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Scrapbook 2.4

Description

This album contains a miscellaneous assortment of materials including newspaper and periodical clippings, with some 1935 clippings related to Lawrence's death, as well as an October 1917 periodical clipping, in Arabic, and a 1967 letter from British historian Arnold Toynbee to Duncan discussing Vietnam and communism.

Album has yellow covers; with Theodora Duncan bookplate.

Type

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Date

1917-1967

Call number

626757

Creator

Metcalf, Edwards H(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, October 1992.

Scrapbook 2.15

Rare Books

This album contains an assortment of newspaper and periodical clippings about Lawrence. Most clippings date form the late 1960s and touch upon Lawrence's wartime experiences, individuals associated with him, as well as reviews of books about Lawrence. The earliest clippings date from the late 1920s, and there are also articles from 1935 about his motorcycle accident and death. The album also contains a program for the October 21, 1967, unveiling ceremony for the memorial to Edmund Allenby in Felixstowe, England. Album has green covers; with Theodora Duncan bookplate containing handwritten note "Hedjaz Binder."

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Scrapbook 2.5

Rare Books

This album contains newspaper clipping and photocopies of newspaper articles primarily related to Lawrence's death in 1935, as well as later articles through the 1960s with retrospective articles on Lawrence. Album has orange covers; with Theodora Duncan bookplate.

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Scrapbook 2.14

Rare Books

This album contains images, clippings, and ephemera chiefly documenting Lawrence's early life in Oxford, England, from his birth in 1889 to about 1910. Items primarily consist of 1960s postcards and photographs depicting the local Oxford landscape and individuals and buildings related to Lawrence, as well photographs (primarily reproductions) of Lawrence as a boy and his family. The earliest photographs are a few copy prints reproduced by Duncan from the collection of Lawrence's nanny Margo Jones. There are also some postcards of London, England, and locales in Turkey and the Middle East and correspondence to Duncan about her research. Album has black covers; with Theodora Duncan bookplate containing handwritten note, "Pre-War Years."

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Scrapbook 2.13

Rare Books

This album contains a miscellaneous assortment of materials primarily dating from the 1960s, including correspondence from individuals to Duncan about her research, clippings about Duncan's exhibit on Lawrence at the Wardman Library, Whittier College, in 1965, and a 1966 photograph of Duncan. As well, there are newspaper and periodical clippings, often with reviews of works about Lawrence and some typed transcriptions of documents related to Lawrence. Album has blue covers; with Theodora Duncan bookplate.

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Scrapbook 2.7

Rare Books

This scrapbook contains an assortment of photographs, postcards, clippings, and cards, dating from 1911 to 1960. The materials include copy prints of British Museum and Ashmolean Museum photographs documenting Lawrence's archaeological work, including digs at Carchemish, in Syria, in the early 1910s; as well as photographs related to his time as an aircraftman in Bridlington, England, in the mid 1930s, Lawrence's Brough motorcycle, Eric Kennington's effigy of Lawrence, and a few images of Evelyn Ives Sewell (whose life was saved by Lawrence in Karachi, India, in 1929); and some Christmas cards sent to Duncan from Lawrence's friends in the 1960s. Album has brown covers; with Theodora Duncan bookplate containing handwritten note, "Carchemish-Bridlington."

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Scrapbook 2.1

Rare Books

This album chiefly contains miscellaneous newspaper and periodical clippings and ephemera from the 1960s related to T.E. Lawrence, though sometimes only peripherally, as well as some brief correspondence from individuals to Duncan concerning her research. The binder also includes a typed copy of telephone conversation with George Edsell on June 2, 1964, regarding his memories as a boy of Lawrence at Clouds Hill. Album has cream-colored covers; with Theodora Duncan bookplate.

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