Dorothy Richardson: A Calendar of the Letters

1900.01.01] To Charlotte Perkins Gilman ALS 1p. Gilman Papers, Radcliffe [c. 1 January 1900?] 7 Endsleigh Street, W.C., London “I have just finished reading your Women & Economics . . . . The light you have held has altered for me the whole of life . . .”.

1901.07.18 To Amy Catherine Wells ALS 3p. Illinois WOM 4-5 July 18:1901 140 Harley Street, Cavendish Square W. “Dear little mother–Bravo . . .”. She congratulates her on the birth of a son.

1901.08.10] To Amy Catherine Wells ALS 3p. Illinois WOM 5-6 Aug. 10:[1901] 7 Endsleigh St., W.C. “I suppose by this time you are back in the world . . .”. Holidays begin next week.

1901.08.27] To Amy Catherine Wells ALS 2p. Illinois WOM 6-7 [Aug.1901] Flint Cottage, Bembridge, I[sle of] W[ight] “Thanks for your letter.” She describes her holiday with Kate and Arthur Batchelor.

1902.04.08 From Amy Catherine Wells ApcS Richardson Papers Ap. 8 [pmk. 02] Tuesday [Ardennes] “We are taking your advice of long ago,” having a fortnight in the Ardennes.

1908.09.05] To J. B. Pinker ALS 1p. Berg [Sept. 1908] Mount Pleasant / Windmill Hill / Hailsham “Have you any use for short . . . sketches?”

1908.09.10] To J. B. Pinker ALS 1p. Berg [Sept. 1908] Mount Pleasant / Windmill Hill / Herstmonceaux “Thank you. Here they are–”

1910.12.13] From Olga Sokoloff ApcS Richardson Papers [c. 13 December 1910?] [Paris] “I thought I must write you and kiss you myself.” Her suicide note sent on a postcard with Rodin’s sculpture Le Baiser.

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1910.12.25] To H. G. Wells ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 7 [1910?] [Hailsham] “I know you & Jane will be sorry to hear that . . . Olga Sokoloff has died . . .”.

1912.12.27] From H. G. Wells to T. Seccombe ALS ?p. Illinois Smith, vol. 2, 291 [c. 27 December 1912?] 17, Church Row, Hampstead “There’s an old school friend of Jane’s, Dorothy Richardson” who would like to do a book on the Quakers. Wells recommends her.

1915.04.15] To Edward Garnett ALS 2p. HRC, Texas WOM 7-8 [Spring 1915] Trevone Cottage “The author of ‘Pilgrimage’ is aghast . . . ” at her seeming unfriendliness to Duckworth. She was misled because so many things in the agreement were left for her to fill in, which she did with enthusiasm. She is now grateful to Garnett for his guidance.

1916.09.02] From Alan Odle ALS (Scaramouche) 2p. RP WOM 9-10 Saturday [Sept. 1916] 32. Queen’s Terrace “A midday-pilgrimage to . . . Regent Street . . .” for details for DMR.

1916.09.06] To Alan Odle ALS 1p. Richardson Papers WOM 10-11 Wednesday [Sept. 1916] c/o Mrs. J. D. Beresford, Porthcothan, St. Merryn, North Cornwall “I can write only a brief note.” She wishes to hear from him.

1916.09.12] To J. B. Pinker ALS 1p. Beinecke [c. 12 September 1916] C/o Mrs. J. D. Beresford, Porthcothan, St. Merryn. “When I last wrote to you my literary affairs looked chaotic . . .” but now an agreement has been made with Knopf.

1916.09.18] To Alan Odle ALS 1p. Richardson Papers WOM 11 [Sept. 1916] c/o Mrs. J. D. Beresford, Porthcothan, St. Merryn “I am writing with great difficulty . . .”. Still summery in Cornwall.

1916.09.21] From Alan Odle ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 12-13 Thursday [Sept. 1916] 32. Queen’s Terrace “I have been much visited by the miserables lately.” He describes the bombing of London and Henry Savage’s near escape.

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1916.10.05] From Alan Odle ALS 1p. Richardson Papers WOM 13-14 Thursday [Oct. 1916] 32. Queen’s Terrace “The verdict on Tuesday . . .”. He must report for military duty. He is very grateful for her kind letter.

1917.05.15] To Curtis Brown ALS 2p. Rice WOM 14 [May 15, 1917] 32. Queen’s Terrace “I wonder why those sketches wont’t go off?” She discusses payments from Duckworth.

1917.05.20 To Curtis Brown ALS 2p. Rice WOM 15 20 May 1917 32. Queen’s Terrace “Thank you for your letter.” Duckworth “have been better than their contract.”

1917.06.01 To Alan Odle ALS 3p. Richardson Papers WOM 15-16 June. 1. 1917. The White House, East Claydon, Winslow, Bucks: “Perfection. Rambling old Tudor House . . .”. She describes the Beresford children.

1917.06.04] To Alan Odle ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 16 Monday [June 1917] [Winslow, Bucks.] “I shall think of you tomorrow.” She mentions a sketch by AO

1917.06.07] From Alan Odle ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 16-17 Thursday [June 1917] 32 “In spite of your commands I feel I must drop you a line . . .”. His health problems are still unresolved. Air craft are over the city.

1917.06.15 To Alan Odle ALS 3p. Richardson Papers WOM 18 [1917] 35. Shepcote Road, Harrow “Your letter has wandered here . . .”. She is writing additional chapter for “Honeycomb.”

1917.07.25 To Curtis Brown AncS 2p. Rice WOM 19 25.vii.1917 32. Queen’s Terrace “Here after many vicissitudes is Honeycomb . . .”. “The Tunnel” is well underway.

1917.08.31 To Curtis Brown ALS 3p. Rice WOM 19 31.Aug.17 32. Queen’s Terrace “Thank you for your letter. . . . My address for a few weeks from Monday is C/o Mrs. Simons, Cuckoo Hill Cottage, Eastcote, Middlesex.”

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1917.09.22] To Curtis Brown ALS 2p. Rice WOM 20 [Sept. 22, 1917] Eastcote “Poor Mr. Knopf! Dear Mrs. Knopf!” They did not like Honeycomb.

1917.10.17 To Curtis Brown ALS 1p. Rice WOM 20-21 17.Oct.17 Eastcote “Thank you for the documents. I am appalled at the state of my finances . . .”.

1917.10.20] From H. G. Wells ALI 1p. Tulsa [c. 20 October 1917?] 52. St James’s Court, Buckingham Gate. “I’d love an anthology done by you” but he would rather she went on with Miriam.

1917.10.23 From Robert Nichols ALS 1p Richardson Papers Oct. 23rd. 1917 143 Harley St. “Don’t talk rot . . .”. Honeycomb is good, she is getting more involved. She is a psychological Bunyan. He is harrassed by office work.

1917.10.27 To Curtis Brown ALS 2p. Rice WOM 21 27.x.1917 Eastcote “I have recently been in correspondence with . . . Duckworth . . .”. They will pay her a wage.

1918.09.06] From George Moore ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 22 September [6, 1918] 121 Ebury St “I have just read your beautiful script . . .”. He invites her to tea to discuss Peter and Paul.

1918.09.27] From George Moore ALS 1p. Richardson Papers WOM 22 Friday [c. 27 Sept.1918] Hill Hall, Theydon Mount, Epping “You write: yours resentfully . . .”. Moore was out when she came to tea.

1918.10.24 To Hugh Walpole ALS 1p. HRC, Texas WOM 23 24. Oct.1918 Rose Cottage “My poor little Grads are in dreadful trouble again.” They have been stricken with flu, and have no money. He hopes to get into the Ministry of Information.

1919.01.15] To Hugh Walpole ALS 1p. HRC, Texas WOM 23-24 [1918-1919] Rose Cottage

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“I think you have got nobly out of your quandary.” Funds have been successfully raised to save Charles Daniel and his firm. Does Lawrence know Walpole admires his work?

1919.03.07 To Edward Garnett ALS 2p. HRC, Texas WOM 24 7 Mar.1919 32. Queen’s Terrace “‘Betty’ tells me you are reviewing The Tunnel.” Alan Odle should be illustrating books.

1919.03.12 To Edward Garnett ALS 3p. HRC, Texas WOM 25 12.Mar.1919 32. Queen’s Terrace “Thank you for your kind letter.” He might still see some of Alan Odle’s drawings at the Bruton Galleries, with an eye to recommending them to Lane. She has a lingering flu, but AO would visit him.

1919.03.14 To Edward Garnett ALS 2p. HRC, Texas WOM 26 14.Mar.1919 32. Queen’s Terrace “It is kind of you to contemplate a pilgrimage to Bruton St.” And it would be very kind of him to visit them.

1919.03.21] To Edward Garnett ApcI HRC, Texas pmk. 21 MR 19 32. Queen’s Terrace “A.O. went down to the Bruton Galleries to-day . . .”. His pictures are not yet ready to take away.

1919.04.10 From Lady Desborough ALS 4p. Richardson Papers April 10 1919 Taplow Court, Taplow, Bucks “Dear Madam, I do hope . . .”. She greatly admires Pilgrimage yet feels checked and baffled.

1919.04.30 To Lady Ethel Desborough ALS 1p. Hertfordshire Archives 30 Ap.’1919 32. Queen’s Terrace “Thank you for your letter.” Miriam is “nearly all hyperaesthetic senses,” but there are glimpses of other qualities. Something, she hopes, will emerge.

1919.05.01 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg WOM 26-27 May.1.1919 32. Queen’s Terrace ‘Dear ‘Owen Nugent’–Mr. Or Miss.” In adopting the autobiographical form, he should plunge deeply. DMR had read none of the moderns when she began.

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1919.05.01a To Curtis Brown ALS 1p. Rice May - 1 - 1919 32. Queen’s Terrace “I am glad to hear your news of Mr. Knopf’s plans for The Tunnel . . .”.

1919.05.16 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1 p. Berg 16.May ’19 32. Queen’s Terrace “I am very grateful for the Little Reviews . . .”.

1919.05.20 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1p. Berg 20.v.’19 32. Queen’s Terrace “I shall be pleased to see you tomorrow . . .”.

1919.06.02 To Curtis Brown ALS 1p. Rice WOM 27-28 June.2.1919 32. Queen’s Terrace “I am much impressed by Knopf’s hardihood.” She will publish in Little Review.

1919.06.30 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg WOM 28-29 30.June.1919 32. Queen’s Terrace “I look forward to reading more Bernard.” She advises him on point of view. That view should, for fullest reality, reflect Bernard’s situation and limitations. The tale should “tell itself through the inner depth.”

1919.07.28 To Curtis Brown ALS 2p. Rice WOM 29-30 28.vii.1919 32. Queen’s Terrace “I am glad to hear from a small bird . . .”. She is concerned about more royalties from Knopf.

1919.07.31 To [Curtis Brown] ALS 1p. Rice 31.July 1919 32. Queen’s Terrace “Dear Miss Esterbrook, Many thanks for your very prompt attention . . .”.

1919.07.31a] To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 1p. Berg July 31st [1919] 32. Queen’s Terrace “We’re back; but are just off again . . .”. She likes (qualified) his sketch.

1919.07.31b To J. B. Pinker ALS 1p. Berg 31.July 1919 32. Queen’s Terrace “I wonder if you can do anything with the British or American serial rights of ...”Deadlock”?

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1919.08.10] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1p. Berg [c. 10 August 1919] 32. Queen’s Terrace “We shall be mealing at a little place on Judd St. . . . Join us . . .”.

1919.08.15 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 1 p. Berg WOM 30 15.Aug: 1919 32. Queen’s Terrace “We shall be down at Monighetti’s tomorrow . . .”.

1919.08.18 To [Curtis Brown] The International Publishing Bureau ALS 1p. Rice Aug.18.’19 32. Queen’s Terrace “Dear Sirs, I am addressing myself to you . . .”. She asks for an advance from Knopf.

1919.08.24] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1p. Berg [c. 24 August 1919] 32. Queen’s Terrace “We do not know whether to laugh or cry over the Burlington Arcade . . . . Come whenever you like.”

1919.08.30] To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 2p. Berg [Summer 1919] 32. Queen’s Terrace “The quality of Bernard accumulates convincingly . . .”. DMR is interested in the short sketches.

1919.09.15 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 4p. Berg WOM 30-31 Sept.15. ’19 c/o Mrs. Carne, Trehemborne. St Merryn, Padstow “I am posting you three Mackenzies . . .” with thanks. His Sylvia novels confirm James’s approval of him. “My proofs are pouring in.”

1919.09.25 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 2p. Berg 25 Sep. 1919 c/o Mrs. Carne, Trehemborne, St. Merryn, [Padstow] “I am writing . . . almost asleep . . .”. The variety in Compton Mackenzie’s work derives from what he is trying to do, not from experiment for its own sake.

1919.10.10] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1p. Berg Friday [Oct.] 10th [1919] Rose Cottage “It is a shock.” He is going to India.

1919.11.17 To Compton Mackenzie ALS 2 p. HRC, Texas WOM 32 17.Nov.’19 C/o Duckworth & Co.

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“I feel the London Mercury’s review of your work so much as a personal insolence” that she is impelled to say how much she appreciates his later novels.

1919.12.01 To H. G. Wells ALS 1p. Richardson Papers WOM 33 Dec: 1: 1919 Rose Cottage “I am sending you an Interim. Don’t judge . . . too harshly.”

1920.01.01 To Curtis Brown ALS 2p. Rice Jan: 1. 1920 Rose Cottage “Thank you for your note.” Knopf has accepted Interim without question. The royalties concern her.

1920.02.07 To Edward Garnett ALS 4p. HRC, Texas WOM 38-39 Feb.7.1920 Rose Cottage “We have been wanting to write to you . . .”. She welcomes his perceptive review of Interim (written in a “gale of difficulties”), but is furious at the review in the London Mercury. She loves satire, like Candide, but is not at home with it. The Beresfords and May Sinclair have visited.

1920.02.21 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg WOM 40-42 Feb: 21: 1920 Rose Cottage “All your letters arrived safely . . .”. She does not appreciate Swinnerton, Cannan or George. The primitive cottage DMR occupies has neither water nor electricity. They had a splendid five-day holiday at Christmas. She hopes for an Indian letter from Owen.

1920.04.16 To Compton Mackenzie ALS 3p. HRC, Texas WOM 42-43 Ap:16:1920 Rose Cottage “It surprised . . . me to discover that you have read some of my books.” She deplores Interim but has better hopes for its successor. She would welcome a few of his books.

1920.05.03 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg WOM 43-44 3.May 1920 Trevone Cottage “Just a line with Honeycomb . . .”. She finds “snobbishness” in most women authors, like Austen and Woolf, but not in Charlotte Brontë. She and AO are now in lodgings.

1920.06.03 To Compton Mackenzie ALS 1p. HRC, Texas June 3rd 1920 Trevone Cottage “It is late to acknowledge the . . . avalanche of books.” She has been feasting on them.

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1920.06.16] [To Edward Garnett] ALS 1p. HRC, Texas [c. 16 June 1920] [Trevone Cottage] “Should I say bombinating?” She reflects on critical reviews of Interim. They are boarding with Mrs. Pope. When they come to town, Garnett might examine Alan Odle’s drawings and consider a frontispiece.

1920.12.05 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 5p. Berg WOM 45-47 5th December.1920 (32. Queen’s Terrace) Cosy Corner “I am going to get off some sort of a letter . . .”. They have been immensely crowded. During the last weeks in London they went to the Café Royal and indulged in the “indispensable drug” of “society.” Clemence Dane and G. B. Stern are not her sort. And Mackenzie’s latest works disappoint.

1921.01.12 To J. B. Pinker ALS 1 p. Berg Jan.12.1921 Cosy Corner “A line in haste . . .”. She refers to The Future of the Novel.

1921.01.18] To J. B. Pinker ALS 1p. Berg [January 1921] Cosy Corner “Thank you for your letter.” She is concerned about rights for a column in Pall Mall Gazette.

1921.01.09 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1p. Berg 9th Jan. 1921 Cosy Corner “Just a line before I settle down to three months ‘travail acharné’ . . . . Your letters . . . shall be preserved . . .”.

1921.03.09] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg WOM 47-48 Mar: 9th, 10th, or thereabouts 1921 Cosy Corner “Your letters, most welcome refreshments . . .”. She has strained her eyes reading American proofs of Deadlock. They plan for London around the middle of May. Both Duckworth and Knopf are publishing her at a loss.

1921.04.21 To E. B. C. Jones ALS 1p. British Library WOM 48-49 Ap 21st.1921 Trevone Cottage “Dear author of ‘Quiet Interior’– ” Though grateful for praise for Pilgrimage, she hopes for further critical evaluation.

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1921.05.02] [To Edward Marsh & St. John Irvine] ALS 1p. Waterloo WOM 48-49 [c. 2 May 1921] Trevone Cottage “Tribute to Mr. Hardy” DMR contributes 10s to this devoir.

1921.05.12 To E. B. C. Jones ALS 3p. British Library WOM 49-50 May 12th.1921 Trevone Cottage “I am abashed; dismayed . . .” at praise. But she agrees that the compressed opening of The Tunnel fails. It was “horrible” refraining from giving direct information about the characters; Miriam for instance is 17. DMR is shocked that Jones thinks Miriam has “a high moral tone.”

1921.06.26] To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 1p. Berg [c. 26 June 1921] [n.p.] “Best thanks for the little note.”

1921.07.08 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 8 JUL 21 pmk. SJOHNSWD “We are coming away for tomorrow & Sunday.”

1921.08.30 From George Moore ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. AUG 30. 1921 pmk. LONDON “I am glad that you liked my book . . .”. Catholicism and Protestantism are based on the positions of Peter and Paul.

1921.09.05] To E. B. C. Jones ALS 2p. British Library WOM 52 September 1921 32. Queen’s Terrace “I blush in confessing that your book reached me safely.” She has been distracted. She wonders how Jones can like her very different and socially threadbare subject matter. They leave on October 17.

1921.09.15] To E. B. C. Jones ALS 2p. British Library WOM 53 September 1921 32. Queen’s Terrace “I read your book by a bad lamplight– ” She compares the fiction of Jones and Henry James, using a complex undersea metaphor. Jones is mentally alive.

1921.09.26 To E. B. C. Jones ApcI British Library pmk. 26 SEP 21 [32. Queen’s Terrace] “Tank = Drawingroom.” She loves melodrama in the films, and is left cold by De La Mare’s poetry.

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1921.10.16] To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 3p. Berg WOM 50-51 [Summer 1921] [16 October 1921] 32. Queen’s Terrace “I saw B.L. yesterday.” She reports news from Barbara Low and comments about friends (Muirs) in Prague. At the Lyons shop she discovered the Lyons Mail. Chaos of packing reigns.

1921.10.17] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg [17 October 1921] [32. Queen’s Terrace] “I hope you won’t be aghast to hear we are leaving the portfolio . . .”. He is to take it to the Beresfords.

1921.10.27] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg WOM 54-55 [c. 27 October 1921] Cosy Corner “Our best thanks for your account . . .”. He has just left for Prague. He is arranging a copy of Ulysses She is writing small things, not Pilgrimage. She encourages him to take care of himself.

1921.11.08] From Alan Odle to Mrs. H. G. Wells ALS 1p. Pennsylvania [c. 8 November 1921] Cosy Corner “I had no idea . . .”. He is both glad and bereaved that she has taken one of his drawings.

1921.11.15] To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 4p. Berg WOM 55-57 [c. 15 November 1921] Cosy Corner “Dear Boy, It is charming of you to put us so soon in touch with Prague . . .”. She is impressed with Wassermann’s fiction, its technical brilliance and balance, but it displays a too clever conscious grasp of everything.

1922.03.25] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg WOM 57-58 [March 1922] Harlyn [From Ap. 25th Trevone Cotage] “Your letter embodying . . . facts & essences . . . finds me packing up the American ‘Deadlock’”. Alan is consumed with drawings for Candide.

1922.05.04 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg May 4th 1922 Trevone Cottage “The best of thanks from us both . . .”. She is idle but does a little writing. Alan has finished the Candide drawings.

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“I have just sent you on a Times.” They are holidaying after their winter’s work, and enjoying the spring.

1922.05.20] To Henry Savage ALS 2p. Pennsylvania WOM 58-59 [Spring 1922] Trevone Cottage “Thank you for your poem.” But she objects to pitting town against country and to the complaints of some poets.

1922.07.11 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 11 JUL 1922 pmk. SAINT JOHN’S WOOD “Congratulations to the special correspondent of the Observer . . .”.

1922.07.15] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg WOM 60-61 [Summer 1922] 32. Queen’s Terrace “The whole length of our mantleshelf is a holiday in Central Europe [where Owen is traveling].” The Criterion has been launched. Allinson has appeared with a two-year old son. DMR struggles with the end of Revolving Lights.

1922.08.27 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 27 AUG 1922 32. Q.T. “The drawings have not reached Neumayer.”

1922.09.16] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg 16th Sep: [1922] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Your parcel has just reached Neumayer.”

1922.10.28] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg [c. 28 October 1922] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Cheers & cheers & cheers!” DMR reviews Wells’s literary career, from his exuberant fantasy period through his problem novels to his growing involvement with Oudle School.

1922.10.31 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 1p. Berg 31st Oct: 1922 32. Queen’s Terrace; after 9th [Nov.] Harlyn “A second copy of Chevalley came to hand . . .”. She praises Lubbock’s book.

1922.11.11 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 4p. Berg WOM 61-63 Nov.11th 1922 Harlyn

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“Nice little prècis on Mozart.” She discusses Wells whom PBW is writing about. He has a passionate vision of the world as a whole. “He stands for all workers. . .”. She wants to read Proust.

1922.11.20] To Compton Mackenzie ALS 2p. HRC, Texas [c. 20 November 1922] Cosy Corner “A few weeks ago, in town, I met a young Palestinian French Jew . . .” who wishes to translate you. What does Mackenzie advise?

1922.11.27] To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 1p. Berg [c. 27 November 1922] Harlyn “J’accuse–you” of sending Proust’s Swann. “. . . I thank you profoundly.”

1922.12.15] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg WOM 63-65 Dec. 1922 Harlyn “I send you . . . the ‘Daily Mail’” with her article on skirts. She is “deep in the magic of Proust.” He is writing not through but about consciousness. Lawrence has discovered his Englishness and Savage has discovered Cornwall. She works on vol. viii.

1923.02.15] To Alfred A. Knopf ALS 2p. HRC, Texas WOM 65-66 Feb:1923 Harlyn “Your last letter found me . . .” beginning a winter’s work. She has received letters from enthusiastic readers all over the U.S. “When am I to have the proofs of ‘Revolving Lights?’”

1923.03.02] To E. B. C. Jones ALI 1p. British Library [c. early March] Harlyn “Please send along The Wedgwood Medallion at once!” Revolving Lights is in press.

1923.03.13 From Alfred A. Knopf TLU carbon c. 1p. HRC, Texas WOM 66-67 March 13 1923 [n.p.] “I received . . . your letter of February.” He cannot afford to set up Revolving Lights. “The preceding books have cost me a good deal.”

1923.03.15 To Alfred A. Knopf ALS 1p. HRC, Texas March 15th 1923 Harlyn “Please go ahead with ‘Revolving Lights’ as soon as you can.”

1923.03.18] To E. B. C. Jones ALS 2p. British Library Mar.1923 Harlyn

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“My Dear Mrs Lucas – I cannot tell you . . .”. Henry Savage has borrowed the book Jones sent. DMR recalls her experiences of “dear charming academics” in Cambridge.

1923.04.30 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg WOM 67-69 Ap 30th 1923 Trevone [Cottage] “Scarcely a letter have I written . . . that has not been extorted . . .”. She critiques PBW’s erratic use of internal point of view in his writing. Murry and Lawrence complain about the fiction of DMR, Joyce and Proust. She is having a mild row with Knopf.

1923.05.05] To Alfred A. Knopf ALS 1p. HRC, Texas May 1923 Trevone Cottage “It just occurs to me . . .” that it might be worthwhile to send review copies of Revolving Lights to Quaker papers.

1923.06.15] To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers WOM 69 June.1923 32. Queen’s Terrace “Your letter found me on holiday.” DMR replies to Bryher’s first letter.

1923.06.19] From H. G. Wells ALI 3p. Tulsa [c. 19 June 1923] Easton Glebe, Dunmow. “I think you must have that £100 & my blessing . . .”. He works hard and cannot have uninterrupted time for a book; if she can it’s worth £100.

1923.07.01 From Frances Gale TLS (typed signature) 4p. Richardson Papers July 1st, 1923 234 Richton Avenue, Highland Park, Mich. “This is Frances Gale.” She recalls her friendship with DMR in London 10 years ago and speaks admiringly of Pilgrimage.

1923.07.05] To Alfred A. Knopf ALS 2p. HRC, Texas WOM 70-71 July 1923 32. Queen’s Terrace “Is my book now published?” She describes reports of interest in her work, and hopes he will advertise the new book widely.

1923.07.15] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg WOM 71-72 July 1923 32. Queen’s Terrace “Your letter and the Dial arrived . . .”. Is Knopf lying about sales of her books? He claims he can only afford to buy 500 sheets of her latest from Duckworth. PBW plans to get out of New York.

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1923.08.03] To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers WOM 73 [Summer 1923] 32. QT “I’ve read your book.” (Development)

1923.08.05] To E. B. C. Jones ALS 2p. British Library Aug 1923 32. Queen’s Terrace “You bereave me cruelly.” She comments, confusingly, on Jones’s fictional characters. As for meeting: “Deadly dull I feel you would find me.”

1923.08.07] From H. G. Wells ALI 1p. Tulsa [c. 7.] VIII. 23. Easton Glebe, Dunmow “I dont like to think of you pinching & scraping to pay off a debt I had forgotten.”

1923.08.08] From Aldous Huxley ALS 3p. Richardson Papers [August 1923] Castel Montici, Florence “Whenever I wrote from the offices of Vogue” the letter was returned. He has since moved 6 times and in Italy will have no indoor water.

1923.08.14 From Alfred A. Knopf TLU carbon copy 2p. HRC, Texas August 14, 1923 [New York] “Thank you for your recent letter.” Knopf has just published REVOLVING LIGHTS. Sales are unlikely to exceed 700.

1923.08.18] To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers [1923] 32. Queen’s Terrace “I hated letting you go . . .”. She refers to Bryher’s “little bombshell.”

1923.08.19 To E. B. C. Jones ApcS British Library pmk. 19 AUG 1923 32. Q.T. “Have just reread ‘Quiet Interior’ – with delight.”

1923.09.03] To H.D. ALS 1p. H.D. Papers WOM 73 Sept.1923 32. Queen’s Terrace “You are an enchantress . . .”. Alan could not tolerate rain and mist.

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“There are moments when I want . . . to get you focussed . . .”. She elaborates on Alan Odle’s health and the possibility of going to Switzerland.

1923.09.08] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers Sept 1923 32. Queen’s Terrace “At present we have only a fragment of our tickets . . .”. She is arranging tickets. They propose leaving for Switzerland 1st Nov.

1923.09.10] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg WOM 74-75 Sep 1923 32. Queen’s Terrace “I have tried in vain . . .” to write PBW. She has seen Allinson, Hyde, Bryher, H.D. McAlmon, etc., and is preparing to go to Switzerland.

1923.09.15] To Clement Shorter ALS 1p. Leeds WOM 75 Sep. [1923] 32. Queen’s Terrace [after Nov. 1st: Chateau d’Oex, Switzerland] “I am glad you are going to publish my little poem.”

1923.09.20] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 76 [1923] 32. Queen’s Terrace “I can’t remember whether you’ve tried . . . Cape.” They are going to Switzerland around the end of October.

1923.09.25] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 77-78 [1923] [n.p.] “I throw up my hands!” Her plans for Switzerland start with a quiet week alone in Montreux, before taking residence for a winter of work.

1923.09.27] To P. Beaumont Wadsworth ALS 1p. Beinecke Sep 1923. 32. Queen’s Terrace. N. W. 8. “Your first consignment of papers has just arrived.” She would be glad to earn extra money to cover the mounting extra charges for their trip to Switzerland.

1923.09.30] To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers WOM 78 [1923] [n.p.] “Of course you take your poetry seriously . . .”. She finds Bryher a strange mixture.

1923.10.02] To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 2p. Berg WOM 78-79 [Sept.-Oct. 1923] [n.p.]

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“A line in great haste . . .”. Her London life: people come all day and stay all night. They leave for Montreux November 1.

1923.10.05] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 80 Oct.1923 32. Queen’s Terrace “Right, you are in Paris.” DMR has written eight poems lately.

1923.10.12] To Bryher ALS 3p. Richardson Papers [c. 12 October 1923] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Can use a screwdriver, but shrink before machinery . . .”. She is sending two poems. Life’s demands crowd upon her.

1923.10.15] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 81-82 Oct 1923 32. Queen’s Terrace “I’m truly grateful for the books . . .”. She half admires de Régnier’s poetry. The Swiss travel is arranged. She wants Alan’s first impressions to be unspoiled.

1923.10.25] To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers [c. 25 October 1923] 32. Queen’s Terrace “The P.L.M. can’t get us couchettes till the 2nd . . .”. She disagrees with Bryher’s criticism of her poems.

1923.10.26] To Edward Garnett ALS 1p. HRC, Texas WOM 82 [26 Oct 1923 in another hand] 32. Queen’s Terrace “We are so pleased that you will dawn on us again” before they leave for Switzerland.

1923.11.07] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 7 XI 23; BOSTON NOV 20 1923 Riant Chateau, Territet “Here for a few weeks.”

1923.11.08] [From Alan Odle to Bryher?] ALI 1p. Richardson Papers [c. 8 November 1923] [Montreux] “We shall all go paddling in the Arno . . .”. Drawing and text: The Alan elephant draws, the Dorothy elephant writes about Miriam on a board.

1923.11.16] From H. G. Wells ALI lp. Tulsa [c. 16 November 1923] 120, Whitehall Court, S.W.1.

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“Yes. A signed article on why women should vote for H.G.W. . . . would be very helpful indeed.”

1923.11.22 To Michael Ross ApcI Michael Ross Papers, Meany Archives pmk. 22.11.23 Chalet Marie, Chateau d’Oex. Suisse. “Glad to hear from you.” She hopes nothing is wrong with Wadsworth. [To: Herbert Ross]

1923.12.03] To Bryher ALS (Dolores) 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 83 Tuesday [Fall 1923] Chalet Marie, Chateau d’Oex “Chuckle as much as you like.” She describes the tiny rooms in their pension, and the glory of pure light.

1923.12.13] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 84-85 [Fall 1923] Chalet Marie [Chateau d’Oex] “Madame Henchoz has just lent me . . .” the local paper. Alan loves their life here. They work in the morning and after supper.

1923.12.18] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 18 December 1923] Chalet Marie, Chateau d’Oex “Mist, rain, slush. Mountains disappearing.” Shoals of English are arriving.

1923.12.20 To P. B. Wadsworth Apc I Berg pmk. 20 XII 23 pmk. CHATEAU D’OEX “Belated New Year’s Greetings.”

1923.12.27] To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers [c. 27 December 1923] Chalet Marie. [Château d’Oex] “That little watch is an Absolute Boon.” Their Christmas was charming and moving. Heavy snow.

1923.12.30 To Michael Ross ALS 4p. Michael Ross Papers, Meany Archives 1923. Dec. 30th Chalet Marie, Chateau d’Oex “All through this last ten days of snow - rain - flood . . .” she has been worrying over what has happened to Wadsworth in America. A record winter here with terrible avalanches.

1924.01.03] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Jan 1924 Chalet Marie, Chateau d’Oex “So glad to have Two Selves . . .”. Recent avalanches trapped their landlord for 4 days.

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1924.01.04] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers 1924. Jan. Chalet Marie. Château d’Oex. “We know only the common garden rhinoceros.” They have met people who went to Gstaad.

1924.01.05] To John Austen ALS 1p. Richardson Papers WOM 85-86 1924.Jan. Chalet Marie. Chateau d’Oex. Suisse. “I pine for that exhibition . . .” but worry about the cost. “It has been truly wonderful this winter . . .”. After the end of next week: Les Hirondelles, Chateau d’Oex.

1924.01.10 To Michael Ross ApcS Michael Ross Papers, Meany Archives Jan 10th [pmk. 10.1.24] Chalet Marie, Chateau d’Oex. “Both greatly relieved by your news.” Wadsworth is back in Europe.

1924.01.12 To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers 1924 Jan.12th. Chalet Marie. Ch. d’Oex. “If you’re immersed, don’t write.” Rebecca West is infatuated with the U. S. More snow.

1924.01.16] To Ruth Pollard TLS (edited copy) 3p. Richardson Papers 1924. [c. 16] Jan. Chalet Marie, Chateau d'Oex, Suisse “A rather belated happy New Year . . .”. They spent a month in Montreux; then shared a traditional Christmas with their wood merchant host. He was then trapped four days in an avalanche.

1924.01.20] To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers [c.20 January 1924] Chalet Marie. Chateau d’Oex. “If I did do my own typing . . .”. She confesses she has not added one word to The Trap. They are moving to Les Hirondelles tomorrow.

1924.01.25] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 86-87 Jan.1924 Les Hirondelles, Chateau d’Oex “I shoo at you with a broom . . .”. Bryher’s gifts are praised. Rebecca West has broken with Wells. The Trap is taken up.

1924.02.12] To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 3p. Berg Feb.1924 Les Hirondelles, Chateau d’Oex, Suisse “This will . . . be in time to catch you in England . . .”. PBW plans to visit them. The trip from London takes 24 hours. They first stayed in Montreux with Bryher, then over Christmas in a French pension, and are now among English tourists.

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1924.02.15] To J. M. Murry ALS 1 p. HRC, Texas WOM 87-88 [Feb.? 1924] Les Hirondelles, Chateau d’Oex “Will you please, if you find Punctuation good enough . . .” tell me whether you would like other articles [for The Adelphi].

1924.02.15a] [From Alan Odle to Bryher] ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 15 Feb. 1924] Elephant House, Chateau d’Oex “Acting upon your instructions” but DMR will not leave off work to go to Montreux.

1924.02.17 To Bryher ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 17 February 1924] Les Hirondelles, Château d’Oex “Someone sent me a Douglas book a while back . . .”. His books induce conflicting reactions. Bryher is coming to Montreux, as is Wadsworth.

1924.02.21] To H.D. ALI 2p. H.D. Papers [c. 21 February 1924] Les Hirondelles, Château d'Oex. “Been wanting you to be back in your eyrie . . .”. They are here, along with 15 virgins, until the end of April. Then Cornwall, she hopes.

1924.02.25] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Feb.’24. Les Hirondelles. Château d’Oex. Suisse. “Spring’s been here.” She is working well in this beehive: “shan’t stir till end of April.”

1924.02.27] To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 3p. telegram blanks Berg [c. 27 February 1924] [Chateau d’Oex] “Cher Enfant . . .”. He is told how to proceed to Territet.

1924.03.05] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 88-89 Mar.1924 Les Hirondelles, Chateau d’Oex “Our little traveller walked in . . .”. Wadsworth is on his way to Vienna. Alan’s symptoms have returned.

1924.03.16] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 16 March 1924] Les Hirondelles, Château d’Oex “Your . . . numbers of Natural History” have been read from time to time. She is planning their visit to Cornwall. The Trap is closed to her.

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1924.03.24 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 24 III.24 Les Hirondelles, Chateau d’Oex “Glad to have word of you.” They leave April 10.

1924.03.27] To H.D. ALI 1p. H.D. Papers [c. 27 March 1924] Les Hirondelles, Chateau d'Oex “I've been beset or I might have written.” “A. had a set-back.” They need accommodation after April 10.

1924.03.29] To H.D. ALS 1p. H.D. Papers [c. 29 March 1924] Les Hirondelles, Chateau d'Oex “They're not now going to close this place until the 15th . . .”. It is now quiet and DMR is getting on with her book.

1924.03.30] To H.D. ALS 2p. H.D. Papers [30 March 1924] Les Hirondelles, Ch. d'Oex “I've been stunned, paralyzed, beset . . . we may now have lost the chance even of the Ketterer.” H.D. is leaving for London. DMR hopes “to rush down the end” of her book.

1924.03.31 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 89-90 Mar.31.1924 Les Hirondelles, Chateau d’Oex “I’ve tried to write to you.” She thanks Bryher for a gift of money. The Trap progresses. They go to Montreux on the 15th.

1924.04.05] To H.D. ALS 4p. H.D. Papers [5 April 1924] Les Hirondelles, Château d'Oex “If you read local news . . .” you would know of the shooting match here today. “We've not had a single day's holiday since we came up . . .”.

1924.04.08] To J. M. Murry ALS 1p. HRC, Texas Ap.1924 Chateau d’Oex / 32. Queen’s Terrace “My March Adelphi reached me . . .”. Her essay on George Fox may be ready before July.

1924.04.08a] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers [c. 8 April 1924] Les Hirondelles, Château d’Oex “Dark & true & tender is the north.” The thaw is enchanting. She pictures her resting place under the snows.

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1924.04.14] To H.D. ALS 1p. H.D. Papers Ap: 14th [1924] Les Hirondelles “We shall get down some time tomorrow afternoon.” Come to tea Wednesday.

1924.04.23] To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers Wednesday [c. 23 April 1924] Hotel Richemont [Montreux] “First your harrowing little squeal . . .”. Everyone is going to Paris. They go next Tuesday.

1924.04.26] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 91-92 [Spring 1924] Hotel Richemont, Avenue du Kursaal, Montreux “I am glad to hear the little chirrup . . .”. Their plans for travel to Paris and arrangements for their first day there are spelled out.

1924.04.28 To H.D. ALS 1p. H.D. Papers WOM 91 Ap:28th 1924 Hotel Richemont, Montreux “Lady, You withdraw yourself . . .”. They thank H.D. for her gleaming, flashing poems. They visited The Sports.

1924.05.04] To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers WOM 93-94 [1924] Hotel de la Haute Loire, Boulevard Raspail, Paris “Sunday afternoon in Bloomsbury . . .”. They are seeing Nina Hamnett, Mina Loy, the Vails and the Hemingways.

1924.05.10] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers [c. 10 May 1924] Trevone “But, darling, our address is 32 . . .”. Jane Wells reports a meeting of the old girls from their Putney school. DMR regrets that A Hasty Bunch by McAlmon has such limited circulation.

1924.05.10a] [From Alan Odle to Bryher and all] AL(!)U 1p. Richardson Papers [c. 10 May 1924?] [Trevone?] “Hearty Greetings from the mild wild west to all at Laughing Castle.”

1924.05.22 To Sylvia Beach ApcS Princeton May 1924. [pmk 22 May 24] Trevone Cottage “After days in London . . .” Paris is still all round them.

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1924.05.23] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 94-95 Friday [May 1924] Trevone Cottage “It rains & rains . . .”. She is looking after Alan and surreptitiously working.

1924.05.24 To Alfred A. Knopf ALS 1p. HRC, Texas May 24th 1924 Trevone Cottage “An American reader writes to ask” about Revolving Lights. Please forward a catalogue.

1924.05.26] To H.D. ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 26 May 1924] Trevone Cottage “I have been incapable of writing letters . . .”. Vanity Fair pays well. Cornwall resented their absence.

1924.06.05 From Alfred A. Knopf TLU carbon copy 1p. HRC, Texas June 5, 1924 [New York] “Your letter of May 24 has just come . . .”.

1924.06.07 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 96 June 7th 1924 32. Queen’s Terrace “Two fat & lovely packages just arrived:” French books from Bryher. Traveled cosmopolitans abound all over London. DMR is writing for Vanity Fair and settling in.

1924.06.07a To Clement Shorter ALS 1 p. Leeds June 7th 1924 32. Queen’s Terrace “On reaching home yesterday . . .” she found the missing cheques. His praise of her work is appreciated.

1924.06.08 From Ernest Hemingway ALS 2p. Richardson Papers June 8, 1924 [Transatlantic Review, Paris] “Thanks very much for the note . . .”. He asks for a DMR story.

1924.06.16] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers June 1924 32. Queen’s Terrace. “We’re wilting in a heat-wave, after wintry cold.” Chaos, trying to cook and housekeep. She is writing articles. The other Dorothy Richardson has published a much-reviewed novel.

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1924.06.23 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 23 JUN 1924 32. Queens [sic] Terrace “Are you still Viennise?” Ulysses came through in our luggage.

1924.06.23a] To George Blake ALS 1p. Beinecke June 1924. 32. Queen’s Terrace “Though I have no memory of seeing the sea for the first time . . .” DMR does recall when first it appeared as apart from herself. Only for sea-board peoples does the sea symbolize “the larger aspects of human life.”

1924.07.03] To H.D. ALS 1p. H.D. Papers [c. 3 July 1924] 32. Queen's Terrace “How are the tigers?” They have read The Dominant Sex.

1924.07.14 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg WOM 97 pmk. 14 JY 24 32. Queen’s Terrace “Wie geht’s?” They brought back Ulysses to London.

1924.07.15] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 97-98 [July 1924] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Item: I’ve sent in two small poems . . .”. She has written a letter deploring the confusion between herself and the author of The Book of Blanche. She is recopying The Trap.

1924.07.20] To H.D. ALS 3p. H.D. Papers [July? 1924] London “Don’t come your Swiss thunderstorms over me.” London is jammed. They are still reaping the joys of their European holiday.

1924.07.22] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 22 July 1924] 32. Queen’s Terrace. “Enormous Room arrived . . .”. Very warm weather. The first part of The Trap is going to the typist.

1924.07.25] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 99-100 July 1924 32. Queen’s Terrace “Thank you over & over . . .”. They visited the Gauguin show in London: “magnificent sickness.”.

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1924.08.05] To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 4p. Berg WOM 100-101 Aug: 1924 32. Queen’s Terrace “I seem to have had a letter . . . a month ago.” During PBW’s visit to Switzerland, Alan was ill and DMR had to keep him quiet. In Paris they saw Bryher and crowds of other people. They go to Cornwall in October.

1924.08.07] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 102-103 [Aug. 1924] [n.p.] “Fifty times [a] day I . . . say Conrad is dead . . .”. She is slogging at short stories. They have visited Crosland.

1924.08.08] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 8 August 1924] 32. Queen’s Terrace. “I don’t believe I ever thanked you for . . . Suzanne . . .”. She has written a little poem for Conrad. “Can’t get over Conrad’s death.”

1924.08.15] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 103-104 [Summer 1924] 32. Queen’s Terrace “I’m at bay.” Very busy. Psychoanalytic theorem “has gone phut.” AO is holding up. They will go to Cornwall in the fall.

1924.08.25] To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers WOM 104-105 [Summer 1924] 32. Queen’s Terrace “That’s solid good news . . .”. Emma Goldman is an extreme Bolshevik. DMR’s proof reading for Wells is complicated; she has raised her fee. They can’t fit in Paris this fall.

1924.09.12] To Bryher TLS [typed sigature] 1p. Bryher Papers WOM 106 [Summer 1924] 32. Queens Terrace “Hats off.” Her first typed letter excites her. Bryher and Robert have visited DMR.

1924.09.14] To Bryher TLS (typed signature) 1p. Bryher Papers [c. 14 September 1924] [32. Queen’s Terrace] “Briar? . . . Sweetbriar, of course.” Little Review will probably not want “The Man from Nowhere.”

1924.09.17] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 17 September 1924?] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Eastbourne must have been fine . . . . My ghost wanders there, blissfully.” She recalls in detail her trips over ten years ago from the fruit farm to Eastbourne.

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1924.09.22] To H.D. ALS 1p. H.D. Papers [c. 22 September 1924] 32. Queen's Terrace “Again . . . you are striding the bright pavements of Territet . . .”.

1924.09.23] To P. B. Wadsworth TLS 2p. Berg [c. 23 September 1924] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Found your batch awaiting me . . .”. They have had a delightful holiday in Sussex.

1924.09.29] To Bryher TLI (typed initial) 1p. Bryher Papers [c. 29 September? 1924] 32. Queens Terrace “Do you get floods of illum. from your splendid attempt to release M.?”

1924.10.01 From Ernest Hemingway ALS 2p. Richardson Papers October 1, 1924 113 Rue Notre Dame des Champs, Paris VI “I’m so sorry . . .”. He comments about “The Garden” and his own stories.

1924.10.17] To Bryher TLS (typed signature) 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 17 October 1924] [32. Queen’s Terrace] “Your letter is grand news.” She recalls Montreux and the Jundt. Untermeyer wants to anthologize one of her poems. They are dining with May Sinclair.

1924.11.01] To Bryher TLS (typed signature) 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 107-108 [Fall 1924] [London] “For weeks life has been . . .” hectic. They met Sinclair Lewis at May Sinclair’s. DMR appreciates Hyde’s review of her work.

1924.11.08] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers [c. 8 November 1924] Harlyn “Too weary to tap. That last fortnight [in London] was killing.” She is sending a piece from The Trap to Contact, and working on her next book.

1924.11.15] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 15 November 1924] Harlyn “There is, down here, a perfect chanciness about letters.” She is putting Proust out of sight. “Don’t leave Territet as long as you all tap.”

1924.11.22] To Bryher ALS 6p. Bryher Papers [c.22 November 1924] Harlyn.

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“Do get on to Florence, all of you.” She gives details of May Sinclair’s “irregular” party with Sinclair Lewis and Dr. Henry Head as guests. [There follows a diagram showing the area around “the shack,” Cosy Corner.]

1924.12.04] To H.D. ALS 3p. H.D. Papers WOM 108-109 [Fall 1924] [Cosy Corner], Harlyn “Dear Bella Donna:– ” Weeks of mild weather were followed by a violent thunder storm. St. Ives is heavenly.

1924.12.11] To Michael Ross A note U 1p. Michael Ross Papers, Meany Archives [c. 11 December 1924?] Cosy Corner, Harlyn., Padstow. “With kind regards from D. M. Odle . . .”. She returns a volume.

1924.12.17] To Bryher TLS (typed signature) 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 109-110 [Late 1924] [Cosy Corner], Harlyn “A line to greet you . . .”. She is reading Proust in French. “He’s just what I wanted.” Duckworth asks for a new book within the year.

1924.12.23] To H.D. ALS 1p. H.D. Papers [c. 23 December 1924] Harlyn “A word to greet you for Noël . . .”. The New York Nation reviewed Heliodora.

1924.12.24] To Michael Ross ALS 2p. Michael Ross Papers, Meany Archives [c. 24 December 1924?] Harlyn., Padstow “There is just time to wave you a Christmas Greeting from us both.” Wild weather here. She is preparing for Christmas and two guests.

1925.01.03 To Bryher TLS (typed signature) 3p. Bryher Papers Jan.3.1925 Harlyn “Whatever, as they say . . . “. At the last moment they received Bryher’s magnificent Christmas hamper. They have been drowned and deafened by gales.

1925.01.08 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 110-11 8th Jan 1925 Harlyn “One of these days . . .”. DMR has had much correspondence over the four-man show in the spring. Also, she has quarreled with Wells over Crosland, now deceased. Will her proof-reading be withdrawn by him?

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1925.02.15] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 112-13 [Feb.? 1925] Harlyn “I have been thinking over your proposition . . .” to help. DMR accepts for this year. There will be expenses for the London art show, but she hopes to get on with Oberland.

1925.02.26] To Michael Ross ALI 1p. Michael Ross Papers, Meany Archives [c. 26 February 1925] Harlyn., Padstow “With apologies for the atrocious delay . . .”.

1925.02.27] To H.D. ALS 2p. H.D. Papers [c. 27 February 1925] Harlyn “Bella Dame sans merci . . . Mother of Sorrows, have pity.” She details her exhausting but satisfying day.

1925.02.28] From H. G. Wells ApcI Tulsa [c. 28 February 1925] [n.p.] “I am sorry to be hard hearted about the late Crosland” but his behavior was vile.

1925.03.01] To Bryher TLS (typed signature) 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 1 March 1925] Harlyn “Have I said a word of thanks for West?” “Proofs of Trap just in. . . . Oberland rolling along.” Alan’s show is 21 May. Proust is being read piecemeal.

1925.03.01a] [From Alan Odle to Bryher?] AL(!)U 1 p. Richardson Papers [c. 1 March 1925?] [Harlyn?] “The Puffin elephant and the Sergeant elephant hard at work”

1925.03.06] To H.D. ALS 2p. H.D. Papers [c. 6 March 1925] Harlyn “Alloe - Alloe – You there?” Their eclipse was modest. She is a reveler through all the year.

1925.03.08] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 8 March 1925] Harlyn. “Barbara Low – wants to know” about Havelock Ellis’ financial circumstances. Proust: “He’s the male satirist, possessing though the feminine unifying antidote.”

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1925.03.10 From H. G. Wells ALI 1p. Tulsa 10 iii 25 4, Whitehall Court, (Flat 120), S.W.1. “I’m away in Provence trying to concentrate upon a real big effort.” He understands her feeling about Crosland.

1925.03.28] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c.28 March 1925] Harlyn. Padstow “Wild storms.” They shift Monday to Trevone Cottage for 6 weeks.

1925.04.05] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 5 April 1925] Trevone Cottage “Underwood going strong . . .”. Alan has sent in most of his drawings for the London show.

1925.04.09] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 113-15 [April? 1925] Trevone Cottage “Your blessed telegram . . .” – The Trap is out. Bryher is in Territet, vividly recalled by DMR. “Oberland one-third complete.” Wadsworth has been to Berlin.

1925.04.10] To P. B. Wadsworth TLS 3p Berg WOM 115-16 Ap. [10?] 1925 Trevone Cottage “It is just as well, daer [sic] boy . . .”. She has written many letters re Alan’s show, and has read 10 volumes of Proust in French (a rich tapestry).

1925.04.22 To Sylvia Beach ALS 2p. Princeton Ap. 22nd 1925 Trevone Cottage “I have just heard . . .” the de Goncourt Diary is released. Who controls the translation rights? DMR would like to translate it.

1925.04.25] To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 1p. Berg [c. 25 April 1925] [Trevone Cottage] “Must return these– ” She is hard at work for Alan’s show.

1925.05.16 From H. G. Wells ApcI Tulsa pmk. 16 MAY 1925 pmk. LONDON S.W.1 “On Thursday . . . I shall be rumbling out of Victoria southward.” He likes AO’s Candide pictures.

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1925.05.23 To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers May 23rd 1925 32. Queen’s Terrace “Great news from you.” Duckworth offers £25 for Oberland. Alan’s drawings are badly hung.

1925.06.25] To Bryher TLS (typed signature) 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 25? June? 1925] 32. Queen’s Terrace. “A line in haste to tell you iyems [sic] of news . . . [about] Douglas and Ellis.” Their works are being reissued.

1925.08.04] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 116-117 Tuesday. [Aug. 4, 1925] c/o Mrs. H. G. Wells. Easton Glebe, Dunmow “My very best thanks for your letter . . .”. Many holiday guests at Dunmow include country gentry, industrialists, communists, actors (Basil Dean and Noël Coward), film makers, lawyers, and Independent Labour Party members. Bryher and H.G. think “the immediate future is a race between education & catastrophe.”

1925.08.09] To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers WOM 118 Sunday. [Early Aug.? 1925] c/o Mrs. H. G. Wells. Easton Glebe, Dunmow “We’re not being allowed to come up tomorrow.” H.G.W. is persuasive.

1925.08.11] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 118-19 Sunday [Early Aug.? 1925] c/o Mrs. H. G. Wells. Easton Glebe, Dunmow “Life here a whirl . . .”. H.G. liked Village. They go to town on Thursday.

1925.08.15] To H.D. ALS 1p. H.D. Papers WOM 119-20 [Summer 1925?] [London] “I’ve read your things”, parts of Palimpsest in MS. DMR finds them wonderful but with some problems of tone.

1925.08.15a] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg WOM 120-21 [Summer 1925] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Dear P.B.W.” Alan’s show was a success but nothing sold. The Trap was greeted with vitriol and, sometimes, understanding. Duckworth failed to advertise it.

1925.09.29 From H. G. Wells ApcI Tulsa pmk. 29 SP 25 pmk. LONDON. S.W.1 “I write in haste . . .” about a place in Brittany.

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1925.10.03] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 3 October? 1925] 32. Queen’s Terrace “I made a broth of that beef tea . . .”. She is recovering from the Flu. Ashe of Rings is a great book.

1925.10.14] To H. G. Wells ALS 1p. Illinois [c. 14 Oct. 1925] Cosy Corner “You are quite better, I hope.?” She sends [The Trap] with apologies for her proof-reading. She would prefer only full stops.

1925.10.17] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 17 October 1925] Harlyn “It was as well you didn’t come.” Fog gave way to brilliant sun on their way to Cornwall. Cosy Corner has been improved.

1925.10.27 From H. G. Wells AncI 1p. Tulsa 27. x. 25 Easton Glebe, Dunmow “You are very kind to write things about me.”

1925.11.24] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 24 November 1925] Harlyn “This is an Appeal– ” for large orange envelopes for the MS of Oberland. The weather has been bitter for a month. Sidney Odle is dying.

1925.12.03] To Bryher ALI 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 3 December 1925] Harlyn “Why should Cape . . . be also an idiot?” She is working at night on Oberland. “Don’t giggle . . . over my Poetry poems.”

1926.01.07 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 123-24 Jan:7:’26 Harlyn “Villainous of me not . . . to ack: your hamper.” Bryher has made for her just all the difference. She made possible their stay on the Continent and she continues to give financial help.

1926.01.25] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg WOM 121-23 [Fall/Winter 1925] [c. 25 Jan. 1926] Harlyn

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“Whenever anything arrives from you I feel . . . contrition . . .”. After Alan’s show, she had toothache and flu, and ended in a nursing home. Now in Cornwall, their shack is primitive and the weather violent and wet. She has little time for writing.

1926.02.03] To Bryher ApcU Bryher Papers [c. 3 February 1926?] [n.p] “There’s been snow on these poor things.”

1926.02.13] To Ruth Pollard TLS (edited copy) 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 13 February 1926] Harlyn “I hope I'll meet you in Heaven . . .”. The weather has been devastating, but it is now spring in Cornwall.

1926.03.07 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcU Berg pmk. 7 MR 26 Trevone Cottage “Your bomb fell on our . . . heads this morning.” He is returning from Vienna.

1926.04.12 To Sylvia Beach ALS 2p. Princeton Ap.’26 [pmk. 12 AP 26] Trevone Cottage “For nearly a year . . .” DMR has wanted to thank Beach for troubling about the Goncourt journal. B. Grad is in Paris and desperately needs work. Her MS is slowly growing.

1926.04.13] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 13 April 1926] [Cosy Corner], Harlyn “This is a tiresome telegram.” What is the time difference between London and Switzerland? The two Prousts are a joy.

1926.04.16] To Bryher ALS 4p Bryher Papers [c. 16 April 1926] Harlyn. “I have read John’s m.s. . . .”. Her comments on Ellerman’s book follow. Veronica is in the midst of a crisis and cannot reach her son. DMR goes to Trevone on the 26th.

1926.04.26 From H. G. Wells ALI 2p. Tulsa 26 iv. 26 Lou Bastidon, Qr. St. Jean, Grasse “My warmest thanks for what you are doing for the Collected Edition.” He is feeling tired, his game is played. DMR faces horrid realities.

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1926.05.06] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 125 [May 6, 1926] Trevone Cottage “Are you wishing you’d stayed . . .”. They have heard nothing since the general strike began May 3.

1926.05.09] To Bryher ALI 2p. Bryher Papers Sunday [c. 9 May 1926] Trevone Cottage “Greetings – from this radiant Cornish spring . . .”. Their London tenant has absconded with the key and the linen. Oberland fills her with despair, but the Morning Post has praised her modern style.

1926.05.10] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 10 May 1926] Trevone Cottage “My breakfast froze while I read your letter” with its account of the General Strike. DMR’s heart bleeds for those who suffer.

1926.07.18 To Louise Morgan Theis ALS 1p. + Note Morgan-Theis Papers, Yale pmk. 18 JUL 1926 32. Queen’s Terrace “Yes, I would much like to come, & my husband too . . .”.

1926.08.23] [To Bryher] ApcI Bryher Papers [c.23 August 1926] [n.p.] “Yr note just arrived.” They plan to go up Monday.

1926.08.24] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 126-27 Aug ’26 Tuesday c/o Mrs H. G. Wells, Easton Glebe, Dunmow “Good.” DMR describes their lively social life (Basil Dean, Edna Best) while staying with H. G. Wells.

1926.08.29] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 127 Sunday. [Aug. 1926] [London] “We rushed back yesterday morning . . .” because of AO’s asthma. Wells is going to France.

1926.09.07] To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers [c. 7 September 1926] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Alarum!” She is being proposed for a Civil List Pension, also the R. L. Fund.

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1926.09.13] To Louise Morgan Theis TLS 1p. HRC, Texas [c. 13 September? 1926] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Can you come to tea here on Thursday?”

1926.09.14] To Bryher ALI 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 14 September 1926] 32. Queen’s T. “Alan was for sending away the man with the [new] crockery . . .”. Evelyn Scott’s book was wonderful.

1926.09.16] To E. B. C. Jones ALS 1p. British Library [c. 16 September 1926] [n.p.] “[illeg.] [illeg.] & I suppose men must be also admirably partisan.” Their ramshackle rooms are for rent.

1926.09.21 To Louis Untermeyer ALS 1p. Lilly Library pmk. 21 SEP 1926 32. Queen’s Terrace “A friend is having D. H. Lawrence & his wife to dine on Wednesday . . .”. Would he like to invite them to his party the same night?

1926.09.23] To Bryher TLS (typed signature) 1p. Bryher Papers [23 September 1926] [32. Queen’s Terrace] “You sent us ALL the way home this morning, Bryher.” Their reputation is being ruined.

1926.10.04 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Oct 4th [1926] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Not a letter.” Their six months in London, a “whirl of social life,” ended with visits with the Lawrences.

1926.10.13] To Louise Morgan Theis ALS 1p. HRC, Texas WOM 128 [Fall 1926] Meadowcot, Harlyn Bay, Padstow “Greetings.” DMR has sent “scraps” to Outlook.

1926.10.25] To H.D. ALS 1p. H.D. Papers WOM 128-29 [Fall 1926] Meadowcot “We were so sorry not to have seen you once more.”

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1926.10.26] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1p. Berg [c. 26 October 1926] Meadowcot, Harlyn “This is a business telegram.” She requests three copies of a recent article about her work.

1926.10.27] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers [c. 27 October 1926] Meadowcot, Harlyn “I’ve ‘hardly had time to breathe.’” She has been reading Wells proofs. A carpenter has made Meadowcot less draughty. And the weather is lovely.

1926.10.30] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 129-30 [Fall 1926] Meadowcot “Alan has just finished Before the Bombardment . . .”. Meadowcot is cold and draughty.

1926.11.03] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 3 November 1926] Meadowcot, Harlyn Bay “My notes for a forewordlet” for John Ellerman’s book will be got into shape soon. Tenant problems continue, and gales.

1926.11.05] To Otto Theis ALS 1p. Morgan-Theis Papers, Yale [c. 5 November 1926] Meadowcot, Harlyn Bay “Thank you for your excellent advice.” She suggests “Sleigh-ride” as title for the excerpt from Oberland.

1926.11.15] To Bryher TLS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 130-31 [Fall 1926] Meadowcot “My profound thanks for your letter . . .”. They have had expenses as a result of Sidney Odle’s death. She has promised five articles to Vanity Fair. And volume X awaits; and Proust is being re-read.

1926.12.22 To Bryher ALS 3p. + cartoon card Bryher Papers Dec 22nd 1926 Meadowcot, Harlyn Bay “The Joyce manifesto reached me . . .”. She offers a detailed account of recent pig killings. “Heureux Noël, dear B, & Bonne Année.” Cartoon: “Goodwill, but not too much peace. D. & A.”

1927.01.11] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [11 January 1927] Meadowcot “Dos Passos posted yesterday – the 10th – ” Watt is hopeful Hutchinson will publish Oberland. AO’s birthday is tomorrow.

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1927.01.17] To J. M. Murry ALS 2p. HRC, Texas [c. 17 January 1927] Harlyn “Supine monopolist Smith” has not delivered my Adelphi. Can nothing be done to prevent its demise? She offers a few suggestions.

1927.01.26] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1p. Berg [c. 26 January 1927] Meadowcot “Herewith . . . the cost and postage of those Atlantics.” “I’ve been badgered almost out of existence.”

1927.02.16] To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 1p. Berg [c. 16 February 1927] Meadowcot “Your letter announcing your departure from America has just come in . . .”. She recommends Dos Passos, and is reading Proust for the “umpteenth time.”

1927.02.26] To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 131-32 [1927] Meadowcot “Before I forget:” She criticizes Nigger Heaven and other American fictions as not varied enough. Wadsworth is living next door to the Pounds at Rapallo.

1927.03.01] To Bryher TLS 1p. Bryher Papers [c. 1 March 1927] Meadowcot “Post Haste.” She waits for John Ellerman’s book. She hopes Watt can tie up arrangements for Oberland.

1927.03.04] To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 4 March 1927] Meadowcot, Harlyn Bay “Thanks for your letter.” DMR is doing all she can to help Johm Ellerman’s book. She likes The Time of Man [by Roberts].

1927.03.10] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [March 1927] Meadowcot “Don’t, for Heaven’s sake, read my V. Fair articles.” May Sinclair has reviewed H.D. Nigger Heaven has a “peculiar soft badness.”

1927.03.14] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 14 March 1927] Meadowcot “A line to say Alan has his little legacy . . .”. Bryher saved DMR financially last winter: “everlasting graditude.”

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1927.03.15] To P. B. Wadsworth TLS 2p. Berg WOM 133-34 [Spring 1927] Meadowcot “We are truly grieved . . .”. He cannot stay in Italy. DMR admires Romer Wilson’s writing ability. She is a hardy north-country woman.

1927.03.20] To H.D. TLS 2p. H.D. Papers [c. 20 March 1927] Meadowcot, Harlyn Bay “Bella – la piu piu - - - je t'aime . . .”. She is reading Proust and Proust and Proust.

1927.03.29] To H.D. ALS 1p. H.D. Papers [c. 29 march 1927] [Meadowcot] “We are, both, so very sorry.” HD’s mother has died.

1927.04.04] To Annie Russell Marble L [Letter not seen; whereabouts unknown.] [Date unknown; say 4 April 1927] [n.p.] “My books are not narrative in the usual sense–maybe characterization and story are incidental to the effort to express life at first hand.” They move “towards an appreciation of the romance of reality.” Excerpt published: Annie Russell Marble, A Study of the Modern Novel British and American since 1900, New York: Appleton, 1928, p. 96.

1927.04.17] To H.D. ALS 3p. H.D. Papers [c.17 April 1927] Trevone Cottage “Munificent, magnificent of you to make me a picture from the midst of your bath.” Before going to London they will have a day in Penzance.

1927.04.24] To Louise Morgan Theis ALS 1p. Beinecke [c. 24 April 1927?] Trevone Cottage, Trevone “Your triumphant news has just reached us.” Morgan has a son.

1927.05.22] To Bryher ALU 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 22 May 1927] Trevone Cottage “We’ve both now read Tropic Death & come under its spell.” She has enjoyed reading a Coward play. [Conclusion of letter missing.]

1927.05.25] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 25 May 1927] Trevone. “First day of holidays . . .”. She pines for Austria; and comments on a review of John Ellerman’s book.

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1927.05.29] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 134-35 [Spring 1927] Trevone Cottage “We are thrilled by the prospect of the Film paper [Close Up].” They are taking daily excursions.

1927.06.03] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers June 3rd [1927] Trevone Cottage “I am truly glad to hear . . .” that Close-Up is on the way. They go to London on the 8th.

1927.06.15] To Bryher ALS 3p. WOM 135-36 Bryher Papers [June 1927] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Many thanks for cheque” for first article in Close Up.

1927.06.25] To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 25 June 1927] 32. Queen’s Terrace. “Brave Bryher!” She thanks Bryher for “July,” i.e. money to indulge herself that month. She hopes to furnish 32 with Veronica’s furniture.

1927.07.01] To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers July 1st [1927] [32. Queen’s Terrace] “I think we were the first” to get a copy of Close Up from Bumpus.

1927.07.02] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 136-37 [July 1927] 32. Queen’s Terrace “I’ve written to Lawrence” about Close Up, also to Barbara Low and to Huxley. DMR lists some of her future articles for it.

1927.07.05] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers [c. 5 July 1927] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Best thanks for your letter . . .”. DMR notes her forthcoming articles for Close Up.

1927.07.15] To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 137-38 [July 1927] 32. Queen’s Terrace “I am TRULY SORRY . . .”. Duckworth is to bring out Oberland. She has been to the Café Royal and talked film with Edwin Odle, Henry Savage and a stranger.

1927.07.21] To Bryher ALI 3p. Bryher Papers [c. 21 July 1927] [32. Queen’s Terrace]

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“Just had your p.c.” about the first number of Close Up. DMR lists 9 topics for her “Continuous Performance” articles.

1927.07.25] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg WOM 138-39 July.[1927] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Greetings. We were truly grieved to miss seeing you . . .”. She has failed to find another publisher; Duckworth will take her back. Alan has a small inheritance. She is trying to get on with Pilgrimage and write for Close-Up and Vanity Fair.

1927.07.27] To Bryher TLS 1p. Bryher Papers [c. 27 July 1927] 32.Queen’s Terrace “I’ve just redeemed my little machine . . .”. Veronica is not moving until September. They have seen Rigoletto.

1927.08.16] To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers [c. 16? August 1927] 32. Q.T. “My best best thanks.” May [Sinclair] was delighted by Bryher’s party.

1927.08.19] To Bernice Elliott ALS 3p. Richardson Papers [c. 19 August 1927] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Thank you for letting me see something of your work . . .”. DMR analyzes inconsistencies in BE’s handling of point of view.

1927.08.30] To Bernice Elliott AncS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 140 [Late summer 1927] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Your note finds me just returned to London . . .”. Come to tea tomorrow.

1927.09.20] To Bernice Elliott AncS 2p. Richardson Papers [Fall 1927] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Our flight westward has been delayed . . .”. [As from] The Links, St. Merryn, Padstow

1927.10.12] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg [c. 12 October 1927] [32. Queen’s Terrace] “The hastiest of scrawls . . .”. Vasari arrived. “Packing. Shacking. Tidying.”

1927.10.15] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 140-41 [Fall 1927] The Links

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“Enclosed is worse than bad . . .”. The Links is all doors and windows and chamber pots. Wells reports that Jane died peacefully.

1927.11.05] To E. B. C. Jones TL Incomplete Richardson Papers [c. 5 November 1927] The Links, St Merryn “I am most terribly grateful to your beloved . . .”. Alan is reading H. & F. [Helen & Felicia]

1927.11.15] To E. B. C. Jones ALS 6p. British Library WOM 141-42 [Nov. 1927] The Links “I like your book.” It shows growing power. In Oberland it was difficult balancing the profundities of the enchanted scene and the people. Their new quarters are a challenge

1927.11.26] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c.26 November 1927] The Links, St. Merryn “Dec. Close up [sic] is a joy forever.” Oberland is not selling at all. An easterly gale is blasting them.

1927.11.30] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 143-44 [Nov.-Dec. 1927] The Links “Cheque for Dec. Close Up article to hand . . .”. She admires Civilians. Duckworth is treating her well but she asks Bryher’s help to advance sales in Switzerland. Amy Lowell’s poetry is pretentious.

1927.12.16] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 16 December 1927?] The Links, St. Merryn “Your letter just in & Kenneth’s going to H.G. today with a note.” They are concerned about the mutilation of Pabst’s Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney.

1927.12.17 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. PENN WOM 145 pmk. 17 DEC 1927 The Links “Your letter found me settling into winter quarters . . .”. She thanks PK for her appreciative comments.

1927.12.18] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 18 December 1927] The Links, St.Merryn “I feel bad about your spending time on . . . Oberland.” She discusses her Close Up articles.

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1927.12.22] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1p. Berg [c. 22 December 1927] The Links “Where are you? . . . Christmas greetings from us both.”

1927.12.25] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers [c. 25 December 1927] The Links, St. Merryn. “Just a line of greeting . . . for Noël . . .”. The weather like Labrador, with fierce winds that threaten the roof.

1927.12.28] To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers WOM 145-46 [Dec. 1927] The Links “A Happy New Year to you all.” Bryher’s hamper provided a great feast. DMR is in her third year of reading Prousts – artist and infidel. H. G. Wells has been having rows.

1927.12.30] To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers [c. 30 Dec. 1927] The Links, St. Merryn “First our hearty congratulations” for this year’s achievements. “Jan. C.U. splendid.”

1928.01.28] To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers [c. 28 January 1928] [The Links, St. Merryn] “Many thanks for parcel & especially for the second copy of Civilians.” They have had hard frost.

1928.02.16] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers [c. 16 February 1928] The Links, St. Merryn “You really must read your Goncourt . . .”. Five more “Continuous Performance” from her, then it will be time for someone else. E. B. C. Jones?

1928.03.04] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 4 March 1928] The Links. St. Merryn “Joyous cheers.” She praises The Love of Jeanne Ney.

1928.03.10] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers [c. 10 March 1928] The Links, St. Merryn “Best thanks for two letters & cheque.” “Oberland’s successor shelved . . . all winter.”

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1928.03.17] To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers [c. 17? March? 1928?] [n.p.] “Certainly H.G. wrote the book..” The book, on WW I, is unidentified.

1928.04.02] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 148-149 [Apr. 1928] Trevone Cottage “We got here yesterday . . .” Oberland has been reviewed in the N. Y. Times with a picture of the American D.R.. DMR has been reviewing for The New Adelphi.

1928.04.03] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers [c. 3 April 1928] Trevone Cottage “Books to hand.” She is enjoying writing at Trevone in a garden shed.

1928.04.04 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 4 AP 28 pmk. TREVONE “Close Up now obtainable from: The Film Arts Guild . . .”.

1928.04.05 To Alfred A. Knopf ALS 1p. HRC, Texas WOM 148 Ap.5th 1928 Trevone Cottage “Thank you for forwarded letters . . .” all of them to the other Dorothy Richardson.

1928.04.06] To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers [c. 6 April 1928] Trevone Cottage. “Oddly enough” DMR had thought a set of her film articles might make a booklet.

1928.04.15] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 5p. Berg [c. 15 April 1928] Trevone Cottage “We are truly pleased to hear from you . . .”. She does a Close Up article each month and just a little on vol. X. They go up early in June.

1928.04.21] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg [c. 21 April 1928] Trevone Cottage “Just a line from midst of trying to do a little work . . .”. She recommends Film Arts Guild to him.

1928.05.07] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers [c. 7 May 1928] Trevone Cottage

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“Many thanks for cheque.” Wadsworth has sent a MS to Close-Up. Elliott’s Anatomy of Motion Picture Art is praised.

1928.05.08] To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 1p. Berg [c. 8 May 1928] Trevone Cottage “Close-Up likes your article [on Hollywood] & will probably use . . .”.

1928.05.12 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 12 MY 28 pmk. TREVONE “B. writes that they’re obliged to cut article . . .”. He might contribute to Continuous Performance.

1928.05.18] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers [c. 18 May 1928] Trevone Cottage “First those heavenly fleurs naturelles.” She is “rereading the incomparable Gide.” Knopf is to publish Lawrence. “We are making holiday.”

1928.05.19] To E. B. C. Jones ALS 5p. British Library WOM 149-150 [Spring 1928] Trevone Cottage “I like your letters, so much.” “Jane Wells disappearance matters dreadfully to me . . .”. She has little time for Miriam, but writes short things for magazines that don’t pay well.

1928.05.27] To Bernice Elliott ALU 1p. [incomplete] Richardson Papers [c 27 May 1928] Trevone Cottage “It seems too bad that you should have to give up your projected stay in London . . .”.

1928.06.25 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 151 pmk. 25 June 1928 pmk. LONDON “Nevertheless I do find many reviewers imposing.” Come to tea, “though I know I risk losing a reader.”

1928.07.04 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 4 JUL 1928 pmk. S. JOHN’S WOOD “Yes do come in on Friday.”

1928.07.05] To E. B. C. Jones ALS 1p. British Library [c. 5 July 1928?] 32. Queen’s Terrace “No. Your intellect doesn’t rile me up in that way at all.” DMR invites her to visit.

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1928.07.10 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg WOM 151-52 July 10: 1928 32. Queen’s Terrace “Yes, we are here . . .” but transformed by paint and wallpaper. Close Up enters its second year. DMR is going to her first Russian Ballet.

1928.07.10a] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 153-54 [Summer 1928] 32. Queen’s Terrace “I am truly glad you are less grilled . . .”. They attended Cochran’s Coward Revue, and the ballet (Boutique Fantasque). Ellen Terry is dying.

1928.07.18 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 154-55 pmk. 18 JUL 1928 32. Queen’s Terrace “My apologies.” She arranges for PK to visit.

1928.07.27 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 155 Friday [pmk. 27 JUL 1928] 32. Queen’s Terrace “That was a wonderful adventure . . .”. She plans to visit PK in August.

1928.07.31 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers pmk. 31 JUL 1928 32. Queen’s Terrace “Thank you so much for all those trains.” She will send details after they get to Felixstow.

1928.08.02] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg WOM 155-56 [Summer 1928] 32. Queen’s Terrace “This is just a Marconigram . . .”. They are just off for brief visits to Suffolk, Essex, and Kent. She shares PBW’s admiration for H.D.’s Close Up work.

1928.08.03?] To John Austen ALS 4p. Richardson Papers [c. 3 August? 1928 or 3 Sept. 1928] 32. Queen's Terrace “We think it would be nice . . . to get down to Folkestone by road.”

1928.08.04 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. 4 AU 28 Darcot, Russell Road, Felixstowe “Deluge here that looks like lasting.” They will take the 4.52 train to Colchester.

1928.08.11] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 11 August 1928] Tollesbury, Essex

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“I hope the united efforts . . .”. PK is enthusiastic about Close Up. Later: 32: “Came back yesterday . . .”.

1928.08.12 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. 12 AUG 1928 32. Queen’s Terrace “I have sent no line until now . . .”. She has been writing, thanks to the influence of Mell.

1928.08.13] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg [c. 13 August 1928] 32QT “This is to thank you for . . . a German play . . . & The Cities of the Plain . . .”. PBW’s plan for a novel or film-play might work as the latter.

1928.08.22 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. 22 AU 28 Goffs, Lurgashall, Nr. Petworth, Sussex. “The mere thought of a husband’s sister is a facer.” The Sitwells give her more delight than H.D. PK has taken good snapshots of the Odles. She is reading Myers.

1928.08.27] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 27 August 1929] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Yes – ‘Quigney –’ . . .”. She is struggling to rent their rooms for the winter. She is weary.

1928.08.30] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers [c. 30 August 1928] [n.p.] “If fine tomorrow aft . . . “ she will try to be home by 5:30.

1928.09.04 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 4 SEP 1928 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Thursday is filling up.” But they plan to meet PK by 7:30.

1928.09.12?] To John & Tommy Austen ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Aug: 12th 1928 [NO*] 32. Queen’s Terrace “That Russell travelling box . . .”. They arrived from JA’s yesterday by motor coach. * Provisionally dated c. 12 September 1928. See letter to Kirkaldy, pmk. 12 AUG 1928.

1928.09.15] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers WOM 157-58 [Late summer 1928] 32. Queen’s Terrace

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“We got home [from PK’s] & packed . . .” to go next day to John Austen’s. They had a leisurely tour of the Conrad country. Bryher came in yesterday and described their thrilling time in Berlin.

1928.09.17] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1p. Berg [c. 17 September 1928] [London] “So many books have happened . . .” that she can hardly keep track Bryher, from Berlin, has just arrived in London.

1928.09.21 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 21 SEP 1928 32. Queen’s Terrace “There’s a play you ought to see . . .‘The Yellow Streak’. . .”. Her room is all flowers, from PK.

1928.09.23 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. 23[?] SEP 1928 pmk. S. JOHN’S WOOD “I’ve been & gone & got a kind of flu . . .”. They have been visited by a Heidelberg professor and by Adrian Allinson, discussing “philological abstrusities.”

1928.09.26] To John Austen ALS 1p. Richardson Papers [c. 26 September 1928] 32. Queen's Terrace “That Sterne of yours was . . . a great joy . . .”. They are off to Cornwall about 5 October.

1928.10.02] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg WOM 158-59 [Oct. 1928] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Alan & I have both read your review . . .”. DMR is pleased that R. Rolland has encouraged Istrati. She encloses her Evening News article. PBW is returning to Europe.

1928.10.02a To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 159-60 [Oct. 1928] [London] “I got back on Friday . . .”. She has replied to Storm Jameson’s attack on wives. They have been out riding in May Sinclair’s new car.

1928.10.02b To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 2 OCT 1928 pmk. S. JOHN’S WOOD “This in case you are still in the country. I left a note for you today . . .”. “Michael” is back from Paris.

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1928.10.11 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers WOM 161-62 [11 October 1928] The Links “Is it a week or a lifetime ago . . .”. Their last days in London were hectic, including translating some German, which she has just now finished. The Links is in chaos. “P.S. Friday.” PK’s letter has come.

1928.10.30] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg [c. 30 October 1928] [n.p.] “I am dreadfully sorry we missed you.” Their finances are tight. She sends him a little.

1928.11.12 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 7p. Richardson Papers pmk. 12 NO 28 The Links, St. Merryn., Padstow “Fog-bound – the Morning Post . . . tells me that you are.” She responds to Peggy Kirkaldy’s esprit, and recounts early memories of legendary horses. Also, she adores weddings, and guffaws at low comedy.

1928.11.30 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 13p. Richardson Papers [30 November – 1 December 1928] The Links, Constantine Bay “An average day.” She elaborates such a day, including a violent wind storm, trades people, writing business letters, preparing meals, conversations, and writing to Peggy to thank her for gifts. The torch is invaluable.

1928.12.01] To John Austen ALS 6p. Richardson Papers WOM 146-48 [1928] [c. 1 December 1928] The Links “I cannot tell you how much I like your Bovary.” Thrift will not grow on other coasts. Record gales, but they have been spared damage.

1928.12.14 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 8p. Richardson Papers WOM 163-64 pmk. Dec. 14, 1928 Constantine Bay [The Links] “Sarcasm . . . makes me boil with fury . . .”. She has been pot-boiling, not getting on with the successor to Oberland, now up for the Femina-Vie-Heureuse prize. All Christmas preparations remain to be done.

1928.12.18] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 5p. Berg [c. 18 December 1928] Constantine “This is mainly a line of greeting for Christmas . . .”. She sums up their very tight financial situation. Oberland is nominated for a prize. She has taken to smoking.

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1928.12.21] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers pmk. [??] DE 28 Constantine “A happy Christmas Peggy . . .”. She thanks PK for gifts: torches (flashlights) and French soap.

1928.12.22 To Tommy Austen ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Dec: 22nd 1928 Constantine “Just a line to greet you for Christmas . . .”. Alan is working hard at Rabelais.

1928.12.22a] To John Austen ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [22 December 1928] Constantine Bay “Really, this is a greeting from Alan . . .”. who must write his relatives.

1929.01.02 From George Bernard Shaw ApcI Richardson Papers 2/1/29 [n.p.] “I won’t sign.” A petition sponsored by Close Up for a special category of films.

1929.02.05 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 5 FEB 29 Constantine “I enjoyed your Christmas . . .”. She has been immersed for short periods in vol. X.

1929.03.02] To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 4p. Berg [c. 2 March 1929] [n.p.] “P.S. The enclosed, a trifle out of date . . .”. Bryher spent Christmas in London. DMR is neglecting her own work.

1929.03.05 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 5 MAR 29 pmk. CONSTANTINE “Salutations, dear P.” She returns Myers, and is planning to move into rooms early in April.

1929.03.13] To David Grad ALS 5p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 120-22 [c. 13 March 1929] The Links. Constantine “This is an S.O.S.” They have received torches/flashlights. Are the batteries affected by cold? She recommends Millikin’s Science and Life.

1929.03.16 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. TOLLESBURY MALDON 16 MR 29 Constantine

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“Telegrammatic.” A young man has accidentally shot himself. She waits to hear about Trevone rooms.

1929.04.03 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. 3 APR 29 Constantine “Please be careful with that . . . frying machine.” She has done the ground plan for a chunk of Dawn’s Left Hand. They go to Trevone Cottage on the 8th.

1929.04.05] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 165 [Apr.1929] Constantine “I would have written before . . .” but Remarque’s Im Westen Nichts Neues “knocked me out.” Locally, a young couple were almost drowned.

1929.04.19] To John Austen ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 19 April 1929] Trevone Cottage “This is just a yell for aid.” What is a Colophon?

1929.04.21] To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers [c. 21 April 1929] Trevone Cottage “Having to some extent shared the agonies” Bryher went through writing her Russian film book, DMR is impressed with its brevity and scope. She assesses the Morning Post review. Bryher’s visit to Gruyères induces a vivid recollection by DMR.

1929.04.21a] [To Bryher] A Document U 1 p. Bryher Papers [c. 21 April, 1929?] [n.p.] “La Gruyère.” This brief document provides a list of littérateurs romandes and their works.

1929.04.30] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 166-168 [Spring 1929] Trevone Cottage “I’ve just sent off . . . an article . . .”. She further comments on the linguistic past of Gruyère. Alan is illustrating The Mimes of Herondas. The London Aphrodite is very entertaining. Sales of Oberland have been poor.

1929.05.03 To Josephine K. Piercy ApcS Lilly Library pmk. 3 MY 29 Trevone Cottage “After a very troublous & busy year . . .” DMR hopes shortly to reply to Piercy’s letter.

1929.05.08 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers pmk. 8 MY 29 Trevone Cottage

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“Poor little you . . .”. They will come to London soon; then visit relatives. “Politics raging.”

1929.05.15] To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers WOM 168-69 [Spring 1929] Trevone Cottage “‘The Persians are Coming’ gave me joy.” She discusses critically Huxley’s Point Counterpoint; also the recent general election.

1929.05.19] To John Austen ALS 4p. Richardson Papers [c. 19 May 1929] Trevone Cottage “We both felt filled with compunction when your letter came in today.” Fanfrolico wants more work–at little pay. They will take a fortnight’s holiday.

1929.05.20] To E. B. C. Jones ALS 2p. British Library 20th May. [1929] Trevone Cottage “Only yesterday I was thinking of you . . .”. “These last years have been extra difficult for us both . . .”.

1929.06.01 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 6p. Berg June 1st 1929 Trevone Cottage “Your letter has just come in . . .”. They are plunged into electioneering rallies. Point Counterpoint is “a monument to topheaviness.”

1929.06.02] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 2 June 1929] Trevone Cottage “How are you?” London next week, then visits to Bucks. and Surrey. The tenant has left a telephone.

1929.06.11] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 11 June 1929] 32. Queen’s Terrace “We are back again . . .”. They motored from Cornwall, and soon are to visit relatives.

1929.06.17] From Bryher ApcS Richardson Papers pmk. 17-VI [192]9 pmk. BERN “En route but we had . . . to send out the petitions.” With note added by H.D.

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1929.06.23] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers [c. 23 June 1929] C/o Mrs. E. Odle / Syke Cluan / Bucks. “In haste. Ditton dates changed.” They return to London the 29th.

1929.06.24 To J. C. Powys ALS 1 p. RP WOM 169-70 Fouli DMR #1 June 24th 1929 32. Queen’s Terrace “I find your letter awaiting me . . .”. She regrets having missed him.

1929.06.28 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 28 JUN 1929 pmk. ST. JOHN’S WOOD “We’ll be very very pleased to come along on Wednesday week . . .”.

1929.07.02 To Josephine K. Piercy ALS 1p. + T Notes U 2p. Lilly Library July 2nd 1929 32. Queen’s Terrace “Your letter, sent on from Cornwall, has just reached me.” She sends a few notes. Her “method” refuses to interpose between the reader and the text. Vividness of presentation suggests a kaleidoscopic effect. She cannot impose theorems on her story. As a woman she finds inner life more real than the world of facts.

1929.07.03 To Bernice Elliott ALS 5p. Richardson Papers July 3rd. 1929 32. Queen’s Terrace “The letter you sent . . . gave me great pleasure . . .”. The winter has been the fiercest in memory. They have been attending election meetings. She encourages Elliott and thanks her for Willa Cather.

1929.07.05] To John Austen ALS 1p. Richardson Papers [c. 5 July 1929] 32. Queen's Terrace “You must forgive, or try to forgive me.” They have been very busy but will visit the Austens in September.

1929.07.06] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1p. Berg [c. 6 July 1929?] [32. Queen’s Terrace] “In pencil & in haste.” They are very busy. Could he visit the week after next?

1929.07.08 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALI 1p. Richardson Papers WOM 170 pmk. 8 JUL 1929 32. Queen’s Terrace “I have just suffered a brain-wave. . .”. She suggests that they visit Violet Hunt.

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1929.07.15 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 15 JUL 1929 pmk. ST. JOHN’S WOOD “What a week-end.” Alan’s health will not stand exciting parties.

1929.07.18 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 18 JUL 1929 32. Queen’s Terrace, N.W.8. “I must imagine – I can – your delphiniums.” Alan gets hay fever.

1929.07.20 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 20 JUL 1929 pmk. ST. JOHN’S WOOD “Came home this morning from Cochran’s Revue etc. . . .”. Alan has a small commission.

1929.07.26 From John Rodker TLS 1p. Richardson Papers 26th July, 1929. 1 Farringdon Avenue, E.C.4 “Thank you very much for your kind note.” He is leaving for New York. [With letter to Kirkaldy, pmk. 1 AUG 1929]

1929.08.01 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. 1 AUG 1929 32. Queen’s Terrace “Estaban, a probably incorrect forecast of Spain . . .”. She describes the doings of Stephen Guest and John Rodker.

1929.08.05] From J. C. Powys ALS 2p. RP WOM 171 Fouli JCP #1 Aug 5th [1929] Northwold Rectory, Brandon, Norfolk “I was so very pleased . . .”. He arranges to visit DMR whose work he greatly admires.

1929.08.08] To J. C. Powys ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #2 [c. 8 August 1929] 32. Queen’s Terrace “I have just come back from a short holiday . . .”. She invites JCP for the 11th.

1929.08.08a To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. 8 AUG 1929 32. Queen’s Terrace “We are just back from Iver . . .”. She arranges travel to visit PK on the 20th.

1929.08.12 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALI 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 12 AUG 1929 32. Queen’s Terrace “But, dear Peggy, I protest . . .”. She is arranging a visit involving PK and Violet Hunt.

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1929.08.14] From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. RP WOM 172-73 Fouli JCP #2 Wednesday [14 August 1929] c/o The Revd Littleton A Powys, 6 Cophall Gardens, Folkestone, Kent “I must just send you a line . . .”. He is deeply gratified by his visit to DMR and what she said about “unchanging Being.”

1929.08.15] To John Austen ALS 2p. Richardson Papers 15th August. [1929?] 32. Queen's Terrace “We are now obliged” to visit Sussex next week; the Austens are postponed till September.

1929.08.16] To David Grad ALS 2p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 113-14 [c. 16 August 1929] 32. Queen’s Terrace. “Just a postcard to The Secretary . . .”. She describes J. C. Powys (whom David met “on Sunday”) and his brothers. J.C.P. lectures in America on DMR.

1929.08.18 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 18 AUG 1929 32. Queen’s Terrace “Help!” She outlines her travel arrangements for a visit to Peggy Kirkaldy. Violet Hunt is coming also.

1929.08.25 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers pmk. 25 AUG 1929 32. Queen’s Terrace “We feel all bemused” after visit to Mell, described with amusing details, among them DMR’s inadvertent thefts. She is refreshed.

1929.09.04 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers WOM 173-74 pmk. 4 SEP 1929 32. Queen’s Terrace “My thefts go gaily on.” She has learned from a review that JCP is a novelist.

1929.09.04a] To John Austen ALS 3p. Richardson Papers [c. 4 September 1929] 32. Queen's Terrace “The Russell Motors have an afternoon service that delivers in Hythe about 6.15.” She has a small translation to do.

1929.09.06] To J. C. Powys ALS 2p. RP WOM 174-75 Fouli DMR #3 [c. 6 September 1929] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Salaams.” She bows to Wolf Solent. They go to visit the Austen’s. There she loves Walnut Tree Inn.

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1929.09.16 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 16 SEP 1929 32. Queen’s Terrace “Workmen & a man in a tangle this aft: . . .”. She suggests no alcohol for Alan when they call.

1929.09.17] To John Austen ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Saturday [17 September 1929] 32. Queen’s Terrace “As usual after leaving you . . .” they felt lost. DMR loves the serenity of the Austens’ house and its setting.

1929.09.21 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 21 SEP 1929 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Both letters & Vogue – thanks.” “No tenant yet.”

1929.09.22] From J. C. Powys ALS 12p. RP WOM 175-78 Fouli JCP #3 Sept 22 [1929] 4 Patchin Place, New York City “Aye! but I was so pleased . . .”. He expounds on his erotic and sadistic impulses, and his plans for his Glastonbury book. He values something large and rambling, not a neat “work of art.” He will touch on the mystic.

1929.09.25] To J. C. Powys ALS 7p. RP WOM 178-80 Fouli DMR #4 [c. 25] Sep.’29 32. Queen’s Terrace “No thoughts.” She has met Llewelyn Powys, she speculates on the family, on its flame- like intensity and power. The artist’s link with religion is mainly esthetic. And what of the capacity for astonishment?

1929.10.01 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 1 OCT 1929 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Simply splendiferous.” They are seeing Winifred Ray and others before they leave on Tuesday.

1929.10.12] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 12 OCT 29 C/o Mrs. Tippett, Towan Veals, nr. Padstow “This house on the crest of a rise howls at every pore.”

1929.10.23 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 180-81 23 Oct.1929. C/o Mrs. Tippett. Towan Veals. Padstow. “Terribly racking.” She recalls Paris. They are boarding here until Nov. 5.

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1929.11.02] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers [c. 2 Nov. 1929] The Lynx, Constantine Bay “Glaeser great . . .”. She comments on German fiction. Visiting ladies bring accounts of “pervert” life in Oxford.

1929.11.04 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers pmk. 4 NOV 1929 C/o Mrs. Tippett. Towan Veals. Padstow. “I’ve just come upon Ellis’ Dance of life . . .”. The Lynx, left in disarray by a P.E.N. is now cleaned. They go there “Toosday.”

1929.11.06] To Bryher TLS 3p. Bryher Papers Nov.6th. [1929] The Lynx, Constantine “Do I glimpse the trail of the Grand Planner [H. G. Wells] . . .?” DMR gives details of the petition on film censorship sent to Wedgwood.

1929.11.13 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. 13 NOV 29 The Lynx “Suddenly it occurs to me that S.G. [Stephen Guest]” might be of use to you. PK’s chic party included Stephen Guest and T. S. Eliot.

1929.11.28] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers [c. 28 Nov. 1929] The Lynx, Constantine “I read Mann’s little masterpiece [“Disorder and Early Sorrow”] . . .”. “Unprecedented floods here.”

1929.12.03] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Dec 3rd. [l929] The Lynx, Constantine Bay “Your letter & Lenauer-plus-fee have just come . . .”. DMR finds Thomas Mann’s fiction more moving than Heinrich’s.

1929.12.15 To J. C. Powys ALS 5p. RP WOM 181-83 Fouli DMR #5 Dec. 15th ’29 The Lynx, Constantine “Throughout those hectic last weeks in London . . .” they have read Wolf Solent. (An anecdote about the perverse behavior of Oxford undergraduates may amuse him.) The sex in the book adds to its complexity and to the treatment of good and evil. She has read Wilhelm Meister for the first time.

1929.12.19 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Dec. 19th ’29 The Lynx

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“A happy Christmas to you!” They have experienced five weeks of gales in Cornwall, the last one the most extreme. Faith Mackenzie may restore PK’s faith in women..

1929.12.20] To P. B. Wadsworth A card I 2p. Berg [c. 20 December 1929] [The Lynx] [Printed Christmas Greetings from] “Dorothy and Alan who have been . . . on the look-out for your address . . .”.

1930.01.14] To John Austen ALS 4p. Richardson Papers WOM 188-89 Jan. 14th [1930] The Lynx “Surely I will do my best to write a foreword” for Austen’s book on the art of the illustrator. Is 15 guineas too large a fee? Alan finds Fan Frolico Press slow to pay him.

1930.01.17 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 17 JA 30 pmk. CONSTANTINE “Arrears, dear P., of every kind of employment.” And a happy New Year.

1930.01.19 From J. C. Powys ALS 10p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #4 Jan 19th 1930 Hotel Père Marquette, Peoria, Illinois “Aye! but what an exciting thrill . . .”. He lectures on DMR. His letter is full of impressions of New York and of America, especially the mid-west. Will the next “Spring-time” culture come from there? He suffers from dyspepsia. He is writing “an eccentric mystical fantasy” but reading for Glastonbury.

1930.01.21 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg WOM 189-90 Jan. 21st 1930 The Lynx “Indeed we have received parcel after parcel . . . from Berlin.” PBW has taken her back to the Hoddenheim of Pointed Roofs. He is now leaving for America where, DMR suggests, the crazy pace of things may yield to a contrasting period.

1930.01.21a To Alan Steele ALS 2p. Cambridge Jan 21. ’30 Constantine Bay “I am glad to hear of your enterprise with regard to John Austen’s work as an illustrator.” She promises a foreword to the illustrated handlist.

1930.01.28 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 28 JAN 30 The Links “Just a postscript to my note . . .”. She praises an article by him.

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1930.02.03 To Alan Steele ALS 2p. Cambridge Feb 3. 1930 The Lynx “Mr. Austen has sent me quite a . . . mass of autobiographical material.” A longer contribution will therefore be required.

1930.02.14] To John Austen ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 190-91 [Feb. ? 1930] The Lynx “In greatest haste, to put you au fait.” Her longer essay for Austen’s book may not be quite finished by the end of the month. Her fee: 15 guineas.

1930.02.15] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Feb:15th [1930] The Lynx “The day after Valentine’s,” DMR comments on PK’s personal problems and on part of an autobiographical story PK has written.

1930.02.24] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Feb.’30 The Lynx, Constantine “I wrote at once to Shaw” about the Petition against Censorship. She has heard from one of the Canadian doctors who appear in Interim.

1930.02.27] To John Austen ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 27 February 1930] The Lynx “I hope to be ready early next week . . .” with the essay for JA’s book .

1930.03.01 To Alan Steele ALS 2p. Cambridge Mar 1st 1930 The Lynx “I will send you the completed article on John Austen in a few days time.” To revitalize interest in Pilgrimage, she suggests a critical article, possibly by J. C. Powys.

1930.03.05 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Mar 5th [pmk. 5 MR 30] The Lynx “You poor dear, how did you manage to smash such a small one?” Lawrence has done his dying.

1930.03.10 To Alan Steele ApcS Cambridge Mar. 10th ’30 The Lynx “I have today sent m.s. to John Austen for verification of detail . . .”.

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1930.03.10a] To John Austen ALS 1p. Richardson Papers [10] Mar ’30 The Lynx “I send you this”–the typescript of John Austen and the Inseparables for Jackson’s via JA.

1930.03.13 To Alan Steele ALS 1p. Cambridge Mar 13th ’30 The Lynx “The permanent address of Mr. John Cowper Powys is” New York City. He reports the Knopf editions of DMR’s books are out of print.

1930.03.14] To Bryher ALI 2p. Bryher Papers Mar 14th [1930] The Lynx, Constantine “You get, I expect, all film cuttings . . .”. DMR notes the deaths of Lawrence and Scott- Moncrieff. She has applied to translate the remainder of Proust.

1930.03.15] To John Austen ALS 6p. Richardson Papers WOM 191-92 Mar 15th [1930] The Lynx “I am glad that both you and Alan approve . . .”. She prefers JA’s pen and ink work to his woodcuts. She is talking to Jackson’s about a collected Pilgrimage; and trying to finish Vol. X.

1930.03.16] To John Austen ALS 1p. Richardson Papers [c. 16 March 1930] [The Lynx] “Letters safely arrived.” She is translating for dear life.

1930.03.18] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 192-93 [Mar. 1930] The Lynx “p.[iano] Oh all ye films . . .”. Bryher is in Montreux with Paul Robeson and his wife. Wadsworth is in New York. Jackson’s have bought 50 copies each of five of her novels. She plans to work on Vol. X.

1930.03.20] To John Austen ALS 12p. Richardson Papers Mar. ’30 The Lynx “What-ho, brother John . . .”. DMR has, in effect, rewritten JA’s Foreword to John Austen and the Inseparables. For the first time in three years Duckworth owes her money. [There follows DMR’s revision of JA’s Foreword, pp. 7-10. Austen, in turn, trims various of DMR’s more rhetorical flourishes.]

1930.03.25] To John Austen ALS 4p. Richardson Papers [c. 25 March 1930] The Lynx

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“You are having the experiences of an experienced writer.” The golden rule: “make one statement follow from another & keep a single tone throughout.”

1930.03.26] To John Austen ALI 1p. Richardson Papers [c. 26 March 1930?] The Lynx “In my haste to catch the post I forgot” the books, etc.

1930.03.28] To John Austen ALI 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 28 March 1930] The Lynx “The enclosed in haste . . .”. They go to Trevone on the 3rd.

1930.03.30] To J. C. Powys ALS 2p. RP WOM 193-94 Fouli DMR #6 Mar. 30th [1930] The Lynx “To every syllable of your letter, response.” Jackson’s want to promote her books. She has proposed a short article by JCP, but advises him not to divert himself from Glastonbury.

1930.03.30a] To Alan Steele ALS 2p. Cambridge Mar.’30 The Lynx “I am both surprised & pleased to know that you have acquired so many of my books ...”. She will autograph them. Her new book will be ready the end of August.

1930.04.01 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 1 APR 30 pmk. CONSTANTINE “The winter is over & gone . . .”. They depart tomorrow for Trevone.

1930.04.04] From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. RP WOM 195 Fouli JCP #5 April 4 [1930] 4 Patchin Place, New York City “Here’s the letter . . . from Jackson.” He will soon write an essay on DMR’s work. His ulcer leads him to retire to the country and write his Glastonbury book.

1930.04.04a] To Rupert Croft-Cooke ALS 2p. HRC, Texas [c. 4 April 1930] Trevone Cottage “You were out when we knocked . . .”. They may meet him towards the end of May.

1930.04.10 To Sylvia Beach ApcS Princeton Ap ’30. [pmk. 10 AP 30] Trevone Cottage “Dear S.B. Greetings.” She needs a copy of Le Temps Retrouvé.

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1930.04.11 To Alan Steele ALS 3p. Cambridge Ap. 11. ’30 Trevone Cottage “I owe you an apology for failing to acknowledge” the case of books. She explains her need for a payment of at least £15.15.

1930.04.12] To Bryher ALS 7p. Bryher Papers Ap.’30 Trevone Cottage “It is very, very kind . . .”. She has met Rupert Croft-Cooke, who offers to buy her MSs. Wadsworth has written about his travels in the Theatre Guild’s magazine.

1930.04.15] To Rupert Croft-Cooke ALS 2p. HRC, Texas Ap. ’30 [c. 15 April] Trevone Cottage “All those Jackson books sleep . . .”. She promises a visit later.

1930.04.17] To Alan Steele ALS 2p. Cambridge Ap.’30 Trevone Cottage “Are you still meditating a hand-list of my work?” A well-known author has offered to write about her work.

1930.04.19 To Alan Steele ALS 2p. Cambridge 19th Ap. ’30 Trevone Cottage “You must I think have heard from Mr. Powys more recently than I.” She debates between a booklet from Joiner & Steele and a pamphlet from Duckworth.

1930.04.21] To John & Tommy Austen ALS 3p. Richardson Papers [c. 21] Ap:’30 Trevone Cottage “You knocked us out.” The Austens are leaving New Romney. Where will they alight?

1930.04.22 To Alan Steele ApcI Cambridge 22 AP 30 Trevone Cottage “You are letting me have a proof of the J.A. articles?”

1930.04.25 To Alan Steele ALS 2p. Cambridge Ap 25th 1930 Trevone Cottage “I hope the case of books . . . has safely reached you.” The arrangements for the Powys booklet are becoming complicated. Booklet? Leaflet? Both?

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1930.04.25a] To John Austen ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Ap. ’30 Tr. Cot. [Trevone Cottage] “This is a shriek . . . . Proofs just arrived . . . .”. Steele needs a date.

1930.05.03] To Rupert Croft-Cooke ALS 1p. HRC, Texas May 3rd [1930] Trevone Cottage “We’ll both be nose to paper until the 14th” when they will visit him.

1930.05.08 From J. C. Powys ALS 8p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #6 May 8 1930 Route 2, Hillsdale, New York “I was so glad to get your letter.” He plans to send his essay on her work, giving her carte blanche to revise it. He describes in loving detail the country setting of their house. His health improves.

1930.05.13] To John Austen ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 13 May 1930] Trevone Cottage “Very hearty congratulations . . . on your hanging . . .” in the Royal Academy. The Austens are leaving New Romney.

1930.05.14] To Rupert Croft-Cooke ALS 2p. HRC, Texas Wednesday [14 May 1930] Trevone Bay “We heartily congratulate you.” She arranges to have tea with him.

1930.05.15] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALI 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 196 May ’30 Trevone Cottage “We’ve just come in from a day’s wandering . . .”. After their present holiday, they plan to work in London during June and July.

1930.05.16] To Rupert Croft-Cooke ALS 1p. HRC, Texas [Friday, 16 May 1930] Trevone Cottage “We are very sorry.” Rain prevented their visit.

1930.05.19 To P. B. Wadsworth TLS 3p. Berg WOM 197-98 May, 19th. 1930 Trevone Cottage “We were both relieved to get your umpteenth American address . . .”. Another Proust has thrilled Alan. Jackson’s have bought DMR’s Duckworth remainders.

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1930.06.02] To Alan Steele ALS 4p. Cambridge June 2nd [1930] Trevone Cottage “Mr. Powys has sent me a rough draft of his . . . article.” Longer than expected. Could it be published as an article as well? AO agrees to the fee for a drawing.

1930.06.08 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Sunday [pmk. 9 JUN 1930] Trevone Cottage “What am I to do with you?” An unexpected blow means that she must give most of the summer to work.

1930.06.13] To Alan Steele ALS 2p. Cambridge June ’30 32. Queen’s Terrace “The business of getting to town has prevented my answering your last letter.” She must decline his invitation to them to spend the week-end.

1930.06.20] From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #7 June 20 [1930] Route 2, Hillsdale, New York “I doubt whether there have been more than a few letters in all my days that I enjoyed more . . .”. He urges her not to return the revised MS of his essay on her literary art. In the American country he feels closer to wild nature.

1930.06.22 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 22 JUN 1930 Long Ditton. Surrey “We’re coming up about Tuesday.”

1930.06.26 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. 26 JUN 1930 British Museum Reading Room “At home there is a fragrance of Roses.” She is swotting.

1930.06.28] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers June. ’30 32. Queen’s Terrace. “Mice, soot, gramophones” and tropical heat. She weeps; the translation of the final Proust has gone to another. She is editing Powys’s MS about her.

1930.07.01 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 198-99 pmk. 1 JUL 1930 32. Queen’s Terrace “Let me know if you do come up . . .”. Terrific heat is exhausting and she is doing work against the grain.

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1930.07.03] To John Austen ALI 2p. Richardson Papers July.[c. 3 July 1930] 32. Queen's Terrace “Our congratulations on your left-handed deeds . . .”. She is translating for The Argosy.

1930.07.03a] To Veronica Grad ALS 5p. Hanscombe (1979), II, 12-14 [c. 3 July 1930?] [32. Queen’s Terrace] “You sound reproachful.” DMR stresses the great difficulty of her life, with its multiple roles and little time for her main job. The heat is overwhelming.

1930.07.09 To Alan Steele ALS 2p. Cambridge July 9th ’30 32. Queen’s Terrace “Ever since we came to town I have been . . . looking in vain for space to tackle Mr. Powys’ article.” She asks him to have it typed for her.

1930.07.14 To Alan Steele ApcI Cambridge pmk. 14 JULY 1930 32. Queen’s Terrace “I hope you safely received the J.C.P. m.s. . . .”.

1930.07.15] To Alan Steele ALS 1p. Cambridge July 15th [1930] 32. Queen’s Terrace “I would not have sent you that m.s. . . .”. Steele proposes to type it himself.

1930.07.17 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 17 JUL 1930 32. Queen’s Terrace “On the contrary . . . we are indeed surprised.” [He is coming to Europe.]

1930.07.17a] To David Grad ALS 4p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 16-17 [c. 17] July. ’30 32. Queen’s Terrace. “You’ll probably hear from Dean.” David is exploring an acting career. DMR and AO rest on Sunday by working.

1930.07.24 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers pmk. 24 July 1930 [32. Queen’s Terrace] “In great haste.” She thanks PK for books, describes Violet Hunt’s forgetfulness, and arranges to meet PK at Flemmings.

1930.07.26] To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 3p. British Library [c. 26 July 1930] 32. Queen’s Terrace

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“Owing to a change in the date of my brother-in-law’s holiday . . .”. Please visit them and us on August 3 at Iver.

1930.07.26a To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 26 JUL 1930 pmk. ST. JOHN’S WOOD “Our missives crossed.” She discusses a future visit with Violet Hunt at PK’s.

1930.07.28 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers WOM 199 pmk. 28 JUL 1930 pmk. ST. JOHN’S WOOD “I’ve just heard from Violet [Hunt] . . .”. PK is trying to arrange a gathering.

1930.07.29 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. 29 JUL 1930 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “My most abject apologies.” She must break an engagement. They go to Iver for 10 days.

1930.08.01] To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 1p. Berg [c. 1 August 1930] 32. “We’re just off to: C/o Mrs. E.V. Odle . . .”.

1930.08.08 To S. S. Koteliansky ApcI British Library pmk. 8 AU 30 Topmeadow, Syke Cluan, Iver “Please come to tea about five on Friday at 32.”

1930.08.15 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALI 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. 15 AUG 1930 32. “Your man hasn’t written.” She decides finally they will go to Peggy Kirkaldy’s by train.

1930.08.22 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 22 AU 30 Mell Cottage, Tollesbury, Essex “Shall be mostly in town till Sep. 3rd.”

1930.08.24 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers WOM 200-201 pmk. AUG 24 1930 32. Queen’s Terrace “Road-coaching’s a queer business . . .”. They had a varied and hectic coach ride from Mell to London. “Violet [Hunt] is tragic . . .”.

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1930.08.26 To John Austen ALI 2p. Richardson Papers August 26th 1930 32. Queen's Terrace “Our feelings . . . beggar description.” They arrive in Canterbury Wednesday 3rd.

1930.08.28 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. 28 AUG 1930 32, “Eighty-seven in London yesterday . . .”. They visit Ruth Pollard the last week in September.

1930.09.06] To David Grad ALS 1p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 115 [c. 6 September 1930] 32. Queen’s Terrace. “We are extremely crowded up this week . . .”. She is making an inventory of their books.

1930.09.13] To John Austen ALS 1p. Richardson Papers [c. 13 September 1930] [n.p.] “I find this is about the last . . . “. She gives news of Harry Clarke’s poor health.

1930.09.14 To Stanley J. Kunitz TLS (copy, typed signature) 1p. Princeton Sept. 14th, 1930 32. Queen’s Terrace. “It is only because your kind letter . . .”. He has asked for biographical information. Pilgrimage was begun in 1913. She has no photo of herself.

1930.09.15] From J. C. Powys ALS 8p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #8 Sept 15 [1930] Route 2, Hillsdale, New York “I’ve been feeling” a craving for a letter from DMR. Glastonbury is about one quarter finished. Miriam, living in New York, would confine herself to a small backwater. He is infuriated by DMR’s poverty.

1930.09.23] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. WOM 201-203 Sep 1930 32. Q.T. “I shall soon have a New York address . . .”. Continued near end of Nov.: Fanfrolico is bankrupt, Grant Richards has shied from both AO’s and DMR’s work, and the Julian Press (I. Brussel) is silent.

1930.10.04] To John Austen ALS 1p. Richardson Papers [c. 4 October 1930] [32. Queen’s Terrace] “We’ve found a tenant – ” and must leave on the 10th.

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1930.10.16] To John Austen ALS 6p. Richardson Papers WOM 203-204 [Fall 1930] Lynx “Everyone to whom I have sent our book seems delighted . . .”. She recalls the wonderfulness of their visit to the Austens– “for who can catch radiance in a web of words.”

1930.10.17] To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers [c. 17 October 1930] The Lynx “It is good to have lines from you . . .”. Macpherson’s film (Borderline) was beautiful. Bryher’s part could not have been better. The country was lovely on the journey to Cornwall. She is trying to arrange translations, and rather despairing of getting on with X.

1930.10.18] [To H.D.] ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 18] Oct.1930 The Lynx, Constantine “The film, Film, FILM.” DMR praises the rhythmic wholeness of Borderline, and H.D.’s rationale for it. But she found Robeson ineffective.

1930.10.25] To John Austen ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 25] Oct:1930 Lynx “So your strong hand has again been on the move . . .”. Grant Richards is reading her Duckworth statements. She is grateful for a deluxe edition of The Inseparables.

1930.10.27] To Alan Steele ALS 3p. Cambridge Oct ’30 The Lynx “Thank you very much for the extra Inseparables . . .”. She has just got round to the Powys essay, and proposes, for the sake of publicity, to send it to a magazine first. She is uncertain about the completion of vol. 10.

1930.12.10 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALI 3p. Richardson Papers pmk. 10 DEC 30 The Lynx. “Hullo Pegg ––gy!” DMR outlines an average day. Only necessary letters are written.

1930.12.16 From Dr. Wilfred Trotter ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Dec. 16.30 119 Harley Street. W.1 “A letter from a stranger . . .”. He politely enquires about her next volume after Oberland. He expresses the pleasure it has been to know Miriam Henderson.

1930.12.19 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 5p. Richardson Papers WOM 205-206 Dec 19th 1930 Lynx

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“You are much too good to us.” DMR describes a local episode that later became her story “A Stranger About.”

1930.12.28] To Tommy Austen ALS 5p. Richardson Papers [c. 28 December 1930] The Lynx “A happy New Year to you both, & to the beasties.” While they were in Boxing Day disarray two ladies called. She must now fall silent to pot boil. Grant Richards would handle something of hers outside the series. Marianne Moore admires John Austen’s work.

1930.12.31] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers WOM 206-208 New Year’s Eve.[1930] Lynx “A very happy New Year to you . . .”. Their stuck doors – the episode is vividly described – are again working. She must now concentrate on her writing tasks.

1931.01.03] To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers WOM 208-210 [Jan. 1931] Lynx “I feel the pressure of a mass of . . . communications.” DMR surveys her desperate financial situation and asks for the loan of £100. She hopes by spring to have finished Volume X.

1931.01.10 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #9 Jan 10 1931 Phudd Bottom, Route 2, Hillsdale, New York, U.S.A. “I’ve been re-assured by getting your two cards . . .”. He asks her to write him at top speed whatever comes into her head.

1931.01.13 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 210-11 Jan 13th 1931 The Lynx “A queer, bad state . . . has kept me from writing . . .”. Bryher is thanked for her gift. In discussing J. C. Powys’s essay, DMR distinguishes between feminine egoism and masculine selfishness.

1931.01.14] To John Austen ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Jan 14th [1931] Lynx “That was sad news . . .”, the death of Harry Clarke. Austen has illustrated As You Like It. Their plans are indefinite.

1931.01.20] To Dr. Wilfrid Trotter ALS 2p. W. R. Trotter (son) Jan.1931 Lynx. Constantine. Padstow

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“Salutations.” Re Dawn’s Left Hand, “prolonged labour will have resulted, sometime this year I hope, in something more akin to a mouse than to a mountain.”

1931.01.29 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #10 Jan 29th 1931 Route 2, Hillsdale, New York “What a day it was reading your letter . . .”. Alan appreciates JCP’s work. Having a style is a mystery. He does not have one; DMR and Llewelyn and Theodore do. He has a house- keeper and is at peace going on with his writing.

1931.02.08] To David Grad ALU 1p [incomplete] Hanscombe (1979), II, 100 Feb 8th. [1931] Lynx. “We thoroughly enjoyed our share of your raid on . . . Oberland.”

1931.02.12] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg Feb: 12th [pmk. - - FEB 31] Lynx “Best thanks.” Terribly busy.

1931.02.21 To Alan Steele ALS 2p. Cambridge Feb 21st 1931 The Lynx “I have just sent the final Edition of Mr. Powys’ article to Duckworth” to select a passage. The next volume should be ready by the end of May.

1931.03.05 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 5p. Richardson Papers Mar 5th. [pmk. 5 MAR 31] Lynx “Greeeeetings.” World slump has hit Alan’s line of work. She is translating Madame du Barry. Pearl Bennett had an accident but all turned out well. “Strange Interlude rather thrills me.”

1931.03.05a To Alan Steele ALS 2p. Cambridge Mar 5th 1931 Lynx “It is difficult to say.” Who best to write a preface for the Powys essay?

1931.03.07 To John Austen ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Mar. 7th 1931 Lynx “It can't, I solemnly declare it . . .”. Translating du Barry, she has developed eye-strain. They are at the Lynx till April 8.

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1931.03.08 To David Grad ALS 6p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 18-21 Mar.8th 1931 Lynx. Constantine. “Your earlier letter should have been answered . . .”. He may redecorate their rooms. Intellectual persons rather lack a balance between reason and emotion. Borderline (the film) has been very well received.

1931.03.12] From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #11 Thursday March 12 [1931] Phudd Bottom, Route 2, New York “There's an address for you, my lady, eh?” He will enquire about selling her MS of Pointed Roofs. He must do the outside chores; his house-keeper will not go out.

1931.03.22] From J. C. Powys ALI 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #12 March 22 [1931] Phudd Bottom, Route 2, Hillsdale, New York “You didn’t give me any address . . .”. He is inquiring about selling the MS of Pointed Roofs. In her earlier letter, he misunderstood about “Mrs. Wilkinson.” He is not clannish about the Powys family.

1931.03.29 To Bernice Elliott ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Mar. 29th. 1931 The Lynx, Constantine “A line of thanks, for your letter of just over a year ago . . .”. Powys has written an essay on DMR. Elliott gives a sad account of Frances Gale.

1931.04.08] To David Grad ApcI Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 22 Wed. 8th. [April 1931] [n.p.] “It was Jannings who took the part of the Tsar in The Patriot?”

1931.04.13 To Alan Steele ApcS Cambridge Ap.13th 1931 Trevone Cottage “Many thanks for proof . . .”. No preface is needed.

1931.04.15] To David Grad ALS 3p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 106-107 Wednesday. [c. 15 April 1931] Trevone Cottage. “You know Close Up is now a Quarterly?” She offers him advice about a proposed article on Earth and the Palladium.

1931.04.17 To Alan Steele ALS 2p. Cambridge April 17th 1931 Trevone Cottage “Proof herewith.” She wishes to cut the paragraph about stream of consciousness.

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1931.04.19] To Alan Steele ALS 2p. Cambridge [c. 19 April 1931] As from Trevone Cottage “I cannot remember whether I have told you that The Adelphi is printing . . . Powys’ article . . .”.

1931.04.23] To Alan Steele ApcS Cambridge Ap. 23rd [1931] Trevone Cottage “Thank you for your letter, & stamps.” She will try to revise paragraph.

1931.04.23a] From J. C. Powys ALS 8p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #13 April 23 [1931] Phudd Bottom, Route 2, Hillsdale, New York “What an exciting letter you did write . . .”. His DMR essay has been published. And DMR’s volume 10 is in prospect. Lovely moments, visitations from the past, come to him when he is busy writing. These moments are like those in Pilgrimage and in Wordsworth. His lady is typing Glastonbury, headed for 2000 pages.

1931.05.06 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 5p. Richardson Papers May 6th 1931 Trevone Cottage “It is kind of you to write jubilantly about John Cowper’s article.” She is busy with du Barry and with her novel, promised for the end of July.

1931.05.06a To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 6p. Berg WOM 211-13 May 6th 1931 Trevone Cottage “Bravo – & again Bravo.” PBW has interesting work in Berlin. There is a demand for translators but the pay is poor. She encloses the first part of JCP’s essay.

1931.05.07 To E. B. C. Jones ApcI British Library pmk. 7 MY 31 Trevone Cottage “No. You had not told me about C. & W.” “I’ve been translating.” [Mme du Barry]

1931.05.10] To Alan Steele TLS 1p. Cambridge [c. 10] May, 1931 Trevone Cottage “Here, at last, is a substitute for the debateable [sic] passage . . .”.

1931.05.15 To Donald L. Clark ALS 1p. Columbia May 15th 1931 Trevone “Thank you for your letter of May 5th . . .” though check was missing.

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1931.05.19 From J. C. Powys ALU 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #14 May 19th 1931 Phudd Bottom “What exciting & wonderful letters . . .”. He debates the moral or amoral nature of his special moments. For nearly 10 years he has lived in sin in America. He is appalled by what DMR must endure.

1931.05.25] To I. R. Brussel ApcI HRC, Texas pmk. 25 MY[?]1931[?] pmk. ST. JOHN’S WOOD “Most certainly you may.” “Best route: Brecknock . . .” to visit Queen’s Terrace.

1931.05.26 To Alan Steele ApcS Cambridge pmk. 26 MY 31 Trevone Cottage “I have not so far heard from Mr. Powys.” But the revision can go ahead.

1931.06.09 From Stanley J. Kunitz TLS (copy, typed signature) 2p. Princeton June 9th, 1931 [New York] “You may recall my letter of last July . . .”. He has published the first edition, but is desirous of including DMR in the next edition of “Living Authors.”

1931.06.10] To Hugh Walpole ALS 2p. HRC, Texas WOM 213 June 1931 32. Queen’s Terrace “Just like you, Hugh . . .”. She thanks him for supporting Powys’s essay. They welcome Dane’s book on Walpole.

1931.06.10a To Alan Steele ALS 1p. Cambridge June 10th 1931 Trevone Cottage “Thank you for proof, returned herewith.” AO is to receive a dozen copies.

1931.06.12 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 12 JN 31 Trevone “Thanks for your letter.” They leave for London early next week, then to Long Ditton.

1931.06.14] To Hugh Walpole ALS 2p. HRC, Texas WOM 213-14 June 1931 32. Queen’s Terrace “A rotund . . . American Jew” (Brussel) would like to meet Walpole.

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1931.06.17 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 17 JUN 1931 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Can go out Monday 29th from about 7.30 to ten.”

1931.06.18] To Peggy Kirkaldy AlcS 1p. Richardson Papers [c. 18 JUN 1931] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Your note waited here when we fell in last night.” They will see her on the 24th.

1931.06.18a To I. R. Brussel ALS 1p. HRC, Texas pmk. 18 JU 1931 32. Queen’s Terrace. “Did you by any chance gather up . . . a small volume by Wilhelm Schäfer . . .”.

1931.06.18b] To I. R. Brussel ALS 2p. HRC, Texas [18] June ’31 32. Queen's Terrace. “Since writing to you this afternoon” DMR has found the missing book.

1931.06.23 To I. R. Brussel ApcS HRC, Texas pmk. 23 JU 31 c/o Mrs E. V. Odle, Topmeadow, Iver, Bucks “The post office has fitted us with a new receiver . . .”. DMR is assisting Brussel to meet Hugh Walpole.

1931.07.01 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 1 JUL 1931 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “That was a most nice evening we spent with you, dear P.” They will visit Mell c. 25 August.

1931.07.06 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. JUL 6 1931 pmk. LONDON “Twenty-fifth as ever is & . . . until 28th morning.”

1931.07.14 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg WOM 214-15 pmk. 14 JUL 1931 32. Queen’s Terrace “I had your letter & the books . . .”. She advises pushing Shäfer’s Pestalozzi for translation into English and Duckworth is forwarding her own books for translation into German. She struggles to finish vol. X.

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1931.07.14a [To I. R. Brussel] ApcI HRC, Texas pmk. 14 JUL 31 32. Queen’s Terrace. “We hope to see you on Friday 24th . . .”.

1931.07.15 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 15 JUL 1931 pmk. ST. JOHN’S WOOD “Re-reading your letter . . .”. She might find a publisher for Schäfer.

1931.07.20 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 20 JUL 1931 32. “I’ll try Schäfer on Harrap.”

1931.07.28] To Bryher ApcI Bryher Papers WOM 215 pmk. 28 JUL 1931 pmk. ST. JOHN’S WOOD “Those C.U’s are most welcome.” She is revising Earthenware (Dawn’s Left Hand).

1931.07.29] To John Austen ALS 3p. Richardson Papers [c. 29 July 1931] 32. Queen's Terrace “We are monstrosities. Domes of Silence.” But they will visit the Austens in September.

1931.07.30 To I. R. Brussel ALS 2p. HRC, Texas pmk. 30 JUL 31 32. Queen’s Terrace. “Thank you for gloves . . . for Unemployment . . . for 1601 . . .”.

1931.08.02] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 2 August 1931] [n.p.] “For all the kind suggestions . . . grateful thanks.” They cannot manage a winter abroad. Getting translation work is becoming more difficult. She is feeling more satisfied with Earthenware.

1931.08.08 To P. B. Wadsworth TLS 2p. WOM 216-17 Berg Aug.8th.1931 32. Queen’s Terrace “Strictly business.” The subject translations: Schäfer was turned down; the wave is subsiding. Her volume is ready for Duckworth.

1931.08.09] To P. B. Wadsworth TLS 2p. Berg [c. 9 August 1931] 32. Queen’s Terrace

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“Again business.” DMR controls translation rights for a German edition. PBW is authorized to negotiate.

1931.08.21 To I. R. Brussel ApcI HRC, Texas pmk. 21 AU 31 Goring-on-Sea. Sussex. “Just to let you know we . . . shall be pleased to see you on Monday . . .”.

1931.08.24 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. AUG 24 1931 pmk. LONDON “Our camp was only just not inundated . . .”. She gives their arrival time at Chelmsford.

1931.08.27] To John & Tommy Austen ALS 1p. Richardson Papers [27 August 1931] Mell Cottage, Tollesbury, Essex “No time or place for more than a few words . . .”. They will come to the Austen’s on 2 September.

1931.08.28 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 28 AUG 1931 pmk. SAINT JOHN’S WOOD “Find your letter waiting here.” She gives him a free hand with German rights.

1931.08.30 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcU Berg pmk. 30 AUG 1931 32. “Have found A.M. . . .”. They will visit the Austens.

1931.09.02 To I. R. Brussel ALS 2p. HRC, Texas pmk. SEP 2 1931 The Lynx. Constantine “Thank you very much for tackling McBride.” She wants vol. 10 to be part of a fresh edition in the U.S..

1931.09.02a To Alan Steele AlcS 1p. Cambridge pmk. 2 SP 31 Mell. Tollesbury “Your letter wandered . . .”. She regrets not seeing Steele and Hanley.

1931.09.10] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 217-18 [Sept. 1931] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Dear Bryher-in-a-house-of-the-age-that-is-getting-itself-born . . .”. She has failed to get an advance from Duckworth and Alan’s illustrations have been rejected by Lane.

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1931.09.10a To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Sept. 1931 SOUTHAMPTON pmk. 10 SEP 1931 ST JOHN’S WOOD “We are not at Southampton or anywhere near.” Come to tea on the 14th.

1931.09.13] To Tommy Austen ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 13] Sep 1931. 32. Queen's Terrace “Dear Tomatino:” She explains why she has not sent thanks sooner and describes a magical afternoon sleep she experienced while with them.

1931.09.15] To Bryher ALS 6p. Bryher Papers WOM 218-19 Sep 1931 32. Queen’s Terrace “Ever so many thanks for your kind letter . . .”. She dissects Murry’s book on Lawrence. “Proofs of Dawn’s Left Hand going in to-day.”

1931.09.16] To John Austen ALS 1p. Richardson Papers [c. 16 September 1931] Rougemont Hotel / Exeter [32. Queen’s Terrace] “For indeed . . . we are not yet anywhere near Exeter.” She encloses a copy of Powys’s Dorothy M. Richardson, inscribed by Steele. They go on the 8th to Cornwall.

1931.09.17] To Alan Steele ALS 2p. Cambridge [c. 17] September 1931 32. Queens Terrace “Very many thanks to you . . . for the books . . .”. She hopes the booklet will help Pilgrimage sales, especially since it stresses that each book is a chapter-volume of a single book.

1931.09.18 To Louise Morgan Theis AlcS 1p. Morgan-Theis Papers, Yale pmk. 18 SEP 1931 32. Queen’s Terrace “How truly good of you to send me that glowing envelope.” The very thing for the winter.

1931.09.19 To I. R. Brussel ALS 4p. HRC, Texas WOM 220-21 pmk. 19 SEP 1931 32. Queen’s Terrace. “You will be glad to find yourself safely across.” She discusses the possible sale of her MSS and arrangements for Alan’s illustrations for “1601".

1931.09.20 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 20 SEP 1931 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Wednesday crowded with oddments . . .”.

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1931.09.28 To I. R. Brussel ALS 2p. HRC, Texas Sep 1931.[pmk. 28 SEP 1931] 32. Queen’s Terrace. “I have to-day mailed to you . . . two ancient volumes.” She has sent first editions with corrections.

1931.10.01] To P. B. Wadsworth AlcS 1p. Berg [1 October 1931] 32. Queen’s Terrace “A few lines only.” She will accept £30 for German rights to first two books of Pilgrimage.

1931.10.01a To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 1 OCT 1931 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Have either mislaid or posted to you to-day, letter . . .”. She repeats her terms for a Pilgrimage translation. They leave the 14th.

1931.10.02 To I. R. Brussel ALS 3p. HRC, Texas WOM 221-22 October 1931 [pmk. 2 OCT 1931] 32. Queen’s Terrace. “Many thanks, on Alan’s behalf” for payment for bookplates. She offers to sell Powys’s MS of his essay on her work.

1931.10.04 To I. R. Brussel ALS 3p. HRC, Texas Oct. 4th 1931 32. Queen’s Terrace. “I have finally written to Alfred Knopf” about renouncing his copyrights. She hopes Pilgrimage can be reissued in groupings of 2 or 3 novels.

1931.10.04a] [To Bryher] ApcS (Alan. Dorothy. Chaddy) Bryher Papers pmk. 4 OCT 1931 pmk. LONDON “We all propose to go to ‘TheYoung Idea’ . . .”.

1931.10.05] [To Bryher] ApcS (Dorothy. Alan. Chaddy) Bryher Papers pmk. OCT 5 12:45 AM [1931] pmk. LONDON W.C. “All has happened according K plan . . .”.

1931.10.05a To Louise Morgan Theis ALS 2p. + Note 3p. Morgan-Theis Papers 5.x.31 32. Queen’s Terrace “It is a pleasure to hear from you.” She asks to be left out of Morgan’s admirable Authors series, but encloses a “Conditions of Work.” DMR’s ideal is winter solitude and the avoidance of “anything that breaks the momentum of the unconscious once it is set going.” The avoidance of preoccupations is much more difficult for a woman than a man. Yet disturbances need not inevitably lead to despair.

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1931.10.08 To P. B. Wadsworth AlcI 1p. Berg pmk. 8 OCT 1931 32. “Your card just in. Welcome to your London.”

1931.10.12 To Peggy Kirkaldy AlcS 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 12 OCT 1931) 32. Queen’s T. “It was a pity . . . ”. They are preparing to depart, and are visiting Violet Hunt.

1931.10.12a] To Louise Morgan Theis A note I 1p. Morgan-Theis Papers [c. 12 October 1931] [n.p.] “You are amazing with your swiftness of accomplishment.”

1931.10.14 To Louise Morgan Theis ALI 2p. HRC, Texas WOM 222-23 pmk. 14 OCT. 31 The Lynx “Eleventh Hour.” With apologies, she asks for changes in the Everyman interview.

1931.10.14a] From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #15 Oct 14. [1931] Route 2, Hillsdale, New York “I do hope & pray that you . . . are all right.” A graphologist has said that DMR is living “at a terrible tension” of nerves. He describes the pleasures of their country walks. The terrible neglect of DMR’s writing is lamentable. Glastonbury: 2236 pages.

1931.10.14b To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcS Richardson Papers pmk. 14 OCT 1931 32: Queen’s Terrace: “I’m sure you’ll be pleased to hear that your snap . . . will appear in Everyman . . .”. Alongside an interview with DMR.

1931.10.17 To Louise Morgan Theis AlcS 1p. HRC, Texas WOM 223 pmk. 17. OCT 31 The Lynx “I implore forgiveness for many afterthoughts.” She shudders at having called the prosperous merchants “tradespeople.”

1931.10.18] To Veronica Grad ALS 3p. Hanscombe (1979), II, 6-7 [c. 18 October 1931] The Lynx “This is just to say . . .” that their London rooms are not taken. DMR urges Veronica to get reading glasses.

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1931.10.20] To Bryher ALS 9p. Bryher Papers WOM 227-29 [Nov. 1931] [c. 20 October 1931] The Lynx “You overwhelm me.” Her dispute with Harrap over DuBarry and her hectic last days in London, including an interview with Louise Morgan and visits from Veronica Grad, David Grad and Wadsworth, are detailed.

1931.10.24 To Louise Morgan Theis ApcI HRC, Texas pmk. 24 OCT 31 The Lynx “Best thanks.”

1931.10.26] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers [c. 26 October 1931] The Lynx, Constantine “I hope my article . . . reached you in time . . .”. Bryher has sent a cargo of winter food and supplies. “A compromise has been reached with Harrap” concerning her DuBarry translation.

1931.10.29] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 29 October 1931] [n.p.] “We both find that Swiss book admirable.” She sends the Everyman article by Louise Morgan.

1931.10.30 To Louise Morgan Theis ALS 2p. HRC, Texas WOM 224 pmk. 30 OCT. 31 The Lynx “Forgive dilatoriness.” “Yes, we both liked your interview . . .”. Alan has distributed copies, largely because of Allinson’s portrait of AO.

1931.11.04 To H.D. ALS 4p. H.D. Papers WOM 225-26 Nov 4th 1931 The Lynx “Dearest, Sweetest Bella=” DMR gives a vivid account of the beauty and the frantic bustle of her last days in London. She is enchanted to have received H.D.’s book.

1931.11.04a To Veronica Grad ALS 2p. Hanscombe (1979), II, 1-2 Nov.4th. 1931 The Lynx “I’m glad of your letter.” She has had a letter from the eldest “Miss Perne” of the boarding- school where she taught.

1931.11.04b To Alan Steele ALS 2p. Cambridge Nov. 4th 1931 The Lynx “I cannot remember whether . . . I suggested that a copy should go to Dr. Schücking . . .”.

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1931.11.12 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 229-30 12.11.1931 The Lynx “It comforts me to know you approve D.L. H. . . .”. DMR clarifies her views on the difference between men and women. Knopf has refused Dawn’s Left Hand. She is “swotting at short stories.”

1931.11.17] From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #16 Nov 17 [1931] Phudd Bottom, Route 2, Hillsdale “I must wait till my Phyllis comes back . . .”. For DMR to engage a new publisher is a very serious business. He may consult a young friend.

1931.11.30 To I. R. Brussel ALS 2p. HRC, Texas pmk. 30 NOV 31 The Lynx. “I have been frightfully busy . . .” and have not yet corrected the later volumes of Pilgrimage.

1931.11.30a To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 30 NOV 31 pmk. CONSTANTINE “Sympfy: two packages, one from each of us.” PK likes Dawn’s Left Hand.

1931.12.01] From J. C. Powys ALS 8p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #17 Dec 1st [1931] Phudd Bottom, Route 2, Hillsdale, New York “Here is young Rosenberg's Report about McBride.” She should write directly to him. They have just read Dawn’s Left Hand, slowly and appreciatively, admiring its minute detail and maturing tone. It will be shocking if no American publisher takes her up.

1931.12.01a] To Oswell Blakeston ALS 2p. Beinecke [c. 1December 1931] The Lynx. Constantine “Your letter . . . came here slowly together with a belated budget.” Dawn’s Left Hand is “a starveling scrappet, one-third of the projected volume . . .”.

1931.12.10] From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #18 Dec 10 [1931] Phudd Bottom, Route 2, Hillsdale, New York “I've had a couple of letters from Mr Rosenberg . . .”. He and Phyllis now think DMR had best write directly to the large American publishers. The “aura” of her novel is still with them.

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1931.12.20] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers [c. 20 December 1931?] [n.p.] “We wish you a right happy Christmas & New Year.”

1931.12.21] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcS Berg [c. 21 December 1931?] Lynx “How are you, & how getting on?” Christmas best wishes.

1931.12.21a To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Dec 21st 1931 The Lynx “Here’s to you & yours & your Christmas 1931 . . .”. DMR is worried by reports of a motoring accident near Colchester.

1931.12.21b From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #19 Dec 21st 1931 Phudd Bottom, Route 2, Hillsdale, New York “What a lovely letter you did write . . .”. His teasing her reminds him of the hullabaloo of the Powys childhood with 11 around the table and with its “tribal exultings and contentions.” DMR’s letter glows with her “indestructible profane relish.” Phyllis is opposed to DMR’s trying a small publisher.

1931.12.22] To Bryher ALS 6p. Bryher Papers WOM 230-32 Dec 22nd [1931] The Lynx “I have been trying for days to get off a letter . . .”. She has had masses of letters because of the Everyman interview. The reviews of D.L.H. have been very good, but her financial prospects are bleak, as are Alan’s.

1931.12.29 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Dec 1931. [pmk. 29 DEC 31] The Lynx “A happy New Year to you Peggy . . .”. PK’s presents are delightful. The Morning Post grossly exaggerated the motor accident near Colchester.

1931.12.31 To Bryher ApcI Bryher Papers pmk. [- -] DEC 31 pmk. CONSTANTINE BAY “Much gratitude for the new Valéry, a joy.” She evaluates the book.

1932.01.10] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers [c. 10 January 1932] The Lynx, Constantine “I hope you reached Suisse without too awful a crossing.” She recounts the story of the dead whale at Trevose Head. DuBarry is in the press.

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1932.01.21 To Reinald Hoops L [Letter not seen] 21. January 1932 [n.p.] In reply to the author of a thesis on “The Influence of Psychoanalysis on English Literature,” DMR’s letter briefly summarizes her exposure to psychoanalytic ideas; and denies they had any influence on Pilgrimage “four of whose chapter-volumes were written before I had heard of psychoanalysis.” Excerpt published: Reinald Hoops, Der Einfluss der Psychoanalyse auf die englische Literatur (Heidelberg: Carl Winters Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1934), 151-52.

1932.01.23] To Ruth Pollard TLS (edited copy) 3p. Richardson Papers [c. 23] Jan. 1932 The Lynx, Constantine “I think you would forgive my dilatoriness . . .”. They have been beset. Alan can find no work. DLH has been well received. “A gale is raging.”

1932.02.02 From J. C. Powys ALU 12p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #20 Feb 2 1932 Route 2 Hillsdale, New York “We were both, Phyllis & I, so glad . . .”. He marvels at DMR’s uncomplaining spirit; condemns the sophisticated cleverness of The Waves; and compares his own non-style with that of others, including DMR. They have a dog, extremely nervous. Phyllis knows that underlying Ruth Suckow’s fiction is the “unconscious spontaneous unsophisticated kindness of heart of the Middle West.” Ogden Heath admires DMR’s writing.

1932.02.04a To I. R. Brussel ApcI HRC, Texas pmk. 4 FEB 32 The Lynx. “Lacking an address, we have been unable” to thank him for the rose.

1932.02.24] To Veronica Grad ALS 6p. Hanscombe (1979), II, 9-11 [c. 24 February 1932] Lynx “It does me good to know you are really resting . . .”. Veronica has been ill. DMR’s book has been published and well received, even by Rebecca West.

1932.03.01 To David Grad ApcI Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 23 Mar.1st 1932. [n.p.] “We tore our hair . . .”. David has made his theatrical début.

1932.03.04 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 6p. Richardson Papers pmk. 4 MCH 32 The Lynx “We were glad to hear from you Peg-gie . . .”. She recounts an amusing local crisis over a hotel seeking a licence for spirits. David Grad has become a dancer.

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1932.03.14 To Bryher ALS 9p. Bryher Papers Mar. 14th 1932 Lynx, Constantine “Ages, it seems since I wrote to you.” Weather cruel, her flu vile. The story of an ex- officer’s quest for a liquor licence for his hotel has much amused her. Various translation projects are outlined. They move to Trevone Cottage April 1. She laments that they are not good travelers.

1932.04.01] To Ogden Heath ALS 3p. Iowa WOM 236-37 pmk 1[?] APR 32 Trevone Cottage “It is, I suppose, because I always feel a desire to run away . . .”. Art for art’s sake means art for the fun of it and gives a surer statement of reality. Heath in his writing has “the ability to focus, without distraction.”

1932.04.08] To David Grad ApcI Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 24 [April 8th 1932 in another hand] [n.p.] “Thanks for newsful letter.” She advises him on German idioms.

1932.04.11 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 232-33 Ap.11th. 1932 Trevone Cottage “Those Poetrys are a joy . . .”. She is attacking M[iriam] and hoping for translations, but financial problems continue.

1932.04.15] To Hugh Walpole ALS 1p. HRC, Texas [Spring 1932] Trevone Cottage “Who knows more about the novel” than Walpole. She begs him to name two good books on the subject.

1932.04.18] To Bryher ALS 8p. Bryher Papers WOM 233-35 [April 1932] Trevone Cottage “I reported to you . . .”. She again reviews the weak sales of her book, her debt to Duckworth and AO’s less than bright prospects. As for the possibilities of buying as opposed to renting in Cornwall, that is not possible.

1932.04.25] To Bryher ALS 5p. Richardson Papers WOM 235-36 Ap 25th [1932] Trevone Cottage “It would be marvellous . . .”. She elaborates on Alan’s enthusiastic response to Powys’s A Glastonbury Romance. JCP is trying to find her an American publisher, so Ogden Heath reports.

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1932.04.30] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers April 30th [1932] Trevone Cottage, Trevone “Bravissimo!” Nine people were struck by lightning during violent storms in Padstow. She is washing her hair. It will be unruly for two weeks.

1932.05.16 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #21 May 16th 1932 Route 2, Hillsdale, New York “I was so overjoyed . . .” that AO finished Glastonbury. He enjoys the detailed accounts of DMR’s life. Beresford has read Glastonbury, but the reviews in the U. S. have been unsatisfactory. He has started Weymouth Sands. The weather has turned hot.

1932.06.15 To Peggy Kirkaldy AlcS 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 15 JU[ne] 32 Trevone Cottage “I was glad to hear from you a while back – ” They go to London Friday.

1932.06.15a To John Gawsworth ApcS Richardson Papers pmk. 15 JU 32 Trevone. “Thank you for your letter.” She will reply in a few weeks.

1932.06.15b From J. C. Powys ALI 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #22 June 15 - 1932 Phudd Bottom, Route 2, Hillsdale, New York “What a letter . . . you wrote about Glastonbury!” She is right, the later portion is less organic because of the way he cut it. She is also right about passivity. They imagine moving to Wales.

1932.06.18] To David Grad ALS 1p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 125 [c. 18 June 1932] 32. “We got in here on Friday . . .”. Is he coming to tea on Sunday?

1932.06.19] To Veronica Grad ALS 1p. Hanscombe (1979), II, 3 [c. 19 June 1932] 32. “We got here last Friday . . .” to find everything in apple-pie order.

1932.06.21 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 21 JUN 32 32. Queen’s Terrace “I’m glad to hear from you.” She is translating [Neumann’s Die Macht].

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1932.06.23 To Bernice Elliott ALS 2p. Richardson Papers June 23rd. 1932 32. Queen’s Terrace “I am glad to hear from you again . . .”. She will be pleased to see her in July.

1932.07.12 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 12 JUL 1932 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Best best thanks for heavenly flowers.”

1932.07.24 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. 24 JUL 1932 32. Queen’s Terrace “I’d like to see you . . .”. Wadsworth camped at 32 yesterday. Others loom.

1932.07.26 To Peggy Kirkaldy AlcS 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 26 JUL 1932 32 “We’re glad we had a glimpse of you all by your little self.” They go to Mell on the 16th.

1932.07.26a] [To John Gawsworth] ALS 1p. HRC, Texas July 26 [1932] [n.p.] “I have just been reading your letter asking me to hark back a little to the past . . .”.

1932.07.29 To P. B. Wadsworth AlcS 1p. Berg pmk. 29 JUL 1932 32. Queen’s Terrace “Iniquitous of me to leave . . . acknowledgment of wee loan returned.” PBW is in the north.

1932.08.05] To Hugh Walpole ALS 1p. HRC, Texas August ’32 32. Queen’s Terrace “Listen–while forgiving . . . informality . . .”. She provides a brief history of Wadsworth, who would like to meet him. “He’s had a remarkable career . . .”.

1932.08.11] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers [c. 11 August 1932] Topmeadow, Syke Cluan, Iver, Bucks “Did we ever fix up a train?” Terrific heat.

1932.08.15] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. + Note 1p. RP WOM 237-38 [Aug. 1932] 32. “Your scheme strikes me as . . . well-timed.” He is going to Russia for which she offers advice. She is translating Neumann. Added note: “So sorry I forgot this!”

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1932.08.22 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. 22 AUG 1932 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “I’m drained.” But to share the heat wave with PK was thrilling.

1932.08.23] To John & Tommy Austen ALS 3p. Richardson Papers [c. 23 August 1932] 32. “My best apologies . . . for muddled statements.” She humorously canvasses dates for their visit, favoring the first week of October.

1932.08.25] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALU 3p. Richardson Papers [c. 25 August 1932] 32. Queen’s Terrace “That was a lovely bit of old Essex in your letter.” She recalls enduring the heat wave at Mell. PK is liking Powys’s Glastonbury Romance.

1932.08.31] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers [c. 31 August 1932] 32. Q. T. “Only a line, dear Peggy.” She is temporarily ill. They go to the Austens until the 9th.

1932.09.02 To John Gawsworth ALS 1p. Richardson Papers Sep 2nd. 1932 32. Queen’s Terrace “Herewith you will find two small emendations.”

1932.09.06 From J. C. Powys ALS 12p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #23 Sept 6 1932 Route 2, Hillsdale, New York “Dorothy, my dear friend . . .”. Glastonbury is a failure. He writes at length of his new book, “A Philosophy of Solitude” or “Elementalism.” He feels very comfortable living with Phyllis. He is 59 years old, a polytheist, and prays for DMR.

1932.09.07 To John Gawsworth ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 7 SEP 1932 32. Queen’s Terrace “The title you suggest seems to fit quite well.”

1932.09.09 To Bernice Elliott ApcS Richardson Papers pmk. 9 SEP 1932 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “No forgiveness extended because none required.” Do not despair.

1932.09.10] To Tommy & John Austen ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Wednesday. [c. 10 September 1932] 32. Q. T.

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“Packed like Brislings” in the back row of the bus to London, they endured. They had a perfect holiday with the Austens.

1932.09.11 To John Gawsworth TLS 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 11 SEP 1932 32. Queen’s Terrace “All this summer I have been more than usually beset.” She names her translations and nonfiction books.

1932.09.23] To Violet Hunt ALS 2p. Cornell [c. 23 September 1932] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Just a line to confirm Tuesday – 7.30.” She has found Contes Cruels and will return it.

1932.09.29 To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli 78 Fouli DMR #7 pmk. 29 SEP 1932 [n.p.] “In time, I hope, to convey our blessings . . .”.

1932.10.10 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. 10 OCT 1932 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Best thanks John, whom we hoped you’d return your little self.” She has the flu.

1932.10.15] To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers WOM 239-40 Oct: ’32 The Lynx “You must please forgive me . . .”. Before leaving London, she was visited by Owen Wadsworth, Barbara Low and a stranger, all engaging in lively conversation about Russia; also by Ruth Pollard and Peter Davies.

1932.10.16 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #24 Oct 16 1932 Route 2, Hillsdale, New York “Thanks to ye both for the birthday card . . .”. Can she be nearly 60? He deplores her time spent on translation, and her neglect, in part because she is a “woman-Thinker.” He suggests a Civil List Pension. It would be terrible if she had a breakdown.

1932.10.18] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers Oct: ’32 The Lynx, Constantine “That was a marvellous experience . . . Bryher.” (Pabst was filming Chaliapin and Robey in Don Quixote.) She is restoring cuts to her translation of Neumann. Lawrence’s letters reveal his hatred of the Cornish.

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1932.12.14] To John & Tommy Austen ALS 5p. Richardson Papers [c. 14 December 1932] Constantine. Nr. Padstow “Now, isn't that . . . a neat address, more or less?” Greetings for Christmas. Mammon is in the press.

1932.12.21] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers [c. 21 December 1932?] [n.p.] “Antique Christmas & New Year Greetings from antique friends.”

1932.12.31 From J. C. Powys ALS 8p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #25 Dec 31st 1932 Route 2, Hillsdale, New York “The end of 1932!” They are contemporaries, he now sees. He speculates on a writer’s fame among the select few, and posthumously. He sometimes thinks that people of genius are sagacious, tough, cunning and shrewd. Phyllis is leading him to revise his new novel. The empty countryside is very attractive.

1933.01.01] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers New Year’s Day [1933] Constantine “A happy New Year to you.” Re-expanding her latest translation has brought her close to collapse. Mrs. Dawson Scott visited them over Christmas. Two of her poems have appeared in The Queen.

1933.01.02] To John & Tommy Austen ALS 3p. Richardson Papers [c. 2 January 1933] Constne. Pdstw. C'wall. “Yet praps you were persuaded to see the New Year in by electric light” in London. Happy New Year. Mrs. Dawson Scott visited.

1933.01.14] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers [c. 14 January 1933] Constantine “A happy New Year to you!” They have been visited by Mrs. Dawson Scott, and by Eva Hubback. Mammon is due out.

1933.01.16 To Sylvia Beach ALS 2p. Princeton Jan 16th 1933 Constantine “The finishing of a long & exacting pot-boiler . . .” has delayed her. Beach’s liking of Dawn’s Left Hand has cheered her. She authorizes a French translation of Pilgrimage.

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1933.02.08 To Thomas Burke ApcS HRC, Texas pmk. 8 FEB 33] [The Lynx] “Best thanks for Howlers . . . . Come & see us in the summer.”

1933.02.09] To Bryher TLS pp. 2-4 [p.1 missing.] Bryher Papers [c. 9 February 1933] [The Lynx, Constantine] “The prospects for this year are . . . better than they were.” She has joined The Translator’s League. She is reserving two months at Trevone Cottage for xi.

1933.02.15 To Jonathan Cape ALS 1p. Reading Feb. 15th 1933 Constantine “Thank you for your letter.” She will consider translating Quint’s André Gide.

1933.02.18] To Bryher ALS 6p. Bryher Papers WOM 240-42 [Early 1933] Constantine “It is a nightmare, Bryher.” She speaks of the situation in Germany (desperate for writers and intellectuals of the left), of her translating, and her work on Pilgrimage.

1933.02.26] To Jonathan Cape ALS 1p. Reading [c. 26] Feb’33 Constantine “I am greatly impressed” with Quint’s book on Gide. She might manage it for autumn publication.

1933.03.02] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 6p. Richardson Papers Mar 2nd [1933] Constantine “I’m truly pleased to hear of the safe arrival of Sarah . . .”. She praises the feeling of completeness in holding a sleeping baby. There is much illness around them.

1933.03.05] To John & Tommy Austen ALS 4p. Richardson Papers March 1933 Constantine “We are really & truly glad” the Austens have found a home in Kent. A Mr. House has bought all her books.

1933.03.12] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg March, 1933 Constantine “Welcome!” PBW was “got” by Russia. 32. Queen’s Terrace is available for May. They are well.

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1933.03.15] To Ogden Heath ALS 8p. Iowa WOM 242-43 March 1933 [The Lynx,] Constantine “Re-reading your letter . . .”. She explores the idea that one can always find time for what one truly wants, and describes her struggles in translating Die Macht. She deplores the plight of Jews in Europe.

1933.03.16] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg [c. 16 March 1933] Constantine “In reply to your card:” Their London rooms are for rent in May and in early October.

1933.03.20] To David Grad ALS 1p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 127 [c. 20 March 1933] [n.p.] “How are you my dear?” The winter has been mild.

1933.03.23] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Mch. 23rd [1933] Constantine “A desperate appeal reached me this morning from my tenants at 32.” They want to stay.

1933.03.31] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 5p. Richardson Papers [c. 31 March 1933] Constantine. Padstow. “Your sudden woollie . . . is a charming possession . . .”. She is packing for their move to Trevone. She imagines their leaving the emptied house.

1933.04.21] To The P.E.N. Club ALS 2p. HRC, Texas April 1933 Trevone Cottage “Dr. Robert Neumann . . . has written to me . . .”. She suggests he become a member of P.E.N.

1933.04.22] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 244-45 April 1933 Trevone Cottage “It is important to have read that lovely Heinrich Mann . . .”. Her Pilgrimage sales have improved. She is advising Dr. Neumann.

1933.04.27 From Hermon Ould TLS (typed signature) carbon copy 1p. HRC, Texas 27th April 1933 [n.p.] “I know Dr Robert Neumann quite well” and will write to him.

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1933.04.28 To Bryher ApcI Bryher Papers pmk. 28 AP 1933 pmk. TREVONE “Just to thank you for poem in Seed.”

1933.05.09 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg May 9th 1933 Trevone Cottage “We have indeed been wondering . . .”. He is to be correspondent for The Observer in Berlin. Splendid.

1933.05.16] To Bryher ALS 9p. Bryher Papers [c. 16 May 1933] Trevone Cottage, Trevone “It is all too frightful.” The plight of Jewish writers in Germany. Arranging to translate German works is complicated. She comments on previous German fiction she has read.

1933.05.23] From Bryher to H.D. TLS 2p, H.D. Papers Friedman, 311-13 May 23rd [1933] 1 South Audley Street, London W.1. “Kat darling, I saw Mr Graham . . .”. To reduce her taxes, Bryher has deeded to H.D. £250. per year for seven years and may do somewhat the same for DMR and Blanche Lewin. Bryher’s father needs much attention at present.

1933.05.31 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 245-46 May 31st. 1933 Trevone Cottage “It has taken me a couple of days to get over the shock . . .”. Bryher has deeded her £120 per year for seven years. “How precisely Heinrich Mann differentiates the Prussian brand of fascism!”

1933.06.01 From Stanley J. Kunitz TLU (draft, with typed revisions) 1p. Princeton June 1, 1933 [New York] “The second volume of our series of authors’ biographies is going to press this summer” and he very much wishes to include DMR.

1933.06.09] To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers [c.9] June 1933 Trevone Cottage, Trevone “We’re still here, you see.” “We go to 32 to-morrow . . .”. She encloses H. Mann’s reply to her letter.

1933.06.17 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 17 JUN 1933 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “We’re just arrived.” They welcome his news from Berlin.

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1933.06.22] To Contempo (Milton Abernethy) ALS 1p. North Carolina, Chapel Hill June ’33 32. Queen’s Terrace. “I move about a good deal . . .” but she would like to contribute to Contempo.

1933.07.02] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 2 JY 3[3] pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Must not at moment embark on letter.” They have had a number of nice visitors.

1933.07.03 To Stanley J. Kunitz ApcS Princeton pmk. 3 JUL 1933 pmk. ST. JOHN’S WOOD “A thousand apologies. Letter on the way.”

1933.07.04] To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers [c. 4 July 1933] 32. Queen’s Terrace “It bothers me that your C.U. article should reach only C.U. readers.” “Heart in mouth I push along with M.”

1933.07.25] To I. R. Brussel ALI 1p. HRC, Texas WOM 246 [Early Summer 1933] 32. Queen’s Terrace. “Someone who is both a psychoanalyst and a friend” seeks a U.S. publisher for War, Sadism & Pacifism.

1933.07.27] To Stanley J. Kunitz ALS 1p. Princeton July ’33 32. Queen’s Terrace “I fear the enclosed is too late for this year . . .”. She promises a snap-shot.

1933.07.27a] To Stanley J. Kunitz TLS 3p. Princeton July, 1933 32. Queen’s Terrace “Thank you for your letter, gently reminding me of a broken promise.” She outlines her philosophy of life and writing. “. . . consciousness sits stiller than a tree.” It remains stable throughout life. Authors Today and Yesterday, 1933, p. 562.

1933.08.09 To Stanley J. Kunitz ALS 1p. Princeton pmk. 9 AUG 1933 pmk. ST. JOHN’S WOOD “The promised snap-shot . . .”.

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1933.08.10] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 6p. Berg WOM 247-248 August 10th [1933] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Two postcards . . . must have gone astray . . .”. She is translating a book on Gide, reading German plays, and books from Mudie, among them Claude Houghton’s. A heat wave in London, everyone shedding clothes.

1933.08.13] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 13 August 1933] 32. Q. T. “I’ve been held up.” Tropical weather and translating held her back. They will visit PK on Tuesday 22nd.

1933.08.15 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 15 AUG 1933 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “We’ll make for that 2.15 . . .”.

1933.08.16] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1p. Berg [c. 16 August 1933] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Well I remember that book” which she will try to find later.

1933.08.19] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg WOM 248-49 [c. 19 August 1933] [n.p..] “Prize for a Good Lad!” A new Translators League has formed, which she has jointed for the year.

1933.08.19a] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers [c. 19 August 1933] pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Isn’t the Sargeant the limit!” They come “Toosday.”

1933.08.26] To John Austen ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 26 August 1933] 32. Queen's Terrace “We've duly taken in each & all of your remarks about trains . . .”. They will arrive Friday 1st.

1933.08.28 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers pmk. 28 AUG 1933 32. Queen’s Terrace “Good morning!” They were immediately visited by Adrian Allinson when they got back Friday. Mell remains with them.

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1933.09.12 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. 12 SEP 1933 32. Q’s T. “What a business for your poor dear mother, Peggy.” They go about October 8.

1933.09.20] To John Austen ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 20 September 1933] 32. Q.T. “Abashed, I am.” She has left things at the Austens. She recalls a letter from Jane Wells about “Old Girls.” They leave on 10 October.

1933.09.23] To Peggy Kirkaldy AncS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 23 September 1933?] [32. Queen’s Terrace] “That is a heavenly idea of yours Peggy, angelic.” But she will not have time.

1933.10.03] To David Grad ALS 2p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 111-12 [c. 3 October 1933] 32. Queen’s Terrace. “We are glad of your greetings” from Scotland. They found Mrs. V. (Veronica) in good form. They have seen their first Clair film.

1933.10.09 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 9 OCT 1933 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Have just posted Macedonian.” [Accompanied by picture of PK and two men, one “Bob” Sauvin-Smith.]

1933.10.12] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg [c. 12 October 1933] Constantine “Just to let you know we are once more here . . .”. PBW is now German correspondent for two London papers. [Most of the card is in German.] She has been translating endlessly.

1933.11.03 To André Gide ALS ? Fonds Gide 3 November 1933 Padstow Concerning her translation of Pierre-Quint’s study of Gide, she thanks Gide for approving a rendering and indeed for amending it, but she feels duty bound to point out that it may as it stands represent a falsification of his thought. [Gide replied that he left it to her judgment. (Fromm, Dorothy Richardson, 271). For source of information in this summary, see WOM 252, n. 4, and 571.] Bibliothèque litèraire Jacques Doucet, Paris. Letter not seen.

1933.11.03a To Jonathan Cape ALS 2p. Reading Nov. 3. ’33 Constantine

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“Léon Pierre Quint’s André Gide is now translated . . .”. Would Cape be interested? “Knopf will publish in the spring.” Librairie Stock will grant an option.

1933.11.13 From Hermon Ould TLS carbon copy 1p. HRC, Texas WOM 249-50 13th November 1933 [n.p.] “Mr. H. G. Wells . . . and the Executive Committee” invite you to become an honorary member of P.E.N.

1933.11.18] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 250-52 November 1933 Constantine “I’ve been racking my brain to discover who” sent cigarettes. She describes her problems translating the book about Gide. She has read Istrati. She does not quite despair of getting on with Pilgrimage. P.E.N. have made her an honorary member.

1933.11.22 To Hermon Ould ALS 1p. HRC, Texas WOM 253 Nov.22nd 1933 Constantine Bay “Though not addicted to clubs” she is honored to join P.E.N. and receive records of its doings.

1933.11.23 To Jonathan Cape ALS 1p. Reading 23rd Novr. 1933 Constantine “Thank you for your letter.” She promises him first refusal.

1933.11.24 From Herman Ould TLS (typed signature) carbon c. 1p. HRC, Texas 24 November 1933 Constantine Bay “Many thanks for your letter of the 22nd.” He is pleased she has accepted.

1933.11.30] To Sylvia Beach ALS 1p. Princeton [c. 30 November? 1933] Constantine Bay. Padstow. “Thank you for cuttings.” “Does Gide know . . . what goes on around him?”

1933.12.01 From J. C. Powys ALU 8p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #26 Dec 1st 1933 Phudd Bottom, Route 2, Hillsdale, New York State “Aye! but I shall never get over my delight in being able to address Miriam . . .”. He writes in the morning with the wind howling. Phyllis has transformed the cottage with wallpaper and paint. He reflects on DMR and Shakespeare and Dostoievsky. Glastonbury will appear in England.

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1933.12.01a From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #27 (Later.) Dec 1st 1933 Hillsdale, New York State “It is now 8 pm . . .”. He wants DMR to come to America to lecture. He is writing his Autobiography – with the women left out.

1933.12.11 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 4p. British Library WOM 253-55 Dec.11th,1933 Constantine Bay “I like to think of your curses . . .”. Along with praise of Kastein’s book on the Jews, she wittily sets out the differences between the French and German languages. She describes the situation of Pilgrimage, published sporadically and sprinkled with misprints, and the urgent need for a new publisher and a new edition.

1933.12.19] To P. B. Wadsworth A card S Berg Dec:’33 Constantine “Christmas Greetings. . . . Where are you?”

1933.12.21] [To H.D.] ApcS H.D. Papers [ c. 21 December 1933?] [n.p.] “Our best wishes, to you & yours, for Christmas & New Year.” DMR loves the Christmases of the Victorians.

1933.12.22 To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 22 December 1933] Constantine “Life has recently been so complex as to make letter-writing impossible.” Deep freeze. She is to translate Kastein. Wadsworth is still reporting from Berlin. Mrs. Dawson Scott will visit at Christmas.

1933.12.29] To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 3p. British Library WOM 256-57 Decr.29th [1933] Constantine “The long silence has been due to . . . . a stop in my mind.” It concerns abandoning Duckworth for a new publisher, especially when he is offering only to publish the next volume. And that next is not even assured in the coming year.

1934.01.10] To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 257-59 Jan.1934 Constantine “A very belated letter . . .”. She thanks Bryher for making her one of the beneficiaries in a trust fund. She has had many struggles with her translating, finishing up Gide, starting on Kastein, while being distracted by visitors, including A. Allinson with a new lady. Bryher is in the U.S..

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1934.01.17 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 5p. Richardson Papers Jan. ’34 [pmk. 17 JA 34] Constantine Bay “How like you, Peggy dear . . .”. She evokes her struggles with Gide, with a new German translation, with violent weather, and with the visit of Adrian Allinson and his lady.

1934.01.20] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. 20 JA 34 pmk. CONSTANTINE “I’m not, dear Peggy, going to waste a page of my superfine Woolworth . . .”. PK is in plaster.

1934.02.18] To Bryher TLS 1p. Bryher Papers [c. 18] Feb. 1934 Constantine “In haste.” Bryher might call on Neumann who is in London.

1934.02.23] To Pauline Marrian TLS 1p. Mrs. Frank Harris [c. 23] February, 1934 Constantine “You will, I hope, forgive a typed letter . . .”. Marrian has found [in Under This Tree] “insight, deep and sure, into all sorts of people.” Congratulations.

1934.02.28] To Bryher TLS 1p. Bryher Papers Feb.28th. [1934] Constantine “I can’t attempt to thank you.” She has almost forgotten Miriam but will now meet her in April.

1934.03.04] To Geoffrey West TLS 1p. [reply to questionnaire] HRC, Texas Mar.4th. [1934] Constantine “Your letter took some time to reach me.” See Geoffrey West, ed. “The Artist and the World To-Day,” The Bookman 86 (May 1934), p. 94: DMR’s reply.

1934.03.05] To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers [c. 5 March 1934] Constantine “Robert Neumann writes to me about . . . Mrs Bryher.” DMR comments on Toller and the status of the Jew in Europe.

1934.03.12 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 2p. British Library WOM 259-60 12th March. 1934 Constantine “Your silent withdrawingness interprets my long silence.” She asserts the depth and impact of Kastein’s book which she has translated. Neumann is in London.

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1934.03.18] To S. S. Koteliansky ApcI British Library 19.iii.34 [pmk 18 MR 34] Constantine “The stop in my mind” concerns the disappearance of Pilgrimage if the moulds are destroyed.

1934.03.20 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 1p. British Library WOM 260-61 pmk. 20 MR 34 Constantine “What can one poor little Christian do . . .”. She suggests she might write an Afterword to Kastein’s book.

1934.03.22 To S. S. Koteliansky AncI 1p. British Library pmk. 22 MR 34 Constantine Bay “My badly-written card” was to explain hesitations about dropping Duckworth.

1934.03.25] To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers [c. 25 March 1934] Constantine “I’m really packing . . .”. She is reading proofs for her translations of Kastein and Gide.

1934.03.25a From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #28 March 25 1934 Route 2, Hillsdale, Columbia County, New York “Give my respects to Mr Alan . . .”. He is sending “Weymouth Sands.” They are moving to England and will first visit Llewelyn.

1934.03.31 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 2p. British Library WOM 261-62 31.iii.’34 Trevone Cottage “Lovely of you to send me Rozanov.” Kot has translated him. After finishing proofs of Kastein and Gide, she hopes for a scrap of time for her own work.

1934.04.20 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 264-65 April ’34 [pmk. 20 AP 34] Trevone Cottage “Just a word of sympathy . . .”. PK must have a small operation. DMR writes of Jews in Germany; also of the proposed visit of Edwin Odle.

1934.03.20 To Geoffrey West ApcS HRC, Texas pmk. 20 MR 34 [Trevone Cottage] “Thank you for your letter.” She sends a correction.

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1934.04.03 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 2p. British Library WOM 262 April [pmk. 3 AP 34] Trevone Cottage “Ever since your letter came in . . .” DMR has puzzled over what she said about Russians that might have offended him. “Go & see poor Neumann . . .”.

1934.04.16 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 2p. British Library WOM 263 Ap.16th.’34 Trevone Cottage “In a recent letter . . .”. She explains why she cannot leave Duckworth who keeps all her books in print. In America most are out of print.

1934.04.16a To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers April 16th ’34 Trevone Cottage “Kastein is finished– ” “. . . early in May I will be free at last for M[iriam].” She has turned down the offers of a new publisher, but Peter Smith proposes to handle Duckworth’s editions in the U.S.

1934.06.04] To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 3p. British Library June’34 [pmk. 4 JU 34] Trevone Cottage “I am relieved” that Cresset Press likes the Foreword to Kastein. She finds Rozanov like herself. “His faculty for being everywhere & nowhere” is feminine.

1934.06.06] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALU 3p. Richardson Papers June ’34 [pmk. 7 JU 1934] Trevone Cottage “Just a word of greeting . . .”. They would like to visit PK in August: but Budgies!

1934.06.10] To J. H. Thompson ALS 2p. Tulsa June ’34 Trevone (as from 32. Queen’s Terrace) “Thank you for your kind letter.” Corrected copies of her Pilgrimage books, sent to New York publisher, have now been returned to her.

1934.06.21] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1p. Berg June ’34 32. Queen’s Terrace “Your note came . . .”. His news is excellent and he is going to holiday in England.

1934.06.22 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #29 June 22 1934 Down Barn, East Chaldon, Dorchester, Dorset “Here are Phyllis and I happily refuged . . .”. Phyllis has ben well received. He has been to solicitors in London about Glastonbury. Weymouth Sands also has a legal problem.

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1934.06.23] To H.D. ALS 1p. H.D. Papers [c. 23? June? 1934?] 32. Queen's Terrace “I don't know how long you're staying.” Please visit 32 if she can.

1934.06.24] To J. C. Powys ALS 3p. RP WOM 265 Fouli DMR #8 [c. 24 June 1934] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Thrice welcome to England, dear John.” They will be in London most of July.

1934.06.25 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 25 JUN 1934 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Your letter came in soon after we arrived . . .”. She tries to get a spot of her own work done.

1934.07.03 To J. C. Powys ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #9 pmk. 3 JUL 1934 32. Queen’s Terrace “We are truly glad you choose Thursday.” He and Phyllis will visit them, and they will permit him to pay for supper.

1934.07.07 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 7 JUL 1934 pmk. KINGSTON-ON-THAMES “We are just off, out of the heat-wave . . . to my sister at Long Ditton for a few days.”

1934.07.12 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 12 JUL 1934 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Good!” She is reading proofs of Wells’s autobiography.

1934.07.17 To J. C. Powys ALS 3p. RP WOM 266 Fouli DMR #10 pmk. 17 JUL 1934 32. Queen’s Terrace “Under another cover, the two Carton booklets.” David Grey is enthusiastic over Glastonbury. DMR loves Phyllis.

1934.07.17a To Frederick C. Joiner ApcS HRC, Texas pmk.17 JUL 1934 32. Queen’s Terrace “Certainly.”

1934.07.17b From H. G. Wells ALI 2p. Tulsa July 17. 34 47, Chiltern Court, Clarence Gate, N.W.1

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“Thanks specially for your protest about the last section.” She is revising and proofing Experiment in Autobiography, and he is rushing off to Estonia.

1934.07.18 From J. C. Powys ALI 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #30 July 18 1934 Down Barn, East Chaldon, Dorchester, Dorset “It was scandalous of me not to write earlier . . .”. He was at ease visiting the Odles for neither of them cast a cold eye or pounced on weaknesses. He glowed.

1934.07.19 To Frederick C. Joiner ALS 1p. Tulsa 19.vii. ’34 32. Queen’s Terrace “I have to-day posted back the two books . . .”. She has corrected them.

1934.07.20 To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #11 pmk. 20 JUL 1934 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Your letter must have crossed mine.” He is not to acknowledge the booklets she has sent

1934.07.22 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Sunday. [pmk 22 JUL 1934] 32. Q.T. “A faint notelet, Peggy dear.” They have been intensely talked to by Americans.

1934.08.08] To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 3p. British Library WOM 267 Aug.8th [pmk. 8 AUG 1934] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Nearly a week since your letter arrived . . .”. She states the precise terms, among them a “definitive” four-volume edition of Pilgrimage, under which she would move to Cresset Press.

1934.08.30 To S. S. Koteliansky AncI 2p. British Library WOM 268 pmk. 30 AUG 1934 32 “I’ve been away & also steadily ill . . .”. Eye-strain in fact. But four years of translations will have produced some months of freedom.

1934.09.07] To S. S. Koteliansky AncS 2p. British Library [c. 7 September 1934] Long Ditton “I’m sorry we missed you . . .”. She is not sure whether she will be able to continue with her own writing. The translation of de Traz will be finished next week.

1934.09.08] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers WOM 268-69 [Summer 1934] 32. Queen’s Terrace

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“I would have written . . .”. She is finishing translating [Les heures de silence]. Mell means for DMR beautiful prospects and people. Jack Beresford walked in.

1934.09.11 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 11 SEP 1934 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Best thanks for negs. & wee snaps.” She finished her translation yesterday.

1934.09.11a] To Frederick C. Joiner AncS 2p. HRC, Texas Sep 11th [1934?] 32. Queen’s Terrace “I am truly sorry . . . to leave your note unanswered . . .”.

1934.09.11b From J. C. Powys ALI 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #31 Sept 11th 1934 Down Barn, East Chaldon, Dorchester “Just a line to assure you . . .”. They are moving to Dorchester. Llewelyn is better. He is racing through the Autobiography proofs.

1934.09.13 To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers & H.D. Papers Sept.13th. 1934 32, Queen’s Terrace. “It must now be over two months . . .”. She has proofed H. G. Wells’s autobiography, translated a Swiss book and, though exhausted., has 5 months free for her own work. She has seen and admired the acting of Elizabeth Bergner and Yvonne Printemps; and met the Gregorys several times..

1934.09.14 To J. H. Thompson ALS 2p. Tulsa Sept. 14th 1934 32. Queen’s Terrace “Thank you for your letter of July 14th . . .”. She describes her two Pilgrimage MSS.

1934.09.15] To J. C. Powys ALS 8p. RP WOM 269-71 Fouli DMR #12 [c. 15] Sept ’34 32. Queen’s Terrace “That was grand news . . .” about Llewelyn. She finished the French translation just on time. They have seen the Horace Gregorys, who had visited Gogarty and Yeats in Ireland. Gregory heroically triumphs over physical handicaps. Koteliansky rather overwhelms her with plans for an omnibus Pilgrimage.

1934.09.20] To H. G. Wells A note S 1p. Bryn Mawr [n.d.; c. 20 September 1934] [n.p.] “Dr. Kastein’s German-Jewish prose . . . is rather heavy going.” But worth the effort.

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1934.10.09] To Marya Zaturenska ALS 1p. Syracuse [c. 9] Oct. ’34 32. Queen’s Terrace “Carpetless & chaotic, we are packing for our eight-months in Cornwall.”

1934.10.10 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. 10 OCT 1934 32. Q.T. N.W.8. “We are both sincerely distressed over your tragedy.” [A dog savaged a kitten.] They leave on Friday [12 October].

1934.10.14] To Bryher ALS 9p. Bryher Papers WOM 272-74 [Oct. 1934] Towan Veals [Constantine, Padstow] “We’re safely landed . . .”. She tells Bryher about a meeting between Barbara Low and Rebecca West’s husband, an extremely old-fashioned gentleman; also about lectures on film by Marshall.

1934.10.20] To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 2p. British Library WOM 274-75 [c. 20] Oct.’34 Constantine Bay “Now that the delightful . . .” last weeks in town are over, she asks about the notes she is to write to Shaw and Wells. In the country one feels spring is “just round the corner all the time.”

1934.11.02] To H. G. Wells [on a letter from Flecker] ALI 1p. Richardson Papers [c. 2 November 1934] [n.p.] “Are you sure this was not marked?” Re an error in Experiment in Autobiography.

1934.11.03] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Nov. ’34.[c. 3 November 1934] Constantine Bay “I am sending Bob’s copy of Silent Hours . . .”. Many letters have had to be written.

1934.11.09 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 3p. British Library WOM 275-76 Nov 9th ’34 Constantine “The days go on & on” and Mrs. Dawson Scott and Mary McCrossan have died. For years Mrs. Scott visited them at Christmas.

1934.11.10 To Sylvia Beach ALS 3p. Princeton WOM 276-77 Nov. 10th. ’34 Constantine Bay. Padstow. “How nice to hear from you again!” Beach has asked to reprint “Punctuation.” She is discussing a reprint of the books making up Pilgrimage. “Although they actually fall into threes, they could quite well be done in twos.”

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1934.11.11 From J. C. Powys ALI 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #32 Monday Nov 11th 1934 38 High East Street, Dorchester, Dorset “How wonderful you've been to them over Dr Allinson!” JCP is arranging for this doctor to visit Llewelyn in the country.

1934.11.12] To Alyse Gregory ALS 1p. HRC, Texas Nov.12th [1934] Constantine Bay “I did not hear the postman . . .”. DMR writes concerning arrangements for Dr. Bertrand Allinson’s visit to J. C. Powys.

1934.11.13 To J. C. Powys ALS 3p. RP WOM 277-78 Fouli DMR #13 pmk. NOV 13 1934 Constantine Bay “All your clear data has gone on to Bertrand Allinson . . .”. She comments on JCP’s autobiography, noting that they fixed on the same objects but had entirely different reactions.

1934.11.16 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #33 Nov 16 1934 38 High East St, Dorchester “I was so pleased . . . to read all you said about my book . . .”. He is grateful to DMR for suggesting Dr. Allinson, and for understanding the change for Phyllis of living in England. May DMR return to her true writing.

1934.11.19 To Frederick C. Joiner ALS 2p. HRC, Texas Nov 19th ’34 Constantine Bay “I recently received” an account of your work. She seeks his opinion about the value of her MSS.

1934.11.25 To J. H. Thompson ALS 1p. Tulsa 25.xi.’34 Constantine Bay “Thank you for your letter.” She offers the MS of Dawn’s Left Hand for £7.10.

1934.11.29 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 3p. British Library WOM 279 pmk. 29 NO 34 Constantine Bay “At last those letters have gone.” She will write no more appeals. She wishes the Duke of Kent well in his marriage

1934.12.01 To S. S. Koteliansky ApcI British Library pmk. DEC 34 [n.p.] “H. G. agrees, heartily” to supply a brief statement. Shaw probably withdraws.

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1934.12.02 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 3p. British Library WOM 280-81 Decr.2nd.’34 Constantine “Your graphic presentation . . . makes me wince.” A new edition of Pilgrimage will need extensive advertisement. If the plan fails, she will be chiefly disappointed not to be able to revise the punctuation.

1934.12.05 To J. C. Powys ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #14 5.xii.’34 Constantine Bay “This is just to explain” an advertisement for “Yadil,” a truly helpful product now back on the market. She regrets he did not meet Bertrand Allinson. JCP’s Autobiography is wonderful.

1934.12.10 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #34 Dec 10th 1934 38 High East St, Dorchester, Dorset “It was very good of you” to suggest helpful food. He is so well on his present regimen that he will not break it. He is anxious about DMR.

1934.12.12 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers 12.xii.’34 Constantine Bay “You have had the pluck to live dangerously . . .”. PK will have to leave Mell.

1934.12.14] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Decr 14th [1934] Constantine Bay. Padstow. “You were an apparition, & when you’d gone I couldn’t believe you’d been . . .”.

1934.12.15] To Sylvia Beach ALS 2p. Princeton WOM 281-82 Dec.’34 Constantine Bay. Padstow. N. Cornwall “A few facts for you to select from . . .”. “Pilgrimage was mapped out in 1909 . . .”. “A few facts for you . . . ,” Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), [Paris]: Mercure de France, 1963, pp. 127-28.

1934.12.19] To S. S. Koteliansky AncS 1p. British Library Dec ’34 [pmk. 19 DEC 34] Constantine “Christmas greetings to you, dear Kot . . .”. She is ill.

1934.12.19a] To H.D. ApcI H.D. Papers pmk. [1?]9 DE 34 pmk. CONSTANTINE “Noél incredibly returned . . .”.

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1934.12.21] To John Gawsworth ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Dec. ’34 Constantine Bay “I have been ill for some time . . .” and neglected Gawsworth’s letter.

1934.12.24 To J. H. Thompson ALS 2p. Tulsa pmk. 24.DE ’34 Constantine Bay “Thank you for your letter & for the cheque” for the MS of Dawn’s Left Hand.

1934.12.27 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 3p. British Library WOM 282-83 Decr.27th.1934 Constantine Bay “Yes, I want to be well.” But in her present circumstances she cannot afford a new edition of Pilgrimage.

1934.12.29 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 283 29.Decr.’34 Constantine “To greet you in the opening of ’35 . . .”. She is ill. Alan and Mrs. Bennett are running the house.

1935.01.07 To J. H. Thompson AncS 2p. Tulsa Jan. 7th ’35 Constantine Bay “Your property goes to you under a separate cover.”

1935.01.10] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg WOM 284-85 Jan. ’35 Constantine “It is good to hear from you . . .”. DMR has neurasthenia, as a result of overstrain. “Everything totters, including . . . one’s morale.” Alan is “splendid.”

1935.01.10a To Frederick C. Joiner ALS 1p. HRC, Texas Jan. 10th ’35 Constantine Bay “I feel it very kind of you to send me that cheering little note from Cincinnati.”

1935.01.14 To J. C. Powys ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #15 Jan 14th ’35 Constantine “Just a greeting to you . . .”. JCP’s Autobiography is immortal. She speaks of Theresa of Lisieux, the Saint of cowards.

1935.01.15 To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers WOM 285-86 Jan.15.’35 Constantine

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“In my haste to get off a line . . .”. She believes that through experience she has developed her own ability to analyze herself. The doctor says she has “acute neurasthenia.” Alan is illustrating Rabelais.

1935.01.18] To J. C. Powys ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #16 [c. 18 January 1935] Constantine “We are perturbed over all this dreadful legal business . . .”. She can manage only pencilled scrawls. Phyllis can look forward to English spring.

1935.01.20 To Frederick C. Joiner AncS 2p. HRC, Texas 20. i. ’35 Constantine Bay “Thank you for your letter. I might possibly . . .” but AO will not part with the ms.

1935.01.22 From J. C. Powys ALI 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #35 Jan 22 1935 38 High East Street, Dorchester “Phyllis almost cried over your allusion to angel-cake . . .”. She is in a strange state here in England, but generally happier. Llewelyn has survived losing their lawsuit.

1935.01.25] To J. C. Powys ALS 3p. RP WOM 286-87 Fouli DMR #17 [c. 25 January 1935] Constantine “It was bad enough” reading of Llewelyn Powys’s lost lawsuit. She praises Ruth Suckow’s The Folk.

1935.01.31 To Sylvia Beach ALS 1p. Princeton Jan 31. ’35 Constantine Bay “What an excellent piece of French prose you have made of my little article!”

1935.02.04 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers 4th Feb ’35 Constantine Bay “Your address is an inspiration!” PK has moved to a new home. DMR is a little better.

1935.02.06 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 3p. British Library Feb 6th ’35 Constantine Bay “But indeed I am not impatient.” Kot is working a miracle. She has written nothing for three months.

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1935.02.11 To Mr. Ballou ALS 1p. Pennsylvania 11.ii.’35 Constantine Bay “I am grateful to you for sending me ‘Call it Sleep.’”

1935.02.13] To Sylvia Beach AncS 2p. Princeton Feb.’35 Constantine Bay “Thank you for Punctuation. Alan renews lease of cuttings.”

1935.02.13a] To Ruth Suckow ALS 1p. Iowa WOM 287 February 1935 [pmk. 13 (FE?) 35] Constantine Bay “Greetings . . . almost under one’s breath.” “For I am overwhelmed by The Folks.”

1935.02.14 To J. H. Thompson ALS 2p. Tulsa Feb. 14th ’35 Constantine Bay “I am glad you find the original of Dawn’s Left Hand a friendly possession.” Two portions of “Work in Progress” are enclosed.

1935.02.22 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 2p. British Library WOM 288-89 Feb.22nd.’35 Constantine Bay “Now that your miracle . . .”: his plan for the publication of her next volume and of a collected edition of Pilgrimage. She foresees financial difficulties. Her novel is to be toasted at a New York luncheon.

1935.02.28 To S. S. Koteliansky ALI 1p. British Library 28.ii.’35 Constantine Bay “It is now my turn to say don’t be ill.” She will write to Cohen today. “I am a bit better in ways . . .”.

1935.03.01 To Bryher ALI 5p. Bryher Papers WOM 289-90 March 1st ’35 Constantine Bay “I imagine you about due in town . . .”. She speaks of Alan’s drawings, the luncheon in New York to discuss Pilgrimage, and the reasons psychoanalysis may not be right for her.

1935.03.06 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 290-92 6th Mar.’35 Constantine Bay “It was great good news that you may be coming down.” She details the history of Alan’s drawings, describes her encounters with an American Jewish agent (Brussel), and reviews the negotiations for a collected Pilgrimage.

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1935.03.22 To Sylvia Beach ApcI Princeton pmk. Paris: 22.III 1935 Constantine Bay. Padstow. N. Cornwall “Alan sends respectful greetings & may he please have the press-cuttings.”

1935.03.22a To Elliot Bliss ALS 1p. Tulsa 22.iii:35. Constantine Bay “I am glad to have your letter.” Your silence after our meeting did not surprise.

1935.03.26?] [From Alan Odle to (H.D.)] AL(!)I (AEO) 1p. Richardson Papers [c. 26 March 1935?] [n.p.] “Salutations?”

1935.03.27] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers [c. 27 March 1935] Constantine “Hurriedly.” She describes how Koteliansky has arranged for Dent and the Cresset Press to become her publisher. They want her next book to be large.

1935.03.28 From Alan Odle to Sylvia Beach AL(!)I Princeton pmk. Paris. 28.III.1935 pmk. PADSTOW [Decorated sheet with the large printed word Salutations, and initials AEO]

1935.03.29 To J. H. Thompson ALS 1p. 29. iii. ’35 c/o Mrs. Pope, Trevone Cottage “Thank you for your letter and the cheque [for] the two fragments . . .”. “I hope . . . to finish my book . . .”.

1935.04.17 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 292-93 17.IV.’35 Trevone Cottage “Margaret Kennedy is a noble citizeness.” H. G. [Wells]has sent £50. DMR is preparing the MS of Clear Horizon.

1935.04.27 To Frederick C. Joiner ApcI HRC, Texas 27 iv. <35 Trevone Cottage “Thank you for letter. Will write as soon as anything is definitely settled.”

1935.05.21 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 293-94 21.v.35 Trevone Cottage

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“I feel guilty about that Barsis sketch . . .”. She would like to write something on Ramuz. Her health is improved but she must be careful.

1935.05.24 To J. C. Powys AncsS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #18 24.v.’35 Trevone Cottage, Trevone “I can’t even begin to write.” She has been struggling with Clear Horizon, promised to Dent by July 1. Her breakdown was “nervous exhaustion” but she remained lucid. She has again read his autobiography.

1935.05.28 From J. C. Powys ALU 4p. RP Fouli JCP #36 May 28th 1935 Cynwyd, nr Corwen, N. Wales “It was a comfort to us to get a word from you” and learn about Dent and DMR’s next book. They are struggling with desperate incompetence to find a new home in Wales. They have great hero-worship for DMR. He will turn next to Owen Glendower.

1935.05.31 To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #19 31 MY 35 [Trevone] “Je vous dis . . . qu’une influence bénigne a même précédée l’arrivée de votre lettre.”

1935.06.03 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers 3.vi.35 Trevone Cottage “It is good news to hear of your settling in a home at least as lovable as Mell.” She is finishing Clear Horizon.

1935.06.04 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers June 4. ’35 Trevone Cottage “My best thanks, dear Bryher . . .”. The wildly erratic behavior of Stephen Guest is rehearsed in detail.

1935.06.09] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 9 JU 35 pmk. PADSTOW We’ve finally fixed 25th, to come up.

1935.06.11 To Frederick C. Joiner AncS 2p. HRC, Texas 11. vi. ’35 Trevone Cottage “The title of my book is at last chosen: Clear Horizon.”

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1935.06.14] To Elliot Bliss AncS 2p. Tulsa June ’35 Trevone Cottage “I am trying to finish a book . . .”. From London we will go to Surrey and Essex in July.

1935.06.24 To J. C. Powys AncS 2p. RP WOM 294-95 Fouli DMR #20 Midsummer Sunday [pmk. 24 JU 35] [Trevone Cottage] “You shall . . . sure have an early copy of ‘Clear Horizon’–“ JCP has a new house. They go to London next Friday.

1935.06.30] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 30 June 1935?] 32. “(Alan is using the ink). We rush to you for shelter.” She is evading Brussel. They’ve just finished unpacking.

1935.07.06 To S. S. Koteliansky AncS 2p. British Library pmk. 6 JUL 1935 Long Ditton, Surrey “We’re back & have . . . come down here . . .”. The book [Clear Horizon] was finished on time.

1935.07.10 To S. S. Koteliansky ApcI British Library pmk. 10 JUL 1935 pmk. Kingston on Thames “We’ll be at 32 by the end of the week.”

1935.07.10a] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers [c. 10 July 1935] Long Ditton / as from 32. Queen’s T. “So glad to hear from you.” They will see PK on the 19th if not before.

1935.07.18 To J. H. Thompson AncS 2p. Tulsa 18.vii.’35 32. Queen’s Terrace “Very many thanks for your letter and cheque . . .”.

1935.07.24 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcS Richardson Papers pmk. 24 JY 35 pmk. WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE “This place is the Cannes of the l.m. class.”

1935.07.28 To J. H. Thompson AncS 1p. Tulsa 28.vii.’35 32. Queen’s Terrace “With delight I read of your venture . . .”.

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1935.07.28a] To Peggy Kirkaldy AlcS 2p. Richardson Papers Sunday. [28 July 1935] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Shame I feel, in returning so late your blessed loan.” They gratefully holidayed at Walton, amid the proletariat.

1935.07.29 To S. S. Koteliansky AncS 2p. British Library pmk. 29 JLY 1935 32. “We are just back, & shall be here a clear fortnight.”

1935.08.10 To Elliot Bliss AncS 2p. Tulsa 10.viii.’35. 32. Queen’s Terrace “This is to tell you that a ‘studio & flat’. . .” is to let. She has had tea with Bliss.

1935.08.25 To J. H. Thompson AncS 2p. Tulsa 25.viii.35 32. Queen’s Terrace “C.H. appears on October 18th.” A clipping about Signatures is enclosed.

1935.08.25a] To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 2p. British Library [c. 25 August 1935] West House, High Street, Biddenden, Kent “Have you . . . wondered what has become of us . . .”. She has been very busy; her brother-in-law has died; but now she is here having her eyes treated.

1935.08.26] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers WOM 295-96 Aug ’35 c/o Mrs. Watts, High Street, Biddenden, Kent “Peggy dear,– again & again . . .”. She is relieved to be here in peaceful Kent and to be treated by William Macmillan, who has also successfully treated Lord Rochdale and a paralyzed society lady. They go from here to the Austens.

1935.09.06 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #37 Sept 6 1935 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire, N. Wales “Oh Dorothy my dear . . .”. Wales impresses them by its affinities to France and America, by its language, its medieval quality and its inwardness.

1935.09.11 To S. S. Koteliansky AncS 2p. British Library [11 Sept 1935] [n.p.] “It has just occurred to me . . .”. Kot is getting her books by Berdyaev.

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1935.09.11a To P. B. Wadsworth AncS 2p. Berg 11. Sep 35 32. Queen’s Terrace “We are indeed glad you are coming over . . .”.

1935.09.24 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 24 SEP 1935 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Shall be in to-morrow Wed. . . .”.

1935.10.04 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers 4.x.’35. 32. Queen’s Terrace “Your lovely . . . gloves, dear Peggy, arrived yesterday.” They leave for Rose Cottage around the 15th.

1935.10.05 To [Raymond Toole-Scott] AncS 2p. Harold Fromm 5.x. ’35 32. Queen’s Terrace “The enclosed, I hope, is the kind of thing you want.”

1935.10.08 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcS Richardson Papers pmk. 8 OCT 1935 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Thursday, alas, is already tied up . . .”.

1935.10.12 To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers WOM 297-98 12.x.35 [32. Queen’s Terrace] As from Rose Cottage “I hope C.H. will reach you safely.” “We have taken Rose Cottage for the winter . . .”. Wadsworth has visited. She comments on Violet Hunt and Stephen Guest. Macmillan has treated her for six weeks.

1935.10.14 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 298-99 14.x.’35 32. Queen’s Terrace “We are truly distressed.” DMR analyzes the dilemma should PK marry Dr. Roger Sauvan- Smith, a devoted professional man. She doubts PK could be happy.

1935.10.22] To Veronica Grad ALS 2p. Hanscombe (1979), II, 8 [c. 22 October 1935] As from Rose Cottage, Trevone “(A. says D. said you were “too vivid” in C.H. . . . .)” DMR is sending a Berdyaev to her.

1935.10.23 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 3p. British Library pmk. 23 OC 35 as from Rose Cottage

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“I am truly sorry . . . not to have seen you again . . .”. Her check came promptly for Clear Horizon. She hopes to begin her “country” book [Dimple Hill].

1935.11.01 To S. S. Koteliansky AncS 2p. British Library WOM 299-300 1.xi.’35 Rose Cottage “Really, it is kind of you” to report Lady Ottoline’s praise. They are “cooped here” in Rose Cottage.

1935.11.12 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #38 Nov 12 1935 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire, N. Wales “We’ve just finished Clear Horizon.” They are thrilled by it. She is “the greatest woman- genius now living.”

1935.11.15 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg WOM 300-301 15.xi.’35 Rose Cottage “Greetings, dear Owen . . .”. Reviews of Clear Horizon, as usual, are extreme. Her story [“Nook on Parnassus”] is in the latest Life & Letters To-day.

1935.11.15a To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers 15.xi.’35 Rose Cottage “The photograph . . . brought us, dear Peggy, much joy.” Rose Cottage is philistine. She has read Galleons Reach for the first time.

1935.11.24 To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers 24.xi.’35 Rose Cottage. Trevone “Again . . . you bring me ease of mind . . .”. Alan is doing drawings for Cellini. Stephen Guests’s behavior is a problem for his family. Freud has just arrived.

1935.11.27 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers 27.xi.’35 Rose Cottage “What an eye you have, Bryher . . .”. Alan Odle and the Café Royal brigade admired Pointed Roofs. And Ottoline Morrell has praised Clear Horizon.

1935.12.03 To Veronica Grad ALS 2p. Hanscombe (1979), II, 4-5 3.xii.’35 Rose Cottage “My dear you may imagine the joy it gives me to contemplate you & Mac together.” She reveals how she arranged for David and Mac to meet. David said Alan was a consistently “religious creature.”

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1935.12.07 To P. B. Wadsworth AncS 2p. Berg 7.xii.’35 Rose Cottage “Just to thank you in advance for Herzen . . .”. They are recovering from the election.

1935.12.15] To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers WOM 303-305 Decr.’35 Rose Cottage “Alan is using the ink . . .”. “My books . . . do belong to . . . the bourgeois working class into which Miriam was pitched headlong . . .”. DMR pronounces on Greek Orthodoxy as the surest foundation of Western Christianity.

1935.12.19 To J. C. Powys ALS 7p. RP WOM 302-303 Fouli DMR #21 19.xii.’35 [WOM 19.xi.’35] Rose Cottage “Often & often . . . I have thought . . . of you & of Phyllis . . .”. They find Rose Cottage confining and philistine. The comic features of Hypo’s dinner with Miriam and Amabel in Clear Horizon have been missed by some reviewers. Sales of the book are poor. She must now tackle correcting punctuation in the Pilgrimage volumes.

1935.12.20 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers 20.xii.35 Rose Cottage “Ever so many thanks . . .”. “Do we freeze?” Alan’s hat blew away. She greatly admires Richardson’s Maurice Guest.

1935.12.21] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcS Richardson Papers [c. 21 December 1935] Rose Cottage, Trevone “Love & Christmas Greetings – ”

1935.12.22] To Bryher ApcS Bryher Papers Decr. ’35 Rose Cottage “Love & Christmas Greetings–Alan & Dorothy”

1935.12.22a] [To H.D.] ApcI H.D. Papers [c.22 December 1935] Rose Cottage, Trevone “We send love & Christmas Greetings. A.O & D.R.”

1935.12.23] To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 2p. British Library Decr. ’35 [pmk. 23 DE 35] Rose Cottage “A word of Christmas greeting . . .”. Reading Herzen, who reveals the Russian mind, soul, spirit, has taken some of her time. “We freeze.”

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1935.12.24] To J. C. Powys AncS 2p. RP WOM 301 Fouli DMR #22 24. xii.’35 Rose Cottage “Just a line, dear John.” She explains the contribution of Berdyaev’s Freedom & the Spirit to a right understanding of Christianity. She is sending him the book.

1935.12.26 To P. B. Wadsworth AncS 2p. Berg 26 xii. ’35 Rose Cottage “My dear, we are to keep these Herzens?” She admires his luminous intelligence.

1935.12.30 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers 30.Decr.’35 Rose Cottage “A happy New Year to you, Bryher.” They have had a quiet holiday. They miss the London art shows, especially the Chinese one.

1936.01.06 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 2p. British Library 6.1.’36 Rose Cottage “Long ago, dear Kot . . .”. But her letters have been in arrears. Most reviews of Clear Horizon have been superficial but an Oxford paper called it “distinguished” and grouped DMR with Duhamel.

1936.01.08 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers 8.i.’36 Rose Cottage “Do you by any chance . . . know . . . A. Guillemin . . .”. A man or a woman? “Violet [Hunt] writes the most distressing letters.”

1936.01.26 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers 26.i.’36 Rose Cottage “Wells disappointing.” [Re helping Sylvia Beach.] Their London flat is in demand. [Funeral of George V.]

1936.02.03 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Feb.3.’36 Rose Cottage “Almost at once . . . I shall be sending back G. . . .”. Alan is engrossed in Herzen. She notes attendees at the funeral of George V.

1936.02.04 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers 4. Feb. ’36 Rose Cottage “Shaw . . . is abroad . . .”. The idea was to save Shakespeare and Company. Edwin Odle is seriously ill. The new king is popular.

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1936.02.06 To J. C. Powys ALS 1p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #23 Feb. 6th. ’36 Rose Cottage “All is well with you?” They miss their shack with its din and huge sky; they feel suburban.

1936.02.08 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #39 Feb 8 1936 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire, N. Wales “We were thrilled to get your letter.” Phyllis’s mother is with them. “Maiden Castle” is finished. Louis Wilkinson has written an amusing history of the Powys family. He loves the mountain behind their house.

1936.02.09 To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers Feb.9th.1936 Rose Cottage “Thank you for your letter . . .”. She seeks help for Rose Odle’s children. She is reading Vendredi.

1936.02.16 To J. H. Thompson ALS 2p. Tulsa 16. Feb. 1936 Rose Cottage “Very many thanks for my copy of Signatures.” She regrets certain errors; errrata enclosed.

1936.02.24 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 1p. British Library 24.Feb.’36 Rose Cottage “Loops & loops of time . . . since I wrote to you last.” Edwin Odle is recovering but Rose must now support the family. She is revising Pilgrimage. The individual books support and amplify each other.

1936.02.26 To Bryher TLS 1p. Bryher Papers Feb.26th.’36. Rose Cottage “I have just heard from Rose and Elizabeth.” They are overwhelmed by Bryher’s help.

1936.03.03 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 305-306 3.iii.’36 Rose Cottage “Only yesterday . . .”. She writes of Marlow’s remarkably frank book on the Powyses and on Austen’s The ABC of Pen and Ink Rendering. Bryher is to visit her bulb farm.

1936.03.08 To Bryher TLS 1p. Bryher Papers Mar.8th.1936. Rose Cottaage “In haste.” Paul Gangolf is in desperate need in Lisbon and seeks Emil Gumbel’s help. Can Bryher assist a little?

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1936.03.10 To Frederick C. Joiner ApcI HRC, Texas pmk. 10 MR 36 Rose Cottage “Letter duly received & gladly forwarded.”

1936.03.12 From Richard Church ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 306-307 12.iii.36 13, Old Square, Lincoln’s Inn, W.C.2 “I have been intending to write . . .” about the logistics of publishing a completed Pilgrimage in order to make a “final bid” to establish DMR’s reputation.

1936.03.12a To J. C. Powys AncS 2p. RP Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #24 12.iii.’36 Rose Cottage “John dear, we are grieved indeed.” [A. R. Powys died on 9 March 1936.]

1936.03.15 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers [c. 15 March 1936] Rose Cottage “Of course Kenneth is shouting for you . . .”. She speaks again of Gangolf; and has praise for Life and Letters III, though she finds some of the reviews lacking.

1936.03.16 To P. B. Wadsworth [via Mudie’s] AncS 1p. Berg 16.iii.’36 Rose Cottage “I send you . . . a book belonging to Mr. Wadsworth . . . asking you . . . to forward it . . .”.

1936.04.02 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg April 2, ’36 Trevone Cottage “You must forgive me.” He had sent a magnificent Dürer which they greatly appreciate. She has sprained her foot.

1936.04.07 To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers 7.Ap ’36 Rose Cottage [sic] “In haste, post-van nearly due.” She has done her best to revise Perdita’s translation of a piece by Ramuz.

1936.04.09 To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers 9. Ap. ’36 Trevone Cottage “Again the post is imminent . . .”. Again she has revised Perdita’s version of Ramuz. Dr. Eder is dead.

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1936.04.13] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 13 April 1936] Trevone. Padstow “In haste. Second Ramuz proof just in.” She has made a few more revisions. Their landlady has had a fall.

1936.04.14 To Richard Church ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 307-308 14 Ap.’36 Trevone Cottage “The arrival of . . . Dent’s statement reminds me that your letter is still . . . unanswered.” If the new edition is delayed, will the individual books be kept in print? She still favors issuing a group of volumes at intervals.

1936.04.14a To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 2p. British Library WOM 308-309 14.iv.’36 Trevone Cottage “I wrote . . . to Richard Church . . .”. In response, he urged postponing the whole plan. She encloses her reply.

1936.04.14b] To David Grad ApcI Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 25 [April 14th 1936 in another hand] [n.p.] “To tell you that Geoffrey Bles is publishing . . . Berdyaev’s Meaning of History.” AO is reading it.

1936.04.15 To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 309-310 15,iv,’36 Trevone Cottage “At last I can . . . answer your enquiry as to XII . . .”. The past year has been one of struggle and illness, but now she feels some revival. However, Dent’s want to delay the new edition. In that case, will the individual books be kept in print? She still favors issuing a group of volumes at intervals.

1936.04.18 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 1p. British Library WOM 311 18.iv.’36 Trevone Cottage “Thank you for your letter . . .”. Church believed that Clear Horizon was the final volume of Pilgrimage. Now that he and Dent know the truth, they do not wish to proceed.

1936.04.29 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers 29.Ap ’36 Trevone Cottage “At once, I would have written, to thank & bless you for my holiday– ”. Allinson is here, condescending about Cornwall. Butterflies “are the most wonderful of the beasts.”

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1936.05.14 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg [pmk. 14] May ’36 Trevone Cottage “Just to let you know we shall not be in town when you come.” Adrian Allinson and Schroeder are here.

1936.05.15] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 311-13 May ’36 Trevone Cottage “The Elizabethan book is a joy . . .”. She comments negatively on Orwell’s book, describes a trip along the Cornish coast with Allinson, and expresses relief that Dent have now agreed to bring out Pilgrimage as planned.

1936.05.31 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers 31. May. ’36 Trevone Cottage “We were glad of your budget of Elmstead news . . .”. Her arduous winter was filled with crises, among them the breakdown of Edwin Odle. She has had letters from Fred Fenton and “Mr. Hancock,” and a visit from Allinson who took them by car around Cornwall.

1936.06.09 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 9 JU 36 pmk. TREVONE “Have read no modern novels for an age.” Until Keep the Aspidistra Flying.

1936.06.11] To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 2p. Berg [c. 11 June 1936] Trevone [Cottage] “There was a splendid letter from you . . .”. They are holidaying along the coast, but return to London next week.

1936.06.14 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #40 June 14 1936 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merioneth, N. Wales “How are you & Mr Alan?” Concerning Berdyaev: “too mystical & too holy it was.” And JCP is too superstitious, polytheistic and Roman. He is tackling Welsh via the Bible. He hopes to publish Maiden Castle in England.

1936.06.23 To Richard Church ALU (draft) 1p. Richardson Papers 23.vi.’36 32. Queen’s Terrace “Thank you for your letter of May 22nd.” She is disappointed in the delay of a fresh edition. The new book may be finished by autumn 1937.

1936.07.03 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers 3.vii.’36 32. Queen’s Terrace

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“We missed you on Sunday.” Barbara Low showed them a letter from Freud relating to David Eder’s death. They are to visit PK.

1936.07.04 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 314-15 July 4.’36 32. Queen’s Terrace “We grow used to London . . .”. She quotes Freuds’s comments on the death of David Eder. Violet Hunt is more coherent than last year. Edwin Odle is “shades better.”

1936.07.05] To Peggy Kirkaldy A note S Richardson Papers [c. 5 July 1936] [n.p.] “S.O.S.” Post enclosed to create an alibi.

1936.07.12 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg 12.vii.’36 32. Queen’s Terrace “Greetings & good wishes.” She asks him to be executor of her will jointly with Alan. Muriel Rukeyser is expected to visit.

1936.07.12a To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 12 JUL 1936 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “The 5.42 will be the best for us, reaching C. 7.7.”

1936.07.15 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 3p. Berg WOM 313 15.vii.’36 32. Queen’s Terrace “My grateful thanks for your . . . reply.” The responsibilities of a literary executor in her case, with a single work and a single publisher, will be simple.

1936.07.23] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 23 JY 36 pmk. WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE “Just to let you know where to find us on Friday.”

1936.07.28 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 28 JUL 19[36?] pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “We received a charming greeting from Wolf in Könisberg.”

1936.07.30 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 30 JUL 1936 32. “Here we are, having regretfully dragged ourselves away on Monday.”

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1936.08.03 To Horace Gregory AncS 2p. Harold Fromm 3.viii. ’36 32. Queen’s Terrace “It was nice to have your letter . . .”. She has read Eyeless in Gaza.

1936.08.05 To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers Aug.5th,1936 32. Queen’s Terrace “Very many thanks for the Armaments brochure . . .”. Elizabeth Odle is to marry Geoffrey Pollett. “Dent’s have demanded a photograph . . .”.

1936.08.05a] To Peggy Kirkaldy AlcS 2p. Richardson Papers [5 August 1936] 32. “Peggy dear, again , H E L P!” DMR wishes to postpone seeing an admirer.

1936.08.12 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 315-16 12.viii.’36 32. Queen’s Terrace “Peggy dear, it may be as you think.” PK seems to be caught up in a threesome with Bob and Eve, all three of them fine chaps.

1936.08.18 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg 18.Aug.’36 32. Queen’s Terrace “We chortled affectionately . . .”. They are hurled from drama to drama. She is having tea with “Miss Deborah Perne.”

1936.08.19] To Peggy Kirkaldy AlcS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 19 August 1936] 32. “Peggy dear – I would have written weeks ago . . .”. She has been besieged, but has been visited by the nicest of the Canadian doctors in Interim.

1936.08.21 To S. S. Koteliansky AncS 2p. British Library WOM 316-17 21.viii.’36 32. Queen’s Terrace “A Mr. Bates . . . has applied to me for a sample of my [translation] work.” We have been making visits to the country.

1936.08.24 To S. S. Koteliansky AncS 2p. British Library 24.viii.’36 32. Queen’s Terrace “Is it now my turn to tell you . . . not to be ill?”

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1936.08.26 To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 317-18 26,viii,36 32. Queen’s Terrace “Your, intelligible, ravings come to confirm” the praise of Tchekoslovakia. She had tea with “Deborah Perne.” She compares Eyeless in Gaza with Little Lord Fauntleroy, and describes John Odle’s role in the developing of color film.

1936.09.25 To H. G. Wells Telegram Illinois pmk. 25 SEP 36 [32. Queen’s Terrace] “CONGRATULATIONS AND GOOD WISHES”

1936.09.24 To P. B. Wadsworth AncS 2p. Berg Sep 24th ’36 32. Queen’s Terrace “You it was . . . who sent us . . . Herzen . . .”. She comments on Mabel Dodge’s book and the fury of Lawrencians.

1936.10.04 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 319-20 4.x.’36 32. Queen’s Terrace “Thank you for your letter and the Spenglers.” DMR presents a wide range of social gossip, including an evening at Maiden Lane and an evening with H. G. Wells, “Maura,” and Anthony West and his young wife.

1936.10.06 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 321-22 6.x.’36 32. Queen’s Terrace “You have been much on my mind . . .”. They have been visited by Tristram Beresford, 21, who has just published a novel. She hopes that PK’s troubles will not be too menacing. DMR has reviewed Eyeless in Gaza.

1936.10.08 To Peggy Kirkaldy AncI 1p. Richardson Papers 8. x. ’36 32. Queen’s Terrace “Peggy dear – the only chance of catching us to-morrow is at lunch-time.”

1936.10.20 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #41 Oct 20 1936 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merioneth, N. Wales “For God's sake let me have a line . . .”. His brother, A. R. P., died in the spring and Llewelyn has had a setback. Phyllis’s mother and aunt are next door. Cassell’s have taken Maiden Castle.

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1936.10.26 To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #25 pmk. 26 OC 36 Constantine Bay “Greetings, & a faithful promise to write quite soon.”

1936.11.12 To Peggy Kirkaldy AncS 2p. Richardson Papers 12.xi.’36 Constantine Bay “Peggy dear – just a word, in a rare spare moment.” They are settled and glad to be there. A cargo boat with canned fruit broke up.

1936.11.13] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 13 NO 36[?] pmk. PADSTOW “Your vlupshus Arctic foot-warmer came in this morning.”

1936.11.17 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALI 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 17 NO 36 pmk. PADSTOW “Peggy dear, I’m glad indeed & relieved.” She is concerned about PK and Eve.

1936.11.19] To J. C. Powys ALS 4p. RP WOM 323-26 Fouli DMR #26 Nov.’36 [pmk. 19 NO] Constantine Bay “Do I feel a wretch?” She rehearses events of the past months: in Trevone, Mrs. Pope fell ill; in London the crises of friends and family confronted them. She had tea with the head of the North London school where she taught. Here in Cornwall their shack has been improved. She struggles, with a new slowness, to get back into Pilgrimage. They were delighted by a visit from Tristram Beresford and his friends.

1936.11.23 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 322-23 23 xi. ’36 [Lynx] Constantine Bay “Thank you for your data.” She urges PK not to move to Colchester, and praises A London Girl of the Eighties.

1936.11.23a To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers 23.xi.’36 Constantine Bay “So far off, you seem, across 2000 miles of wintry sea.” The shack has new beds and convenient chairs. She praises books by M. V. Hughes and Stovin. She has been in despair about Pilgrimage, but is now committed to finishing book XII by Autumn 1937. P.S. Grace Broom is ill and Florence has died.

1936.11.26 From J. C. Powys ALI 12p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #42 Nov 26 1936 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merioneth, N. Wales

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“What a joy . . . this splendid letter of yours . . .”. They must somehow meet again, for they are at ease one with another. He details Llewelyn’s plans to go to Davos. He will send Maiden Castle. Also, he is now finishing his anti-vivisection novel, “Morwyn.”

1936.11.28] To Bryher ALI 5p. Bryher Papers [c. 28 November 1936] Constantine “Must be brief & thin . . .”. She praises Bryher’s Manchester and advises careful revision before book publication.

1936.12.14] To J. C. Powys AncS 2p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #27 Young Moon [c. 14] Dec. ’36 Constantine “Enchantment walked in to-day with Maiden Castle . . .”. The crisis (over Edward VIII) has passed.

1936.12.21] To J. C. Powys ApcS Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #28 [c. 21] Dec. ’36 [n.p.] “Christmas Greetings & love . . .”. Alan is immobile (reading Maiden Castle).

1936.12.22 To S. S. Koteliansky AncS 2p. British Library 22, Decr.’36 Constantine “After all this long time, how are you?” Christmas greetings.

1936.12.22a] To John & Tommy Austen ALS 4p. Richardson Papers [c. 22 December 1936] The Lynx “A line of greeting to you dear John & Tommy . . .”. No cold or gales.

1936.12.27 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers 27.xii.’36 Constantine Bay “Only time lacked for answering your last letter but one.” She offers some insider details about Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson.

1937.01.08] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers Jan.8.’36 [error for ’37] Constantine “This morning’s letter took me by surprise.” She thanks her for many Christmas gifts, and extols the high artistry of French realists like Zola and of French landscape painting. She reports various rumors about Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson.

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1937.01.08a To Frederick C. Joiner AncS 2p. HRC, Texas 8.i.’37 Constantine Bay “I send you the enclosed . . .”.

1937.01.14 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1p. Berg Jan 14.’37 Constantine Bay “Ever since hearing from Father Christmas Cripps . . .”. Their Christmas holiday was busy with visitors and news of the crisis [Edward VIII].

1937.01.15 To J. C. Powys AncS 2p. RP WOM 326-27 Fouli DMR #29 15.Jan.’37 Constantine Bay “Alan finished Maiden Castle . . .” and she is reading it with satisfaction. AO’s enclosed remarks praise the novel’s gloom, its “grotesquerry” and its compactness of form.

1937.01.20 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #43 Jan 20 1937 Corwen, Merioneth, N. Wales “Aye! how pleased we were at getting your letter . . .”. He admires AO’s calligraphy; and proposes A.O. do a few illustrations for Morwyn.

1937.01.29] To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #30 [c. 29 January 1937] [n.p.] “We are on tiptoe for the ms . . .” [of Morwyn] which Alan may illustrate.

1937.02.05 To Bernice Elliott ALS 1p. Richardson Papers 5.ii.’37 Constantine Bay “The sight of your handwriting . . .” from London in mid-winter surprised DMR.

1937.02.15] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Feb ’37. [pmk. 15 FE 37] Constantine Bay “Peggy dear – a naughty extravagant little girl you are . . .”. Evenings go to her unfinished book. Colonel Roosevelt likes Alan’s drawings.

1937.02.16 From H. G. Wells ALI 3p. Tulsa Feb. 16. 37 13 Hanover Terrace, Regent’s Park, N.W.1 “I dined with the Roosevelts last night.” They want to buy Alan’s work and take some back to New York.

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1937.02.17 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk.17 FE 37 pmk. PADSTOW “Glad to have your letter.” The Roosevelts have bought two of Alan’s drawings.

1937.02.18 From H. G. Wells ALI 1p. Tulsa Feb. 18. 37 13, Hanover Terrace, Regent’s Park, N.W.1 “I dont think T. R. will have objected to a certain indelicacy in the drawings.”

1937.02.22 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers 22.ii.37 Constantine Bay “Some more P.E.N. news.” They are trying to launch an international review. She has enjoyed reading Ramuz in Vendredi.

1937.02.28 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 2p. British Library Feb.28.’37 Constantine Bay “It was very nice to see your hand-writing again.” His health is better but he may leave Cresset Press.

1937.03.03 To J. C. Powys ALS 2p. RP WOM 327-28 Fouli DMR #31 3.iii.’37 Trevone Cottage [error] “John dear, at last a communication . . .”. JCP has created a truly credible Hell. Alan is preparing illustrations for the new book.

1937.03.09 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 328-29 9.iii.’37 Constantine Bay “What a Time you are having, Peggy dear!” DMR reacts to Mary Butts’ death. Customs problems prevented the Roosevelts from taking Alan’s drawings to New York.

1937.03.12 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 330-31 12.iii.’37 Constantine Bay “Two new French books . . .”. She would like to translate Ramuz. For her to review V. Woolf would be unfair. Book XII is nearly done.

1937.03.13 To J. H. Thompson ALS 2p. Tulsa 13.iii.’37 Constantine Bay “Much as I should like to subscribe to Signatures” someone else is doing her a good turn. She praises Roth but finds the younger writers sad.

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1937.03.13a To David Grad ALS 2p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 26-27 13. iii. ’37 Constantine Bay, Padstow “Rather more than my usual . . . correspondence has kept me from writing . . .”. DMR imagines meeting acquaintances of various ages in the hereafter. March continues bitter.

1937.03.15] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 15 MR 37 pmk. CONSTANTINE BAY “Hope Fox, poor angel, progresses.” DMR comments on Mary Butts, her death and her fiction.

1937.03.18 To J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #32 18 or 19, iii.’37 Constantine Bay “Your houses are not washed away?” Theirs almost is. The Theodore Roosevelts have evinced interest in buying and promoting AO’s work. The death of Mary Butts reminds DMR of meeting her in Paris in 1924.

1937.03.19 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 331-32 19.iii.’37 Constantine Bay “It is indeed good of you . . .” but DMR doubts the MS of Pointed Roofs will sell. She mentions Mary Butts’ last article before her death.

1937.03.19a To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers 19 iii ’37 Constantine “I am indeed grieved . . . that you should have this harrowing experience.” A friend has committed suicide.

1937.03.23 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #44 March 23 1937 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire “Ha! but I do . . . rejoice . . .” that the Roosevelts are interested in AO’s work. Easter visitors may delay sending the Morwyn ms. He comments ramblingly on the river Dee. Phyllis thinks it not natural for women to be intellectuals, but natural for them to be geniuses.

1937.03.24 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers 24. iii. ’37 Constantine “Frightful &, apparently, meaningless.” DMR responds to the suicide of PK’s friend. They ready themselves for Trevone.

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1937.04.01 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 332-33 All Fools Day.’37 Trevone Cottage “Lest it go astray, I send you Mary Butts’ last piece of writing.” Pearl Bennett, with a beautiful illegitimate daughter, is to wed a sober young man from Lowestoft.

1937.04.01a To Ogden Heath AncS 2p. Iowa 1.iv.37. Trevone Cottage “A good deal of illness . . . left me with a boxful of letters, unanswered . . .”.

1937.04.05 To J. C. Powys ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #33 Ap.5.’37 Trevone Cottage “Morwyn lay on the breakfast table when we came down this morning . . .”. Alan is at work with it. DMR describes their living arrangements and daily routines as boarders.

1937.04.15 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 334 15.iv[?].’37 Trevone Cottage “The Nouvelle Revue Française brings me joy.” She sums up various French writers. She has typed “revisingly” Book XII.

1937.04.24 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers 24 iv ’37 Trevone C. “No, my dear, I meant only that we might be obliged to postpone visiting you.” PK is out of sorts. Robert Neumann has visited them.

1937.04.24a To Frederick C. Joiner AncS 2p. HRC, Texas 24. iv. ’37 Trevone Cottage “Alas I have no photograph save the snap-shot you may remember using.”

1937.04.27 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p.+A note U 1p. Berg 27.iv.’37 Trevone Cottage “Your letter came on here to-day.” His coming to Trevone would be expensive, she must finish her book by June, and Alan is busy with a JCP commission. She adds a note of instructions about taking the train.

1937.04.27a To Frederick C. Joiner AncS 1p. HRC, Texas 27 iv. ’37 Trevone Cottage “Not very satisfactory, I fear.”

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1937.05.05 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers May. 5.’37 Trevone Cottage “Dears; Bryher, H.D., Perdita” Allinson is sketching Mrs. Pope’s 1880's parlor. She touches briefly on various topics, including the return of Wadsworth form Berlin and the acceptance by Wells of the presidency of the educational section of the British Association.

1937.05.05a] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 5 MY [1937] pmk. TREVONE “Our letters crossed.” They may visit PK on July 17.

1937.05.06 From J. C. Powys ALU 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #45 May 6th 1937 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire “I can’t tell you with what excitement” her letter was received. He has signed the contract with Flower. How should he approach Flower about AO’s drawings?

1937.05.10 To J. C. Powys ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #34 May.10.’37 Trevone Cottage “Is it not ‘natural’ to feel grateful to one’s publisher.” She surveys the business aspects of including Alan’s drawings in Morwyn, and advises consulting Flower first.

1937.05.11] To Hugh Walpole AlcS 1p. HRC, Texas [probably c. 11 May 1937] [n.p.] “Heartiest congratulations!”

1937.05.15 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 335 18. [sic] May ’37 [pmk. 15 MY 37] Trevone Cottage “Peggy dear–What an experience . . .”. PK went to Convent school. DMR pictures the serenity of such a life for the nuns. Allinson is painting the Odles.

1937.05.21 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 21 MY 37 pmk. TREVONE “It is just possible, that a small commish, for A., may crash down on July . . .”.

1937.05.24] [To Desmond Flower] ALI (draft) 1p. RP [c. 24 May 1937] [n.p.] “The drawings completed to date [for Morwyn] have been sent to Mr. Powys . . .”.

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1937.05.25] To J. C. Powys ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #35 [c. 25 May 1937] Trevone Cottage “Drawings, sent under another cover . . .”. AO’s ship drawing will require special treatment but is perfectly suited to the text. JCP is having dental adventures.

1937.05.25a] To J. C. Powys ALS 1p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #36 [c. 25 May 1937] Trevone C. “To make all clear . . .”. DMR has written to D. Flower about Alan’s drawings. She has made proof suggestions for Morwyn.

1937.05.26 From J. C. Powys ALI 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #46 May 26th 1937 Corwen, Merioneth “Aye my dears I’ve got the Pictures[.]” He greatly admires A. O.’s illustrations for Morwyn. He is having the rest of his teeth extracted.

1937.05.31 From H. G. Wells T Document S (copy, typed signature) 1p. RP 31st day of May 1937 [n.p.] “T H I S D E E D . . . BETWEEN HERBERT GEORGE WELLS . . . and DOROTHY M ODLE . . .” gives DMR £4.3.4 monthly for life.

1937.06.14 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [In another hand:]14/6/37 Trevone [Cottage] “Thanks so much for the three French books.” “XII . . . goes along its last lap.” Allinson is going to do a painting of them.

1937.06.19 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #47 June 19 1937 Corwen, Merioneth “How good you were to take all this trouble!” He is fortunate to have DMR’s corrections to his ms. but wonders how best to convey the revisions to Cassell. A visit from Littleton will entail some delay.

1937.06.21 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 21 JUN 1937 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Greetings! We came up on Friday . . .”.

1937.06.23 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #48 June 23 1937 Corwen, Merioneth, N. Wales

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“You can believe I read your letter of the Shortest Day . . .”. He thanks her profusely for suggesting revisions to his MS, but likes his own “Slip-shod Art” and that of other popular writers. Do Virgins write better than others?

1937.06.28 To Peggy Kirkaldy AncS 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. 28 JUN 1937 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Wherever you like, Peggy dear.” They will stay where ever PK wishes. DMR is trying to finish a book.

1937.06.30 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #49 June 30 1937 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire “Old Littleton . . . departed on Monday . . .”. He proudly inserts DMR’s revisions in his Galley Proofs, but has rejected some for reasons from sensible to fantastical.

1937.07.06 To J. C. Powys ALS 2p. RP Fouli 160-61 Fouli DMR #37 pmk. 6 JUL 1937 32. “Dear John - Please!” She comments on translating Dante’s “Lasciate ogne speranza.” An out-of-the-way American publisher might like Morwyn.

1937.07.08] To J. C. Powys ALS 1p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #38 [c. 8 July 1937] [n.p.] “What, dear John . . .”. She further expounds on translating Dante’s “Abandon hope.”

1937.07.13 To Peggy Kirkaldy AncS Richardson Papers pmk. 13 JUL 1937 32. “We’re just back from my sisters . . .”.

1937.07.25 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Sunday [25 July 1937] Pier [Walton-on-the-Naze] “Our days with you begin to recede . . .”. Walton is crowded. They met Francesca Allinson last night with a friend who talked enthusiastically of the Theatre Arts League, and of Cedric Morris and Lett-Haynes.

1937.07.29 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 29 JUL 1937 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Having encountered both W.D. & Mrs W.D. . . .”. They visit the Austens early in September.

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1937.07.30] To J. C. Powys AncI 2p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #39 [c. 30 July 1937] 32. Q.T. “It has just occurred to me dear John that Aug.5th . . . a char . . . cleans these rooms.”

1937.08.04] To S. S. Koteliansky AncS 2p. British Library pmk. 4 AUG 1937 32. Queen’s Terrace “Things pile up, keeping back my work.” She has sat for Allinson.

1937.08.10] To J. C. Powys ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #40 [c. 10 August 1937] 32. “Oh John & Phyllis dears . . .”. She hopes they caught their train. The Mark Twain play, with Alan’s illustrations, is selling well in the U.S. And “Victoria the Great” is an almighty success.

1937.08.12 To Bernice Elliott ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 12 AUG 1937 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “I like the sketches very much indeed.”

1937.08.14] To David Grad ALS 1p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 119 [c. 14 August 1937] 32. Queens Terrace “At last a moments breathing space so far denied . . . since we came up.” She has been finishing a book. He must come and eat with them.

1937.08.16 To John Austen ALS 1p. Richardson Papers 16 Aug ’37 32. Queen's Terrace “Is all well with you both?” DMR says she is not hinting for an invitation.

1937.08.16a] To Bryher ALS 6p. Bryher Papers WOM 336-38 [summer 1937] 32. Queen’s Terrace “Thank you for the M.O. leaflet . . .”. “Dimple Hill is with Dent’s.” But they are holding up publication. She describes a week-end in Essex where they visited Cedric Morris and Lett-Hayes and their garden and their art school.

1937.08.17 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers pmk. 17 AU 1937 32. Queen’s Terrace “Before I forget . . .”. JCP and Phyllis visited on a very hot day–with much paraphernalia and their dog. An amusing episode.

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1937.08.20] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 20 August 1937] 32. “Blessings for your invitation . . .”. Dent and the Cresset Press are holding up publication in the hope of forcing her to complete Pilgrimage.

1937.08.21 [To Bryher] ALS 3p. Bryher Papers 21st Aug.’37 [n.p.] “Postscript:” Richard Church likes Dimple Hill; Dent has agreed to go ahead with a 4- volume set of Pilgrimage. She feels deep relief. Wadsworth read Bryher’s Development in 1920.

1937.08.23 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 23 AUG 1937 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “We shan’t be away on Sep 3rd – going to Austens later.”

1937.08.26 From J. M. Dent: Richard Church TLI carbon copy 1p. Dent Papers 26th August, 1937 Editorial Department “I am delighted to hear that you approve the new scheme for the publication of PILGRIMAGE.”

1937.08.28 To Bryher ALI 2p. Bryher Papers 28 Aug. ’37 32. Queen’s Terrace “By what strange process of divination” did Bryher discover the location of Dimple Hill? She expects publication next spring or summer. Many irregularities of punctuation must be corrected.

1937.09.08] To Ogden Heath T&ALS 4p. Iowa pmk. 8 SEP 1937 32. Queen’s Terrace “My recent enquiry was the result of coming upon a letter of yours . . .”. She weighs the problem of finding time to work; and encloses two poems, “It is Finished” and “Spring.”

1937.09.09 To George Plank AncS 2p. Beinecke 9. Sep ’37 32. Queen’s Terrace, N.W.8. “Alas, I think Bryher must have misheard us.” If they visit friends in Brighton they may come across to him for tea.

1937.09.11 To S. S. Koteliansky AncS 2p. British Library pmk. 11 SEP 1937 32. Queen’s Terrace “What tasks you set!” They will visit him for tea.

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1937.09.13] To Horace Gregory AncS 2p. Harold Fromm [c. Sept. 1937] Long Ditton. Surrey “This is just to say bon voyage.”

1937.09.14 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Sep.’37 [pmk. 14 SEP 1937] 32. Q.T. “You give us a big temptation . . .” but they cannot visit. She recounts Macmillan’s cures. It is very cold.

1937.09.25 To Bryher ALS 6p. Bryher Papers Sep 25th ’37 32. Queen’s Terrace “Lor! To-day . . .”. She comments on the works of M. V. Hughes, on the Pernes, on Guitry’s movie, on the Austen’s retreat near Canterbury, on Rossetti’s tomb and a visit to Margate with its hell-born attractions.

1937.10.01] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 339-40 1 Oct. ’37 32. Queen’s Terrace “Recover, to some extent from Margate.” The Morning Post, a paper that played fair, is gone. Dent may publish in the spring. Mrs. Pope will no longer be able to board them in the spring.

1937.10.04 To Elliot Bliss AncS 2p. Tulsa pmk. 4 Oct 1937 32. Queen’s Terrace “Our plans have been thrown into confusion by the serious illness of my elder brother-in- law.”

1937.10.18 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Oct.18.’37 32. Queen’s Terrace “Bless you for all the books.” She reports on Edith Eder’s visit to Palestine and on John Austen’s art book.

1937.10.23 To R. A. Scott-James ApcI HRC, Texas 23.x.’37 As from: Constantine Bay “Thank you for the reminder.”

1937.10.25 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers 25,x.’37 32. Queen’s Terrace “Your account of the pictures at the Expo. . . . fills me with longing.” Dents are delaying Pilgrimage. She must set aside the new volume (March Moonlight) for other work.

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1937.10.28 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Oct 28. ’37 Constantine Bay “Truly your news is distressing.” PK’s sister is very ill.

1937.11.03] To Bernice Elliott ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 3 November 1937] Constantine Bay “We look forward to seeing your sketch in . . . Life & Letters . . .”. Advice: “never write without a real impulse.” Elliott describes Frances Gale well.

1937.11.10 To Bernice Elliott ALS 3p. Richardson Papers 10th. Nov. ’37 Constantine Bay “Forwarded from Town . . .”. Elliott’s heroic plan fills DMR with misgivings. Free-lancing in England, she may starve. She might consult the Gregorys.

1937.12.09 From J. M. Dent: Richard Church to H. M. Tomlinson TLS 1p. HRC, Texas 9th December 1937 Aldine House “Probably you have heard” that Dent is reissuing Pilgrimage in four volumes. Would he like to provide a comment?

1937.12.12] To Bernice Elliott ApcI Richardson Papers [Dec 1937] Constantine Bay “Welcome to your London!”

1937.12.15] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 340-41 [Dec. 1937] Constantine “For your Christmas gift . . . grateful thanks . . .”. She is working on March Moonlight. No news from the Roosevelts about Alan’s drawings. The Foreword to Pilgrimage is a horrible struggle.

1937.12.20] To J. C. Powys ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #41 [c. 20] Decr. ’37 Constantine Bay “Dear John – was it last week . . . that we all sat talking?” Until recently the weather has been very mild. She describes the intelligent behavior of wasps. Is Morwyn doing none too well?

1937.12.22] [To H.D.] ApcS H.D. Papers [c. 22 December 1937?] Constantine, Padstow “Christmas Greetings & love, Alan & Dorothy.”

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1937.12.22a From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #50 Dec 22 1937 Corwen, Marionethshire “What a comfort to hear from you . . .”. Here it is dark. Morwyn sales have been poor. Why does he always cringe and turn the other cheek? He offers seven reasons. Their finances are tight. He is writing The Pleasures of Litrature.

1937.12.28] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 5p. Richardson Papers [c. 28] Decr ’37 Constantine Bay “Do you really & truly contemplate coming” to Cornwall? Mrs. Hubback visited at Christmas. DMR will follow a stern routine until the end of March. Mrs. Bennett brings Pearl’s child when she comes to clean.

1938.01.08] To J. M. Dent AncS 1p. Dent Papers [c. 8 January 1938] [n.p.] “Pilgrimage Vol. III, Books 1 & 2”

1938.01.10 From J. M. Dent TLI carbon copy, Form letter 1p. Dent Papers 10th January, 1938 10-13 Bedford Street, London “We beg to acknowledge receipt of the book entitled THE TRAP and REVOLVING LIGHTS . . .”.

1938.01.11] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. 11[?] JN 38 Constantine Bay “Peggy dear, what are we to do with you?” She has sent hot water bottles. The weather has been violent.

1938.01.12 From Ralph Hodgson to Richard Church ALS ?p. [Location unknown] WOM 342 Jan. 12, 1938 41 Katahira Cho, Sendai, Japan “It is very good news.” “. . . Dorothy Richardson does seem to be permanent . . .”. But he declines contributing to a brochure.

1938.01.19 From J. M. Dent TLI carbon copy, Form letter 1p. Dent Papers 19th January, 1938 10-13 Bedford Street, London “We beg to acknowledge receipt of the book OBERLAND and DAWN’S LEFT HAND . . .”.

1938.01.22 To David Grad ALS 3p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 28-29 Jan.22.’38 Constantine Bay

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“Our telephone bill has just come along.” She is correcting Pilgrimage and trying to write a preface. Concerning Powys’s treatment of evil in Morwyn, she notes that while the church rejected nature and the body, Powys values all life. Morwyn delineates a credible hell.

1938.01.24 From J. M. Dent: W.G.T. TLI carbon copy 2p. Dent Papers 24th January 1938 [n.p.] “Now that the production of the Uniform Edition of PILGRIMAGE has been put in hand,” he proposes a royalty of 10% on the first 2000 sets, 15% thereafter, and an advance of £30.

1938.01.27 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg 27.1.’38 Constantine Bay “My dear, we condole . . .”. “This does not mean leaving Berlin?” Having carefully corrected all 12 books, she is now receiving proofs, struggling with a sort of Preface and striving “to get on with the first chapter of Vol 5.”

1938.02.01 To J. M. Dent: W. G. Taylor ALS 2p.[draft] Richardson Papers Feb 1. ’38 Padstow. “Thank you for your letter.” She is willing to regard the contract as provisional, and as amended to include Dimple Hill.

1938.02.04 From J. M. Dent: W. G. Taylor to Cresset Press TLI carbon copy 1p. Dent Papers 4th February 1938 [n.p.] “Dear Mr. Cohen, PILGRIMAGE . . .”. WGT agrees to the 15% arrangement.

1938.02.10] To J. M. Dent: W. G. Taylor ALU [draft] 2p. Richardson Papers [10 February 1938] [n.p.] “Ref: – WGT : D” She thanks him for agreeing to regard volumes instead of sets as basis for royalties. An American publisher may prefer to take sheets.

1938.02.10a From J. M. Dent: WGT TLI carbon copy 1p. Dent Papers 10th February 1938 [n.p.] “Your letter of the 10th and the contract are received . . .”.

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“You will, I trust, escape your royal ship . . .”. She loves Mary Teck. The painting of them at tea in Trevone Cottage is hanging at the Royal Society. They may have found a place to stay in Trevone this spring. A section of March Moonlight is finished.

1938.02.16 From J. M. Dent: WGT TLI carbon copy 1p. Dent Papers 16th February 1938 [n.p.] “Here are the three parts of the contract . . .”.

1938.02.20] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 342-44 Feb.’38 Constantine Bay “I was glad to know you landed safe . . .”. She describes Mrs. Bennett’s family of eight self-reliant girls, and briefly mentions the setting for Dimple Hill.

1938.02.20a To J. M. Dent: W. G. Taylor ALS 1p. Dent Papers Feb.20.’38 Constantine Bay “Thank you for the amended contract.” She encloses the publisher’s copies.

1938.02.22 From J. M. Dent: MD TLU carbon copy 1p. Dent Papers. 22nd February 1938 [n.p.] “In Mr. Taylor’s absence we acknowledge” receipt of her note and copies of the agreement.

1938.03.12 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 344-45 12.iii.’38 Constantine “Bryher dear, Osbert [Sitwell] walked in . . .”. She speaks critically of his writing; his experience of life appears peculiarly narrow. “Proofs have ceased snowing.”

1938.03.14 To J. M. Dent: Richard Church ALS 1p. Dent Papers Mar. 14th ’38 Constantine Bay “I hope the enclosed will more or less meet the case.” DMR’s Foreword to Pilgrimage.

1938.03.15 From J. M. Dent: RC to Mr. Bozman TLU carbon copy 1p. Dent Papers 15th March, 1938 [n.p.] “This FOREWORD from Dorothy Richardson is somewhat disconcerting, but I do not think that we can take liberties with it.”

1938.03.15a From J. M. Dent TLI carbon copy, Form letter 1p. Dent Papers 15th March, 1938 10 BEDFORD STREET, LONDON

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“We have pleasure in acknowledging receipt of the manuscript entitled PILGRIMAGE – Forward . . .”.

1938.03.19 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers 19.iii.’38 Constantine Bay “Yes, why not keep to your plan . . .”. She reviews the prospects for peace and war, and laments the desperate state of the Jews.

1938.03.25] To Bryher ApcI Bryher Papers pmk 25 MR 38 [Constantine Bay] “I am delighted to meet the author of Little Arthur . . .”. They pack for Bloomfield.

1938.03.30] To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 1p. British Library WOM 336 [c. 30 March 1938] Bloomfield, Trevone “When I sent in my brief foreword . . .”. She wonders how it was received by Richard Church.

1938.04.02 To S. S. Koteliansky AncS 2p. British Library WOM 345-46 Ap.2.’38 Bloomfield “I should not wish to worry R.C. unnecessarily.” She seeks reaction to her Foreword. Our civilization has blindly deified Man and is “going under.”

1938.04.05 From J. M. Dent: Richard Church TLI carbon copy 1p. Dent Papers April Fifth, 1938 [n.p.] “My conscience is pricked by . . . Koteliansky . . .”. Church thought her Foreword was “a characteristic piece of work.” He encloses a typed copy of the brochure.

1938.04.07 To S. S. Koteliansky AncS 1p. British Library WOM 346 pmk. 7 AP 38 Bloomfield “A nice little letter from R.C. . . .”.

1938.04.08 To J. M. Dent: Richard Church ALS 2p. Dent Papers Ap.8.’38 Bloomfield, Trevone “I am overwhelmed by your penetratingly sympathetic treatment of my work” in Church’s admirable brochure. She notes a few revisions.

1938.04.11 From J. M. Dent TLI carbon copy 1p. Dent Papers 11th April, 1938 [n.p.]

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“Production Department is wondering how soon it may expect . . . the final instalment of PILGRIMAGE . . .”.

1938.04.14 From J. M. Dent: Richard Church TLI carbon copy 1p. Dent Papers April Fourteenth, 1938 [n.p.] “I am glad that you have approved the brochure.” Comment by him on the “Preface” would have been an impertinence.

1938.04.18 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers pmk. 18 AP 38 Bloomfield, Trevone “We rather thought . . . that we might have seen you down here.” She has been weary, and battling over her publishing contract. They are now staying with a splendid lady who has raised eight daughters. The weather has been very warm.

1938.04.21 From J. M. Dent TLI carbon copy, Form letter 1p. Dent Papers 21st April, 1938 10 BEDFORD STREET, LONDON “We have pleasure in acknowledging receipt of the manuscript entitled DIMPLE HILL . . .”.

1938.04.23] To David Grad ALS 2p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 30-31 [c. 23] Ap.’38 Bloomfield, Trevone “We are glad to have your letter . . .”. Beatrice Beresford is given to embarrassing sallies. She envisions everyone as successful but does not count the cost to them. They are in lodgings.

1938.05.12 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers May 12th ’38 Bloomfield, Trevone “We are delighted with the Egyptian book . . .”. She elaborates on its merits.

1938.05.19 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 19 MY 38 Bloomfield, Trevone, Padstow “We are desolated to find that . . . you will alight in London to find us away.”

1938.05.20] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. [2]0 MY [1938] Bloomfield “As far as we know, 32 by 18th J.”

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1938.05.31 From J. M. Dent: Richard Church TLU carbon copy 1p. Dent Papers 31st May 1938 [n.p.] “I am sending you a rough proof of the pamphlet on PILGRIMAGE . . .”.

1938.06.01 To J. M. Dent: Richard Church ALS 1p. Dent Papers June 1st ’38 Bloomfield, Trevone “Thank you for the sample copy of the little brochure . . . admirably suited.”

1938.06.02 To Bryher TLS 1p. Bryher Papers WOM 346-47 June,2,38. Bloomfield “Rain. More rain.” Church’s circular has arrived. Publication is this fall.

1938.06.07 From J. M. Dent: MD TLU carbon copy 1p. Dent Papers 7th June 1938 [n.p.] “Thank you for your letter of the 1st . . .”.

1938.06.27 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 27 JUN 1938 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Involved in a spot of bother.”

1938.07.01 To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers July 1st ’38 32. Queen’s Terrace “London. Parched air.” Their tenant stole all their valuable books last winter. Freud is relieved to be in England. Kate’s husband is dying.

1938.07.06 To J. C. Powys ALS 5p. RP WOM 347-49 Fouli DMR #42 July 6th ’38 32. Queen’s Terrace “Yes, dear John, you are . . . right . . .” in your self-analysis. Kate’s husband was buried yesterday. Their tenant sold their books and some of AO’s drawings. Freud lives nearby. He visited his beloved chow in quarantine. [WOM July 8th(?) ’38]

1938.07.07 From J. C. Powys ALU 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #51 July 7 1938 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire, N. Wales “Just to catch you . . .”. “. . . A is the pure Elemental . . . genius . . .”. Miriam is DMR’s “External Soul” with “fighting vitality.” He speculates at length on the role of physical vitality in advancing the imaginative life of Genius.

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1938.07.08 To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #43 pmk. 8 JUL 1938 [n.p.] “We shall be in London until the 15th . . .”.

1938.07.11 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers 11. vii. ’38 32, Queen’s Terrace “Peggy dear – it was sweet of you to hold out a helping hand.” They look forward to seeing her Friday.

1938.07.21] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 21 JY 38 pmk. WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE “Grand weather here to-day, almost too warm.”

1938.07.22] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 22 JY 38 pmk. WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE “So sorry you can’t sup.”

1938.08.12 To I. R. Brussel ApcI HRC, Texas pmk. 12 AUG ’38 32. Queen’s Terrace. “When A. accepted your invitation . . . he forgot that we are going away . . .”.

1938.08.15] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4P. Berg WOM 349-50 August ’38 32. Queen’s Terrace “Sad news for us” that he is going to New York. Will he look up the Gregorys? She is making her will. She deplores the “endless business of the Dent edition” now to be issued as “a complete work.”

1938.08.15a] To P. Beaumont Wadsworth AncI 2p. Berg [c. 15 August 1938] [32. Queen’s Terrace] “I have succeeded in opening this [letter of August ’38] . . .”. She hopes he will have “a serene transatlantic holiday.”

1938.08.25] To David Grad ALS 2p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 123-24 [c. 25 August 1938] Biddenden, Kent “Here at last in this unbelievably remote & rustic village” they are having their first breathing space. Her brother-in-law has died. Macmillan, nearby, is treating her eyes.

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1938.08.26] To S. S. Koteliansky AncS 2p. British Library c. 26 August 1938 c/o Mrs Watts, West House, Biddenden, Kent “I am glad to hear from you . . .”. She will write to Mr. Salmon [of the BBC].

1938.08.28 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher papers 28viii.’38 32. Queen’s Terrace “The last gleam threatens to depart.” London is a scene of search-lights, gas-masks, and evacuation plans. A train to Cornwall is doubtful. Wells is furious at the needless chaos.

1938.08.29 To J. M. Dent: Richard Church AncS 2p. Dent Papers Aug.29.’38 Biddenden, Kent “Owing to a mishap with the address, your letter” was delayed.

1938.09.01 From J. M. Dent TLI carbon copy 1p. Dent Papers 1st September 1938 [n.p.] “Thank you for your card.” Pilgrimage will be published in October.

1938.09.08 From J. M. Dent TLU carbon copy 1p. Dent Papers 8th September 1938 [n.p.] “We are wondering if you could please let us have a photograph of yourself . . .”.

1938.09.13 To J. M. Dent: Miss Beresford AncS 1p. Dent Papers Sep 13. ’38 32. Queen’s Terrace “Following our conversation over the telephone . . . I send you . . . the photograph . . .”.

1938.09.20 From J. M. Dent TLU carbon copy 1p. Dent Papers 20th September 1938 [n.p.] “We thank you for the information form that you kindly filled up.”

1938.09.23 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 350-52 23rd. Sep ’38 32. Queen’s Terrace “I have a hunch that you are back at K.[erwin] . . .”. She critiques a variety of recent movies, including the first technicolor and a recent Marx brothers’ display of vulgarity.

1938.09.30] To Peggy Kirkaldy AncS 2p. Richardson Papers Sept. ’38 [30 September 1938] [St. John’s Wood] “Peggy dear, having faithfully promised Dents . . .” she encloses brochures. There was a trial air raid warning the night before Chamberlain flew to Munich.

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1938.10.04 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #52 Oct 4th 1938 Corwen, Marioneth “Phyllis & I have been wondering . . . where you are now . . .”. They have ordered the Uniform Edition and look forward to Dimple Hill. J. D. Beresford has visited them. The war postponed produces mixed feelings.

1938.10.08 To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #44 pmk. 8 OCT 1938 32. Q.T. “Your welcome letters arrived here . . .”. The last war is still present to them. They go on the 18th to Constantine Bay.

1938.10.08a To J. M. Dent ApcS Dent Papers Oct. 8th ’38 pmk. ST. JOHN’S WOOD “I find I could usefully distribute another half-dozen of the brochures.”

1938.10.09 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers Oct.9th ’38 32. Queen’s Terrace “London breathes . . . freely again.” William Macmillan brings news of European diplomats who are “sweating fear.”. She dislikes Jouhandeau’s new work.

1938.10.11 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 352-53 11th Oct.’38 32. Queen’s Terrace “Wondering a little . . . I had read bits of Jean Grenier . . .”. She believes Hitler’s ego may be satisfied, though he could easily be driven frantic. “We leave the little flat to its fate . . .”.

1938.10.13 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 13 OCT 1938 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Have only just realised that C’s brochure includes an order form . . .”.

1938.10.23] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers [c. 23 October 1938] Constantine Bay “Here we are, in a land at least blessedly still.” “The town [in Dimple Hill] . . . was Eastbourne, the date ’07. The little inn, The Rising Sun.”

1938.10.27 From J. C. Powys ALS 20p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #53 Oct 27 1938 Corwen, Marioneth, North Wales “Just a hurried Bulletin . . .”. He extols Dimple Hill and DMR at length for her artistry and honesty, and her resemblance to Proust, Montaigne and others. She is unique in her

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1938.10.28 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 353-55 Oct 28.’38 Constantine Bay “You tempt me to introduce, in March Moonlight a little figure [Bryher] . . .”. She describes writing “A Sussex Auction” and comments on responses to Pilgrimage. Gregory is writing an article for Life and Letters.

1938.10.28a To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 4p. British Library Oct.28.’38 Constantine Bay “It was quite horrid going away without seeing you . . .”. Though very busy before going, she spent an afternoon at the BBC. Coming down, they avoided the evacuation rush. They now have a new roof.

1938.10.30 To David Grad ALS 2p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 32-33 30.x.’38 Constantine Bay “Together with your good news about 32, comes . . . an altogether unexpected notice to quit.” If they must go, will he remove their stuff? She revels in a new silent roof.

1938.11.02 To David Grad ALS 4p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 34-37 Nov 2.’38 Constantine Bay “The Estate is adamant.” After he moves their stuff, please return the keys to the Estate. She lists items to be left behind and items to be saved, including the busts of Voltaire and Irving.

1938.11.07 To J. M. Dent AncS 2p. Dent Papers Nov. 7. ’38 Constantine Bay “In acknowledging with thanks your cheque of Nov. 1st, I note that it does not include the advance of £30 . . .”.

1938.11.07a] To David Grad ApcI Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 38 [Nov. 7th 1938 in another hand] [n.p.] “Thanks for letters”about a bill.

1938.11.08 To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #45 pmk. 8 NO 38 pmk. CONSTANTINE “Blessings for your letters.” They have said farewell to 32. David [Grad] is dismantling the place.

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1938.11.11 To E. B. C. Jones ALS 2p. British Library Nov 11th ’38 Constantine Bay “Indeed it is a pleasure to hear from you again . . .”. She recalls Blewbury of childhood; and then describes their final eviction from 32 Queen’s Terrace.

1938.11.15] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers pmk. 15 NO 38 Constantine Bay “The horrors of the last two days” in Europe. She describes their train journey to Cornwall, and the end of 32 Queen’s Terrace. The weather is mild.

1938.11.15a To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #46 pmk. 15 NO 38 pmk. CONSTANTINE “Just as I was about to send a line” JCP’s book arrived, siezed by Alan who, otherwise, each morning reads Lampière .

1938.11.19] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 355-57 Nov.’38 Constantine Bay “That is a grand idea, Bryher, you on the new book . . .”. DMR reminisces at length about the background of her Sussex characters in Dimple Hill and March Moonlight.

1938.11.20 To I. R. Brussel ApcI HRC, Texas Nov. 20. ’38 pmk. CONSTANTINE BAY “What kindness, & what an amazing memory!” “32, alas, is no more.”

1938.11.23 To Edward Sackville-West AncS 2p. Berg Nov. 23. 38 Constantine Bay “Isn’t life the plot?” DMR has not wanted to be “an artist.” Pilgrimage is not finished.

1938.11.23a] To David Grad ApcI Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 39 [Nov. 23rd 1938 in another hand] [n.p.] “Delightful to meet again that old nursery rhyme . . .”. In the original Tom stole not a pig but a wig, i.e. a bun.

1938.11.25 To E. B. C. Jones ALS 4p. British Library Nov.25. ’38 Constantine Bay “Indeed I shall be glad to have the book . . .”. She explains how the publisher mistakenly believed Pilgrimage was finished, and elaborates on the relations between Rachel Mary, Richard and Miriam in Dimple Hill.

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1938.11.27] To J. M. Dent ApcS Dent Papers [c. 27 November 1938] pmk. CONSTANTINE BAY “Mrs. Badcock, of 42, Dorset Street . . . has applied to me for . . . brochures.”

1938.11.28] To E. B. C. Jones ApcI British Library pmk. 28 N[?] 38 Constantine Bay “Having shuddered in advance . . .”. She was entranced by the essay “E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf” by Jones [in Verschoyle’s book] .

1938.11.28a To J. M. Dent ApcS Dent Papers Nov. 28. ’38 Constantine Bay “Please post vol. IV and a few brochures to: P. Beaumont Wadsworth . . .”.

1938.11.29 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg Nov.29.’38 Constantine Bay “So glad to have your news and know your whereabouts.” “32, alas is no more . . .”.

1938.12.02 To J. M. Dent AncS 2p. Dent Papers Dec. 2. ’38 Constantine Bay “The set of books reached me to-day . . .”. She would like her advance payment.

1938.12.05 From J. M. Dent: GW[?] to W. G. Taylor ALI 1p. Dent Papers 5/xii/38 [n.p.] “In the last paragraph of Miss D. Richardson’s card” she asks for her advance. None was agreed to.

1938.12.06 From J. M. Dent TLU carbon copy 1p. Dent Papers 6th December 1938 [n.p.] “We thank you for your post card of December 2nd . . .”. The question of royalties will be dealt with.

1938.12.07 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Decr.7th.’38 Constantine Bay “So you are landed safely amongst the blizzards [in America].” Reviewers of Pilgrimage ignore Dimple Hill. Knopf is taking sheets. A friend reports that life in Hungary is very emotional.

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1938.12.07a To Flora Coates AncS 2p. Harold Fromm Decr. 7th ’38 Constantine “Pilgrimage goes to you under another cover . . .”.

1938.12.07b From J. M. Dent TLU carbon copy 1p. Dent Papers 7th December 1938 [n.p.] “We notice that our cheque of 1st November value 11/7" has not ben cashed.

1938.12.07c] To David Grad AncI Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 126 [c. 7 December 1938] [n.p.] “Bless you.” David could buy Pilgrimage wholesale.

1938.12.08 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg WOM 357-58 Decr. 8th. ’38 Constantine Bay “I am glad the book [vol. 4] reached you safely . . .”. She asks him to spread the truth that Pilgrimage is incomplete. They left their goods at 32 but have now received notice to vacate.

1938.12.08a To M. J. Dent AncS 2p. Dent Papers Decr.8th ’38 Constantine Bay “Thank you for your letter.” She will cash the cheque when the £30 comes.

1938.12.08b] To J. M. Dent AncS 1p. Dent Papers [c. 8 December 1938] [n.p.] “Mrs. Grad, of the Ladies National Clubs” would like further brochures.

1938.12.09] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers [c. 9 December 1938] pmk. CORNWALL “Indeed we do . . .”. A reviewer thinks she is an American.

1938.12.09a From J. M. Dent TLI carbon copy 1p. Dent Papers 9th December 1938 [n.p.] “In sending you the enclosed cheque for £30 . . . I want to express my personal regret that you were put in the position of having to ask for it.”

1938.12.13 From J. M. Dent TLU carbon copy 1p. Dent Papers 13th December 1938 [n.p.]

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“The Head Librarian of Boots Library” wonders about a circular letter concerning Pilgrimage. They do not send circulars to Boots.

1938.12.14 To J. M. Dent: Mr. Hoppé AncS 2p. Dent Papers Dec.14.’38 [n.p.] “No indeed!” But a friend of a friend may be responsible for the circular. DMR has written her friend.

1938.12.15 From J. M. Dent: A H[oppé] TLU carbon copy 1p. Dent Papers 15th December 1938 [n.p.] “Many thanks for you letter of December 14th.” No harm has been done.

1938.12.20] To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 1p. Berg [c. 20 December 1938] [Constantine Bay] “Christmas Greetings . . .”. “Such a nice letter from F. [Flora Coates] . . .”.

1938.12.21] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers [c. 21] Dec.’38 Constantine Bay “Love & Christmas Greetings & good wishes – ”

1938.12.21a] To S. S. Koteliansky ApcS British Library [c. 21 December 1938] [n.p.] “The Season’s Greetings . . .”.

1938.12.22] To J. C. Powys ApcS Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #47 [c. 22 December 1938] [n.p.] “Love and Christmas Greetings . . .”. E. B. C. Jones has sent a book of essays on the novel. It rains torrents.

1938.12.23 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #54 Dec 23 1938 Corwen, Merionethshire “Aye! but P and I were were so thrilled” to get DMR’s and AO’s response to his book. It has been severely cold in Wales. He feeds the birds.

1938.12.27] To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #48 [JCP Diary: 27th December 1938] [n.p.] “Urgent:” birds die of thirst. They unfroze without burst pipes. “Good new year to you all.”

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1938.12.27a To J. M. Dent AncS 1p. Dent Papers Decr. 27th ’38 [n.p.] “The enclosed, from Monsieur & Madame Mayaux, arrived a few days ago.”

1938.12.28] To E. B. C. Jones ApcI British Library pmk. 2- - -[illegible] 38 Constantine “Bibelots meaning a tendency [in Woolf] . . . to become bibelotesque.” She sees Forster as German Jewish in background.

1938.12.31 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Decr. 31st ’38 Constantine Bay “Thank you for the review . . .”. More negative reviews, but the TLS was pleasant. Rose Odle reports school evacuations were chaotic. The severe cold weather, having frozen many pipes, is over.

1939.01.01] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers WOM 359-60 New Year’s Day. [pmk. 39] Constantine Bay “Your Christmas parcel knocked us quite flat!” The weather has been extremely cold. They have been reading The Pleasures of Literature and The English Novelists. “Mr. Hancock” wants to move to North Cornwall.

1939.01.04 From J. M. Dent: W. G. T[aylor] TLI carbon copy 1p. Dent Papers 4th January 1939 [n.p.] “We have just received a copy of the Japanese edition of POINTED ROOFS . . .”.

1939.01.05 To J. M. Dent: W. G. Taylor AncS 2p. Dent Papers Jan. 5th.’39 Constantine Bay “Thank you so much for telling me of the Japanese edition of Pointed Roofs.” She would like a copy.

1939.01.20] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 20 JA - - [1939] pmk. CONSTANTINE “Just to wish you a very bon voyage.”

1939.02.01 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Feb.1.’39 Constantine Bay “Thank you for sending me the response . . .”. She praises White’s Happy Valley and Warner’s Don Juan, and laments the reception of “poor P.” “I press on with March Moonlight.”

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1939.02.06 To David Grad ALS 1p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 40 Feb 6.’39 Constantine Bay “With all our hearts we congratulate you, David dear, & your Vinkie”: on their engagement.

1939.02.12 To Dorothy Norman ApcS Beinecke Feb.’39. [pmk. 12 FEB 39] [n.p.] “Hearty congratulations . . .” on Twice A Year.

1939.02.13] To John Austen ALS 3p. Richardson Papers [c. 13 February 1939?] [n.p.] “Right. I'll await instructions.” They receive quite a few books to read.

1939.02.15 To J. C. Powys ALS 6p. RP WOM 361-64 Fouli DMR #49 Feb.15.’39 Constantine Bay “Knowing, dear John . . .”. DMR praises his book on Literature. But she cannot approve his Evil-Good First Cause and challenges his powerful interpretation of John. DMR cites man’s tragic gift of freedom and its working out through suffering. She is surprised that JCP should succumb to the superficialities of French rationalism, but thrilled by his many shrewd blows.

1939.02.19 To J. C. Powys ALS 11p. RP WOM 364-70 Fouli DMR #50 Feb.19.’39. Sunday Constantine Bay “I’ve now read The Bible as Literature.” Sunday. He has challenged her deeply but she has managed just to remain an unorthodox upholder of orthodoxy. Monday. Women, more than men, attain wholeness. Artists believe in the continuation of their being. A woman will willingly die for the beloved. Wednesday. She is writing an article on Yeats and Bloomsbury. She praises “John’s spirit blowing all things clear” but then asserts the primacy of “Christ within your breast.” She recalls the great Quaker Meeting she attended; then represents lovingly her trips to Padstow. Friday. She again takes up the subject of Jesus and John, and the Holy Ghost which leads into all truth.

1939.02.24 From Dorothy Norman TLU 1p. Carbon Copy Beinecke February 24, 1939 [n.p.] “How perfectly lovely of you to write about TWICE A YEAR.” Has DMR any work she might submit?

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“It is only being more than usually” busy that she has not replied to Peggy Kirkaldy’s letters from France. DMR elaborates on a life-boat tragedy, stressing the desolation of the women left behind. She was stirred by JCP’s Literature book.

1939.02.26 To Bernice Elliott ALS 4p. Richardson Papers WOM 370-71 Feb. ’26. ’39 Constantine Bay “What an epidemic of note-paper giving . . .”. DMR recommends The Pleasures of Literature. She mentions being offered the editorship of The Dental Record during World War I.

1939.02.28 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #55 Eve of St David 1939 Corwen “Dorothy this letter of yours . . .”. He urges DMR to expand through Miriam her views of woman’s nature.

1939.03.08 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers 8.iii.’39 Constantine Bay “We both grieve, realising . . . what they are going through . . .”. [PK’s sister is ill.] DMR evaluates Christian Science, Powys’s book on Literature, the Bennett family, and her article on Yeats.

1939.03.10 To Dorothy Norman AncS 2p. Beinecke Mar. 10th ’39. Constantine Bay / Padstow. “Certainly I will look through my material . . .”.

1939.03.11 To J. H. Thompson ALS 3p. Tulsa Mar. 11th. ’39 Constantine Bay “Indeed I am sorry to hear of the end of Signatures.” Pilgrimage is not finished. As for Germany, we have made Hitler inevitable.

1939.03.15 To Peggy Kirkaldy AncS 2p. Richardson Papers Mar. 15. ’39 Constantine Bay “Your news, received this morning, is incredibly sad.”

1939.03.16 To J. C. Powys ALS 5p. RP WOM 372-75 Fouli DMR #51 Mar.16.’39 Constantine Bay “Twenty-three daisies on our lawn.” She recalls J. D. Beresford. JCP should open himself to “inpourings from beyond the Cosmos.” She loves Pater’s Renaissance Studies best. She revisits the subjects of freedom, eternal punishment, and love which is central. (AO is a

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“religious man.”) Rachel Mary loved Miriam. Miriam was an ill-tempered idiot in returning Hypo’s note.

1939.03.16a To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg Mar.16.’39 Constantine Bay “Life lately has been very crowded . . .”. Twice a Year and Life & Letters have asked for contributions.

1939.03.26 To J. M. Dent ApcS Dent Papers Mar 26.’39 Hillside “Please note change of address, from Constantine Bay, to Hillside . . .”.

1939.03.27] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 27 MAR [39] pmk. CORNWALL “Don’t miss Strange Island Story by Richard Oke.” They go Tuesday to Hillside, Trevone.

1939.03.29 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #56 March 29 1939 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire, N. Wales “What a lovely long letter . . .”. JCP’s dog is dead, but still lives on as a dead identity. He urges the Odles to move to Wales.

1939.03.31 To J. C. Powys ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #52 Mar.31.’39 Hillside “Sad ‘news’ your letter brings . . .” but “no beloved stick or stone, or flower, let alone animal or person, can perish everlastingly.” They plan going to Kate’s in June. DMR, reveling in her freedom from housekeeping, surveys the “treasured” library of their hosts.

1939.04.02] To Sheila Wingfield AncS 2p. National Library of Ireland [c. 2] April,’39 Hillside “Having just moved into” lodgings, she is able briefly to thank Wingfield for her collaborative reading of Pilgrimage.

1939.04.03 To E. B. C. Jones ALS 1p. British Library Ap. 3. ’39 Hillside “Your letter found me in the throes of moving.” Sales of Pilgrimage were just 699 volumes in the first three months. It is indeed “finished.”

1939.04.04 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Ap.4.’39 Hillside

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“Peg dear, I’m glad you’ve done your move . . .”. Their new lodgings are comfortable and friendly. She reflects on the dismal sales of Pilgrimage. Her new volume will have to be left to its posthumous fate.

1939.04.04a From J. C. Powys ALI 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #57 April 4th 1939 Corwen “Oh dear Dorothy . . .”. He thrills to the thought of the Odles moving to Wales; and imagines DMR writing a book of essays on Famous Best-Sellers.

1939.04.13 To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 375-77 Ap.13.39 Hillside “It was so very good to see you . . .”. Dent’s statement has been absorbed. She must give up M.M. for other work. Having been evicted from 32, she speculates about buying a house in the Trevone area.

1939.04.13a From Dorothy Norman TLU 1p. Carbon Copy Beinecke April 13, 1939 [n.p.] “Your lovely note. Thank you always.”

1939.04.22 To David Grad ALS 2p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 41-42 Ap.22.’39 Hillside “Thank you, dear David, for the documents.” They may rent a flatlet in London. Schroeder, painting in Cornwall, says Germany is serene. DMR likes their lodgings.

1939.04.23 To Bernice Elliott ALS 4p. Richardson Papers WOM 377-78 23.Apr ’39 Hillside “Dear Bernice–without the Elliott?” She comments on Elliott’s difficulties in finding a publisher. 32 is demolished. Allinson’s German friend says all is serene in Germany.

1939.05.11 To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers May,11,39 Hillside “I did not expect to hear from you all at once.” Her future housing remains unsettled. She quotes in German a joke going round about Hitler. She is reviewing Finnegans Wake.

1939.05.24 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers May 24.’39 Hillside “Peggy dear , I’m glad to hear from you . . .”. They hope to get a flatlet in St. John’s Wood. PK has migraines. DMR feels “aged & tired.”

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1939.06.10 To Stanley Poynter ApcS Wisconsin-Madison June 10.’39 As from 60 Boundary Road, London “Amongs a number of letters . . . I come across yours . . .”.

1939.06.19 To Peggy Kirkaldy AncI Richardson Papers pmk. 19 JUN 39 Hillside, Trevone “Hope to go up on Friday 23rd.”

1939.06.20 To J. M. Dent ApcS Dent Papers June 20th ’39 pmk. BODMIN “Temporary change of address, from Trevone to: 60 Boundary Road. London, N.W.8.”

1939.06.22 From Dorothy Norman TLU 1p. Carbon Copy Beinecke June 22, 1939 [n.p.] “Sometime ago I had a note from Bryher . . .” saying you might be interested in Ramuz. They would welcome something on him.

1939.06.26 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 26 JUN 1939 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Our pig-in-a-poke turns out to be rather nice . . .”.

1939.06.27 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg WOM 379 pmk. 27 JUN 1939 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Have just arrived in town . . .”. They have spacious accommodation.

1939.06.28 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers June 28th. [pmk. 28 JUN 1939] 58, Boundary Rd. N.W.8 “Seventeenth, dear Peggy, will suit us admirably.” She describes their new premises.

1939.06.30] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI RP [c. 30 June 1939] 58, Boundary Rd. “May we shift from 17th to 20th to 19th to 22nd?”

1939.07.03 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 3 JUL 1939 58. Boundary Rd. “Good news that you are coming . . .”. They will visit PK on the 21st.

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1939.07.04 To Bryher ALS 1p. Bryher Papers July 4th ’39 58 Boundary Road “How accurately & delightfully . . .”. They are here until the 19th.

1939.07.06 To Elliot Bliss ALS 2p. Tulsa pmk. 6 Jul 1939 58 Boundary Road “Your letter, via three addresses, reached me here . . .”. We will be visiting Surrey, Essex & Kent in the following weeks.

1939.07.07 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 7 JUL 1939 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “So very glad to hear of the return of small cat . . .”. An anecdote shows Alan’s love of animals.

1939.07.10 To Richard Church ALS 3p. John Rylands July 10th ’39 58 Boundary Road. N.W.8. “Amongst the emotions overwhelming me” was gratitude for his efforts. She supplies the necessary data, her dates and financial situation, to support the application [for a Civil List Pension].

1939.07.11 To S. S. Koteliansky ApcI British Library 11.vii.’39 58 Boundary Road, N.W.8 “As you see, we have returned to town . . .”.

1939.07.11a To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 11 JUL 1939 pmk. ST. JOHN’S WOOD “58, Boundary Road N.W.8 is the address . . .”. We have surrounding gardens.

1939.07.11b To Richard Church ApcI John Rylands 11.vii.’39 58. Boundary Rd. N.W.8. “I hope you safely received the letter I posted on my way home on Monday.”

1939.07.13] To H.D. ALS 1p. H.D. Papers [c. 13? July? 1939?] London “Oh yes. Centuries away.” Spring in Cornwall was exceptionally warm and glorious.

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1939.07.14 To Richard Church AncS 2p. John Rylands July 14.’39 58. Boundary Rd. “I feel I must tell you how exactly timed is your kind effort.”

1939.07.18 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk.18 JUL 1939 pmk. ST JOHN’S WOOD “Will make for 3.20 on Friday.”

1939.07.25] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [25 July 1939] (19 New Pier St.) The Pier. “It was sad to leave you yesterday prostrate & forlorn.” She describes their holiday.

1939.07.29] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 379-80 Saturday Morning [pmk. 29 JY 39] [19. New Pier St.] “We are truly sorry” PK is still ill. Topper Takes a Trip was very funny. They are rested for London.

1939.08.11 To Joseph Hone ALS 2p. HRC, Texas WOM 380-81 Aug.11.’39 58. Boundary Road, N.W.8 ‘Thank you for your letter.” She describes the area of Woburn Buildings in 1906, a rather terrifying place. Yeats lived across the way.

1939.08.13 To S. S. Koteliansky ApcI British Library pmk. 13 AUG 1939 58 Boundary Road, N.W.8 “We are now in town for a clear ten days.”

1939.08.14 To J. H. Thompson ALS 2p. Tulsa. Aug 14. ’39 58. Boundary Rd. N.W.8. “A few days ago . . . a friend remarked: ‘Leave them.’” She offers to send a set of Pilgrimage wholesale, and encloses a parody of a children’s prayer in German.

1939.08.14a To Ruth Suckow ALS 1p. Iowa Aug. 14. ’39 58, Boundary Road “Your note . . . fills me with delight.” She will meet them on the 21st.

1939.08.15 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Aug 15. ’39 58, Boundary Road, N.W.8

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“Indeed I am sorry . . .”. PK has been unwell. They hope to go to Hillside, Trevone on the 15th [September].

1939.08.24 To Elliot Bliss ApcI Tulsa pmk. 24 Aug 1939 58 Boundary Road “We are provisionally cancelling all appointments” to leave for Cornwall soon.

1939.09.04 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #58 Sept 4th 1939 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merioneth, N. Wales “Where and how are you two?” They have been observing evacuated children, and have signed for one themselves.

1939.09.05 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers Sep 5. ’39 Salisbury “Your wire reached me two days after mine was despatched . . .”. They hope to reach Cornwall.

1939.09.09 To J. C. Powys ALI 4p. RP WOM 381-82 Fouli DMR #53 Sep. 9.’39 Hillside “The rest would appear to be silence.” From the sirens of London they escaped by car to Salisbury, and thence to Cornwall. The Ferner Nuhns visited them in London. “Surely this is the world’s deepest darkness.”

1939.09.09a] To David Grad ALS 4p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 43-45 Sept.[9] ’39 Hillside “I’m so glad to have the photograph.” They came by car to Salisbury and, after two days, by almost empty train to Cornwall. They may yet return to the Lynx, otherwise it will be a bedsitter somewhere.

1939.09.12] To J. M. Dent ApcS Dent Papers [c. 12 September 1939] pmk. TREVONE “Sole address, until further notice . . . Hillside. Trevone.”

1939.09.14 From J. C. Powys ALI 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #59 Sept 14 1939 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merioneth “What a letter!” In response to his pacifist friends, he sets forth nine responses to the situation, ending with patriotism.

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1939.09.15 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers 15. IX.’39 Hillside “Where, I wonder, were you caught?” The Nuhns and the Gregorys were in London. The sirens in London were horrible. After 18 Oct. they have no place to live.

1939.09.22 To Dorothy Norman AncS 2p. Beinecke Sep 22. ’39 Hillside / Trevone./ Padstow. “Your kind letter of June 22nd found me just about . . .” to go to London. She has said her say on Ramuz. She may have something else to send later.

1939.09.26 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers Sep 26.’39 Hillside “This is an attempt to persuade you to break one of your rules.” She makes elaborate calculations of how much she would need to borrow to set them up in unfurnished quarters.

1939.09.27 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Sep 27.’39 Hillside. Trevone “Bless you.” She explains the mail problems arising from the evacuation. Where they will live is not settled.

1939.09.29 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Sep.29.’39 Hillside “Your letter of Sep 18th reaches me here to-day: the 29th.” DMR cancels her request for a loan. Bryher and H.D. are in Switzerland.

1939.10.17 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Oct. 17.’39 Hillside “Your letter arrived to-day . . .”. They have rented a very small, more or less furnished, cot. “Shopping is difficult.”

1939.10.24 To E. B. C. Jones ALS 3p. British Library Oct 24.’39 Hillside “Dear Topsy Lucas, (asking your leave)” Pacifism seems “static, negative. Peace I feel a by-product of dynamic forces . . .”. She attacks modernists like von Hügel. “P. indef. held up.”

1939.11.04 To Bryher T&ALS 5p. Bryher Papers Nov.4.’39 Dobbin Lane, Trevone

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“Your nice long letter of the 29th. came in yesterday . . .”. She describes their present cottage, and sets out the difficulties of giving up London and settling in Cornwall for the duration. Regulations and prices rocket about.

1939.11.06] To E. B. C. Jones ALI 2p. British Library [c. 6 November 1939] Sea View [sic], Dobbin Lane, Trevone “Yes I think it is–”. She will send Berdyaev. She recalls strange-sounding words from her youth. She must write articles.

1939.11.23 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg WOM 382-83 Nov. 23 ’39 Sea View [sic], Dobbin Lane, Trevone “We are glad to have news of you.” PBW had met H. G. Wells in Amsterdam. Seaview is small, with many doors. She wonders what PBW will do in England.

1939.12.01 From Dorothy Norman TLU 1p. Carbon Copy Beinecke December 1, 1939 [n.p.] “How good to have heard from you.” They would like to see what she is doing.

1939.12.02 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Decr. 2. ’39 Seaview, Dobbin Lane, Trevone “Indeed I’m sorry, Peg dear, not to be sending you butter.” She recommends margarine and nut butters. They are adjusting to their cramped quarters but dread the new neighbors with their noisy children.

1939.12.04 To Bryher ALI 4p. Bryher Papers Dec.4.’39 Seaview, Trevone “I’ve just realised that another L.L. is due . . .”. Owen Wadsworth met H. G. Wells in Amsterdam. They have new neighbors even noisier than the former ones. Miriam now languishes

1939.12.10 To J. C. Powys ALS 1p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #54 Dec. 10.’39 Seaview, Dobbin Lane. Trevone “Only to-day . . . do we learn of your loss.” Llewelyn Powys had died.

1939.12.15] To J. C. Powys ALS 8p. RP WOM 384-86 Fouli DMR #55 [c. 15] Decr.’39 Dobbin Lane, Trevone, Padstow “That was a lovely letter of yours . . .”. Hitler was created by “all of us.” “Most pacifists are verbalisers?” She describes their make-shift quarters, and the noisy tenants in the other half. Has the butter shortage hit them?

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1939.12.15a] To S. S. Koteliansky AncS 2p. British Library Decr. ’39 [pmk. 15 DE 39] Sea View, Dobbin Lane, Trevone “It was sad to leave town without seeing you again.” Their new abode is cabin-like. She worries about Barbara Low.

1939.12.18] To J. C. Powys ApcI 2p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #56 [c. 18 December] Xmas, ’39 Dobbin Lane “Greetings from D. and A.O.”

1939.12.19 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #60 Dec 19 1939 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merioneth, N. Wales “What a wonderful letter . . .”. Phyllis has a bad flu, but they do have some help.

1939.12.20] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Dec’39 Seaview, Dobbin Lane “It occurs to me . . .”. Her review of Pears’ book was turned into a short article by Life and Letters. Christmas Greetings.

1939.12.22] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg [c. 22 December] Xmas, ’39 Dobbin Lane “Greetings from D. and A.O.”

1939.12.23] [To Bryher] ApcS Bryher Papers [c 23 December 1939] [Seaview, Trevone] “Christmas greetings, & fond wishes for your voyage . . .”.

1939.12.31 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 386-87 Decr.’39.31st Seaview, Trevone “I don’t know where to begin.” She thanks Bryher for Ramuz, whose style she analyzes, and for cigarettes. “A happy New Year . . .”.

1940.01.06 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 6 JA 40 pmk. PADSTOW “(Found straying. . . ).” Congratulations.

1940.01.09 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Jan 9.’40 Dobbin Lane, Trevone.

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“Peggy dear, I don’t believe . . . I’ve sent you yet any thanks . . .”. The year is looking bleak with no London visit in prospect.

1940.01.15 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Jan 15.’40 Dobin Lane, Trevone “I am indeed glad” that Bryher is nearly finished settling her mother’s estate. DMR is hoping to buy a house. Miss Laurence Taylor, who figures in Pilgrimage, is staying with Beatrice Beresford.

1940.01.17 To J. C. Powys ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #57 Jan.17.’40 Dobbin Lane, Trevone, Padstow “Your disquieting account of Phyllis’s flu . . .”. They have had abnormal cold, and frozen pipes.

1940.01.21 To Mr. Plater ALS 2p. Washington University, St. Louis Jan.21.’40 Dobbin Lane, Trevone “Please allow me . . .”. She stresses the reader’s collaboration with the writer. “Miriam’s beatific reactions” to motherhood are noted.

1940.01.21a From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #61 Jan 21 1940 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire “I keep pondering on that oracle from my . . . only Sybil . . .”. He places their Capitalistic Empires against the enemies Socialist Empires. The former allow the individual to act.

1940.01.27 To J. C. Powys ALS 3p. RP WOM 391-93 Fouli DMR #58 Jan.27.’40. Dobbin Lane, Trevone “Well–no, John.” The new will always be made of the old material and so include its evil. Revolution always leads back to the old tyranny. The English and the French, though slow and careless, aristocratically insist on a fundamental decency.

1940.01.30] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 40 [pencil: 30 Jan (?) 1940] pmk. BODMIN “Best thanks for Horizon.” She evaluates items by Walpole and Davies.

1940.02.04] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 4[?] FE 40 pmk. PADSTOW “Having re-read the Mozart article” she congratulates the editor of Horizon.

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1940.02.12 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Feb. 12.’40 Dobbin Lane, Trevone “Over a fortnight ago . . .”. She struggles with the problem of raising a mortgage. “Chevalley is an angel of light.”

1940.02.15 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 15 FE 40 [Sea View, Dobbin Lane] “Do you wish to break our hearts?” PK has returned Joyce and Gertrude Stein.

1940.02.20 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers WOM 394-95 20.Feb.’40. Dobbin Lane, Trevone “We are sorry” that PK has flu. DMR recommends We Write as Women by Margaret Lawrence.

1940.02.20a To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Feb 20.’40 Dobbin Lane, Trevone “After sympathetically digesting” Bryher’s travel news, she chuckled. Church is trying to get her a Civil List pension.

1940.02.21 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 2p. Berg Feb.21.’40 Dobbin Lane “Your letter gives me pangs.” He will feel lost without his German friend Wolf. They are expecting their American friend [Macmillan].

1940.02.26 To Hugh Walpole ALS 1p. HRC, Texas WOM 395 Feb.26.’40. Dobbin Lane, Trevone “I want so much to read” Roman Fountain. She begs for a copy. Beatrice Beresford may be a little recovered from J. D.’s deserting her.

1940.03.01 To Bernice Elliott ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Mar 1st ’40 Dobbin Lane “(Your letter of Feb. 10th reached me only yesterday)” The draughty defects of the Dobbin Lane shack are spelled out. Macmillan is visiting. England is steady and serene, a very different spirit than that of 1914.

1940.03.07 To Hugh Walpole ALS 3p. HRC, Texas WOM 396-97 Mar.7.’40. Dobbin Lane “Bless you for your enchanting book.” She recommends Berdyaev, especially Freedom and the Spirit. Her Civil List Pension – did Hugh have a part in it?

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1940.03.11 To Miss Plater ALS 2p. Washington University, St. Louis Mar.11.’40 Dobbin Lane, Trevone “Not at all.” She enjoyed We Write as Women, though its perspective was shallow.

1940.03.12 To Richard Church TLS (copy) 1p. Source unknown Mar. 12 ’40 Dobbin Lane, Trevone “Though I heard from Whitehall two days ago . . .” that she had received a Civil List pension. She is astonished, relieved, grateful.

1940.03.16 To Richard Church TpcI (copy) Source unknown Mar. 16. ’40 Dobbin Lane, Trevone “Having not long ago left . . . London” she grieves for Church, but is happy he is in Kent.

1940.03.19 To Bryher TLS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 397-98 Mar,19,40. Dobbin Lane, Trevone “Your letter has just come in . . .”. William Macmillan has been visiting her and writing a book about healing. They go to Hillside in May.

1940.03.20 From Hugh Walpole ALS 4p. Richardson Papers WOM 399 March 20 ’40 Brackenbury, Manesty Park, Keswick. “I was delighted to read your letter.” He has felt he must read Berdyaev. No one deserved the Civil List Pension more than DMR.

1940.03.26 To Dorothy Norman AncS 2p. Beinecke Mar. 26.’40. Dobbin Lane / Trevone “Thank you for your letter . . .”. She will send something about Ramuz.

1940.03.27] To Bryher ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 27 MR [1940?] pmk. PADSTOW “This is just an abject horrified apology.” Postage has increased.

1940.04.17] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [in pencil: 17 April 1940] [Dobbin Lane] “André Chamsun’s yarn is the delight of Trevone.” They move to Hillside today. She has agreed to edit Macmillan’s book.

1940.04.22 From J. C. Powys ALS 2p Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #62 April 22 1940 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merioneth

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“This is only a Scrawl . . .”. Owen Glendower has been rejected; he fears publishers will cut it. He wants to send her an essay by Norbury.

1940.04.22a] To Dorothy Norman ] AncS 1p. Beinecke [c. 22 April 1940 Trevone “Who sends, in advance, thanks for the passing on of this article, if found unsuited . . .”. &&& 1940.04.24 To J. C. Powys (& Phyllis) ALS 5p. Richardson Papers WOM 399-401 Fouli DMR #59 Ap.24.’40. Trevone “Oh, little Phyllis . . . . Strength . . . to the Quakeress in you . . .”. DMR and V. Woolf “are alien to each other.” Woolf is a man’s writer. Because of DMR’s pension, they have moved to Hillside early. David Grad, married, is in uniform.

1940.04.26 From J. C. Powys ALS 8p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #63 April 26 1940 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merioneth, N. Wales “Hurrah! Thank God!” JCP recalls Phyllis in Joplin, Missouri, going to buy an oak bed, in which they now sleep. Norbury’s essay makes DMR too much of a feminist.

1940.04.29] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 29[?] AP 40 pmk. TREVONE “It is nice to hear from you . . .”. Lett-Haines’s school goes on. Edwin Odle will visit.

1940.05.02 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 2p. Berg May 2.’40. Hillside “I need not tell you how delighted we shall be to see you down here.” His stay in Trevone will be expensive. Her pension was a surprise.

1940.05.07 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg 7.v.’40. Hillside “Angelina . . . has not so far appeared.”

1940.05.08 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 8 My 1940 pmk. BODMIN “So glad.” He arrives on Whit-Monday.

1940.05.10 To J. C. Powys ALS 2p. RP WOM 401-402 Fouli DMR #60 May.10.’40. Hillside, Trevone

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“Thank you, dear John” for Newbury’s article on which she comments. They are besieged by friends, but the weather is lovely.

1940.05.16 From Dorothy Norman TLU 1p. Carbon Copy Beinecke May 16, 1940 [n.p.] “Thank you more than I can say for your kind letter . . .” but they have regretfully no room for her piece.

1940.05.30 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers May 30.’40 Hillside, Trevone “Your letter seemed to tell me . . . that one of mine . . . miscarried.” Many B.E.F. wives in Trevone.

1940.06.02 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg WOM 402-403 June 2. ’40. Hillside, Trevone “We know your generous nature . . .”. He is sending them a radio, also books, including two by Lawrence, which go the rounds. She has been pinned down by editorial work (for Macmillan?). Wives of the B.E.F. await news from Dunkirk.

1940.06.03 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers June 3.’40 Hillside, Trevone “The rest would appear to be silence.” She reports on Miss Lewin. Wadsworth and Macmillan have each visited. She is revising Macmillan’s book.

1940.06.12 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 12 JNE 1940 Hillside “A somewhat crestfallen Eisenbalm staff has discovered Angelina . . .”.

1940.06.21 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 2p. Berg June 21.’40. Hillside “Your wire, dear Owen . . . brought me something of a shock.” The radio has arrived, and become a valued friend.

1940.07.04 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers WOM 404-405 July 4.’40. Hillside “For one reason or other I’ve had almost to write my hand of[f] . . .”. She describes German reconnaissance over Cornwall, English schools moving down, William Macmillan sent back to the U.S., and the arrival of their radio and the first air-raid warning.

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1940.07.09 To David Grad ALS 3p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 46-47 July 9.’40 Hillside “Your budget, via Mrs. V., is most welcome.” Six large schools have moved to the coast. German planes visit regularly. There is much muddle and lack of efficiency. Macmillan has gone to the States.

1940.07.18 To Bernice Elliott ALS 4p. Richardson Papers WOM 405-407 July 18.’40. Hillside “Yes, indeed, I had your letter . . .”. She enumerates the distractions and necessities of wartime that have prevented her writing. Elliott might look up Macmillan in New York.

1940.07.19 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg July 19.’40. Hillside “Late in the day, this is . . .” for gratitude for the books. Padstow is barricaded. Evacuated children from London have arrived. Norah Hickey’s husband has written from a German prison camp.

1940.07.23 To Stanley Poynter ALS 2p. Wisconsin-Madison. July 23,’40 Hillside “Your letter reached me in London last year . . .”. Cornwall is now in the front line.

1940.07.26 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 2p. Berg July 26. 40. Hillside “Sad indeed, my dear, your news.” He is no longer retained by B.B.C. She recalls the Muirs and Barbara Low.

1940.08.08] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 8[?] AU 40 pmk. PADSTOW “It seems very sad to have landed into August without seeing you.”

1940.08.14 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 14 AUG 1940 Hillside “I’ve written to the B.B.C. imploring them to scrap” their new musical signal.

1940.08.28 To Bernice Elliott ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Aug 28th ’40. Hillside “Obedient to govt. instructions, I do my best to save paper . . .”. She is proud of Britain’s airmen and merchant crews, though the toughest part for everyone is still to come.

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1940.10.04 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Oct.4.’40 Zansizzey “Congratulations!” Bryher is back in England. She explains how they came to have a lease on Zansizzey.

1940.10.05 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 407-408 Oct.5.’40 Zansizzey, Trevone “Nice to hear from you . . .”. The home of DMR’s sister has been seriously affected by bombing. DMR left Hillside last week for spacious Zansizzey, here described.. Bryher has just arrived in England; H.D. is in London; Harry Badcock is in Jamaica.

1940.10.07 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 409 Oct.7th ’40. Zansizzey “Knowing how much England . . .” has taken from Bryher in taxes, DMR still tries to counter Bryher’s very negative attitude to the war.

1940.10.28 To Bernice Elliott ApcI Richardson Papers Oct 28.’40 Trevone “Glad to receive your letter . . .”. She sends love to the Macmillans in New York.

1940.10.30 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers WOM 409-410 pmk. 30 OCT 1940 pmk. BODMIN “A hurried line.” On the back of a letter from Eliot Bliss, DMR assesses Bliss’s character and leaves it to PK whether she wishes to become involved with her.

1940.10.31 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 410-411 Oct.31.’40. Zansizzey “I am truly glad to hear again from you . . .”. DMR praises English deliberateness, its superiority to French logic. She notes the comic-opera fuss over Wells’s visit to the U.S. Her statement from Dent and Knopf: £4. All she can do is add to March Moonlight and leave it for later publication.

1940.11.06 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALI 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 6 NOV 1940 pmk. BODMIN “I am so glad you contemplate getting in touch with E.B.”

1940.11.21 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Nov.21.’40 Zansizzey

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“Yes, Milton indeed.” His statue was overturned, but unbroken. They met a young officer who admired H.D.s work.

1940.11.27 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Nov. 27.’40. Zansizzey “What a very pleasant surprise that packet from you.” He has sent a book on Lawrence, and a number of Close Up. Allinson is expected.

1940.12.08 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers WOM 412-13 Decr.8.40. [pmk. 7 DE 40!] Zansizzey “That was truly a noble deed” . . . in helping Eliot Bliss. DMR has become a Trollope convert. Alan “reads Proust incessantly.”

1940.12.15 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 413-14 Dec. 15, 1940 Zansizzey “Just a line, Bryher, about Lotte [Mann] . . .”. A masterpiece by “the greatest living novelist.” Many food items are now unofficially rationed.

1940.12.16 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Decr 16.’40 Zansizzey “Last night I dreamed that all the folks we know in Trevone . . .consumed our Cake . . .”. They will entertain over Christmas. Their view from Zansizzey is immense. Harry Badcock is worried about living for ever.

1940.12.18 To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #61 Dec. 18.’40 Zansizzey, Trevone “We hope, declare” that all is well. Season’s greetings.

1940.12.20 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Decr.20.’40 Zansizzey “Well, Peggy dear, you been as naughty as ever.” Beatrice Beresford is looking for a position.

1940.12.22 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Decr.22.’40 Zansizzey “Granted your, spot-lit, heroism . . .”. The plight of artists is serious, though Allinson is surviving. Beatrice Beresford is looking for a housekeeping position. Bitter cold.

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1940.12.24 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcS Berg pmk. 24 DEC 40 Zansizzey “Christmas Greetings & all good wishes for the New Year . . .”.

1940.12.30 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Decr.30.’40. Trevone “You give us a shock.” He has a job in Manchester. He has sent a Corvo book.

1941.01.08 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Jan 8.’41 Zansizzey “Your letter with the . . . baroque headpiece arrived . . . Sunday.” Clothes are scarce and expensive. Unbelievable cold, pipes frozen.

1941.01.17] To P. B. Wadsworth A note S 1p. Berg [c. 17 January 1941?] [n.p.] “Greetings & love, dear Owen . . .”.

1941.01.22 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Jan.22.41 Zansizzey “Do you at all happen to know where now is Thomas Mann . . .?” Trousers are wonderful, but she is too corpulent. Two friends visited Tunbridge Wells and London; they found a waffle iron in Exeter.

1941.01.31 To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 414-16 Jan.31.41 Zansizzey “Mackenzie [The Red Tapeworm] has nearly been the death of us” from laughing. She describes bomb damage in Cornwall and Trevone’s close ties with the airmen nearby. She is reading Wells.

1941.02.06 To Bernice Elliott ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Feb.6.’41 Zansizzey, Trevone “Indeed I was sorry . . .”. Elliott’s book was not published. Macmillan has been lecturing in New York. “And now we go forward to the decisive period . . .”.

1941.02.08 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALI 4p. Richardson Papers Feb.8.’41 Zansizzey “How kind of you . . .” to send a jolly magazine. Much activity in the air. And 23 airmen killed in their quarters near Trevone. Many troops, and refugee children have and are arriving here. She evaluates Wells’s Babes in the Darkling Wood.

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1941.02.14] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk.14 FE 1941 pmk. TREVONE “An excellent review-article in The World.”

1941.02.17 To Charles Daniel ALS 4p. Int. Institute of Social History, Amsterdam Feb.17.’41 Zansizzey “Together with our many Londoners . . . you are constantly in our thoughts . . .”. Veronica is now matron of a Rest-center for bombed-out people. DMR’s eldest sister stays on in Ealing. DMR has received a small pension from the Government. They will remain at Zansizzey for the duration.

1941.02.21 To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers Feb.21.41 Zansizzey “We didn’t know whether to laugh or cry . . .”. She discusses The Loss. “Pilgrimage proceeds . . . . It will have to be the final volume, four books, in a lump.”

1941.02.27] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALI 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 27 February 1941] Zansizzey, Trevone “We yelled, dear Peg, over your post-card.” PK has been kind to Eliot Bliss. Two young folk from Trevone visited London. Lotte in Weimar is “a masterpiece.”

1941.03.01 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg Mar.l.’41. Zansizzey “We were truly glad to hear from you.” He is safely established in Manchester, and likes the Northerners. Snow and frost nicked Cornwall.

1941.03.07 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg Mar 7.’41. pmk. PADSTOW “Could not have believed possible . . .” her delay in replying.

1941.03.13] To David Grad ApcI Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 110 [c. 13 March 1941] Zansizzey “Have just heard from Mrs. V.” DMR is relieved by news of B[enjamin].

1941.03.17 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 416-17 Mar.17 ’41. Zansizzey “I would have written before, but” she has been troubled by flu and then by the death of her sister. “I still feel stunned.” Because of all the service men here, supplies are very scarce.

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1941.03.18] To Charles Daniel ApcI Int. Institute of Social History, Amsterdam [stamped: 19 MAR 1941] Zansizzey “We are truly glad of your letter . . .”. His home is to be demolished.

1941.03.22 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Mar. 22.’41 Zansizzey “The letter conveying your blessed sympathy reached me a day or two ago . . .”. She has been living in the past, communicating with Kate’s old friends.

1941.03.24 To Charles Daniel ALS 4p. Int. Institute of Social History, Amsterdam Mar 24, ’41 Zansizzey “I am glad, indeed, at last to have read . . . Kierkegaard” whom earlier she had rejected as a Scandinavian moralist. Now she will treasure “Consider the Lilies.” The reconciliation of beauty and morality is difficult; Protestantism does not attempt it.

1941.03.30] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Sunday [c. 30 March 1941] Trevone “What great good news!” He plans to visit. They enjoyed the Muir book.

1941.03.30a] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Sunday. [inserted: 30 Mar 1941] Zansizzey “All my leisure was consumed yesterday . . .”. The gift of cakes is very welcome, with large visitors and now Wadsworth coming. She has received more letters from Kate’s early friends who seem to live still within the serene Victorian tradition.

1941.04.01] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1p. Berg Tuesday Evening [1 April 1941] Trevone “Hillsiders away, coming back to-morrow.” She can find him accommodation for his probable visit.

1941.04.02 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers Ap. 2.’41 Zansizzey “You overwhelm me. Wool, more wool . . .”. Miss Lewin is being bombarded in Portsmouth; there are many alerts in Trevone.

1941.04.04] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers [inserted: April 1941] Trevone “Having acquired . . . a foully poisonous germ . . .”. She revels in memories of Buszards and their teas. And next, Robinson & Cleavers. She notes the death of Virginia Woolf.

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1941.04.04a] From Charles Daniel A draft U 9p. International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam [c. 4 April 1941] [40 Great Russell Street, London W.C.1.] “I think the bombing of the house last January must have blasted a bit of my brain away.” He fell in love with Catholic metaphysic after reading K.’s “Purify your Hearts.” “‘Consider the Lilies’ revealed to me how the universal ethic of individual conduct flows through the spiritual perception of the Christ principle, which is implicit in Pure Being.” He has come to see “the unity of our being & the individuality of our lives.”

1941.04.05] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers Monday [c. 5 April 1941] Trevone “Your package & letter just arrived.” She is grateful for a skirt and pullover. Wadsworth is to visit.

1941.04.07] To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 2p. Berg Monday. [7 April 1941] Trevone. “Your letter just in.” Ann at the Cot will arrange for his food during his stay. When will he arrive?

1941.04.15 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 417-19 Ap.15.’41 Zansizzey “Not type . . . because I’m molto, molto tired.” Wadsworth is visiting. She has been writing to long-forgotten cousins. “I have the whole of my life wrapped about me.”

1941.04.17] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg [c. 17 April 1941] Zansissey “Very lone house to return to.” Owen has just left.

1941.04.23] To Bernice Elliott ApcI Richardson Papers [c. 23 April 1941] [pmk. TREVONE] “Just a card.” Jane Austen is good company; George Eliot has prophetic insight.

1941.05.02 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers May 2.’41 Trevone “Bryher, these sandals are incredible.” She refers to problems with the dollar, discusses Russian Jewish wit, and gives news from an old friend of their family. Badcock fears survival after death.

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1941.05.03 [To P. B. Wadsworth] To Mrs. Coates AncS 2p. Berg May 3.’41 Trevone “Dear Mrs Coates, What a very kind thought of yours is represented in that parcel!”

1941.05.08 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg May 8.’41. Trevone “You’ll probably have heard from Ann . . .”. Wadsworth is supplying them with cosmetics. Henry James used letters as fire-screens to protect him from social demands.

1941.05.11 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers May 11.’41 Trevone “You think of everything!” But she needs wicks for a heater. All the shops grow emptier. The new sandals are appreciated.

1941.05.19 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg May 19.’41 Zansizzey “You are a magician, nothing less.” He has supplied more cosmetics. “Hess still dominates conversations.”

1941.05.22 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1p. Berg May 22.’41. Trevone “You’ll have received, I hope, Ann’s & my own little settlements.”

1941.05.24 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1p. Berg May 24.’41 Trevone “Cargo to hand to-day.” She arranges payment.

1941.05.31 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg May 31 ’41. Trevone “Am posting books: Joyce & Proust.”

1941.06.02 To Bryher ALI 6p. Bryher Papers WOM 419-21 June 2.’41. Trevone “My sole experience of Basic . . .”– a Tolstoy short story. She praises Schlumberger’s Stéphane le Glorieux; also the London dentist who has come to Padstow. The B.B.C. scorned Hugh Walpole, now dead.

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1941.06.07 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg June.7.’41. Trevone “Bless you, dear Owen, for the cream.” She comments on the death of Walpole, and the plight of Norman Douglas, stranded in Portugal.

1941.06.07a To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers June 7.’41 “H.G., I fear, can do nothing.” Norman Douglas is stranded in Portugal. She had a good talk with her new young dentist.

1941.06.10] To P. B. Wadsworth A note I 1p. Berg 10th June. [1941] Trevone “Best thanks.” PBW has been to Bloomsbury.

1941.06.14 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers June 14.’41 Trevone “You must . . . forgive my long silence. . .”. First DMR’s sister died; then the widow of a cousin. It has been quieter overhead lately. They were pleased to see Wadsworth in April. HD and Bryher are still in London.

1941.06.23 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 1p. Berg June 23.’41. Trevone “That is a grand idea of yours in regard to Norman Douglas.”

1941.07.03 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers July 3.’41 Trevone “Your Manchester Guardian idea sounds good.” (Letter about Douglas.) Miss Lewin is here.

1941.07.04 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers July 4.’41 Trevone “Even in its mutilated state” the letter re Douglas seems “admirably adapted to its aim.” “No eggs for two weeks past.”

1941.07.08 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg July 8.’41 Trevone “What a terrific itinerary.” Barbara Low’s ferocity is no longer attractive. Douglas’s situation is more hopeful. Bryher is going to visit Mackenzie in Barra.

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1941.07.14 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Jul.14.’41 Trevone “We’ve discussed with Mouse . . . the possibility of meeting you somewhere & can’t see a way.” They picnic in the porch, suffering insects.

1941.07.21 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 421-22 July 21.’41. Trevone “Just over a year ago . . .”. They feel glad to be alive in “the best of all possible worlds.” She describes their typical day. PK is suffering from boredom.

1941.07.23] To Bernice Elliott ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 23 JY [1941] pmk. TREVONE “Lending A.B. [Adam Bede] here and there . . .”.

1941.07.27] To J. C. Powys ALS 9p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #62 [c.] July 27 [1941] Trevone, Padstow “Knowing that it will be freely given” she does not plead for forgiveness. She trusts their valley is peaceful. She and AO are proud to be British. Her sister Kate died in March, leaving her feeling young and unprotected. Kate’s early letters to a friend, conveying the serenity, wit and maturity of the Victorian teen, awe DMR. Letters about Kate have wrapped the past around DMR. The yard, vastly overgrown, has been a struggle. They are amazed his book has been published. They have been invaded by cockchafers.

1941.07.28] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALI 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 423-24 July 28 [1941] Trevone “No.” There is no “delicious remoteness” down here. DMR, who lashes out at PK’s “arraignment of mankind,” gladly accepts the fearful price of resistance to Dictators.

1941.08.04 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 424-25 Aug.4.’41. Trevone “What upsets me . . . in V. Woolf is a sort of . . . disillusionment that . . . approaches paralysis.” She praises Owen Glendower. Pauline Marrian is visiting.

1941.08.07 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 425-26 Aug.7th.’41 Trevone “I’m wrapped up . . . in this last best Hemingway.” “The Woolf . . . fails to move me.” Owen Glendower is to be published in England.

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1941.08.07a From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #64 Aug 7 1941 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merioneth, N. Wales “aye! but with what thrill” they received DMR’s letter. He is sending a signed copy of Owen Glendower, with a Welsh quote.

1941.08.08 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Aug.8th ’41 Trevone “Herewith, at last, Ann’s debt.” Wadsworth is interested in both Herzen and Lawrence. She orders cigarettes.

1941.08.11 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 1p. Berg Aug. 11. ’41 Trevone “As doubtless you’ve heard, loose coupons . . .are no longer valid . . .”. But she can buy him socks.

1941.08.14 To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #63 pmk. 14 AUG 1941 pmk. BODMIN “Book heralded by yesterday’s letter . . .”. Alan reads. DMR finds Dodd’s My Years in Germany intelligent.

1941.08.18 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Aug. 18.’41. Trevone “Bless & bless you for the fags received to-day.” She notes Stella Bowen’s book on Ford. The newest Hemingway is the best.

1941.08.20 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Aug.20.’41 Trevone “Our Mr. Rawe . . .” has advised about socks. The “Wisdom” tooth-brush is the best.

1941.08.24 To Bernice Elliott ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Aug. 24.’41. Trevone “How very very kind of you” to send tea. Two bereavements have entailed much correspondence. They rather miss London and 32, with all its cracks, still standing. Pauline Marrian is to visit. Winnie is back.

1941.08.25] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg WOM 433 pmk. ?? AU 41[?] [Trevone] “You, surely . . . are the sender of the Y.[ellow] B[ook] . . .”. She marvels at its Golden Age innocence.

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1941.08.30 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Aug. 30 ’41 Trevone “We had three chortles out of your letter.” His instructions about socks were not clear.

1941.09.03 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Sep.3.’41. Trevone “Herewith 3 prs. sox as before.” The smokes were more than welcome.

1941.09.16 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 2p. Berg Sep 16. ’41. Trevone “Only one more linen-ply available.” She reviews their cigarettes and sox account. Pauline Marrian seeks lecturing.

1941.09.19] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 1[9?] SP 41 [Trevone] “Best thanks in advance for welcome parcel.” PBW is documenting Lawrence.

1941.09.22] To P. B. Wadsworth A note I Berg [c. 22 September 1941] [Trevone] “Best thanks. No time for even a note.”

1941.09.25 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers WOM 426-27 Sept.25.’41. Trevone “It was foolish of me . . .”. She regrets lashing out at PK, and describes in detail the war activity that affects them in Cornwall. They are not remote.

1941.09.26 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Sep.26.’41 Trevone “I’m glad to hear from you.” Bryher has been visiting the Highlands. Mouse is going to Trenoweth.

1941.10.15] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg [c. 15 October 1941] [n.p.] “Best thanks, dear Owen.” The radio is broken; they go to Higman’s for BBC news and refreshments. There she tried out the billiard table briefly.

1941.10.17 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Oct.17.’41 Trevone

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“Hemingway is going around . . . carrying edification, illumination, joy & shame.” The laundry situation is taxing. She has been cutting weeds. The radio is in hospital. They go to the Café to hear the news.

1941.10.26 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Oct.26.’41 Trevone “How utterly kind of you!” Bryher is sending a wringer. Will there be room? Bungalows are very inconveniently designed.

1941.10.28 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 227-29 Oct.28.’41. Trevone “I begin more than ever to wonder . . .”. DMR is oppressed by the German style of writing and rhetoric. The clothes wringer has not yet arrived. Pauline Marrian is lecturing on Hungary.

1941.10.29 To J. C. Powys ALS 12+1p. RP WOM 429-32 Fouli DMR #64 Oct.29.’41. Trevone “How ungrateful it seems . . .” not to have written about Glendower, which reveals the depth and width of his imaginative sympathy. She attacks the Christian church’s emphasis on male authority and dominance over women. She is exhaustingly busy and has a new admiration for ordinary workers. She praises Kellog’s Bran for regularity. A letter from Alan adds: “You have given Wales . . . a prose epic.”

1941.11.06 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Nov.6.’41 Trevone “Lachryma [wringer] has arrived.” Magnificent, but outsized. What will she do? She elaborates on the failures of home and appliance design.

1941.11.10 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1p. Berg WOM 432-33 Nov.10.’41, Trevone “Bless you.” She recalls D. H. Lawrence’s stays in Cornwall during 1916-1918, and what he says in his letters about the Cornish.

1941.11.12 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Nov.12.’41 Trevone “A grand solution of the wringer problem.” She will investigate rail charges to Trenoweth. She has heard from her cousin in Australia.

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1941.11.19 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Nov.19.’41 Trevone “I am immensely relieved to hear that Lachryma will be welcome at St. Keverne.” But sending it has proved complicated.

1941.12.06 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg Decr.6,’41. Trevone “This is indeed a grand consignment . . .”. She is troubled at being so much trouble. “Cornwall at present is Jerry’s favourite resort.”

1941.12.08 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Decr.8.’41 Zansizzey “Surely you possess second sight!” Bryher has sent elastic, needed for a new outfit; also pen nibs, and Christmas cake. Life for older women is fuller today.

1941.12.20] To Bryher ApcS [c. 20 December 1941] [n.p.] “Christmas greetings & all good wishes for the New Year.” She quotes Radio Paris in praise of Stalin.

1942.01.03] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 3 JA [1942] [Trevone] “Letter later:” They have read McAlmon’s book.

1942.01.05 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Jan.5.42 Trevone “Blessings & thanks.” The troops have staged a mock invasion.

1942.01.05a To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Jan 5.’42 Trevone. “Very glad, I was, to hear of the arrival of the wringer.” There has been a training-exercise invasion of Cornwall from Devon. They found Mackenzie huge fun.

1942.01.11 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Jan.11.’42 Trevone “Bless you for those incredible hairpins . . .”. Further details of the invasion are given. Sudden cold has brought on a power failure.

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1942.01.14 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Jan.14.’42 Trevone “I didn’t ought to be writing to-day” which is washing day. Douglas has returned. The John Austens have had to move but are well and busy. Much money was raised during War Ship Week. She lovingly describes the horses next door, Violet and Henry. Pauline Marrian reports their sending 18,000 garments to Russia.

1942.01.20 To Bryher ALS 6p. Bryher Papers Jan 20.’42 Trevone “I simply must use this lovely notepaper . . .”. She praises Bryher’s article in L.L. for insisting on individual responsibility. DMR laments that education of children does not train the imagination. She describes the Canadian troops with their down-to-earth taste in women. Edwin Odle is very ill.

1942.01.20a To George Plank ApcI Beinecke [pmk. JA 20 42] Trevone, Padstow. “Blessings for the miraculous, incredible little package . . .”.

1942.01.27 To Bryher ALS 7p. Bryher Papers Jan.27.’42 Trevone “I have just prised open a tin of govt. powdered milk . . .”. The death of Violet Hunt reminds DMR of their visits to her in 1939 and subsequent communications with her and her care givers. A vast Raffle is in progress.

1942.01.27a] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Jan 27th. [1942] Trevone “This is just to let you know” she has coupons to spare for sox. A vast war-time Raffle is on.

1942.02.05 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg Feb.5. ’42 Trevone “Best thanks for parcel.”

1942.02.09 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg Feb.9. ’42 Trevone “Donald Rawe . . . can supply only one pair of thick woollens . . .”. Douglas is in London. Violet Hunt’s death reminds DMR of Hunt in 1939 when her memory was fading badly.

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1942.02.18 To Claude Houghton ALS 3p. HRC, Texas WOM 434-35 Feb.18.’42. Trevone “To us it seems that you ought to know . . . that we value your books.” She praises them, and especially his eccentrics, but worries about the practical realities of the world he represents. She is glad to hear that Koteliansky is “booming.” Houghton’s dialogue is unsurpassed.

1942.02.22] From Alan Odle to Claude Houghton ALS 8p. HRC, Texas [c. 22 February 1942] Zanzizzey “Yes, detachment is the missing word . . .”. Detachment presupposes attachment. The pen is perfect for catching movement on the wing. We are most detached during childhood. The control and concentration needed for drawing are not easily attained. [Accompanied by letter from DMR.]

1942.02.22a] To Claude Houghton A note I 1p. HRC, Texas [c. 22 February 1942] [n.p.] “Footnotes: 1) The things this man intended . . .” were bouquets. What half-hours she has must be given to finishing Pilgrimage. [Accompanied letter from AO to Houghton.]

1942.03.07 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg Mar.7.’42 Trevone “Response to your letter has been delayed by flu . . .”. She has heard from Douglas Goldring about Violet Hunt. She criticizes American literature as machine-made. “All art is . . . an intensive collab. between conscious & unconscious, genius & talent.”

1942.03.17 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Mar 17.’42 Trevone “I’m emerging from my flu . . .”. She enumerates a few of her needs, including matches. Wadsworth is moving to Reuters, and London.

1942.03.20] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers [c. 20 March 1942] [Trevone] “Held up by illness.”

1942.03.24 To Bernice Elliott ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Mar 24.’42 Trevone “We were distressed to hear of your . . . loss.” Elliott’s father has died, also Edwin Odle. DMR has had the flu and a chill.

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1942.03.30] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1p. Berg Monday [c. 30 March 1942] Trevone “All settled. Address: Mrs. R. Warne, Hursley, Trevone.”

1942.03.31 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 31 MR 42 pmk. TREVONE “Have only just noticed that your note is dated 27th.”

1942.04.05] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1p. Berg [c. 5 April 1942] Trevone “Your note of 2nd arrived 4th.” He is coming.

1942.04.08] To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 1p. Berg Wednesday [c. 8 April 1942] Trevone “Welcome to London.” He is expected on Monday.

1942.04.14] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers [pmk. 14 - - - -] [c. April 1942?] Zansizzey, Trevone “Not having seen you for so long” DMR is pleased to have PK’s portrait. She perceptively evaluates the character of the sitter.

1942.04.18] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg [c. 18 April 1942] [Trevone] “Letter, etc., & South Lodge safely here.”

1942.04.19] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1p. Berg Sunday [c. 19 April 1942] Zansizzey “My miserable chill . . . keeps me extra weak and inefficient.”

1942.04.20 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 1p. Berg [c. 20 April 1942] [Trevone] “Best thanks, dear Owen.” Kot and Barbara Low withheld letters for the Life & Letters of Lawrence.

1942.04.21 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 1p. Berg WOM 435-36 Ap.21.’42 Zansizzey “I’ve been so busy . . .” but promises to write to Koteliansky. Violet Hunt’s things have been sold.

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1942.04.22 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 2p. British Library WOM 436-38 Ap.22.’42 Zansizzey “Ages ago . . . I tried to get your new address . . .”. She describes her three London visitors during the past three years, including Wadsworth who wants to visit Kot. She can only argue with Barbara Low. DMR has had the flu.

1942.04.22a To David Grad ALS 2p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 48-49 Ap 22.’42 Zansizzey “You may imagine, dear David, the joy . . . with which we received your Airgraph.” She has devised a way of telling Benjamin (in France) about David. She has heard from Vinkie. AO has joined the A.F.S. She mentions her old friend Jean Macalister in Poona.

1942.04.23] From Alan Odle to Claude Houghton ALS 7p. HRC, Texas [c. 23 April 1942] Zanzizzey “I can see only three possible ways of enduring, or even surviving this war.” The one he opts for: “Realising imaginatively.” Though Houghton may be able to stand aloof, suffering through realization may bring unity and enlightenment. DMR adds notes.

1942.04.24 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 2p. Berg Ap 24.’42 Zansizzey “We hate to bother you . . . to be getting smokes for us.” Wells is feeling better.

1942.04.28 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 2p. British Library Ap.28.’42 Trevone “Ah, Kot!” They feel like exiles from St. John’s Wood. Wadsworth is sound. Claude Houghton is being moved to Bath.

1942.04.28a] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Apr.28. [1942] Trevone “Bless you, dear Bryher, for the hooks & eyes.” She likes Bryher’s review of Arcadia. She knows nothing about the Hendersons. Her health is slowly improving.

1942.05.01 To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers May-Day, 42 Trevone “We yesterday had an S.O.S.” concerning the things left by Miss Lewin. DMR offers a detailed evaluation of the pictures and china.

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1942.05.02 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 1p. British Library May 2.’42 Trevone “You make our hearts turn over & over & over.” He sent bakery from Jon’s.

1942.05.08 To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers May8,42 Zansizzey “It is a pleasure to do anything I can” concerning Miss Lewin’s estate. She believes she has found a man who will take Bryher’s pictures and china to Trenoweth.

1942.05.13 To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers May 13 42 Trevone “Miss Olver and I have just completed a final overhaul.” Packing the china is a problem. Friends are choosing mementos.

1942.05.17 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers May 17.’42 Trevone “The Cargo, unbelievably, has gone!” But not without problems. She feels on a treadmill, going to London would be too difficult.

1942.05.24 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 2p. Berg May 24.’42 Trevone “You’ve found a quiet spot to dwell in?” Kot has many good qualities, in spite of his phobias.

1942.05.24a To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers May 24.’42 Trevone “Business: Cargo was sent to Trenoweth . . .”. Bryher has sent money, and they will go into lodgings. She notes English Story. London in September? She is writing to Benjamin Grad, conveying information in code.

1942.05.30 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers May 30.’42 Trevone “I’ll be in Padstow . . .” and get bill for goods. She recalls Façade. They heard Mackenzie on BBC.

1942.06.05 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers WOM 438-39 June 5,’42. Trevone

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“Truly we sympathize with you . . . in your feeling of being trapped . . .”. Yet DMR has gained insight into the lives of the majority. She is 69, is “tottery”; and Alan is greying. They backed out of going to London for a reprise of Façade.

1942.06.07 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 1p. Berg June 7. ’42 Trevone “I don’t quite gather whether you have received my recent letter . . .”. The Aryan Path is a kind of synthetic society.

1942.06.08 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers June 8.’42 Trevone “Reynolds’ bill at last gone to Mrs. Long.” Bryher has sent Forster’s Virginia Woolf.

1942.06.19 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 4p. Berg WOM 439-41. June 19.’42. Trevone “It has just dawned upon my . . . consciousness” that the Odle’s are to keep the book about Crosland. She explains how Brown is wrong about the episode involving herself and a drunken officer; also about other details. McAlmon’s portraits in his book are well- drawn but the dialogues are fabricated.

1942.06.20 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 441-43 June 20.’42. Trevone “Re-reading your article on Brecht” DMR approves. Woman’s role is to interpret the conflicting ideas of men. She has a mixed response to Mackenzie’s articles.

1942.07.06 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 443-45 July 6.’42. Trevone “Presently I’ll be reading Bowen’s Court.” Protestantism turned the Bible into an infallible book, but liberated science. The neighbor’s cat has had kittens on DMR’s couch. P. Marrian is serving on an A.A. battery.

1942.07.16 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers July 16.’42 Trevone “I fear this will be too late . . .”. She offers advice on putting down fruit; and describes her bookkeeping help for a local farmer.

1942.07.25 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers July 25.’42 Trevone “A few dropped threads, dear Bryher:” Pauline Marrian is to visit in August.

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1942.07.26 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 6p. Richardson Papers July 26.’42 Trevone “It was nice to hear from you . . . a month ago.” Very busy. She recounts the saga of the next door cat, its courting and its confinement. She is of various minds as to where they should live, especially since Alan is so helpless. Londoners report staying in their homes. It would be grand if PK came down.

1942.07.26a] To David Grad A AirmailCard I 1p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 50 July 26th. [1942] “Yes, we can now obtain Airgraphs.” The bombing around St. John’s Wood has been reported to her. Benjamin is being informed of Russia’s and America’s role in the war.

1942.08.03 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 2p. British Library Aug.3.’42 Trevone “To-morrow I shall post . . . Logan berry jam.” Wells is himself again. She has completed many household chores.

1942.08.10 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 2p. Berg WOM 445-46 Aug 10'42 Trevone “Your post-card herewith . . .”. She tells him about their 1926 Sunday meeting with the Lawrences. DMR’s life is “frantically full.” P. Marrian will visit.

1942.08.11 To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 446-48 August 11th, ’42. Zansizzey “It is good to know you are safely at Trenoweth . . .”. Their librarian is C. T. Stoneham. DMR and Houghton find cheery American humanism childish and irreligious. Baillie-Scott visits them frequently. Cooking utensils are impossible to get.

1942.08.11a To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 2p. British Library Aug:11.’42 Trevone “Thanks to your picture . . .” they enjoyed Kot’s lunch party. With all her responsibilities, she cannot come to London for a week-end, let alone lecture.

1942.08.12 To S. S. Koteliansky ApcI British Library pmk. 12 AUG 1942 [n.p.] “Forgot to clear up mystery of tchai [tea].”

1942.08.25 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Aug.25.’42 Trevone

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“I hope you are having a quieter time.” Pauline on duty contends with bombs and cockroaches. DMR can’t make plans about travel.

1942.09.13 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 448-49 Sept.13 ’42. Trevone “Both Jemima & Sally”, the pans Bryher has sent, have been used. She critiques severely Huxley’s Ends and Means.

1942.09.18 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 2p. Berg Sep 18.’42 Trevone “A belated response.” Up to 1917 her books took all her time, after that only fragments of time owing to many distractions.

1942.09.21 To Bryher ALS 2p.+drawing Bryher Papers Sep.21.’42 Trevone “You are an angel.” She offers more criticism of Huxley. Steiner and his death are subjects of speculation. They are tired, with too much to do.

1942.10.03] From Alan Odle to Claude Houghton ALS 6p. HRC, Texas [c. 3 October 1942] Zanzizzey “Hudson is one of the most haunting things you have done.” It is a metaphysical melodrama with narrative and psychological levels. Normally he does not envy artists in other mediums. We choose our medium at an early age. [Accompanied by letter from DMR.]

1942.10.03a] To Claude Houghton A note S 2p. HRC, Texas [c. 3 October 1942] [n.p.] “Footnotes: I would sign everything Alan writes about Hudson . . .”. American writers are better trained but more shallow, rootless. Wells, both attracted and repelled, declined to meet Mary Everest Boole. [Accompanied letter from AO to Houghton.]

1942.10.03b To David Grad A AirmailCard S 1p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 51 Oct.3.’42 Trevone “Our love & Christmas greetings, D. dear.” A bumper harvest. Allinson in London painting. Benjamin’s fellow-prisoners want books to study English. She recalls long-ago Indian acquaintances.

1942.10.06 To J. C. Powys ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #65 [c. 6 October 1942] Trevone

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“Here we are . . . with greetings for your Day.” She praises the later years of life. Benjamin Grad appeals for English books for his fellow prisoners.

1942.10.21 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 6p. Richardson Papers Oct 21st ’42 Trevone “Long ago, Peggy dear, I began a letter to you.” They admire Horizon. She shares with PK her war-time recipes. Claude Houghton wrote them out of the blue.

1942.10.25 To J. C. Powys ALS 3p. RP WOM 449-51 Fouli DMR #66 Oct.25.’42. Trevone “If you dare . . . to answer . . .”. JCP is instructed on ways to relax his eyes. She reflects on her review of Finnegans Wake: “much of the book is deliberate ‘patter.’”

1942.11.04 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 451-53 Nov 4.’42. Trevone “A most excellent book . . .”: Alice Meynell, a Memoir. DMR greatly admires Meynell. Wadsworth has moved to Allied Newspapers.

1942.11.08 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Nov.8.’42 Trevone “An extra-busy week . . .”. Wadsworth is urged to study French. DMR has tried in vain to read Maugham. She elaborates on rationing problems.

1942.11.23] From Alan Odle to Claude Houghton ALS 1+5p. HRC, Texas [c. 23 November 1942] Zanzizzey “Herewith – and at last – the Bibliography.” He lists his contributions to illustrated books (beginning with “Voltaire’s Candide” and “The Mimiambs of Herondas”), to magazines, also his unpublished works.

1942.12.03 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers Dec 3. [pmk. 3 DEC 42] pmk. PADSTOW “Are you & yours all right?”

1942.12.08] To R. C. Sherriff ApcS Surrey Archive pmk. 8[?] DEC 1942 pmk. PADSTOW “Greetings & irrepressible thanks . . .” for an unidentified work.

1942.12.10] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 453-54 Dec. [10?] ’42. Trevone

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“I’ve been trying to write” since reading Miller’s terrific but serene book. Housekeeping and shopping grow more difficult.

1942.12.19 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Decr.19.’42 Trevone “You are a veritable angel.” PK is burdened with two spoiled refugee children. Baillie- Scott also greatly likes the Horizons. She comments on the Brains Trust on B.B.C..

1942.12.20] To S. S. Koteliansky ApcS British Library [c. 20 December 1942?] [n.p.] “Love & Christmas Greetings”

1942.12.21 To Claude Houghton ALS 2p. HRC, Texas WOM 454-55 Decr.21.’42. Trevone “Buddha’s answer . . . ‘It is & it is not’ . . .”. She elaborates on the abuses of metaphor. She couldn’t manage much proofing of the 1938 Pilgrimage.

1942.12.21a] To P. B. Wadsworth A card I 2p. Berg [c.21 December 1942?] [Trevone] “Sincere Good Wishes for Xmas & New Year [printed greeting]” Choice of cards is poor.

1942.12.23 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Decr.23.’42 Trevone “Ages ago, it seems now, your letter came in . . .”. And a variety of gifts, plus a cheque. Continued Jan. 4, after illness.

1943.01.08 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Jan 8th ’43 Trevone “This is a very belated word of thanks for your kind Christmas gift . . .”. She gives news of Harold, Ann, and Norah Hickey.

1943.02.05] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers pmk. 5[?] FE [1943] [n.p.] “Alan posted last Friday nearly all the Horizons.” DMR has high blood pressure and tired heart. So she worries about Alan.

1943.02.12 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers WOM 455-56 Feb.12.’43. Trevone

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“Peggy my dear . . .”. DMR is vastly relieved that PK has promised to help Alan if need be. She details their financial situation and preparations.

1943.02.14 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Feb l4.’43 Trevone “Even the sight of your open door . . .” is obliterated by news of the death of Baillie-Scott’s son. A Spanish publisher asks for translation rights.

1943.02.19 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 6p. Richardson Papers pmk. 19 FE 43 Trevone “Trevone Gazette: Aunt Dorothy’s Column: . . .”. Alan’s financial accounts are simple. DMR describes in detail her dizziness, nausea, and “tired heart.” She outlines Alan’s strict regimen, then possibilities as to where they might later move.

1943.02.20] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. - - [20?] FE 43 [n.p.] “Parcel from C. arrived yesterday.”

1943.02.20a] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Feb.30.’43.[!] [Feb. 20?] Trevone “Bags arrived yesterday . . .”. DMR surveys various places they have thought of living, including Walton. Young Scott’s death was very unfortunate.

1943.02.23] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 6p. Richardson Papers WOM 461-63 [Spring 1943] pmk. [?]3 FE [??] Trevone “Yes, indeed, Boscawen.” DMR surveys the cultured life of 18th century women, criticizes modern Americans, and notes the present flight of intellectuals into creeds and mysticism, for example Miller into Baha’i. She recalls Basil Wilberforce.

1943.03.06 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS (Dorothea Doodle) 4p. RP WOM 456-58 March 6th 1943. Trevone “My dear Mrs. Kirkaldy” A satirical response to a scandalous postcard from PK. A P.S. is about Matthew Smith and Dr. Cobbledick.

1943.03.11 To Bernice Elliott ALS 6p. Richardson Papers WOM 458-59 Mar.11.’43. Trevone “Your letter dated Feb 8th reached me to-day.” DMR’s health broke down before Christmas, since when Pilgrimage has not progressed. The weather this year has been excellent. She knows Villette “almost by heart.”

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1943.03.12. To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 2p. British Library Mar.12.’43 Trevone “You are all right?” They sympathize with the sufferings of London. Kot must rejoice that Russia is no longer misrepresented.

1943.03.18 To David Grad A Airgraph S 1p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 52 March 18.’43 Trevone “It is quite an age” since David’s parcel arrived from India. Biscuits and tea were excellent. “P.S. Your card just in.”

1943.03.19] To David Grad A Airgraph S 1p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 52 [c. 19 March 1943] TREVONE “Your delightful . . . Car[d] . . . reached us March 19th . . .”. The Macmillans are back in New York.

1943.03.21 To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers Mar,21.’43 Trevone “I feel a wretch . . . I really do.” She has been ill, but has some help now, and Alan shops and brings home local stories. Baillie-Scott’s son has died.

1943.03.23 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Mar.23.’43 Trevone “Two important matters . . .”. She comments on Itma, and admires Churchill’s speech.

1943.03.24] From Alan Odle to Claude Houghton ALS 6p. HRC, Texas [c. 24 March 1943] Zanzizzey “I heartily share your loathing of most modern recipes for the Millennium . . .”. He makes many distinctions between Designers who are creative and Planners who are calculating and restrictive and imprisoning. “For what is the fascist . . . but the arch planner of plans?” Swift “was too much outside life for moral measurement, and too large for human categories.”

1943.03.25 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Mar.25.’43 Trevone “I’m glad you felt Winnie’s broadcast actuated by the need to discourage complacency.” Persian reminds DMR of Bahai and Ramakrishna, upon which she elaborates.

1943.04.14 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS p. Richardson Papers WOM 460-61 Ap.14.’43. Trevone

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“Blessings for the Horizons . . .”. She praises Dickens, especially for the rhythm of his prose. PK’s choice of words is unerring.

1943.04.18 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Ap.18.’43 Trevone “From the little we have seen . . . the Poetry Reading” was a grand success. Trevone is being disturbed by practice bombing.

1943.05.05 To David Grad A Airgraph I 1p. Hanscombe (1979), II, 53 5.V.’43 TREVONE “Immediately, dear David, after posting my last” she discovered correspondence was post- dated. Weather mild, crops growing. A Spanish publisher wants to translate Pilgrimage.

1943.05.09 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 463-65 May 9th ’43. Trevone “Endlessly grateful we both are” for Edith Sitwell’s book on poetry. Cold wet weather has interfered with fund raising. A Barcelona publisher plans an edition of Pilgrimage.

1943.05.09a To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers WOM 465-67 May 9.’43. Trevone “You poor dear.” The flu is virulent this year. DMR comments on bad verse, on the Matthew Smith drama, on Dr. Cobbledick’s illness, and on the severe crowding in the area. The gale in Cornwall was fierce. DMR is still not well.

1943.05.12 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers WOM 467-69 May 12.’43. Trevone “It is sad . . . to find you still so besieged with ills.” DMR offers lengthy dietary advice. She recalls a fortnight’s fast. PK has been asked for advice about a love affair; DMR responds with suggestions.

1943.05.22] From Alan Odle to Claude Houghton ALS 6p. HRC, Texas [c. 22 May 1943] Zanzizzey “If ‘Six Lives and a Book’ is . . . a ‘conte philosophique’. . .” . He praises the book, particularly “The House Not Made With Hands” for its exploration of potentiality and for the characters’ responses to the principalities and powers. DMR adds brief notes.

1943.05.29 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers May 29.’43 Trevone

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“Talk about letters ‘of the period,’ . . .”. DMR has been held up doing a biographical sketch for Spain. People react diversely to air raids. PK is to visit Wales.

1943.05.31 To Jessie Hale ALS (Goobie) 6p. Harold Fromm ELT 43:4, 413-17 May 31.’43 Zansizzey “Angelina, our Radio, has just given me a huge delight . . .”. She reminisces about songs they knew as young people, and admonishes Jessie for skepticism about the afterlife. Sarah Grand has died. It is amazing Germany did not attack Britain in 1940. She is writing a biographical sketch for a Spanish publisher.

1943.06.01 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 469-71 June 1. ’43 Trevone “What a trying experience . . .”. Her Spanish publisher wants a biographical sketch. She finds writing painfully slow. Though she has much to write, part of her is indifferent to writing, for life is incomparably rich. Benjamin Grad is a P.O.W.

1943.06.09 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 7p. Richardson Papers June 9.’43 Trevone “Good that you have your break all fixed up.” There are indications that things are on the move militarily. DMR describes their Victorian costumes when, in youth, they played sports. Baillie-Scott has returned to Kent.

1943.06.19 To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #67 June 19th ’43 Trevone “We are so very glad . . . to hear from you.”

1943.06.22 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 472-73 June 22.’43 Trevone “We were so sorry . . .”. Many must stand for long hours on trains, while others sit. Baillie-Scott has visited his old home. Allinson is in Trevone.

1943.07.01 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers July 1.’43 Trevone “Congratulations . . . on your timely & inclusive Brazilian number.” She is revising Allinson’s autobiography. Train travel is arduous. Mrs. Warne still comes to help.

1943.07.05 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers July 5.’43 Trevone “Bless you . . . for those priceless King Penguins . . .”. Allinson has gone on to Lelant.

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1943.07.06 To David Grad A Airgraph I 1p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 54 July 6th ’43 Trevone “So glad, dear D, to have your graph . . .”. Allinson has just visited. She is revising his autobiography.

1943.07.12 To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #68 July 12’43 Trevone “Two unexpected tasks have held up” a reply about an AO illustration for Rabelais.

1943.08.02 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers [pmk. 2 AUG 1943] [pmk. BODMIN ] “Just to thank for lovely arrivals.” She’s revising Allinson’s autobiography.

1943.08.06 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Aug 6. ’43 Trevone “Your package reaches me” too late to write to Wales. She likes PK’s translated poem but suggests improvements.

1943.08.08 To Jessie Hale ALS (Goobie) 4p. Harold Fromm ELT 43:4, 417-20 Aug. 8th ’43 Trevone [Zansizzey] “First & foremost, matters of State.” Germany cannot be trusted now or in the future. In the coming peace, the Allies must trust Russia and combine with her to restrain Germany. Victory is now certain. DMR recalls some of her dead friends.

1943.08.13 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Aug.’43 [pmk. 13 AUG. 1943] Zansizzey “July Horizon under another cover.” She has done her sketch for Spain. A petty theft has taken place. 1943.08.15 To J. C. Powys ALS 8p. RP WOM 473-76 Fouli DMR #69 Aug.15.’43 Trevone “At last a line . . .”. She is revising Allinson’s autobiography, and trying to write her own for a Spanish publisher. AO has a drawing suitable for JCP’s Rabelais. She goes on at length about Aldous Huxley’s book on eye-sight and about estimates of its reliability by her neighbor, a retired London oculist.

1943.08.22 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 476-78 Aug.22.’43 Trevone

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“Ages & ages it seems . . .”. She is revising Allinson and writing her Spanish piece. Reading Freeman’s American Testament reminds her that “the Communist movement was born of the Jewish race.” She speaks also of Groddeck.

1943.08.22a To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 5p. Richardson Papers WOM 478-81 Aug.22.’43. Trevone “Don’t curse me . . .”. DMR elaborates on her sparse diet, on the history of alcoholic use in her family, and on her own preferences. She notes Alan’s abstinence once they were married. Airplanes drone endlessly overhead.

1943.08.22b] To David Grad A AirLetter S 2p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 55 [22. Aug ’43 in another hand] [n.p.] “I hope, dear David, that your cryptic address is . . . correct. . .”. Gertrude Bell is now in Penguin. Lane, in his enterprise, has added King Penguins. Plans re Spain creep forward. Their black-out curtains will last the winter if the war does.

1943.08.28 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Aug 28.’43 Trevone “Bless you for your booting.” DMR describes their excellent cobbler. As children, she and Jessie once ran away–almost. She encloses the sketch for Spain. America is beginning to think about growing up.

1943.09.20 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Sep 20 ’43 Trevone “Your cargo of priceless valuables . . .” is reassurance. She has been revising Allinson’s MS and writing an autobiographical sketch for Spain. Proust is being re-re-re-read.

1943.09.20a To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers Sep 20 ’43 Trevone “I believe I haven’t acknowledged several recent Freedoms.” Allinson still being revised. It is very wet, crops ruined. Bernice Elliott reports Churchill had a big impact in America. DMR admires Kuen’s Trumpets Bray.

1943.09.23 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Sep 23.’43 Trevone “Don’t bother any more about those wretched boots.” She elaborates on food. Spanish soldiers have arrived.

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1943.09.27 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg WOM 481-82 Sep. 27. ’43. Trevone “It was good to get your chronicle.” She laments Rebecca West’s ornate style. Alan needs boots.

1943.10.03 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg Oct 3.’43 Trevone “Well, dearie – & thank you again & again . . .”. DMR is in doubt about the size of AO’s shoes and shirts. She admires the Free French from Morocco, now there; also Odette Kuen’s book.

1943.10.04 To David Grad A AirLetter I 3p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 56-57 Oct. 4.’43 [n.p.] “Quite incredibly” his letter reached them quickly. Gertrude Bell made us love the Arabian character. Powys is writing a Rabelais. They are reading Inside Asia. She praises a meatless diet. A busy day of shopping has intervened.

1943.10.11 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Oct.11.’43 Trevone “We are perplexed, dear Owen, mystified . . .”. He has sent another Proust. Goldring’s South Lodge is wrong in saying Hunt was 50 when she fell in love with Ford.

1943.10.26 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers [pmk. 26 OCT 1943] [pmk. BODMIN] “Been having flu.”

1943.10.31 To David Grad A AirLetter I 2p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 60-61 Oct 31st ’43 Trevone “Since ‘they’ tell me M.E.F. . . Christmas greetings should be off by Nov. 1st . . .”. Benjamin Grad is back in England and has seen his family. Allinson’s wife died, he has been ill and is now coming to Cornwall. The woeful state of England in 1940-41 is now recognized. Vinkie is still in the country.

1943.11.01 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 10p. Richardson Papers WOM 482-84 Nov.1.’43. Trevone “Very belated . . . thanks . . . for South Lodge.” DMR gossips about Violet Hunt, Goldring’s book on her, and about Rodker, Mary Butts and the writers met in Paris in 1924.

1943.11.04 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg

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Nov 4.’43. Trevone “We’re both . . . emerging from a most abominable flu.” She elaborates on the inaccuracies of Goldring’s book on Hunt, and on their visits to her during the summer of 1939.

1943.11.06] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers WOM 485-86 Oct.[Nov.]6.’43. Trevone “Now I wonder . . .”. DMR revels in the approach of the dark enclosed time of the year. Allinson is to visit. PK is in Wales.

1943.11.07 To Bryher ALS 6p. Bryher Papers Nov.7.’43 Trevone “All is well with you, & H.D., Perdita?” Spanish are the latest troops stationed in Trevone. She explains her letter-writing concerning details about age in Goldring’s South Lodge, a book of which she approves. She provides details of Violet Hunt’s final years.

1943.11.18 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Nov.18.’43 Trevone “Clearly I have softening of the brain.” PK has described her visit to Wales. Allinson, convalescent, has overdone himself over goats.

1943.11.30 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Nov.30.’43 Trevone “We are both most grateful for the Sitwell poems & the newly-arrived Mackenzie . . .”. Allinson has been down recuperating. Americans, from the South, have replaced the Spanish troops.

1943.12.06 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Decr.6.’43 Trevone “I am truly distressed & oppressed” by Bryher’s difficulties. Her parcel was filled with wonders. Allinson is painting goats. Mackenzie’s new book has delighted them.

1943.12.17 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Decr 17.’43 Trevone “At that charming bag, I stared, & stared . . .”. Bryher has stood them teas at the Cot, and they will get beer and a cake. Churchill was ill after the Teheran meeting.

1943.12.18 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg Dec,18.’43 Trevone

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“You are too good to us, Owen dear.” They will have teas at the Cot, which at night is jammed with service personnel. Allinson has gone back.

1943.12.20] From Alan Odle to Claude Houghton ApcS HRC, Texas [c. 20 December1943] [Zansizzey] “I seem to have struck one of my inarticulate periods . . .”.

1943.12.21 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers Decr.21st.’43 Trevone “Hi! Stop, Bryher!” She has sent them wonderful practical gifts. Trevone’s little Post Office overflows.

1943.12.23] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcS Richardson Papers [c. 23 December 1943] [n. p.] “Christmas greetings . . .”.

1943.12.25] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Christmas day [1943] [n.p.] “Greetings, dear Bryher.” There are hints the war may be taken to Europe “any day now.” They are having teas at the Cot. The weather is fine.

1943.12.26 To David Grad A AirLetter S 2p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 58-59 Boxing Day ’43 [Trevone] “Your greeting . . . reached us, miraculously on Christmas Day.” They approve his doing desk-work in Persia. DMR praises Compton Mackenzie’s Home Guard comedy and his biography of Roosevelt. The weather is very mild. She recalls seeing Mosley in Dunmow days (H. G. Wells).

1943.12.29 To Jessie Hale AL Notes Harold Fromm ELT 45:1, 49. 29 Dec ’43 Trevone Met Oswald Moseley at Wells’ in 1927 – Wells said to DMR “the world is not a charitable institution.” 1944.01.04 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 6p. Richardson Papers Jan.4.44 Trevone “Christmas time has been so crowded . . .”. They had a splendid Christmas dinner. Parties, then flu. She comments on S. Sitwell.

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1944.01.09 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 9 JAN 1944 [pmk. BODMIN] “Flu. Hope to write soon, & to F. also.”

1944.01.18 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Jan: 18.’44 Trevone “I don’t believe I said a word about that . . . stationery you sent me.” They are now solid with orderly Americans.

1944.01.19 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg Jan.19.’44 Trevone “Why, oh why, do you so recklessly cast away nice . . . clo?” More flu. They are now solid with American forces–and trucks.

1944.01.20 To Flora Coates ALS 3p. Berg 20 Jan ’44 Trevone “Please forgive my long delay . . .”. She apologizes too for delay in returning Proust. Pilgrimage “is not a novel” and “the handing out of direct information is . . . excluded.”

1944.01.21 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 4p. British Library Jan.21.’44 Trevone “Kot dear, we were so pleased to have your Poly Greeting.” She describes their Christmas and her love of the light during the short days of the year. They have had flu twice.

1944.01.23 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Jan.23.’44 Trevone “We were just enjoying our share of your Christmas party . . .”. They have had bronchitis. There are many American troops. Franco censors have banned Pilgrimage.

1944.01.25 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 7p. Richardson Papers WOM 486-88 Jan.25.’44. Trevone “We duly giggled over your cutting.” She offers lengthy speculations on Sitwell’s new book and the roles of Art, Science and Religion. Sitwell longs for a pantheistic paganism. The Spanish edition of Pilgrimage is off.

1944.01.31 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [pmk. 31 JAN 1944] Trevone

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“S.O.S., but no particular hurry . . .”. Their mail may be censored. She reflects on the treatment of American blacks.

1944.02.01] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Feb 1st. [1944] Trevone “The Greek book is a joy.” The U. S. white soldiers do not mix with the black. She criticizes Joad on The Brain Trust.

1944.02.03 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg Feb.3.’44 Trevone “Your parcel came in this morning . . .” and again DMR is dumbfounded. The sons of the Duchess of Kent and other notables are now living in the Padstow area. Americans increase.

1944.02.05 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 5 FEB 1944 Trevone “Have only just discovered edifying map.” The New Statesman is lively.

1944.02.06 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Feb.6.’44 Trevone “I’ve been reading my pocket diary . . .” with useful data. Much military activity. Alan has a grand niece.

1944.02.07] From Alan Odle to Claude Houghton ALS 12p. HRC, Texas [c. 7 February 1944] Zanzizzey “Your statement that present day authors” are at low ebb raises the question: have conditions ever been favorable for writers and artists? Yet the arts often flourish in spite of adversity. Resistance helps them; and the distractions of others leaves them space. “Good times for art, are rarely . . . good times for the artist.”

1944.02.09 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Feb.9.’44 Trevone “We roared over your faits divers.” She recalls an outing with Schroeder. Their American troops are very quiet; but in Exeter, just the opposite. Allinson has broken down.

1944.02.17 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALI 4p. Richardson Papers WOM 488-89 Feb.17.’44. Trevone “Don’t trouble . . . about braces.” The war was necessary. It has increased the awareness of a common humanity and helped to expose the bases of “prosperity.”

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1944.02.18 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Feb. 18.’44 Trevone “I wanted to answer you[r] Valentine letter . . .” but the cold makes life difficult. English Story wants something. Pilgrimage languishes.

1944.02.20 To Ruth Pollard TLS (typed signature) (edited copy) 3p. Richardson Papers Feb. 20.1944 Trevone “[Written to Ruth Pollard while she was living at 90a Baker St. . . . .]” Old age, seen from the inside, is a place where the parts of one’s life can be seen in their true relations. Their life is full and busy.

1944.02.21 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 8p. Richardson Papers Feb.21.’44 Trevone “Here is the P.O. I forgot . . .”. DMR analyzes Britain’s pacifist stance in the 1930s and the opposition to it by the few. At the tea room they met Charles Daniel’s son.

1944.02.25] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 489-91 Feb.25.[1944] Trevone “I could wish that you & Hilda would go to Eckington . . .”. DMR has met the Daniels’ son. She reminisces about her visits to the Daniels, and their Tolstoyan set, also about visiting her sister in Calne.

1944.02.26 To David Grad ALS 2p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 62-63 Feb. 26: 44 [n.p.] “Good morning, Captain Grad, Sir.” He is a Liaison Officer in the Middle East. She recommends Peaks and Lamas. They met the son of Charles Daniel; also an American officer from Hollywood. The Franco censor has banned Pilgrimage. Bitter cold.

1944.03.01 To Bernice Elliott ALS 8p. Richardson Papers WOM 491-93 Mar. 1.’44. Trevone “Certainly a letter of mine” has gone astray. Like Elliott, they are proud of their London friends. The Spanish censor has banned a translation of Pilgrimage. They have adopted an officer from Hollywood.. Alan is working on a frontispiece for Rabelais.

1944.03.06 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 493-94 Mar.6.’44. Trevone “I have just heard . . .”. She is a legatee of Violet Hunt’s estate. The blitz goes on in London. Young Daniel is returning to their area.

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1944.03.10 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers Mar.10.’44 Zansizzey “Thank you so much for Kate Kennedy . . .”. She needs German newspapers to instruct a Colonel in the language. The Spanish ban on Pilgrimage is raised.

1944.03.14 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 6p. Richardson Papers Mar:14th.’44 Trevone “Your letter . . . reached me only yesterday.” PK’s sister has breast cancer. Things are quiet overhead. The Americans expect to depart soon. She and Alan have befriended an American soldier, Fontaine.

1944.03.30 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 494-96 Mar.30.’44. Trevone “Bryher dear!” A food parcel has arrived. Trevone is packed. She has read Butler’s The Lost Peace and comments thereon.

1944.03.30a To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Mar.30.’44 Trevone “Blessings for the two parcels of reading . . .”. But from Worthing? The local American troops are ready to move.

1944.04.04 To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers Ap.4.44 Trevone “Your fat parcel came bumping in on Saturday.” Endless interruptions. She could send a small piece of work.

1944.04.12 To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers Ap.12.44 Trevone. “What can I say to you, you are so kind & so kind.” Violet Hunt’s estate is approaching settlement. She will send a short sketch.

1944.04.24 To Bryher ALS 6p. Bryher Papers Ap.24.’44 Trevone “The blessed Barlovas” arrived. There have been many callers. John Fontaine and the other U.S. troops have left. V. Hunt’s estate is to be settled.

1944.04.26 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Ap.26.’44 Trevone “Things are easier with you, I hope?” Allinson is visiting, “sick in mind.”

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1944.04.29 To Jessie Hale AL Notes Harold Fromm ELT 45:1, 49-50 29 Ap ’44 Trevone She saw notice “recently” of Fred Fenton’s death –

1944.05.08 To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 496-97 May 8.44. Trevone “So you, too, cherish Canterbury bells.” In writing Pilgrimage, she went ahead investigating, not describing. It still attracts new readers. She hopes to finish it.

1944.05.12 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers May.12.’44 Trevone “Now when & how . . .” did Bryher discover her birth date? Wells is weak; and she is exhausted.

1944.05.16 To Bryher TLS 1p. Bryher Papers WOM 497-98 May 16.44. Trevone “Sheer witchcraft it is . . .” that Bryher found them Venus pencils. She describes her solitary writing of Pointed Roofs, and later how she shared her writing space with Alan.

1944.05.30 To H.D. & Bryher T&ALS 2p. H.D. Papers May 30.44 Trevone “Separately and individually . . . you brought me joyous tears.” H.D. has sent The Walls Do Not Fall. “All the early promise, fulfilled.” Troops stationed nearby have suddenly gone. DMR is worried about Koteliansky and Barbara Low.

1944.06.03 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg June 3.’44 Trevone “Shockingly belated is this grateful acknowledgment of . . . reading material.” He has sent Levin on Joyce. Americans have left, including Fontaine. She worries about Kot. 1944.06.08 To Peggy Kirkaldy T&ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 499-500 June,8.44 Trevone “It is a relief . . .”. PK still thinks the war is futile. Cornwall is a center of troops and airplanes. Young Fontaine has left his art with them. D-Day. She tries to give a little time to Pilgrimage.

1944.06.09 To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 501-502 June 9.44. Trevone

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“Is there anything you don’t think of.” They would like some small thing in memory of V. Hunt. Alan never knew H.G. Wells intimately. Now Wells has remarkably recovered. She elaborates on Huxley’s The Art of Seeing.

1944.06.11] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 498-99 [c. 11 June 1944] Trevone “Just a post-script . . .”. [See letter of June 9.44.] She understands tax rebates. She recalls Hemingway in Paris.

1944.06.21 To P. B. Wadsworth TLS 2p. Berg June 21.44 Trevone “Telegramatically: Wy, oh wy” did he not mend his things? He will soon be able to go abroad. The Henderson’s have two roomsful of Hunt’s things.

1944.07.06 To Bryher TLS 1p. Bryher Papers July6.44 Trevone “It is, I suppose, too much to hope that you” have left London. Wells is better.

1944.07.10 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers July.10.’44 Trevone “Appalling.” Might not Perdita induce H.D. to leave London. DMR feels Julian Green is “entirely French.”.

1944.07.14 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 10p. Richardson Papers July 14.’44 Trevone “We are truly distressed over the loss of your little cat-friend.” London is under attack from the air. Bryher and H.D. have gone to Cornwall. Wells stays put. Everyone is tired. No word of Fontaine. A Mrs Shepherd has visited them.

1944.07.16 To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers July16, 44 Trevone “I had twice to read . . . your letter before fully taking it in.” Bryher has given her money. Mr. Henderson is having eye problems. Kot’s windows have been smashed for the third time.

1944.07.30 To S. S. Koteliansky TLS 2p. British Library July,30–44 Trevone

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“We were so very glad to hear news of you at last . . .”. Kot, who has been ill, is now better, but his house has twice lost its windows. The Russians are proving what she was once told, that they are “the strongest kinetic force in Europe.”

1944.08.02 From J. C. Powys ALS 8p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #65 Aug 2 1944 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire, N. Wales “How are you?” He is working on Rabelais and has received £100 from the Royal Literary Society. They have very few literary contacts in Wales. An illustration for Rabelais from AO? Littleton P. has married Elizabeth Myers.

1944.08.07 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 7p. Richardson Papers Aug.7.’44 Trevone “So it is, exactly five years somewhere around July 18th.” Home education is bad for most children. Mrs. Shepherd is a “medium”; her encounters with the spirit world are elaborated on.

1944.08.10 To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #70 Aug 10.44. [pmk. BODMIN] “So glad to hear from you.” She will write.

1944.08.15 To J. C. Powys ALS 18p. RP WOM 503-508 Fouli DMR #71 Aug 15.’44. Trevone “It is good to hear from you . . .”. Rabelais is at last nearly finished. Alan has an illustration for it. Life is frantic here. David Grad is in Persia. She describes the illness and recovery of Wells. Mrs. Shepherd has been visiting and has told them of her remarkable experiences as a medium. JCP is in financial difficulties.

1944.08.16 To Bernice Elliott ALS 1p. Richardson Papers Aug 16.’44. Trevone “It was good to know of your new job . . .”. Elliott may travel.

1944.08.23 From J. C. Powys ALU 17p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #66 Aug 23 1944 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire, N. Wales “Phyllis and I were simply thrilled by your . . . letter!” JCP’s translations of Rabelais are going well and his book is nearly finished. He believes both he and his wife in Bath are rewarded by his infidelity. He feels settled in Wales.

1944.08.26] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c.26 August 1944] [n.p.]

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“This is not the copy you so kindly sent to me” of H.D.’s poems. She is the best exponent of “Imagisme.”

1944.08.27 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg Aug. 27: ’44 Trevone “We might have known that it was yourself “sent reproductions. She discusses Brighton; also Joyce.

1944.09.12 To Bryher TLS 6p. Bryher Papers Sep.12.44 Trevone “Where were we?” “Life has been complex.” They have been frequently visited by a young woman who is a remarkable medium. DMR finds Osbert Sitwell’s books negative. The end of the war is in sight.

1944.09.14 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALI 2p. Richardson Papers Sep 14.’44 Trevone “I was truly glad to hear that you” are going to Wales. Padstow is in disgrace for having ignored the blackout.

1944.09.22] From Alan Odle to Claude Houghton ALS 8p. HRC, Texas [c. 22 September 1944] Zanzizzey “Your passport . . . authorizes the most memorable of journeys.” He analyzes the roles of the various characters in Passport to Paradise.

1944.10.14 To Evelyn Morrison ALS 3p. photocopy Eva Tucker Oct. 14.’44 Trevone / Padstow “Forgive this unconscionable, unavoidable belatedness.” Morrison’s story would be better if she removed her own person from the narrative. For dramatic contrast it is best to begin quietly.

1944.10.19 To Jessie Hale ALS typed copy Radcliffe ELT 45:1, 50-54 Oct. 19,’44 Trevone “Here I am six days after your birthday . . .”. Jessie is 70. DMR recounts the strange case of the beautiful Mrs. Shepherd and her communications with spirits. The report of Fontaine’s death was false. They have had a summer of rain.

1944.10.25 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg WOM 508-510 Oct.25.’44 Trevone

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“We are glad to hear from you . . .”. The Doodle Bugs seem the worst of the blitz. She comments on Frederic Whyte (Form of Diary), Lady Warwick, and Madame Strindberg.

1944.10.28 To Bryher ALS 7p. Bryher Papers Oct.28.’44 Trevone “Two letters of yours I have, unanswered . . .”. She returns to the subject of mediums and race memory. Fontaine is O.K. Sylvia Beach is back in Paris. DMR has received £500 from the Hunt estate. Life grows more arduous for the elderly.

1944.11.10] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [c. 10 November 1944] Trevone “Thank you so much for this nice Lugano Azure.” She is sending a story to L. & L. “Hancock” escaped the hurricane in Jamaica.

1944.11.11] To David Grad A AirLetter S 2p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 64-65 Nov. 11th [1944] Trevone “This is just a line . . . to greet you for Christmas . . .”. Retired people are very busy, and happier for being busy. The German’s had plans to invade Cornwall in 1942. She has had a letter from her old boss, in Jamaica.

1944.11.15 To Bernice Elliott ALS 5p. Richardson Papers. Nov. 15.’44. Trevone “Before this, I should have sent just a card . . .”. to acknowledge her ms, which she will read later. The rocket attacks are vile, though they do not reach Cornwall.

1944.11.21 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Nov.21.’44 Trevone “I’m not sure whether the Horizon . . . is one of yours.” DMR explains how in a crisis a community like Trevone pulls together and helps the desperate. She is inundated with MSS. She hopes PK is free of Doodle-bugs.

1944.11.25 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Nov.25.’44 Trevone “I had a sort of hunch my little sketch wouldn’t fit in.” Gales! Banks are very short of trained staff. The war news is good.

1944.11.26 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg Nov.26.’44 Trevone

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“Yes, bless you, the cargo of periodicals . . . arrived safely . . .”. Alan urges burning her letters-to-be-answered pile. She regrets the coat PBW sent is much too heavy for Alan.

1944.12.01 To David Grad A AirLetter S 2p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 66-67 Dec 1st 1944 Trevone “The noospaper has just told me” it is time to post. Benjamin sees his grandsons every second week. Her boss reports that Jamaica may switch from bananas and sugar to bauxite.

1944.12.05 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 510-11 Decr.5.’44. Trevone “I’m so sorry . . .”. Mackenzie’s latest book leads her to speculations about modern Catholics. She recounts a local suicide.

1944.12.11] To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 2p. Berg Monday 10th [11 December 1944] Trevone “Just a line, Owen dear, to tell you the Coat . . . is . . . ready for despatch.” She describes their complicated trips down to the village.

1944.12.14 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Decr.14.’44 Trevone “Stop! Naughty enough . . .”. He has sent garments and now fancy soap. It rains.

1944.12.14a] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. [1]4 DEC 1944 pmk. BODMIN “Parcel sent off today.” The coat.

1944.12.18 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Dec. 18.’44 Trevone. “Hardly could I believe my eyes when they encountered that almighty Bag of Cornflour.” And then a cheque! She will take a car to go to her oculist. Robert Nichols has died.

1944.12.22 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. 22 DEC 1944 Trevone “Enchanting, Peggy dear,” the writing pads. It is very wet. They have plans for a busy Christmas.

1944.12.22a To J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #72 Dec.’44 [pmk. 22 DEC 1944] Trevone

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“Just a Christmas greeting . . .”. She welcomes the dark days of the year but abhors the darkness of the continuing war. London, she hears, throngs with people.

1944.12.27 To Ruth Pollard TLS (typed signature) (edited copy) 4p. Richardson Papers Dec. 27'44 Trevone “Your Christmas letter was so welcome.” She has received £550 from Violet Hunt’s estate. She has not “quite given up writing.” Powys, on age, misses the main realities.

1944.12.30 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg Decr.30.’44 Trevone “This is my first free evening since Christmas . . .”. She is adept at tying parcels. With his gift, accepted with protest, they hold tea and coffee parties.

1945.01.05 To Bernice Elliott ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Jan.5.’45. Trevone “What a shock you gave us with your box of lovely American candies.” Powys, in Wales, has just finished a vast tome on Rabelais.

1945.01.05a To J. C. Powys ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #73 Jan.5.’45 Trevone “There is no need to tell you” they are sorry about reported illness. AO’s Rabelais drawing will be sent tomorrow.

1945.01.11 To John Austen ALS 5p. Richardson Papers WOM 511-13 Jan 11. ’45 Trevone “There is no need for me to tell you . . .”. JA has high blood pressure. She shares with him her own health problems, her dietary practices and her method of relaxation (“creative contemplation”). At night, banish all thought.

1945.01.23 To Pauline Marrian TLI (edited copy) 4p. Richardson Papers 23. Jan. ’45 Trevone “And why not?” Take a routine job. DMR critiques a story by Marrian. Then she expands on the need for progressive relaxation and contemplation (opening doors), and on the need for prayer in its various modes. “Don’t worry about the future.”

1945.01.27] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 45 [c. 27 January(?) 1945] pmk. BODMIN “Mais, mon dieu, quels petits pieds élégants!” She thanks him for his trouble.

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1945.02.05 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 7p. Richardson Papers WOM 513-15 Feb 5.’45 Trevone “We hope . . . that no noos is good news . . .”. They have just been spared having to move house. The settling of V. Hunt’s will was protracted and complicated. Having received her share, she is relieved.

1945.02.06] To Jessie Hale AL Notes Harold Fromm ELT 45:1, 55 [c. 6 February 1945?] Zansizzey, Trevone [talking about novels] “ . . . life in which there is no finality, no curtain. Life as experienced at first hand by individuals . . .”. The story is not the point.

1945.02.09] To Bryher ALS 7p. Bryher Papers [c. 9 February 1945] Trevone “I don’t believe I ever thanked you for . . . Times Lits.” Continued a fortnight later: Their landlady desperately needed their house; they searched; then another house fell free for the landlady; relief.

1945.02.12 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Feb: 12.45 Trevone “Thanks for two letters & diary . . .”. DMR hopes and hopes the war will end. They have not read Norah Hoult’s book.

1945.02.16 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Feb: 16.45 Trevone “Your note of 13th came in two days ago, the book following it this morning.” DMR is signing one of her books. Accommodation in Trevone is tight.

1945.03.12 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Mar.12.’45 Trevone “Best thanks for Horizon.” A salt shortage! She is coaching an officer in German. Spain has lifted the ban of Pilgrimage.

1945.03.13 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg Mar. 13.’45 Trevone “S.O.S.” She needs German newspapers, to instruct a Colonel. A Spanish edition of Pilgrimage is to go ahead.

1945.03.22] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Thursday [c. 22 March 1945] Trevone

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“I hope this will reach you in time to prevent your bothering about salt.” Spain has lifted the ban on Pilgrimage.

1945.03.23 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg Mar 23.’45 Trevone “Angel: I wish you could have seen” the delight of the Colonel with a simple German text. But his undertaking may now not be necessary.

1945.03.23a To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Mar 23.’45 Zansizzey “Your parcel was a shock!” No salt shortage! They have enough tea. Fresh flowers are a joy.

1945.03.30 To Bryher ALS 6p. Bryher Papers WOM 515-17 Mar.30.’45 Trevone “You have made us feel wildly reckless.” The Spanish edition is going ahead. [False alarm.] David Grad and wife are coming down. Huxley’s latest seems brilliant but lifeless, O. Sitwell’s “is a joy.”

1945.04.05 To John Austen ALS 10p. Richardson Papers Ap 5.’45 Zansizzey, Trevone “Lately I've been even busier than usual . . .”. She discusses Saxon food products and vegetarian products. Alan has worked on his Rabelais. She encloses four poems:”Freedom,” “Sonnet” (“Through the long night . . .”), “Not Dust nor Moth,” “Dark Harmony.”

1945.04.06 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 517-19 Ap.6.’45 Trevone “What did I tell you?” English Story has taken “Excursion,” and L & L has taken “Haven.” “Alan loves Huxley . . .”. They are relieved that the bombing of London has ceased. David Eder’s memoirs are out.

1945.04.11 To Jessie Hale AL Notes Harold Fromm ELT 45:1, 54 [c. 11 April 1945] [n.p.] Spanish rights of Pointed Roofs - £120. “those little childhood sketches which I sent you – to Life & L. –[.”]

1945.04.12 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers [Plus from English Story, TLS 1p.] Ap.12.’45 Trevone

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“Obediently I’ve sent the two little sketches to R.H.” A local man, a prisoner since Dunkirk, has returned. [With letter of Ap.6.’45, DMR had enclosed a letter from English Story accepting “Excursion. That letter now accompanies this one.]

1945.04.13 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 13 APR 1945 pmk. BODMIN CORNWALL “What an interesting cargo!” Many thanks.

1945.04.19 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers Ap.19.’45 Trevone “When that bumper box of prize cigarettes fell in . . .”. She gives more details of the returned prisoner.

1945.04.27 To Bernice Elliott ALS 14p. Richardson Papers WOM 519-522 Ap 27.’45. Trevone “For months past” she has been trying to write. Life is frantically crowded, but England is now peaceful. She gives a long account of the return of Edward Hickey from prison in Germany. She praises Elliott’s novel, but offers a catalogue of precise criticisms.

1945.04.29 To Jessie Hale ALS (Goobie) 8p. Harold Fromm ELT 43:4, 420-23 Ap. 29.’45 Zansizzey “Boobie dear, I enjoyed every minute of your vacation.” Jessie has sent a beautiful sweater. Roosevelt’s death was a shock. England is now free of bombing attacks. DMR believes there will be some kind of international peace force.

1945.05.02 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALI 4p. Richardson Papers May.2.’45 Trevone “When your letter arrived . . .”. PK proposes to visit. DMR explores places to stay.

1945.05.03 To Pauline Marrian TLS (edited copy) 2p. Richardson Papers May 3. 45 Trevone “You’d have heard from me before this . . .” but life is crowded. She lays down a devastating assessment of H. G. Wells and his thinking. He is now old and failing. What relief, they can now sleep peacefully in London. Norah Hickey’s husband, a Dunkirk prisoner, is back.

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1945.05.10 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 10 MAY 1945 pmk. BODMIN] “I don’t quite see the point of the jest . . .”.

1945.05.15 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 522-24 May.15.’45 Trevone “We were glad to hear from you . . .”. The end of the war came piecemeal. It is like a convalescence. Already the community in Trevone is breaking up. Windmill has asked for a piece.

1945.05.15a To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 15 MAY 1945 pmk. BODMIN “Amazing the length of time taken in transit by my letter.”

1945.05.16 To Jessie Hale AL Notes Harold Fromm ELT 45:1, 54 16 May ’45 Trevone “Benjamin Grad” – just got letter from him.

1945.06.07 To Jessie Hale ALS (Goobie) 8p. Harold Fromm ELT 43:4, 423-25 June 7.’45 Trevone “Imagine that I’ve been in touch . . . with Alice & Louie French. She recounts the history of these cousins and of others of the French family connection. They had a long letter from John Fontaine. A general election is in the offing.

1945.06.16 To H.D. ALS 2p. H.D. Papers June 16.’45 Trevone “So you made, bless you . . . poems.” The community of durationists is breaking up. Those remaining, stunned by peace, are weary.

1945.06.22 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers June 22. 45 Trevone “It is good to hear you are having such a restorative break . . .” in Wiltshire. There is sadness, the community is breaking up. DMR can get no help. The election in Cornwall is quite exceptional.

1945.06.25 To Bryher ALI 1p. Bryher Papers June 25.’45 Trevone “It seems somehow incredible that you are coming down here.” “Electionitis holds us all.”

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1945.06.26 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg June, 26.’45 Trevone “At work on a discourse asked for by The Windmill . . .”. He has sent just what she needed. Bryher may visit next week. “Electionitis rules.”

1945.07.06 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1p. Berg July 6.’45 Trevone “I’ve been awaiting, before writing, the arrival of your . . . valuables.” He is going to Prague.

1945.07.08] From Alan Odle to Claude Houghton ALS 11p. HRC, Texas [c. 8 July 1945] Zanzizzey “There were surrealists before surrealism.” Their conceptions were grand. The neo- surrealist perspective was stated by Breton in 1924. AO quotes him at some length. Though the unseen cannot be contacted directly, it may slip in when the door is left ajar.

1945.07.09 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 9 JLY 1945 pmk. BODMIN “Just to let you know S.[suitcase] arrived . . .”. He recklessly abandons clothes.

1945.07.30] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 30 July 1945] [n.p.] “I’m bothered about your missing Horizons.” She evaluates the reaction of doctors to the new Conservative government. She recalls Ian Brinkworth.

1945.08.18 To Jessie Hale ALS (Goobie) 6p. Harold Fromm WOM 524-26 Aug.18.’45 Zansizzey, Trevone “Blessed Boobie–“ DMR writes about cousin Amy and uncle Walter, about Arthur Morley during her early London days and about Charlie and Emmie Richardson in Cambridge. She has had almost no time for writing since ’39. With the end of the war, relaxation from strain leaves one limp.

1945.08.29 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Aug 29.’45 Trevone “I didn’t ought to be writing . . .”. They are planning to move to Hillside.

1945.09.17 To Jessie Hale ALS (Goobie) 4p. Harold Fromm ELT 43:4, 425-27 Sep.17.’45 Trevone

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“The enclosed stamps . . . make an excuse for a small lerrer [sic].” They are moving to a flat in a house. With the clothes shortage, they are proud to wear patched garments.

1945.09.18 To Bryher ALS 8p. Bryher Papers Sep.18.45 Trevone “I’d have written before, but . . .”. Friends visit, an author needs help, Trevone is besieged by practice bombing off-shore. They must leave Zansizzey. They may go to a flat at Hillside. DMR’s traveling days are over.

1945.09.20 To Jessie Hale ALS (Goobie) 6p. Harold Fromm WOM 527-28 Sep.20.’45. Zansizzey, Trevone “I’ve just sent you” Richard Church’s tribute. She comments at some length on her memories of the Richardson relatives, and consoles Jessie concerning Natalie. She would like a pullover.

1945.09.28 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Sep 28.’45 Trevone “My last letter . . . has obviously miscarried.” Friends visit. They are moving to Hillside.

1945.10.01 To Bernice Elliott ALS 6p. Richardson Papers WOM 528-530 Oct.1.’45. Trevone “Your letter of Aug. 31st” arrived promptly. In England, too, response to victory, has been “far from any rejoicing.” Elliott is getting down to her writing. They are moving to Hillside.

1945.10.05 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Oct.5.’45 Trevone. “How kind of you to let me know of those fresh demands for L.L.” It will publish some of March Moonlight. She has won the battle with the Fleet Air Arm.

1945.10.06 To John Austen ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Oct. 6.’45 Zansizzey “Good children you are . . .”. They are moving to Hillside. She is preparing “Work in Progress” for Life & Letters. Alan is losing his cynicism. He goes on with Rabelais. J. C Powys’s circumstances are not easy.

1945.10.08] From Alan Odle to Claude Houghton ALS 4p. HRC, Texas [c. 8 October 1945] Zanzizzey

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“By all means make use . . . of anything in my letter . . .”. He surveys the recent reputation of Fuseli. Concentration is central to creative work.

1945.10.25 To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #74 pmk. 25 OCT 1945 pmk. BODMIN “Not an answer to your first card . . .”. Wells is essentially fascist.

1945.11.01 To J. C. Powys ALS 6p. RP WOM 530-32 Fouli DMR #75 Nov.1.’45 Trevone “Your first card brought us pain . . .”. [He had an ulcer.] They are preparing to move to a spacious flat at Hillside. She discourses on Milton’s God, H.G.’s wailings, and the male’s lack of balance. C. S. Lewis is sedulous but blinkered.

1945.11.09] To Jessie Hale ALS 5p.+2p. Harold Fromm ELT 43:4, 427-29 [c. 9 November 1945] [Zansizzey] “This is just a scrawl on my knee, becos, we’re . . . moving.” She recalls laughing in church when they were young. She has followed Jessie’s travels in California. They move in a fortnight. DMR encloses extracts of a letter from Alice French in Jersey to Arthur French in Australia.

1945.11.14 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Nov.14.’45 Zansizzey “Thanks so much for data about Sylvia.” They must move and have taken Hillside.

1945.11.15 To J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #76 Nov.15.’45 Zansizzey, Trevone “Dear John! Dear Phyllis!” She reflects on a judgmental woman she knew who made her feel slothful and inconstant. She registers further negative opinions about Wells, along with concern.

1945.11.23] To Bryher ALI 2p. Bryher Papers [c.23 November 1945] [Hillside] “Dear Bryher! S.O.S.” She needs a bread-saw. MacMillan wants to return to England. They are half moved.

1945.11.24 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALI 4p. Richardson Papers Nov.24'45 Hillside, Trevone “I’m truly grieved to know you are still so seedy.” Moved yesterday, all in chaos. She has two hours help per week. English Story has spoiled her sketch by a printing error.

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1945.11.25] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers [November 1945] Hillside “Bless & bless you for your help . . .”. They are living in one room, with workmen.

1945.11.28 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 532-33 Nov.28.45 Hillside “Here at last is a lump of Work in Progress.” Their new quarters are still being worked on. They like Mrs. Symons very much.

1945.12.13] From Alan Odle to Claude Houghton A illustration S 1p. HRC, Texas [c. 13 December 1945?] [Hillside] “You shall have this.” [A black and white proof of a muscular worker shoveling coal.]

1945.12.14 To Bryher ALS 7p. Bryher Papers WOM 533-35 Decr.14.’45 Hillside “I’m glad you liked that bit of Pil. . . .”. She elaborates on the doubtful future of her novel. Their new quarters are very inconvenient. Dishes and pans are impossible to get. Bryher is returning to Switzerland and Wadsworth has been sent to Vienna.

1945.12.22 To Flora Coates ALS 2p. photocopy Eva Tucker Decr. 22.’45 Hillside / Trevone “Thank you for sending on Owen’s generous gift.” He is shifted to Vienna.

1945.12.23 To Ruth Pollard TLS (edited copy) 1p. Richardson Papers Dec. 23.’45 Hillside “We were so glad, Ruth dear, to receive greetings . . .”. They are still in chaos from having moved.

1945.12.23a To Flora Coates ApcI Eva Tucker [pmk. 23 DEC 1945] [pmk. BODMIN, CORNWALL “A., opening your envelope, handed me . . . only part of the contents . . .”. They are thankful for the heavenly Breughel reproduction.

1945.12.26 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg Decr. 26.’45 Hillside “We rejoiced, after long wondering, to hear from you . . .”. He goes to Vienna. Their new quarters at Hillside were still being worked on when they moved in.

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1945.12.28] To David Grad ALS 3p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 68-69 [c. 28] Decr.’45 Hillside “You may imagine our delight . . . that you are at last free.” He is looking for a residence in London. DMR has a new address.

1946.01.04 To Bernice Elliott ALS 6p. Richardson Papers Jan.4.’46. Hillside “Belated good wishes from us both . . .”. She thanks her for the cake. The many drawbacks of their new abode, among them a built-on kitchen with cement floor and no sink or cupboards, are rehearsed. But the house is centrally located.

1946.01.10] To Jessie Hale ALS (Goobie) 10p. Harold Fromm WOM 535-37 Jan.10.’45 [mistake for ’46] Hillside “Blessed little Pug . . .”. Jessie’s Christmas gifts are greatly appreciated. DMR criticizes American life-style. The death of Mrs. John Harris reminds her of when she used to visit near Calne when Alice was governess. She also recalls “Mag and Jan.” “Life . . . is people.”

1946.01.27 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Jan.27.’46. Hillside “Utterly useless, I know, to beg” Bryher to avoid Switzerland during the earthquakes. She recalls their Christmas at Chalet Marie. The Beverage Plan has everyone alarmed.

1946.02.02 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Feb.2.’46 Hillside “An immense surprise you give me . . .”. Bryher is going to New York.

1946.02.04 To Jessie Hale AL Notes Harold Fromm ELT 45:1, 55 4 Feb ’46 Hillside “Take yourself back, Boobie, to the age of little “Pug” . . .”. She remembers the Allbutt family in Eastbourne.

1946.02.05 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Feb.5.’46 Hillside “We were glad indeed to get good news of you . . .”. Macmillan heard a broadcast in French about Pilgrimage. Busy. 1946.02.07 To Flora Coates ApcI Eva Tucker [pmk. 7 FEB 1946] [pmk. BODMIN CORNWALL] “Many thanks for the cutting:” they have had storms for the last ten days.

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1946.03.11 To J. C. Powys ALI 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #77 Mar.11.’46 Hillside, Trevone “No doubt it is because”they thought JCP had recovered. They are getting used to their new home and looking forward to having their belongings from London.

1946.03.15 To Bernice Elliott ALU 2p. [unfinished] Richardson Papers Mar 15.’46 Hillside “Unable, as I thought, to send you a word of sympathy . . .”. Elliott has been ill. Henry James is in vogue in New York. [Enclosed with follow-up letter of Oct 27th ’46]

1946.03.26 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg Mar.26.’45[i.e. ’46] Hillside “Your card . . . is even more welcome than was the article Flora forwarded to us . . .”. She is relieved he has escaped from Austria to Italy for a time to break the winter. They are at last somewhat settled at Hillside, but their belongings have not yet come from London.

1946.04.01 To J. C. Powys ApcU Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #78 pmk. 1 APR 1946 pmk. BODMIN “S.O.S.” Did Tom, the Piper’s son, steal not a pig but a wig = Welsh bun?

1946.04.04 To Sylvia Beach ALS 3p. Princeton Ap.4.’46 Hillside, Trevone, Padstow “Greetings from a past now seeming incredibly far away.” She seeks a French translator for a thesis by an aging neurologist.

1946.04.05 To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #79 pmk. 5 APR 1946 pmk. BODMIN “Good news.” JCP has been helped by “oleum et mel.”

1946.04.16 To John Austen ALS 8p. Richardson Papers WOM 538-39 Ap. 16.’46. Hillside “This is a very belated word of appreciation” on his R.A. annuity. She gives a detailed account of their encounter with a Poltergeist.

1946.04.26 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 26 AP 46 pmk. Trevone “Up & down & down & up.”

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1946.05.02 To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers May 2.’46 Hillside “It is indeed good to hear from you . . .”. Bryher is back in Switzerland, where food and domestic help are scarce. “When March Moonlight will appear, if at all, heaven knows.” A new guest house serving meals has opened across from them.

1946.05.06 To Jessie Hale AL Notes Harold Fromm ELT 45:1, 56 6 May ’46 Hillside “Your memory I find astounding.” DMR, for the first time, lost her heart to Jim Allbutt.

1946.05.10 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers May 10.’46 Hillside “Enclosed a rough guess at creams plus shoes . . .”. Pullar’s repaired her coat wonderfully. The tea-shop has new owners.

1946.05.14 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers May.14.’46 Hillside “It was good to hear from you from Zuri.” Switzerland is becoming industrialized. “Yes, oh yes, I do want to get March Moonlight finished.” She will be 73.

1946.05.22 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 6p. Richardson Papers May 22.’46 Hillside “All goes well, I hope, with you & yours?” Alan needs Dunlop shoes. A hotel across the way tempts us to dine occasionally. H.D. has had an attack of meningitis. No servants are available in Switzerland.

1946.05.24 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers May 24.’46 Hillside “I’ve been celebrating.” The first day of summer. They went to Padstow.

1946.05.27 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 27 MAY 1946 pmk. BODMIN “Good to know you struck Symonds Yat at its best.” “Amabel” at 17 was there with her people.

1946.05.29 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers May 29.’46 Hillside “A day or two after the arrival of your letter . . .” came money from Bryher for lunch out once a week. “. . . H.D. has got away.”

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1946.05.29a] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers May 29 [1946] Hillside “Alan is amazed & enchanted.” They are grateful for shoes and creams.

1946.05.30] From Alan Odle to Claude Houghton ALS 6p. HRC, Texas [c. 30 May 1946] Hillside “I was so glad to have your letter . . .”. The English loathe war. Current political speech is dead. Yet “words are almost events in embryo.” AO enters upon a meditation about Peace and War, with their derivation in a common center of absolute life. Their new home improves.

1946.06.01 To Jessie Hale ALS (Goobie) 4p. Harold Fromm ELT 43:4, 429-30 June 1.’46 Hillside “I send you, Boobie dear, the same Swiss stamps . . .”. Their things are coming from London. Villette has been with her in all her wanderings. They have enough food.

1946.06.11 To Jessie Hale ALS (Goobie) 4p. Harold Fromm ELT 43:4, 431-32 June 11 ’46 Hillside “Well Boobie dear, we’ve had our Grand Victory Celebration.” DMR delights in the image of the mascot goat leading the Air Force contingents. The celebration seemed a bit of an anti-climax. She wants a permanent address for Natalie, Jessie’s daughter.

1946.06.15] To David Grad ALS 4p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 103-105 [c. 15] June [1946] Hillside “It is good indeed to know you have come into port.” He has settled in Tunbridge Wells. Macmillan is back. DMR is expecting their chattels from London. Benjamin has a job in Paris.

1946.06.18 From J. C. Powys ALU [incomplete?] 4p. RP Fouli JCP #67 June 18 1946 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire, N. Wales “Phyllis and I are growing” anxious about a third instalment of “Work in Progress.”

1946.06.21] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 540-41 Longest Day [1946] Hillside “The first real summer’s day since March.” She thinks Revolving Lights the best of her books. “For form, I choose Oberland and The Trap.”

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1946.06.24 To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #80 pmk. 24 JNE 1946 pmk. BODMIN “Not an answer to your . . . letter . . .”. Has she sent the wrong number of the periodical?

1946.06.25 To David Grad ALS 3p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 70-71 June 25 ’46 Hillside “It is passing good” to have his news. Smaller communities have more family feeling. Two mothers-in-law are with David and Vinki.

1946.07.03 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers July 3 ’46 Hillside “I can’t quite make out whether you ever received my last letter.” Would PK’s sister, who is ill, consider Macmillan?

1946.07.03a] To J. C. Powys ALI 1p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #81 pmk. 3[?] JLY[?] 1946 pmk. BODMIN “Still not an answer . . .”. The mass of their belongings from London has descended.

1946.07.05 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #68 July 5 1946 7 Cae Coed, Corwen “Don’t ’ee hurry” to write with so much to do. He sends an article on “Wales.”

1946.07.06 To David Grad ALS 4p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 72-74 July 6.’46 Hillside “How did you manage it?” The curtains from London were clean and pressed, and Voltaire was mended. The black and white curtains were welcomed by her cleaner. The weather is now hot.

1946.07.10 To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #82 pmk. 10 JY 46 pmk. BODMIN “Thank you for Wales . . .”.

1946.07.10a] From Veronica Grad ApcI Richardson Papers July 10th [1946] No 2 WB “I was born in 1885.” She met DMR when she was 21. The following year Phillip died. Then she married Grad. DMR and VG had a year together.

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1946.07.14 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg July 14.’46 Hillside “We’re very glad to hear of your doings . . .” as a sub-editor in London. Their belongings from London have come, in fine condition.

1946.07.18 To Bryher ALS 5p. Richardson Papers July 18 ’46 Hillside “ I was glad to have your letter & good news of H.D.” Their belongings have come from London, in fine condition. She laments the coming bread rationing.

1946.07.24 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg July 24.’46 Hillside “Looking at your suit . . . I feel I ought to read you a moral lecture.” Jenkins is bold to publish Wodehouse.

1946.07.29] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers [c. 29 July 1946] Hillside “Thanks for setting my mind at rest.” Macmillan will not give reduced terms. Their place is looking more like 32.

1946.07.30 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 541-42 July 30.’46 Hillside “Thank you indeed for the second Osbert.” They have visits from four retired Colonels.

1946.08.02 To John Austen ALS 8p. Richardson Papers Aug. 2.’46 Hillside, Trevone “Very belatedly, our hearty & delighted congratulations . . .”. Their furniture, in good condition, has come from London, including masses of books. Alan is beloved locally. Allinson is to visit them.

1946.08.03] To David Grad ALS 4p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 116-18 [c. 3 August 1946] Hillside “Equally important with ‘Which finger did he bite? . . .”. She questions him about nursery rhymes. Trevone is packed, mostly with Lancashire workers.

1946.08.04 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Aug:4.’46 Hillside “Robert Herring has just forwarded” Bryher’s gifts. Trevone is a riot of working-class holiday-makers, with money.

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1946.08.15 To Pauline Marrian TpcI (edited copy) Richardson Papers pmk. 15 AUG 46 pmk. BODMIN “Thank you. It was an immense surprise . . .” the death of H. G. Wells, whom she has known for 50 years.

1946.08.15a To Jessie Hale ALS (Goobie) 6p. Harold Fromm ELT 43:4, 432-34 Aug.15.’46 Hillside “A few stamps herewith.” Harry Badcock is returning from Jamaica. The snapshot was taken without her knowing. Their London possessions came in excellent condition. “The death of Wells is a landslide for us all.”

1946.08.26] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 542-43 [c. 26] August 1946 Hillside “Aug’46, exact date unknown . . .”. They have been frantically busy with visiting durationists. She recounts H. G. Wells’s final days and his death, alone, after he had sent his nurse from the room.

1946.08.29 To Henry Savage ApcS Pennsylvania pmk. 29 AUG 1946 Trevone [In Alan Odle’s hand] “Delighted congratulations and good wishes.”

1946.09.04 To Pauline Marrian TpcI (edited copy) Richardson Papers pmk. 4 SEP 46 pmk. PADSTOW “Heavens above! Salt (SALT) on a damp rag.” Cockroaches “abominate boracic.”

1946.09.09] To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #84 pmk. 9 SEP 1946 pmk. BODMIN “Speaking of Berdyaev,” she offers her copy of Freedom and Slavery. [The face of this card shows a photograph of Adelboden, Switzerland]

1946.09.16 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 545-46 Sep 16.’46 Hillside “We are delighted to have Fanfare for Elizabeth.” Henry Savage has sent a new book of poems. She has heard from H.D.

1946.09.17 To Jessie Hale ALS (Goobie) 4p. Harold Fromm ELT 43:4, 434-35 Sep.17. ’46 Hillside “Just a word . . . of greeting for your birthday . . .”. She is 72. DMR describes the funeral of a Hinduist.

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1946.09.20] To Henry Savage ALS 2p. Pennsylvania [c. 20 September 1946] [Hillside] “A footnote or two from the old woman.” Mrs. Pope has died, and H. G. Wells. Marjorie’s account of his death is quoted.

1946.09.27] From Alan Odle to Claude Houghton ALS 15p. HRC, Texas [c. 27 September 1946] Hillside “A student of the horror story in all it’s forms” might conclude that it has “changed the character, and determined the form of the novel for all Time.” Houghton has effected “a marriage of Thriller and Detection.” AO analyzes the various characters in Transformation Scene, and the universality of their roles.

1946.09.28] To J. C. Powys ALS 5p. RP WOM 543-44 Fouli DMR #83 [c. 28] Sep ’46 Hillside “An attack of flu” gives her respite. She discusses theological issues raised by his The Cauldron of Rebirth.

1946.10.03 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Oct 3.’46 Hillside “Getting to the second sentence . . .” DMR realizes he is only going for a visit to the U.S. Good news from Wolfgang.

1946.10.05 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 6p. Richardson Papers WOM 546-48 Oct 5.’46. Hillside “It seems clear that a letter” has miscarried. PK’s sister is suffering. DMR, discussing religion, distinguishes between the individual (biological) and the person (spiritual, independent of time and space).

1946.10.12 To Jessie Hale AL Notes Harold Fromm ELT 45:1, 56 Oct. 12 ’46 [n.p.] “. . . appeal to me [in ’27] from the Moscow Academy of Arts for a set of my books to put in their revolutionary library, where they still stand.” However, critics have found her conservative. “Life is people.”

1946.10.19 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 6p. Richardson Papers WOM 548-49 Oct.19.’46. Hillside “Well, dearie, & why not?” DMR explores the need to keep one’s spiritual compass set towards the region of X, as defined by different religions. Atheism and out-of-date materialism “are primarily masculine contributions.”

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1946.10.22 To H.D. ALS 8p. H.D. Papers WOM 550-52 Oct.22.’46 Hillside “It is good to know” that H.D. is recovering from meningitis. DMR’s “noos” is an hour-by- hour account of her typical day, including a morning shared with her cleaner Joyce, an afternoon line-up for rations, and ending with her appreciation of the life and wealth age brings.

1946.10.27 To Bernice Elliott ALS 3p. [+ enclosure] Richardson Papers Oct 27th ’46. [n.p.] “Five minutes ago I came upon the enclosed . . .”. They were overwhelmed by the arrival of the contents of their flat. Life is strenuous but the autumn is lovely.

1946.10.30 To Henry Savage ApcI Pennsylvania pmk. 30 OCT 1946 pmk. BODMIN “We are aghast at the sheer frivolity of the sentence.” She defines pessimism and optimism.

1946.10.31 From Amabel Williams-Ellis TLU [copy incomplete] 3p. RP October 31st. 1946 Penrhyndeudraeth, North Wales “I want to write to you to tell you of the very great pleasure” experienced in rereading Pilgrimage. She values DMR’s “savouring of the present” and the extraordinary vividness of her portrait of Wells.

1946.11.04 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Nov.4.46 Hillside “Thank you for your card & letters . . .”. M. V. Hughes is still active. She comments on Ramuz, and on Grace Tomkinson, who has written.

1946.11.19 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 7p. Richardson Papers WOM 552-54 Nov 19.’46 Hillside “A terrible hash I must have made of my last letter . . .”. The cosmos, like the ocean, is bound by laws and not free. Only the human spirit is free and may, if sufficiently still, make contact with “the perpetual outpouring being of X.” PK’s dying sister is being “cagey.”

1946.11.20 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Nov.20.’46 Hillside “I was glad to have your London letter . . .” and to know that Bryher and H.D. are in Vaud. Food supplies are very scarce.

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1946.11.26 To Henry Savage ALS 2p. Pennsylvania Nov.26.’46 Hillside “Bless you again & again for the enchanting cards . . .”. She criticizes Douglas’s Looking Back.

1946.11.27 To Grace Tomkinson [Miss Tomlinson] ALS 3p. Iowa Nov.27.46 Hillside “Pressure of work . . . delayed my response to your kind letter.” DMR well remembers Ruth Suckow and her husband. Their visit to England was not cut short as was that of the Horace Gregorys. London now belongs to a new generation.

1946.12.08 From J. C. Powys ALS 8p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #69 Dec 8 1946 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire, N. Wales “Phyllis and I have been so thrilled” getting back to Pilgrimage. He digresses about Proust’s two final volumes. He marvels at DMR’s insight and wisdom, citing her concept of “unthreatened solitude” as the key to two persons living together.

1946.12.10 To Bernice Elliott ALS 6p. Richardson Papers Decr. 10.’46 Hillside “Your letter brought excellent news . . .” of a worth while job. DMR reviews their food situation with its scarcity of cakes, biscuits and jam. Hotels are increasingly expensive in the area.

1946.12.19 To Henry Savage ALS 3p. Pennsylvania WOM 554-55 Dec.19.’46 Hillside “How kind of you . . .”. He has sent [Prichett’s] book about the novel. All these critics are humanists. She loves Norman Douglas but criticizes him.

1946.12.20] To Henry Savage A card S Pennsylvania [c. 20 December 1946] [n.p.] “TO WISH YOU EVERY HAPPINESS FOR CHRISTMAS . . .”. 1946.12.22 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers Dec.22.’46 Hillside “Hurried lines . . . to thank you again . . .”. They have had very cold weather and long power cuts. Bryher is going to the U.S.

1947.01.11 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 6p. Richardson Papers pmk. 11 JAN 1947 Hillside

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“Very kind & very naughty it is of you to send me all this nice stationery . . .”. Long power shortages have increased the dark and cold. PK has taken over German prisoners, as have Trevone folk.

1947.02.03] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers [c. 3? February? 1947?] [pmk. TREVONE] “Blessings. Photo overleaf [of Trevone scene] . . . still telling.”

1947.02.14] To Henry Savage ALS 6p. Pennsylvania WOM 555-57 Feb ’47. Hillside “This is a very belated response . . .”. “Surely what fiction, at its best, can do is to arrange data, truths, in their real relationship by a process of selection.” Like Savage, she prefers discussion to argument. It has been extremely cold.

1947.02.15 To Henry Savage ApcI Pennsylvania pmk. 15 FEB. 1947 pmk. BODMIN “Ps. I forgot to say . . .” she could send socks. She likes Prichett.

1947.02.17] To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #85 pmk. 17 FEB [1947?] pmk. TREVONE “Just in case you don’t see” TLS, she sends article on Solovyov.

1947.02.18 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Feb. 18.’47 Hillside “I was immensely glad to hear from you . . .”. They are having the coldest winter in 60 years. Bryher has returned from the U.S. Babette Deutsch has written.

1947.02.22 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Feb.22.’47 Hillside “Enduring so much yourself . . .” makes us ashamed of our own complaints. They are having the worst winter in 60 years. But spring is coming.

1947.02.26 To Bernice Elliott ALS 6p. Richardson Papers Feb 26.’47. Hillside “We don’t know how to thank you for your surprise packet . . .”. The winter has been hard, with power shortages and frozen pipes. “There is a difficult time ahead for our little country . . .”.

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1947.03.02 To Richard Church TLS (copy) 1p. Source unknown Mar. 2. ’47 Hillside “Many thanks. No, I know” Hugh Walpole “garroted S. of C.” It is a difficult but inspiring time.

1947.03.03 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Mar.3.’47 Hillside “We leapt yesterday out of winter.” Bryher has sent candy and fruit.

1947.03.16 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 557-58 Mar.16.’47 Hillside “Strange & appalling . . . this winter has been.” DMR speculates on man’s influence on such weather. They have received food from America.

1947.03.17 To J. C. Powys ALS 7p. RP WOM 558-60 Fouli DMR #86 Mar.17.’47. Hillside “We have hardly of late dared to think of you” because of the severe cold. She owes many letters, including to Babette Deutsch and Grace Tomkinson. Various free-thinking persons are now joining the orthodoxies. JCP’s wife has died.

1947.03.17a] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers pmk. 17[?] MR - - [1947] Hillside. “A line, on my knee.” The report on Diana is distressing. She explains how she keeps bread edible. The plumbing is working.

1947.04.02 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Ap 2.’47 Hillside “It was good to have your Easter greetings . . .”. Every senior in England has received a gift of food from Australia. Marjorie Wells hopes to come down.

1947.04.05 To Jessie Hale ALS (Goobie) 9p. Harold Fromm ELT 43:4. 435-38 Ap 5.’47 Hillside “I’m sorry you have felt so bad about our various endurances.” They are getting along. The “Empire” is crumbling. Industrialization has taken its toll, first here and now elsewhere. Politicians are struggling to cooperate with labor. Christian Science is right to the extent that some sickness is of the mind. There is plenty of food.

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1947.04.17] To John Gawsworth ApcS Beinecke [c. 17 April 1947?] [pmk. TREVONE] “Certainly I remember.” He has sent a Boswell book.

1947.04.21 To Bryher ALS 6p. Bryher Papers WOM 561-62 Ap 21.’47. Hillside “It is good to know you have at last a home again . . .”. Prices are up and food tiresome to get. Spring prevails.

1947.04.28 To Ruth Suckow ALS 4p. Iowa Ap.28.’47 Hillside “How very very kind of you!” She summarizes their life in Cornwall during the war, the state of Powys, and the severity of the past winter.

1947.04.29] To Henry Savage ALS 4p. Pennsylvania WOM 562-63 Ap.end.’47. Hillside “First let me thank you for the loan of Boswell.” Spring cleaning is a necessity. Each art is limited by its medium. With age, the “spirit dances its jig.”

1947.05.03 To Henry Savage ALS 6p. Pennsylvania WOM 563-65 May 3.’47. Hillside “Friends tell me that my handwriting” is not legible. He has misunderstood about her age. She comments briefly on Browning, T. S. Eliot, Windmill, Horizon, Hemingway, Miller, dreams, and Henry VIII.

1947.05.08 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers May 8.’47 Hillside “An angel you are . . .” to send parcels. “My 74th birthday on the 17th.”

1947.05.11 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 6p. Berg May. 11.’47 Hillside “It is good to hear from you . . .”. Wadsworth is helping Wolf. Cornwall “ had its worst winter within living memory.” Bryher is back at Kenwin. DMR is oppressed at the thought of leaving Alan helpless should she die. Wadsworth is returning to Prague.

1947.05.13] From Alan Odle to Claude Houghton ALS 11p. HRC, Texas [c. 13 May 1947] Hillside “The anonymous author of the Gaboriau article . . . provokes thought.” But he is mistaken in asserting that deeper character and emotion are excluded from detective fiction. The

261 | Calendar of Letters | mind of the detective “is the real arena of the drama.” His analytic powers give novelistic depth to the best works.

1947.05.13a] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [May 1947] Hillside “Only a line. I’m getting through a villainous flu.” Diana has died. PK’s mother is wonderful.

1947.05.15 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 4p. British Library May 15.’47 Hillside “It was good to hear from you after so long.” She loves her local once-a-week house cleaner. Has he tips for cleaning windows? She shares a story of Barbara Low’s erratic behavior. They hear from Claude Houghton.

1947.05.15a] To Henry Savage ApcI Pennsylvania May 15.[1947] [pmk. TREVONE] “‘Fanfare for Elizabeth’ comes home to-day.”

1947.05.21 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers May 21.’47 Hillside “You overwhelm me.” A new radio! She explains why she could not travel to Switzerland.

1947.05.29 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 565-66 May 29,’47. Hillside “True it is” that England still has a role in the world. She deeply admires Ramuz. Bryher is arranging a new radio.

1947.06.27 To Bryher ALS 6p. Bryher Papers WOM 567-68 June 27 ’47 Hillside “To the accompaniment of a heavenly scrap of Mozart . . .”. They love Sitwell’s Sickert book, and their new Beethoven radio. Barbara Low has visited.

1947.07.05 To Jessie Hale ALS (Goobie) 10p. Fromm WOM 568-70. July 5.’47. Hillside “Blessing for my birthday greeting . . .”. She describes a local case of deceiving an insurance company. She encloses an 1891 letter from Jessie to herself and puzzles over many of the details it recalls, including the labors of their servants. In the present, she describes a typical day with Alan.

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1947.07.14 To Bernice Elliott ALS 3p. Richardson Papers July 14.’47. Hillside “It must be something like two weeks since your parcel sailed in” with China tea. The weather has suddenly turned brilliant. Travone is now a miniature Blackpool.

1947.07.14a To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers July 14.’47 Hillside “I’m sorry I’ve been so long in answering . . .”. Some of the African parcels came. Proust had no influence on those English writers now grouped with him. BBC broadcast a talk by Gide.

1947.07.16] To Henry Savage ApcI Pennsylvania [c. 16 July 1947] pmk. TREVONE “Delighted to hear you are undertaking the epistles of H.”

1947.07.31 To Henry Savage ALS 3p. Pennsylvania July 31.’47 Hillside “Must be telegrammatic.” All ages are equal in potential for evil and good. From youth to middle age, Wells was a sick man. He saw science as a savior.

1947.07.31a] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 31 JY [1947] pmk. TREVONE “Yes, indeed, we did . . . receive Seaside . . .”. The heat is fatiguing.

1947.08.02 To Babette Deutsch ALS 2p. Washington University, St. Louis Aug:2.’47 Hillside “Having somehow mislaid your letter . . .” now found, DMR approves Deutsch’s poems. She encloses a piece of March Moonlight.

1947.08.29] To Henry Savage ApcI Pennsylvania Aug 29. [1947] Hillside “If you have quite finished with Fanfare for E.” please return.

1947.09.04 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Sep 4’47 Hillside “You scare me with your account of Perdita zealously climbing!” DMR admires the young people today, including the Wells children. As hardships increase, there is a new communal spirit.

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1947.09.04a To Henry Savage ApcI Pennsylvania pmk. 4 SP 1947 pmk. TREVONE “Thanks for book.” Wells’s granddaughter and tutor are visiting.

1947.09.08 To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 2p. British Library Sep.8.’47 Hillside “Your lovely pears ripen . . .”. Kot is getting better.

1947.09.19 To Bryher ALS 6p. Bryher Papers Sep.19.’47 Hillside “Our best thanks for the Masefield.” DMR describes in detail the visit of the Wells grandchildren and of Catherine’s beautiful science mistress. For housewives, life is arduous.

1947.09.19a To Pauline Marrian TLU Incomplete (edited copy) 1p. RP Sep.19th ’47 Hillside “Perturbed, 1 feel, about your job.” DMR recommends “Clarity,” but her meaning is not clear.

1947.09.23 To Jessie Hale ALS (Goobie) 6p. Harold Fromm ELT 43:4, 438-40 Sep.23.’47 Hillside “In haste for this afternoon’s air-mail . . .”. She is receiving gifts of food from various parts of the world, yet they don’t need it. For working folk, housekeeping is very time consuming.

1947.09.28 To Babette Deutsch ALS 2p. Washington University, St. Louis Sep.28.’47 Hillside “How very good of you to send us the package . . .”. DMR has found more recent poetry unsatisfactory. The modern young seem to be seekers.

1947.09.30 To Pauline Marrian. TLS (edited copy) 1p. Richardson Papers Sep.30th ’47 Hillside “Apt I am . . . to bite people’s heads off.” She feels put-upon by housewifely details. She praises the novels of E. H. Young.

1947.09.30a To Grace Tomkinson ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Sep 30'47 Hillside “It was quite a surprise to find you still over this side . . .”. Tomkinson has attended the Beaconsfield meeting. DMR did not know Ruth Suckow was interested in Friends.

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1947.10.05 To Henry Savage ApcI Pennsylvania pmk. 5 OCT 1947 pmk. BODMIN “Glad of the good news.” She corrects his Henry VIII bibliography.

1947.10.14 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 8p. Richardson Papers Oct 14.’47 Hillside “Indeed, yes, it does seem a long time since we heard from each other.” They have been busy with visitors, including the Wells grandchildren and their tutor, the striking Sylvia. Overfeeding children endangers them.

1947.10.25 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Oct 25.’47 Hillside “I’m glad to have your letter.” Bryher is thinking of Jamaica. The crowds have left Trevone.

1947.10.27] From Alan Odle to Claude Houghton ALS 13p. HRC, Texas [c. 27 October 1947] Hillside “All my life I have been fascinated by arrested action . . .”. He is fascinated by “The Man Who Hated Everybody.” Hate is powerless outside the dimension of Time. Houghton is “the artist of fear – using fear indeed as an instrument of revelation.” All short stories are limited by the restriction of their actions. The thought that dreams may be curative is inspiring.

1947.11.10 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALI 1p. Richardson Papers pmk. 10 NO 47 pmk. PADSTOW “Headlong haste.” The 2 P.O.W. letters are practically identical.

1947.11.15 To Bryher ALS 7p. Bryher Papers Nov 15.’47 Hillside “Three letters from you . . .”. Macmillan is to visit them. DMR cannot admire Eudora Welty. Bryher is in Jamaica. They find The Polderoy Papers hilarious. The BBC is celebrating its 25 years.

1947.11.16 To Jessie Hale AL Notes Harold Fromm ELT 45:1, 57 16 Nov ’47 Hillside “ . . . one comes increasingly into possession & awareness of the past; so that it actually becomes present.” She realizes what a horrid little girl she was.

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1947.11.17 To Evelyn Morrison ALS 6p. photocopy Eva Tucker Nov l7.’47 Hillside / Trevone “You are wise, perhaps, to hold to your classes . . .”. Berdyaev’s Freedom and the Spirit, often reread by DMR, can be confusing because it presents contrary arguments without saying that they are later to be demolished. The great humanist novels are not much more than “drama in a resounding box.” George Eliot has the most profound insight.

1947.11.19 To Henry Savage ALS 3p. Pennsylvania WOM 571-72 Nov 19.’47 Hillside “I am a bit vague as to the Gide . . .”. She follows the curve of Gide’s career and comments that fiction is “an excursion into the mind & personality of the author.”

1947.11.26 To Henry Savage ALI 4p. Pennsylvania WOM 572-73 Nov 26 ’47. Hillside “This is your aunt” chastising him for being vitriolic. Views on God are the same in all religions, and are male and anthropomorphic. She elaborates on Gide and his writings.

1947.12.06 To Babette Deutsch ALS 4p. Washington University, St. Louis Decr.6.’47 Hillside “This is a . . . belated word of thanks for your Rilke . . .”. She explores various meanings of “materialist” as they might relate to Deutsch.

1947.12.15] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcU Berg [15 December 1947] [n.p.] “So glad of your two letters.” A friend is arriving from London today.

1947.12.19] To Henry Savage A card S Pennsylvania [c. 19 December 1947] [Hillside] “With All Good Wishes . . .”. Poetry: she is one of those who “Know what they like.” She stresses man’s “tragic, necessary gift of freedom.”

1947.12.21 To J. C. Powys ALS 6p. RP WOM 573-75 Fouli DMR #87 Decr.21.’47. Hillside “Dears: John & Phyllis . . .”. Among their many visitors was Sylvia Miller, a science instructor of the Wells children. Her quality awed DMR and AO. The Wells children had immense social awareness. Macmillan is now visiting.

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1947.12.24] From Rachel [Ayre] A card S Richardson Papers [c. 24 December 1947?] 33 Colinton Road, Edinburgh 16 “How nice of you to send us a card . . .”. Benjamin is with them for Christmas.

1947.12.25 From J. C. Powys ALI 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #70 Christmas Day 1947 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire, N. Wales “What a heavenly letter . . .”. JCP’s son is spending Christmas alone. Phyllis has a dreadful cold but is preparing a celebration for her mother and aunt.

1948.01.07 To Bernice Elliott ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Jan.7.’48. Hillside “Your Dec 7th letter reached me before Christmas . . .”. Macmillan has been with them. Last summer the grandchildren of H. G. Wells visited them.

1948.01.08 To J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #88 Jan 8.’48 Hillside “This is a response to one item in your . . . letter.” Sylvia Miller will be a neighbor of Littleton P. JCP must relax and not strain his eyes.

1948.01.11 To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers Jan 11.’48 Hillside “Delighted I was to get your letter, from Jamaica . . .”. Bryher has sent many parcels, and Masefield’s new book. Macmillan spent Christmas with them.

1948.01.14 To Flora Coates ALS 2p. photocopy Eva Tucker Jan. 14.’48. Hillside. Trevone. Padstow. “This is a very belated acknowledgment of your kind forwarding of Owen’s Christmas gift...”. Owen’s German friend Wolf has come through. Their American friend [Wm. Macmillan] came down for Christmas.

1948.01.19 To Jessie Hale ALS (Goobie) 4p. Harold Fromm ELT 43:4, 440-41 Jan 19.’48 Hillside “Your letter distressed me by so much the more” because she cannot possibly send money. Macmillan came for 3 weeks. Jessie’s food parcel is greatly appreciated. Jessie has supported Jack all his life.

1948.01.20 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg WOM 575-76 Jan.20.’48. Hillside

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“Bless you for your two most interesting . . . letters.” They have flu. It is wet, windy, and cold. Bryher, in New York, was hampered by snow storms. DMR speculates about America and the Marshall plan.

1948.02.01 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 5p. Richardson Papers Feb.1.’48 Hillside “You poor dear, how gallantly you stand up to things!” PK is angry and frustrated. Macmillan, having returned to England and having lost his mother, came for Christmas. She has been misspelling PK’s name!

1948.02.14 To Henry Savage ApcS Pennsylvania Saturday [pmk. 15 FEB 1948] pmk. BODMIN “Alan left me this morning . . .”.

1948.02.15 To J. C. Powys AncS Richardson Papers WOM 576-77 Fouli DMR #89 pmk. 15 FEB 1948 pmk. BODMIN “Alan left me yesterday . . . heart-failure.”

1948.02.15a] To Peggy Kirkaldy AncS Richardson Papers [c.15 February 1948] [Hillside] “Alan has gone, quite suddenly & peacefully, heart failure.”

1948.02.21] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers [c. 21 February 1948] Hillside “Bless you, Peggy. Perhaps a little later on.”

1948.02.23] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers [c. 23 February 1948] [Hillside] “Postscript: Monday.” She needs Players, and nightlights.

1948.02.27] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers [c. 27 February 1948] Trevone “Re-reading your letter, Peggy dear . . .”. Alan’s death was as he would have wished. When he collapsed several people arrived to help, and brought DMR and the doctor, whose certificate by-passed the need for an inquest. “The church, they tell me, was packed.”

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1948.02.28 To Claude Houghton ALS 5p. HRC, Texas Feb 28.’48 Hillside “Prepare for sorrow, Claude. Alan left us . . .”. She gives a full account of his death. In the musty room where he lay, the air was fresh. She is thankful he died as he would have wished, instantly and in the open.

1948.03.03 From Claude Houghton TLS (edited copy) 3p. Richardson Papers 3rd March 1948 Savage Club, London, S.W. I. “Sorrow indeed, Dorothy.” Alan was a rare being, especially close to them. It was essential for Alan to find DMR. Alan “was a conqueror, in the only true sense of the word.” Alan will help DMR back to life.

1948.03.06] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 6 March 1948] [Hillside] “Bless you Peggy dear, for the nightlights.” The young woman upstairs saw Alan twice after his death. She describes Macmillan’s latest cure.

1948.03.07 To Henry Savage ALS 4p. Pennsylvania Mar.7.’48 Hillside “Thank you for your understanding sympathy.” She describes Alan’s collapse while walking and the role of those who helped, an account very close to that sent to several others.

1948.03.11 To David Grad ALS 3p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 75-76 Mar 1l.’48 Hillside “Yes, dear David, you exactly express. Courtesy . . .”. AO died suddenly of “heart-failure” according to the doctor. People wrote describing him as luminous. She is thankful he went first.

1948.03.12] To Jessie Hale ALS (Goobie) 4p. Harold Fromm ELT 43:4, 442-43 [c. 12 March 1948] [Hillside] [First leaf missing] “personality & his dedicated life.” She quotes John Austen about Alan’s art. After Alan died, the level-headed young woman upstairs twice saw him.

1948.03.15 To J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #90 Mar.15.’48 Hillside “Dear, dear Phyllis & John, You alone . . . understand the utter desolation.” Starting for Padstow, AO collapsed. The doctor provided a certificate of heart attack. After his death

269 | Calendar of Letters | on Saturday, she and Alan were alone together on Sunday. People recall him as luminous. Though briefer, this is the most revealing of DMR’s letters on Alan’s death.

1948.03.17 To John Austen ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Mar. 17.’48 Hillside “This brings you sad news . . . . Alan left us . . .”. His sudden death is described in some detail. She thanks JA for the help he gave Alan.

1948.03.19 To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers WOM 577-79 Mar.19.’48. Hillside “Long ago, I ought to have written . . .”. Alan, in his walk to Padstow, dropped dead, a heart attack. “Everyone loved him.” DMR is stricken and relieved. The woman upstairs saw him twice after his death.

1948.03.20 To Rose Odle ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Mar 20. ’48 Hillside “Thank you. No, no suffering.” She recalls letters from Francis during the war. She recounts how Gwen from upstairs twice saw Alan after his death.

1948.03.25 To Tommy Austen ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Mar. 25.48. Hillside “Bless you for your letter Tommy dear.” Alan, after his death, appeared to the level- headed young woman who lives upstairs.

1948.03.26 To Louise Morgan Theis ALS 6p Morgan-Theis Papers Mar. 26. ’48 Hillside “I’d have written before . . .” but Alan’s death intervened. He died suddenly on his way to Padstow. Everyone was helpful. She felt great relief that he was not be left alone and helpless. She finds on re-reading Pilgrimage for a corrected copy that it demands concentration. She recalls meeting Morgan at Herbert Mansions and Clifford’s Inn.

1948.03.27 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Mar.27.’48 Hillside “Peggy dear, I am being . . . a fearful nuisance.” Her Harley Street boss has given her £100, so she can readily pay PK for the items she sends.

1948.04.03 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg Ap.3.’48 Hillside

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“I’d have written earlier . . .” but she feared he had left Prague. After rehearsing the details of Alan’s sudden death, she recalls her anxiety for his health when Wadsworth visited them in Chateau d’Oex in 1924.

1948.04.09 To Eleanor Phillips ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 580 Ap.9.’48 Hillside “Some time last November” DMR was notified of a parcel, which finally arrived in February. She is grateful for the foodstuffs.

1948.04.14] To H.D. ApcI H.D. Papers pmk. 14 AP[?] 48[?] pmk. TREVONE “Of course, dearie . . . anything you like.” “. . . the very air is heavy with sadness.”

1948.04.16 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg Ap. 16.’48 Hillside “Blessings. Your letter just arrived.”

1948.04.23 To Flora Coates ALS 3p. Harold Fromm Ap 23.’48 Hillside “Thank you for your understanding letter” about Alan’s death. She recalls in detail the 1930 meeting with Flora and Owen Wadsworth and Allinson.

1948.04.28 To Jessie Hale ALS (Goobie) 4p. Harold Fromm WOM 581-82 Ap 28.’48 Hillside “It is strange” that she and Jessie talk of death. She affirms her belief in survival after death in one of the “Many Mansions.” Her present quarters are large but it is difficult to move.

1948.04.30 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg WOM 582-83 Ap.30.’48. Hillside “There was balm . . . in your letter.” Alan never grew old. Her Harley Street boss has sent her £100. She might move to Brighton.

1948.05.15 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg WOM 583 May 15. ’48 Hillside “Leaving Prague will be a wrench . . .”. She will look out autographs to sell. She hears Knopf has reissued Pilgrimage.

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1948.05.19 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers May 19.’48 Hillside “Blessings for cigarettes & . . . nightlights . . .”. Terrific heat. Friends in the offing.

1948.05.27] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 27 May 1948] [Hillside] “Bless you, Peggy dear, for recent consignments.” The spelling of PK’s name? She is expecting “Amabel,” and then P. Marrian.

1949.05.28 To Rose Odle ALS 8p. Richardson Papers May 28.’49 Hillside “Incredible that your welcome letter dates back to March 18th.” She welcomes the good news about Rose’s family. She will be sending Alan’s drawings to John. She is busy but has managed a piece for English Story, “& now & again a bit of unfinished Pilgrimage.” Marjorie Wells is visiting.

1948.06.01 To Eleanor Phillips ALS 2p. Richardson Papers June 1.’48 Hillside “Occupations & preoccupations” have prevented a reply. She is surprised to hear of Knopf’s new Pilgrimage. She lists some of her other works.

1948.06.02 To David Grad ALS 4p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 78-80 June 2. ’48 Hillside “Charmed & impressed, I am . . . by your letter-heading . . .”. He is 40 years old. She recalls her life at the Quaker farm. She sometimes longs for England. Veronica is visiting her.

1948.06.05 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers June 5.’48 Hillside “Abominably careless of me Peggy dear.” “Amabel” is visiting.

1948.06.12] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers [c. 12 June 1948] [n.p.] “Dear Mrs. Kirkaldy: And you need not grin.” DMR is concerned about PK’s mother. During the war “Amabel” ran establishments for those in need. She now lives with her son.

1948.06.24 To J. C. Powys ALS 4p. RP WOM 584-85 Fouli DMR #91 June 24.’48. Hillside

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“The arrival of your Rabelais makes me weep.” She is reading Free Society. She recounts what she knows of Ruth Suckow, who may have been born a Friend. DMR is writing a short story for Wyatt, and still she pushes on with Pilgrimage.

1948.06.25 To David Grad ALS 4p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 81-84 June 25.’48 Hillside “Since I appear to have mislaid your letter . . .”. She cites Saudek’s theories on hand- writing. She is writing a short story, and is cheerful after Veronica’s visit.

1948.06.26] From J. C. Powys ALS 8p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #71 [c. 26 June 1948] 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire, N. Wales “How lovely of you to write . . .”. During his walk, he knew her letter was waiting. He writes, from 7:30 to 10:00PM, the last chapter of Porius. His ulcer is improved. He admires Jean in “Work in Progress.”

1948.06.28 To J. C. Powys ALS 3p. RP WOM 585-86 Fouli DMR #92 June 28.’48 Hillside “Emulating, dear John & Phyllis . . .”. She wants only a postcard in reply. She praises Sunday stillness in towns, especially for those brought up to Sundays. These moments announce “their immortality.”

1948.07.19 To David Grad ALS 4p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 85-88 July 19.’48 Hillside “Glad I am that I sent you . . . Murry’s confession of faith . . .”. (A Free Society) He is less naive than Wells but overvalues society. His belief in utopia “once war is abolished” is pathetic, but he does recognize man’s freedom, “his glory & his tragedy.”

1948.07.28 To J. C. Powys ALS 1p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #93 July 28.’48 Hillside “This is just to beg you . . for another postcard.” She wishes to retrieve AO’s Rabelais drawing.

1948.08.06 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 586-88 Aug.6.’48. Hillside “Hardly can I believe” how long it is since I wrote. Various friends, including Amabel, have visited. She has written a bit of Pilgrimage, an article, and a short story; and is reading the Brontës, Austen, and Pilgrimage, which she finds “strangely interesting.”

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1948.08.25 To Henry Savage ALS 4p. Pennsylvania WOM 588-89 Aug. 25. ’48 Hillside “Oh yes, indeed, fully I agree” that literary writing must be kept in its place. In every generation, there are a few geniuses only, like Lawrence, rising above that. The young people give her hope.

1948.09.01 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Sep l.’48 Hillside “Yes, indeed, I know Peggie dear,” there has been no time to write: correspondence and visitors. She details another Macmillan cure. Dentistry is getting expensive.

1948.09.03 To Eleanor Phillips A AirLetter S 2p. Richardson Papers Sept. 3.’48 Hillside “In your letter, dated July 24th, you mentioned a parcel . . .”. Send less, please. She is not a Quaker. She can no longer read James.

1948.09.05 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 5 SEP 1948 pmk. BODMIN “What a surprise!” Wadsworth is in London.

1948.09.18 To Henry Savage ALS 5p. Pennsylvania WOM 589-90 Sep 18.’48 Hillside “In vain I have sought your letter . . .”. Concerning James, she is ambivalent, even about The Ambassadors. Marjorie Wells has visited, also Allinson and Barbara Low. Ps. Oct. 2: James, like Flaubert, tried to keep himself out of sight.

1948.09.24 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers pmk. 24 SP 48 Trevone “Your last consignment . . . tided me over a blank patch.” Marjorie Wells, who brought a whole cargo of cigarettes, helped entertain Allinson.

1948.09.29 To Bernice Elliott ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Sep. 29.’48. Hillside “Yes, indeed, it is a long time since you heard from me . . .”. She describes the death of Alan and her reactions, giving many of the same details as in previous letters, but more briefly.

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1948.10.04 To Henry Savage ApcI Pennsylvania pmk. 4 OC 1948 pmk. TREVONE “Have just found your letter . . .”. She praises Lawrence’s intensity of concentration.

1948.10.19 To Jessie Hale ALS 2p. Harold Fromm ELT 43:4, 443-44 Oct 19 ’48 Hillside “I do hope my Bank of England permit” will let me help you soon. What she saved for Alan will now help Jessie.

1948.10.24 To Henry Savage ALS 5p. Pennsylvania WOM 591-92 Oct.24.’48 Hillside “Poor dear, wading distastefully through George Fox!” Savage has avoided the negative kind of ivory tower occupied by Flaubert. She expounds on talent vs genius. For the artist “the veil covering reality is thinner.” She evaluates Huxley, Auden and Isherwood as mystics.

1948.10.24a To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg Oct 24. ’48 Hillside “You would have heard from me earlier . . .” but she has been busy and has had teeth out. She advises Wadsworth on how to overcome rheumatism through relaxation. She has no definite plans at the moment.

1948.11.01 To Tommy Austen ALS 5p. Richardson Papers Nov. l.’48 Hillside “Your news . . . is a profound shock.” John is dead. DMR expatiates on love, and on religion and the relation of Alan and John to its truths.

1948.11.06 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 6 NO 48 pmk. PADSTOW “Hearty congratulations . . .”. He has got back his old quarters in London.

1948.11.10 To Bryher ALS 6p. Bryher Papers WOM 593-94 Nov. 10.’48 Hillside “Incredible that the date of your last letter is August 10th.” Marjorie Wells has been down seeking rest; also Allinson, a “spoiled darling at nearly sixty.” She is sorting AO’s things; also reading Edith Sitwell and Anatole France.

1948.11.12 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Nov. 12 [pmk. 13 NO 48] Hillside

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“Bless you, Peggy dear, for taking all that trouble . . .”. Sally’s connection with Rudolf Steiner should not worry PK.

1948.12.03 To Eleanor Phillips ALS 6p. Richardson Papers WOM 595-96 Dec 3.’48 Hillside “Your letter sent me to Pilgrimage” and Miriam’s encounters with The Ambassadors. “Miriam yet felt that Europe was too much for James . . .”. But she realizes “that ‘art’ is religious; beyond good and evil.” The foodstuffs sent are excellent.

1948.12.05 To Alfred A. Knopf A AirLetter S 1p. HRC, Texas Decr. 5. ’48 Hillside “This is just to ask you whether” you know of anyone who would like the manuscript of Pointed Roofs.

1948.12.07 To Bernice Elliott ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 596-97 Decr.7.’48. Hillside “Thank you.” Elliott has been ill. Is it in part because she can’t get on with her writing?

1948.12.20 To Lita Rothbard (Hornick) ALS 6p. Kulchur Archives/Columbia U. Dec. 20 1948 Hillside “I will do my best to answer your questions; seriatim.” Pilgrimage might be called “an investigation of reality.” Miriam regarded woods and gardens not as symbols but as ultimates, astonishers. Love, Wisdom, Truth & Beauty are immortal. DMR deplores the search for influences.

1948.12.21 From Alfred A. Knopf TLS (T signature) carbon copy 1p. HRC, Texas December 21, 1948 [n.p.] “Since receiving your kind letter . . .”. He can find no buyer for the Pointed Roofs MS.

1948.12.21a] To Henry Savage ALS 1p. Pennsylvania [21 December 1948] Hillside “Just a line of greeting, Henry, for Christmas & New Year.”

1948.12.21b To J. C. Powys ApcS Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #94 pmk. 21 DE 48 Hillside “Just a line of greeting . . . for Christmas & the New Year.” Amabel and Michael are to visit.

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1948.12.23] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg Dec 23rd. [1948] Hillside “Just a few hasty lines dear Owen.” She is beset by appeals for information. Her two oldest London friends have come for Christmas.

1948.12.23a From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #72 Eve of Xmas Eve 1948 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire, N. Wales “Phyllis & I . . . are glad” of the visit of Amabel and Michael, who are “so near the Centre of that Mythology of Miriam.”

1948.12.27 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Dec.27th ’48 Hillside “Bless you, a naughty girl you are to send me . . . all those things!” “Amabel” and “Michael” came for Christmas.

1948.12.27a To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #95 pmk. 27 DEC 1948 pmk. BODMIN “Address of F. & R. . . . Tucson Arizona”

1949.01.01] To Bryher ALS 6p. Bryher Papers WOM 597-98 New Year’s Day [1949] Hillside “Shockingly overdue . . . is this letter.” She has been getting false teeth, also appeals from thesis writers. Amabel and Michael came for Christmas.

1949.01.02 To Alfred A. Knopf ALS 2p. HRC, Texas Jan.2.’49 Hillside “How kind of you to take so much trouble on my behalf.” She needs dollars for an elderly American relative..

1949.01.14 To Bernice Elliott ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Jan. 14.’49 Hillside “How very kind of you to send . . . goodies.” She dreaded Christmas but two old friends came down. She has had appeals from thesis writers, also from the parishes of St. Marylebone and St. Pancras.

1949.01.18 To I. R. Brussel A AirLetter S 3p. HRC, Texas Jan. 18, ’49. Hillside. “I am glad to hear from you . . .”. After describing Alan’s death, she raises the matter of selling the Pointed Roofs MS to get money for Jessie Hale.

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1949.01.18a] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Jan 18. [1949] Hillside “Best thanks, dearest P., for cargo just arrived.” Cigarettes.

1949.01.20 To Jessie Hale ALS (Boobie [sic]) 4p. Harold Fomm ELT 43:4, 444-45 Jan,20. ’49 Hillside “I cried, & laughed, over your last letter.” At Jessie’s courage. DMR can now laugh. Arthur French has written from Australia.

1949.01.24] To Ferner Nuhn ApcS Iowa pmk. 24 JA [1949?] pmk. PADSTOW “Just a word of thanks for incredibly beautiful ‘Christmas card’ . . .”. She mentions her year’s silence.

1949.01.25 To Eleanor Phillips ALS 4p. Richardson Papers WOM 598-99 Jan.25.’49. Hillside “Your attribution to Gide of ‘a hard core’ appeals . . . to me.” George Eliot and Trollope have returned to favor. She greatly appreciated the gifts.

1949.01.26 To Henry Savage ALS 6p. Pennsylvania WOM 600-901 Jan.26.’49. Hillside “You do not date your letters . . .”. She has had requests from students, from the St. Marylebone Society and the St. Pancras journal. Dear friends visited for Christmas. If choirs and pulpits were filled with women there would be more men in the pews.

1949.01.27] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 1p. Richardson Papers Jan.27 [1949] Hillside “Stop, Peggie! How am I to restrain you?” She has sent a jacket and cigarettes.

1949.01.30 To I. R. Brussel A AirLetter S 2p. HRC, Texas Jan. 30.’49 Hillside. “Thank you, & Mrs. Brussel, for your kind sympathy.” She asks him to sell her MS if he can.

1949.02.12] [To Frederick Sinclair] ALU (draft) 1p. Richardson Papers [after 11 February 1949?] [Hillside] “A few data – with apologies for delay.” In 1904-05 she lived in Woburn Walk, wrote for The Crank and was a half-convert to Fabian socialism.

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1949.02.17 To Jessie Hale AL Notes Harold Fomm ELT 45:1, 57 17 Feb. ’49 Posting an article to Christian Science Monitor.

1949.02.27 To Bernice Elliott ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Feb. 27.’49 Hillside “This document has an air of urgency . . .”. She seeks to sell old lace to raise money for Jessie. Spring is early this year.

1949.02.28 To Dr. A. S. Cobbledick (i.e. Joan George) ALS 2p. Harold Fromm Feb 28.’49 Hillside “This is a most shockingly belated word of thanks . . .”. Dr. Cobbledick is being well looked after by his daughter. The weather is very warm.

1949.03.07 To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers. Mar. 7.’49 Hillside “Greetings, dear Bryher, after what seems like an age since last I wrote.” Ruth Suckow asked a friend to visit Jordans for her and attend a Quaker meeting

1949.03.09] To J. C. Powys ApcS Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #96 pmk. 9 MR [1949] Hillside “Sent as an Irishman might declare . . .”. Ferner Nuhns, in Tucson, are members of the Society of Friends.

1949.03.17 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Mar.17.’49 Hillside “Glad though I’d be to see you . . .” Easter is not a good time to travel. September is best.

1949.03.18 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Mar. 18.’49 Hillside “Peggy dear, didn’t I postcard an acknowledgment . . .?” A bit of her own writing, and letters, and cleaning keep her busy. Visitors in prospect.

1949.03.20 To Tommy Austen ALS 6p. Richardson Papers Mar.20th ’49 Hillside “Tommy dear, I do, I believe, realise your point of view” on Mundy and religion. Almost all artists believe in continuation. Many occurrences confirm “the immortality of conscious being.”

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1949.03.23] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 23 MR - - [1949] pmk TREVONE “Hearty congratulations.”

1949.04.01 To Henry Savage ALS 2p. Pennsylvania Ap.1st ’49 Hillside “Your human document is a fine piece of work . . .”. He seeks a U. S. publisher for The Love Letters of Henry VIII.

1949.04.02] To Henry Savage ApcI Pennsylvania [c. 2 April 1949] pmk. TREVONE “Ps. Realising that you will probably have read Gide II . . .”. She too is reading it.

1949.04.05] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg [c. 5 April 1949] Hillside “I’m glad to know you are making plans for Easter.” She comments on a writing problem.

1949.04.10 To Ruth Suckow ALS 6p. Iowa WOM 603-604 Ap.10th ’49 Hillside “I read & re-&-re-read your letter . . .”. The Nuhns are practicing Quakers. She regards the Quakers as “the purest form of Christianity,” not enclosed in tradition.

1949.04.13 To Henry Savage ApcI Pennsylvania pmk. 13 AP 1949 pmk. TREVONE “Well, well! So J. D. [John Davenport] is a friend of yours.”

1949.04.20 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Ap.20’49 Hillside “My conscience is weighted, Peggy dear . . .”. She has not thanked her. Easter visitors included the Hickeys who had met her old boss, and were delighted. She admires Howards End.

1949.04.20a To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Ap.20 ’49 Hillside “This is a belated response to your last good letter.” Her correspondence, now including Alan’s relatives and friends, grows and grows. She believes it essential that couples never sit confronted, face to face. Acquaintances who met “Mr. Hancock” found him amazingly active and interested.

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1949.05.02 To Bernice Elliott ALS 2p. Richardson Papers May 2.’49 Hillside “Ever since Christmas” she has been writing letters. Jessie has sold her car. Ruth Suckow and Ferner Nuhn have joined the Society of Friends.

1949.05.03] To Henry Savage ALS 3p. Pennsylvania [c. 3 May 1949] Hillside “Yes, dear Henry, D.B.W.L. [Wyndham Lewis?] . . . – very good.” She defends beauty, and asserts the restorative powers of nature.

1949.05.07 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers May 7.’49 Hillside “Following your letter . . . comes the promised package . . .”. She hopes PK will visit her.

1949.05.15 From H.D. ApcS Richardson Papers May 15 [pmk.1949] Lugano “To greet you for May 17 . . .”.

1949.05.15a To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 15 MAY 49 pmk. BODMIN “What about coming down here for Whitsun?”

1949.05.20 To Flora Coates ALS 2p. Thomas F. Staley / Harold Fromm May 20.’49 Hillside “I am glad of your letter . . .”. Wadsworth is on the continent.

1949.05.22] To Jessie Hale ALU 4p. Harold Fromm ELT 43:4, 445-46 [c. 22 May? 1949] [Hillside] “The enclosed are, perhaps quite useless . . .”. She has sent some old lace for Jessie to sell. P. Marrian visited Richardson relatives in Worthing.

1949.05.24 To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers May 24.’49 Hillside “A belated influenza . . . has prevented my writing . . .”. Bryher has sent money for clothes. Marjorie Wells and Adrian Allinson are coming down. Again she fulminates against placing couples face to face.

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1949.05.24a To Eleanor Phillips ALS 4p. Richardson Papers 24th May ’49 Hillside “If I had not been indulging in a belated influenza . . .”. Food supplies are improving. She is reading Ford’s March of Literature.

1949.05.29 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers May 29.’49 Hillside “Odd, Peg dear, but I somehow knew your cat would come back.” Marjorie Wells has visited. Allinson and Wadsworth are to come. She is delighted with Ford’s March of Literature.

1949.06.01 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg June 1st ’49 Hillside “Just as well you did not come along for Whitsun . . .”. Marjorie Wells came.

1949.06.02 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg Thursday 2nd. [pmk. 2 JU 49] pmk. PADSTOW “Have made provisional booking at Dunrovan.”

1949.06.13] To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 1p. Berg [c. 13 June 1949] [Hillside] “This bit of our table-cloth” is to silence his clock. “You are missed.”

1949.06.15 To Rose Odle ALS 3p. Richardson Papers June, 15 ’49 Hillside “Glad I was of your letter . . .”. Elizabeth has had a son. DMR has had flu, and visitors: Marjorie Wells, Oliver Wells, Wadsworth.

1949.06.16] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 6p. Richardson Papers June 16th [1949] Hillside “Peg dear, I hate to be a nuisance” but she would like the snap of her and Alan. She has been busy with flu, plus visitors: Marjorie Wells and Allinson mainly. She has just received all the letters she wrote to Wells, which Anthony West is now consulting. She finds her early writing there clear and vivid.

1949.06.16a To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg June 16 ’49 Hillside “Mysterious, the bus.” He has sold some copies of Close-Up for her.

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1949.06.20 To Bryher ALS 6p. Bryher Papers WOM 605-606 June 20 ’49. Hillside “I did ought to have wrote ere now . . .”. Life is punctuated with much shopping and many visitors. Anthony West has asked to use her letters to Wells, returned to her by Marjorie.

1949.07.01 To Bernice Elliott A AirLetter S 2.p Richardson Papers July 1.’49 [Hillside] “Well, dear Bernice, you . . . give me a surprise.” She thinks of coming to London, which – DMR warns – is packed and expensive.

1949.07.19] To Grace Tomkinson A Air Letter S 3p. Richardson Papers July 19 ’49 Hillside “Referring to your kind letter of sympathy . . .” DMR is reminded of time flying. AO died in February 1948, suddenly, of heart attack. Ruth Suckow’s arthritis leads DMR to speak of Dr. Bircher Brenner’s dietary regimen. The Nuhns are now Friends.

1949.08.03 To Bernice Elliott ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Aug. 3.’49 Hillside “On the whole I think you are wise.” She delays coming to England. When she does, she might advertise in a Quaker paper.

1949.08.05 To Henry Savage ALS 6p. Pennsylvania Aug 5.’49 Hillside “You do not date your letters . . .”. She has had many visitors, and is now expecting Francis Odle. Marjorie Davenport is here and leaving for a week in France. She has been reading Arena.

1949.08.10] To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 606-607 Aug 10. [1949] Hillside “The date of your letter surprises me . . .”. Many have visited, including Mrs. John Davenport, whose husband is involved in Arena. Her nephew, Francis, down from Oxford, is coming to see her.

1949.08.18 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg Aug 18 ’49 Hillside “How very kind of you to send me Claude Berry.” Alan’s youngest nephew, down from Oxford, has visited, for ten days..

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1949.08.20 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers Aug.20.’49 Hillside “Recent happenings lead me to wonder whether Leysin is anywhere near you.” Amabel’s grandson is at a clinic there. Francis Odle has spent ten days in Cornwall.

1949.08.26 To Rose Odle ALS 8p. Richardson Papers Aug. 26.’49 Hillside “Scrappy, this letter will have to be . . .”. Francis, during his visit, reminded people of Alan. She recalls holidays with the Rose Odles when the children were small. All of Alan’s best drawings (1914 to early 1930s) were stolen. She recalls Theodore Roosevelt’s enthusiasm in 1937. Anthony West, remembered as an “unlicked colt”, is to visit.

1949.09.03] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers pmk. 3[?] SP 49 Hillside. Trevone. Padstow. “This is an abject S.O.S. for . . . Player’s . . .”. Alan’s nephew has been here for 10 days, then Anthony West, next Peyton Baly’s son-in-law; and P. Marrian is coming.

1949.09.08 To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers WOM 607-609 Sep.8. ’49 Hillside “How kind of you to advise Rachel from Lugano.” Rachel’s son is ill. DMR is dating her letters to H.G. and Jane. Anthony West has turned up, and Peyton Baly’s son-in-law. Pauline Marrian arrives tomorrow.

1949.09.25 To Henry Savage ALS 3p. Pennsylvania WOM 609-10 Sep.25’49 Hillside “Comic, it always seems to me” when people like Russell and Murray say they have no use for God. She quotes Abelard; then laments “the masculinised Jewish Jehovah” as a half- god. She transcribes her poem “Dark Harmony.”

1949.09.26] To David Grad ALS 2p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 98-99 Monday [c. 26 Sept. 1949] Trevone “Just a line, David dear . . .”. She is relieved it was he who took away Alan’s drawing’s.

1949.09.27 To Bernice Elliott ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Sep 27.’49. Hillside “Yes, indeed, it does seem that yours is of those temperaments needing the stimulus of change.” The pound has been devalued. The Spectator is a periodical with no axes to grind.

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1949.09.28] To Bryher ALS 6p. Bryher Papers WOM 610-12 Sep.28th [1949] Hillside “Yes, young Rachel . . . is back now in Edinburgh. . . .”. Peyton Baly has written. Amabel’s son came and took all Alan’s drawings to the Odles.

1949.09.29 To Eleanor Phillips ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Sep.29. ’49 Hillside “Just recently I discovered that The Spectator” revealed that DMR was the sender. The last of her holiday visitors has gone.

1949.09.29a To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Sep. 29. ’49 Hillside “! ! ! Incredible, your package, dearest P.” Has PK read Train to Nowhere?

1949.09.30 To H.D. ApcS H.D. Papers Sep.30’49 Hillside, Trevone “Blessings & blessings on Avon River . . .”.

1949.10.03 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg [3 October 1949] pmk. TREVONE “Grand. Any day now would do” for him to visit. In 1912 DMR stayed with the Beresfords and Walpole at St. Ives.

1949.10.10 To Henry Savage ALS 4p. Pennsylvania WOM 612-13 Oct.10.’49. Hillside “I’m glad that sonnet meant something to you.” Savage once called DMR “precise and pedantic.” She laughs at the notion that he could shake her faith. Jesus said, “The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.” She calls a truce at discussion.

1949.10.10a] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg [10 October 1949] Hillside “Your welcome wire dropped out of the blue this morning.” He is coming Wednesday.

1949.10.16 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Oct.16’49 Hillside “You left at the right moment.” Rain and wind. She hopes Frieda Lawrence “wins her case.”

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1949.10.16a To David Grad ALS 3p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 89-91 Oct.16.’49 Hillside “Bless & bless you . . . for landing that cargo at John’s.” The Odles are planning a show of Alan’s drawings. David should have a choice drawing.

1949.10.17 To Bryher ALS 5p. Bryher Papers WOM 613-15 Oct 17 ’49. Hillside “Bless & bless you for Hesse.” Though a mediator between East and West, he has a rigid male consciousness. She compares him to Berdyaev, though he offers escape, not transformation. She is behind in everything.

1949.10.21 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Oct. 21.’49 Hillside “I meant you to have carried off the little book” by Macmillan. It is bitter cold with wild hail storms.

1949.10.22 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Oct.22 ’49 Hillside “In vain have I been wondering” who sent the vest from London. Amabel is in Edinburgh, her grandson in Leysin.

1949.10.29 To Henry Savage ALS 8p. Pennsylvania WOM 615-18 Oct.29.’49 Hillside “For its poetry . . . you will . . . like Abélard.” DMR recalls Alan’s addiction to alcohol, his abstinence after they were married, and the episode in the Café Royal when a drunk admirer of DMR accosted Crosland and was thrown out. She contrasts the village, one large family, with the anonymity of the town.

1949.10.31 To Rose Odle ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 618-19 Oct 31. ’49 Hillside “Just a hurried line . . .”. Macmillan is too good to recognize in DMR “a combination of worm and pig.”[!] A portrait of Alan is impossible. He was luminous, as Claude Houghton and Macmillan say.

1949.11.04 To Henry Savage ApcI Pennsylvania pmk. 4 NO 1949 pmk. PADSTOW “Abélard safely to hand.” Every book is a conducted tour.

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1949.11.07] To Henry Savage ALI 2p. Pennsylvania [c. 7 November 1949] [Hillside] “Small wonder you were puzzled by my p.c.” She encloses a misaddressed and returned letter.

1949.11.07a] To David Grad ALS 2p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 96-97 Nov. 7th [1949] Hillside “This is a feeble-minded S.O.S.” for smokes. Vinki’s mother has been ill. They are drenched.

1949.11.12] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg Nov 12. [1949] Hillside “Thoughtful, you are, to suggest returning Mac’s book.” Pilgrimage is reported selling well in the U.S.

1949.11.15 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers WOM 619-20 Nov.15.‘49. Hillside “Did I really call Hesse ‘rigid’?” Old age, she finds, brings an increase of flexibility and tolerance. She is surrounded by drama, locally and in letters.

1949.11.16] To David Grad ALS 2p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 108-109 Nov. 16. [1949] Hillside “Your splendid parcel has just tumbled in . . .”. She smokes less than 20 a day. Mrs. Trimble (Vinki’s mother?) has partially recovered.

1949.11.20 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Nov. 20 ’49 Hillside “Peggy dear, this is just to enquire whether” she sent Players. DMR has been surrounded by dramas, even including a staged one.

1949.11.22] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 22 - - [November] 49 pmk. PADSTOW “Blessings. Have sent your letter on to Francis, (Odle) . . .”.

1949.11.23 From K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar T AirLetter S 1p. Richardson Papers 23. 11. 1949 Waltair, India “I venture to write to you . . .”. He seeks resources for an Indian student doing a Ph.D. on Pilgrimage. He lists his publications.

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1949.11.27 To Rose Odle ALS 4p. Richardson Papers WOM 620-22 Nov.27.’49 Hillside “Here, at last, are all the cuttings . . .”. DMR, though her pen slips, prefers the country to the city. Most Englishmen dislike women. During the war she and Alan, thrown in their company, came to appreciate them more. Shaw is right, men are nursery infants. She comments on Vincent Odle’s relations with Mégroz.

1949.11.29 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers Nov. 29.’49 Hillside “How very kind of you to be sending little John such an appropriate present . . .”. Norman Douglas seems to be having a fresh lease. The Trevone Players are staging a Victorian drama. She is writing a story for English Story.

1949.11.30 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Nov.30 ’49 Hillside “Peggy dear, I am so sorry to hear . . .”. PK has had complications from blood giving. One of DMR’s dramas involves Rachel Ayre, her son and Bryher. DMR has a suitor! She is writing a short story.

1949.12.08 To Rose Odle T&ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 622-23 Decr.8th ’49 Hillside “Things keep on turning up . . .”. Rose is considering a DMR anthology. DMR approves, having read Pilgrimage to correct it for the local library. She will send Herondes.

1949.12.10 To Dr. A. S. Cobbledick ALS 2p. Harold Fromm Dec. 10. 49 Hillside “Sorry indeed I am to hear of the price you paid for your self-sacrificing support of our Trevone Players.” This sudden cold is shocking.

1949.12.15 To Vincent Brome ApcI HRC, Texas Dec.15.’49 Hillside “Letter to hand.” She will write.

1949.12.17 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #73 Dec 17 or 18 1949 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, N. Wales “How excellent of you . . . to remember us.”

1949.12.28 To Charles Daniel ALS 2p. Int. Institute of Social History, Amsterdam Decr.28.’49 Hillside

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“Nice to be talking to you again.” She is sending him Talbot Mundy’s book. She most values it and Mysticism in Religion.

1949.12.30 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 6p. Berg Dec. 30 ’49 Hillside “Imagine yourself nearly 77 years old . . .”. She is working on two short stories and helping two men writing lives of H. G. Wells. He has sent her a book on Proust.

1950.01.01 To Eleanor Phillips A AirLetter S 2p. Richardson Papers New Years Day 1950 [pmk. TREVONE] “Heartily I agree with you”, time goes more swiftly for the old, but more happens. She has been replying to requests from writers and students. “. . . we emerge, now, from a period of Humanism, a prison.”

1950.01.03] To Eleanor Phillips ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 3? JA? [50] pmk. TREVONE “I cannot remember whether I ever asked you if The Spectator reaches you regularly . . .”.

1950.01.06 To Henry Savage ALS 4p. Pennsylvania WOM 629-30 Jan 6th ’50 [Possibly 1951] Hillside “A concentration of all kinds of engrossments” has prevented writing.. She is reading F. M. Ford, and recalls that when she began writing she thought all masculine novels were “somehow irrelevant.” It is cold, made worse by the extreme wetness of the past summer.

1950.01.08 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Jan.8.’50 Hillside “This is a dreadfully belated word of grateful thanks . . .”. Many letters to write, a short story, replies to questions by a Wells biographer. PK has visited Llanthony.

1950.01.09 To Bernice Elliott A AirLertter S 3p. RP WOM 630-31 Jan.9 ’50. [Hillside] “This is, as usual, a belated word of grateful thanks . . .”. She discusses the absolutism of Catholicism, and Mundy’s book. “Two young men, independently, are writing a life of Wells & want all kinds of data . . .”.

1950.01.10] To Dr. A. S. Cobbledick ALS 2p. Harold Fromm Jan.10 [1950] Hillside “Sorry indeed I was to hear . . . of your being laid up.”

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1950.01.16 To Vincent Brome TLS 3p. HRC, Texas WOM 631-33 Jan.16th.’50 Hillside “In vain I have been hunting . . . for your last letter . . .”. H. G. Wells “spent his life . . . taking notes and writing epistles in all kinds of forms . . .”. He was a prophet of things. Jane was reserved, gave him support, and freedom. Hugh Byng was Jane’s friend. H.G. kept DMR’s letters.

1950.01.19 To Bryher TLS 2p. Bryher Papers Jan. 19 50 Hillside “Bryher dear, you must forgive the shocking belatedness” of her Christmas thank-you. She is sorting AO’s manuscripts and writing two short stories. Bryher has written about Hesse’s sister. John Ayre’s progress is very slow.

1950.01.20] To Bernice Elliott ApcI Richardson Papers [c. 20 January 1950] pmk. TREVONE “Just a line . . . of thanks for letter . . .”.

1950.01.23] To Vincent Brome ALU 2p. HRC, Texas [c. 23 January 1950] [Hillside] “N.b. I did not mean to suggest” that Jane Wells had “an affair.” She sends Brome excerpts from her essay on “Punctuation.”

1950.01.24] To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #97 pmk. 24 JA [1950?] Hillside, Trevone “I have just heard from F. and R.” The Ferner Nuhns are in Tucson.

1950.01.28] To Vincent Brome ALU 2p. HRC, Texas [c. 28 January 1950] [Hillside] “1) The point here is that Wells believed the wife should never be let down.” He needed an audience.

1950.02.02] To Vincent Brome TLS 1p. HRC, Texas Feb.2nd. [1950] Hillside “Hope my last let. did not miscarry.” The Tunnel refers to Worcester Park, Surrey. Anthony West has decided against a life of his father.

1950.02.06 To Vincent Brome ALS 2p. HRC, Texas Feb.6.’50 Hillside “A strenuous undertaking.” He is coming to see DMR.

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1950.02.07] To Rose Odle ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 7 February 1950] Hillside “Just a line, dear Rose.” Rose had begun an anthology of Pilgrimage selections. Vincent Brome wishes to talk to DMR.

1950.02.08 To Vincent Brome ApcI HRC, Texas Feb.8.’50 Trevone “If you come down . . .” please look up the address of Joiner & Steele.

1950.02.18] To Vincent Brome ALS 2p. HRC, Texas [c. 18 February(?) 1950] [Hillside] “Scribbled, with post-time imminent.” H.G.’s life needs placing within the period, a period when young women were on their own. He was a collector of virginities. She quotes Chevalley on Wells.

1950.02.21] [To The P.E.N. Club] AncS 1p. HRC, Texas [21/2/50] Hillside, Trevone “Contribution promised in case of the failure of E. Arnot Robertson’s appeal.”

1950.02.24] To Vincent Brome ALU 1p. HRC, Texas [c. 24 February(?) 1950] [Hillside] “Again in a hurry . . .”. Why not present the changed attitude to “love” in H.G.’s social circle?

1950.02.26] To Rose Odle ALI 2p. Richardson Papers Sunday [c. 26 February 1950] [Hillside] “Scrawl, dear Rose, to catch post.” She will send Vol. IV and a list of possible quotes. Brome stayed four days.

1950.02.28 To Eleanor Phillips ALS 1p. Richardson Papers Feb.28.’50 Hillside “Just a line to report to you the successful voyage of that splendid ham.”

1950.03.01] To Vincent Brome ALI 2p. HRC, Texas [c. 1 March 1950] [Hillside] “Cannot recall title . . .” of book with caricature of Odette. She has become his voluble critic.

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1950.03.04 To Peggy Kirkaldy TLS 2p. Richardson Papers Mar.4.’50 Hillside “Oddly enough, Peggy dear . . .” she was going to enquire about cigarettes received. The Wells biographer stayed four days. She recommends A Well Full of Leaves.

1950.03.11 To Henry Savage ALS 6p. Pennsylvania WOM 634-35 Mar 11.’50 Hillside “Two letters, I am, in debt to you . . .”. The H. G. Wells biographer came down for 4 days. “I am not ‘literary’ Henry.” The leading books are for DMR secondary because they are written by men. Books are self-portraits.

1950.03.11a To Bryher ALS 6p. Bryher Papers Mar.11.’50 Hillside “A veritable age it seems since I had your last letter . . .”. Brome, preparing a life of Wells, has been down for four days. Rose Odle is preparing a Pilgrimage anthology. Francis Odle is prospering. John Ayre has hardly improved at all. Rachel is applying for a new job.

1950.03.13] To Vincent Brome ALI 8p. HRC, Texas [c. 13 March(?) 1950] Trevone “May be wrong, but thought H.G. & O. left Lou P. . . .”. She makes a series of comments on Brome’s MS: topics include Barrie, Jane’s toughness, Gissing’s help, life at Arnold house, and H.G.’s ignorance of women’s sex life.

1950.03.14 To Ruth Suckow AlcS 2p. Iowa Mar 14 <50 Hillside, Trevone “You sent me at Christmas a package . . .”. She has been extremely busy.

1950.03.15 To Rose Odle ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Mar.15.’50 Trevone “From chaos as ever.” Rose’s DMR anthology has selections about London. DMR has found a hoard of AO’s wartime drawings. Allinson expected.

1950.03.18 To Henry Savage ALS 2p. Pennsylvania WOM 635-36 Mar.18.’50 Trevone “No need to apologise.” Differences in their scales of value make discussion nearly impossible. With age, past incidents “reveal their essential depth of relationship.”

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1950.03.18a] To Rose Odle ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 18 March 1950] Trevone “Just a line from chaos, dear Rose . . .”. Allinson is arriving to try their patience. Dent’s permit is enclosed, also AO’s drawing blocks from his student days.

1950.03.29] To Vincent Brome ALI 2p. HRC, Texas Wednesday [c. 29 March 1950] [Hillside] “Have been re-reading, with various astonishments, the Auto.” Perhaps those devoted to science are “both Saints & Martyrs.”

1950.03.31 To Bernice Elliott ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Mar.31.’50 Hillside “Oddly enough I was just about” to write. She welcomes Elliott’s response to Mundy’s book.

1950.04.09] To Vincent Brome ALI 1p. HRC, Texas [c. 9 April(?)1950] [Hillside] “Sorry you have been a victim of the March misery.” There is no doubt, H.G. is the father of Amber Jane.

1950.04.09a To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 9 AP 50 pmk. BODMIN “So very sorry. Hope you now emerge.” Rose Odle is there, and working on a D.R. anthology.

1950.04.11 To Eleanor Phillips ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 11 AP 50 pmk. TREVONE “What about this, round the corner?” [Tregudda Gorge]

1950.04.11a To Eleanor Phillips ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 11 AP 50 pmk. PADSTOW “And this round the other corner?”

1950.04.11b] To Henry Savage ALS 2p. Pennsylvania pmk. 11 [April 1950] pmk. TREVONE “In reading . . . Ford’s March of Literature” she was charmed by his sound analysis of Trollope.

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1950.04.14] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALI 2p. Richardson Papers Ap 14th [1950?] Trevone “Just a hurried line, dearest P.” about feeding birds. She is reading Sickert’s A Free House.

1950.04.17] To Rose Odle TLS (typed signature) 1p. Richardson Papers Monday [17 April 1950] Trevone “I take up my pen in the hope . . . – Oy!” Rose’s visit has been a stimulus. Keep Mundy’s book. P. Marrian arrives for Whitsun.

1950.04.20] To Vincent Brome ALI 2p. HRC, Texas Thursday [c. 20 April 1950] Trevone “Only one small jolt . . .”. Brome’s book is nearly finished.

1950.04.21 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg Ap. 21. ’50 Trevone “Very nice to have your news . . .”. She has had a long correspondence with Brome about his Wells book. West has abandoned his book. Francis Odle and Allison have visited her.

1950.04.22] To Dr. A. S. Cobbledick ALS 2p. Harold Fromm [c. 22 April 1950] Hillside “Just a line.” Dr. Cobbledick is moving to England.

1950.04.23 To Henry Savage ALS 5p. Pennsylvania WOM 636-38 [c. 23 April 1950] Trevone “Standing out from your last letter . . . a central question: ‘Why know women?’” E. M. Forster shows that he does. She notes the tendency of artists to be bi-sexual. She is re- reading with joy Kidd’s Social Evolution. Allinson and Rose Odle have visited.

1950.04.27 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 5p. Richardson Papers Ap 27.’50 Trevone “Blessings, Peggy dear, for the fat consignment” of cigarettes. Rose Odle has visited, not seen for 15 years. Here son Francis is doing well in journalism.

1950.05.03 To Vincent Brome ALI 2p. HRC, Texas WOM 638 May 3rd ’50 [Hillside] “All things considered, I feel Mrs. Wells’ demand to oversee the ms.” is not justified. There are no shocking revelations.

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1950.05.08 To Henry Savage ALS 4p. Pennsylvania May 8.’50 Trevone “Various local mothers have enjoyed your grandchild’s” visit to the Zoo, but put their foot down at the Monkey House. She can no longer read Moncrieff’s translation of Proust. “Acrimonious you are, Henry! Thoughtlessly so.”

1950.05.15 To Dr. A. S. Cobbledick AL Incomplete 4p. Harold Fromm May. 15 ’50 Trevone “I was glad to hear of your successful” move. Gwen is busy with the Beach Café. Another student is writing a thesis on Pilgrimage. Francis Odle is torn between the Foreign Office and Journalism.

1950.05.17] To Henry Savage ALI 2p. Pennsylvania [c. 17 May 1950] [Hilllside] “The small masterpiece – E. Fry –” a biography; DMR has been promoting it.

1950.05.21 To Bryher ALS 8p. Bryher Papers WOM 639-40 May 21.’50 Trevone “Already I had been owing you a letter . . .”. Bryher has sent money for her birthday. DMR surveys her many correspondents and activities, including a few lines of P. Anthony West has abandoned his biography of H. G. Brome is having trouble with the Wells family.

1950.05.22] To David Grad ALS 2p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 94-95 May 22. [1950] Trevone “I did not expect . . . a swift answer to my enquiry.” She needs cigarettes. A Welsh and an Indian student are writing theses on Pilgrimage.

1950.05.24] To H.D. ApcI H.D. Papers [c. 24 May 1950] pmk. TREVONE “Just a wee, belated squeak . . . in response to your . . . greeting for my septante sept année.”

1950.05.25] To Henry Savage ALS 4p. Pennsylvania [c. 25 May 1950] [n.p.] “Not an answer. Just a few notes.” Optimism and pessimism are twins. “Coercion is the prime sin . . .”. The necessary price of freedom is suffering. She further elaborates her complaints over Moncrieff.

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1950.05.26] To David Grad ALS 2p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 101-102 Friday [c. 26 May 1950] Trevone “Folks arriving here in droves.” Church has a poem about the death of his cat.

1950.05.27 To Rose Odle ALS 6p. Richardson Papers 27th May ’50 Trevone “Rosie! Your multifarious engrossments make me blink, incredulously . . .”. Pilgrimage is almost sold out. Re Moncrieff’s Proust: “But he can’t write.” She invites Rose to bring her MS down.

1950.05.28 To Eleanor Phillips ALS 10p. Richardson Papers WOM 641-43 Whitsun ’50.[May 28] Trevone “Selecting your letter . . .” she finds it undated. She lauds The Spectator for being “so all- embracing.” Her Indian professor has sent her his enchanting study of Sri Aurobindo. She never has understood envy. DMR now belongs not to any but to all political parties.

1950.06.13] To Henry Savage ALS 2p. Pennsylvania [c. 13 June 1950] Trevone “Spate indeed, dear Henry.” She continues the theme of the Monkey House, and encloses a review of a book on Proust.

1950.06.17] To Rose Odle ALI 2p. Richardson Papers June 17, [1950] Trevone “What a programme Rosie dear!” Pauline Marrian is coming on July 7.

1950.06.20 To Louise Morgan Theis ALS 2p. Morgan-Their Papers, Yale June 20.’50 Trevone “This, for me, is a grand idea . . .”. Morgan plans to visit DMR, a very busy but “corpulent, aged crone” in her 78th year.

1950.06.24 To Louise Morgan Theis ALS 1p. Morgan-Theis Papers June 24, ’50 Trevone “Am just off to telephone to book you . . . from Sep. 1st . . .”.

1950.06.28 To Rose Odle ALS 2p. Richardson Papers 28 June ’50 Trevone “Belated & in haste Rosie dear.” She can’t imagine anything in Pilgrimage over the head of the common reader. Louise Morgan is to visit September 1.

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1950.06.29 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers WOM 644-45 June 29.’50 Trevone “Sorry I am to hear the reason that spoiled your Welsh holiday.” PK stayed at Williams- Ellis’s hotel. The Odles were invited to live in one of their villas. Relaxation is the key for great singers like Flagstad.

1950.07.02 To Bernice Elliott ALS 6p. Richardson Papers July 2.’50 Trevone “Again I am reminded of your plans . . .”. She discusses various possibilities for Bernice’s stay in England, or even Wales. Ruth Suckow’s book of stories is nearly ready. Louise Morgan is to visit.

1950.07.05 To Henry Savage ApcU Pennsylvania pmk. 5 JLY 50 pmk. PADSTOW “Thanks for M.P. cutting . . .”. “Addio – ” They are both too busy to be at cross-purposes.

1950.07.09] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 9 July 1950] Trevone “Bless you, Peggy dear.” For cigarettes. Hilda Aldington’s daughter is marrying Valentine Schaffner.

1950.07.14 To Joseph Prescott ALS Prescott, “Seven Letters . . .”, p. 102 14 July 1950 Trevone, Padstow, Cornwall “Alas & alack. A sad story.” She translated Neumann’s Die Macht but the publisher, annoyed that she had reduced its length too much, scrapped the edition.

1950.07.18 To Dr. A. S. Cobbledick ALS 6p. Harold Fromm July 18. ’50 Trevone “Before I forget, dear Dr., let me send you greetings . . .”. Eleanor was married. Harold Clark was here last week, also Muriel Jones. The Beach Café prospers. Pauline Marrian has been here; Rose Odle is coming.

1950.07.19] To Rose Odle ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 19 JU[?] 1950[?] pmk. PADSTOW “Forgot to thank for new[s] of D.S. [Dorothy Shirley]” DMR sent her first short story to Home Chat.

1950.07.24 To Ferner Nuhn ALS 8p. Iowa WOM 645-47 July 24.’50 Hillside

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“In thanking you for your deeply me-interesting letter . . .”. She exclaims about George Fox, Quakerism, the early Christians, Buddhism, and the career of William Macmillan.

1950.08.02 To Rose Odle ALS 6p. Richardson Papers Aug 2.’50 Trevone “The day after you left . . .” DMR found a bouquet had been left in her porch. Two Boy Scouts drowned yesterday. Dunroven Hotel is reported less that satisfactory.

1950.08.10] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 10 AU [1950] pmk. TREVONE “Chorus of appreciation.” Trevone abounds in Philistines.

1950.08.19 To Louise Morgan Theis ALS 1p. Morgan-Theis Papers Aug. 19th ’50 Hillside “It’s you . . . what’s being inconvenienced, not me.” Her visit is now September 8.

1950.08.20] To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Aug 20th [1950] Hillside “Blessings, dear Peg, for to-days consignment.” She describes the episode of Rose Odle’s encounter with a con artist. An Indian professor is threatening to visit. Trevone reverberates with children.

1950.08.22 To Pauline Marrian TLU Incomplete (edited copy) 1p. RP Aug. 22nd ’50 Trevone “A few lines, my re-readings . . . included Under this Tree . . .”. DMR appreciates Marrian’s imaginative sympathy, and her masterful portrayal of women.

1950.08.24 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 1p. Berg Aug 24.’50 Trevone “Glad I am you will be coming this way.”

1950.08.27 To George Bernard Shaw ALS 3p. Richardson Papers WOM 647-48 Aug. 27th ’50 Trevone “Shouting for joy over much of your preface to Wilson’s Language book . . .”. She elaborates on one of the four class dialects in English, and protests Shaw’s defense of phonetic spelling.

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1950.08.27a To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers WOM 649-50 Aug 27.’50 Hillside “Having hurriedly run through your letter,” she has misplaced it. PK is thinking of visiting in November. Dr. Cobbledick has died. The Leyton Orly family have visited.

1950.08.28] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. [2]8 AU [1950] pmk. TREVONE “Grateful thanks for timely package.”

1950.08.30 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Aug.30.’50 Hillside “I had to giggle, Peggy dear, over your request for an inside lav. in your quarters.” DMR recalls the outhouses they have had. PK expects to visit.

1950.08.30a] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Aug.30 [1950] Trevone “Giggle, I had to, over your Paddington Waterloo maze.” She encloses money for his trip.

1950.09.01 To Louise Morgan Theis ALS 2p. Morgan-Theis Papers Sep l.’50 Hillside “Just a line, dear Louise . . .”. She gives Morgan directions for finding her way to Hillside.

1950.09.02] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 2 SP 50[?] pmk. TREVONE “Many thanks for cargo.” Judy Wogan visited.

1950.09.04 To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcU Richardson Papers pmk. 4 SP 50 pmk. PADSTOW “Good. Won’t expect you till I see you . . .”. “Amabel’s” son, Louise Morgan, Owen Wadsworth, and Francis Odle are to visit.

1950.09.04a To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 4 SP 50 pmk. PADSTOW “Am booking at D. until the Thursday mg.”

1950.09.09 From Claude Houghton TLS (edited copy) 2p. Richardson Papers September 9th, 1950 Savage Club, London, S.W. I.

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“At last I can write with leisure by my side.” He values DMR’s appreciation for Birthmark. He cannot believe she is 78.

1950.09.11 To Rose Odle ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Sep.11th ’50 Trevone “Rosie dear, I am horrified.” She encloses money for Rose’s trip to Italy. She can now afford to help “treasured people.” Louise Morgan has just left. Wadsworth comes on Saturday.

1950.09.11a To Louise Morgan Theis ALS 2p. Morgan-Theis Papers Sep 11th ’50 Trevone “What floods Cornwall wept . . . over your departure!” DMR regrets not being well during the visit.

1950.09.30] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg [c. 30 September 1950] Trevone “Nice to hear from you in the midst of the tornado of my ten days” with Francis Odle. Non-stop discussions.

1950.10.01 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Oct. 1st 50 Hillside “Truly sorry I am Peg, asthore, to hear of the horrid infection.” Francis Odle leaves tomorrow.

1950.10.01a To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers Oct 1st ’50 Hillside “Thank you so much . . . for Osbert’s final volume . . .”. The summer has been rain, wind, and visitors, the last, Francis Odle, who leaves tomorrow. She has had flu.

1950.10.03 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg WOM 650-51 [Oct.9] Oct 3. ’50. Hillside “Eyes, indeed you must have . . .”. The family now has her copies of Alan’s illustrated books. She speculates on the line between journalism and literature. “Still the writer is born not made . . .”.

1950.10.06 To Louise Morgan Theis ApcI Morgan-Theis Papers pmk. 6 OC 50 pmk. PADSTOW “Shall soon be sending a line.”

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1950.10.09 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Oct 9.’50 Trevone “Blessings for your splendid cargo” of cigarettes. John Odle could provide samples of AO’s drawings.

1950.10.12 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers Oct 12.’50 Trevone “You’ve popped across to London . . .”. As soon as everything closed, summer arrived. Beatrice Beresford’s daughter and husband, Max Robertson, visited. Rose Odle is luxuriating in Switzerland.

1950.10.15 To Louise Morgan Theis ALS 5p. Morgan-Theis Papers Oct 15, ’50 Hillside “Just a word, dear Louise . . .”. She has had flu and visitors, including her nephew Francis. She recalls John Ellerman as a child and later as a man learning Braille. She explains how she was “tapped” and trapped into helping Brome with his Wells biography. DMR feels herself an “unstable amateur in everything.”

1950.10.17 From Vincent Brome ALI Berg (P. B. Wadsworth letters) Oct 17 – 1950 [n.p.] “We were, of course, rather horrified when we read the pieces in the Evening Standard.” He apologizes.

1950.10.19] To P. B. Wadsworth AncI 1p. Berg [c. 19 October 1950] [Hillside] “What all this amounts to I cannot imagine.” The fuss is over an item in the Evening Standard about Brome’s Wells book.

1950.10.19a] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcU Richardson Papers pmk. 19[?] [OC] 50 pmk. TREVONE “Mysterious parcel safely to hand.”

1950.10.20 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Oct 20.’50 [Hillside] “Sorry I am to have troubled you.” Wells himself revealed his portrayal in Pilgrimage.

1950.10.21 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Oct 21.’50 Trevone

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“Glad I was to read on your card . . .” that Bryher can stay in her villa. John Ayre is now progressing. “I plod at Pilg., when I can.”

1950.10.26 To P. B. Wadsworth AncS 1p. Berg Oct.26 ’50 [Hillside] “Many thanks dear Owen.” For cigarettes.

1950.11.05] To Rose Odle ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Nov. 5th [1950] Trevone “Good news, Rose dear, that you are actually to be back . . .”. She encloses Oberland suggestions. G. B. Shaw crosses peacefully.

1950.11.11 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Nov. 11.’50 Hillside “A squeak or two . . . I just have to emit.” H.D. and Bryher meet in Lausanne. Has Bryher any grey hair?

1950.11.11a To David Grad ALS 2p. Gillian Hanscombe (1979), II, 92-93 Nov. 11.50 Trevone “Thank you again & again,” for solving her gift problems with Chinese artifacts. Veronica has a new job in London.

1950.11.14 To Rose Odle ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Nov. 14 ’50 Trevone “It is good to know you are actually at home.” She sent Rose a small brooch made by David Grad. Bernice Elliott will be looking to rent a place in ’51.

1950.11.22 To Rose Odle ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Nov. 22.’50 Trevone “Answering your last letter, I forgot to say . . . come down any old time . . .”. She has heard from the editor of The Highway. Weather wet, windy and freezing.

1950.11.27 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 651-52 Nov.27.’50 Hillside “Bless & bless you . . . for the lovely little photograph.” She commends Bryher for her courageous bi-sexual nature. Pilgrimage and theses keep her hopping.

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1950.11.28] To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 652-53 Nov. 28th [1950] Trevone “I read Op. Heartbreak . . . . a searching experience.” She discusses the broadcasts of P. G. Wodehouse and Lord Haw-Haw from Berlin during the war.

1950.11.30 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Nov. 30 ’50 Trevone “You have now, I see, spent 12s/4 more than my last cheque . . .”. Bitterly cold.

1950.12.01 To Pauline Marrian TLS (edited copy) 2p. Richardson Papers Decr 1st, ’50 Trevone “Truly & sincerely grieved I am over all you tell me.” Marrian cannot get the sufferer to help himself. She, in turn, lacks concentration. He needs to realize that prayer is wordless communication.

1950.12.05 To Rose Odle ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Dec 5. ’50 Trevone “A hurried scrawl dearie.” She encloses some money for the holiday festivities.

1950.12.09 To Rose Odle ALS 6p. Pennsylvania Dec.9 ’50 Trevone “Thanks for letter, dear Rose . . .”. Rose’s problems with drains reminds DMR that for 25 years they had no water or cistern or pipes, and no gas or electricity. She is having Christmas dinner with friends at the hotel.

1950.12.14 To Tommy Austen ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Decr l4.’50 Hillside “Glad I was, dear Tommy, to see the address on your charming card . . .”. Good wishes for the New Year.

1950.12.22] From Rose Odle to DMR TpcS (typed signature) Copy 1p. RP [pmk. 22 December (1950)] 260B Gloucester Terrace “Overwhelmed by lovely book . . .”. David Garnett appreciated the Anthology.

1950.12.23] To Rose Odle ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Xmas ’50 Trevone “A naughty girl you are . . .”. She is festive with holly and cards and a letter from the brother of Mr. “Hancock.”

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1950.12.23a From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #74 Dec 23 1950 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire, N. Wales “Phyllis & I have been thinking about you . . .”. Is she working on another chapter of Pilgrimage. Phyllis’s aunt died and her mother is helpless. He has left Bodley Head. Macdonald’s will publish Porius.

1950.12.23b] To Bryher ALS 6p. Bryher Papers [c. 23] Decr ’50 Hillside “You spoil me, dearie.” Bryher has sent gifts and a check. DMR will have Christmas dinner with friends at the hotel. She has heard from Mr. Hancock’s brother who once told her she should be supported by the State. Herring is visiting Switzerland.

1950.12.29 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg Dec.29.50 Trevone “How very kind (& naughty) of you to send me blankets!” The cold has been very penetrating.

1950.12.31 To H.D. ALS 2p. H.D. Papers Dec. 31. 50 Hillside “Thank you . . . for the wee book of poems . . .”. Territet “still seem like yesterday.”

1950.12.31a To S. S. Koteliansky ALS 2p. British Library Dec. 31. ’50 Hillside “Thank you, dear Kot, for that picture of the dear old City.” Marjorie Wells is annoyed with DMR.

1951.01.01 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 1 JA 5[1] pmk. TREVONE “Not sure whether I thanked you for C. card . . .”.

1951.01.03 To Joseph Prescott ALS + 2 encl. Prescott, “Seven Letters . . .”, p. 103 January 3, 1951 Trevone, Padstow, Cornwall “Always so far, save on one occasion, I have refused data.” But she relents and sends him a copy of “Data for a Spanish Publisher” and the Dent brochure for Pilgrimage. [Prescott is preparing an entry on her for Encyclopaedia Britannica.]

1951.01.04 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 4p. Berg Jan. 4’50 [i.e. 51] Trevone

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“You give me a big shock . . .”. In Australia he will find work and food, but esthetically? Bryher has changed her name to Mrs. W. Bryher.

1951.01.07 To Bernice Elliott ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Jan.7.’51 Hillside “Ere this late date” she aught to have thanked her. She laments the present miserable state of civilization, but hopes to see BE in September.

1951.01.07a To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 7 JAN 1951 pmk. BODMIN “Easter plan now postponed. So free choice now available.”

1951.01.14 To J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #98 pmk. 14 JAN 1951 Hillside “Just a line, dear John . . .”. She believes they suffer as she does from the bitter cold. She quotes a jest from Bullett’s book on mystics.

1951.01.14a To Eleanor Phillips ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Jan 14.’51 Hillside “This is a most disgracefully belated word of grateful thanks . . .”. She discusses Indian religion, Mundy’s book, and Maritain.

1951.01.22] To J. C. Powys ApcI Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #99 [c. 22 January 1951] [Hillside] “Bullitt’s[sic] Mystics are still on a visit.”

1951.01.25 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 25 JA 51 pmk. BODMIN “Not sure whether you are already chasing about Europe.”

1951.01.25a To Bryher ALS 6p. Bryher Papers Jan, 25 ’51 Hillside “As you may imagine” DMR has worried about the avalanches in Switzerland. John Ayre is much improved but will stay another year in Switzerland. She praises The English Mystics by Bullett. Wadsworth is going to Australia.

1951.02.01 To J. C. Powys ALS 3p. RP WOM 655 Fouli DMR #100 Feb.1st.’51 Hillside

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“No hurry . . . to return the enclosed . . .” by Bullett. His presentation of mysticism is pleasing. She declines to borrow Miller for the moment. Like DMR, Miller has endured “the revelation of Knut Hamsun’s Hunger.”

1951.02.01a To Henry Savage ALS 4p. Pennsylvania Feb 1st.’51 Hillside “I hope you are now better again . . .”. We like an author when we feel our consciousness enlarged or our convictions confirmed. Awareness of “unity with the whole creation” abolishes loneliness. She is busy.

1951.02.02] To Bernice Elliott ALS 5p. Richardson Papers WOM 653-54 Feb.’5l. Hillside “Thank you for your letter.” Despite their faults, “churches there must be.” She speaks of mysticism and the limitations of language. And of man’s freedom, to do right or wrong.

1951.02.03] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 1p. Berg [c.3 February 1951] Trevone. “Right. I will keep the coast clear from Friday Ap 27th . . .”. She apologizes for thinking him already in Europe.

1951.02.04 To Henry Savage ALI 3p. Pennsylvania WOM 656 Feb 4 ’51 Trevone “This, dear Henry, is just a postscript to my letter . . .”. DMR appeals to the ageless part of Savage’s being by quoting prose passages from Traherne.

1951.02.05] To Henry Savage ALI 1p. Pennsylvania [c. 5 February 1951] [n.p.] “Thanks for Colossus . . .”. She encloses Powys’s Miller.

1951.02.06] To Joseph Prescott A AirMail LS Prescott, “Seven . . .”, p. 103-104 (received 6 February 1951) Trevone, Padstow, Cornwall “What an amount of trouble you are taking !” [He is preparing a checklist of her writings.] She mentions middles in The Saturday Review, short stories, poems, contributions to periodicals and translations from German and French.

1951.02.10 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Feb. 10 ’51 Hillside

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“How kind you are . . .”. Bryher has offered to help keep John Ayre at Leysin. Cornwall is having fuel shortages and electricity cuts. She knows how to keep her Valor Perfection working. There is good news from Perdita.

1951.02.13 To Rose Odle ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Feb 13 ’51 Trevone “Rosie dear – You are all right?” “Will you be my literary executor?” Wadsworth is going to Australia and is no longer appropriate. Brome’s Wells has come. DMR cannot understand why Marjorie is upset. Wadsworth will visit at the end of April.

1951.02.15 To Henry Savage ALS 8p. Pennsylvania WOM 657-59 Feb.15.’51 Hillside “Good of you, dear Henry, so swiftly to return John’s Miller . . .”. She is persisting with Colossus. Miller should meet the mystics in Bullett’s book. He and Powys have a lot in common. She describes her first meeting with Powys and his very shy character. She has flu.

1951.02.17] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg [17 February 1951] [Hillside] “Glad to have your news & the . . . picture of Oberammergau.”

1951.02.18 To Evelyn Morrison ALS 2p. photocopy Eva Tucker Feb 18, ’51. Trevone. “Thank you for your letter & my share of your experiences . . .”. Morrison has visited her brother Billy. The 10.50 train from Waterloo to Padstow has been withdrawn.

1951.02.20 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Feb 20. ’51 Hillside “Just a word of thanks, Peg dear, for the Players . . .”. She is reading Brome. Wadsworth is coming down before leaving for Australia.

1951.02.20a To Henry Savage ALS 5p. Pennsylvania Feb. 20.’51 Hillside “No more than a few annotations . . .”. She is swamped. A professor asks questions; Brome’s book has come. She further comments on mysticism, and quotes William Law. Yeats was a “little chap” compared to Keats. She recalls Gide.

1951.02.21] To Joseph Prescott ALS Prescott, “Seven Letters . . .”, p. 104-105 [c. 21 February 1951] Trevone, Padstow, Cornwall

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“Dreadfully guilty, I feel, of your wasted time.” She describes her contributions to “The Saturday Review” begun in Switzerland [in 1908] in reaction to the deadness of examples she had read. She learned one must be moved to write.

1951.02.24 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers WOM 659-60 Feb.24.’51 Hillside “Thanks for your offer of N.S. . . .”. She comments on Brome’s book and on the reviews. The birds sing.

1951.02.26 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Feb. 26. ’51 Hillside “Most comfortingly” she has received food-cheques from Bryher. Women in Vaud are not allowed to vote. Gide’s death reminds DMR of her pleasure in translating Pierre-Quint’s book. An American professor is preparing a biographic entry on her for Encyclopedia Britannica.

1951.03.04 To Henry Savage ALS 4p. Pennsylvania Mar. 4th. ’51 Hillside “The above, dear Henry,” is an announcement about a gardening program. She has seen some reviews of Brome. Francis Odle is now working in London. HD is a grandmother.

1951.03.10 To Bryher ALS 6p. Bryher Papers Mar. 10th ’51 Hillside “Bryher dear, I’m not sure of having written to congratulate you & H.D. on the grandson . . .”. Bryher has sent a huge check. Francis Odle has a position in London. She recalls Rutherford’s Revolution in Tanner’s Lane and praises Bemelman’s Now I Lay me Down to Sleep. The American Professor sends many questions. He is thorough.

1951.03.19 To Bernice Elliott A AirLetter I 2p. Richardson Papers pmk. 19 MR 51 pmk. TREVONE “A scrawl in haste . . . from the midst of an abominable influenza cold . . .”. The Spectator was her gift to Elliott.

1951.03.22] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Maundy Thursday, [22 March 1951] Trevone “Just a feeble scrawl . . .”. Wadsworth is in Switzerland. She provides information about Bryher. He will visit DMR around April 20.

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1951.03.23] To Henry Savage ALS 4p. Pennsylvania WOM 660-62 Good Friday [23 March 1951] Hillside “A few answers, confusedly” for she has flu. She surveys her career as a translator, and laments Moncrieff’s Proust. Miller’s insights, like those of Powys, are related to his essential femininity. The arts can never express fully what the artist wishes. The mystic comes closer, but language is metaphoric.

1951.03.25 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 25 MCH 1951 pmk. BODMIN “Referring to B’s last letter . . .” she finds Perdita’s child is a son.

1951.03.27] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 27 MR [1951] pmk. TREVONE “Another letter from B. to-day.” Bryher and H.D. are flying to New York for the christening.

1951.03.27a] To Bryher ApcI Bryher Papers pmk. 27 MR [1951?] pmk. PADSTOW “This is just an abject horrified apology.” Postage has increased.

1951.03.28 To Bernice Elliott ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Mar.28.’51 Hillside “Your letter brings me a great surprise . . .”. She explains how Bernice may get from Southampton. Bullett’s Mystics appeals to BE.

1951.03.31 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Mar.31.’51 Trevone “Yes indeed Penguin gratefully rec’d . . .”. She has had flu and is preparing for visitors.

1951.04.02] To Louise Morgan Theis ApcI Morgan-Their Papers, Yale pmk. 2 AP [1951] pmk. TREVONE “Cannot possibly undertake.”

1951.04.05 To Louise Morgan Theis ALS 4p. Morgan-Theis Papers Ap.5.’51 Hillside “How very kind of you to think out . . . that plan for articles on H.G. & Jane.” She has been told her portraits need no additions. She daily works a little on Pilgrimage. Living full-time in Cornwall taught Alan the worth of people other than those in the arts. Francis Odle has a new job.

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1951.04.06 To Ruth Suckow & Ferner Nuhn ALS 6p. Iowa WOM 662-64 Ap 6th.’51 Hillside “Dears: Where to begin?” With pictures of Arizona? With the world of Ruth’s writing? With the history of Tombstone, Arizona? She ends with thoughts about peace in society today.

1951.04.07 From Louise Morgan Theis ALS 2p. Morgan-Theis Papers 7.4.51 12-22 Bouverie Street, London “Before I could write” DMR’s wonderful letter came. She has learned that Hypo is Wells, and would like the key to other characters. It makes them richer. She loves and admires DMR.

1951.04.09 To Louise Morgan Theis TLS 1p. Morgan-Theis Papers Ap.9.’51 Hillside “It is many years . . . since I proudly did my first tapping:” She has various guests coming, and hopes Morgan will be among them.

1951.04.10 To Joseph Prescott ALS Prescott, “Seven Letters . . .”, p. 105-106 10 April 1951 Trevone, Padstow, Cornwall “A tiresome attack of . . . influenza . . . has prevented my writing . . .”. She mentions her Punctuation article in the Adelphi, H.D.’s trip to New York, Gunther’s influence on her views of America, and the Ferner Nuhns in Tucson.

1951.04.16] To Henry Savage ApcI Pennsylvania pmk. 16 AP [1951] pmk. TREVONE “Sorry to have kept Colossus for so long.”

1951.04.17 To Rose Odle ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Ap 17.’51 Trevone “Just a line, Rosie dear . . .”. Weather miserable. Wadsworth comes next week.

1951.04.17a To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 17 AP 51 Hillside “Greetings. I have not yet booked at D.”

1951.04.19] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk 19 AP [1951] [DMR: Feb 18th] pmk. TREVONE “Since posting a card to you yesterday . . .” she has booked Dunvoran from the 23rd.

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1951.04.20 To P. B. Wadsworth ALI 1p. Berg [c. 20 April 1951] [Hillside] “Just a contribution, dear Owen, towards the cost of your welcome visit.”

1951.04.22 To Ferner Nuhn ALS 2p. Iowa WOM 664-665 April 22nd. 195l Hilllside “A letter of yours . . . has just reappeared.” She recalls Philip Wicksteed on economics; and elaborates on the theology of the Trinity.

1951.04.29 To Bernice Elliott ApcI Richardson Papers pmk. 29 APR 1951 pmk. BODMIN CORNWALL “Just to let you know that I find you can ignore the crowded London express . . .”.

1951.04.29a To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Ap.29.’51 Hillside “My grateful thanks for yesterday’s packet . . .”. “Amabel” and P. Marrian visited for 10 days. Then Wadsworth. She looks forward to her 79th year.

1951.05.01 To Henry Savage ALS 3p. Pennsylvania WOM 665-67 May Day. ’51 Hillside “How very kind of you to fire books at me to help my flu.” Miller is a mystic, but too mental. She notes Lawrence’s critique of Englishmen. She is sad to see Wadsworth go off to Australia. She recalls the escapade when she and Alan went to Padstow for their first May-day in 1918.

1951.05.03] To Rose Odle ALS 2p. Richardson Papers May 3rd [1951] Trevone “Then, dear Rose, since all your June is free . . .” DMR suggests she come on the 14th. The speeches at the Royal Academy dinner were the best to date.

1951.05.04 To Bernice Elliott ALS 3p. Richardson Papers May 4th.’51 pmk. BODMIN CORNWALL “No! My horror was entirely on your account.” Bernice comes to England during the Festival of Britain. Will she recognize DMR’s ancient self?

1951.05.06 To Henry Savage ALS 3p. Pennsylvania WOM 667-68 May 6th ’51 Hillside “Oy! Did I write ‘Lawrence’s abysmal ignorance of women’ . . .”. No. Miller’s adoration of Powys is as mysterious as Powys’s admiration for DMR. Miller “is aware.”

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1951.05.09] To Henry Savage ALI 1p. Pennsylvania [c. 9 May 1951] [n.p.] “This week’s Spectator . . .” has an article that might interest, though its argument is dubious.

1951.05.10 To Bernice Elliott ALS 2p. Richardson Papers May 10th.’51 Hillside “All is well.” Accommodation for her is arranged.

1951.05.10a] To Bryher ApcI Bryher Papers pmk. 10 M[AY] 51 pmk. TREVONE “Am beginning to wonder whether you lingered a little in N.Y.”

1951.05.18 To Henry Savage ALS 5p. Pennsylvania WOM 669-70 May 18th ’51 Hillside “So besieged am I . . .”. She finds Huxley on cats nonsense. Male authors have inevitable limitations. But she defends women admirers of Lawrence.

1951.05.20] To Bernice Elliott ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Whitsun. [c. 20 May 1951] Trevone “Before reading your letter, I chortled . . .”. Elliott is going to visit England and DMR. Costs especially along the coast are very high. “Yes indeed I love Jane Austen.”

1951.05.20a] To P. B. Wadsworth AncS 2p. Berg [c. 20 May 1951] [Hillside] “Thank you, dear Owen, for Hyde’s discourse.” He is leaving for Australia.

1951.05.20b] To J. C. Powys ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #101 [c. 20 May 1951] Hillside “Blessings . . . for the Miller . . .”. He is poet, and mystic-in-the-making. She praises the BBC broadcast about Llewelyn P.

1951.05.21 To Joseph Prescott ALS 1p. photocopy Source unknown May 21 ’51 Trevone. Padstow. Cornwall. “Thank you. It is good to know” of your Encyclopaedia article on Joyce.

1951.05.22 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers. May 22nd ’51 Hillside

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“It was a relief to have your letter of the 13th . . .”. Bryher has returned from the U.S. by plane. She has described the McArthur reception in New York. Bernice Elliott, who hopes to work in England, is coming to Trevone in August when there is usually a water shortage.

1951.05.24 From J. C. Powys ALI 4p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #75 May 24th. 1951 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merioneth, N. Wales “how good of you to write” about Miller. They could hardly hear the BBC program.

1951.06.01 To Joseph Prescott ALS Prescott, “Seven Letters . . .”, p. 106-107 June 1, 1951 Trevone, Padstow, Cornwall “Multitudinous engrossments of all kinds must be my excuse . . .”. She recalls stray pieces in The Adelphi, anything in Close Up signed D.R. and early pieces in Daniel’s The Crank. Joy of Youth is by the American author. Forster, in Howard’s End, “stands alone in the depth of his understanding of women.” Writing, taking one from life, exacts a heavy price but one paid gladly.

1951.06.03 To Henry Savage ALS 4p. Pennsylvania June 3rd.’51 Hillside “Tiresome it is for you to be kept waiting . . .”. DMR would abolish Zoos as cruel. She surveys the Powys brothers, and recalls a palmist instructing her to write. But when her first book was accepted, she felt a heavy burden descend.

1951.06.13 To Bernice Elliott ALS 2p. Richardson Papers June 13th.’51 Hillside “My great age entitles me, I feel, to call you . . . a very naughty child . . .”. Elliott has made her arrangements for England.

1951.06.17 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers June 17. ’51 Hillside “Illuminating, I found, all you expressed” regarding the safety of flying. However a friend who flew to Australia was deafened for weeks. Bryher is to visit the Scillies. DMR’s traveling days are over, and her time is short for making her final arrangements.

1951.06.25] To Rose Odle ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 25 June 1951?] [n.p.] “I thought of you this mg. . . . toiling homewards in your train.”

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1951.06.26] To Rose Odle ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Tuesday [c. 26 June 1951?] Trevone “Your wineglass, dear Rosabel, got itself washed last night . . .”. Francis is bringing Richard Baker here to visit.

1951.06.29] To Peggy Kirkaldy ApcI Richardson Papers [c. 29 June 1951] [n.p.] “Thanks for the lovely fragments.” PK has been visiting France.

1951.07.12 To Bryher ALS 6p. Bryher Papers July 12th ’51 Hillside “(By the way I am using a 4d . . . stamp on this letter.” Richard Baker of the BBC, who reminded DMR of Maxwell Robertson, has discussed a program with her. John Ayre may return home next spring. An Indian professor plans to visit her.

1951.07.20 To Henry Savage ALS 4p. Pennsylvania WOM 671-72 July 20th ’51 Hillside “Just a few lines, dear Henry, & belated . . . congratulation . . .”. He has had surgery. DMR much prefers Masefield to Bridges. She forbids Savage to talk of autumn.

1951.07.30] To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg [c. 30 July 1951] Hillside “Very glad I am to have your letter” from Australia. She comments on the housing shortage there; and she doubts that their system of no tipping can work. Most of her friends have visited.

1951.08.17] To Bernice Elliott ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Aug. 17th.[1951] Hillside “Your permission to use the diminutive I do not ask . . .”. After visiting Trevone for a week, Bernice is in Somerset before going to London.

1951.08.27 From J. H. Ashton (The Fairbridge Society) TLS 1p. Richardson Papers 27th August. 1951 Storrington, Sussex “Thank you very much for your letter of the 21st . . .” concerning Fairbridge Society lecturers coming to Cornwall.

1951.08.30 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Aug.30 ’51 Hillside

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“Sad indeed, dearest Peg, your news of poor Boo.” Suicide. Europe possesses “happiness.” Do not worry about Susan [Sally?].

1951.09.02 To Henry Savage ALS 4p. Pennsylvania WOM 672-73 Sep 2.’51 Hillside “Yes, indeed, endless the speculations as to the ‘origin of evil’ & the ‘guilt-complex.’” The key is self-love, the source of all other love. Friends say autumn comes much earlier in London.

1951.09.09 To Bernice Elliott ALS 4p. Richardson Papers WOM 674-75 Sept.9th. ’5l Hillside “Your letter fills me with sympathy” for Elliott’s problems in travelling around England. She is now going to stay in London and DMR hopes that there she may be able to write. DMR recommends Interview with India by Bourke-White.

1951.09.16 To Ferner Nuhn ApcI Iowa [pmk. 16 SEP l951] [Hillside] “Thank you for charming card.” Unitarianism is misunderstood.

1951.09.17 To Bernice Elliott ApcI Richardson Papers [pmk. 17 SEP 51] [pmk. PADSTOW] “Incredible, your date of sailing!”

1951.09.20] To Bernice Elliott ApcI Richardson Papers [c. 20 September 1951] [n.p.] “This is a disappointment.” She is sailing from London.

1951.09.22 To Bernice Elliott ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Sept 22, ’51. Trevone “Just a line, dear Bernie, to greet you . . .”. London cast its spell on Elliott. The general election is on.

1951.10.04 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Oct. 4. ’51 Trevone “Just a small matter, dear Owen . . .”. She has decided to leave everything to Rose Odle and appoint her as literary executor. Rose has been preparing a DMR anthology.

1951.10.10 To Joseph Prescott ALS Prescott, “Seven Letters . . .”, pp. 108-111 October 10, 1951 Trevone, Padstow, Cornwall

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“Humbled, abashed, astounded, I feel, in face of your labour of research.” Her Henry James piece was in Fanfare. She mentions a whole series of other publications. [All these are included in Prescott’s "A Preliminary Checklist of the Periodical Publications of Dorothy M. Richardson," Studies in Honor of John Wilcox, ed. Alva Dayle Wallace and W.O. Ross, Wayne State University Press, 1958, pp. 219-225.] The many printing errors in her work result in part from the demands of housekeeping and a rather hectic life shuttling between London and Cornwall. She encloses her poems “Dark Harmony,” “Spring,” and “Gift.”

1951.10.17] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers Oct.17th [1951] Hillside “Waiting & waiting I have been . . . to hear you were coming this way.” DMR has had flu. They are in the midst of a thee-cornered election race.

1951.10.18] To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg pmk. 18 OC [1951] pmk. TREVONE “Just to let you know” that her Australian cousin has died.

1951.10.23 To Henry Savage ALS 4p. Pennsylvania WOM 675-76 Oct.23.’51 Hillside “Just when your last letter arrived I cannot tell . . .”. She has had flu. She is a little wistful at summer’s passing. BBC is broadcasting one of her stories at Christmas.

1951.10.28 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers Oct. 28th ’51 Hillside “Thank you for your letter, & for the enclosure . . .”. The election tension was great. DMR stayed up late to know the results. They have had Indian summer. BBC is to broadcast her Christmas story.

1951.11.04 To Bernice Elliott ALS 6p. Richardson Papers WOM 676-78 Nov 4th. ’5l Hillside “An attack of ’flu” and electioneering have intervened. She is relieved that Churchill is established as Prime Minister, though she regrets the decline of the Liberals who normally provide balance.. Her Christmas story is to be broadcast on B.B.C.

1951.12.05 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg Decr. 5th ’51 Hillside “Just a line of greeting for your first Australian Christmas.” He has visited Brisbane. Professor Iyengar has returned to India without seeing her or Powys.

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1951.12. 17] To Bernice Elliott ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Dec. 17th. [1951] Trevone “How very kind and good of you to send me all that food.” “Actually we have enough.”

1951.12.21] [To H.D.] ApcS H.D. Papers [c. 21 December 195l?] [Hillside] “Christmas greetings & love Dorothy.”

1951.12.22 To Bryher ALS 4p Bryher Papers WOM 678-79 Dec 22nd ’51 Trevone “It was good to have your letter . . .”. Parcels have arrived and she has hardly had time to say thanks. The BBC is broadcasting her Christmas story.

1951.12.22a] To J. C. Powys ApcS Richardson Papers Fouli DMR #102 [c. 22 December 1951] [Hillside] “Love & Christmas greetings to you both.”

1951.12.26 From J. C. Powys ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #76 Boxing Day 1951 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire, N. Wales “Both Phyllis & I were deeply hit by your kindness . . .”.

1951.12.29 To Evelyn Morrison ALS 2p. photocopy Eva Tucker Dec. 29th ’51 Trevone “What an enchanting Christmas gift you sent me.” Christmas was mild but a violent storm now rages.

1952.01.08 To Claude Houghton ALS 4p. HRC, Texas WOM 679-80 Jan.8 ’52 Hillside “Thank you for your letter . . .”. Powys will have been moved by Houghton’s new book. A story by her was used by BBC on Christmas Eve. A French publisher has paid for rights for Pilgrimage and is looking for a translator. Norman Douglas has died.

1952.01.28 From Jessie Hale ALS (Boobie) 4p. RP ELT 43:4, 447 Jan 28/’52 206 Pershing Ave. [San Antonio, Texas] “I have been looking and looking for some sort of a letter from you . . .”. They have beautiful weather. She describes the stressful circumstances of a blind girl she took to dinner. She keeps active.

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1952.01.28a] To Claude Houghton ApcI HRC, Texas [c. 28 January 1952] [pmk. TREVONE] “The cross section of humanity held me spell-bound.” (The Enigma of Conrad Stone]

1952.01.31 From Claude Houghton TLS (edited copy) 1p. Richardson Papers January 31st, 1952 Savage Club, London, S.W. I. “I cannot tell you adequately how much your card means.” Richard Church’s appreciation of Conrad Stone was penetrating, and Powys writes to praise it. Alan’s letters deepen their creative influence on every reading.

1952.02.01 To Henry Savage ALS 4p. Pennsylvania Feb. 1st.’52 Trevone “Thank you . . . for letting me see your review of Auden.” His proper medium now seems to be prose. The BBC has payed her £23 for her short story.

1952.02.11] From H.D TLS 2p. Richardson Papers Feb. 11 th. [1952] Hôtel de la Paix, Lausanne “I have about 20 letters of yours . . .” dating back to 1924. H.D. is sending them to Pearson at Yale. She has been in Lausanne for nearly six years. Perdita, with her son, has visited.

1952.02.15 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 3p. Berg Feb. 15th 52 Trevone “Your letter was cheering until those terrible fires began to race towards Sydney.” A Padstow man is moving his family to Australia. The funeral of George VI is taking place with bitter weather and vast crowds.

1952.02.17 From Claude Houghton TLS (edited copy) 2p. Richardson Papers February 17, 1952 Savage Club, London, S.W. I. “Thank you for your letter, dear Dorothy.” He had a Fantastic Tale on BBC. He urges DMR to add “scraps” to her novel.

1952.02.22 To Evelyn Morrison ALS 2p. photocopy Eva Tucker Feb. 22. ’52 Trevone “I am glad to hear from you.” Rose Odle would be pleased if Morrison visited her. “The multilingual magazine deserves to flourish.”

1952.03.01 From Ferner Nuhn to Dorothy Richardson and J. C. Powys TLS (typed signature) 2p. Richardson Papers

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Mar.1.1952 911 East Fifth St., Tucson, Ariz. “I am taking advantage of modern gadgets . . . to write to . . . Dorothy and John Cowper and Phyllis.” He has sent them his essays on Whitman. They are moving to Claremont, California. He is planning Radio work for the Friends. Ruth’s book has been well received. They appreciate the meditation books DMR has sent.

1952.03.05 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Mar.5th. 52 Hillside. Trevone. “Glad I am to hear . . . of the end of antrum trouble . . .”. It has been very cold. Various students are writing theses on her work.

1952.03.23 From Louise Morgan Theis TLS 1p. Morgan-Theis Papers 23 March 1952 10 Old Square, Lincoln’s Inn “I am in a jam. . . . This time I need your advice.” She wants to quit her job. Do free lance, living outside London. Can she ask Bryher to lend her money to buy a place in the country? Morgan’s friendship for Bryher never wavers.

1952.03.25] To Louise Morgan Theis ALS 1p. Morgan-Theis Papers Mar.25th [1952] Trevone “Your letter, received yesterday, brought me a shock . . .”. DMR approves Morgan’s plan and has sent her letter on to Bryher.

1952.03.26 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Mar. 26th ’52 Hillside “The enclosed reached me two days ago.” It concerns Louise Morgan. The latest thesis is at the Sorbonne. Pilgrimage: “I hope to survive long enough to finish the present volume.” She sends a cutting about her sister in Texas. The weather is very cold.

1952.04.12 To Louise Morgan Theis ALS 2p. Morgan-Theis Papers Ap 12th. 52 Hillside “This note is not easy to write.” She is distressed that regulations do no allow Bryher to lend money from Switzerland. DMR offers £50, if others can also contribute.

1952.04.26 To Evelyn Morrison ALS 2p. photocopy Eva Tucker Ap. 26 ’52 [Hillside] “I was glad to hear” of her holiday plans. Easter was lovely; then came two days of winter.

1952.05.05 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers WOM 680-81 May 5th ’52 [Hillside]

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“It is good to know that” Bryher may get to Trevone. Johnnie Ayre has returned to school in Edinburgh. There are now DMR theses in progress at the Sorbonne and Oxford. She has quit smoking and gained weight.

1952.05.09 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg May 9th ’52 Trevone “Just a hurried line to post . . .”. Australia has failed. He returns to England.

1952.05.22 To Bernice Elliott ALS 2p. Richardson Papers May 22nd. ’52. [Hillside] “You should have had a line ere this” but spring cleaning and appeals from students writing theses on Pilgrimage intervened. She has entered her 80th year.

1952.05.28] To Bryher ApcS Bryher Papers [pmk. - - (M?)Y 52] [pmk. TREVONE] “Adorable puffins!” Many friends visiting.

1952.06.01 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers June 1st.’52 [n.p.] “I should have sent a line ere this . . .” but was delayed in reading Bryher’s Fourteenth, a masterpiece. DMR, in her 80th year, is deeply grateful to Bryher for her financial help.

1952.06.08 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg June 8. ’52 [Hillside] “So you are actually back in London . . .”. She hopes he can visit her. She has quit smoking.

1952.06.09 To Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 2p. Richardson Papers June 9th.’52 pmk. TREVONE “Horrified I am to think” of PK’s long journey to Mevagissey. DMR has had more visitors.

1952.06.23 To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers June 23rd ’52 [Hillside] “It astounds me to learn that English publishers do not jump at your book.” Bryher will visit on July 19.

1952.06.29 To Evelyn Morrison AncS 2p. photocopy Eva Tucker June 29 ’52 [Hillside]

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“I was very glad to hear that quarters have been found for your second week.” Send a postcard with the cost.

1952.07.02] To Louise Morgan Theis ApcS. Morgan-Theis Papers [pmk. 2 JY 52] [pmk. TREVONE] “Glad to hear from you.” Thesis appeals continue, this time Indian via Cambridge.

1952.07.06 To Rose Odle ALS 4p. Richardson Papers July 6th ’52 [n.p.] “Your kind message . . .” was welcome. Thesis writers continue to proliferate. P. Marrian is here.

1952.07.07 To Bryher AncS 2p. Bryher Papers July 7. ’52 [Hillside] “Of course . . . the N.Y. Times listed October in its right place.” DMR will be looking for Bryher.

1952.07.13] To Henry Savage ApcI Pennsylvania [c. 13 July 1952] [pmk. illegible] “Mea culpa! Two unanswered letters from H.S.”

1952.07.14 To Evelyn Morrison AncS 2p. photocopy Eva Tucker July 14th 52 [Hillside] “Hearing yesterday from Mrs Morrison . . .” about Evelyn’s holiday, she encloses money.

1952.07.17] To Bernice Elliott ApcI Richardson Papers [pmk. 17 JY 52] [pmk. CORNWALL] “Have been up to my eyes in things and people for months past.”

1952.07.22] To Bryher ALS 2p. Bryher Papers July 22nd [1952] Hillside “Tuesday already, dear Bryher . . .” and she has been wanting to say how much Bryher’s visit meant to her. Bryher has sent extra funds. The heat is terrific.

1952.07.25 To Pauline Marrian TLS (edited copy) 2p. RP WOM 681-82 July 25th ’52 Hillside

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“A word of grateful thanks for . . . the ideal tea . . .”. Macmillan is to visit. Solitude is “neither loneliness nor lovelessness,” she assures Marrian, who does not fear dying but survival thereafter.

1952.07.31 To P. B. Wadsworth AncS 2p. Berg July 31.’52 [Hillside] “Good luck.” She has secured him a room from the 16th.

1952.08.05 To P. B. Wadsworth ApcI Berg [pmk. 5 AU 52] [pmk. TREVONE] “Hope it is not too late for you to book a seat.”

1952.08.10a To Shiv K. Kumar TLS [edited copy] 1p. Richardson Papers August 10th, ’52 Hillside “I am glad to know that your tour of Europe was a happy one.” She was not aware of the influence of Bergson or anyone else. In regard to memory, Proust is “far below Bergson.”

1952.08.17 To Henry Savage ALS 4p. Pennsylvania Aug.17.’52 [n.p.] “A delightful letter from Henry in April.” She has requests from students in the U.S., India, France, Wales, and Oxford. We should write because something “demands expression.” Macmillan , whose book is just published, has been visiting.

1952.08.29 To Evelyn Morrison ALS 2p. photocopy Eva Tucker Aug. 29th ’52. [Hillside] “Early in the week I filled in” answers about Morrison for the War Office. Macmillan’s book is being serialized in The Sunday Express.

1952.09.03 To P. B. Wadsworth ALS 2p. Berg Sept. 3rd ’52 [Hillside] “I was glad to hear of your good weather at St. Ives . . .”. She comments on Macmillan’s second book.

1952.09.05 To P. B. Wadsworth AncS 2p. Berg Sep. 5.’52 [Embossed] Hillside. / Trevone. / Padstow “So it is probably to be . . . Munich . . .”.

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1952.09.06 To Evelyn Morrison AncS 2p. photocopy Eva Tucker Sep. 6.’52. [Hillside] “If indeed you are to go to Poland . . .” DMR hopes for a visit first.

1952.09.16 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Sept.16 ’52 [Hillside] “I was glad of your letter, dated . . . August 22nd!” The tide of summer visitors, and automobiles, is ebbing. A U.S. student has got into Oxford on account of his dollar payments. As the leaves fall, she begins looking forward to spring.

1952.09.23 To H.D. ApcS H.D. Papers pmk. 23 SEP 1952 pmk. BODMIN “Just a line, dear H.D.” H.D. is looking forward to a second grandchild.

1952.10.09 To Bryher ALS 4p. Bryher Papers Oct 9.’52 [Hillside] “Time has ceased flying. It just flashes by.” Bryher has sent books. DMR’s sales have doubled in the last half-year. John Ayre is back at Leysin. She notes the train wreck at Wealdstone.

1952.10.12 To Rose Odle ALS 4p. Richardson Papers WOM 683-84 Oct.12.’52 “Thank you for the gorgeous Brangwyn.” She comments on composting. Pilgrimage goes on slowly selling. They saw a good deal of Nina Hamnett in Paris. Like DMR, Rose has a sister.

1952.10.14] To J. C. Powys ApcI RP WOM 683 Fouli DMR #103 pmk. 14 OCT 52[?] pmk. TREVONE “Inmates matchless, John.”

1952.10.15 From Shiv K. Kumar TLS 2p. Richardson Papers October 15, ’52 12 Trumpington Street, Cambridge “I have already sent you J. C. Powys’ little book . . .”. Her comments have led him to change his whole approach, stressing parallelism with Bergson. Of all the S. of C. novelists, DMR alone has succeeded in “possessing the absolute.”

1952.10.18 To Henry Savage ALS 4p. Pennsylvania WOM 684-85 Oct.18.’52 [n.p.]

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“Just a few lines, dear Henry . . .”. Many old friends and a few relatives have visited. Her childish nick-name was Tottie. She was bored by The Magic Mountain. At age 3 she was surprised by the fact of being.

1952.10.21 From J. C. Powys ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Fouli JCP #77 October 21st 1952 Corwen, Merioneth, N. Wales “I’m so proud to get your card . . .”. His next two books are to be In Spite of and Atlantis.

1952.11.06 To Bryher ALS 3p. Bryher Papers WOM 686 Nov.6.’52 [Hillside] “Thank you, dear Bryher, for the names & addresses of typists . . .”. The second half of the new volume goes slowly. There are more theses writers. [Last letter to Bryher.]

1952.11.09 To J. C. Powys ApcS RP WOM 686-87 Fouli DMR #104 pmk. 9 NOV 1952 BODMIN “Thanks for letting me see the appeal.” There are more theses writers on Pilgrimage.

1952.11.17 From Pauline Marrian TLS (typed signature) 4p. Richardson Papers 17th. Nov. 1952 Walton Park Hotel, Clevedon, Somerset. “I spent a virtuous week end ‘tidying’.” She found old letters from early lovers, and from DMR, most of which she has discarded, though not DMR’s first letter to her. Last week she was propositioned by a boot manufacturer.

1952.12.08 To Shiv K. Kumar TpcS [edited copy] Richardson Papers [pmk. 8.12.52] [Hillside] “Am Ill.”

1952.12.14 From Georgina [Mase] TLS 1p. Richardson Papers l4th December ’52 Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire “If I wrote to you every time I thought about you . . .” it would be every time Mase did something especially nice. Owen was too busy for them to come to Cornwall. She longs to see more of DMR’s work. She has taken a day off just to appreciate nature.

1953.01.05 From Jessie Hale ALS (Boobie) 4p. RP ELT 43:4, 448 1-5.53 206 Pershing Ave. [San Antonio, Texas] “You pore pore Goobie.” She worries about DMR’s illness [shingles]. She has a good time by herself, and not having to worry about meals. Write.

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1953.10.14 From J. C. Powys ALS 4p. Arendt Library, Syracuse Fouli JCP #78 wed. Oct 14 1953 7 Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire. N. Wales “I have a sort of feeling that I never expressed my gratitude to you for a good word” about Inmates. Mrs. Playter died in April. His son has been stricken with a paralizing illness. He is writing the final chapter of Atlantis.

1953.12.10 From Dorothy M. Donnelly ALS 2p. Richardson Papers December 10, 1953 Ann Arbor, Michigan “It is only recently that I have read your Pilgrimage . . .”. It has made accessible a unique experience with innumerable facets.

1954.08.17] From Veronica Grad ALS 2p. Richardson Papers [c. 17 August 1954?] 8 Primrose Terrace Edin: 11 “Darling Dorothy, it was wonderful seeing you . . .” [at her nursing home]. David could bring you things from Hillside.

1956.02.01 From Peggy Kirkaldy ALS 6p. Richardson Papers Feb. 1 1956 8 Beverly Road, Colchester “I do so very much hope that you are as well as can be in this cold weather?” Bob is nearly 52, PK is 62. She has four cats.

1956.12.19 From J. C. Powys to Rose Odle ALS 4p. Arendt Library, Syracuse Fouli Appendix 3 December 19th 1956. 1 Waterloo, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, N. Wales “Alas! I am too shaky in my memory now” to describe DMR, but he has saved her letters which shall be sent. He hopes a biographer will satisfy DMR’s living worshipers. He recalls a particularly fine drawing by AO for Morwyn.

1956.12.22] From Peggy Kirkaldy A card I Richardson Papers [Christmas 1956?] 8, Beverley Road / Colchester “To dearest D. With best wishes & love for Christmas and the New Year”.

1957.05.31 From J. C. Powys to Rose Odle ALS 4p. Arendt Library, Syracuse Fouli Appendix 3 Friday May 31st 1957 1 Waterloo, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, N. Wales “Isn't this a remarkable co-incidence . . .”. We had just begun to reread DMR’s letters. Edel would do a good book about her. At 85, his memory is failing, but he would like to know about DMR’s last years. He sends DMR’s letters.

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1957.06.19 From J. C. Powys & Phyllis Playter to Rose Odle ALS 4p. Arendt Library, Syracuse University WOM 687-88 Fouli Appendix 3 June 19, 1957 Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merioneth “Mr Powys and I were so glad to have your card today.” DMR’s death has brought back memories of her rich and enveloping personality. Playter wants the best arrangement for preserving DMR’s letters.

1957.06.23] From Veronica Grad to Rose Odle ALS 2p. Richardson Papers Hanscombe (1982), 171 [c. 23 June 1957] [n.p.] “Your note with the ring came this morning.” Through everything Dorothy and Veronica “were part of each other.” “We were . . . more ‘lovers’ than we ever could be to any man...”.

1957.07.13] From Veronica Grad to Rose Odle ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Hanscombe (1982), 172-73 [c. 13 July 1957] at 2 Landsdown Road, Tunbridge Wells “I feel I just must write to say ‘thank you’” for her visit to Rose. “Slender & pink & white & her hair pure gold”: that was DMR when Veronica first met her. Veronica did not love Benjamin but married him because he and Dorothy wanted it.

1957.07.16] From Rose Odle to Veronica Grad ALS 2p. Hanscombe (1982), 173-74 [n.d.; c. 16 July 1957] Upper Landour, 11 Sunningvale Avenue, Biggin Hill. Kent “Thank you so much for your letter.” She needs a receipt for Dorothy’s wedding ring. She understands about DMR’s compelling character.

1957.07.17 From Jessie Hale to Rose Odle TLU 4p. Richardson Papers July 17, 1956[i.e. 1957] San Antonio, Texas “DATA ABOUT THE EARLY LIFE OF DOROTHY M. RICHARDSON” Born in Abingdon, she was a chubby blond child. She became an accomplished pianist. The family attended church twice each Sunday. To support herself she tried teaching, and then became secretary to Dr. Babcock [sic]. H. G. Wells urged her to write. Later she married Alan Odle. Jessie adds a note on her first memory of Dorothy. [Factual details are sometimes far from accurate.]

1957.07.17a From Jessie Hale (MS) T MS U 3p. Radcliffe ELT 45:1, 57-60 July 17, 1956 [i.e. 1957] San Antonio, Texas

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“DATA ABOUT THE EARLY LIFE OF DOROTHY M. RICHARDSON” Essentially the same as 1957.07.17 above, but with Jessie’s first memory of Dorothy inserted at an appropriate place.

1957.07.20 From J. C. Powys to Rose Odle ALS 3p Arendt Library, Syracuse Fouli Appendix 3 Saturday July 20 1957 1 Waterloo, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire North Wales “Phyllis & I have received the letters of D.M.R safely . . .”.

1957.08.03 From E. B. C. Jones to Rose Odle TLS 3p. Richardson Papers Aug. 3. 57 Yattendon. Newbury, Berks. “I want to answer you properly . . .”. Despite her admiration for DMR, they met only three or four times. Jones tried to get her friends to appreciate DMR but failed. An editor now is unlikely to be interested in a symposium. In future maybe social historians will value her.

1957.08.06] From Veronica Grad to Rose Odle ALS 3p. Richardson Papers Hanscombe (1982), 174 [c. 6 August 1957] 2 Landsdowne Road, T. Wells “I am so sorry I haven’t answered your letter before . . .”. At one time Veronica had a close association with Macmillan. Alan died about the same time as Benjamin.

1957.08.07 From E. B. C. Jones to Rose Odle ALS 4p. Richardson Papers 7 Aug. 57 [n.p.] “I will try to write something . . .”. She would love to meet Rose during one of her brief visits to London. She once started a DMR Dictionary.

1957.08.10 From Rose Odle to E. B. C. Jones ALS 2p. British Library 10.VIII 57. Biggin Hill Kent “Thank you for your letter.” She returns Jones’s letters, with a typed carbon copy. Yale, she says, will house DMR’s letters superbly.

1957.08.13] From Peggy Kirkaldy to Rose Odle TLU 6p. Richardson Papers [c. 13 August 1957] [n.p..] “Having written to Dorothy Richardson” PK was invited to tea. Soon the Odles visited her home once or twice each year. Sitting in the garden, they discoursed for hours. “Dorothy and Alan seemed to illuminate everything with their own special radiance – a sort of intellectual brilliance . . .”. DMR organized their lives. PK provides a brilliantly living portrait of life with the Odles, as she knew them.

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1957.08.24 From Rose Odle to Veronica Grad ALS 4p. Hanscombe (1982), 175-76 24.VIII.57 Upper Landour, 11, Sunningvale Avenue, Biggin Hill, Kent “I enclose copies of 2 letters from Leon Edel.” He will undertake the biography. Would Vera please do a vignette of Dorothy when young? The letters of DMR would be best with those of Bryher and H.D. at Yale. She has letters from Jones, Pollard, Kirkaldy, Marrian and J. C. Powys. Does Vera have any?

1957.08.27] From Jessie Hale to Rose Odle ALS 8p. Richardson Papers 8–27–56 [i.e. 57] San Antonio, Texas “I received your letter and hasten to reply.” Jessie describes the Richardson grandparents, especially the grandmother who lived with them. On the maternal side, the Taylors were very different. Grandmother Taylor was one of a family of 20. But Dorothy knew very few of her relatives. Among the best known were her cousins Louie and Alice French. Jessie recalls Harry Babcock’s [sic] kindness to DMR during her working years. The Richardsons went to Dawlish for their summer holidays.

1957.09.01 From Ruth Pollard to Rose Odle ALS 4p. Richardson Papers Sept 1st [1957] Hollist Lane, Midhurst, Sussex “I was most interested in your letter . . .”. “Dorothy was the nicest person I ever knew, such integrity & she refused to be highbrow.” Pollard encloses 5 letters. DMR’s one visit to her was heavenly.

1957.09.11] From Jessie Hale (MS) T MS U 2p. Radcliffe ELT 45:1, 60-63 [c. 11 September 1957] San Antonio, Texas “NOTES ON THE LIFE AND ANCESTORS OF DOROTHY MILLER RICHARDSON.” An expanded version of 1957.08.27] above. Among additions: an account of a typical large family dance; and report of a Doctor who fell in love with DMR and later drowned.

1957.09.17] From Pauline Marrian to Rose Odle ALS 3p. Richardson Papers [c. 17 September 1957] [n.p.] “I discovered Dorothy Richardson’s novels in 1920" and met her through Mabel Koopman. Marrian got to know her best during the war when she visited her while on leave from war duty. The sitting room in Trevone overflowed with books and papers. The Quakers profoundly influenced DMR, but she also had an irascible and stubborn streak. She did not suffer fools or age gladly.

1957.09.29 From Rose Odle to Veronica Grad ALS 1p. Hanscombe (1982), 176 29.9.57 Upper Landour, 11, Sunningvale Avenue, Biggin Hill, Kent “How are you?” She ask Vera to come and see her in Kent. She is giving a talk on DMR.

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1957.10.16 From Veronica Grad to Rose Odle ApcS Richardson Papers Hanscombe (1982), 185-86 pmk. 16 OCT 1957 pmk. TUNBRIDGE WELLS “F.E.W. Florence E. Worland – Tolstoyan . . .”, editor with Charles Daniel of “The Crank.” She can’t identify Winifred Ray.

1957.10.26 From Bernice Elliott to Rose Odle ALS 2p. Richardson Papers October 26, 1957 New York 17, N.Y. “Yes, I have letters from Dorothy Richardson . . .”. She will send them. She is glad there is to be a biography.

1957.11.21 From Rose Odle to Leon Edel ALS 1p. Richardson Papers 21. XI. 57 14. Westbourne Grove Terrace, London, W.2 “Herewith Letters to Pauline Marrian / R. I. O. / Vincent Brome” and Peggy Kirkaldy and one each from Frances Gale and Louise Morgan.

1957.11.23 From Rose Odle to Veronica Grad ALS 3p. Hanscombe, 177 23.XI.57 14 Westbourne Grove Terrace, London, W.2 “How are you. Could you get here.” Vera is the only one who knew DMR when young. Edel is a great man. She has sent him bundles of letters and photostats.

1957.12.03 From Rose Odle to Veronica Grad ALS 2p. Hanscombe, 178 3.XII.57 14 Westbourne Grove Terrace, London, W.2 “Are you alright?” Philip Bachelor has inherited the estate. Rose is being helped for literary expenses by DMR’s friend [Bryher]. Rose asks for information about DMR when young. She is soon leaving for Portugal.

1957.12.04] From Veronica Grad to Rose Odle ALS 6p. Richardson Papers Hanscombe (1982), 178-80 [c. 4 December 1957] [n.p.] “I am really sorry to have caused you to write a second letter . . .”. Veronica now sees DMR as she was. She loved no one but herself. She never gave sympathy or help. Everyone was “copy” material. She never saw through her self-deception. Veronica wants to write the story of her own life. She recalls Mag and Jan and other young women in DMR’s life.

1957.12.08 From Rose Odle to Veronica Grad ALS 2p. Hanscombe, 180-81 [c. 8 December 1957] [n.p.]

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“I feel what it costs you to write.” She understands Vera’s point about DMR not being involved. Where was DMR married? She is sending details to Edel.

1957.12.27] From Veronica Grad to Rose Odle AncS 2p. Richardson Papers Hanscombe (1982), 181-82 [c. 27 December 1957] [n.p.] “Dear Rose, yes I knew you’d know that what I wrote was true . . .”. DMR and Alan were married in a registry office. It was after that Veronica learned DMR had known Benjamin had been in “a lunatic asylum.”

1958.06.02 From Rose Odle to Veronica Grad ALS 2p. Hanscombe, 182 2.VI.58 Upper Landour, 11, Sunningvale Avenue, Biggin Hill, Kent “How are you?” Can Vera recall Winifred Ray and Selina Holland? RO’s lower bungalow is free. “Peggy Kirkaldy died on the 29th [May] . . .”.

1958.06.09] From Veronica Grad to Rose Odle ALS 5p. Richardson Papers Hanscombe (1982), 183-84 [c. 9 June 1958] 2 Landsdowne Road “Forgive that I haven’t answered you sooner . . .”. S. Holland was a Miss Moffat, a night- school teacher appalled at DMR’s affair with a married man. Veronica’s reassessing of her relations with DMR has been painful but worth while. DMR was a complete egoist, Veronica has no ego at all.

1958.10.08 From Rose Odle to Veronica Grad ALS 2p. Hanscombe, 184-85 8.10.58 14 Westbourne Grove Terrace, London W2 “I hope your week away was a rest . . .”. Edel visited her. She found him modest, perceptive and understanding. With his biographical subjects, he must be objective. Rose notes the “tough streak in D. Mind . . .”. Rose has had a great responsibility and has tried to do the right thing.

1959.05.30 From Bryher to John Lehmann TLS 1p. HRC, Texas 30th May 1959 Villa Kenwin, Burrier-La-Tour, Vaud “Dorothy Richardson was an intimate friend of mine . . .”. DMR, the complete Victorian, was reticent on sexual matters, not at all as Brome represents her. Nor were psychic elements important to her. But “Miriam” was supremely important to Bryher.

1968.04.02 From Rose Odle to Yale University TLU 2p Richardson Papers Hanscombe (1982), 169-71 April 2nd. 1968. Biggin Hill, Kent.

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“These letters reached me after the death of . . .” DMR. They are from Veronica Grad, who phoned in distress, alternately blaming and eulogizing DMR. She wanted DMR’s wedding ring. Later she visited and spoke freely of DMR and her difficult relations with her. And she sent Rose these 7 letters and cards.

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