Record

Document Reference	La Ac 1/1/71
Title	Letter from D.H. Lawrence, Davidson Rd Boys School, South Norwood SE to Ada [Lawrence]; 12 Oct. 1911
Date	12 October 1911
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Addresses her as 'My dear Ada'; discusses money he owes her; speculates on Christmas arrangements, including the possibility of spending the holiday with Agnes Holt in Ramsey; reports that he heard from Hueffer, who has married Violet Hunt in Germany; discusses meeting up with various friends and family members; signed 'Your brother D.H. Lawrence P.S. do write me a newsey letter'. A further postscript tells how he received a letter regarding his novel The White Peacock. Written on a pre-printed 'County Borough of Croydon Education Committee' scholar accident report form; the main text of the letter is written in black ink on the reverse of the form; the postscript is written in red ink on the form itself.
Term	celebrations, Christmas
	publications, novels, D.H. Lawrence 'The White Peacock'
	schools, Davidson Road School
Physical Description	Written in black and red ink on both sides of a pre-printed school accident report form; dimensions are 210 x 330mm; folded once vertically and four times horizontally; tears evident along folds
Condition	fragile - tears along folds
Publication Note	James T. Boulton, ed. 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979) vol I, pp 313-314.

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
NA366	Burrows; Louisa (1888-1962); known as 'Louie'; married Frederick Heath 1941	1888-1962
NA74645	Hunger; Max (fl 1896-1931); husband of D.H. Lawrence's cousin Ethel Hunger; Manufacturers' Agent and Importer	fl 1896-1931
NA74646	Hunger; Ethel (1879-1973); née Staynes; cousin of D.H. Lawrence	1879-1973
NA74638	Holt; Agnes (1883-1971); teacher at Croydon; married Walter Blanchard	1883-1971
NA3526	Hueffer; Ford Madox (1873-1939); later Ford Madox Ford; writer founder of English Review 1908	1873-1939
NA5407	Hunt; Isobel Violet (1866-1942); novelist and biographer	1866-1942