T. E. Lawrence

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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.

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Works

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'The Egyptian Problem by Sir Valentine Chirol', in the Observer (London, No. 6,748, 19 September 1920, p. 6 col. 3). Book review by T. E. Lawrence.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 14th ed. 1929. The entry for 'Guerilla' contains, 'Science of Guerrilla Warfare', signed 'T. E. La' (pp. 950-3). The text of this article was edited by B. H. Liddell Hart from T. E. Lawrence's writings on the subject (see T. E. Lawrence to his biographer Liddell Hart, pp. 1-4).

An Essay on Flecker. From the facsimile of the manuscript published in copies 1-30 of MIP, 1940

'The Evolution of a Revolt' by T. E. Lawrence, in The Army Quarterly (London, Vol. I, No. 1, October 1920, pp. 55-69). Reprinted in: OA (pp. 103-34); EOR (pp. 100-19). Extract in: ETEL (pp. 214-20).

'Extracts from a diary of a journey', Arab Bulletin, 18 November 1916, SD 12-20

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Letters

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H. S. Ede

• 20 January 1928 DG pp. 566-7; S-E pp. 12-13
• 30 June 1928 DG pp. 614-5; S-E pp. 16-17
• 16 April 1928 DG pp. 590-92; S-E pp. 14-16
• 20 March 1929 DG pp. 644-5; S-E pp. 29-30
• 29 July 1929 S-E, excerpt in DG p. 667
• 3 January 1935 S-E pp. 58-9
• 5 April 1935 DG pp. 865-6; S-E pp. 60-61

Miss Fareedeh el Akle

• 28 January 1927 MB p. 316 (extract)

The Hon Edward Eliot

• 16 June 1927 MB pp. 333-4

Sir Edward Elgar

• 22 December 1933 DG pp. 785-6

Air Chief Marshal Sir Edward Ellington

• 25 February 1935 DG pp. 858-9

 

 

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