T. E. Lawrence Studies

At present I am giving priority to getting letter texts back online. New additions are linked from the chronological contents lists, but not from this alphabetical list. I will update these pages as soon as possible. Meanwhile, if a letter that interests you is not linked here, please check the relevant chronological list. JW

Letters and works shown in red are online on this site. Click on the red listing to read them.

Letters and works shown in green were formerly on this and will be restored.

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.

Letters and works shown in brown have been published elsewhere, in the printed edition indicated, but are covered by European copyright. For the present they cannot be included here.

Works

'Hakluyt - first naval propagandist' [book review] in the Spectator, No 5176, 10 September 1927, pp 390-391 signed C.D. [pseud. of T. E. Lawrence]. Reprinted in MIP.

'How to win a scholarship, advice from school celebrities' ed. Scroggs (pseud. of C. F. C. Beeson) in The O.H.S. Magazine, Magazine of the City of Oxford High School for Boys (Oxford, Vol. IV, No. 3, March 1907) contains a contribution signed E. Lawrence (pp. 56-7)

'The Howeitat and their chiefs', Arab Bulletin, 24 July 1917, SD pp. 111-4

Letters

H. R. Hadley

Arthur Hall

1 February 1935 DG pp. 848-9

James Hanley

The complete known correspondence is published in T.E. Lawrence Letters, Vol. 6, More Correspondence with Writers (Castle Hill Press, 2014), which also includes writings by Hanley about Lawrence (pp. 221-6). Letters 6 contents list >>

27 June 1931 Letters 6 p. 201
2 July 1931 DG pp. 727-9; Letters 6 pp. 202-4
14 July 1931 Letters 6 pp. 205-6
21 August 1931 DG pp. 734-6; Letters 6 pp. 208-9
10 Setember 1931 Letters 6 p. 210
28 December 1931 DG pp. 737-8; Letters 6 pp. 211-2
To T. E. Lawrence 16 March 1932 Letters 6 pp. 212-3
7 December 1932 Letters 6 p. 214
3 March 1933 Letters 6 p. 215
7 April 1933 Letters 6 p. 216
13 June 1933 Letters 6 pp. 216-7
27 January 1935 Letters 6 p. 218-20
To T. E. Lawrence 30 January 1935 Letters 6 pp. 220-21

Flora Emily Hardy (Mrs Thomas Hardy)

The Hon. Esmond Harmsworth

[draft, March 1935] DG pp. 860-61

Lord Hartington

10 January 1920 DG pp. 297-8

H. G. Hayter

D. G. Hogarth

G. Wren Howard

17 December 1933 DG pp. 783-4
31 December 1934 DG p. 840
31 January 1935 DG pp. 846-7

W. M. M. Hurley

1 April 1929 DG pp. 647-8

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

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