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him free use of the letters he had received from lawrence, but charlotte refused to co-operate. the result, as we now know, was a glaring omission from the 1938 letters, repaired to some extent in the selection edited more recently by Malcolm Brown. no general collection, however, could use more than a small fraction of the lawrence-shaw correspondence.
lawrence first met the shaws in March 1922. Five months later he wrote diffidently to ask whether Bernard shaw would be willing to criticise the 1922 text of seven Pillars. shaw agreed and lawrence sent a copy. however, the first to read it, and with great enthusiasm, was charlotte.
she was a wealthy woman in her own right, and her interest in lawrence and his work soon led to a thriving correspondence. she offered to proof- read the subscription edition of seven Pillars that he was preparing, and began to send parcels of books, gramophone records and other gifts. over the years, lawrence gave her presents in return, including several valuable manuscripts of his writings.
lawrence’s correspondence with the shaws between 1922 and 1935 is the most significant series of his post-war letters to survive. it covers an extraordinary variety of topics and, for much of the time, the letters were so frequent that they provide something akin to a diary of his activities.
the letters to charlotte published here are accompanied by the few but important letters from her to lawrence that he kept, and also by his correspondence with Bernard shaw, and other collateral material.”
183. laWrenCe, t.e. (translator) le CorBeaU, adrien. le gigantesque translated by t.e. lawrence as the Forest giant. Fordingbridge. The Castle Hill Press. 2004.
£498
8vo., bound in full dark-red goatskin. all edges gilt, head and tail bands, hand-marbled end-papers. issued in a slip-case.. a mint copy.
First edition with parallel French and english texts, limited edition of 352 numbered copies, this one of 45 copies, in full goatskin, numbered 16-55. le corbeau’s Le Gigantesque was first published in Paris in 1922. lawrence’s translation was first published by Jonathan cape in 1924. this is the first time both texts have been published together.
184. laWrenCe, t.e. Playground Football. Shilton. The Reading Room Press. 2007.
£198
4to., original cloth backed patterned paper covered boards, lettered in gilt on upper board. With a wood engraving by ian stephens. a fine copy.
limited edition of 60 numbered copies. “Playground Football was first published in the oxford high school Magazine Vol. ii no. 1 in March 1904. signed “goalpost”, it was followed in a subsequent issue by Playground Cricket, signed to lawrence, in which he refers directly to the earlier article. Jeremy Wilson, lawrence’s official biographer, points out that similarities between the two pieces suggest they are by the same author.”
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185. laWrenCe, t. e. the Mint 1928 text and later Writings about service life. edited by Jeremy and nicole Wilson. Fordingbridge. The Castle Hill Press. 2009.
£700 4to., original full blue goatskin, lettered in gilt on spine, all edges gilt.
the first uK edition of this 1928 version of The Mint, which had previously only been published in america in 1936 in an edition of 50 copies to secure copyright. this version varies from the 1955 edition, as a W lawrence states in the introductory note to that edition, “he made slight alterations on practically every page and an occasional substantial change”.
the selection of later writings on service life appear in print here for the first time.
“it contains the 1928 text of the Mint, together with a selection of lawrence’s later writings about his life in the ranks. these are drawn from letters and reports and presented in diary form.
the narrative of lawrence’s raF years therefore begins in 1922 and ends with his retirement in February 1935. he himself thought of expanding the Mint in this way. the result is a far more interesting version of lawrence’s second book than any edition available until now.
at the end of this large-format first printing is a selection of extracts from lawrence’s letters in which he writes about the Mint.” (Jeremy Wilson).
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