[Rarebooks] FS: Fine D. H. Lawrence Letter Criticizing H. D.

[Charles Agvent]

LAWRENCE, D. H. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). Middleton-by-Wirksworth, 
Derby, 2 December 1918. A fairly early two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 
(ALS) on the rectos of two sheets of 5" x 7-3/4" of paper from Mountain 
Cottage to Selina Yorke criticizing Hilda Aldington Doolittle (the poet 
H.D.), wife of Lawrence's close friend, Richard Aldington. Lawrence also 
mentions his wife Frieda, their poverty, and his attempts "to get 
stories and things done to save our situation," which he describes as a 
"low water mark." In part: "I understand well enough that sometimes one 
can't go out when one has promised. Such a lot of complex things go to 
one's make-up now, it isn't easy to live.... With Hilda, I feel one 
could never speak to her any more as to a human being who would simply 
understand: she really has lost her own self. That's why one is hopeless 
about knowing her. It is somehow too late. As for ourselves, I think we 
run a bit loose at times, but we come back. Hilda doesn't." He 
concludes: "I expect I shall be in London again soon. I invoke the gods 
for you: -- you invoke them for me. We'll have a little gay triumph yet. 
Never mind -- this is low water mark." Not in the Cambridge edition of 
THE LETTERS OF D. H. LAWRENCE, and apparently unpublished. Creases from 
mailing, otherwise Near Fine.

Although Selina Yorke is understood to have done some journalistic work, 
little further is known about her. Her daughter, Dorothy, generally 
known as "Arabella," was an expatriate American who stayed with the 
Lawrences at Mountain Cottage in June 1918. Lawrence portrayed her as 
Josephine Ford in AARON'S ROD (1922). The background to the present 
letter was the imminent break-up of the marriage between Richard and 
Hilda Aldington, and the liaison between Aldington and Dorothy Yorke. 
(#019387)        $3,500.00

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