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The Works and Letters of T. E. Lawrence

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Although the edition can be regarded as a series, there is no obligation to buy more than one book. The titles are sold separately both on subscription and after publication. This is because Lawrence's career crossed so many fields. 

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This list includes both published and projected volumes.

• Titles already published are shown in blue
• Forthcoming titles 2012-14 are shown in green 

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• Correspondence with writers >>
• General correspondence >>
• Index of Lawrence's minor writings >>
• Index of Lawrence's principal correspondents >>

WORKS BY T.E. LAWRENCE

Listed in alphabetical order by title

For minor writings included in collected volumes or volumes of correspondence, see the index further down this page, which has links to the relevant volume.

Adrien Le Corbeau | T. E. Lawrence, Le Gigantesque | The Forest Giant [1923], Lawrence's translation of a French novel, parallel French and English Texts. Library Edition format, Castle Hill Press, 2004. 352 numbered copies. Illustrated with facsimiles. Bound by The Fine Bindery.
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T.E. Lawrence, compiler, Military Report on the Sinai Peninsula [1914], First edition for general circulation, Castle Hill press, 2008. Large-format edition of 227 numbered copies. Accompanied by facsimile wartime maps. Bound by The Fine Book Bindery.
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T.E. Lawrence, 'The Mint' and Later Writings About Service Life, [1928 text of The Mint], Castle Hill Press, 2009. Large-format edition of 287 numbered copies. 352p. Bound by The Fine Book Bindery.
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Library Edition, Castle Hill Press, 2010, limited to 475 numbered copies. 288p. Illustrated with photographs. Bound by The Fine Book Bindery. More information>>

T.E. Lawrence, The Odyssey of Homer, including the text of Lawrence's translation and related correspondence with G.F. Cumberlege, Ralph Isham, Wilfred Merton, and Bruce Rogers. Large format. In preparation. Publication date to be announced.

T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text [the 'Oxford' text]. First edition of this 'best text' drawn by Jeremy Wilson from the Bodleian manuscript and Lawrence's amended copy of the 1922 proof printing. Large-format, Castle Hill Press, 1997. 752 numbered sets. Two text vols, 912p; Vol. of illustrations containing photographs and colour portraits, 154p. 2 coloured folding maps. The 100 specials include a parallel printing of the 1924 and 1926 versions of the Introductory Book (88p).
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Out of print

Library Edition, Castle Hill Press, 2003, limited to 475 numbered copies. 288p. Illustrated with photographs. Bound by The Fine Bindery.
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Out of print.
A paperback edition is in preparation.

T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Parallel 1922 and 1926 Texts. 2 vols, large-format edition, Castle Hill Press 1997. Two printings total 37 + 50 numbered sets. Vol. 1 pp. 1-559; Vol. II pp. 560-1064. The first printing was incorrectly imposed and abandoned. It was bound in 2008.
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T.E. Lawrence, Towards 'An English Fourth', fragments and echoes of 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', 1918-21, Large format edition, Castle Hill Press, 2009,  227 numbered copies, 280p. frontis., colour facsimiles. Bound by The Fine Book Bindery.
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CORRESPONDENCE WITH WRITERS

For individual correspondents see the index, further down this page, where there are links to the relevant volumes.

T.E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1935. Letters series format, Castle Hill Press, 2000-2009. 4 vols, 475 sets numbered in Vol. 4. Vol. I: 1922-1926, 248p.; Vol. II: 1927, 256p.; Vol. III: 1928, 264p.; Vol. IV: 1929-1935, 304p. Set illustrated with facsimiles and photographs.
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T.E. Lawrence, Correspondence with E. M. Forster and F. L. Lucas Letters series format, Castle Hill Press, 2010. Edition of 377 copies. 328p., coloured frontis. portrait.
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An abridged paperback edition is in preparation

T.E. Lawrence, More Correspondence with Writers. Letters series format. Correspondence with Maurice Baring, Laurence Binyon, Edmund Blunden, John Brophy, Noel Coward, C. Day Lewis, C.M. Doughty, Harley Granville-Barker, James Hanley, Frederic Manning, Ezra Pound, Herbert Read, Siegfried Sassoon, H. M. Tomlinson, H.G. Wells, W.B. Yeats. Forthcoming: expected late-2012
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T.E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Edward and David Garnett. Letters series format. Forthcoming: expected winter 2013-14.

T.E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Robert Graves. Letters series format. In preparation. Publication date to be announced.

T.E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Henry Williamson [1928-1935], Letters series format, Castle Hill Press, 2000. 238 pages. Bound by The Fine Book Bindery
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GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE

For individual correspondents see the index, further down this page, where there are links to the relevant volumes.

T.E. Lawrence, Letters 1905-10 to his family and others, together with Lawrence's undergraduate thesis The Influence of the Crusades on European Military Architecture - to the end of the XIIth Century (also known as Crusader Castles). Letters series format. Illustrated with photographs of castles visited by Lawrence. Publication date to be announced.

T.E. Lawrence, Letters from Carchemish 1910-1914, including letters to his family, D.G. Hogarth, E.T. Leeds, C. M. Doughty, James Elroy Flecker (including the later Essay on Flecker). Contemporary minor writings include the Diary 1911. Letters series format. Illustrated with photographs, many taken by Lawrence. Forthcoming: expected 2013.

T.E. Lawrence, War Diaries and Letters 1914-18, including Lawrence's surviving wartime diaries and notebooks, his reports and private correspondence, and significant references to him in wartime records. Letters series format. Illustrated with photographs. In preparation. Publication date to be announced.

T.E. Lawrence, Political and Diplomatic Writings and Correspondence. Starting with letters and minutes written after his return to England in 1918, the volume will cover the 1919 Peace Conference, Lawrence's work in the Colonial Office with Winston Churchill, his final diplomatic mission to the Middle East and later correspondence with politicians. Letters series format. In preparation. Publication date to be announced.

T.E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Bookmen (1919-1935). Correspondents include Jonathan Cape, Sydney Cockerell, Peter Davies, F.N. Doubleday, C.J. Greenwood, St. John Hornby, Raymond Savage, and G. Wren Howard. Letters series format. In preparation. Publication date to be announced.

T.E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Artists (1919-1935), including Herbert Baker, C.F. Bell, H.S. Ede, Eric Kennington, Augustus John, Paul Nash, William Roberts, William Rothenstein, and Kathleen Scott. Letters series format. In preparation. Publication date to be announced.

T.E. Lawrence, Post-war Correspondence with Family and Advisers (1918-1935), including D.G. Hogarth, Robin Buxton, Lionel Curtis, Sarah Lawrence, A. W. Lawrence, John Snow and Edward Eliot. Letters series format. In preparation. Publication date to be announced.

T.E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Journalists and Historians (1918-1935), including R.D. Blumenfeld, Geoffrey Dawson, B.H. Liddell Hart, Lowell Thomas. Letters series format. In preparation. Publication date to be announced.

T.E. Lawrence, General Post-War Correspondence (1919-1935), including letters to Nancy Astor, Lil Black, George Brough, John Buchan, Edward Elgar, Mrs Thomas Hardy, E.T. Leeds, Ernest Thurtle, and A.P. Wavell. Letters series format. In preparation; the contents of this volume may be divided. Publication date to be announced.

T.E. Lawrence, Service Correspondence 1922-1935, including both official and personal letters to wartime, Tank Corps and RAF personnel, except for correspondence about his work on boats. Letters series format. In preparation. Publication date to be announced.

T.E. Lawrence, Boats for the R.A.F. 1929-1935, correspondence and reports relating to Lawrence's work on R.AF. boats, including his instruction manual The 200 Class R.A.F. Seaplane Tender. Letters series format. Castle Hill Press 2012. 227 numbered copies; 432 pages. Illustrated with photographs and fold-out plans. Bound by The Fine Book Bindery.
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Index of minor writings

The 200 Class R.A.F. Seaplane Tender [1932], included in Boats for the R.A.F. 1929-1935

The Arab Bulletin, contributions by T.E. Lawrence to be included in War Diaries and Letters 1914-1918

'The Arab Campaign' [1918] from The Times, included in Towards 'An English Fourth'

'The Arab Revolt'  [1919], included in Towards 'An English Fourth'

'The Bastion' [1906] [by T.E. Lawrence and C.F.C. Beeson], from the O.H.S. Magazine, to be included in Letters 1905-1910

Catalogue for an exhibition of Arab Portraits by Eric Kennington, preface by T. E. Lawrence [1921], text of the MS included in Towards 'An English Fourth'

'The Changing East' [1920], from The Round Table, included in Towards 'An English Fourth'

Crusader Castles [1910], to be included in Letters 1905-1910

'Demolitions under Fire' [1918], from The Royal Engineers' Journal, included in Towards 'An English Fourth'

Diary 1911, to be included in Letters from Carchemish 1910-1914

Diary of the Peace Conference [fragment], to be included in Political and Diplomatic Writings and Correspondence 1918-1922

'The Egyptian Problem' [book review, 1920], from the Observer, to be included in Political and Diplomatic Writings and Correspondence 1918-1922

'Emir Feisal' [1920], from The Times, included in Towards 'An English Fourth'

Essay on Flecker [1925], to be included in Letters from Carchemish 1910-1914

'The Evolution of a Revolt' [1920], from the Army Quarterly, included in Towards 'An English Fourth'

'Ferment for Freedom' [1920], from the Daily Herald, to be included in Political and Diplomatic Writings and Correspondence 1918-1922

The Forest Giant [1923], see Le Gigantesque | The Forest Giant

'France, Britain and the Arabs' [1920], from the Observer, to be included in Political and Diplomatic Writings and Correspondence 1918-1922

The Influence of the Crusades on European Military Architecture, to the end of the XIIth Century (1910), included in Letters 1905-1910

'The Kasr of Ibn Wardani' [1912], from Jesus College Magazine, to be included in Letters from Carchemish 1910-1914

'Leaves in the Wind' [1927-1935], included in 'The Mint' and Later Writings About Service Life

'Mesopotamia: the Truth about the Campaign' [1920], from the Sunday Times, to be included in Political and Diplomatic Writings and Correspondence 1918-1922

'The Middle East: How We are Losing Prestige' [1920] from the Sunday Times,  to be included in Political and Diplomatic Writings and Correspondence 1918-1922

The Mint [1928-1935] revised text, to be substituted for the 1928 text in a forthcoming paperback edition of 'The Mint' and Later Writings About Service Life.

Mores Romanorum [1911], to be included in Letters from Carchemish 1910-1914

No Decency Left, by Barbara Rich, contribution by T.E. Lawrence [1932], to be included in Correspondence with Robert Graves

'Notes on Camel-Journeys' [1919], from the Arab Bulletin, included in Towards 'An English Fourth'

'Playground Cricket' [1904], from the O.H.S. Magazine, to be included in Letters 1905-1910

'Playground Football' [1904], from the O.H.S. Magazine, to be included in Letters 1905-1910

'Ramping' [1926] is to be included in General Service Correspondence 1922-1935

'Release of Damascus' [1918], from the Palestine News, included in Towards 'An English Fourth'

A Sea Trip [1922], to be included in Political and Diplomatic Writings and Correspondence 1918-1922

'Secrets of the War on Mecca' [1920], from the Daily Express,  to be included in Political and Diplomatic Writings and Correspondence 1918-1922

Seven Pillars of Wisdom, notes for [1919], included in Towards 'An English Fourth'

Seven Pillars of Wisdom [1919], fragment of early draft included in Towards 'An English Fourth'

Seven Pillars of Wisdom [1920], surviving page from the second draft included in Towards 'An English Fourth'

Seven Pillars of Wisdom [1920], eight chapters for a projected abridgement. Seven of these chapters were published, in slightly edited forms, in The World's Work, the Army Quarterly, and The Winter Owl. Complete text of the MS, showing working revisions, included in Towards 'An English Fourth'

'Sherif Feisal' [1920], from The Landmark, included in Towards 'An English Fourth'

'Sidelights on the Arab War' [1919], from The Times, included in Towards 'An English Fourth'

'Story of the Arab Movement' [1918], from The Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, included in Towards 'An English Fourth'

Sturly, by Pierre Custot, with a dust-jacket blurb by T.E. Lawrence, [1923], to be included in Correspondence with Bookmen

Travels in Arabia Deserta by C. M. Doughty, introduction by T.E. Lawrence [1920], text of the MS included in Towards 'An English Fourth'

The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales by Richard Garnett, introduction by T.E. Lawrence [1924], to be included in Correspondence with Edward and David Garnett

Two Arabic Folk Tales [1910], to be included in Letters from Carchemish 1910-1914

The Wilderness of Zin by C.L. Woolley and T.E. Lawrence [1914]. In view of the recent scholarly edition this is not currently included in the series. 

Index of Lawrence's principal correspondents

The list below shows:

• major groups of correspondence
• smaller groups in volumes already published or soon to be published

The content of volumes still in preparation is provisional. 

Altounyan, Ernest (doctor, writer), see General Post-War Correspondence

Astor, Nancy (politician), see Political and Diplomatic Writings and Correspondence

Baker, Sir Herbert (architect), see Correspondence with Artists

Baring, Maurice (writer) , see More Correspondence with Writers

Barker, S. (engineer, British Power Boat Co.), see Boats for the R.A.F., 1929-1935

Beauforte-Greenwood, Flt Lt W.E.G., RAF, see Boats for the R.A.F., 1929-1935

Bell, C.F. (art historian, Ashmolean Museum), see Correspondence with Artists

Bère, R de la (teacher, RAF Cadet College, Cranwell) see Service Correspondence 1922-1935

Binyon, Laurence (British Museum; poet), see More Correspondence with Writers

Black, Lill, see General Post-War Correspondence

Blumenfeld, R.D. (Editor of the Daily Express), see Correspondence with Journalists and Historians

Blunden, Edmund (writer), see More Correspondence with Writers

Bradbury, Cpl W. RAF, see Boats for the R.A.F., 1929-1935

Bridges, Robert (poet), see General Post-War Correspondence

Brophy, John (writer), see More Correspondence with Writers

Brough, George (motor-cycle builder), see General Post-War Correspondence

Buchan, John (writer, diplomat), see General Post-War Correspondence

Buxton, Robin (Lawrence's banker), see Post-war Correspondence with Family and Advisers

Campbell, J. (engineer, Henry Meadows), see Boats for the R.A.F., 1929-1935

Cape, Jonathan (publisher), see Correspondence with Bookmen

Chambers, A.E. (RAF serviceman, afterwards postal worker), see Service Correspondence 1922-1935

Churchill, Winston (politician), see Political and Diplomatic Writings and Correspondence

Clark, FS A.E., RAF, see Boats for the R.A.F., 1929-1935

Cockerell, Sydney (Fitzwilliam Museum), see Correspondence with Bookmen

Cooper, Colin (businessman), see Boats for the R.A.F., 1929-1935

Coward, Noël (playwright, actor), see More Correspondence with Writers

Cumberlege, G.F. (publisher, OUP) see The Odyssey of Homer

Curtis, Lionel (public servant), see Post-war Correspondence with Family and Advisers

Davies, Peter (publisher), see Correspondence with Bookmen

Dawson, Geoffrey (Editor of The Times), see Correspondence with Journalists and Historians

Day Lewis, C (writer), see , see More Correspondence with Writers

Deheer, I. (of John Deheer Ltd, a diving and marine company), see Boats for the R.A.F., 1929-1935

Dixon, Cpl Alec, RTC (later a police officer; writer), see Service Correspondence 1922-1935

Doubleday, F.N. (publisher), see Correspondence with Bookmen

Doughty, Charles M. (traveller, writer), see More Correspondence with Writers

Dunn, G.W.M., RAF (pilot officer, writer), see Service Correspondence 1922-1935

Ede, H.S. (Tate Gallery), see Correspondence with Artists

Elgar, Edward (composer), see General Post-War Correspondence

Eliot, Edward (Lawrence's solicitor), see Post-war Correspondence with Family and Advisers

Ellington, Sir Edward (Air Chief Marshal, RAF), see Boats for the R.A.F., 1929-1935

Flecker, James Elroy (poet), see Letters from Carchemish 1910-1914

Forster, E.M. (writer), see Correspondence with E.M. Forster and F.L. Lucas

David Garnett (writer, publisher), see Correspondence with Edward and David Garnett

Edward Garnett (publisher's reader), see Correspondence with Edward and David Garnett

Grace, W.J. (Palestine Exploration Fund), see Letters from Carchemish 1910-1914

Granville-Barker, Harley (playwright), see More Correspondence with Writers

Graves, Robert (writer, biographer of Lawrence), see Correspondence with Robert Graves

Greenwood, C.J. (publisher, Boriswood), see Correspondence with Bookmen

Hanley, James (writer), see More Correspondence with Writers

Hardy, Mrs Thomas, see General Post-War Correspondence

Hogarth, D.G. (archaeologist, Ashmolean Museum), see Letters from Carchemish 1910-1914, War Diaries and Letters 1914-1918, Post-war Correspondence with Family and Advisers

Hornby, St. John (businessman, fine-press printer), see Correspondence with Bookmen

Hudd, Walter (actor), see Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1935, Vol. IV

Jinman, Flt Lt W.H., RAF, see Boats for the R.A.F., 1929-1935

John, Augustus (artist), see Correspondence with Artists

Kennington, Eric (artist), see Correspondence with Artists

Lawrence family (parents and brothers), see Letters 1905-1910, Letters from Carchemish 1910-1914, War Diaries and Letters 1914-1918, Post-war Correspondence with Family and Advisers

Leeds, E.T. (archaeologist, Ashmolean Museum), see Letters 1905-1910, Letters from Carchemish 1910-1914, War Diaries and Letters 1914-1918, General Post-War Correspondence

Liddell Hart, B.H. (military writer, biographer of Lawrence), see Correspondence with Journalists and Historians

Lucas, F.L. (writer), see Correspondence with E.M. Forster and F.L. Lucas

Manning, Frederic (writer), see More Correspondence with Writers

Marsh, Edward (public servant, editor) - to be confirmed

Marshall, K.W. (bookseller, publisher), see Correspondence with Bookmen

Martin, H. (headlamp designer), see Boats for the R.A.F., 1929-1935

Nash, Paul (artist), see Correspondence with Artists

Newcombe, Col S.F. (Royal Engineers), see War Diaries and Letters 1914-1918, General Post-War Correspondence

Norrington, Flr Lt H., RAF, see Boats for the R.A.F., 1929-1935

Norrington, Lorna (daughter of H. Norrington), see Boats for the R.A.F., 1929-1935

Palmer, Pte E (Tank Corps, afterwards market gardener), see Service Correspondence 1922-1935

Pound, Ezra (writer), see More Correspondence with Writers

Read, Herbert (writer), see More Correspondence with Writers

Richards, Vyvyan, see see Letters from Carchemish 1910-1914, War Diaries and Letters 1914-1918, General Post-War Correspondence

Rieder, Mrs (teacher, American Mission School, Jebail), see Letters from Carchemish 1910-1914

Roberts, William (artist), see Correspondence with Artists

Rogers, Bruce (typographer), see The Odyssey of Homer

Robinson, FS A.E., RAF, see Boats for the R.A.F., 1929-1935

Rothenstein, Sir William (artist), see Correspondence with Artists

Sassoon, Philip (politician), see Boats for the R.A.F., 1929-1935

Sassoon, Siegfried (writer), see More Correspondence with Writers

Savage, Raymond (literary agent), see Correspondence with Bookmen

Scott, Kathleen (sculptor), see Correspondence with Artists

Shaw, Charlotte (wife of Bernard Shaw), see Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1935

Shaw, Bernard (writer), see Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1935

Smith, Clare and Wg Cdr Sydney, RAF, see Service Correspondence 1922-1935

Snow, John (Lawrence's first solicitor), see Post-war Correspondence with Family and Advisers

Spurr, E. (boat designer), see Boats for the R.A.F., 1929-1935

Thomas, Lowell (journalist, biographer of Lawrence), see Correspondence with Journalists and Historians

Thurtle, Ernest (politician), see Political and Diplomatic Writings and Correspondence

Tomlinson, H.M. (writer), see More Correspondence with Writers

Trenchard, Sir Hugh (Air Chief Marshal, RAF), see Service Correspondence 1922-1935

Wavell, A.P. (Army officer), see General Post-War Correspondence

Weblin, Flt Lt W.E.E., RAF, see Boats for the R.A.F., 1929-1935

Wells, H.G. (writer), see More Correspondence with Writers

Williamson, Henry (writer), see Correspondence with Henry Williamson

Wilson, Col C.E. (Army officer, diplomat), see War Diaries and Letters 1914-1918

Wilson, J.G. (bookseller, J. & E. Bumpus), see Correspondence with Bookmen

Wren Howard (publisher, Jonathan Cape), G., see Correspondence with Bookmen

Yeats, W.B. (poet), see More Correspondence with Writers