Typed letter signed : place not specified, to Dr. Sachs, [1932] December 31.

Record ID: 
89146
Accession number: 
MA 22003.2
Author: 
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961.
Credit: 
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description: 
1 item (3 pages) ; 27.7 x 21.7 cm
Notes: 

Some highlighted text printed in red on page 2: "TO THE KING" [...] "King Sigmund Freud."
Signed "H."
Annotations and corrections in pencil by H.D. throughout.

Summary: 

Thanking Dr. Sachs for his letter regarding Freud; expressing her excitement in going to Vienna; detailing a dream that has been bothering her about a Miss [Dorothy] Hull; saying that life has been terrible lately with Perdita being ill in London; mentioning that Freud wrote her a beautiful letter in English; being gracious for her time working with Dr. Sachs, but acknowledging that she needs to seek more thorough help elsewhere; talking briefly about her trip in 1920 to Greece and Portugal; adding that she is reading the old journals of Abraham and Freud; asking if she could meet the writer, Ella Sharpe, since Bryher mentioned that he knows her.

Provenance: 
Carter Burden.