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

C

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 on the site formerly and will be restored

---

Works

---

Catalogue of an exhibition of Arab portraits by Eric H. Kennington, with a prefatory note by T. E. Lawrence (pp. 5-11). London, Ernest Brown & Phillips, The Leicester Galleries, October, 1921. Lawrence's preface is dated 25/8/21. Reprinted, without the first three paragraphs, in the 1927 Catalogue of an exhibition of paintings, pastels, drawings and woodcuts illustrating Col. T. E. Lawrence's book "Seven pillars of wisdom". With prefaces by Bernard Shaw and T. E. Lawrence (pp. 7-13 and 14-18 respectively). Reprinted in this shortened form in OA (pp. 147-57, titled: 'On Eric Kennington's Arab Portraits'.)

'The Changing East' [by T. E. Lawrence] in The Round Table, A quarterly review of the politics of the British Commonwealth' ed. Lionel Curtis (London, Vol. X, No, 40, September 1920, pp. 756-772); OA 71-97

'A critic of critics criticised' [book review] in the Spectator No 5174, 27 August 1927, pp 321-322 signed C.D. [pseud. of T. E. Lawrence]. Reprinted in MIP.

---

Letters

---

Cabinet, British

• 4 November 1918, memorandum, 'Reconstruction of Arabia'

Jonathan Cape

• 7 January 1923 DG p. 393
• 23 March 1923 DG p. 404
• 10 April 1923 DG p. 408
• 14 November 1923 DG pp. 440-41
• 21 April 1925 DG pp. 474-5
• 25 May 1927 DG p. 518
• 30 June 1928 DG pp. 613-4
• 15 February 1933 DG p. 762
• 12 March 1933 DG p. 766
• 28 March 1933 DG pp. 766-7

Lord Carlow

• 14 September 1934 DG pp. 818-19
• 4 February 1935 DG p. 850

Douglas Carruthers

• 2 May 1934 DG pp. 800-801

A. E. ('Jock') Chambers

• 10 March [1923] DG p. 402
• 21 March 1923 DG pp. 402-4
• 3 August 1924 DG p. 436
• 27 April 1929 DG pp. 654-5
• 5 March 1934 DG p. 791
• 26 January 1935 DG pp. 840-42

Winston Churchill

• [draft] 12 December 1933 DG pp. 781-3

To the Editor, Civil & Military Gazette

• 29 October 1928 MB p. 386

General [later Sir Gilbert] Clayton

• 10 July 1917 DG pp. 325-31
• 9 October 1928 MB pp. 383-4

Sydney Cockerell

• 31 March 1922 DG pp. 339-40
• 22 October 1923 DG pp. 437-8; SCC pp. 357-9
• 27 October 1923 DG p. 438; SCC pp. 359-60
• 25 December 1923 SCC pp. 360-61
• 13 January 1924 DG p. 450; SCC p. 361
• 19 March 1924 DG pp. 456-9; SCC pp. 361-2
• 15 October 1924 DG pp. 468-9; SCC pp. 362-3
• 29 December 1925 DG pp. 488-9; SCC pp. 363-4
• 15 March 1927 SCC pp. 364-5
• 27 May 1927 DG pp. 518-9; SCC pp. 365-6
• 2 February 1928 DG pp. 574-5; SCC pp. 366-7
• 22 March 1928 SCC pp. 368-9
• 29 July 1929 DG pp. 667-8; SCC p. 369
• 27 March 1930 SCC p. 370
• 15 November 1934 SCC p. 371
• 28 November 1934 SCC pp. 371-2
• 6 March 1935 SCC pp. 372-3

Paymaster-Captain Archibald Cooper

• 8 April 1934 DG pp. 795-6

Noël Coward

• 6 September 1930 DG pp. 696-7
• 5 October 1930 DG p. 702
• 10 June 1931 DG p. 723

A. E. Cowley

• 19 May 1927 MB pp. 329-30

Geoffrey Cumberlege

• 6 September 1932 DG pp. 742-3

Lionel Curtis

• 19 March 1923 DG pp. 410-12
• 27 March 1923 DG pp. 412-15
• 14 May 1923 DG pp. 415-17
• 30 May 1923 DG pp. 417-19
• 27 June 1923 DG pp. 419-21
• 25 August 1924 DG p. 465
• 14 December 1925 DG pp. 487-8
• 14 July 1927 DG pp. 529-30
• 17 November 1927 MB p. 354
• 22 December 1927 DG pp. 557-60
• 8 January 1930 DG pp. 675-6
• 19 March 1934 DG pp. 792-4
• 13 June 1934 DG pp. 808-9

Mrs Lionel Curtis

• 1 August 1933 DG pp. 771-2

Lord Curzon

• 27 September 1919 DG pp. 291-3

 

 

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