Record

Document Reference	La B 134
Title	Postcard from D.H. Lawrence, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire to Louie Burrows, 5 , Kingston Street, Derby; [17 Aug. 1911]
Date	17 August 1911
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Writing on 'Thursday night', tells her that he has asked T.A.S. [Thomas Alfred Smith] if he may cancel his proposed visit to Lincoln; if so then he will visit Louie in Quorn by Tuesday, but not before Monday as 'Shirebrook [the home of Alice Mary Dax] is a clinched thing'; reports that Ada [Lawrence] is visiting their aunt [Ada Rose Krenkow] who is ill but not seriously; signed 'D.H.L.' The verso of the card is plain, being addressed to Miss Louie Burrows at 5, Kingston St., Derby; bears a green half-penny stamp, postmarked in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire at 9.45 am, 18 Aug 1911.
Term	health, Ada Krenkow
Copyright	The Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli.
ReprodnNote	University of Nottingham.
Physical Description	Written in dark ink, the main text on both recto and verso; the dimensions are 88 x 138 mm.
Related Material	La B 243/16/11; 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) p 128 James T. Boulton, ed. 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979) vol I, p 295

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA3495	Dax; Alice Mary (1878-1959); née Mills; married Richard Henry Dax 1950	1878-1959
NA368	Clarke; Ada (1887-1948); Mrs; married W.E. Clarke 1913; sister of D.H. Lawrence	1887-1948
NA74624	Smith; Thomas Alfred (1886-1966); student at University College Nottingham	1886-1966
NA74598	Krenkow; Ada Rose (1868-1944); née Beardsall; maternal aunt of D.H. Lawrence married Fritz Krenkow 1896	1868-1944
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