Contents lists
Updated June 2012
Correspondence and works by T. E. Lawrence
written or first published in 1919-1920
Letters and works shown in red have been published and are now out of copyright. Click on the reference to see the published text.
Letters and works shown in green are also out of copyright will be added
Letters and works shown in brown have been published in the printed edition indicated, but are covered by copyright until the date shown in italics. Until then they cannot be included here.
Works 1919
'Diary of the Peace Conference', January 1919 DG pp. 273-4
Works 1920
The Observer (London):
- No. 6,742, 8 August 1920, contains 'France, Britain and the Arabs: the beam in our own eye: the road to peace in Mesopotamia', by T. E. Lawrence (p. 10 col. 4). Reprinted in DG pp. 311-5.
- No. 6,748, 19 September 1920, contains 'The Egyptian problem by Sir Valentine Chirol' [book review] by T. E. Lawrence (p. 6 col. 3).
The Round Table, A quarterly review of the politics of the British Commonwealth' ed Lionel Curtis (London, Vol X No 40, September 1920) contains pp 756-772 'The Changing East' [by T. E. Lawrence], OA 71-97
Letters
January 1919
- To Edward Marsh 7 January 1919 [incorrectly dated 1918] DG p. 272
- To B. E. Leeson 8 January 1919 DG p. 272
- To his mother 30 January 1919 HL p. 352
- 'Diary of the Peace Conference', January 1919 DG pp. 273-4
September 1919
- To Vyvyan Richards 1 September 1919 DG p. 280
- To the Editor of The Times 8 September 1919 [published 11 September 1919] DG pp. 281-2
- To David Lloyd George [draft] Thursday, September 1919 DG p. 287
- To the Foreign Office 15 September 1919 DG pp. 288-91
- To Lord Curzon 27 September 1919 DG pp. 291-3
November 1919
January 1920
February 1920
- To Stewart Newcombe 16 February 1920 DG pp. 298-9
- To Vyvyan Richards 27 February 1920 DG pp. 299-300
March 1920
April 1920
May 1920
July 1920
- To R. D. Blumenfeld 11 July 1920 DG p. 306
- To Robert Graves 21 July 1920 B:RG p. 6-8
- To The Editor of The Times 22 July 1920 DG pp. 306-8
- To C. M. Doughty 30 July 1920 DG pp. 10
August 1920
- To C. M. Doughty 7 August 1920 DG pp. 310-11
- 8 August 1920, 'France, Britain and the Arabs' DG pp. 311-5.
- To Vyvyan Richards [August 1920] DG p. 318
- 22 August 1920, contains 'Mesopotamia' DG 315-7
September 1920
November 1920
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