VICOUNTESS ASTOR | typed letter signed, to T.E. Lawrence, 1924

ASTOR, NANCY, VISCOUNTESS

TYPED LETTER SIGNED, TO T. E. LAWRENCE ("DEAR COLONEL LAWRENCE")

offering to subscribe to The Seven Pillars of Wisdom ("...I am one of the people who are very wealthy and would like a copy of your book but I don't promise to read it..."), 1 page, 4to, headed stationery of 4 St. James' Square, S.W.1, 20 March 1924

Colonel Lawrence and Lady Astor would become friends and continue to correspond for the rest of his life. He was apparently very fond of her, describing her "...at her swiftest and kindest: one of the most naturally impulsive and impulsively natural people..." (T.E. Lawrence to F.C. Shaw, 27 April 1929).

PROVENANCE:

Bonham's, London, 16 December 2003, lot 636

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