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T. E. Lawrence, Correspondence with E. M. Forster and F. L. Lucas
Edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson
Fine-press edition printed for subscribers
T. E. Lawrence Letters, Volume V
Castle Hill Press, 2010
(completed 2011)
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The main part of this volume consists of Lawrence's correspondence with E.M. Forster together with their published writings about one another. Forster was one of the most important critics of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, during the period that Lawrence was making the subscribers' abridgement. Lawrence was one of the few friends to whom Forster showed his 'unpublishable' short stories. One of these, 'Doctor Woolacott,' is printed here in the early draft sent to Lawrence in 1927 - together with Lawrence's detailed comments.
The edition also includes Forster's draft pre-war section of the collection of Lawrence letters that he began editing in 1936. He later withdrew from the project for fear of libel actions, and it was taken over by David Garnett. The difference in approach between the two editors is interesting. Although, in the event, Garnett's edition was a fine piece of work, it is a pity that we cannot see how Forster would have completed his version.
The critic and writer F.L. Lucas, a friend of Forster's, was, like Forster, a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Lawrence was deeply impressed by Lucas's published poetry and asked Forster to arrange an introduction. The two corresponded occasionally for several years.
Both Forster and Lucas dedicated books to Lawrence.
This will be one of the most important volumes in the T.E. Lawrence Letters series. It will include a number of previously unpublished letters, in addition to detailed editorial notes and a scholarly index.
The edition is limited to 377 numbered copies. We are now printing fewer copies in the T. E. Lawrence Letters series than before, over and above the advance subscription.
SPECIFICATION
Edition limited to 377 numbered copies.
Tall octavo, trimmed page-size 282 x 176 mm. Typeset in Garamond by Castle Hill Press. Printed on high-quality acid-free paper.
xvi+312 = 328 pages, coloured frontis. portrait, index
Standard binding
225 copies
- Cream Rohalbleinen canvas spine
with grey Fabriano Tiziano boards; leather spine label, top edge stained, head and tail bands.
ISBN: 9781873141625
Additional content in the special issues below
The quarter-goatskin and full-goatskin copies contain 24 pages of correspondence from 1936-7 concerning Forster's projected edition of The Letters of T. E. Lawrence.
45 copies, numbered 41-85, bound in quarter brown goatskin with brown cloth sides; top edge gilt, hand-marbled end-papers. Issued in a card slip-case.
This is a series binding: all volumes in the T.E. Lawrence Letters series are offered bound in a similar quarter-goatskin binding.
ISBN: 9781873141632
40 copies (sets to be numbered 1-40) bound in full goatskin. All edges gilt, hand-marbled end-papers, head and tail bands. In rigid slip-case.
ISBN: 9781873141649
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Considering the tastefulness of the physical design of the Castle Hill volumes - which undoubtedly would have pleased Lawrence, who was a devotee of William Morris's idea of 'the book beautiful' - and the spare tastefulness of their editing, and especially their making available important but otherwise hard-to-access texts, this is a project for which Lawrence scholars will indeed be grateful now and in years to come. [Professor Stephen E. Tabachnick, reviewing Castle Hill Press books in English Literature in Transition]
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