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Document Reference	La Z 4/1/10
Title	Letter from D.H. Lawrence, Ludwig-Wilhelmstift, Baden-Baden, Germany to Mary Cannan; 2 May 1921
Date	2.5.1921
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Addresses her as 'My dear Mary'; wonders where she is and whether she received the 'de luxe edition of Women in Love'; he is with Frieda in a country inn 3 miles outside Baden-Baden; describes Baden as 'a lovely little town', the food is good and the travelling 'clean and easy'; Frieda's mother 'is a good bit better, but has sudden relapses' and they must hire a nurse; they may go to Bavaria in July and then to Austria and back to Taormina [Sicily] in August; Frieda's brother-in-law [Edgar Jaffe] has died; is trying to 'go on' with his 'Aaron's Rod' novel but does not know if he is 'going to succeed'; describes Germany as 'rather depressed and empty feeling' and asks whether they will see her this summer; signed 'D.H.L.'
Term	health, Baroness Anna von Richthofen
	travel, plans, D.H. Lawrence
	publications, novels, D.H. Lawrence 'Aaron's Rod'
Copyright	The Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli.
ReprodnNote	University of Nottingham.
Physical Description	Written in dark ink on both sides of a single folio of unlined paper; dimensions are 289 x 216 mm; one horizontal and one vertical fold in the paper.
Publication Note	James T. Boulton and Andrew Robertson, eds. 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984) vol III, pp 710-11

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA169	Lawrence; Frieda (1879-1956); née von Richthofen; married Ernest Weekley 1899 D.H. Lawrence 1914 Antonio Ravagli 1950	1879-1956
NA3382	Richthofen; Anna von (1851-1930); Baroness; mother of Frieda Lawrence	1851-1930
NA75463	Jaffe; Edgar (1866-1921); married Else von Richthofen 1902	1866-1921
NA42	Lawrence; D.H. (1885-1930); David Herbert; writer	1885-1930
NA400	Cannan; Mary (1867-1950); née Ansell; married Gilbert Cannan 1910 former wife of Sir J.M. Barrie	1867-1950