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Lot 111

LAWRENCE and GRANVILLE-BARKER

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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LAWRENCE and GRANVILLE-BARKER

Autograph letter signed ("HGB") by Harley Granville-Barker to T.E. Lawrence ("My dear T.E.S."), thanking him for sending a copy of Letters from T.E. Shaw to Bruce Rogers ("...I read through those letters with more interest than most works of literary art would rouse in me..."), defending his purchase of a copy of Lawrence's translation of the Odyssey ("...Why should I also not drop into poetry – I like to have this little flea/ Picked from the noble carcase of your Odyssey..."), and looking forward to seeing him at Clouds Hill if he cannot come to Paris ("...I begin to think you may have shown a wise prescience when you took refuge in the R.A.F..."), 2 pages, headed paper, remains of guard, 8vo, 18 Place Des Etats-Unis, [Paris], 9 July 1933

Footnotes

Harley Granville-Barker, the playwright and producer, had met Lawrence through Thomas Hardy. This letter is in reply to one by Lawrence telling him that he should not think too much of his translation of the Odyssey and that he was retiring soon to Clouds Hill (23 December 1932). It is printed in Letters to T.E. Lawrence, edited by A.W. Lawrence (1962), p.106.

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