Record

La - D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Collection, 1865-2000s
- B - Papers of Louie Burrows, 1904-1962, in the D.H. Lawrence Collection
  - 14-183 - Letters from D.H. Lawrence to Louie Burrows; 1905-1912

Document Reference	La B 108
Title	Letter from D.H. Lawrence, Davidson Road Boys School, South Norwood S.E., Croydon, Surrey to Louie Burrows; 4 May 1911
Date	4.5.1911
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Addresses her as 'My dear Lou'; he has just realised it is May and is amazed how time and the seasons have passed him unnoticed this year; advises the best way to relieve impatience is to 'drug oneself with work and unhopefulness'; describes the beautiful day; tells her how many cigarettes he has smoked recently but she is not to worry; has completed ninety pages of 'Paul Morel' seven of which are 'amusing', twenty are 'pleasant' and the rest are 'navrant'; is going to have tea in Purley and is pleased to hear that her scare in Gaddesby is settled; hopes to stay for a time with her during the holidays 'unless it were too shocking'; until then he will work; states he cannot be blamed for irreligiousness - he admires the Jesuits; final loving salutation in French; signed 'D.H. Lawrence'. Adds a postscript saying he is writing to Hilda Shaw; signed 'D.H.L.'
Term	publications, novels, D.H. Lawrence 'Sons and Lovers'
	literature, prose, D.H. Lawrence 'Paul Morel'
	religion, attitudes towards
Copyright	The Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli.
ReprodnNote	University of Nottingham.
Physical Description	Written in dark ink on both sides of a single folio of Croydon Education Committee plain white paper; the dimensions are 207 x 168 mm; one horizontal and one vertical fold in the paper.
Related Material	La B 243/12/2; typed transcript of this letter made by Louie Burrows.
Related Record	La/B/224-244/243
Publication Note	James T. Boulton, ed. 'Lawrence in Love' (Nottingham: University of Nottingham, 1968) pp 102-3 James T. Boulton, ed. 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979) vol I, pp 264-65

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Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA74609	Shaw; Hilda (1886-c.1913); student at University College Nottingham 1906-1908	1886-c.1913
NA42	Lawrence; D.H. (1885-1930); David Herbert; writer	1885-1930
NA366	Burrows; Louisa (1888-1962); known as 'Louie'; married Frederick Heath 1941	1888-1962

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