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

Correspondence and works by T. E. Lawrence

written or first published in 1922

Letters and works shown in brown have been published in the printed edition indicated, but are covered by European copyright until the date shown in italics. Until then 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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Morning Post (London, No. 46,847, 20th July 1922) contains 'Arabian politics: resignation of Colonel Lawrence as adviser' (p. 8 col. 3). The text of a letter from T.E. Lawrence to Sir John Shuckburgh dated 4 July 1922). Reprinted in DG pp. 344-5.

Draft preface dated 18 November 1922 by Lawrence to an unpublished abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom prepared in 1922 by Edward Garnett and revised by Lawrence, DG pp. 345-6

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Letters

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January 1922

• To Robert Graves 9 January [1922] B:RG p. 11
• To Robert Graves [January 1922] B:RG p. 16
• To Hugh Trenchard early January 1922 SITR pp. 44-5 2028
• Hugh Trenchard to T. E. Lawrence 11 January 1922 SITR pp. 45-6 2028

February 1922

• To his mother 15 February [1922] HL pp. 354-5
• To Robert Graves [after 4 February 1922] B:RG pp. 18-19

March 1922

• To Eric Kennington 12 March 1922 DG pp. 337-8
• To Robert Graves 16 [March 1922] B:RG p. 12
• To C. M. Doughty 23 March 1922 DG pp. 338-9
• To Sydney Cockerell 31 March 1922 DG pp. 339-40

April 1922

• To Eric Kennington 10 April 1922 DG pp. 340-41

June 1922

• To D. G. Hogarth 7 June 1922 DG p. 341
• To the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem [1st draft, 1922] DG pp. 342-3
• To the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem [2nd draft, 1922] DG pp. 343-4

July 1922

• To Robert Graves 2 July 1922 B:RG p. 20
• To Sir John Shuckburgh 4 July 1922 DG pp. 344-5

August 1922

• To Edward Garnett 17 August 1922 DG p. 355
• To Bernard Shaw 17 August 1922 DG pp. 355-7, Letters 1 pp. 3-5
• To Edward Garnett 22 August 1922 DG pp. 358-9
• To Edward Garnett 23 August 1922 DG pp. 359-60
• Bernard Shaw to T. E. Lawrence 25 August 1922 LTEL pp. 160-1; Letters 1 pp. 6-7 2021
• To Edward Garnett 26 August 1922 DG pp. 360-61
• To Bernard Shaw 27 August 1922 DG pp. 362-3, Letters 1 pp. 7-8
• To Robert Graves [c. late-August 1922] B:RG pp. 19-20

September 1922

• To Air Vice-Marshal Sir Oliver Swann 1 September 1922 DG pp. 363-5
• To Edward Garnett 7 September 1922 DG pp. 365-7
• To Edward Garnett Saturday [a day or two after 7 September 1922] DG pp. 367-8
• To Robert Graves 24 September [1922] B:RG p. 21
• T. E. Lawrence to Bernard Shaw 30 September 1922 Letters 1 pp. 9-10 2040

October 1922

• To Edward Garnett 9 October 1922 DG pp. 368-9
• To Stewart Newcombe 15 October 1922 DG pp. 369-70
• To Edward Garnett 23 October 1922 DG pp. 370-71
• To Eric Kennington 27 October 1922 DG pp. 372-3
• To D. G. Hogarth 29 October 1922 DG pp. 373-4

November 1922

• To C. M. Doughty 6 November 1922 DG pp. 374-6
• To Edward Garnett 6 November 1922 DG pp. 376-7
• To Air Vice-Marshal Sir Oliver Swann 9 November 1922 DG pp. 377-8
• To Robert Graves 12 November 1922 DG pp. 378-9; B:RG pp. 22-3
• To Edward Garnett 12 November 1922 DG pp. 379-81
• To Air Vice-Marshal Sir Oliver Swann 19 November 1922 DG pp. 381-2
• To Edward Garnett 20 November 1922 DG pp. 383-4
• To Edward Garnett [22 November 1922] DG pp. 384-5
• T. E. Lawrence to Bernard Shaw 30 November 1922 Letters 1 p. 11 2040

December 1922

• To Edward Garnett Friday [postmarked 1 December 1922] DG pp. 385-6
• Bernard Shaw to T. E. Lawrence 1 December 1922 LTEL pp. 161-4, Letters 1 pp. 11-14 2021
• To Edward Garnett 7 December 1922 DG pp. 386-7
• To Bernard Shaw 7 December 1922 DG pp. 387-8, Letters 1 pp. 15-16
• Bernard Shaw to T. E. Lawrence 17 December 1922 LTEL pp. 164-6, Letters 1 pp. 17- 19 2021
• To R. V. Buxton 21 December 1922 DG pp. 388-9
• To Herbert Baker 25 December 1922 DG p. 389
• To Bernard Shaw 27 December 1922 DG pp. 390-91, Letters 1 pp. 20-22
• Bernard Shaw to T. E. Lawrence 28 December 1922 LTEL pp. 167-8, Letters 1 pp. 23-5 2021
• Charlotte Shaw to T E. Lawrence 31 December 1922 Letters 1 pp. 25-7 2015

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