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• Author/Creator:H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961.
  
• Title:H. D. papers, 1887-1977.
  
• Physical Description:30.67 linear feet (69 boxes) + 1 art
  
• Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: YCAL MSS 24
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:In English.
  Bequest of Norman Holmes Pearson, 1973, and gift of the Schaffner Family Foundation, 2017.
  
• Organization:Six series: I. Correspondence, 1905-1961. II. Writings, 1918-1977. III. Personal Papers, 1911-1963. IV. Subject Files, 1913-1963. V. Photographs, 1887-1960. VI. Additional Papers, 1915-1960.
  
• Access and use:This material is open for research. Box 65 (glass negatives): Restricted fragile material. Reference surrogates have been substituted in the main files. For further information consult the appropriate curator. Box 56: contains photocopies of material not owned by Yale, and cannot be reproduced without the permission of the institutions owning the originals.
  
• Biographical / Historical note:Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), American poet, published as H. D. at the suggestion of Ezra Pound.
  
• Summary:The papers document the personal life and literary career of H. D. Major correspondents include Richard Aldington, Bryher, Helen Wolle Doolittle, Robert McAlmon, Brigit Patmore, Norman Holmes Pearson, George Plank, and Ezra Pound. There are manuscripts of many of her works, including Her (1927), The Walls Do Not Fall (1944), Helen in Egypt (1961), and her memoir End to Torment (1958). The collection also contains personal papers, subject files, and photographs, including items related to the film Borderline (1930).
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid available.
  
• Cite as:H. D. Papers. American Literature Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961.
  Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962.
  Beach, Sylvia.
  Bryher, 1894-1983.
  Butler, E. M. (Eliza Marian), 1885-1959.
  Cournos, John, 1881-1966.
  Doolittle, Helen Wolle.
  Dowding, Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, Baron, 1882-1970.
  Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988.
  Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939.
  Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
  Herring, Robert.
  Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962.
  Heydt, Erich.
  Howard, Clifford, 1868-1942.
  Jordan, Viola Baxter, 1887-1973.
  Macpherson, Kenneth.
  Martinelli, Sheri.
  McAlmon, Robert, 1896-1956.
  Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.
  Patmore, Brigit.
  Pearson, Norman Holmes, 1909-1975.
  Plank, George.
  Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
  Pratt, Margaret Snively.
  Schaffner, Perdita.
  Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
  Sitwell, Osbert, 1892-1969.
  White, Eric Walter, 1905-1985.
  Doolittle family.
  Imagist poetry.
  Modernism (Literature)
  Moravians.
  Poetry, Modern--20th century.
  Poets, American--20th century.
  Psychoanalysis.
  Women and psychoanalysis.
  Women.
  
• Genre/Form:Needlepoint (visual works).
  Photographs.