Record

Document Reference	La B 187/1-2
Title	Letter from Violet Hunt to D.H. Lawrence; 3 Feb. [1911]
Date	3 February 1911
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Replies to him about his book ['The White Peacock'] which she was asked to review by the 'Chronicle' ['Daily Chronicle' 10 Feb 1911]; comments enthusiastically about the book finding 'George Saxton a beautiful character - of a piece with the natural objects and the aspects of nature you reveal so well'; comments further that she finds the country at certain seasons 'bewilderingly full and insistent'; tells him she had been ill from August to December 1910 but is now 'better than I ever was'; suggests he attend 'this' if in town [D.H.L's reply dated 9 Feb refers to the Club on the 24th]; gives him Mr. Hueffer's [Ford Madox Hueffer] address in Germany; signed Violet Hunt. Includes an envelope (La B 187/2) addressed to D.H. Lawrence Esq., 12 Colworth Road, Addiscombe, Croydon, bearing two half-penny stamps postmarked in Kensington on 4 Feb 1911.
Term	publications, novels, D.H. Lawrence 'White Peacock'
Term	literature, criticism, D.H. Lawrence
Copyright	The Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli.
ReprodnNote	University of Nottingham.
Physical Description	Written in dark ink on both sides of a single sheet of unlined blue paper; dimensions are 228 x 180 mm; two horizontal and one vertical fold in the paper.
Publication Note	James T. Boulton, ed. 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979) vol I, pp 226-27, n 2

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA3526	Hueffer; Ford Madox (1873-1939); later Ford Madox Ford; writer founder of English Review 1908	1873-1939
NA5407	Hunt; Isobel Violet (1866-1942); novelist and biographer	1866-1942
NA42	Lawrence; D.H. (1885-1930); David Herbert; writer	1885-1930