T.E. Lawrence Letters: Correspondence with the Political Elite 1922-1935

Wilson, Jeremy

Verlag: Salisbury Castle Hill Press 2015, 2015

Beschreibung

LIMITED EDITION. One of 50 numbered copies, this numbered '14', in full goatskin from a total edition of 427 copies. Housed in a grey cloth-covered slipcase. Grey goatskin and all edges gilt, patterned endpapers, gilt lettering to spine. Quarto. pp. xxii, 338. A book in Fine condition in a Fine slipcase "The correspondents (in alphabetical order) are Nancy Astor, Tory MP for Plymouth Sutton; John Buchan, writer and Unionist MP for the Combined Scottish Universities; Winston Churchill and his Private Secretary Edward Marsh; Lionel Curtis, Fellow of All Souls, editor of the Round Table, and one of the founding organisers of the Royal Institute of International Affairs; Geoffrey Dawson, Fellow of All Souls and Editor of The Times; Lord Lothian, Cabinet Minister, and Ernest Thurtle, the Labour MP for Shoreditch who was responsible, with Lawrence's help, for the abolition of the death penalty for cowardice in the British Army. There are strong contrasts here - for example between the light-hearted letters to Nancy Astor (reminiscent in tone to those he had written to E. T. Leeds before the war), and the deeply introspective letters to Lionel Curtis. Here are his letters to Winston Churchill, his former chief at the Colonial Office, together with less formal letters to Eddie Marsh. The letters to Ernest Thurtle hint at his experience manipulating the political machine. Given the circumstances and the personalities involved, the collection is extraordinary - as are the public tributes paid to Lawrence after his death.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 102747

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Titel: T.E. Lawrence Letters: Correspondence with ...

Verlag: Salisbury Castle Hill Press 2015

Erscheinungsdatum: 2015

Einband: Hardcover

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