| Description | Section containing mainly correspondence. However also including a small section of papers which were kept with the correspondence and Anne Williamson's material related to her research on the correspondence.
1 Correspondence
1/1 Letters from Richard Aldington and Alister Kershaw to Henry Williamson
- 36 Letters from RA and AK [RA's amanuensis] to HW [1929-1963] original, including references to 'The Wet Flanders Plain'
- 85 additional letters from RA and AK to HW [1950-1962], TS transcripts, originally kept in red folder;
- 85 Letters from RA and AK to HW [1950-1962]: photocopies of originals letters [with ms annotations], including two newspaper cuttings of articles about T E Lawrence and hunting, as in photocopies]
1/2 Letters from Henry Williamson to Richard Aldington [1 letter 1950]
1/3 Letters from other people about Richard Aldington
- 1 Letter from Catherine Aldington [Catha, Richard Aldington's daughter] to Henry Williamson, 1962
- 1 Letter from Harry T Moore to Henry Williamson about a biography on Richard Aldington, 1966
2 Papers about Richard Aldington
- Newspaper cutting - obituary of Richard Aldington
- Images of Henry Williamson, Richard Aldington, Alister Kershaw [book cutting]
- Catalogue of rare books including list of books by Richard Aldington's library at Montpellier [RA and AK lived in the South of France]
3 Anne Williamson's papers
Letters to Anne Williamson about HW- Aldington-Kershaw correspondence including: photocopies of letters to Anne Williamson about HW's letters; Anne Williamson's notes about the papers. |
| AdminHistory | Richard Aldington [1892-1962] was a poet associated with the Imagist group in the early 1910s. He married poet Hilda Doolittle in 1913 and was in contact with Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, Ford Madox Ford and T S Eliot. He fought on the Western Front during the First World War and was deeply affected by this experience in his writing. His life and marriage were also affected leading to a formal separation and subsequently to a divorce. He moved to France in 1928. There he wrote 'Death on a Hero' in 1929 a novel about the First World War. He remarried to Netta Mc Cullough, née Patmore in 1938 and had a daughter, Catherine [called Catha]. The family moved to Florida and then to Hollywood in the early 1940s, returning to France in 1946. From 1947 they moved to the South of France, to Le Lavandou and then to Montpellier. In Provence, where he lived until his death, he published a biography of T E Lawrence amongst other work.
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