CATALOGUE
Works
Military Report on the Sinai Peninsula
The Mint, 1928 text
The Mint, 1955 text
Translation
The Forest Giant
Letters
T. E. Lawrence Letters series
Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw
Correspondence with Henry Williamson
Correspondence with E. M. Forster and others
Letters from Carchemish
12 November 2008
CASTLE HILL PRESS
Jeremy and Nicole Wilson
T. E. Lawrence, The Mint
1928 text, with an appendix of letters
Introduction by Jeremy Wilson
Forthcoming, autumn 2009
Several people have asked why we do not publish an edition of The Mint as a companion to our 1922 Seven Pillars. In fact, the idea has been in the back of our minds for a long time - but we hoped to do something more than reprint a widely available text.
Instead of the version first published for general circulation in 1955, our edition will reproduce the text of the manuscript that Lawrence sent to Edward Garnett in 1928. This text has not previously been published in the UK. It was published in the US by Doubleday, Doran in 1936, but only in a 50-copy edition to protect American copyright.
In his last years Lawrence revised The Mint extensively in detail, in part in response to readers' comments. The 1928 text, like our 1922 text of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, shows the book as originally written.
While researching notes for volumes in the Letters series, we have read through the relevant periods in our main chronological files of Lawrence's published and unpublished correspondence. That has enabled us to note passages from Lawrence's letters that complement The Mint by describing his day-to-day life in the ranks.
Our project is to publish an appendix to the 1928 text of The Mint consisting of a selection of these passages. They will take the story of Lawrence's service life to 1935.
Some current publications
T. E. Lawrence, Military Report on the Sinai Peninsula
Castle Hill Press, 2008
T. E. Lawrence, Towards 'An English Fourth'
Castle Hill Press, 2009
T. E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw 1922-1935
Four volumes, Castle Hill Press, 2000-2009
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