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My estimate of the time required to produce an adequate edition of my war narrative "The Seven pillars" has proved wrong: and the sending out of these late proofs of the introductory pages is as pretext for a fresh statement
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[Proof sheets of text and illustrations for the 1926 edition of Seven pillars of wisdom]
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Collection of various proofs, from unknown stages of the 1926 edition of Seven pillars of wisdom. Includes: Proof of p. 161, inscribed on back: "T.E. Lawrence Seven Pillars. Proof by Grabhorn for Rothchild. Given to me by David Mager[?] Sept. 14, 1940. Proof pages for 75-76, 85-86, 89-91, 109-110, 123-124 (include drawings by Wm. Roberts), colored proof portrait of Rear Admiral William Henry Dudley Boyle (ms. inscription on back: Rear Admiral W. E. H. [sic] Boyle, from a portrait by Eric Remmington). 2 proof illustrations. Proof page of lay-out with Kennington illustration and text, with ms. notation possibly by Kennington.
625069
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[Kennington, Eric, 1888-1960]. 4 printed proofs for The Seven Pillars of Wisdom: [end-paperwoodcuts: proofs], B&W; ([ca. 1925?])
Manuscripts
Originally enclosed with: letter from Edith Celandine Kennington to David Lytton, Aug. 19, 1962; now cataloged separately in Correspondence.
TEL 1271 (a-d)
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Jeffrey Meyers Manuscripts: The Wounded Spirit: A Study of Seven Pillars of Wisdom: [Printed proof], 1 piece, (1973, Apr. 17)
Manuscripts
The collection consists of manuscripts (by and about Lawrence), correspondence (including over 150 letters by Lawrence), photographs, drawings, reproductions and ephemera. Also included in the collection is research material of various Lawrence collectors and scholars. Correspondents represented in the collection include: Tom W. Beaumont, Brian Carter, Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, Doubleday and Company, Inc.,Theodora Duncan, David Garnett, Robert Graves, H. Montgomery Hyde, Augustus John, Jonathan Cape (Firm), Phillip Knightley, Pat T. Knowles, A.W. Lawrence, Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart, John Mack, Edwards H. Metcalf, Jeffrey Meyers, Robert Payne, Raymond Savage, Bernard Shaw, Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend Shaw, Clare Sydney Smith, Sir Ronald Storrs, Lowell Thomas, and Jeremy Wilson.
mssTEL 1-1277