Contents lists
Updated June 2012
Correspondence and works by T. E. Lawrence
written or first published in 1923
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 site 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
The Owl: 'The Winter Owl' [cover title], 1923, Contains 'Massacre (September 1917: being a chapter from the history of the Arab Revolt)' by T. E. Lawrence (pp. 5-13). This is one of eight chapters from Lawrence's 1920 draft abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Dust-Jacket blurb, c. October 1923, by T. E. Lawrence for his projected (but later abandoned) English translation of Sturly by Pierre Custot. DG. pp. 438-9
Letters
January 1923
- To Bernard Shaw 2 January 1923 Letters 1 pp. 28-9
- Bernard Shaw to T. E. Lawrence 4 January 1923 LTEL pp. 168-71;
February 1923
March 1923
- To A. E. Chambers 10 March [1923] DG p. 402
- To Lionel Curtis 19 March 1923 DG pp. 410-12
- To Robert Graves 20 March 1923 B:RG p. 25
- To A. E. Chambers 21 March 1923 DG pp. 402-4
- To Jonathan Cape 23 March 1923 DG p. 404
- To Bernard Shaw 23 March 1923 Letters 1 pp. 37-8
- To Lionel Curtis 27 March 1923 DG pp. 412-15
- To [Sir Hugh Trenchard] 28 March 1923 DG pp. 404-6
- To Eric Kennington 30 March 1923 DG p. 406
April 1923
May 1923
- Bernard Shaw to T. E. Lawrence 13 May 1923 Letters 1 pp. 38-9
- To Lionel Curtis 14 May 1923 DG pp. 415-17
- To A. P. Wavell 21 May 1923 DG pp. 422-3
- To Mrs. Thomas Hardy 21 May 1923 DG pp. 423-4
- To Lionel Curtis 30 May 1923 DG pp. 417-19
June 1923
August 1923
September 1923
October 1923
November 1923
December 1923
- To Mrs. Thomas Hardy 2 December 1923 DG pp. 441-2
- To R. V. Buxton 13 December 1923 DG pp. 442-3
- To Bernard Shaw 13 December 1923 Letters 1 pp. 48-9
- To Edward Garnett 16 December 1923 DG pp. 443-4
- Bernard Shaw to T. E. Lawrence [18 December 1923] Letters 1 p. 35 2021
- To his mother 19 December 1923 HL pp. 356-7
- To subscribers to Seven Pillars of Wisdom [draft, dated 19 December 1923] DG pp. 444-6
- To Bernard Shaw 20 December 1923 DG pp. 446-9,
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