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Document ReferenceCC C 2/14
TitleLetter from Frieda Lawrence, Kingsley Hotel, Hart Street, [London] to Catherine Carswell; c.9 Nov. 1932
Date9 November 1932 (c)
Extent1 f
LevelItem/file
Access ConditionsUse of original restricted; surrogate copy available.
Content DescriptionAddresses her 'Dear Catherine'; has won but it was really a 'triumph for Lawrence'; has told [Martin] Secker that she does not object to Carswell's book ['The Savage Pilgrimage'] and is glad for her; has had a terrible letter from Ada [Clarke, D.H. Lawrence's sister] and describes her as 'so bitter and unfulfilled'; is going to the Shaw's and has never met them; asks Carswell to meet for lunch Thursday and may have a book of 'Last Poems' for her; wishes Carswell success; signed 'Frieda'.

Date: the letter in undated, the envelope is postmarked 9 Nov 1932

Includes a plain envelope (CC C 2/14/2) addressed to Mrs Catherine Carswell, 17 Keats Grove, Hampstead, NW; the envelope bears one red one penny stamp and one green halfpenny stamp and is postmarked London Nov 9 2.45PM 1932.
Termfamily relationships, Frieda Lawrence
publications, biographies, Catherine Carswell 'Savage Pilgrimage'
Physical DescriptionWritten in dark ink on both sides of a single folio of faintly lined pale orange paper; dimensions are 220 x 170 mm; one horizontal and one vertical fold in the paper.

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Persons
CodePersonNameDates of existence
NA42Lawrence; D.H. (1885-1930); David Herbert; writer1885-1930
NA3385Clarke; Lettice Ada (1887-1948); née Lawrence; sister of D.H. Lawrence; married W.E. Clarke 19131887-1948
NA259Secker; Martin (1882-1978); publisher1882-1978
NA169Lawrence; Frieda (1879-1956); née von Richthofen; married Ernest Weekley 1899 D.H. Lawrence 1914 Antonio Ravagli 19501879-1956
NA166Carswell; Catherine Roxburgh (1879-1946); née MacFarlane; novelist and journalist1879-1946
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