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  • Integrated: Letters I, II, IX; SP22

  • To be added: Wilson


Baalbek SP22: 305, 496

Bach, Johann Sebastian I: 174

badger IX: 163

Bagdad SP22: 40, 219, 441, 813

Bagdad Railway SP22: 357

Baghdad Times II: 97, 120

Bair SP22: 300–1; Annad’s tomb SP22: 302; wells exploded SP22: 302–4, 305; (306, 311, 316, 317–18, 320, 347); Zebn Sukhur camped at SP22: 452–5; (674, 675, 676); ICC at SP22: 676–8; wells crowded SP22: 676; (679, 686, 694, 695); ICC return to SP22: 696; (706); Diary June, Oct. 1917 SP22: 817; Nov. 1917 818; Aug., Sept. 1918 SP22: 819

Bair, Wadi SP22: 292, 302, 456, 505, 670, 696; Diary June 1917 SP22: 817

Baje, Wadi SP22: 733

Baker, Sir Herbert II: 13

Balkan War SP22: 763, 771

Baldwin, Stanley (British Prime Minister) I: 43, 49-50, 51, 52, 55-6, 58, 141, 142, 185;  II: 29, 30, 51, 152; GBS's letters to I: 40-3, 45-7, 129-30, 139, (archived I: 213)

Balfour, A. J. II: 169, 171

Balfour, Jabez II: 97, 100

Balzac, Honoré deIX: 47, 48; La Peau de Chagrin II: 163

Banbury, H. H.: TEL sends TO to IX: 32-3, 55

band, brass, Hejaz SP22: 55–6, 57, 58

Bannister, Gertrude (later Parry) II: 157-8, 159, 160, 161, 162, 186, 217

Barada, in Damascus SP22: 666, 803  

Barbusse, Henri: Le Feu. Journal d'une escouade IX: 86, 87

barefoot, going SP22: 88, 91, 210, 540, 541, 553, 554, 558

Baring, Maurice IX: 58, 63

Barker, Sir Herbert I: 84, 85, 87-8, 90, 91, 112, 115

barley SP22: 17, 627, 710, 714

Barnes Theatre, London I: 144, 145

Barnstaple, Devon IX: 68, 83

Barrie, Sir James I: 59, 60, 67-8, 69, 80, 114, 115, 116, 118, 121; II: 29, 30, 66, 167;  IX: 52, 54 Peter Pan I: 69, 72

Barrow, Major-General Sir George de S. SP22: 754, 760, 773, 779; at Deraa SP22: 781–4, 796; marches to Damascus SP22: 784, 785, 786, 791

Barry, Sir Charles II: 98, 100

Barrymore, John I: 123, 124

Bartholomew, Brigadier-General William H., RA SP22: 612, 633–4, 636, 637, 638, 639, 642, 662, 710, 713, 723, 754, 755

Bartholomews (map printers) I:192

Bartlett, Stephen (pseud. Gurney Slade): In Lawrence's Bodyguard IX: 108-11

Bartók, Béla I: 204

Basra II: 3; SP22: 39, 59, 277

Basri Pasha SP22: 93, 160

Basta SP22: 374, 514, 553, 559; Diary Feb. 1918 SP22: 818

Bateman, Henry Mayo I:146, 147

Batn SP22: 17

Batra SP22: 319, 322, 323, 324, 340, 418, 440, 442, 443, 507, 785; Diary Oct. 1917 SP22: 817

bayonets SP22: 604

Beaumont, Cyril IX: 70, 71

Beaumont, Francis I:176

Beaumont, Tom IX: 200

Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron I:18, 19, 127, 130, 131

Bedawi, the SP22: 358

Bedr ibn Shefia SP22: 117, 123

Bedri el Azm SP22: 421

Beduin SP22: 11, 12, 17, 64; breed camels SP22: 16; creed SP22: 20–1; raid villages SP22: 17, 50, 475; and AR SP22: 50, 51; law SP22: 51; fighting qualities SP22: 88–93, 232; fear of unknown SP22: 92; hospitality to TEL’s party SP22: 188–9; endurance SP22: 200; appetites SP22: 227; manners SP22: 227–8; feud with Druses SP22: 360; water priorities SP22: 449; confront TEL SP22: 504–5; at Mreigha SP22: 514; loot Tell el Shahm SP22: 608; see also Arabs; raiding parties; tribes and names of tribes

Beerbohm, Max I:92, 96

Beersheba SP22: 180, 236–7, 340, 428, 430, 460, 508, 637; British at SP22: 533; Arabs from SP22: 537, 547; TEL in SP22: 570–6; Diary Feb. 1918 SP22: 818

Beethoven, Ludwig van I: 68, 86, 87, 166, 174-5; II: 16, 17, 181, 203; 9th symphony I:108, 174; Rasumovsky Quartets I:174, 176

Behjet Pasha SP22: 374

Beidha SP22: 465, 486

Beirut see Beyrout

Beisan SP22: 757, 774

Belga SP22: 640; tribes SP22: 308, 309–10, 632

Belisarius I: 42, 43, 45, 49, 50, 130; II: 8, 15, 117; SP22: 103

Bell, Douglas: A Soldier's Diary of the Great War IX: 59, 63, 100

Bell, Gertrude II: 148, 172-3, 179, 182, 192; death II: 183; letters II: 163, 172, 182; SP22: 59, 267

Belloc, Hilaire I: 68, 69, 70, 80; II: 167; IX: 56; The Haunted House II: 150, 167; The Path to Rome I:69, 72; II: 167

Belluwi, member of the Billi tribe, SP22: 244

Benaiah ibn Dughmi SP22: 328

Bender, foster-brother of Rahail SP22: 654–5

Beni Ali tribe: negotiate with Turks SP22: 78

Beni Amr tribe SP22: 89

Beni Atiyeh tribe SP22: 146, 175, 377, 379, 423; wells SP22: 387, 399; at Mudowwara SP22: 555, 649; at Hallat Ammar SP22: 643; and Imperial Camel Corps SP22: 650

Beni Ayub ridge SP22: 67

Beni Hassan tribe SP22: 434, 437, 708, 759, 764

Beni Hillal tribe SP22: 186, 491

Beni Ibrahim Juheina SP22: 96, 157

Beni Sakhr tribes: wells SP22: 300, 303; fight over camel SP22: 341; close to Feisal SP22: 433; under Ali ibn el Hussein SP22: 433, 434 (438); at Bair SP22: 452–5, 456; TEL rides among SP22: 457, 458; on railway raids SP22: 460–1, 469, 473–5, 477, 482, 483; (505, 511, 513); raid Jurf el Derawish SP22: 531–2; (551); at Themed SP22: 593, 594; plans for, Apr. 1918 SP22: 610; offer co-operation to Bols SP22: 611, 612, 613; (615); attack Hesa SP22: 621; (627, 670, 676); dispute with Howeitat SP22: 685–6;  Sept. 1918 SP22: 706, 753; barley purchased from SP22: 710; Zebn Beni Sakhr SP22: 567, 591, 594, 596; make offer to British GHQ SP22: 611; see also Faiz Beni Sakhr; Zebn Sukhur

Beni Salem Harb clan SP22: 60, 64–5, 74, 93

Beni Wahab SP22: 176

Bennett, Arnold I: 69, 72; II: 99, 167; IX: 60-1, 64, 86, 158, 159; as critic II: 88, 91, 199-200; on Joyce II: 92, 130; marriages II: 200, 210; Buried Alive II: 14

Benoît, Pierre II: 132, 133

Berengaria, SS IX: 141, 142, 152; meeting of Heygate, TEL and HW on IX: 146- 51, 176, 178-9, 182

Berners, Lord II: 89, 91

Beyrout II: 191; SP22: 359, 361–2, 366; American college SP22: 25; rugs from SP22: 283; (294, 666); Arabs occupy SP22: 808; expelled SP22: 813

Biasha see Bisha

Bibesco, Princess: Alexandre Asiatique II: 94, 121, 152

Bible: GBS on I: 12, 104

Bibliophile's Almanack II: 30

Billi tribe SP22: 93, 105, 135–6, 146, 244; swear fealty to Feisal SP22: 156, 157; Harb raid camels of SP22: 159; at Wejh SP22: 160, 175, 178, 231; (240); Wabsi, tribesmen of the Wabsah, a sub-section of the Billi SP22: 244; Waish Billi, subsection of the Billi SP22: 182

Binyon, Laurence II: 25, 26, 27

Bir Abbas SP22: 78, 79, 80, 81, 89

Bir Derwish SP22: 66, 81, 104, 124

Bir el Adheimat SP22: 291

Bir el Amri SP22: 190; Diary Mar., Apr. 1917 SP22: 816

Bir el Emir, Ammari SP22: 459

Bir el Fagir 112; Diary May 1918 SP22: 819

Bir el Murra SP22: 95

Bir el Sheikh SP22: 60, 67, 68, 125

Bir el Waheidi Diary Jan. 1917 SP22: 816; water supply SP22: 136, 141

Bir Fueis SP22: 202

Bir ibn Hassani SP22: 67, 70–1, 104, 105, 123

Bir Nasif SP22: 81, 104

Bir Said SP22: 81, 104; Turks raid SP22: 108–9; (110, 112, 116, 117); Arabs rush SP22: 123; (141)

Bir Salem station SP22: 571, 611

birds SP22: 627, 673, 693, 772; ostriches SP22: 268; see also eggs

Birmingham, G. A. (Hannay) I: 181

birth I:77-8

Biseita plain SP22: 268–71, 280

Bisha, Wadi SP22: 15

Bisher, Roman guardhouse SP22: 628

Bisha [Bishawis], sherifian retainers from Wadi Bisha tribe SP22: 109, 119, 123, 140, 161, 451, 453–4; at Azrak SP22: 487, 488

Black and Tan I:73

Blackwood's Magazine I:157, 159, 162

Blaidat, the SP22: 293, 653, 707

Blake, William II: 61-2; IX: 39, 43; Everlasting Gospel II: 62, 95; 'Mad Song' II: 187, 188; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell II: 45, 61, 62, 63, 95; Nonesuch Press volumes II: 154, 174, 184; The Pencil Drawings II: 154

Bles, G. IX: 94, 96

Bliss, Sir Arthur I:93, 96

Blunden, Edmund II: 26, 28; IX: 127; Undertones of War IX: 58, 63

Blunt, Wilfred Scawen and Lady Anne Blunt SP22: 267 

Boanerges see motor-bikes, TEL's

Bodleian Library, Oxford I:38, 41, 79-80, 128, 168, 173, 210; II: 48, 67, 68, 188

Bodley, Sir Thomas II: 48

bodyguard, TEL’s: dispute with Austrian officers SP22: 410; men selected SP22: 436–7; work SP22: 441–2; as TEL’s property SP22: 443; paired with local raiders SP22: 469; dress SP22: 460, 524; at Azrak SP22: 487, 488; strengthened when Turks offer reward for TEL SP22: 520–1, 523–4; payment SP22: 524, 526; camels SP22: 524–5; behaviour SP22: 524–8; careers SP22: 526; espionage SP22: 526; at Tafileh SP22: 540, 550; discipline SP22: 586; (651); ride out of Akaba SP22: 652; (678); escort ICC SP22: 685; arrive at Azrak, Sept. 1918 SP22: 712; bombed SP22: 728–9; take Mezerib SP22: 729–30; at Nisib SP22: 740–2, 744; relations with TEL SP22: 741–2, 743; punished for default at Nisib SP22: 750, 757; at Um el Serab SP22: 757; at Tafas SP22: 776; see also names

Boer War IX: 99

Bokhara SP22: 15

Bols, Major-General Sir Louis SP22: 574, 611, 612, 613, 638, 639, 701, 753; personality SP22: 427

bombing raids: by Allies SP22: 123, 355, (Maan 375–6), (Aba el Lissan 376), (on railway 615), (Katraneh 628), (Mudowwara 662), (Deraa 718, 746, 760); by Turks (at Guweira 383, 386), (at Wadi Hesa 622–3, 624), 627, (Wadi Arar 725, 726), (TEL’s bodyguard 728–9), (after aerodrome attack 748), (Umtaiye 749), (Mafrak 760, 763)

bombs: explosion in Wejh camp SP22: 171–2

Bone, Wing Commander Reginald II: 198, 200

bones, broken SP22: 225–6

Boni and Liveright (publishers) I: 58

book binding II: 64-5, 79; SP 9-10, 25, 46, 48, 54-5, 64-5, 90, 99, 113, 118, 125, 133

books and journals sent by CS to TEL II: 13-14, 17, 23-4, 30-1, 45, 48, 55, 63, 69, 70-1, 74, 94, 105, 108, 110, 116, 117, 123, 125, 137, 140, 145, 148, 150, 153-4, 163, 167, 180, 184, 186, 188, 197, 218; TEL's comments on II: 80, 113, see also under authors' names and journal titles; read by TEL's service friends II: 79, 119, 173, 190, 196-8

books and manuscripts SP22: 220: Arabic, destroyed SP22: 220; luxury SP22: 291; TEL carries with him SP22: 549; see also Koran; Malory, Thomas; poetry; Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Book of the Month IX: 63

Book Society IX: 121

Books, TEL's collection: lent to fellow servicemen IX: 104, 118; at Clouds Hill IX: 167, 170

books and journals sent by CS to TEL I: xv, 56, 57, 60, 73, 78-9, 85, 135, 149, 152, 155, 156, 165, 167, 178, 189, 190; read by TEL's service friends I: 79, 117, 120, 121, 145, 162, 165, 169, 172, 178, 180-1, 206

Borden, Mary (Mrs Spears) I: 117, 118, 178; II: 189; Flamingo II: 180, 189, 193; Jericho Sands I: 155

Boreida SP22: 143, 521

Boris Godunov (opera) I: 60, 61, 95, 96

Borrow, George I: 32, 33

Borton, Brigadier-General A. E., Royal Highlanders SP22: 754, 759–60; II: 46, 47

Boscombe Chine Hotel, Bournemouth I: 51, 55

Boseiri hills SP22: 676, 696

Bosra SP22: 721, 783

Bosra Eski Sham SP22: 766

Boston Evening Transcript IX: 111-12

Boswell, James II: 126, 127

Boughton, Rutland: The Immortal Hour I: 94, 96; Iseult I: 90, 91, 92-3, 94-6

Boulestin, Marcel: restaurant II: 212, 215

Bournemouth I: 51, 53, 55, 115, 212

Bourgogne, Adrien: Memoirs II: 41, 44

Bovington, Dorset I: 47, 55, 57, 148; see also Tank Corps Training Centre

Bovington Camp, Dorset IX: 102, 166, 179, 180, 192

Bowat SP22: 104

Boydell, John I: 127, 129

Boyle, Captain William H. D., RN: character SP22: 136; first meets TEL SP22: 97; (98, 117); sends ships to Yenbo SP22: 120; (121, 133); promises Hardinge as depot ship SP22: 135; at Um Lejj SP22: 136; meets Feisal SP22: 137–9; and Hardinge SP22: 158, 160, 353

Bradford, Roland Boys IX: 193-4

Bradshaw: Monthly Guide IX: 138, 139

Bradley, F. H. I: 81, 83

brass band, Turkish SP22: 55–6, 57, 58

Braunton, Devon IX: 59, 68

Bray, Captain N. N. E. SP22: 434

breeding I: 185, 186

Brémond, Col. Edouard SP22: 63, 99, 100; I: 131, 133; meets TEL SP22: 121–3; (125); denies guns to Arabs SP22: 165; discusses Akaba with TEL SP22: 167–8; meets Feisal SP22: 168–9; letter to Abdulla SP22: 219; (237, 436)

Bridges, Robert I: 180, 181

Bridlington RAF station, Yorks IX: 165- 6, 167-8, 175

Brieux, Eugène: plays by I: 60, 61, 62, 71

Bright, Sgt SP22: 5, 619

British: abroad SP22: 382–3; see also Englishmen

British Army II: 25; Egyptian Expeditionary Force II: 27; Imperial Camel Corps II: 22; GBS writes of II: 6-7, 9, 10; see also Tank Corps Training Centre

SP22: 194, 333; officers in Arabia SP22: 5; TEL’s role in SP22: 5; in Mesopotamia SP22: 39–40; liaise with Feisal SP22: 94; and Akaba SP22: 236–7; working with Arabs SP22: 91, 201, 295, 347, 583–4, 643, 649, 650, 651, 701, 710–11, 755, 762, 783, 790, 791; on Suez Canal SP22: 343; on Allenby’s appointment SP22: 427; compared with Egyptian SP22: 585; discipline SP22: 585, 587–8; rations see under food and drink; surround Deraa SP22: 781; soldiers (Arab boy’s view of SP22: 676), (TEL’s view of SP22: 788, 789–90):
Sections: Devon Territorials SP22: 7; GHQ (Cairo SP22: 423–5, 427), (Palestine SP22: 546, 572, 612, 613, 618, 633, 636); Machine Gun Corps SP22: 173, see also Hejaz Armoured Car Company; Inland Water Transport SP22: 344, 345; medical major at Damascus SP22: 809; mountain-gun section SP22: 517, 518; quartermasters SP22: 615–16, 644–5; Service Corps SP22: 173, 529–30, see also Hejaz Armoured Car Company; Supply Staff SP22: 533; Yeomanry SP22: 460, 574, 647, (Middlesex SP22: 787); see also Gurkhas; Hejaz Armoured Car Company; Imperial Camel Corps; Military Intelligence Department, Cairo; Royal Flying Corps

British Empire SP22: 238, 812; II: 142

British Government II: 49, 183; GBS writes of II: 6, 7, 9; and Casement II: 147

SP22: and planning of AR SP22: 3, 7–8, 31, 39–40, 41, 42; supplies funds and support SP22: 52–3, 85, 165, 526, 551, 555, 556, 567–8, 576, 613, 633; outbreak of WWI SP22: 31; Dardanelles SP22: 32, 33; military policy SP22: 39; Arabs’ view of SP22: 85, 87; intentions towards Arabs SP22: 7–8, 295–6; policy re Medina SP22: 519–20; and peace negotiations with Turkey SP22: 666–8; colonial policy SP22: 782; see also Foreign Office; War Office

British Library I: xvi, xx, 14, 213; II: 115, 144, 221

British Museum I: xviii, xx, 12; II: 144; Library 14, 128, 184

British Union of Fascists IX: 183-4, 186

Brodie, Captain S. H., RA 5; o.c. Ten-Pounder Talbot Battery SP22: 517; at Tell el Shahm SP22: 517, 518, 606, 608, 609; at Mudowwara SP22: 662–3

Brontë I: 180, 181

Brontë, Charlotte I: 180, 181

Brontë, Emily I: 180, 181

Brook, Cpl. W. H. see Stokes

Brooke, Rupert I: 121, 122

Brophy, John IX: 127, 128, 129-30

brothels I: 151

Brough, George I: 167

Brown, Curtis I: 21, 22, 23

Browning, Robert II: 22, 23

Bruce, John I: 86

Brugha, Cathal II: 155, 156

Bruka SP22: 112, 115–16, 118, 124

Brusa SP22: 435

Buaisiri SP22: 458

Buchan, John I: 141, 142; II: 67, 69, 152; Witch Wood II: 125, 152

Bugaa SP22: 116

Bugum tribe SP22: 318

Bulgaria SP22: 32; surrenders to Allies SP22: 771

Bulgars SP22: 763

Bull Point, Devon IX: 53, 54

Bullett, G. II: 67, 69

Bunyan, John: Pilgrim's Progress II: 56, 57, 73, 74, 119, 152, 153; IX: 88, 92; Ashbee edition II: 214, 216

Burdett, Osbert: The Beardsley Period I: 136, 138

Burmester, Admiral Sir Rudolf SP22: 346

Burnham, Lord I: 210

Burrows, Braunton, of Taw and Torridge estuary, Devon IX: 39, 42, 50, 52, 68

Buseira Pass SP22: 548, 549

Buseira village SP22: 534, 538, 567, 569; Diary Feb. 1918 SP22: 818

bustards SP22: 591

Butm, Wadi el SP22: 467, 504, 745; Diary Nov. 1917 SP22: 818

Butmeh SP22: 466, 693

Butterworth, Thornton I: 21, 23

Buwat SP22: 81, 116

Buweib, the SP22: 471, 476, 739, 781

Buxton, Robert Vere ('Robin') II: 19, 22, 25, 28, 52, 96, 109, 114, 121, 185
SP22: 5; personality SP22: 650, 687; sent to Arabia with ICC SP22: 639; riding with ICC SP22: 644, 649; at Akaba SP22: 649; takes Mudowwara SP22: 401, 662–3; at Jefer SP22: 669–70; at Bair SP22: 676–8, 685; pursues Shammar raiders SP22: 685; adapts ICC for Arabia; on ICC ride to Kissir SP22: 686–7; on return to Azrak SP22: 693–5; at Kussair el Amruh SP22: 693–4; at Azrak fort SP22: 695; on march to Bair 696; see also Imperial Camel Corps

Byrne, Donn II: 17


 

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SP22: Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text

Wilson: Jeremy Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, The Authorised Biography

Volumes in the T.E. Lawrence Letters series (titles in pale grey not yet published):

I: Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1926

II:  Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1927

III: Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1928

IV: Bernard and Charlotte Shaw: 1929-35

V: E. M. Forster, F. L. Lucas and Frederic Manning

VI: Edward Garnett and David Garnett

VII: Robert Graves

VIII: John Brophy, John Buchan, and Siegfried Sassoon

IX: Henry Williamson

X: John Brophy, C. Day Lewis, C. M. Doughty, James Hanley, Noel Coward

XI: 1905-10 - letters to his family, D.G. Hogarth, E.T. Leeds, and C.M. Doughty

XII: Carchemish 1910-14- letters to his family, James Elroy Flecker,  D.G. Hogarth, E.T. Leeds, and C.M. Doughty and others

XIII: War Diaries and Letters 1914-18

XIV: Political and Diplomatic Correspondence 1918-1922

XV: Service correspondence, 1922-35

XVI: Advisers: D. G. Hogarth, Robin Buxton, Lionel Curtis, John Snow and Edward Eliot

XVII: Printers and publishers - Jonathan Cape, Sydney Cockerell, C. J. Cumberlege, Peter Davies, F. N. Doubleday, St. John Hornby, Ralph Isham, Bruce Rogers, Raymond Savage, and others

XVIII: Artists, including Herbert Baker, C.F. Bell, H.S. Ede, Eric Kennington, Augustus John, Paul Nash, William Roberts, William Rothenstein, and Kathleen Scott. 

XIX: Women: Nancy Astor, Lil Black, F. E. Hardy and others, including post-war letters to his mother, Sarah Lawrence.

XX: Journalists and Historians. R. D. Blumenfeld, Geoffrey Dawson, B. H. Liddell Hart, Lowell Thomas

XXI: George Brough, Edward Elgar, Ernest Thurtle, A.P. Wavell and others.

Last revised: 4 August 2006
 

 

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