T. E. Lawrence Studies

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

Seven Pillars of Wisdom [privately printed subscribers' abridgement] was completed during November-December. Most copies were distributed to subscribers at the beginning of 1927. This is the text of Seven Pillars that was published for general circulation after Lawrence's death in 1935.

Draft Preface for Revolt in the Desert. Letters 1 p. 187 2040

Revolt in the Desert, collated against its source text, the 1926 subscribers' abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Letters

January 1926

To Charlotte Shaw 4 January 1926 Letters 1 pp. 159-61
To D. G. Hogarth 14 January 1926 DG pp. 491-2
To J. B. Acres 15 January 1926 DG pp. 492-3
To Charlotte Shaw 15 January 1926 Letters 1 pp. 162-3
To Charlotte Shaw 19 January 1926 Letters 1 pp. 163-4
To the Hon. Francis Rodd 28 January 1926 DG p. 493

February 1926

To Charlotte Shaw 8 February 1926 Letters 1 pp. 164-5
To Charlotte Shaw 22 February 1926 Letters 1 pp. 165-7

March 1926

To S. L. Newcombe 10 March 1926 DG p. 494
To Charlotte Shaw 15 March 1926 Letters 1 pp. 167-8
To Charlotte Shaw 18 March 1926 Letters 1 pp. 168-9

April 1926

To Edward Garnett 6 April 1926 DG pp. 494-5
To Charlotte Shaw 6 April 1926 Letters 1 p. 170
To his mother 20 April 1926 HL pp. 361-2
To Charlotte Shaw 20 April 1926 Letters 1 p. 171
To E. M. Forster 26 April 1926 DG pp. 496-7
To Charlotte Shaw 26 April 1926 Letters 1 p. 172
To Charlotte Shaw 29 April 1926 Letters 1 p. 173
To Charlotte Shaw c.26 April 1926 Letters 1 p. 173

May 1926

To Charlotte Shaw 10 May 1926 Letters 1 pp. 174-6
To Charlotte Shaw 20 May 1926 Letters 1 p. 177
To J. G. Wilson 25 May 1926 DG p. 497.
To Charlotte Shaw 26 May 1926 Letters 1 pp. 177-8
To Francis Yeats Brown 26 May 1926 FYB p. 130

June 1926

To Charlotte Shaw 3 June 1926 Letters 1 pp. 179-81
To Charlotte Shaw 8 June 1926 Letters 1 p. 182
To Charlotte Shaw 11 June 1926 Letters 1 pp. 182-3
To Charlotte Shaw 17 June 1926 Letters 1 pp. 184-6
To Mrs Thomas Hardy 21 June 1926 DG pp. 498-9
To Charlotte Shaw 24 June 1926 Letters 1 pp. 186-7

July 1926

To Charlotte Shaw 1 July 1926 Letters 1 p. 188
To his mother 6 July 1926 HL p. 362
To Charlotte Shaw 20 July 1926 Letters 1 p. 190

August 1926

To Charlotte Shaw 22 August 1926 Letters 1 pp. 191-3
To Charlotte Shaw 24 August 1926 Letters 1 pp. 193-7

September 1926

To Robert Graves 16 September [1926] B:RG pp. 37-8
To Charlotte Shaw 24 September 1926 Letters 1 pp. 199-200
To George Brough 27 September 1926 DG p. 499-500

October 1926

To Charlotte Shaw 2 October 1926 Letters 1 pp. 200-202
To Charlotte Shaw 5 October 1926 Letters 1 pp. 203-4
To Charlotte Shaw 14 October 1926 Letters 1 pp. 205-6
To Charlotte Shaw 26 October 1926 Letters 1 p. 206

November 1926

To Charlotte Shaw 1 November 1926 Letters 1 pp. 207-8
To Charlotte Shaw 30 November 1926 Letters 1 p. 209

December 1926

To his mother 1 December 1926 HL pp. 362-3
To Charlotte Shaw 2 December 1926 Letters 1 p. 210
To Dick Knowles 3 December 1926 DG p. 501
To Charlotte Shaw 16 December 1926 Letters 1 p. 211
To John Buchan [late-December 1926] DG pp. 501

Undated, but late 1926

To Robert Graves, late 1926, B:RG p. 38

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

T. E. Lawrence

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