Contents lists
Updated June 2012
Correspondence and works by T. E. Lawrence
written or first published in 1930
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 and 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
Letters
January 1930
- To H. S. Ede 2 January 1930 S-E pp. 40-41
- To W. H. Brook 8 January 1930 DG p. 676
- To Lionel Curtis 8 January 1930 DG pp. 675-6
- To H. G. Hayter 8 January 1930 DG pp. 676-7
- To B.H. Liddell Hart 8 January 1930 B:LH p. 39
- To Bruce Rogers 8 January 1930 BR1 pp. [47-8]
- To Lord Lloyd 13 January 1930 DG pp. 677-8
- To Lady Astor 19 January 1930 DG pp. 678-9
- To Bruce Rogers 20 January 1930 BR1 p. [49]
- To Bruce Rogers 29 January 1930 BR1 pp. [50-51]
February 1930
- To H. S. Ede 8 February 1930 S-E pp. 41-2
- To W. A. Knowles 10 February 1930 DG pp. 679-80
- To Bruce Rogers 10 February 1930 BR1 p. [52]
- To Bruce Rogers 12 February 1930 BR1 p. [53]
- To David Garnett 14 February 1930 DG pp. 680-1
- To Frederic Manning 25 February 1930 DG pp. 682-3
March 1930
- To Bruce Rogers 3 March 1930 BR1 pp. [54-5]
- To Captain Snagge 4 March 1930 DG pp. 683-4
- To B. H. Liddell Hart 5 March 1930 B:LH pp. 39-40
- To Ernest Thurtle 8 March 1930 DG pp. 684-5
- To Bruce Rogers 13 March 1930 BR1 p. [56]
- To Ernest Thurtle 13 March 1930 DG p. 685
- To Henry Williamson 18-21 March 1930 Letters 9 pp. 87-92, GOF pp. 39-41, 277 words omitted
- To Bruce Rogers 19 March 1930 BR1 p. [57]
- To John Buchan 21 March 1930 DG pp. 685-6
- Henry Williamson to T. E. Lawrence 24 March 1930 Letters 9 pp. 94-8
- To Bruce Rogers 25 March 1930 BR1 pp. [58-9]
- To Sydney Cockerell 27 March 1930 SCC p. 370
The note about Lady Chatterley's LoverinDG (p. 687) dated 25 March 1929 is incorrectly attributed to T.E. Lawrence. It is by Henry Williamson.
April 1930
- To H. S. Ede 9 April 1930 S-E pp. 42-3
- Henry Williamson to T. E. Lawrence 9 April 1930 Letters 9 pp. 100-101
- To Bruce Rogers 22 April 1930 BR1 p. [60]
- To Bruce Rogers 30 April 1930 BR1 pp. [61-2]
- To R. V. Buxton [c.April 1930] DG pp. 687-8
May 1930
- To Frederic Manning 2 May 1930 DG pp. 688-9
- To Ernest Thurtle 2 May 1930 DG pp. 689-90
- To F. L. Lucas 3 May 1930 DG pp. 690-91
- To Henry Williamson 3 May 1930 Letters 9 pp. 101-2
- To Frederic Manning 15 May 1930 DG pp. 691-4
June 1930
- To Bruce Rogers 12 June 1930 BR1 p. [63]
- To Colin Cooper 19 June 1930 Boats pp. 7-8 2040
- To B. H. Liddell Hart 26 June 1930 DG pp. 694-5; B:LH p 41
July 1930
- To H. S. Ede 15 July 1930 S-E pp. 43-4
- To Clare Sydney Smith 16 July 1930 GR pp. 96-7
August 1930
- To Henry Williamson c. August 1930 Letters 9 pp. 103-4
- To Bruce Rogers 3 August 1930 BR1 p. [64]
September 1930
- To Henry Williamson 6 September 1930 Letters 9 pp. 104-5
October 1930
- To H. S. Ede 5 October 1930 S-E pp. 45-6
September 1930
- To F. N. Doubleday 2 September 1930 DG pp. 695-6
- To Noel Coward 6 September 1930 DG pp. 696-7
- To F. N. Doubleday 10 September 1930 DG pp. 697-8
- To Clare Sydney Smith 11 September 1930 GR pp. 118-9
- To F. N. Doubleday 18 September 1930 DG pp. 698-702
- To Clare Sydney Smith 25 September 1930 GR pp. 119-20
- Henry Williamson to T. E. Lawrence 29 September 1930 Letters 9 pp. 106-8
October 1930
- To Noël Coward 5 October 1930 DG p. 702
- To William Rothenstein 18 October 1930 DG pp. 703-4
- To Ernest Thurtle 25 October 1930 DG pp. 704-5
November 1930
- To Bruce Rogers 1 November 1930 BR1 pp. [65-6]
- To Bruce Rogers 5 November 1930 BR1 p. [67]
- To Robert Graves 8 November 1939 B:RG 166
- Henry Williamson to T. E. Lawrence 17 November 1930 Letters 9 pp. 113-14
- To David Garnett 19 November 1930 DG pp. 705-6
- To W. A. Knowles 22 November 1930 DG p. 706
- To Ernest Thurtle 28 November 1930 DG p. 707
December 1930
- To Bruce Rogers 2 December 1930 BR1 pp. [68-9]
- To Ernest Thurtle 5 December 1930 DG p. 707
- To Edward Garnett 5 December 1930 DG p. 708
- To B. H. Liddell Hart 11 December 1930 B:LH pp. 41-2
- To Clare Sydney Smith 15 December 1930 GR pp. 127-8
- To R. V. Buxton 29 December 1930 DG pp. 708-9
- To Clare Sydney Smith [December 1930] GR 108
- To Clare Sydney Smith 29 December 1930 GR pp. 129-30
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