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The telawrence.net project -
putting T.E. Lawrence's writings online

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About this site
The telawrence.net project, part of T.E. Lawrence Studies, has two objectives.

1. Writings by T.E. Lawrence now out of UK copyright
We are bringing together in this searchable website all T.E. Lawrence's published works and letters that went out of British copyright on 1 January 2006. These writings - around 750,000 words - will include the content of major published works and collections and also material that, in the past, has only been available in costly limited editions.

Works will include the subscribers' abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Mint, Lawrence's two published translations, and numerous minor writings.

The core of the letters here will be the 583 published in David Garnett's selection The Letters of T.E. Lawrence (1938). These give a rounded overview of the whole of Lawrence's life. However, there will be as many letters again from other sources such as T.E. Lawrence to his Biographers (1938), The Home Letters of T.E. Lawrence and his Brothers (1954), a number of private-press collections, and autobiographies, articles, etc.  

2. Writings by TE. Lawrence still protected by UK copyright
UK copyright still covers writings by Lawrence first published after 1 January 1956. We cannot post these writings, but if they have been published we can tell you where to find them. We are therefore detailing them, with page references, in the chronological and alphabetical contents lists. For information about the works containing them, look up the reference in the list of abbreviations.

Editions of Lawrence's writing first published after 1 January 1956 can be seen in major T.E. Lawrence collections and in many scholarly libraries. Some are still in print. In order of first publication they include, notably:

• A. W. Lawrence, ed., Letters to T. E. Lawrence (1962)

• H. Montgomery-Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks [Trenchard correspondence] (1977)

• Malcolm Brown, ed., The Letters of T. E. Lawrence (1988)

• Jeremy Wilson, ed., T. E. Lawrence, Letters to E. T. Leeds (1988)

• T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 'Oxford' Text (1997, 2003 - in print)

• Jeremy Wilson, series editor, T. E. Lawrence Letters volumes (2000 et seq, in print) This is the major scholarly edition of T.E. Lawrence's correspondence.

The Oxford Text of Seven Pillars of Wisdom and the T.E. Lawrence Letters have been indexed by Hazel K. Bell, whose index of Seven Pillars won the 2005 Wheatley Medal. We are building an integrated union compilation of these indexes, which will also include her earlier index to Lawrence of Arabia, The Authorised Biography.

Programme

When complete, telawrence.net will contain over 1,000 of Lawrence's letters. It will be a remarkable biographical reference-source and also a considerable literary asset. Its content will offer many insights into the period in which Lawrence lived.

After posting 600 letters we focused for a while on Lawrence's major writings: Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Revolt in the Desert, The Mint, Crusader Castles, and his two translations. These should be in place by late summer. We are now starting to add further letters.

A second phase will be to add 'previous' and 'next' navigation arrows under each letter and some editorial notes and illustrations. Thereafter, it will be possible to add further content as and when British copyrights expire.

Acknowledgements

Time spent on the project is entirely voluntary. I would like to thank Mary Veres and Derek Norwell for their contributions, and also Philip Kerrigan, Ed Maggs and Peter Metcalfe for lending copies of scarce publications. We are drawing on electronic transcripts of Lawrence's works and correspondence made during my research for the Authorised Biography and for the on-going T.E. Lawrence Letters series editions and other Castle Hill Press publications. Castle Hill Press sponsors T.E. Lawrence Studies and provides web space for www.telawrence.net, www.telawrence.info and the online journal www.telawrencestudies.org

Jeremy Wilson
Editor, telawrence.net

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T.E. Lawrence Studies is edited by Jeremy Wilson. Its costs are sponsored by Castle Hill Press.