Record

Document Reference	La Ac 1/1/23
Title	Postcard from D.H. Lawrence to Miss Gertie Cooper, Lynn Croft, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire; [23 Oct. 1903 postmark]
Date	23 October 1903
Extent	1 item
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Asks if she likes this, it's not cats; mentions that he passed this place [Nottingham University College building, Shakespeare Street] every day going to school, and has sat one exam in it; reports that they're going to Beauvale on Sunday to hear [Dr Joseph] Ferguson [a Methodist preacher], and asks if she is going as well; signed 'DHL'. Verso of the postcard has a picture of 'The University, Nottingham'. Postmarked: Eastwood, Oc. 23 [19]03.
Term	universities, University College Nottingham
Physical Description	Written in dark ink on the recto of a postcard; text is written with card placed vertically, address written horizontally; dimensions are 140 x 90 mm.
Publication Note	James T. Boulton, ed. 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979) vol I, p 23 Digital images available online. Please scroll down and follow the links in the URL fields.
URL	https://nottingham-uk.userservices.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/delivery/44NOTTS_UNUK:44NOTUK_NEW_VIEWER/9922276893005561
URL	https://nottingham-uk.userservices.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/delivery/44NOTTS_UNUK:44NOTUK_NEW_VIEWER/9922276893205561

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA74593	Cooper; Gertrude (1885-1942); known as 'Gertie' or 'Grit'; childhood friend of D.H. Lawrence	1885-1942
NA42	Lawrence; D.H. (1885-1930); David Herbert; writer	1885-1930
NA77490	Ferguson; Joseph (1838-1904); Dr; President of the Primitive Methodist Conference in 1891; Minister at Brierley Hill, Staffordshire	1838-1904