D. H. Lawrence Collection
Scope and Contents
The D.H. Lawrence Collection consists four series: correspondence, notebooks, manuscripts, and periodicals. The letters are grouped by correspondent and arranged chronologically. Almost all of Lawrence’s letters are fully dated and reference copies (as well as transcriptions where needed) accompany them. The manuscripts donated by Dr. Butler are in chronological order by the date of publication. Two additional manuscripts, “The Crown” and “Democracy,”... both donated by the Friends of the Library, are included in the Butler collection, although they have been cataloged separately.
See moreDates
- Creation: 1919-1979
Creator
- Lawrence , D. H. (David Herbert) (1885-1930) (Person)
- Lawrence, Frieda (1879-1956) (Person)
- Luhan, Mabel Dodge (1879-1962) (Person)
- Aldington, Richard (1892-1962) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Conditions Governing Use
The materials in this collection may be protected under copyright law and may only be used for educational, teaching, and research purposes. If the intended use is beyond these purposes, it is the responsibility of the user to obtain the appropriate permissions by contacting Special Collections/University Archives at the Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA.
Biographical / Historical
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.
See moreExtent
1.42 Linear Feet ((1) record box; (1) 5 inch document box)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Records are arranged numerically by folder number and chronologically within the folders.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Received from LaFayette L. Butler, Hazleton, Pennsylvania, 1975.
Subject
- Hocking, Stanley (Person)
- Baynes, Rosalind (Person)
- Secker, Martin (1882-1978) (Person)
Source
- Butler, LaFayette Lentz, 1887-1975 (Person)
Function
Genre / Form
Topical
- Title
- D.H. Lawrence Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Laura Wertz
- Date
- 2025 March
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bucknell University Special Collections/University Archives Repository
028 Bertrand Library
Bucknell University
One Dent Drive
Lewisburg PA 17837 United States US
570-577-3101
570-577-3313 (Fax)
scua@bucknell.edu