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LAWRENCE (T.E.) A Letter from T.E. Lawrence to his Mother, LIMITED TO 24 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 16 OF 12 ON BARCHAM GREEN 'MEDWAY' PAPER, Privately Printed at the Corvinus Press for Mrs Lawrence, 1936
24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
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LAWRENCE (T.E.)
A Letter from T.E. Lawrence to his Mother, LIMITED TO 24 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 16 OF 12 ON BARCHAM GREEN 'MEDWAY' PAPER, initial letter in red, 3 collotype plates after Lawrence printed by the Oxford University Press, with tissue-guards, visiting card of Mrs Lawrence loosely inserted, untrimmed in original cloth-backed flecked boards, t.e.g. [O'Brien A192], 4to, Privately Printed at the Corvinus Press for Mrs Lawrence, 1936
Footnotes
A FINE COPY. The letter printed here was written on 28 August 1908, and describes in detail Lawrence's response to Chartres cathedral. It was thought by David Garnett to be "the most beautiful and emotional of his early letters" (The Letters of T.E. Lawrence, edited by M. Brown, 1988, p.16).
Provenance: Sarah Lawrence (1861-1959), who was sent all but numbers 1 and 24 of the 24 copies printed; Warwick James.





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