Surnoms et Acronysmes utilisés par HD (Hilda Doolittle) et son entourage

Voici listés les surnoms et les acronysmes utilisés par Hilda Doolittle et son entourage dans leurs correspondances.

Astrea = H.D. (used by Richard Aldington).
Banabhard = Rachel Annand Taylor.
Bear = Walter Schmideberg.
Beaver = Helen Eugenia Wolle Doolittle.
Big dog = Kenneth Macpherson.
Br = Bryher.
Buddy = Robert Herring.
Calidor = Dorothy Richardson.
Cat = H.D.
Chaddie = Mary Chadwick.
Chang = Bryher (Perdita's name for her).
Chevalier = Norman Holmes Pearson.
Chiron = Havelock Ellis.
Cole = Dorothy Cole Henderson (who published under the name Maud Cole).
Cuth (or Cuthbert) = Richard Aldington.
Dactyl = Marianne Moore.
Deetie = H.D. (her childhood name).
Dogs = Bryher and Kenneth Macpherson.
Dooley = H.D. (used by Richard Aldington).
Dragon [1934 on] = Sylvia Herbert Dobson.
Dryad = H.D.
E.B. = Elizabeth Bergner (acress, a friend of Bryher).
Fido = Bryher.
Frimbo = Bryher.
Hare = Cecil Gray.
Horse = H.D.
Hyacinth = H.D. (used by Havelock Ellis).
I Nov = Ivor Novello.
Kangaroo = Harold Doolittle.
Kat = H.D.
Korshune = John Cournos.
Lady Goat = Hannah Glover Ellerman.
Little dog = Bryher.
Little dragon = Sheila Barnard.
Lizard = Frances Perdita Aldington Macpherson Schaffner.
Lump = Perdita.
Lynx = H.D. (Kenneth Macpherson's name for her).
M.C. = Murray Constantine (Novelist, author of Proud Man; Devil, Poor Devil; and Swastika Night).
Meugles = H.D.
Mimosa = Brigit Patmore.
Mog = H.D.
Mother Monkey = H.D. (used by John Ellerman, Bryher's brother).
Mouse = Blanche Lewin.
Oppy = Doris Oppenheim Leslie.
Polar Bear = Walter Schmideberg.
Possum = T.S. Eliot.
Professor = Sigmund Freud.
Pup = Perdita.
Puss = Perdita.
R = Rachel Barnard (in letters to Sylvia Dobson).
Rats = Dorothy Richardson and Alan Odle.
Rhino = Norman Douglas.
Robin Hood = Sylvia Dobson.
Rover = Kenneth Macpherson.
Scotch Hare = Cecil Gray.
Small dog = Sheila Barnard.
Towser = Bryher.
Turtle = Hanns Sachs.
Wooff = Perdita
Copyright Louis Silverstein. This article originally appeared in The H.D. Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 2 (Winter 1987), p. 4-5 and is reproduced here with the kind permission of Louis Silverstein.