Whelpton - Richard Aldington 2

R ICHARD A LDINGTON

Richard Aldington

Novelist, Biographer and Exile 19301962

Volume II

Vivien Whelpton

Paperback ISBN: 978 0 7188 9477 1

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Novelist, Biographer and Exile

1930-1962

V IVIEN W HELPTON

The Lutterworth Press

The Lutterworth Press

P.O. Box 60

Cambridge

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United Kingdom

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Paperback ISBN: 978 0 7188 9477 1

PDF ISBN: 978 0 7188 4550 6

ePub ISBN: 978 0 7188 4551 3

Kindle ISBN: 978 0 7188 4552 0

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First published by The Lutterworth Press, 2019

Copyright Vivien Whelpton, 2013, 2019

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In memory of Shelley Cox

(19482017)

Aldington scholar and enthusiast,

dear and generous friend

Nancy Cunard and Brigit Patmore, 1930 (Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)

Samuel Beckett and Thomas MacGreevy, London, early 1930s (by courtesy of the MacGreevy Estate)

Thomas MacGreevy, 1930 (by courtesy of the MacGreevy Estate)

Brigit Patmore and H.G. Wells, south of France, early 1930s (from My Friends When Young by Brigit Patmore, by courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)

Aldous Huxley, 1931, by Bassano Ltd. ( National Portrait Gallery, London)

Brigit Patmore and Michael Arlen, south of France, early 1930s (from My Friends When Young by Brigit Patmore, by courtesy of the British Library)

Halcott Glover when serving with the American Ambulance Service in France, 1914-1915, prior to enlistment in the Royal Flying Corps ( http://www.vlib.us/medical/FriendsFrance/ffphotos2.htm )

Richard Aldington, Brigit Patmore, Thomas MacGreevy and Alexander Frere (standing), south of France, early 1930s (by courtesy of the MacGreevy Estate)

Brigit Patmore, south of France, early 1930s (Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)

Herbert Read 1934, by Howard Coster ( National Portrait Gallery, London)

Thomas MacGreevy and Richard Aldington at the Temple of Paestum, 1931 (by courtesy of the MacGreevy Estate)

Thomas MacGreevy and Aldingtons Ford car, Romolina, Italy 1931 (by courtesy of the MacGreevy Estate)

Brigit Patmore and Thomas MacGreevy at the Temple of Paestum, 1931 (by courtesy of the MacGreevy Estate)

Norman Douglas, Florence 1935, by Carl Van Vechten (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, Van Vechten Trust)

Giuseppe (Pino) Orioli, Florence, June 1935, by Carl van Vechten (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, Van Vechten Trust)

Richard Aldington and Osbert Sitwell at Castello di Montegufoni, Florence, 1931 (Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)

Charles Prentice and Norman Douglas, Florence, June 1935, by Carl Van Vechten (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, Van Vechten Trust)

Richard Aldington, 1931, by Howard Coster ( National Portrait Gallery, London)

Irene Rathbone, 1933, pictured in the journal Everyman, 11 February 1933 (by courtesy of the British Library)

C.P. Snow, 1934 (Ramsey and Muspratt Collection, by courtesy of Peter Lofts)

Richard Aldington and Brigit Patmore, south of France, mid-1930s (Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)

Alec Waugh, 1937, by Bassano Ltd. ( National Portrait Gallery, London)

Richard and Netta Aldington, early 1940s (Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)

The Acorns, Peacedale, Rhode Island, home of the Bacon family (by courtesy of Patty Oliver Smith)

(top) Leonard Bacon in his library at The Acorns, early 1940s (by courtesy of Patty Oliver Smith)

(bottom) Leonard Bacon in his library at The Acorns, early 1940s (by courtesy of Patty Oliver Smith)

Henry Slonimsky (by permission of the Jacob Reader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives)

D.H. Lawrences ranch-house at Kiowa Ranch, Taos, New Mexico

Lawrence memorial chapel, Kiowa Ranch (by courtesy of the Harwood Museum of Art, New Mexico)

Frieda Lawrence (centre) with Mabel Dodge Luhan and Dorothy Brett at Kiowa Ranch, 1938, by Cady Wells (Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art, gift of the Cady Wells Estate, 1982)

Frederick Faust, early 1940s (from the Frederick Faust Collection, by courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley)

Lawrence Clark Powell, 1950 (by courtesy of the Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, U.C.L.A.)

Richard Aldington publicity image, 1946 (Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)

Alexander Frere, Cape Wrath, Scotland, 1943 (by courtesy of Elizabeth Frere-Jones)

John Arlott, late 1940s (BBC online image)

H.D., passport photograph, 1946 (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)

Richard Aldington and Alister Kershaw at the Villa Aucassin, St-Clair (by courtesy of Louisa Deasey)

The Villa Aucassin (by courtesy of Louisa Deasey)

Richard Church, May 1939, by Bassano Ltd. ( National Portrait Gallery, London)

Alister Kershaw, Geoffrey Dutton and Denison Deasey, south of France, 1948 (by courtesy of Louisa Deasey)

Geoffrey Dutton, Alister Kershaw and Denison Deasey, south of France, 1948

Denison Deasey, Catherine Aldington and Ninette Dutton, south of France, 1949 (by courtesy of Louisa Deasey)

Henry and Christine Williamson, Le Lavendou, spring 1949 (by courtesy of Anne Williamson)

Roy Campbell, 1951, by Jane Bown ( guardian.com )

T.E. Lawrence

Basil Liddell Hart in the 1930s, by Howard Coster ( National Portrait Gallery, London)

Richard Aldington at Les Rosiers, Montpellier, 1955 (Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)

Richard and Catherine Aldington in a village near Montpellier, 1954, by Denison Deasey (by courtesy of Louis Deasey)

Frdric-Jacques Temple and Lawrence Durrell (by courtesy of F.-J. Temple)

Catherine Aldington as a young woman (by courtesy of Louisa Deasey)

Sir William Haley, 1967 by Godfrey Argent ( National Portrait Gallery, London)

Edward Dahlberg (Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin)

Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk in a police photograph taken on his arrest in 1932

Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk in Wellington, New Zealand, 1984