T. E. Lawrence

Contents lists



1888-1910

1911

1912

1913

1914

1915-16

1917-18

1919-20

1921

1922

1923

1924

1925

1926

1927

1928

1929

1930

1931

1932

1933

1934

1935

Updated June 2012

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works by T. E. Lawrence
names of correspondents

Letters and works shown in brown have been published in the printed edition indicated, but are covered by European copyright. For the present they cannot be included here.

Letters and works shown in green were formerly on the site and will be restored.

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Works

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'The Bastion', in The O.H.S. Magazine, Magazine of The City of Oxford High School for Boys (Oxford, Vol. III, No. 5, February 1906 pp. 75-6). Signed by 'Two Calcotripticians', i.e. T. E. Lawrence and C.F.C. Beeson.

'The Battle of Seil el-Hesa' No 79, DG pp. 240-43

The British Legion Journal (London):

• Vol. 13, No. 5, November 1933 contains 'Service life', by T.E. Lawrence (pp. 160-1, 169). An unauthorised publication of text from The mint, chapters 16-18.

• London, Vol. 13, No. 6, December 1933 contains 'Lawrence of Arabia' (p. 208). An editorial apology [drafted by T. E. Lawrence and G. Wren Howard] for the unauthorised publication of passages from The Mint in the previous issue.
  

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Letters

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Sir Herbert Baker

• 25 December 1922 DG p. 389
• 20 January 1928 DG pp. 567-9
• 18 July 1828 MB pp. 379-80
• 17 July 1828 MB pp. 379-80
• 29 October 1928 MB pp. 385 (omission)

H. W. Bailey

• 23 November 1934 DG pp. 828-9

H. H. Banbury

• 20 April 1927 DG pp. 513-4 - one brief omission, printed as an extract in MB p. 326.
• 22 March 1928 DG pp. 580-81

Flight Lieutenant W. E. G. Beauforte-Greenwood

• 14 July 1931 DG pp. 729-30

C.F.C. ('Scroggs') Beeson

• 16 August 1908 DG pp. 60-62

Nesib el Bekri

• Instructions given at Kaf, 18 June 1917. DG 230-31

C. F. Bell

• 14 December 1927 MB pp. 358-9

Gertrude Bell

• 18 August 1923 DG pp. 427-8

Sir Hugh Bell

• 4 November 1927 MB pp. 532-3 (omission)

Miss L. P. Black

• 7 December 1932 DG pp. 755-6
• 5 March 1934 DG pp. 791-2

R. D. Blumenfeld

• 11 July 1920 DG p. 306
• 2 February 1928 DG pp. 572-4
• 28 February 1929 DG p. 642

Corporal W. Bradbury

• 8 June 1934 DG pp. 805-6
• 13 February 1935 DG p. 855
• 15 February 1935 DG p. 856

Robert Bridges

• 10 December 1924 DG p. 471

W. H. Brook

• 30 December 1929 DG p. 674
• 8 January 1930 DG p. 676

George Brough

• 27 September 1926 DG p. 499-500
• 5 March 1932 DG pp. 738-9
• 5 April 1935 DG pp. 866-8

John Buchan

• 19 May 1925 DG pp. 475-6
• 5 July 1925 DG p. 478
• 27 August 1925 DG p. 483
• [late-December 1926] DG pp. 501
• 20 June 1927 MB pp. 335-6
• 26 December 1928 DG pp. 626-8
• 21 March 1930 DG pp. 685-6
• 22 August 1931 DG p. 736
• 20 December 1934 DG pp. 836-7
• 25 February 1935 DG p. 858
• 1 April 1935 DG pp. 862-3

R.V. ('Robin') Buxton

• 21 December 1922 DG pp. 388-9
• 22 September 1923 DG pp. 431-2
• 4 October 1923 DG pp. 434-5
• 13 December 1923 DG pp. 442-3
• 29 August 1924 DG pp. 465-6
• 6 October 1924 DG p. 468
• 25 November 1924 DG pp. 470-71
• 26 March 1925 DG p. 472
• 20 June 1925 DG pp. 477-8
• 4 March 1927 MB pp. 318-9 (omissions)
• 23 June 1927 DG pp. 524-5
• 10 May 1928 DG p. 607
• [c.April 1930] DG pp. 687-8
• 29 December 1930 DG pp. 708-9
• 9 February 1933 DG pp. 760-61

 

T. E. Lawrence chronology



1888 16 August: born at Tremadoc, Wales

1896-1907: City of Oxford High School for Boys

1907-9: Jesus College, Oxford, B.A., 1st Class Hons, 1909

1910-14: Magdalen College, Oxford (Senior Demy), while working at the British Museum's excavations at Carchemish

1915-16: Military Intelligence Dept, Cairo

1916-18: Liaison Officer with the Arab Revolt

1919: Attended the Paris Peace Conference

1919-22: wrote Seven Pillars of Wisdom

1921-2: Adviser on Arab Affairs to Winston Churchill at the Colonial Office

1922 August: Enlisted in the Ranks of the RAF

1923 January: discharged from the RAF

1923 March: enlisted in the Tank Corps

1923: translated a French novel, The Forest Giant

1924-6: prepared the subscribers' abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom

1927-8: stationed at Karachi, then Miranshah

1927 March: Revolt in the Desert, an abridgement of Seven Pillars, published

1928: completed The Mint, began translating Homer's Odyssey

1929-33: stationed at Plymouth

1931: started working on RAF boats

1932: his translation of the Odyssey published

1933-5: attached to MAEE, Felixstowe

1935 February: retired from the RAF

1935 19 May: died from injuries received in a motor-cycle crash on 13 May

1935 21 May: buried at Moreton, Dorset