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Machine readable finding aid created 2006. Description is in English Berg Coll MSS Aldington Guide to the Richard Aldington collection of papers,1914-1962 The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature The New York Public LibraryNew York, New York The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. New York Public Library. Room 320. Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street New York, NY 10018-2788 (212) 930-0802 brgref@nypl.org http://nypl.org/research/chss/spe/brg/berg.html Processed by: Staff Date Completed: 2006 Encoded By: Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider Processed and encoded through a gift from Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.

Descriptive Summary Richard Aldington collection of papers, 1914-1962 Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962 Berg Coll MSS Aldington394 items The New York Public Library. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature

New York, New York

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence by and about the author, diaries for 1933, an undated notebook, and financial documents. Subjects Personal Names Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956. Bird, Alan. Campbell, Roy, 1901-1957. Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965. Gawsworth, John, 1912-1970. Lawrence, Frieda von Richthofen, 1879-1956. Lowenfels, Walter, 1897-1976. Lyle, Rob. MacGreevy, Thomas. Morgan, Louise. Moult, Thomas. Taylor, Rachel Annand, 1876- Wolfe, Humbert, 1885-1940. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Benkovitz, Miriam J., donor. Organizations James B. Pinker and Son. Subjects Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962. Places Document Types Correspondence. Diaries. Notebooks. Administration Information Source

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

Custodial History

Previous owners include Rob Lyle. The author's letters to Rachel Annand Taylor were a gift of Miriam Benkovitz in memory of John D. Gordan.

Access

Collection is restricted to qualified scholars and researchers through the Office of Special Collections, Room 316

Restrictions on Use

For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature

Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Biography

Richard Aldington was an English novelist, essayist, satirist, biographer, literary critic, and translator.

Scope and Content Note

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence by and about the author, diaries for 1933, an undated notebook, and financial documents. The manuscripts and typescripts include poems, radio talks, biographies, and translations by the author, as well as essays relating to the author by Frieda Lawrence and Walter Lowenfels. The correspondence consists of letters, dating from 1916 to 1962, from the author to Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong, Alan Bird, Rob Lyle, Thomas Moult, Rachel Annand Taylor, Louise Morgan Theis, Virginia Woolf, and others, and well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1930 to 1955, between various correspondents including Michael Arlen, Roy Campbell, Nancy Cunard, Rob Lyle, Thomas McGreevy, Humbert Wolfe, and the literary agency J. B. Pinker and Son.

Series Descriptions Manuscripts & Typescripts Manuscripts Manuscript box Be unto me as sunlight. Holograph poems n.d. ms. 1 item Manuscript box Fifteen years ago. Holograph poem. On French table of contents and advertisement torn out of unidentified book n.d. ms. 2 p. Manuscript box To: Brigit. Another of your poets! Holograph poem n.d. ms. 1 p.

Signed with initials

Diaries & Notebooks Engagement book with holograph entries 1933 Jan. - 1933 Mar. diaries 1 v.

With undated diary of a visit to North Africa

Diary entries of a visit to North Africa. Holograph n.d. diaries 1 v.

With engagement book with entries for Jan.-March, 1933

Notebook of poems. Holograph n.d. notebooks 1 v.

Four poems laid in. All but one unpublished in [The complete poems, London, Wingate, 1948] B.

Typescripts Manuscript box (Gotham). In: Gotham book mart, New York. We moderns. Folder 30 Gotham Book Mart. Richard Aldington. Typescript of contribution to We moderns n.d. typescripts 1 p.

Published in Gotham book mart catalog, no. 41, New York, 1940

Manuscript box. In: Aldington, Richard. 99 TLS, 3 telegrams to Rob Lyle. 1954-1956. Enclosed in letter of Sept. 12, 1954. Folder 2 Lawrence, Frieda. Letters from Frieda Lawrence Ravagli. Typescript (carbon). Relate to Norman Douglas and D. H. Lawrence [1954] typescripts 3 p. Manuscript box. In his: 99 TLS, 3 telegrams to Rob Lyle. 1954-1956. Enclosed in letter of Nov. 21, 1954. Folder 7 Lawrence d'Arabie. Typescript (carbon) of radio talk with the author's ms. corrections n.d. typescripts (emended) 3 p.

With ms. note, "Radio France 25/11/54"

Manuscript box (Aldington) Lowenfels, Walter. The Ideal reader. Books 6 and 7. Typescript with Richard Aldington's ms. comments n.d. typescripts (annotated) 34 p. Oversize (+) Portrait of a genius but. The life of D. H. Lawrence. Typescript with the author's ms. corrections. "First draft" on spine of case n.d. typescripts (emended) 270 p.

Signed Author's ms. note on title-page, signed and dated "Montpellier, 1955"

Oversize (+) Portrait of a genius but. The life of D. H. Lawrence. Later typewritten draft (carbon) with the author's ms. corrections. "Second draft" on spine of case. Pages 42, 356-359, 391 omitted in numbering n.d. typescripts (emended) 508 p.

Published, London: Heinemann, 1950

Manuscript box. In his: 11 TLS to Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong. 1946-1951 Syrian dancer, The. Attributed to Vergil. Translated by Richard Aldington. Typescript n.d. typescripts 1 p. Financial Documents Manuscript box (Aldington) English review. Check made out to Richard Aldington by Violet Hunt 1914 July 21 financial docs. 1 item

Endorsed by Richard Aldington

Correspondence Outgoing Manuscript box Armstrong, Terence Ian Fytton. 11 TLS 1946 - 1951 corr. Out 11 items

Accompanied by his: The Syrian dancer. Attributed to Vergil. Trans. by Richard Aldington. Typescript, [n.d.] 1 p.; galley proof, 1 p. The vigil of Venus. Trans. by Aldington. Galley proof. 2 p.

Manuscript box Bird, Alan. 147 TLS. Relates to his Lawrence of Arabia 1949 Feb. 3 - 1962 Feb. 5 corr. Out 147 items in 29 folders

Published, London: Collins, 1955

Inserted in his: Death of a hero, 1929. 1st American edition Buck, Mr.. ALS 1921 Aug. 2 corr. Out 1 item Manuscript box Buck, M[--?] S[--?]. TLS 1916 Feb. 18 corr. Out 1 p. Manuscript box Campbell, Roy. 4 TLS. Mention Norman Douglas and Thomas Edward Lawrence 1954 July 5 - 1954 Sept. 12 corr. Out 4 items

Letter of July 5 encloses an anonymous letter to Aldington [n.d.] 1 l. Came with Aldington's correspondence with Rob Lyle

Manuscript box. In his: 99 TLS, 3 telegrams to Rob Lyle. 1954-1956. Enclosed in letter of March 3, 1955. Folder 12 Daily Telegraph, TL (carbon) to the editor. Relates to Basil Henry Liddell Hart and Thomas Edward Lawrence 1955 Mar. 2 corr. Out 1 p. Manuscript box Haley, [--?]. TL (carbon). Relates to Norman Douglas 1954 May 14 corr. Out 1 p.

Came with his correspondence with Rob Lyle

Manuscript box Hunt, Violet. ALS 1921 Nov. 9 corr. Out 1 item Manuscript box Lyle, Rob. 99 TLS, 3 telegrams. Relate to his books on Norman Douglas and T. E. Lawrence 1954 July 20 - 1956 Oct. 19 corr. Out 102 items in 21 folders

Detailed list of enclosures typed on folders

Manuscript box Marshall, Kenneth W. 4 TLS 1929 Sept. 16 - 1929 Oct. 2 corr. Out 4 items Manuscript box Moult, Thomas. ALS 1920 June 21 corr. Out 1 p. Manuscript box Moult, Thomas. TLS 1920 July 20 corr. Out 1 p. Manuscript box Moult, Thomas. TLS 1923 Jan. 26 corr. Out 1 p. Manuscript box Moult, Thomas. TLS 1935 July 26 corr. Out 1 p. Manuscript box Pinker and son, James B. 12 LS, ALS, etc. 1931 - 1940 corr. Out 12 items Manuscript box. In his: 99 TLS, 3 telegrams to Rob Lyle. 1954-1956. Enclosed in letter of March 17, 1955. Folder 13 Revue de Paris. TL (carbon) to le redacteur en chef. [In French] 1955 Mar. 15 corr. Out 1 p.

Manuscript box. In his: 99 TLS, 3 telegrams to Rob Lyle. 1954-1956. Enclosed in letter of Oct. 16, 1954. Folder 5 Roditi, [--?]. TL (carbon). Relates to Sir Winston Churchill and T. E. Lawrence 1954 Oct. 15 corr. Out 1 item Manuscript box Russell, [--?]. TLS 1955 Mar. 13 corr. Out 1 p. Manuscript box Taylor, Rachel Annand. 2 TLS 1950 Jan. 6; 1952 July 2 corr. Out 2 items

Gift of Miriam Benkovitz in memory of John D. Gordan

Manuscript box Theis, Louise Morgan. 28 letters and 4 postcards 1929 - 1936 corr. Out 37 p. Manuscript box Woolf, Virginia. ALS 1923 Sept. 22 corr. Out 1 p. Incoming Manuscript box Greene, Graham. TL (copy) to Aldington 1954 May 18 corr. In 1 p.

With TL (carbon) reply, May 30, 1954. 2 p.; with ms. note "not sent". Encloses: Lawrence, Frieda. TL (copy) to Aldington, Mar. 29, 1954. 1 p. Relates to Aldington's Pinorman and D. H. Lawrence Originally an enclosure in a letter from Aldington or Roy Campbell to Rob Lyle

Manuscript box Lawrence, Frieda. TL (copy) to Aldington. Relates to Aldington's Pinorman and D. H. Lawrence 1954 Mar. 29 corr. In 1 p.

Enclosed in TL (carbon) reply accompanying: Greene, Graham. TL (copy) to Richard Aldington. May 18, 1954

Manuscript box. In: Aldington, Richard. 99 TLS, 3 telegrams to Rob Lyle. 1954-1956. Enclosed in letter of Jan. 12, 1955. Folder 9 Massignon, Louis. TLS to Aldington. Relates to T. E. Lawrence 1954 Dec. 9 corr. In 1 p. Manuscript box. In: Aldington, Richard. 99 TLS, 3 telegrams to Rob Lyle. 1954-1956. Enclosed in letter of Sept. 6, 1954. Folder 1 Maugham, William Somerset. TL (copy) to Aldington 1954 Aug. 29 corr. In 1 p. Manuscript box Sitwell, Sacheverell. 2 ALS to Aldington 1922 Nov. 26; 1923 Feb. 27 corr. In 2 items Manuscript box Sitwell, Osbert. 4 ALS to Aldington [1927? Dec. 26] - 1928 Jan. 15 corr. In 4 items Manuscript box (Aldington) Urnov, Mikhail. Postcard to Aldington 1917 Dec. 21 corr. In 1 item

With a copy of A Soviet Review of World Events, Apr. 7, 1965, where on p. 29 a review by the same author is printed

Manuscript box Wolfe, Humbert. TL (carbon) to Aldington 1933 Feb. 21 corr. In 1 p. Manuscript box (Aldington) Letters, ALS, TLS, etc. from miscellaneous correspondents, not listed separately, to Aldington. Relate to T. E. Lawrence 1954 - 1955 corr. In 5 items

Came with Aldington's correspondence with Rob Lyle

Related Correspondence Manuscript box Arlen, Michael. 2 TLS to Humbert [Wolfe] Letter of Dec. 15, 1936 relates to Gerald Gould; letter of March 16, 1937, mentions Richard Aldington 1936 Dec. 15; 1937 Mar. 16 corr. About 2 items

With 2 TL (carbon) replies; accompanied by: Livesey, Monica. TLS to Humbert Wolfe, Jan. 14, 1937. 1 p. Written as secretary to Michael Arlen

Manuscript box Campbell, Roy. 2 ALS to Rob Lyle. Relate to a proposed pamphlet on Richard Aldington's Pinorman [1954] corr. About 2 items

One letter is at bottom of: Cunard, Nancy. Postcard (copy) to William Heinemann, ltd. April 1954. 1 p. Relates to Norman Douglas

Manuscript box Cunard, Nancy. 2 ALS to [J. B. Pinker and son]. Relate to Richard Aldington [n.y.] Feb. 17; [n.y.] May 28 corr. About 2 items Manuscript box (Aldington) Letters, ALS, TLS, etc. from miscellaneous correspondents to Alan Bird relating to research done for Richard Aldington's Lawrence of Arabia [n.d.] corr. About 35 items in 5 folders Manuscript box (Aldington) Letters, ALS, TLS, etc. from miscellaneous correspondents, not listed separately, to Rob Lyle. Relate to proposed pamphlet on Richard Aldington's Pinorman. Several letters mention Nancy Cunard 1954 - 1955 corr. About 11 items Manuscript box (Pinker, J. B., firm) Letters, ALS, telegrams, etc. from various publishers, etc. to the firm of James B. Pinker and son as literary agent for Richard Aldington [n.d.] corr. About 11 items

Manuscript box McGreevy, Thomas. 4 ALS to J. B. Pinker and son. Mentions Richard Aldington and John Rodker. Two letters undated 1930 Oct. 2 - 1930 Oct. 8 corr. About 4 items