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Document ReferenceLa Ac 1/1/121
TitlePostcard from D.H. Lawrence, Hotel Monte Carlo, Av. Uruguay 69, Mexico City [to Lettice Ada Clarke]; 11 Apr. [1923]
Date11 April 1923
Extent1 item
LevelItem/file
Content DescriptionAddresses her as 'My dear Sister'; refers to photograph of them on reverse of postcard; comments that he likes Mexico and speculates that they may stay for the summer; will send her a Oaxaca sarape made by the 'Indians of the south'; they leave for Puebla and Orizaba tomorrow; hopes Jack [her son] is better; signed 'DHL'

Verso of the postcard has a photograph of Lawrence, Frieda and Witter Bynner on top of an ancient pyramid in Teotihuacan [same as La Wb 1/25].

Date: The postcard is dated 11 Apr.; year 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 423.
Termtravel, D.H. Lawrence
travel, in Mexico
ancient monuments, pyramids
Physical DescriptionWritten in dark ink on the recto of a postcard; text is written with postcard placed vertically; dimensions are 140 x 90 mm.
Publication NoteWarren Roberts, James T. Boulton and Elizabeth Mansfield (eds) 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987) vol IV, p 423.

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Persons
CodePersonNameDates of existence
NA42Lawrence; D.H. (1885-1930); David Herbert; writer1885-1930
NA368Clarke; Ada (1887-1948); Mrs; married W.E. Clarke 1913; sister of D.H. Lawrence1887-1948
NA169Lawrence; Frieda (1879-1956); née von Richthofen; married Ernest Weekley 1899 D.H. Lawrence 1914 Antonio Ravagli 19501879-1956
NA3395Bynner; Witter (1881-1968); American writer1881-1968
NA75073Clarke; John Lawrence (1915-1942); son of Ada Clarke née Lawrence1915-1942
Places
CodeSet
PL99117/Mexico City/Mexico
PL297/Teotihuacan/Mexico
PL296/Orizaba/Mexico
PL2649/La Puebla/Mexico
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