Full text on-line items by and about Aldington:

• Read about Vivien Whelpton's new book, Richard Aldington, Poet, Soldier and Lover: the years 1911-1929, at www.vivienwhelpton.co.uk.

• Proceedings of the International Richard Aldington Society's biennial meetings are available from Daniel Kempton. Print and fill out the pdf Order Form.

• Louis Silverstein's H.D. Chronology includes many references to R.A.

• Aldington's poems "Prelude," "Images," and "At the British Museum" are reprinted on the web as part of the online edition of Louis Untermeyer's Modern British Poetry.

• Aldington's translation of Euripides' Alcestis is available on the Project Gutenberg site.

• A copy of RA's birth certificate can be viewed here. The image of the certificate shown here is a link to a much larger, 294K, image. This copy was provided David Francis, Librarian at the Frewen Library, University of Portsmouth. He points out that RA's place of birth, according to the certificate, is indeed Portsmouth, and not Portsea -- which is the suburb of Portsmouth stated to be his birthplace in the Dictionary of National Biography. "U.S.D" which appears in column 1 stands for "Urban Sub District."

• Catherine Aldington wrote two essays, "Poet on the Couch : H.D. with Freud," and "The Lawrence Bureau," which she kindly made available here.

• Listen to RA's voice, excerpted here from a series of interviews Aldington made with Fredéric Jacques Temple, then Directeur de la Radio in Montpellier, in 1956-57. Hear it here in RealAudio format (requires Real Player).

  Below is a transcription of the excerpt which aired on Monique Baile's radio show for France Culture in 1989:

  «Le premier, le véritable Imagisme était limité à Ezra Pound, H.D. et moi. En 1912, je crois que nous n'avions pas lu les Symbolistes Français. Il faut se rendre compte que le vers libre existait dans la langue anglaise depuis, Ossian[?], Salvet[?], et Shelley. Au milieu du 19ème siècle il y a eu Walt Whitman, et Matthew Arnold, puis Edward Carpenter et Henley. C'est de ces poètes et des grecs, et pas des français, que nous avons hérité notre vers libre. D'ailleurs, l'idéal de style est tout à fait différent, le Symbolisme se basant sur des allusions, sur l'indirecte et le subjectif tandis que l'Imagisme visait surtout un style directe, précis et objectif.»

  Sound clip donated by Catherine Aldington.  Transcription provided by Nicole Dawe, Medical Translation Services,Okehampton UK
  

• See a couple more photos of RA
• In June of 2001, the editors of imagists.org took a trip to Portsmouth, RA's birthplace. Here's what we found.

Print resources:

• The largest collection of Aldington's manuscripts is held in the Special Collections of the Morris Library of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Below is a list of finding aids to correspondence and other RA-related material in SIU's collections:
  • RICHARD ALDINGTON PAPERS
  • HARRY T. MOORE COLLECTION OF RICHARD ALDINGTON CORRESPONDENCE
  • THE ALISTER KERSHAW COLLECTION
  • THE ERIC WARMAN COLLECTION OF RICHARD ALDINGTON PAPERS
  • THE RALPH PINKER COLLECTION OF RICHARD ALDINGTON PAPERS

• For more information on locations of Aldington's correspondence, see A checklist of the letters of Richard Aldington / compiled with an introd. by Norman Timmins Gates. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1977. (The New Canterbury Literary Society News updates this checklist.)

  You can have

• The New Canterbury Literary Society News (The Richard Aldington Newsletter) emailed to you by sending an email to editor Andrew Frayn at

• The Contemporary Manuscripts Collection at the Poetry and Rare Books Collection of the SUNY Buffalo Library contains some letters of Richard Aldington's.

• Individual items of Richard Aldington's are in the partially processed Literary Manuscript Collections of the University of Maryland, College Park.

• RICHARD ALDINGTON COLLECTION (GEN MSS 321) at the Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• The Special Collections Dept. of the Temple University Libraries.
• The Moore Mss. Collection at the Lilly Library of Indiana University at Bloomington.
• Two typescripts of Aldington's Women Must Work (ca. 1934) are held in the Special Collections of the Virginia Tech University Libraries. See the Guide to the Manuscript Collections for details.