Lawrence (D.H. and Frieda) collection of material about

box 1

Letters to Mrs. Rachel (Annand) Taylor. Croydon and Taos, New Mexico. 654/1 1910-1922.

General Physical Description note: 8 holograph letters. In folder.

box 1

Letters to various persons. v.p., 654/2 v.d.

General Physical Description note: 2 items.

box 1

1. Letter to Mr. Seelig. London, 3pp. October 9, 1925.

General note

Gift of Justin Turner, 1958.

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2. Postcard to Baronin von Richthofen. Palm Springs, September 27, 1923.

General Physical Description note: Holograph, initialed. 14 cm.

Scope and Contents note

In German:...ach Schwiegermutter, mach du mich nicht traurig...

General note

Gift of Willard Hougland.

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Letter to Christine Hughes. Scandicci (Florence) 654/3 March 13, 1928.

General Physical Description note: Holograph signed. 2pp. 18 cm.

Scope and Contents note

Referring to writing and publishing Lady Chatterley. Not in The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Viking, 1932. Tedlock, p.127 gives list of letters written on this day which includes Christine Hughes.

General note

Gift of Willard Hougland.

box 1

Letters to Reginald Turner. Florence, 654/4 April 1926-November 1937.

General Physical Description note: 5 holograph letters signed.

Scope and Contents note

Together with letter from Frieda Lawrence to Reginald Turner, Taos, New Mexico, December, 1934.

General note

Gift of Willard Hougland.

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Holograph quote from Robert Burns carried by Lawrence. 654/5

General Physical Description note: In folder.

Scope and Contents note

9 line quote from a letter written by Robert Burns to Ainslie. At bottom of page, a typed note: (This copy of Burns' letter was written out by D.H. Lawrence. It was carried by him and given to me December 20, 1943 by Frieda. (Signed) Willard Hougland).

General note

Gift of Willard Hougland.

box 1

Painting in oil. Portrait after Van Dyck, man with gold chain and sun flower. On cardboard. 654/6

General Physical Description note: 16.5 × 13cm. In wooden frame: 23.5 × 17cm.

Scope and Contents note

On verso of painting: Painted and frame made by D.H. Lawrence. Given me by Frieda Lawrence, May 2, 1944. El Prado, New Mexico. Willard Hougland. In another: D.H.L.'s 1st painting. a copy of something he saw in Italy - said Frieda.

General note

Gift of Willard Hougland.

box 1

Four Reviews ( Nigger Heaven, Flight, Manhattan Transfer, In Our Time). 654/7

General Physical Description note: 5 original photographs pasted on front leaves, 1 laid in loosely. Holograph manuscript, 10pp. 23cm.

Scope and Contents note

The photographs are identified in the handwriting of Willard Hougland: Five photos of D.H. Lawrence, Frieda, Tony Luhan and other Indians with the Kiowa ranch of the Lawrence's, San Cristobal, New Mexico - about 1920-1925 (late in that period I'm sure). 1 photo laid in. Powell, 99.

General note

Published in Calendar of Modern Letters, April 1927.

Gift of Willard Hougland.

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Two Blue Birds. Holograph manuscript with interlinear revisions and corrections. ca. 654/8 1926.

General Physical Description note: 30pp. written on both sides, 20.5cm. Bound in marbled boards.

Scope and Contents note

Powell 42, Tedlock p.61. Varies somewhat from the printed version. According to Powell: written at the Villa Miranda, near Florence, in 1926.

General note

Gift of Henry Miller.

Positive microfilm available.

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Four poems: Bell's, The Triumph of the Machine, Father Neptune's Little Affair With Freedom, The Man in the Street. ca. 654/9 1930.

General Physical Description note: Holograph manuscript. 4pp. 22.5cm.

Scope and Contents note

Powell 62, without carbon typescript. Tedlock p.112.

General note

Gift of Willard Hougland.

box 1

Introduction to painting. 654/10

General Physical Description note: Typescript, carbon copy. 58pp. 26cm.

Scope and Contents note

This article appeared in print in The painting of D.H. Lawrence, London, privately printed for subscribers only. The Mandrake Press, 1929. It bears the title Introduction to these paintings. Together with a letter December 14, 1933 from Curtis Brown Limited to Frieda Lawrence. With note by Willard Hougland (initialled).

General note

Gift of Willard Hougland.

box 1

Plumed Serpent, Chapter 6: The Move Down the Lake. 654/11 1923.

General Physical Description note: Typescript with holograph corrections 17pp. 23cm.

Scope and Contents note

Tedlock, p.18 describes carbon copy of the same typescript. Printed version varies from typescript. On right front-cover in pencil: Pubblicato. DL. Parte del plum(i) serpente. D.L.

General note

Gift of Willard Hougland.

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Grazzini, Antonio Francesco, called Il Lasca, 1503-1584. The Story of Doctor Manente. 654/12

General Physical Description note: 8pp. 35cm.

Scope and Contents note

Introduction by D.H. Lawrence. Galley sheets, corrected in ink by Lawrence, pagination in pencil in the hand of Frieda Lawrence.

General note

Published in 1929 in Florence by Giuseppe Orioli as no.1 in his Lungarno series.

Gift of Willard Hougland.

box 1

Etruscan Places. 47 photographs with holograph notes in Lawrence's hand on back of each plate. ca. 654/13 1927.

General Physical Description note: 26cm. In folder.

Scope and Contents note

Powell 83b, Tedlock p.197. Powell counts 44 plates, Tedlock 48. 7 of the photographs were used in Etruscan Places, Heinemann 1933. One plate shows a Sicilian peasant at work. A few plates are inked over in order to prepare them for reproduction. Some have copious notes.

General note

Formed by Willard Hougland, never returned.

Gift of Willard Hougland.

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The Escaped Cock. Paris, Black Sun Press, 654/14 1929.

General Physical Description note: Corrected proof sheets. 99pp. (handnumbered) 22cm. Unbound in slip-case.

Scope and Contents note

Corrections in ink in the margin, handnumbering by Frieda Lawrence(?) in pencil. With Norman Douglas' rubber stamp ex-libris.

General note

Purchase Argus, 1953.

box 1

Foreword to Collected Poems. Scandicci, 654/15 May 12, 1928.

General Physical Description note: Holograph. 4pp. 21cm.

Scope and Contents note

Powell 59. At end of manuscript in the handwriting of Frieda Lawrence: This fresh looking mss belongs to Lawrence Powell who helps to keep Lawrence's spirit fresh. Frieda Lawrence. A draft for the prose introduction to the Collected poems, 1929. Draft varies considerably from printed text which is entitled Note.

General note

Gift of L.C. Powell

box 1

Movements in European History. Epilogue to Movements in European History. 654/16

General Physical Description note: Typescript, carbon copy. 24pp. 26cm.

Scope and Contents note

On title page in type: A duplicate copy of D.H. Laurence's (sic) signed manuscript. Penciled note in right corner: mlsf(?) unpublished L5. Not in published edition of Movements in European history, Oxford 1931. Unpublished.

General note

Purchase.

box 1

Looking Down on the City. 654/17

General Physical Description note: Typescript with holograph corrections. 5pp. 23cm.

Scope and Contents note

In right hand corner a pencilled note: non publicato with initial L(?) Undated impressions of Florence beginning: I find I cannot force myself to look at the things one is supposed to look at.

General note

Gift of Willard Hougland.

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Lawrence, Frieda. Introduction for First Lady Chatterley. 3(?) holograph versions of draft. One of them dated 654/18 October 20, 1943.

General Physical Description note: 28pp. irregularly numbered. 23cm. Numbered 1-19, 1-8, 2.

Scope and Contents note

Part of the material was used in the foreword to First Lady Chatterley, Dial Press (1944). Title page of one draft reads Introduction (by Frieda Lawrence) October 20, 1943, El Prado, New Mexico.

General note

Gift of Willard Hougland.

box 2

The First Lady Chatterley. Proofsheets, showing deletions for the Australian edition. 654/19

Scope and Contents note

Sheets from the Dial edition, New York, 1944. Passages that were objectionable to Australian censorship crossed out in pencil. Together with a letter from Sidney G. Phillips of the Dial Press to Willard Hougland.

General note

Gift of Willard Hougland.

box 2

First Lady Chatterley: published agreement with Dial Press. 654/19a

box 2

Lawrence, Frieda (von Richthofen), 1876-1956. 654/20

Scope and Contents note

Letters. holograph letters signed, between 1944-1955 (undated letters among them) to Willard Hougland, and 1 letter of April 26, 1938 to Miss Herbig. Together with translation by Frieda Lawrence of a German passage to be used as Christmas card by Willard Hougland. Also a short typed note by Hougland. Much of the letters concern the publication of First Lady Chatterley.

General note

Gift of Willard Hougland.

box 2

Lawrence, Frieda (von Richthofen) 1876-1956. Correspondence between Frieda Lawrence and Lawrence Clark Powell. v.p., 654/20a 1937-1955.

General Physical Description note: 13 items.

box 2

With these: Correspondence between Powell and Ralph Smith of B.F. Stevens & Brown Limited, relating to the Powell-Frieda Lawrence correspondence. 654/20a

General Physical Description note: 4 items.

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Hougland, Willard Correspondence and papers, 1943- . 654/21

General Physical Description note: 8 pieces.

General Physical Description note: In folder.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence re publication of First Lady Chatterley and advertising material re The Frieda Lawrence Collection of D.H. Lawrence Manuscripts by E.W. Tedlock, Jr.

General note

Gift of Willard Hougland.

box 2

Lawrence, Frieda (von Richthofen), 1876- . Price list of Lawrence manuscripts. 654/22

General Physical Description note: Typescript list with holograph annotations. 5pp. 28cm.

Scope and Contents note

Lists 118 manuscripts for sale with prices. Many items crossed off and buyers names written in pencil.

General note

Gift of Willard Hougland.

box 2

Lawrence, Frieda (von Richthofen) 1876- . Manuscripts. 2 holograph manuscripts. 654/23

General Physical Description note: 4pp. and 3pp.

Scope and Contents note

One manuscript begins: I had forgotten Murry's book out here in New Mexico, but I have been asked so many times what I thought of it... and describes her reactions upon appearance of Murry's Son of Woman, and how she burned the book under a tree in Venice, together with Mabel Luhan Dodge. Signed by Mabel Luhan Dodge. The second manuscript, Answer to Frank Waters 'The Magic That Persists' by Frieda Lawrence, is an apology for the Plumed serpent. Together with a photograph of an oil-painting of Frieda Lawrence by Jack Winkelman(?).

General note

Gift of Willard Hougland.

box 2

Murry, John Middleton, 1889- . Letter to Frieda Lawrence, 654/24 April 25, 1931.

General Physical Description note: Holograph letter signed Jack, 2pp.

Scope and Contents note

Letter re-evaluating his relationship to Lorenzo, his attitudes to women and his relationship to Frieda.

General note

Gift of Willard Hougland.

box 4

Lawrence, David Herbert. The White Peacock. Galley sheets (). 654/25 1910

General Physical Description note: Corrections and extensive revisions in Lawrence's hand in ink. pp.1-124, lacks p.59. Oversized.

Scope and Contents note

Powell 1B, Tedlock p.6.

General note

Stored on Topshelf of Cage.

Gift of Willard Hougland.

box 2

Letters to Enid Hilton. Letters and postcards, 654/26 1913-1926.

General Physical Description note: 42 pieces, 1 fragment.

Scope and Contents note

8 of the 42 items are published in The Letters of D.H. Lawrence. The bulk of the correspondence dates from 1928 and relates to Enid Hilton's part in getting copies of Lady Chatterley into England.

General note

Purchased by L.C. Powell from Ben Abramson.

box 2

Letters to Giuseppe Orioli, 1926- . Venice, 654/27 1930.

General Physical Description note: 109 pieces, (102 letters, 7 p.c.)

Scope and Contents note

The bulk of the correspondence relates to Lady Chatterley. Other publishing ventures are discussed: Story of Dr. Manente, translation of Verga, etc. Together with letter from Frieda Lawrence to Ben Abramson, July 1945.

General note

Purchased by L.C. Powell from Ben Abramson.

box 2

Correspondence from various persons to Giuseppe Orioli with copious notes by Lawrence on each letter, about Lady Chatterley. 654/28

General note

Purchased by L.C. Powell from Ben Abramson.

box 2

Letters to Edward Dahlberg. 654/29 1929.

General Physical Description note: 13 pieces. Transcripts typed.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence unpublished and no longer located(?).

General note

Gift of Dr. Powell.

box 2

Powell, Lawrence Clark: Typescript drafts for articles on D.H. Lawrence, unpublished, 654/30 n.d.

General Physical Description note: Typescripts, 7pp. and 14pp.

Scope and Contents note

The Seven Best Books of D.H. Lawrence. The Literary criticism of D.H. Lawrence.

General note

Gift of Dr. Powell.

box 2

Powell, Lawrence Clark, comp. 654/31 1933-1938.

General Physical Description note: Clippings and 8 pieces, approximately.

General note

Gift of Dr. Powell.

box 2

Powell, Lawrence Clark, compiled clippings from magazines and transcripts for research concerning D.H. Lawrence as critic. 654/32

General Physical Description note: 1 folder.

General note

Gift of Dr. Powell.

box 2

Powell, Lawrence Clark, A Critical Bibliography of Books About D.H. Lawrence. X. Bibliography. 654/33 November 1934.

General Physical Description note: Typescript, 4pp.

General note

Gift of Dr. Powell.

box 2

White, William, D.H. Lawrence: A Checklist, 1931-1948. Galleyproofs, together with letter to L.C. Powell. 654/34 1949.

General Physical Description note: 11pp.

General note

Gift of Dr. Powell.

box 2

Miller, Henry: Apocalyptic Lawrence. Together with letter to Willard Hougland, 654/35 1946.

General Physical Description note: Typescript and carbon copy, 6pp. each.

General note

Gift of Willard Hougland.

box 2

Mesnil, Jacques: A prophet, D.H. Lawrence. Translated by Frieda Lawrence. Holograph manuscript by Frieda Lawrence, 654/36 n.d.

General Physical Description note: 2pp. of typescript.

General note

Gift of Willard Hougland.

box 2

Lawrence, Frieda: A note on Lawrence's letter to Christine Hughes. Holograph notes, typescript and letters to Willard Hougland concerning this item. 654/37

General Physical Description note: 11pp.

General note

See item 3 of register.

box 3

Lawrence, David Herbert, Collection: Manuscript material relating to Lawrence removed from Lawrence Clark Powell's collection of books by and about Lawrence, given to the UCLA Library in 654/38 1959.

General Physical Description note: 43 items.

Scope and Contents note

This material consists of correspondence with various persons, manuscripts, and notes.

box 3

Lawrence, David Herbert, Collection: Ephemera relating to Lawrence removed from Lawrence Clark Powell's collection of books by and about Lawrence, given to the UCLA Library in 654/39 1959.

General Physical Description note: 41 items.

box 3

Lawrence, David Herbert, 1885-1930. Letters to Clarence E. Thompson. v.p., 654/40 August-October 1924.

General Physical Description note: Verifax copies. 5 items.

Scope and Contents note

With these: 3 letters (verifax copies) from Lawrence to Mabel Dodge Luhan, February-November, 1924. And postcard (verifax copy) from Frieda Lawrence to Clarence Thompson, May 1, 1936. These items were made from originals lent to us for copying by Majl Ewing, the letters belonging in 1960 to Alfred Wakeman of Los Angeles.

box 3

Lawrence, David Herbert, Collection. Booksellers catalogs devoted wholly or in part to books and manuscripts by D.H. Lawrence. items. 654/41

General note

Gift of Lawrence Clark Powell.

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Lawrence, David Herbert, Collection. Program and sign for the British premiere of Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, a movie produced by Jerry Wald. Nottingham, 654/42 June 23, 1960.

General Physical Description note: 2 items.

General note

Gift of Lawrence Clark Powell.

box 3

Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1906- . The Manuscripts of D.H. Lawrence: a Descriptive Catalogue. Compiled by Lawrence Clark Powell, with a foreword by Aldous Huxley. Los Angeles, The Public Library, 654/43 1937.

General Physical Description note: xi, [1 leaf.], 79pp.

Scope and Contents note

It contains holograph inscriptions by Frieda Lawrence, Ward Ritchie, Jake Zeitlin, and Aldous Huxley, as well as a letter, dated November 12, 1939, from Frieda Lawrence to Lawrence Clark Powell; two letters (carbons), May 28, 1939, and January 18, 1938, from Lawrence Clark Powell to Jake Zeitlin; a letter, June 1, 1937, from Jake Zeitlin to Lawrence Clark Powell; and three relevant newspaper clippings.

General note

This copy is the gift of Lawrence Clark Powell, August 1969.

box 3

Lawrence, David Herbert, 1885-1930. A Book of Modern Poems. Scandicci [Italy], Introduction to Chariot of the Sun, by Harry Crosby. 654/44 May 1, 1928.

General Physical Description note: 14 leaves. 27cm. Typescript (carbon).

General note

Gift of Majl Ewing.

box 3

1. Portrait of a Genius. Los Angeles, 20th Century, ca. 654/45 1960.

General Physical Description note: l reel. 16mm. Film.

Scope and Contents note

This three-minute film about D.H. Lawrence was made as television publicity for 20th Century's film, Sons and Lovers...

box 3

2. Short television films made as publicity for the film, Sons and Lovers. Los Angeles, 20th Century, ca. 1960.

General Physical Description note: 7 reels. 16mm. Film.

General note

Gift of Ben Grauer, September 1960.

Additions, February 1983.

box 3

Lawrence, Frieda von Richthofen, 1879-1956. Letter to Henry Savage. Italy, (?). 654/46 1913

General Physical Description note: 1 leaf. 22 × 17.5cm. Holograph.

General note

Ex libris: Majl Ewing.

box 3

Lawrence, D.H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930. Letters to Henry Savage. London, 654/47 1913-1914.

General Physical Description note: 3 items (3 leaves, 1 envelope) Holograph.

Scope and Contents note

2 letters, ca. 1913; 1 letter [July 8, 1914] In his letter of [July 8, 1914], Lawrence mentions to Savage that he and Frieda are getting married Saturday or Monday of the following week.

General note

Ex libris: Majl Ewing.

box 3

Carter, Frederick. The Ancient Science of Astrology by Frederick Carter. n.p., 654/48 n.d.

General Physical Description note: 9 leaves. Holograph. P. [i], viii, ix, x in Lawrence's hand, measuring 21.5 × 27.8cm., pp.ii-vi in Carter's hand, measuring 19.6 × 25.2cm. The pages are misnumbered, omitting p.vii.

General note

Published in The Adelphi. vol.1 no.11 (April 1924, pp.997-1005.)

Ex libris: Majl Ewing.

box 3

Gippius, Zinaida Nikolaevna, 1869-1945. Green, White and Flame. A Sort of After-Word. n.p., 654/49 n.d.

General Physical Description note: t.p., 12pp. 20 × 25cm. Manuscript.

Scope and Contents note

The manuscript has a pencilled note at the top of the title page by Majl Ewing, This to be Afterword to the Green Ring (a play by Zenaide Hippius, translated by SSK and published by Daniel [February 1921] transcribed by D.H. Lawrence] The manuscript is in Lawrence's hand, and was published in 1920.

General note

Ex libris: Majl Ewing.

box 3

Lawrence, D.H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930. Democracy. n.p., 654/50 n.d.

General Physical Description note: t.p., 28pp. 21.5 × 28cm. Typescript with holograph corrections.

Scope and Contents note

Part 1, The Average, pp.1-8; Part 2, Identity, pp.9-15; Part 3, Personality, pp.16-22; Part 2, Individualism, pp.22-29.

General note

Published in Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D.H. Lawrence. New York: Viking, 1936.

Ex libris: Majl Ewing.

box 3

Lawrence, D.H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930. On Being a Man. n.p., 654/51 n.d.

General Physical Description note: 17pp. 16.5 × 21.5cm. Holograph.

General note

Published in Vanity Fair, vol.22 no.3/4 (June 1924), and in The Adelphi, vol.2 no.4 (September 1924), pp.298-306.

Ex libris: Majl Ewing.

box 3

Lawrence, D.H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930. On Being Religious. n.p., 654/52 n.d.

General Physical Description note: 11pp. (6 leaves) 16.5 × 21.5cm. Holograph.

General note

First published in The Adelphi, vol.1 no.9 (February 1924), pp.791-799.

Ex libris: Majl Ewing.

box 3

Lawrence, D.H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930. On Human Destiny. n.p., 654/53 n.d.

General Physical Description note: 14pp. (There are 2 pages numbered 5) 16.5 × 21.5cm. Holograph.

General note

Published in The Adelphi, vol.1 no.10 (March 1924, pp.882-891).

Ex libris: Majl Ewing.

box 3

Shestov, Lev, 1866-1938. The Russian Spirit (translated by S. Koteliansky). n.p., 654/54 n.d.

General Physical Description note: 7 leaves. 18.2 × 22.9cm. Holograph.

Pencilled note by Majl Ewing at the top of the first page, A chapter [46] from Leo Shestov's All Things are Possible translated by S.S.K. and D.H. Lawrence, published by Secker [1920] This is actually Chapter 45 of Part 2 in a slightly different form.
The manuscript is in Lawrence's hand from Koteliansky's translation.

General note

Ex libris: Majl Ewing.

box 3

Lawrence, D.H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930. Eric Gill's Art Nonsense by D.H. Lawrence. [Vence, 654/55 1930].

General Physical Description note: 7pp. 17 × 22.3cm. Holograph.

Review of Art Nonsense, with a note by Frieda Lawrence on the wrapper, Last thing Lawrence wrote two days before he died.
Note on the wrapper in an unidentified hand describes the manuscript as incomplete, but Frieda Lawrence has written under it, I think it is complete.
On p.43 of the notebook, God and art is written at the top of the page in Lawrence's hand.

General note

Published in The Book Collector's Quarterly, no.12 (October-December 1933, pp.1-7). Also in Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers Of D.H. Lawrence. New York: Viking, 1936.

Ex libris: Majl Ewing.

box 4

Lawrence, D.H. (David Herbert) The White Peacock Corrected Galley. Sheets of....