Contents lists
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works by T. E. Lawrence
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names of correspondents
Letters and works shown in red are online on this site. Click on the red listing to read them.
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Letters and works shown in blue have been printed in the major edition of Lawrence's works and letters published by Castle Hill Press. Many of these are covered by European copyright, and for the present they cannot be included here.
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Works
An Essay on Flecker. From the facsimile of the manuscript published in copies 1-30 of MIP, 1940
'First reports from Tafila', Arab Bulletin, 11 February 1918, SD p. 149
The Forest Giant, by Adrien Le Corbeau [pseud. of Rudolf Bernhardt], translated from the French by J. H. Ross [pseud. of T. E. Lawrence]. London, Jonathan Cape, 1924
Letters
Foreign Office, British
H. A. Ford
E. M. Forster
The complete known correspondence is published in T.E. Lawrence Letters, Vol. 5, Correspondence with E.M. Forster and F.L. Lucas (Castle Hill Press, 2010). This volume also contains an early version of Forster's short story 'Dr. Woolacott', as sent to Lawrence (pp. 81-96); the draft first section of Forster's abandoned edition of Lawrence's letters (pp. 185-240) and posthumous writings by Forster about Lawrence (pp. 171-84, 241-54). Letters 5 contents list >>
- To T. E. Lawrence mid-February 1924 LTEL pp. 58-62; Letters 5 pp. 4-9
- 20 February 1924 DG pp. 455-8, Letters 5 pp. 12-15
- To T. E. Lawrence 22 February 1925 LTEL pp. 63-4; Letters 5 pp. 16-17
- 8 March 1924 Letters 5 p. 18
- 19 March 1924 Letters 5 pp. 18-19
- To T. E. Lawrence 6 April 1924 Letters 5 pp. 20-21
- 30 April 1924 Letters 5 pp. 22-3
- To T. E. Lawrence 3 May 1924 Letters 5 pp. 24-5
- 9 May 1924 Letters 5 pp. 25-7
- 24 July 1924 DG pp. 461-2, Letters 5 pp. 29-31
- 29 September 1924 DG pp. 466-7, Letters 5 pp. 32-3
- 6 October 1924 Letters 5 pp. 33-4
- 12 March 1925 Letters 5 pp. 36-8
- 17 June 1925 Letters 5 pp. 39-41
- 19 November 1925 Letters 5 pp. 42-4
- 28 December 1925 Letters 5 p. 45
- 2 February 1926 Letters 5 p. 46
- 26 April 1926 DG pp. 496-7, Letters 5 pp. 46-8
- 1 December 1926 (inscription in Seven Pillars) Letters 5 p. 49
- 11 January 1927 Letters 5 pp. 50-51
- To T. E. Lawrence 7 February 1927 LTEL p. 65, Letters 5 pp. 52-3
- To T. E. Lawrence 18 March 1927 Letters 5 pp. 54-5
- To T. E. Lawrence 30 March 1927 Letters 5 p. 56
- 14 April 1927 Letters 5 pp. 57-8
- 27 April 1927 Letters 5 pp. 59-61
- To T. E. Lawrence 16 May 1927 Letters 5 pp. 62-4
- 19 May 1927 Letters 5 pp. 64-5
- 27 May 1927 Letters 5 pp. 65-6
- 27 May 1927 Letters 5 p. 66
- To T. E. Lawrence 8 June 1927 Letters 5 p. 67
- 14 July 1927 DG pp. 531-2, Letters 5 pp. 70-71
- 21 July 1927 Letters 5 p. 72
- To T. E. Lawrence 9 August 1927 Letters 5 pp. 73-4
- 8 September 1927 DG pp. 535-8; Letters 5 pp. 75-7; [MB pp. 346-8, with omissions]
- To T. E. Lawrence 15 October 1927 Letters 5 pp. 79-80
- 27 October 1927 MB pp. 351-2; Letters 5 p. 97
- 10 November 1927 Letters 5 pp. 97-8
- To T. E. Lawrence 17 November 1927 Letters 5 pp. 98-9
- To T. E. Lawrence 16 December 1927 Letters 5 pp. 99-101; [LTEL p. 66, with omissions]
- 21 December 1927 Letters 5 p. 102-8
- To T. E. Lawrence [January 1928] Letters 5 pp. 108-10
- 16 February 1928 Letters 5 pp. 111-12
- To T. E. Lawrence 15 March 1928 Letters 5 pp. 112-14
- 16 April 1928 DG pp. 593-5; Letters 5 pp. 114-6
- To T. E. Lawrence 3 May 1928 Letters 5 p. 117
- 29 May 1928 Letters 5 pp. 118-9
- 6 June 1928 Letters 5 pp. 119-20
- 30 June 1928 Letters 5 pp. 120-121
- To T. E. Lawrence 5 July 1928 Letters 5 pp. 122-5; [LTEL pp. 66-8, with omission]
- 6 August 1928 DG pp. 618-22; Letters 5 pp. 126-30
- To T. E. Lawrence 6 August 1928 LTEL pp. 69-70; Letters 5 pp. 131-2
- 14 August 1927 Letters 5 pp. 132-3
- 28 August 1928 DG pp. 622-25; Letters 5 pp. 133-7; [MB p. 383 with omissions]
- 30 October 1928 Letters 5 pp. 137-8
- To T. E. Lawrence 12 November 1928 Letters 5 pp. 138-40' [LTEL p. 70, with omission]
- 12 December 1928 DG pp. 625-6; Letters 5 pp. 141-2
- To T. E. Lawrence 4 January 1929 Letters 5 pp. 142-3; [LTEL pp. 71-2, with omissions]
- 5 February 1929 DG p. 641; Letters 5 p. 144
- To T. E. Lawrence 20 February 1929 Letters 5 p. 145
- 1 April 1929 Letters 5 p. 146
- 30 May 1929 Letters 5 p. 147.
- 10 June 1929 Letters 5 pp. 147-8
- 24 June 1929 Letters 5 p. 148
- To T. E. Lawrence 16 Decemer 1929 LTEL pp. 72-3; Letters 5 pp. 149-50
- 23 January 1930 Letters 5 p. 151
- 8 February 1930 Letters 5 pp. 151-3
- 17 February 1930 Letters 5 pp. 153-4
- 13 May 1930 Letters 5 p. 155
- To T. E. Lawrence 18 January 1931 LTEL pp. 73-4; Letters 5 pp. 156-7
- 22 August 1931 Letters 5 pp. 157-8
- To T. E. Lawrence2 September 1931 Letters 5 pp. 158-9; [LTEL pp. 74-5, with omission]
- 22 October 1932 Letters 5 pp. 160-61
- 7 October 1933 Letters 5 pp. 162-3
- 24 May 1934 DG pp. 804-5; Letters 5 pp. 163-4
- 26 June 1934 DG pp. 810-11; Letters 5 pp. 164
- 26 November 1934 Letters 5 pp. 165-6
- To T. E. Lawrence 4 May 1935 LTEL p. 75; Letters 5 pp. 167
- 7 May 1935 DG p. 871; Letters 5 p. 168
The Hon. Lady Fullerton
- 27 August 1934 DG pp. 815-6
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