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Document Reference	La Ac 1/1/120
Title	Postcard from D.H. Lawrence, Hotel Monte Carlo, Av. Uruguay 69, Mexico City to Mrs L.A. Clarke, Grosvenor Road, Ripley, Derbyshire; [24] Mar. [1923]
Date	24 March 1923
Extent	1 item
Level	Item/file
Content Description	They had a good journey; comments that Mexico is warm and very free and easy like Naples, much more pleasant than the U.S.; expects they will stay for a few months; he is expecting some friends down from Santa Fe; comments that it is good to get a little wine again [after prohibition in the U.S.]. Verso of the postcard has a photograph of an Aztec sculpture in the National Museum of Mexico [partially obscured by red ink stain]. Contains a red one penny stamp, and a green half penny stamp, postmarked in Ripley, Derbyshire 16 Apr. 1923. Date: The postcard is dated March [day is obscured by stamp]; date provided is based on Warren Roberts, James T. Boulton and Elizabeth Mansfield (eds) 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987) vol IV, p 414.
Term	travel, D.H. Lawrence
Term	travel, in Mexico
Physical Description	Written in dark ink on the recto of a postcard; text is written with postcard placed vertically, address written horizontally; dimensions are 140 x 90 mm.
Condition	Large red stain on both sides of postcard
Publication Note	Warren Roberts, James T. Boulton and Elizabeth Mansfield (eds) 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987) vol IV, p 414.

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA42	Lawrence; D.H. (1885-1930); David Herbert; writer	1885-1930
NA368	Clarke; Ada (1887-1948); Mrs; married W.E. Clarke 1913; sister of D.H. Lawrence	1887-1948

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