Rare Books

Scrapbook 5.3

Description

This album contains an assortment of photocopies and typed transcriptions from 38 secondary sources about or referencing T.E. Lawrence. The documents are all arranged in one section labeled "General."

Album has red covers; without bookplate, but presumably compiled by Herbring.

Type

Rare Books(Opens in new tab)

Date

1922-1969

Call number

626757

Creator

Metcalf, Edwards H(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, October 1992.

Restrictions

Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Scrapbook 5.2

Rare Books

This album contains an assortment of photocopies and typed transcriptions from 48 secondary sources about or referencing T.E. Lawrence. The documents are arranged in two sections labeled "Excerpts" and "Miscellaneous," with the excerpts further broken down into sections labeled: References; Books; Churchill; The War; Letters; Politics; and Defenders. Album has blue covers; without bookplate, but presumably compiled by Herbring.

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Scrapbook 2.2

Rare Books

This album contains an assortment of secondary materials related to T.E. Lawrence that primarily dates from the 1960s and includes brief correspondence from individuals to Duncan about her research; newspaper clippings and book reviews about Lawrence, as well as news clippings about Lawrence-related areas in the Arabian Peninsula, such as reconstruction work on the Hejaz Railway in 1964. There is also a set of approximately 15 newspaper clippings from 1918 documenting the victories by the British against Turkish forces in Palestine during World War I. Album has black covers; with Theodora Duncan bookplate.

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Scrapbook 13

Rare Books

This album contains 296 original color photographs taken by Margaret M. Herbring, in September and October 1970, of locales and buildings in England associated with Lawrence, as well as artwork and memorials. Album has green covers; without bookplate.

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Scrapbook 6.4

Rare Books

This album contains an assortment of newspaper and periodical clippings, transcriptions, and photocopies related to Lawrence and his writing, chiefly in the 1920s and 1930s, as well as some publisher prospectuses for works by or about Lawrence, and a set of Hejaz postage stamps from 1917-1918. Album has light blue covers; without bookplate, but presumably compiled by Frank C. Baxter.

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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 9

Rare Books

This album contains a miscellaneous assortment of newspaper clippings concerning Lawrence and related individuals. Album has brownish-yellow covers; with Theodora Duncan bookplate.

626757

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