, not seen by LHS).

1949 April 20. H.D. at the Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne; writes to Silvia Dobson; plans to depart for Lugano the next day; refers to possible visit by Silvia Dobson; says "I have two other friends who say they are stopping over; one wants me to motar [sic] down to Florence,he is doing some research there [LHS note: this was Norman Holmes Pearson]. The other ... this Andrew Gibson wants to see me .. a great friend of my oldest friend [Frances Gregg] ... says he and I are the only people Frances ever really cared for" (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 545). Writes to Norman Holmes Pearson: plans to leave the next day for Lugano (Hotel Croix Blanche); thanks him for Poet and Science lecture and comments "you steer a middle-course between very dangerous shoals. You keep to to your formula though you allow for THAT fourth-dimension. I feel like one of your fog-makers in relation to your one-track steel-rails to infinity; indeed I have made `fog-maker' my own. Thank you for teaching me that word"; is happy with Pearson's interest in manuscripts; comments that if she wanted to she could write an amazing critique of the poet and life; comments on his turning 40; mentions Bryher's having discussed the foundation or fund with Pearson; comments that she has never heard of Millett bibliography [which Pearson has mentioned in his last letter]; explains that she gave the only copies of the Sunday school pieces which she had kept to Bryher years ago (has asked Bryher to look for them); mentions usage of name Edith Gray or Grey and the column-length newspaper stories for the Maclure Syndicate which Mary Marshall had gotten published--it was she and her sister who suggested Sunday School publications as they paid well; says she wrote all those things before she left for Europe in 1911; mentions use of D.A. Hill in LIFE AND LETTERS; comments that she has taken the same room in Lausanne for next winter--plans to stay in Lugano till Autumn; comments on Pearson's plans--hopes he will come to Lugano--advises him fo follow Bryher's advice re rooms there; more comments on Pearson's Poet and Science lecture and whether or not it should be published in LIFE AND LETTERS despite its limited appeal in England; comments "I liver here because it is central, that is, it centralizes me, my USA stability and prosperity feelings are satisfied, yet I am in touch with linquistically anyhow, with the old French, German and Italian vibrations. After all, I belong to the Henry-James, Pound, Eliot vibration- in time, I mean" (H.D. to NHP, [unpubl. letter]).

1949 April 21 - 1949 October (end). H.D in Lugano at the Hotel Croix Blanche (or Croce Bianca).

1949 April 23. H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Ezra Pound; thanks him for an issue of KAVITA; decribes the beauty of Lugano; mentions having a book by Helen Rossetti Angeli [?] which she finds fascinating; mentions the WHITE ROSE AND THE RED and BY AVON RIVER; mentions that she has been asked to go to Florence with a friend who is doing research (H.D. to E.P., [unpubl. letter], Lilly Library).

1949 April 29. H.D. at the Hotel Croix Blanche, Lugano; writes to Silvia Dobson; refers to Oliver Wilkinson and Andrew Gibson (says she had tried to get in touch with Wilkinson with no success); says that "Frances wrote rather grim stories at one time, realistic-psychic"; comments "if only Frances (Frances Josepha Gregg) could have had some ps-a"; speculates that Frances and her daughter had gone to Plymouth to be near a port of landing for Oliver--Frances was working in a canteen--before that she had been settled in a little place in Cornwall; is writing on Villa Kenwin stationary because Bryher had asked her to use up the paper as it had the wrong phone number on it (Dobson. Notes [unpubl.], p. 545).