Box 1

“Thank you for your letter of May 3rd. I am most grateful for your encouragement over publishing Jessie’s short story. In a day or two I hope to hear from the Chambers family...”

“Thank you for telling me about the proposed Omnibus of D.H.L.’s correspondence. But, truth to tell, I don't like these vast collections, whose binding is seldom commensurate with the number of pages they are supposed to contain...”

"Thank you for telling me about the proposed Omnibus of D.H.L's correspondence. Until the late 50's I had kept, personally, many of the letters reveived from L. during the years between 1908 and 1912, and a couple dated 1913..."

“Please forgive me for pestering you about Lawrence’s letters but I now have to work with some urgency in order to get the first volume under way. In the period to be covered by that volume, 1901-1913...”

"I have found among my papers duplicate of complete list of letters and MSS. sold to Texas University between 1954-68. A copy of this is enclosed..."

"Your two helpful letters have taken me several steps closer to a full list of DHL's letters written to you, 1909-1913. But a few questions still remain: forgive me for pestering you with them..."

"I will answer your questions in sequence. 1. This letter was definitely included in the collection sold to Texas, and should have been mentioned on the list dated Sept 1958..."

“Since mailing to you my letter of Oct. 28th I have received from Dr. Warren Roberts photo-copies of all the letters I sold to Texas with the exception of the last two, which have been sealed for the period of my life-time...”

“With letters flying about between Texas, Kelvedon and Nottingham we are in danger of getting into real confusion! I enclose a copy of the list I sent to Warren...”

“Yes, indeed! I can only hope that your other correspondence will pose you fewer problems. To the best of my knowledge the list enclosed is correct, except with reference to the first item...”