Guide to the D. H. Lawrence Collection M0116
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
1999 ; revised 2022
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence Collection
Identifier/Call Number: M0116
Physical Description:
0.75 Linear Feet
(2 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1913-1973
Biographical / Historical
Chronology
| 1885 |
born in Nottingham, England |
| 1911 |
The White Peacock |
| 1913 |
Sons and Lovers |
| 1914 |
married Frieda Von Richthofen (divorced wife of Ernest Weekly) |
| |
The Windowing of Mrs. Holroyd, and David |
| 1916 |
wrote verse: Amores |
| 1923 |
Kangaroo. |
| 1926 |
The Plumed Serpent |
| 1928 |
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| 1930 |
died |
Biographical / Historical
Most of the Lawrence letters in the Stanford papers all those addressed to Lady Ottoline Morrell and Cecil Gray were written
during the first world war, the worst years of Lawrence's life.
In late May of 1914, in Italy, he had written through what was the first version of
The Rainbow (this version contained material that would presently be split off for
Women in Love). At about the same time Edward Weekley was granted the divorce from Frieda that he had so reluctantly sought. In early June
Lawrence and Frieda arrived in London, where they were quictly married. They had not planned on a long stay in England, but
with the outbreak of the war, they found themselves trapped there. Almost immediately, Lawrence's letters began to seethe
with rage. At this point, not yet quite thirty years old, he grew his beard, as if to announce his role henceforth as angry
prophet.
They met many people and made a number of important friendships, among them those with Lady Ottoline, the eccentric patroness
of artists, and Viola Meynell, the poet. At first they lived in a cottage on the Meynell estate, the setting for the story,
England, my England, which of all Lawrence's fictions perhaps most effectively expresses his elegiac sense of his own country.
With England dead, as he thought, he began to dream of a utopian colony of about twenty decent people. Presently he was addressing
Lady Ottoline: I want you to form the nucleus of a new community which shall start a new life amongst us a life in which the
only riches is integrity of character. But already his island idea it had a name now, Rananim, plucked out of a Hebrew chant
that the translator, Koteliansky, another new friend, liked to sing-was changing. Lady Ottoline was bringing Bertrand Russell
to meet him, and they say, the island shall be England, that we shall start our new community in the midst of this old one,
as a seed falls among the roots of the parent. Lady Ottoline was planning to set up a cottage for the Lawrences on her Oxfordshire
estate which would be the central cell.
Russell would be a member. Middleton Murry would be another. In February, when Lawrence wrote Lady Ottoline, he said. Murry
is here.... At present he is my partner-the only man who quite simply is with me. But everything was to fail, of course. The
friendship with Russell changed almost at once into a mutually abusive affair that soon trailed off into nothing. The friendship
with Murry was an up and down thing that at last also jogged into nothing: in his last letter to Murry. Lawrence said. We
are a dissidence. And the colony was never to materialize.
Long before he gave up his hopes for that idyllic scheme, Lawrence suffered his first really severe blow: in November of 1915,
just two months after its publication, all copies of
The Rainbow were destroyed by court order. The plans for Rananim had shifted to Florida and the Lawrences had been hoping to sail for
America, but just now, when they at last obtained passports, it was rumored that The Society of Authors was to fight the ban
on
The Rainbow, and Lawrence decided that he should stay in England in the interest of his novel. Nothing came of this plan, the passports
lapsed, the Lawrences drifted from borrowed house to borrowed house, and at last ended in Cornwall, in a cottage at Higher
Tregerthen, near Zennor, where they were to stay for nearly two years.
It was there that, in spite of many trying circumstances, Lawrence finished, along with a good deal of other writing, his
second long novel,
Women in Love. Probably his greatest book, it did not find a publisher until 1920: that was his most severe disappointment in these years.
Hardly less outrageous in his view was the fact that not once but twice he was summoned to appear for a military physical
examination: each time he was declared hopelessly unfit. (His account of these occasions appears in The Nightmare chapter
of his novel,
Kangaroo.) Friendships exploded or decayed; and in these years, even his marriage seems to have been gravely threatened. Finally, his
cottage having been observed by suspicious neighbors, it was searched by the police and in October of 1917 the Lawrences were
ordered off the coast as probable spies for the Germans.
Beside this final event, at least, Lady Ottoline's threatened libel suit (she was the model of Hermione Roddice in
Women in Love, and friends had told her so) must have seemed a minor nuisance. Having helped establish Cecil Gray in a Cornwall cottage,
the Lawrences now lived for a time in his mother's flat in London. For two more years, then-years of heightened poverty, constant
illness, a third military physical, police harrassment, marriage doldrums-they drifted from borrowed house to borrowed house.
All the time Lawrence wrote, and always with little encouragement. When the volume of poems called
Look! We Have Come Through! appeared, the
Times Literary Supplement remarked that the Muse can only turn away her face in pained distaste. Still, he prepared two new volumes of verse and began
his novel,
Aaron's Rod. He agreed to write a school history text for the Oxford University Press and he wrote the essays that would be collected in
the ultimately influential volume,
Studies in Classic American Literature. Much of the time he was gravely ill. Where did his energy spring from, and all that energy, besides, that went into his constant
rage?
When the war was over at last, the rage did not subside. At a celebratory party, he was the one guest in a black prophetic
mood. To David Garnett he said, I suppose you think the war is over and that we shall go back to the kind of world you lived
in before it. But the War isn't over. The hate and evil is greater now than ever. As he pointed out in
Aaron's Rod (1922), in some ways prophetic of Italian fascism just a few months before Mussolini's
coup d'etat, the violence was released now into the general air, and there would be more of what he called the deluge of iron rain. Although
the plans for Rananim had moved now to the slopes of the Andes, in November of 1919 Lawrence left for Italy, nine pounds in
his pocket and black bile in his heart.
The worst years were over, and surely they had been vexed and angry. But his rage was, after all, not a matter of self-pity.
As Harry T. Moore has said, it had an impersonal quality....When he saw life being murdered, growth being stifled, his rage
was not on behalf of himself, who was only a channel of rage, but on behalf of life and growth. It was Lawrence who, in the
catastrophic year of 1914, said, I only want to know people who have the courage to live.
-MARK SCHORER
The Phoenix...Is my Badge and Sign.
A D.H. Lawrence exhibition, under the above title, opened on October 30th in the Albert M. Bender Room of the Stanford University
Library. On that occasion Professor Mark Schorer, Department of English, the University of California, Berkeley, gave a lecture
from which this keepsake text Lawrence in the War Years is excerpted.
The title of the exhibition is a quotation from a letter written by Lawrence to Lady Ottoline Morrell at the end of February
1915 soon after they had met. Lady Ottoline was Lawrence's generous friend and patroness during the war years. The major portion
of the Lawrence correspondence was given to Stanford by Mrs. Kate Felton Elkins of San Francisco. Mrs. Elkins presented the
letters in October 1933 and in February 1936 to the Charlotte Ashley Felton Memorial Library of American and British literature
which Mrs. Elkins had established at Stanford in 1929. Approximately one-third of the letters are written to Lady Ottoline.
Another large group is written to Cecil Gray, the Scottish composer and writer who was Lawrence's friend and neighbor in Cornwall
during World War I. A third group is addressed to Mrs. Maria Cristina Chambers who offered her help to Lawrence in his negotiations
with American publishers.
There are also letters in the collection written by Lawrence to Sir Philip Morrell, John Beresford, J. B. Pinker, Mrs. Helen
Thomas, Douglas Goldring and Mrs. Goldring, Charles Wilson, Dorothy Yorke, P. R. Stephensen and Charles Lahr. In addition
to the letters presented by Mrs. Elkins, four post cards were the gift of Mr. William L. Stewart, Jr., four letters were purchased
and two were acquired from unknown sources. Some of the letters in the Felton Library were published in the
London Magazine in February 1956 in an article by Professor Schorer entitled I Will Send Address: New Letters of D. H. Lawrence.
The exhibition features a collection of letters, post cards and notes written by Lawrence, manuscripts of poetry which Lawrence
wrote as a young man, the manuscript of his short story The Thimble and copies of those books by Lawrence which are mentioned
in the correspondence. A water color sketch of the Villa Miranda near Florence where Lawrence lived intermittently from 1926
to 1928, was borrowed from the Special Collections Division of the University of California Library at Berkeley. Mr. Keith
M. Sagar of Manchester, England, lent an interesting group of photographs of the Lawrences from his collection. The exhibition
has been arranged and prepared, and the list of Lawrence correspondence compiled by Oswalda M. Deva. First Library Assistant
in the Division of Special Collections.
Julius P. Barclay, Chief Division of Special Collections
Scope and Contents
This material consists primarily of correspondence from D. H. Lawrence to Lady Ottoline Morrell, Cecil Gray, Mrs. Maria Christina
Chambers and a few others. There are two letters by Frieda Lawrence to Lady Morrell. Most of the letters are original ALS
but there are some 60 typescript copies of these, some in a separate bound volume (#2). A few of the typescripts are not from
originals in our collection and the location of these is unknown. The subject matter of the correspondence is primarily personal
describing visitors, usually prominent literary figures, and trips. There is some correspondence regarding the censorship
of
Lady Chatterley's Lover which shows Lawrence's reaction to it. There are a few holograph poems, a typed article and the trial and proof pages for
the first and second editions of
Lady Chatterley's Lover which is included. The material spans the period 1913-1929 with a number of undated items. There is no material for the years
1914 and 1920-26. A set of microfilm has been made of the entire correspondence.
About 180 items.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item] D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence Collection, M0116, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gifts and purchases from various sources, including Kate Felton Elkins.
Conditions Governing Use
While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not
an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission
or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Authors, English.
British literature -- 20th century.
box 1, folder 1
Lady Ottoline [Morrell]. Bellingdon Land, Chesnam, Buck[inghamshire],
13 January 1915.
box 1, folder 2
Lady Ottoline [Morrell]. Greatham, Pulborough, Sussex,
n.d. Wednesday, [? 17 February 1915].
box 1, folder 3
Lady Ottoline Morrell. Greatham, Pulborough, Sussex,
[22 February 1915].
box 1, folder 4
Lady Ottoline [Morrell]. Greatham, Pulborough, Sussex, (First half of the letter written and signed by Frieda Lawrence.)
n.d. [Late February 1915].
box 1, folder 5
Lady Ottoline [Morrell]. Greatham, Pulborough, Sussex,
n.d. Thursday, [? March 1915].
box 1, folder 6
Lady Ottoline [Morrell]. Greatham, Pulborough, Sussex,
n.d. Saturday night, [? March 1915].
box 1, folder 7
[Lady Ottoline Morrell]. N.p., (Last page of letter.)
n.d. [? March 1915].
box 1, folder 8
Lady Ottoline [Morrell]. Greatham, Pulborough, Sussex,
Good Friday, [2 April 1915.
box 1, folder 9
Layd Ottoline [Morrell]. Greatham, Pulborough, Sussex,
Tuesday, [20] April 1915.
box 1, folder 10
[Philip Edward] Morrell. Greatham, Pulborough, Sussex,
Tuesday, [20 April 1915].
box 1, folder 11
Lady Ottoline [Morrell]. Greatham, Pulborough, Sussex,
23 April 1915.
box 1, folder 12
Lady Ottoline [Morrell]. Greatham, Pulborough, Sussex,
5 May 1915.
box 1, folder 13
Lady Ottoline Morrell. Greatham, Pulborough, Sussex, (First half of the letter written by Frieda Lawrence.)
[4 June 1915].
box 1, folder 14
Lady Ottoline [Morrell]. Greatham, Pulborough, Sussex,
n.d. Friday, [? 4 June 1915].
box 1, folder 15
Lady Ottoline [Morrell]. Greatham, Pulborough, [Sussex],
n.d. Tuesday, [8 June 1915].
box 1, folder 16
Lady Ottoline [Morrell]. 1 Byron Villas, Vale-of-Health, Hampstead, London,
n.d., Sunday [? October 1915].
box 1, folder 17
Lady Ottoline [Morrell]. 1 Byron Villas, Vale-of-Health, Hampstead, London,
17 November 1915.
box 1, folder 18
Lady Ottoline [Morrell]. 1 Byron Villas, Vale-of-Health, Hamostead, London,
22 November 1915.
box 1, folder 19
Lady Ottoline [Morrell]. 1 Byron Villas, Vale-of-Health, Hapstead, London,
20 November 1915.
box 1, folder 20
[Lady Ottoline Morrell]. N.p., (Last page of a letter.)
n.d. [? 3 December 1915].
box 1, folder 21
Lady Ottoline [Morrell]. 1 Byron Villas, Vale-[of-Health], Hampstead,
15 December 1915.
box 1, folder 22
[John] Beresford. c/o Mrs. Clarke, Grosvenor Rd., Ripley, Derbyshire,
24 December 1915.
box 1, folder 23
[John] Beresford. Porthcothan, St. Merryn, Padstow, Cornwall,
5 January 1916.
box 1, folder 24
Lady Ottoline [Morrell]. Porthcothan, St. Merryn, [Padstow], North Cornwall,
n.d. Monday, [17 January 1916].
box 1, folder 25
Lady Ottoline [Morrell]. Porthcothan, St. Merryn, [Padstow], N. Cornwall,
n.d. Monday, [31 January 1916].
box 1, folder 26
Cecil Gray. Tregerthen, [Cornwall], Sabato,
n.d. [? January? 1917].
Container Summary: (Post card written in Italian.)
box 1, folder 27
Grey [Cecl Gray]. Zennor, St. Ives, Cornwall,
31 May 1917.
box 1, folder 28
Grey [Cecil Gray]. Zennor, St. Ives, Cornwall,
9 June 1917.
box 1, folder 29
[Cecil] Gray. Zennor, St. Ives, Cornwall,
n.d., Thursday [? 14 June 1917].
box 1, folder 30
Cecil Gray. Tregerthen, [Cornwall],
Wed[nesday], 11 July 1917.
Container Summary: (Post card.)
box 1, folder 31
[Cecil] Gray. Treterthen, [Cornwall],
n.d., Monday [? 27 August 1917].
box 1, folder 32
[Cecil Gray]. Zennor, St. Ives, Cornwall,
12 October 1917.
box 1, folder 33
Grigio [Cecil Gray]. 32 Well Walk, Hampstead, [London] N.W.
Wed[nesday], 17 October 1917.
box 1, folder 34
Cecil Gray. Hampstead, [London, N.W.]
Friday, [19 October 1917].
Container Summary: (Post card.)
box 1, folder 35
Cecil Gray. 44 Mecklenburgh Sq. [London] W.C.,
n.d., Thesday, [23 October 1917].
Container Summary: (Post card.)
box 1, folder 36
[Cecil Gray?]. 44 Mecklenburgh Square, [London] W.C. 1,
n.d., Monday [? 29 October 1917].
box 1, folder 37
Cecil Gray. 44 Mecklenburgh [Sq. London],
Friday, 2 November 1917.
Container Summary: (Post card.)
box 1, folder 38
[Cecil Gray]. 44 Mecklenburgh Square [London] W.C. 1,
n.d. [?7 November 1917].
box 1, folder 39
Cecil Gray. 44 Mecklenburgh [Sq., London],
Friday, [9 November 1917].
Container Summary: (Post card.)
box 1, folder 40
[Cecil Gray]. 44 Mecklenburgh Square [London] W.C. 1,
n.d., Tuesday, [? 4 December 1917].
box 1, folder 41
[Cecil Gray?]. Hermitage, Newbury, [Berkshire],
n.d., [? January 1918].
box 1, folder 42
[Cecil Gray]. Hermitage, [nr. Newbury, Berkshire],
n.d., Sunday, [? 20 January 1918].
box 1, folder 43
[Cecil] Gray. Chapel Farm Cottage, Hermitage, nr. Newbury, Berks]hire],
n.d., Thursday, [? 7 February 1918].
box 1, folder 44
[Cecil Gray]. Chapel Farm Cottage, Hermitage, nr. Newbury, Berks[hire],
12 March 1918.
box 1, folder 45
Grigio [Cecil Gray]. Chapel Farm Cottage, Hermitage, nr. Newbury, Berks[hire],
18 April 1918.
box 1, folder 46
Grigio [Cecil Gray]. Chapel Farm Cottage, Hermitage, nr. Newbury, Berks[hire],
19 April 1918.
box 1, folder 47
[Cecil Gray?]. Mountain Cottage, Midaleton by Wirksworth, Derby[shire],
3 July 1918.
box 1, folder 48
Grigio [Cecil Gray]. Mountain Cottage, Middleton by Wirksworth, Derby[shire],
22 July 1918.
box 1, folder 49
[J.B.] Pinker. Chapel Farm Cottage, Hermitage, nr. Newbury, Berks[hire],
18 June 1919.
box 1, folder 50
Mrs. Helen Thomas. Chapel Farm Cottage, Hermitage, nr. Newbury, Berks[hire],
9 July 1919.
box 1, folder 51
Mrs. [Douglas] Goldring. c/o Mrs. Carswell, Holly Bush House, Holly Mount, Hampstead, [Lonodn] N.W. 3,
14 October 1919.
Container Summary: (Post cardO).
box 1, folder 52
Douglas Goldring. Hampstead, [London]
Wed[nesday] night, 15 October 1919.
Container Summary: (Post card.)
box 1, folder 53
Douglas Goldring. 5 Acacia Rd. Hampstead, [London] N.W.
8, Wed[nesday], 5 November 1919.
Container Summary: (Post card).
box 1, folder 54
Douglas Goldring. 5 Acacia Rd. [Hampstead, London] N.W. 8,
Thursday, 13 November 1919.
Container Summary: (Post card.)
box 1, folder 55
[John] Cournos. Villa Mirenda, Scandicci, Florence, Italy,
8 May 1926.
box 1, folder 56
[Maria Christina] Chambers. Villa Mirenda, Scandicci, Florence, Italy,
11 November 1927.
box 1, folder 57
[Charles] Wilson. Villa Mirenda, Scandicci, Florence,
5 December 1927.
box 1, folder 58
[Charles] Wilson. Villa Mirenda, Scandicci, Florence,
23 December 1927.
box 1, folder 59
[Maria Cristina] Chambers. Chalet Beau Site, Les Diablerets, Suisse (Vaud.),
18 Fevrier 1928.
box 1, folder 60
Arabella [Dorothy Yorke]. Kesselmatte, Gsteig b. Gstaad, (Bern), Switzerland,
4 August 1928.
box 1, folder 61
Arabella [Dorothy Yorke]. Kesselmatte, [Gsteig b. Gstaad, Switzerland],
Friday [17 August 1928].
box 1, folder 62
[Maria Cristina] Chambers. Kesselmatte, Gsteig b. Gstaad, [Switzerland],
25 August 1928.
box 1, folder 63
[Maria Cristina] Chambers. [Kesselmatte, Gsteig b. Gstaad, Bern], Switzerland,
11 September 1928.
box 1, folder 64
[Maria Cristina] Chambers. Baden Saden [Germany,
26 September 1928.
box 1, folder 65
[Maria Cristina] Chambers. Bandol, Var, France,
28 December 1928.
box 1, folder 66
[P.R.] Stephensen. Hotel Principe Alfonso, Palma de Mallorca, Spain,
Sat[urday], 18 May [1929].
box 1, folder 67
[Maria Cristina Chambers]. N.p.,
n.d. [Late June, 1929].
Container Summary: (A signed note.)
box 1, folder 68
A note to Lawrence from Maria Cristina and his answer. N.p., [Forte dei Marmi, Italy.
n.d. Late June 1929.]
Container Summary: (Not signed.)
box 1, folder 69
[Maria Cristina Chambers]. Pensione Giuliani, Forte dei Marmi, [Italy.
? 6 July 1929].
Container Summary: (Post card.)
box 1, folder 70
Maria Cristina Chambers. Flrenze,
Wed[nesday, 10 July 1929].
Container Summary: (Post card.)
box 1, folder 71
Maria Cristina [Chambers]. Firenze,
n.d. [?14 July 1929].
box 1, folder 72
Maria Cristina Chambers. Baden Baden [Germany],
Friday, [19 July 1929].
Container Summary: (Post card.)
box 1, folder 73
Maria Cristina [Chambers]. Ludwig-Wilhelmstift, Baden Baden, Germany,
22 July 1929.
box 1, folder 74
Maria Cristina [Chambers]. c/o Sig. G. Orioli, 6 Lungarno Corsini, Forlence, Italy,
23 August 1929.
box 1, folder 75
[John] Cournos. Rottach-[am-Tegernsee, Germany],
14 September [1929].
box 1, folder 76
[Charles] Lahr. Rottach-[am-Tegernsee, Germany],
n.d., Saturday, [? 14 September 1929].
box 1, folder 77
[Maria Cristina Chambers]. N.p., (Note -- not signed.)
n.d. [Fall, 1929].
box 1, folder 78
Notations principally about publishers to [Maria Cristina Chambers]. N.p., (Not signed).
n.d. [Fall, 1929].
box 1, folder 79
Maria Cristina [Chambers]. Villa Veau-Soleil, Bandol, Var, France,
28 September 1929.
box 1, folder 80
Maria Cristina [Chambers]. Villa Beau-Soleil, Bandol, Var, France,
11 October 1929.
box 1, folder 81
Maria Cristina [Chambers]. Villa Beau-Soleil, Bandol, Var, France,
25 October 1929.
box 1, folder 82
Transcripts of D.H. Lawrence correspondence
box 2, folder 83
9 holograph poems signed by D.H. Lawrence.
The Mowers;
Green;
All of Roses;
Fireflies in the Corn;
A Woman and Her Dead Husband;
The Wind;
The Rascal;
Illicit;
Birthday;
The Mother of Sons. along with other material
Container Summary: Poems on 9 leaves consecutively written on tablet paper.
Holograph poem, unsigned. No title.
Container Summary: 1 leaf.
Scope and Contents note
1st line: Reach over, then, reach over across the chasm in the dark. Gift of Albert M. Bender, 1940.
Holograph poem, unsigned. no title.
Container Summary: 1 leaf,
Scope and Contents note
1st line: Traitors, oh liars, you Judas lot
On verso another[?] poem, list line: Are you pining to be superior? Gift of Albert M. Bender, 1940.
Holograph manuscript of the poem
Guards!
A Review in Hyde Park 1913. In two parts: The Crowd Watches and Evolutions of Soldiers. D. H. Lawrence From Bay C. W. Berd. Source unknown. One typescript
of the same.
Container Summary: 1 leaf.
General note
All of the above D.H. Lawrence correspondence has been microfilmed.
Original typescript of Do Women Change?, with corrections made in ink by D.H. Lawrence. Gift of [Mr. and Mrs. Harley R. Carter?].
Container Summary: 7 leaves.
Holograph manuscript of the forward to Women in Love from the Hermitage, (This forward was suppressed before publication)
12 Sept. 1919
Container Summary: 1 leaf.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased 1935.
Photograph of D.H. Lawrence painting: Resurrection.
Trial and proof pages of first and second editions of
Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Physical Location: (Located in Felton Glass Cabinet)
box 2, folder 84
Original typescript of
Young Lorenzo by Ada Lawrence and G. Stuart Gelder with corrections made in ink. Purchased,
1954.
Container Summary: 173 leaves.
Scope and Contents note
Published by G. Orioli, Florence, Italy [1931]).
box 2, folder 85
Original manuscript of
The Thimble,
Physical Location: in slip case.
Container Summary: 24 pages
box 2, folder 86
Typescripts of letter to Miss Chambers and Mr. Pinker.
box 2, folder 87
Original typescript of
The Phoenix:
His Life a Burning. By Mark Schorer, Lecture at Lawrence Exhibit in Bender Room.
Oct. 30, 1908.
box 2, folder 88
Negative of D.H. Lawrence letter written to Lady Ottoline Morrell.
Dec. 15, 1921
Scope and Contents note
Presentation slip from Frieda Lawrence to Mrs. Gordon Crotch. (found in copy of
Lady Chatterley's Lover.)
box 2, folder 89
Crayon portrait of D.H. Lawrence in colors on grey paper measuring 13 3/8 x 8 3/8, actual portrait 8 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches.
Scope and Contents note
Purchase from Seven Gables, NLC602, FJS, Jan 9 78. See reference file on more information.
box 2, folder 90
1. D.H. Lawrence, Irschenhausen, Bavaria, to Henry Savage, London, with ANS by Frieda von Richthofen, ...my whole working
philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind... Frieda's
ANS: Savage's writing style. With envelope, With envelope,
1913 Sep 4, 1913, Sep 5.
2. Frieda von Richthofen to Henry Savage, n.p. Richard Middleton, his suicide and relation to women. ...women should be satisfied
to
be and let the men
do. We can
do so much more that way. Lawrence, J.J. Rousseau.
n.d. (c. Oct 1913)
Container Summary: ALS, 4 pp (4).
3. D.H. Lawrence, Lerici, Italy, to Henry Savage, London, with ANS by Frieda von Richthofen, With envelope, Lawrence and Frieda's
imminent marriage. Condolences re Savage's mother's death. Imploring Savage to give up the Raynes Park literary milieu and
writing. I think you ought to remain among books, but rather as a soldier of literature than a writer. Discusses
Women in love, feelings for England. Frieda's ANS: death and Lawrence.
1914 May 7 1914 May 8.
Container Summary: 1 p (1).
box 2, folder 91
Erica Jong, N.Y. to Leo, np. D.H. Lawrence, ...the women's movement condemnation of him is rediculous.
Birds, beasts, and flowers and
Phoenix.
1973 Sep 29.
box 3
Decorated case originally containing Lawrence letters
