Record

Document Reference	La B 135
Title	Postcard from D.H. Lawrence, Shirebrook, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire to Louie Burrows, 5 Kingston Street, Derby; [19 Aug. 1911]
Date	19 August 1911
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Reports that he has cycled to Shirebrook to see Mr and Mrs Dax [Henry Richard Dax and Alice Mary Dax]; hopes that she does not 'get damaged in the riots'; hopes to be able to visit Quorn; signed 'D.H. Lawrence'. Addressed to Miss Louie Burrows at 5, Kingston Street, Derby; bears a green half-penny stamp, postmarked in Shirebrook, Mansfield at 9.00 am, 20 Aug 1911, which would suggest that Lawrence wrote this card on 19 Aug 1911. The verso of the card shows a black and white photograph of the Old School House and Rock Cottages, Shirebrook.
Copyright	The Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli.
ReprodnNote	University of Nottingham.
Physical Description	Written in dark ink on the recto of the card; the dimensions are 88 x 139 mm.
Related Material	La B 243/16/8; 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 296

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA3521	Dax; Henry Richard (1873-1962); chemist and optician	1873-1962
NA3495	Dax; Alice Mary (1878-1959); née Mills; married Richard Henry Dax 1950	1878-1959
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