Dorothy Richardson : Online Exhibition

Trevone Cottage.
Trevone.
Padstow.

Dear Bryher:

We are thrilled by the prospect of the Film paper. High time there was something of the sort. I can’t however see myself contributing, with my penchant for Wild West Drama & simple sentiment. Now Alan, has Ideas. However: I know I have some notes somewhere & will look them up. But I fancy they are simply about seeing movies, regardless of what is seen.

At present we are doing all our old excursions over again – samwidges ready first thing after breakfast. Its all intrancing, the being out all day & all that the sea & coast can do – but I sometimes secretly yearn for Weymouth – lodgings on the Front – a deck chair not too near the

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bandstand, waltzes sounding out across the sparkling sea, Solveig’s Song – English people all about, of the kind with one type of consciousness. More & more of the sophisticated intelligentsia come down here _ the Golder’s Green variety. Literate. At present the whole neighbourhood has its nose in the air. The Prince is coming to stay three days at the Metropole, in Padstow, next week.

Do you mean that you must languish in Suisse for two more months? June should be lovely by the lake.

We go up about the 8th

Love
Dorothy.

Thanks for Rev: Europ: The French get more & more transcendental.

Notes

• Close Up was published between 1927 and 1933 by Bryher’s Pool Editions, Riant Chateau, Territet, Switzerland.
• Alan Odle was Dorothy Richardson’s artist husband.
• Despite her initial reluctance, Richardson contributed twenty-one articles for Close Up during its six year run.
• Golder’s Green is a North London suburb. After the First World War, it became home to a growing middle-class Jewish community.
• The Prince is Edward, Prince of Wales.
• ‘Rev: Europ:’ is probably the literary magazine, Europe, founded by Romain Rolland.