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Beinecke Library, Yale. These boxes include correspondence, manuscripts, financial papers, papers about film and papers about boys’ books by authors like R.M. Ballantyne and G.A. Henty: https://orbis.library.yale.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bIbid.=3476386

Louis Silverstein’s online H.D. Chronology is an invaluable and detailed research guide covering every event in her life. http://www.imagists.org/hd/hdchron1.html

H.D.’s papers are also at the Beinecke – in 69 boxes. The H.D. International Society has an official website: https://hdis.chass.ncsu.edu. It has also compiled a Bryher Chronology: https://hdis.chass.ncsu.edu/hdcircle/bryher/

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When is a woman not

H.D., Borderline

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it is distinguished by

‘Our Friend Bryher’ in The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

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Gluck no prefix, no suffix

Diana Souhami, Gluck: Her Biography

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I have rushed to the penniless

Bryher, The Heart to Artemis

114

I was completely a child of

Ibid.

115

There was only one street in Paris

Ibid.

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his beard so neat it could have been

Robert McAlmon, Being Geniuses Together

117

‘He keeps me in a glass case’

Ibid.

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I found the French fleuret

The Heart to Artemis

118

In the early nineteen hundreds

‘Recognition not farewell’ Life and Letters Today, Autumn 1937

119

I watched the seamen

The Heart to Artemis

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What do you expect

Ibid.

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I was flung into a crowded

Ibid.

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I had the emotional development

Ibid.

121

It was an instantaneous falling

Ibid.

121

even to see a puffin

Ibid.

121

There was something about

Ibid.

121

Women will never be accepted

Ibid.

122

Complete frustration leads to

Bryher, Development

122

I have always been a feminist

Ibid.

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paint not the object

Stéphane Mallarmé to Henri Cazalis, 30 October 1864, Oeuvres complètes, 1945

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The rhythms were new

The Heart to Artemis

123

to blot out this garden

H.D., Sheltered Garden, Poems 21

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Was something going to happen

The Heart to Artemis

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The door opened and I started

Ibid.

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so madly it is terrible

H.D. to John Cournos, quoted in Herself Defined

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I don’t want to be (as they say

H.D., HERmione

127

We are legitimate children

H.D., Asphodel

127

She was a disappointment

HERmione

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tall, thin, pale, rather handsome

To Dora Marsden, 1 July 1914, quoted in Dear Miss Weaver

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best of the imagists

May Sinclair to Charlotte Mew, June 1915, Berg Collection

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to deny love entrance

Quoted in Herself Defined

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Hilda gets very low

Frieda Lawrence to Amy Lowell, February 1918

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I feel my work is beautiful

H.D. to John Cournos, Iowa Review, vol. 16, no. 3

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You seem to be in a rather

Aldington to H.D., 3 August 1918, Silverstein H.D. chronology

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this preposterous masculine

Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, Letters of Virginia Woolf, vol. 2

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No more than Cain

Aldington to H.D., December 1918, Silverstein

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Her nerves are very shaken

D.H. Lawrence to Amy Lowell, 28 December, 1918

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You must think me the greatest

Patmore to Bryher, 25 February 1922, Silverstein

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The world is full of my daughters

Patmore to Bryher, 10 June 1924, Silverstein

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sense of being in a bell jar

H.D., Tribute to Freud

134

stars turn in purple

H.D., ‘Stars Wheel in Purple’

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bluer than blue, bluer than gentian

H.D., Asphodel

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When I met Bryher first

Ibid.

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that seemed to be the only

H.D. to Ezra Pound, 1928

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Hilda’s circle did not like me at all

The Heart to Artemis

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back and forth from Audley Street

Ibid.

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her tall form languidly

Havelock Ellis, The Fountain of Life, 1930

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When a creative scientist

H.D., Notes on Thought and Vision

140

super feelers of the super mind

Ibid.

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We had made a pact

Ibid.

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They are not important

H.D., Tribute to Freud

142

this writing on the wall before me

Ibid.

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Hilda went right out of her mind

Quoted in Herself Defined

146

the energy of a yearling

Robert McAlmon and The Lost Generation

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to sing with my own

‘Some Have Their Moments’

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I thought America

Bryher, West, 1925

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I put my problem

The Heart to Artemis

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I was desperately

Ibid.

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We are in a terrible

H.D. to Viola Jordan, 17 February 1921, Silverstein

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moneymakers on the grand

Being Geniuses Together

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Mary was one of the few

‘Recognition not Farewell’, Life and Letters Today, Autumn 1937

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‘Just to prove my darling

15 May 1922 and 15 June 1927

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I personally don’t trust

Unpublished letter, Silverstein

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We strove for a name

H.D., Heliodora, 1924

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Please if you can

Macpherson to H.D. circa 1926. Quoted in Herself Defined

163

Hoping to be a man

Kenneth Macpherson, ‘One’

164

She looked a fright

Ibid.

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not to get caught up

Macpherson to H.D., 1927. Quoted in Herself Defined

166

as the stone will cause

Macpherson, Pool Reflection, 1927

166

one of Pabst

Macpherson to H.D., 27 October 1927

167

never to be forgotten

Close Up, vol. 4, no. 4, April 1929

168

We were invited

The Heart to Artemis

170

a chill passed over me

Donald, Close Up

171

a dame from the city

Ibid.

171

This is a four-reel film

Ibid.

172

Inside every person

‘Secrets of a Soul’, Bernard Chodorkoff and Seymour Baxter. American Imago, vol. 31, no. 4, 1974

173

I do not believe

Ibid.

173

The object of my search

The Heart to Artemis

175

Brave, handsome

Macpherson to H.D., 1928. Quoted in Herself Defined

177

Not black films

Donald, Close Up, vol. 5, no. 2

177

made her entry

Janet Flanner, Paris was Yesterday

179

ruined our make-up

Quoted in Martin Bauml Duberman, Paul Robeson

179

When is an African

H.D., ‘Borderline – A Pool Film with Paul Robeson’, 1930

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It’s a dreadful highbrow

Quoted in Paul Robeson

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It was the time of

Heart to Artemis

183

that seldom if ever

Analyzing Freud: The Letters of H.D., Bryher and their Circle

184

usually a child decides

Ibid.

184

F says mine

H.D. to Bryher,