Lot 118
  • 118

e - Lawrence, D.H.

bidding is closed

Description

  • fine autograph letter signed ("D.H.L."), to Juliette [Huxley]
tempering an elevated tone with unfeigned affection, and writing mostly in response to her reaction to 'lady chatterley's lover'



"...I laugh at you when you say 'What if Anthony were sixteen, & read this novel!' -- He'd be too bored at 16: but at twenty of course he should read it. Was your mind a sexual blank at sixteen? is anybody's? and what ails the mind in that respect is that it has nothing to go on, it grinds away in abstraction...But of course I don't laugh at you...For absurdities I laugh at everybody, including myself..."



discussing its publication ("...publishers, agents etc in London holding up hands of pious horror (because it may affect their pockets) & trying to make me feel disastrously in the wrong...The orders came in very nicely from England. Are you risking a copy, or not?..."), Juliette's relationship with Julian Huxley ("...I was so relieved when you said it was better with you & Julian now, & that something had come free..."), his pictures ("...I shall send them to Dorothy Warren for her to exhibit in her gallery in Madox St...don't go & see them -- you'd only be in a rage..."), and his social and travel plans ("...I may stay in Florence to see my book out on the 15th; then to Switzerland, to cure...")



2 pages, 4to, Villa Mirenda, Scandicci, Florence, 17 April 1928, minor tears to top edge (not affecting text)