T. E. Lawrence Studies

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

Letters

January 1929

February 1929

To Henry Williamson 2 February 1929. Full text Letters 9 p. 66, GOF p. 24, 10 words omitted
To E. M. Forster 5 February 1929 DG p. 641
To Ernest Thurtle 9 February 1929 DG p. 641
To H. S. Ede 14 February 1929 S-E p. 29
To Francis Yeats Brown 18 February 1929 FYB p. 137
Henry Williamson to T. E. Lawrence 23 February 1929 Letters 9 pp. 67-71
To Ernest Thurtle 28 February 1929 DG p. 642
To R. D. Blumenfeld 28 February 1929 DG p. 642
To Henry Williamson 28 February 1929 Letters 9 p. 72

March 1929

Henry Williamson to T. E. Lawrence 2 March 1929 Letters 9 pp. 72-73
To his mother 12 March 1929 HL p. 375
To Edward Garnett 14 March 1929 DG p. 643
To his mother 19 March 1929 HL pp. 375-6
To B. H. Liddell Hart 19 March 1929 B:LH pp. 4-5<
To Edward Marsh 19 March 1929 DG pp. 643-4
To Robert Graves 20 March 1929 B:RG 157
To H. S. Ede 20 March 1929 DG pp. 644-5; S-E pp. 29-30
To F. L. Lucas 26 March 1929 DG pp. 645-7
To H. S. Ede 18 March 1929 S-E pp. 30-31
To B. H. Liddell Hart 31 March 1929 B:LH pp. 6-21

April 1929

To H. S. Ede 1 April 1929 S-E p. 31
To W. M. M. Hurley 1 April 1929 DG pp. 647-8
To his mother 1 April 1929 HL p.376
To Ernest Thurtle 1 April 1929 DG pp. 648-50
To H. S. Ede 10 April 1929 S-E pp. 32-3
To H. A. Ford 18 April 1929 DG pp. 650-51
To H. H. Banbury 18 April 1929 DG p. 651
To Edward Marsh 18 April 1929 DG p. 652
To Henry Williamson 18 April 1929, full text in Letters 9 p. 74, extract GOF p. 25, 43 words omitted
To Ernest Thurtle 26 April 1929 DG pp. 653-4
To A. E. Chambers 27 April 1929 DG pp. 654-5

May 1929

To his mother 1 May 1929 HL pp. 376-7
To Bruce Rogers 1 May 1929 BR1 pp. [34-5]
To David Garnett 4 May 1929 DG pp. 655-8
To Robert Graves 5 May 1929 B:RG 158-9; DG pp. 658-9
To B. H. Liddell Hart 7 May 1929 B:LH pp. 21-2
To H. S. Ede 9 May 1929 S-E pp. 34-5
To B. H. Liddell Hart 17 May 1929 B:LH pp. 27-8
To Bruce Rogers 23 May 1929 BR1 p. [36]
To Bruce Rogers 24 May 1929 BR1 pp. [37-8]

June 1929

To H. S. Ede 3 June 1929 S-E pp. 35-6
To his mother 4 June 1929 HL pp. 377-8
To B. H. Liddell Hart 6 June 1929 B:LH p. 28
To Henry Williamson 25 June 1929, full text in Letters 9 p. 75, GOF p. 26, 20 words omitted
To H. G. Hayter 26 June 1929 DG pp. 659-70
To Ernest Thurtle 26 June 1929 DG pp. 660-61
To F. N. Doubleday 28 June 1929 DG pp. 661-2
To Bruce Rogers 28 June 1929 BR1 pp. [39-40]

July 1929

To Henry Williamson 1 July 1929 Letters 9 p. 76, GOF p. 26
To Clare Sydney Smith [5 July 1929] gr pp. 87-8
To Henry Williamson 10 July 1929,full text in Letters 9 pp. 77-8, GOF p. 27, 61 words omitted
To Marshal of the RAF Sir Hugh Trenchard 12 July 1929 DG pp. 662-3
To B. H. Liddell Hart 14 July 1929 DG pp. 664-5; B:LH pp. 29-30
To Lady Astor 22 July 1929 DG pp. 665-6
To Henry Williamson 22 July 1929 Letters 9 p. 78
To Marshal of the RAF Sir Hugh Trenchard 29 July 1929 DG p. 666
To Lord Lloyd 29 July 1929 DG pp. 666-7
To H. S. Ede 29 July 1929 S-E, excerpt in DG p. 667
To Sydney Cockerell 29 July 1929 DG pp. 667-8; SCC p. 369
To H. S. Ede 29 July 1929 S-E pp. 36-7
To B. H. Liddell Hart 29 July 1929 B:LH pp. 30-31
To Ernest Thurtle 29 July 1929 DG pp. 668-9
To H. S. Ede 30 July 1929 S-E pp. 37-8
To Bruce Rogers 30 July 1929 BR1 pp. [40-44]
Henry Williamson to T. E. Lawrence 31 July 1929 Letters 9 pp. 82-4

August 1929

To H. S. Ede 23 August 1929 S-E pp. 38-9
To Robert Graves 23 August 1929 B:RG 161
To Henry Williamson 23 August 1929 Letters 9 p. 85, GOF p. 36, 76 words omitted

September 1929

To Robert Graves 3 September 1929 B:RG 162

October 1929

To William Yale 22 October 1929 DG pp. 670-72
To B. H. Liddell Hart 28 October 1929 B:LH p. 38

November 1929

To H. S. Ede 28 November 1929 S-E pp. 39-40

December 1929

To Bruce Rogers 12 December 1929 BR1 p. [45]
To Bruce Rogers [late-December 1929] BR1 p. [46]
To W. H. Brook 30 December 1929 DG p. 674
To Robert Graves 30 December 1929 B:RG 162-3

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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