Dorothy Richardson : Online Exhibition

32. Queen’s Ter.
N.W.8.

Dear Bryher:

I’ve written to Lawrence. & to Barbara, giving them your present address. Here are their addresses in case you want to notify them of a change in yours suddenly:

D.H.L. Villa Mirenda –
Scandicci.
Florence.

B.L. 13 Guilford St
W.C.1.

Nichols’ whereabouts I don’t know but will discover. Have told Lawrence & Barbara about terms. Then theres Aldous Huxley. Have you written to him? He might be ready to write about Pickshers in general. I’m sure he must like them –

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& if you haven’t approached him & would like me to do so, I will. I’ve roughed out Music for wh. I must find a suitable subtitle for Continuous Perf: which I’ll keep for II. & III: Captions. & if there is a IV it will be A Thousand Pities also under Continuous Perf: Anyway details for you to keep, on separate sheet herewith _ just suggestions.

Hope you will get your final papers soon. London still freezing – dark & dusty, a combination of November & March. Haven’t been to any shows. Marquise is off. Shall try for gallery or something for Constant Nymph or perhaps Broadway.

In haste
love
Dorothy.

[Inserted in left margin, top to bottom.] I’ve seen none of your ads. Where can orders be placed? A doctor friend wants C.U. for his waiting-room table. D.

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Then there’s Hugh Walpole. He might write one of his bland & hearty communiqués, if you’d like. Anyway I’ll try to make him subscribe. He’s on my list for first number. Also Wells – who is at present broken up. Later on he might be approached for a contribution. His son is working at films & helping in the production of his War in the Air by Famous Players & shall have a copy & a note.

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Continuous Performance.
I.
II. Music
III. Captions for & against.
IV. A Thousand Pities (The introduction of sound)
V. The Local Cinema. (a congregational church where people have their regular sittings)
VI. Animal Impudens i.e. the woman, girl, who uses the c.as boudoir, trysting place, weepery, for & against her.

Notes

• D.H. Lawrence and Barbara Low. Low contributed an article for the September 1927 issue of Close Up, entitled ‘Mind-Growth of Mind-Mechanization? The Cinema in Education’.
• Aldous Huxley was an English novelist. He corresponded with Richardson in the early 1920s while he was working for Vogue.
• ‘Your papers’ refers to divorce papers. Bryher and Robert McAlmon divorced in 1927.
• Marquise (1927) was a play by Noel Coward. Coward also performed in the 1926 production of The Constant Nymph.
• Broadway, an American play written and directed by George Abbott and Philip Dunning, opened at The Strand theatre in December 1926.
• H.G. Wells is ‘broken up’ because his wife, Amy Catherine Wells, was diagnosed with cancer in May 1927.
• The articles Richardson mentions here were published as: ‘Continuous Performance’ (July 1927); ‘Continuous Performance II: Musical Accompaniment’ (August 1927); ‘Continuous Performance III: Captions’ (September 1927); ‘Continuous Performance IV: A Thousand Pities’ (October 1927); ‘Continuous Performance’ V: There’s No Place Like Home’ (November 1927); ‘Continuous Performance VIII’ (March 1928).