Box 2

“How are you? I began to write to you at sunset. Now it is starlight, big scintillating stars; it is nearly midnight! I am as miserable as the devil...”

“Sometimes it strikes me one way- sometimes another. Sometimes I think it the beastliest selfishness- sometimes I think it is poltrooning- sometimes it seems to me perfectly natural- my way....” Listed as being written in summer of 1911.

“I was not surprised to find your letter waiting for me when I came back from Dover. Do not be hurt! I am only hasty in wording. Surely, surely it is my tenet that an emotion is genuine even though next day an antagonistic feeling supplants it....” Listed as being written in September 1911.

Photocopy of a published autobiographical fragment by D.H. Lawrence, excised from an unknown source.

3 bookplates bearing the Lawrence Phoenix, found in an envelope marked “From Frieda Lawrence, 1951."

Postcard of Taos, New Mexico, as depicted by Arthur J. Merrill with handwritten note which reads: Given to Mrs. Philip Smith by a friend of Frieda Lawrence; 4 souvenir postcards of Eastwood and D.H. Lawrence.

The Lovely Lady. Viking Press: New York.

“Many thanks for your letter. In my next book The Lunatic Republic by 1997 North and South America are existing in economic comfort- thanks to social credit."

“Your letter, addressed to me at Macmillan and Co office, has been sent on to me. I am a director of Macmillans but am no longer taking an active part [in the] management...”

“It is always a joy to have a letter from you. You seem to write as so you were talking to me and when I have a letter from you I almost feel that you have walked into my room!...”