Record

Document Reference	La B 175
Title	Letter from D.H. Lawrence, Queens Square, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire to Louie Burrows, Coteshael, Cheveney Lane, Quorn, Leicestershire; 15 Feb. 1912
Date	15 February 1912
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	D.H. Lawrence addresses Louie Burrows as 'My dear Lou'; pleased to learn that she 'would rather be friends'; advises her to keep the broach and his books, as he has decided to retain the ring and the waistcoat; hopes that Ethel [Etheldreda Helen Burrows] is better; signed 'D.H. Lawrence'. Includes a plain white envelope (La B 175/2), addressed to Miss Louie Burrows at Coteshael, Cheveney Lane, Quorn, Leicestershire; bears a red one penny embossed postage stamp, postmarked in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire at 6 pm on 15 Feb 1912; postmarked on the verso in Loughborough at 1.45 am on 16 Feb 1912.
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; watermarked Classic Parchment; the dimensions are 178 x 114 mm; one horizontal fold in the paper.
Related Material	La B 243/20/14; 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 166 James T. Boulton, ed. 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979) vol I, p 367

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA74595	Burrows; Etheldreda Helen (1890-); sister of Louie Burrows	1890-
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