Contents lists
Updated June 2012
Correspondence and works by T. E. Lawrence
written or first published in 1923
Letters and works shown in brown have been published in the printed edition indicated, but are covered by EU 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 added.
Works
The Owl: 'The Winter Owl' [cover title], 1923, Contains 'Massacre (September 1917: being a chapter from the history of the Arab Revolt)' by T. E. Lawrence (pp. 5-13). This is one of eight chapters from Lawrence's 1920 draft abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Dust-Jacket blurb, c. October 1923, by T. E. Lawrence for his projected (but later abandoned) English translation of Sturly by Pierre Custot. DG. pp. 438-9
Letters
January 1923
- To Bernard Shaw 2 January 1923 Letters 1 pp. 28-9 2040
- Bernard Shaw to T. E. Lawrence 4 January 1923 LTEL pp. 168-71, Letters 1 pp. 30-33 2021
- To Jonathan Cape 7 January 1923 DG p. 393
- To Charlotte Shaw 8 January 1923 Letters 1 pp. 33-4 2040
- Bernard Shaw to T. E. Lawrence 9 January 1923 LTEL p. 171, Letters 1 p. 35 2021
- To Robert Graves 18 January 1923 B:RG pp. 23-4
- To T. B. Marson 28 January 1923 DG pp. 394-5
- To Edward Garnett 30 January 1923 DG pp. 395-6
- To Bernard Shaw 30 January 1923 DG pp. 396-7, Letters 1 pp. 35-7
February 1923
- To B. E. Leeson 4 February 1923 DG pp. 397-9
- To Lady Scott 5 February 1923 DG pp. 399-400
- To R. O'Conor 8 February 1923 DG pp. 400-401
- To Lady Scott 16 February 1923 DG p. 401
March 1923
- To A. E. Chambers 10 March [1923] DG p. 402
- To Lionel Curtis 19 March 1923 DG pp. 410-12
- To Robert Graves 20 March 1923 B:RG p. 25
- To A. E. Chambers 21 March 1923 DG pp. 402-4
- To Jonathan Cape 23 March 1923 DG p. 404
- To Bernard Shaw 23 March 1923 Letters 1 pp. 37-8 2040
- To Lionel Curtis 27 March 1923 DG pp. 412-15
- To [Sir Hugh Trenchard] 28 March 1923 DG pp. 404-6
- To Eric Kennington 30 March 1923 DG p. 406
April 1923
- To D. G. Hogarth, Easter Day [1 April 1923] DG pp. 406-7
- To Jonathan Cape 10 April 1923 DG p. 408
- To Edward Garnett 12 April 1923 DG pp. 408-9
- To Edward Garnett 24 April 1923 DG pp. 409-10
May 1923
- Bernard Shaw to T. E. Lawrence 13 May 1923 Letters 1 pp. 38-9 2021
- To Lionel Curtis 14 May 1923 DG pp. 415-17
- To A. P. Wavell 21 May 1923 DG pp. 422-3
- To Mrs. Thomas Hardy 21 May 1923 DG pp. 423-4
- To Lionel Curtis 30 May 1923 DG pp. 417-19
June 1923
- To D. G. Hogarth 13 June 1923 DG pp. 424-6
- To Lionel Curtis 27 June 1923 DG pp. 419-21
- To D. G. Hogarth 27 June 1923 DG p. 426
August 1923
- To Mrs. Thomas Hardy 15 August 1923 DG p. 427
- To Gertrude Bell 18 August 1923 DG pp. 427-8
- To C. M. Doughty 18 August 1923 DG p. 428
- To D. G. Hogarth 23 August 1923 DG pp. 428-9
September 1923
- To Robert Graves 8 September 1923 DG pp. 429-31; B:RG pp. 25-7
- To R. V. Buxton 22 September 1923 DG pp. 431-2
- To Edward Garnett 26 September 1923 DG p. 432
- To C. M. Doughty 27 September 1923 DG pp. 432-3
October 1923
- To Edward Garnett 4 October 1923 DG pp. 433-4
- To R. V. Buxton 4 October 1923 DG pp. 434-5
- To Sydney Cockerell 22 October 1923 DG pp. 437-8; SCC pp. 357-9
- To Sydney Cockerell 27 October 1923 DG p. 438; SCC pp. 359-60
November 1923
- To Eric Kennington 5 November 1923 DG p. 439
- To D. G. Hogarth 14 November 1923 DG pp. 439-40
- To Jonathan Cape 14 November 1923 DG pp. 440-41
- To his mother 22 November 1923 HL pp. 355-6
December 1923
- To Mrs. Thomas Hardy 2 December 1923 DG pp. 441-2
- To R. V. Buxton 13 December 1923 DG pp. 442-3
- To Bernard Shaw 13 December 1923 Letters 1 pp. 48-9 2040
- To Edward Garnett 16 December 1923 DG pp. 443-4
- Bernard Shaw to T. E. Lawrence [18 December 1923] Letters 1 p. 35 2021
- To his mother 19 December 1923 HL pp. 356-7
- To subscribers to Seven Pillars of Wisdom [draft, dated 19 December 1923] DG pp. 444-6
- To Bernard Shaw 20 December 1923 DG pp. 446-9, Letters 1 pp. 52-4
- To Sydney Cockerell 25 December 1923 SCC pp. 360-61
- To A. P. Wavell 27 December 1923 DG p. 449
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