| Content Description | Addresses her as 'My dear Sister'; is sorry for not writing sooner; enquires whether she received copies of 'Pansies', 'Dr Manente' [translation of 'The Story of Dr Manente' by A.F. Grazzini], and the 'Obscenity' pamphlet [Pornography and Obscenity]; mentions that the Brewsters have rented a house nearby, and Frederick Carter is staying at the Hotel Beau Rivage.
Refers to financial difficulties of [Percy Reginald] Stephensen and the Mandrake Press, and sympathises with Rhys Davies because the Mandrake were going to publish two of his novels; comments that people seem angry about his 'Obscenity' pamphlet, but that Charles Lahr has sold 3 dozen of his, and only 3 copies of Jix's [William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary and anti-pornography campaigner]; signed 'love DHL'.
Date: Letter is dated 'Wed[nesday]'; date provided is from Keith Sagar and James T. Boulton 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) vol VII, pp 579-580.
Note that the above publication refers to the letter being postmarked, which would suggest an accompanying envelope [which is not present]. |