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Royal Air Force file AIR 1/2694
Precautions for preventing the publication of a manuscript of the late Col. Lawrence entitled "The Mint"
National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office), London
| 1936: Publication by Doubleday Doran of a limited edition of The Mint | |
| 1936 Nov 18 J.S. Ross to Sir S. Gaselee | Concerning forthcoming issue of a limited edition in the US, to protect copyright, and steps to be taken by the British Embassy in Washington to prevent piracy. |
| Presscuttings about the
American limited edition of The Mint: 1936 Nov 29 New York Herald. 1936 Dec 6 Sunday Chronicle (Manchester) 1936 Dec 14 Evening Standard 1936 Dec 18 The Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Morning Post, News Chronicle (the last includes a reprint of Henry Seidel Canby's article from the Saturday Review) |
When a very small edition of The Mint was published in the United States, copies had to be deposited in the Library of Congress. An American reviewer, Henry Seidel Canby, went there to read the book and published an exclusive article about it in the Saturday Review of Literature. The contents of this were taken up by the American and British press. |
| 1936 Dec 29 J.S. Ross to
Sir S. Gaselee (carbon copy) |
Thanks for all the action taken by the British Embassy in Washington, and presscuttings. "We hope that the sensation will soon blow itself out - till 1950." |
| 1937 Jan 1 J.S. Ross to Sir S. Gaselee (carbon copy) | Thanks for further letter with enclosures from the British Embassy in Washington. |
T. E. Lawrence chronology
1888 16 August: born at Tremadoc, Wales
1896-1907: City of Oxford High School for Boys
1907-9: Jesus College, Oxford, B.A., 1st Class Hons, 1909
1910-14: Magdalen College, Oxford (Senior Demy), while working at the British Museum's excavations at Carchemish
1915-16: Military Intelligence Dept, Cairo
1916-18: Liaison Officer with the Arab Revolt
1919: Attended the Paris Peace Conference
1919-22: wrote Seven Pillars of Wisdom
1921-2: Adviser on Arab Affairs to Winston Churchill at the Colonial Office
1922 August: Enlisted in the Ranks of the RAF
1923 January: discharged from the RAF
1923 March: enlisted in the Tank Corps
1923: translated a French novel, The Forest Giant
1924-6: prepared the subscribers' abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom
1927-8: stationed at Karachi, then Miranshah
1927 March: Revolt in the Desert, an abridgement of Seven Pillars, published
1928: completed The Mint, began translating Homer's Odyssey
1929-33: stationed at Plymouth
1931: started working on RAF boats
1932: his translation of the Odyssey published
1933-5: attached to MAEE, Felixstowe
1935 February: retired from the RAF
1935 19 May: died from injuries received in a motor-cycle crash on 13 May
1935 21 May: buried at Moreton, Dorset