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Document Reference	La Ac 1/1/49
Title	Letter from D.H. Lawrence, Villa Mirenda, Scandicci, Italy to Gertrude Cooper; 18 Oct. 1926
Date	18 October 1926
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Addresses her as 'My dear Gertie'; discusses her stay at Mundesley Sanatorium, and is glad to hear she has put on weight; complains about Italian hunters stalking small birds and selling a string of them for a shilling; reports on a local typhoid epidemic; mentions their neighbours in Scandicci, the Wilkinsons; is depressed at the thought of the coal strike in England; signed 'Love - also from Frieda, DHL'.
Term	health, Gertrude Cooper
	hospitals, sanatoriums
	birds, hunting of
	medical conditions, typhoid
	industrial unrest, strikes, miners strike of 1926
Physical Description	Written in blue ink on both sides of a single sheet of ribbed cream paper; dimensions are 213 x 265 mm.
Publication Note	James T. Boulton and Lindeth Vasey, eds. 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987) vol V, pp 560-561.

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
NA74793	Wilkinson; Arthur Gair (1882-1957); painter and puppeteer	1882-1957
NA75079	Wilkinson; Lilian (-1957); wife of Arthur Gair Wilkinson	-1957