T. E. Lawrence, works and letters

I am sometimes asked for a list of the Castle Hill Press editions of T. E. Lawrence’s works and letters, already issued and planned for the future. We recently re-thought the structure of the series, so this is a good time for an update.

The edition is in three parts:

• Works

• Correspondence with writers, bookmen and artists (ten volumes)

• General correspondence and minor writings

Titles shown in blue have already been issued. Titles shown in green are in various stages of preparation.

WORKS (in approximate order of writing)

T. E. Lawrence, Military Report on the Sinai Peninsula (compiled 1914)

176p., 2 folding maps. 227 numbered copies, 2008. More information >>

T. E. Lawrence. Towards An English Fourth: fragments and echoes of Seven Pillars of Wisdom 1918-21

280p., plates. 227 numbered copies, 2009. Most of the seventeen pieces in this volume were originally published as articles in newspapers or periodicals, but all eight surviving chapters of Lawrence’s 1920 Seven Pillars abridgement are here, as well as earlier draft . More information >>

T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text

Large-format edition: 912p., 152p. illustrations and 2 folding maps. 752 numbered three-volume sets, 1997;

One volume Library Edition: 896p., plates, index. 1225 numbered copies, 2003. The 49p. scholarly index by Hazel Bell, first published in this edition, won the Wheatley Medal.  More information >>

Adrien Le Corbeau, Le Gigantesque, translated into English by T. E. Lawrence as The Forest Giant. Parallel French and English texts

224p., frontis. 375 numbered copies, 2004. More information >>

T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Parallel 1922 and 1926 Texts

Large-format edition: 1064p, printed in double-column. 37 numbered two-volume sets, 1997. More information >>

T. E. Lawrence ‘The Mint’ and Later Writings About Service Life

The 1928 text of The Mint together with extracts from letters, extending Lawrence’s account of his life in the RAF from 1927 to 1935. Large-format edition, 352 pages, 287 numbered copies, 2009 More information>>. Library Edition, 475 numbered copies, 2010. More information >>

Some minor works, such as Crusader Castles, Dairy 1911 and the 200 Class Seaplane Tender manual are included in ‘General Correspondence and Minor Writings’, see below.

CORRESPONDENCE WITH WRITERS, BOOKMEN AND ARTISTS

Much of this this ten-volume series has already been issued.

Volumes I-IV: T. E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1926, 1927, 1928, 1929-1935

248, 256, 264 and 304p; illus. 475 numbered four-volume sets, 2000-2009. More information >>

Volume V: T. E. Lawrence, Correspondence with E. M. Forster and F. L. Lucas

328 pages, frontis, 277 numbered copies, 2010. More information >>

Volume VI: T. E. Lawrence, More Correspondence with Writers

Some 350 letters including including lengthy exchanges with C.M. Doughty, Frederic Manning, Siegfried Sassoon and Mrs Thomas Hardy, and shorter exchanges with Maurice Baring, James Barrie, Laurence Binyon, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Edmund Blunden, Robert Bridges, John Brophy, John Buchan, Noël Coward, R. B. Cunninghame Graham, C. Day Lewis, David Garnett, Harley Granville-Barker, James Hanley, Compton Mackenzie, Ezra Pound, V. S. Prichett, Herbert Read, Elliot Springs, J. C. Squire, Hugh Walpole, Thornton Wilder, and W. B. Yeats.

Scheduled for publication early 2012. More information >>

Volume VII: T. E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Bookmen

A major volume containing correspondence with Jonathan Cape, Sydney Cockerell, C.J. Cumberlege, Peter Davies, F. N. Doubleday, Edward Garnett, St. John Hornby, Ralph Isham, Manning Pike, Bruce Rogers, Raymond Savage, Whittingham & Griggs, and G. Wren Howard.

Scheduled for publication 2012-13

Volume VIII: Correspondence with Robert Graves

Scheduled for publication 2014

Volume IX: Correspondence with Henry Williamson

238 pages, frontis, approx. 500 numbered copies (of a nominal limitation of 702 copies) 2000. More information >>

Volume X: Correspondence with Artists

Including Herbert Baker, C.F. Bell, H.S. Ede, Eric Kennington, Augustus John, Paul Nash, William Roberts, William Rothenstein, and Kathleen Scott

Scheduled for 2013-15.

GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE AND MINOR WRITINGS

Letters, 1905-10 to his family and others, together with Lawrence’s undergraduate thesis The Influence of the Crusades on European Military Architecture – to the end of the XIIth Century [Crusader Castles]. Illustrated with photographs of castles visited by Lawrence

• Letters from Carchemish, including letters to his family, D.G. Hogarth, E.T. Leeds, C. M. Doughty, James Elroy Flecker, and others, together with a selection of collateral documents and including the Diary 1911.
• War Diaries and Letters, including Lawrence’s surviving wartime diaries and notebooks, his reports and private correspondence, and significant references to him in wartime records
• Political and Diplomatic Writings and Correspondence 1918-1922. Starting with letters and minutes written after his return to England in 1918, the volume will cover the 1919 Peace Conference, Lawrence’s work in the Colonial Office with Winston Churchill, and his final diplomatic mission to the Middle East
• Post-war Correspondence with Family and Advisers, including D.G. Hogarth, Robin Buxton, Lionel Curtis, Sarah Lawrence, A. W. Lawrence, John Snow and Edward Eliot
• Correspondence with Journalists and Historians including R.D. Blumenfeld, Geoffrey Dawson, B.H. Liddell Hart, Lowell Thomas
• General Post-War Correspondence, including letters to Nancy Astor, Lil Black, George Brough, Edward Elgar, Ernest Thurtle, and A.P. Wavell.
• Service correspondence, including both official and personal letters to wartime, Tank Corps and RAF personnel – but excluding correspondence about his work on boats.
• Boats for the R.A.F., 1931-1935, a volume containing correspondence and reports relating to Lawrence’s work on R.AF. boats. The reports include his Notes on the 200 Class R.A.F. Seaplane Tender.  (To be issued in 2011)

How to obtain these books

This a fine-press series, printed for subscribers. The series editor is Jeremy Wilson. Most people buy copies direct from the publishers. Some library agents and specialist booksellers may be able to get copies for you. You will not find the books in high-street bookstores or on Amazon (though Amazon may list copies held by specialist booksellers).

By far the cheapest way to obtain a copy of a forthcoming work is to order it during the advance subscription offer. We try to notify regular subscribers and others we think may be interested when these offers are available. If you see a future title that interests you, ask to be notified when the subscription offer is posted.For other queries, see the Castle Hill Press FAQ page.

At present, many titles in the series are in print. Some second-hand booksellers, unaware of this, ask more for a second-hand copy than the new-copy price. Note also that you are extremely unlikely to find, on its own, a second-hand copy of Volume IV of Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw. It was produced in a smaller print-run than the earlier volumes and has only been sold as part of a four-volume set.