Telawrence

One of the almost Forgotten Episodes in Lawrence’s Life In the April of 1919 T. E. Lawrence was heavily involved in the ‘slow grind’ of the Paris Peace Conference, but then he received a telegram from his younger brother stating their father was suffering from pneumonia and that he should…

I sometimes wonder if Lawrence styled himself on the Warrior Poet? With the death of the poet, Lord Byron, in Greece, on April 19, 1824, as he fought alongside those seeking independence from the Ottoman Empire, elements of the British public became aware (maybe for the first time) of a…

“I first saw him in Lowell Thomas’s film at the Albert Hall: glorious photography, glamour and oratory…” Eric Kennington When Kennington came out of the Albert Hall on that sunny day in 1920 he felt ‘drunk’ with emotion and was determined to meet this Lawrence of Arabia somehow. Sadly, he…

“It pleased me greatly to learn that T. E. had chosen my Rolls tender for his future plans…” S.C. Rolls The above quoted S. C. Rolls was not the C. S. Rolls (Charles Rolls), who, born in 1877, was the co-founder of the Rolls Royce Motor Company in 1906. …

This was the final home of “Lawrence of Arabia” — This tiny cottage was the final home of Colonel T E Lawrence (1888–1935) who achieved fame as “Lawrence of Arabia”. It is an isolated former forester’s cottage a short distance from Bovington Camp, which is a training centre for the British Army’s Royal Armoured Corps, in the Wareham Forest of…

Florence and Frank Doubleday, and the Story of a Book The Revolt in the Desert was written by T. E. Lawrence, and first published by Jonathan Cape in 1927, and as I’ve written previously the book is: … actually a shortened version of Lawrence’s masterpiece, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom…

“An article in a certain paper was once brought to my notice which stated that T.E.L. always rode racing motor bicycles. This article must have been written by some irresponsible person who had that ‘little knowledge which is a dangerous thing…’ ” George Brough T. E. Lawrence loved his Brough…

“ Dear Sir Edward, This is from my cottage and we have just been playing your 2nd Symphony…” T. E. Lawrence’s love of music is self evident when you read accounts by others of the time they spent in his company. One such account is by Flight-Lieutenant R. G. Sims…

“ In August 1928 I sent him proofs of Robert Graves’ Lawrence and the Arabs. He wrote from India: ‘The Graves book puzzles me. I do not like the long passages in which he turns Revolt in the Desert into sober prose…” The name Jonathan Cape has been synonymous with…