Record

Document Reference	La Ac 1/1/57
Title	Postcard from D.H. Lawrence, Hotel Fischer, Villach, Kärnten, Austria to Miss G. Cooper, The Mundesley Sanatorium, Norfolk; [11 Aug. 1927 postmark]
Date	11 August 1927
Extent	1 item
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Reports that they have left the heat of Italy a week ago for the mountains of Austria; complains that he has been bedridden for a month with a bad chest; Frieda's sister is staying nearby; speculates that they will be in Austria for another fortnight, then will go on to Germany for September; signed 'DHL'. Verso of the postcard has a photograph captioned 'St Rupprecht u. Ossiacher See'. Postmarked: Villach, 11.VIII.[19]27.
Term	health, D.H. Lawrence
Term	travel, D.H. Lawrence
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 Margaret H. Boulton with Gerald M. Lacy, eds. 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) vol VI, pp 125.

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

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