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D. H. Lawrence Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 6

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.

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Dates

  • Creation: 1919-1979

Creator

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.

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Extent

1.42 Linear Feet ((1) record box; (1) 5 inch document box)

Language of Materials

English

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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.

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

Contact:
028 Bertrand Library
Bucknell University
One Dent Drive
Lewisburg PA 17837 United States US
570-577-3101
570-577-3313 (Fax)