D.H. Lawrence was a writer, artist, poet, and social philosopher. The correspondence in this collection covers several different periods of Lawrence’s life. The letters to Stanley Hocking document the friendship which developed from 1915 to 1918 while the Lawrences lived in Zennor, Cornwall. After being persecuted as suspected German spies, the Lawrences travelled through other parts of England. In the fall of 1918, the opportunity to escape war-time... England finally presented itself and the Lawrences sailed to Italy. Lawrence’s letters to Rosalind Baynes during the next several years serve as a journal of his travels through Italy, India, Australia, Mexico and the United States. Taos, New Mexico, which the Lawrences visited at the invitation of Mabel Dodge Luhan, had a profound impact on Lawrence as an author and an artist. He found inspiration in the stunning colors of the landscape and the American Indian culture. Luhan later described the months that Lawrence spent with her in a controversial book, Lorenzo in Taos.