Record

Document Reference	La B 159
Title	Letter from D.H. Lawrence, 16 Colworth Road, Addiscombe, Croydon, Surrey to Louie Burrows; 13 Dec. 1911
Date	13 December 1911
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Addresses her as 'My dear Lou'; refers to his recently shaven beard and talks about his health; mentions the waistcoat which his sister Ada [Lawrence] intends to send to Louie to do some work on; reports that he has finished 'the reviews'; says that 'Eddie' [William Edwin Clarke] is to visit him at Christmas, and that he is planning some outings for them to go on; says that he is not keen for Hueffer [Ford Madox Hueffer] to visit him; is feeling ready to be 'going into the world again'; signed 'D.H. Lawrence'.
Term	health, D.H. Lawrence
Term	personal grooming, beards
Copyright	The Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli.
ReprodnNote	University of Nottingham.
Physical Description	Written in dark ink on a folded sheet of plain white paper; the text following the sequence: ff 1r, 2r, 1v, 2v; the dimensions are 153 x 112 mm; one horizontal fold in the paper.
Related Material	La B 243/17/7; 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 154 James T. Boulton, ed. 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979) vol I, p 336

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA368	Clarke; Ada (1887-1948); Mrs; married W.E. Clarke 1913; sister of D.H. Lawrence	1887-1948
NA74644	Clarke; William Edwin (1889-1964); known as 'Eddie'; married Ada Lawrence 1913	1889-1964
NA3526	Hueffer; Ford Madox (1873-1939); later Ford Madox Ford; writer founder of English Review 1908	1873-1939
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