Record

Document Reference	La Ac 1/1/38
Title	Postcard from D.H. Lawrence, Venice, Italy to Miss G. Cooper, c/o Mrs Clarke, Ripley, Derbyshire; 13 Oct. [1920 postmark]
Date	13 October 1920
Extent	1 item
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Informs her that they leave Venice tomorrow for Florence and Rome, and hope they hope to be in Taormina by the 18th [Oct.]; reports that Frieda is flourishing after her trip to Germany; wishes they could all be in Italy for the winter; tells her that he is thinking about the coal strike. Verso of the postcard has a picture of the Bridge of Sighs, Venice. Postmarked: Venice, 13.X.1920.
Term	travel, Italy
	travel, D.H. Lawrence
	industrial unrest, miners strike
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 and Andrew Robertson, eds. 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984) vol III, pp 611.

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA42	Lawrence; D.H. (1885-1930); David Herbert; writer	1885-1930
NA74593	Cooper; Gertrude (1885-1942); known as 'Gertie' or 'Grit'; childhood friend of D.H. Lawrence	1885-1942
NA169	Lawrence; Frieda (1879-1956); née von Richthofen; married Ernest Weekley 1899 D.H. Lawrence 1914 Antonio Ravagli 1950	1879-1956