Contents lists
Updated June 2012
Correspondence and works by T. E. Lawrence
written or first published in 1932
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 European copyright. For the present they cannot be included here.
Works
Foreword to Arabia Felix, by Bertram Thomas (London, Jonathan Cape, 1932, pp. xv-xviii)
Letters
January 1932
- To H. S. Ede 2 January 1932 S-E pp. 51-2
- To Bruce Rogers 2 January 1932 BR1 p. [88]
- To Flt Lt W.E.G. Beauforte-Greenwood 11 January 1932 Boats pp. 74-5
- To Flt Lt W.E.G. Beauforte-Greenwood 15 January 1932 Boats p. 76
- To Flt Lt W.E.G. Beauforte-Greenwood 20 January 1932 Boats pp. 77-8
- To Flt Lt W.E.G. Beauforte-Greenwood 23 January 1932 Boats pp. 79-80
- To Flt Lt W.E.G. Beauforte-Greenwood 27 January 1932 Boats p. 81
- To Clare Sydney Smith 27 January 1932 GR pp. 178-9
February 1932
- To Flt Lt W.E.G. Beauforte-Greenwood 1 February 1932 Boats pp. 82-3
- To Clare Sydney Smith 5 February 1932 GR pp. 180-81
- To Clare Sydney Smith 15 February 1932 GR p. 181
- To Corporal W. Bradbury 29 February 1932 Boats pp. 87-8
March 1932
- To George Brough 5 March 1932 DG pp. 738-9
- To Clare Sydney Smith 6 March 1932 GR pp. 182-3
- To Flt Lt H. Norrington 12 March 1932 Boats pp. 89-91
- To Air Ministry 21 March 1932 Boats pp. 92-3
- To Geoffrey Dawson 22 March 1932 Boats p. 155
April 1932
- To Clare Sydney Smith 23 April 1932 GR pp. 186-7
- To B. H. Liddell Hart 25 April 1932 DG p. 739; B:LH pp. 47-8
May 1932
June 1932
- To Stewart Newcombe 22 June 1932 DG pp. 739-40
- To Lord Lloyd 23 June 1932 DG pp. 740-41
- To Clare Sydney Smith 23 June 1932 GR pp. 188-9
August 1932
September 1932
- To Walter Hudd 3 September 1932 DG pp. 741-2
- To H. S. Ede 5 September 1932 S-E p. 52
- To C. F. J. Cumberlege 6 September 1932 DG pp. 742-3
- To Henry Williamson 6 September 1932 Letters 9 pp. 123-4
October 1932
- To W. B. Yeats 12 October 1932 DG pp. 743-4
- To Sir Edward Elgar 12 October 1932 DG pp. 744-5
- To C. J. Greenwood 12 October 1932 DG pp. 745-6
- To H. S. Ede 18 October 1932 S-E pp. 53-4
- To Celandine Kennington 18 October 1932 DG pp. 746-7
- To Richard Warner 18 October 1932 DG pp. 747-8
- To Sir William Rothenstein 20 October 1932 DG pp. 748-9
- To Arthur Hall 22 October 1932 DG p. 750
- To C. J. Greenwood 26 October 1932 DG pp. 750-51
November 1932
- To S. L. Newcombe 7 November 1932 DG p. 751
- To Clare Sydney Smith 7 November 1932 GR pp. 189-90
- To G. W. M. Dunn 9 November 1932 DG pp. 751-3
- To Clare Sydney Smith 17 November 1932 GR pp. 190-92
- To G. W. M. Dunn 22 November 1932 DG p. 753
- To H. S. Ede 22 November 1932 S-E p. 54
- To H. S. Ede 24 November 1932 S-E p. 55
- To H. S. Ede 26 November [1932] S-E p. 55
- To Clare Sydney Smith 26 November 1932 GR pp. 193-5
December 1932
- To F. N. Doubleday 2 December 1932 DG pp. 753-5
- To Miss L. P. Black 7 December 1932 DG pp. 755-6
- Henry Williamson to T. E. Lawrence 12 December 1932 Letters 9 pp. 124-5
- To G. W. M. Dunn 15 December 1932 DG pp. 756-7
- To Clare Sydney Smith 16 December 1932 GR pp. 197-8
- To Lorna Norrington 23 December 1932 DG p. 757
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