CATALOGUE
Works
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text
The Mint, 1928 text
The Mint, 1955 text
Translation
The Forest Giant
Letters
T. E. Lawrence Letters series
Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw
- Prospectus
- Vol. I, 1922-1926 (2000)
- Vol. II, 1927 (2003)
- Vol. III, 1928 (2008)
- Vol. IV, 1929-1935 (2009)
Correspondence with Henry Williamson
Correspondence with E. M. Forster and others
Letters from Carchemish
12 November 2008
T. E. Lawrence Letters
Series Editor: Jeremy Wilson
A definitive new edition of T.E. Lawrence's correspondence including much previously unpublished material.
T. E. Lawrence was remarkable, among other things, for the quality of his letters. It is not just that they are interesting and well-written; they also provide intriguing links to different aspects of British life in the first half of the twentieth century. As many have discovered, an interest in Lawrence can quickly become a gateway to the history and culture of his time.
He corresponded with writers such as John Buchan, E.M. Forster, David Garnett, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, and Bernard Shaw; artists such as Augustus John, Eric Kennington, Paul Nash, William Roberts and William Rothenstein; archaeologists and travellers such as Gertrude Bell, C.M. Doughty and D. G. Hogarth, and public figures such as Nancy Astor, Winston Churchill and Lord Trenchard.
Lawrence's career and personality often provoked strong reactions in people he met. Some admired and respected him. Others questioned his achievements and resented his post-war enlistment. Someone's reaction to Lawrence often provides clues to their attitudes towards other topics.
Around six thousand of his letters survive, as do a fair number of those he received. The major letters collections edited by David Garnett (1938) and Malcolm Brown (1988) include only a fraction of this material.
The T. E. Lawrence Letters series will be in two parts:
1. Large format fine-press editions
We are publishing much of Lawrence's post-war correspondence with writers in a series of fine-press volumes numbered I-X. These include, notably, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw - the longest and most important series of his letters to survive. The total text-length of the four Shaw volumes will be comparable to the length of Seven Pillars.
These ten fine-press volumes continue a tradition. In the past, Lawrence's writing has been published by (among others) Bruce Rogers, the Corvinus Press, the Fleece Press, the Golden Cockerel Press, The Limited Editions Club, the Officina Bodoni, the Strawberry Press and the Whittington Press.
2. Subscribers' Library Editions
Eleven further volumes, numbered XI-XXI, will be similar in format to our Subscribers' Library Edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text.
A series of five chronological volumes will cover Lawrence's working career:
- Youth, 1904-1910
- Letters from Carchemish, 1910-1914
- War Diaries and Letters, 1914-1918
- Political and Diplomatic Correspondence, 1918-192*
- Service Correspondence, 1922-1935
Additional volumes will cover particular aspects of Lawrence's post-war life. More information >>
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