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

'First reports from Tafila', Arab Bulletin, 11 February 1918, SD p. 149

The Forest Giant, by Adrien Le Corbeau [pseud. of Rudolf Bernhardt], translated from the French by J. H. Ross [pseud. of T. E. Lawrence]. London, Jonathan Cape, 1924

'France, Britain and the Arabs: the beam in our own eye: the road to peace in Mesopotamia', by T. E. Lawrence, in the Observer (London, No. 6,742, 8th August 1920, p. 10 col. 4). Reprinted in DG pp. 311-5.

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Letters

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Foreign Office, British

• 15 September 1919 DG pp. 288-91

H. A. Ford

• 18 April 1929 DG pp. 650-51

E. M. Forster

• 20 February 1924 DG pp. 455-8
• 24 July 1924 DG pp. 461-2
• 29 September 1924 DG pp. 466-7
• 26 April 1926 DG pp. 496-7
• 14 July 1927 DG pp. 531-2
• 8 September 1927 DG pp. 535-8; MB pp. 346-8 (omissions)
• 27 October 1927 MB pp. 351-2
• 16 April 1928 DG pp. 593-5
• 6 August 1928 DG pp. 618-22
• 28 August 1928 DG pp. 622-25; MB p. 383 (omissions)
• 12 December 1928 DG pp. 625-6
• 5 February 1929 DG p. 641
• 24 May 1934 DG pp. 804-5
• 26 June 1934 DG pp. 810-11
• 7 May 1935 DG p. 871

The Hon. Lady Fullerton

• 27 August 1934 DG pp. 815-6

 

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