LAWRENCE, D. H. (1885-1930). The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, edited by Aldous Huxley. London: Heinemann, 1932. 8°. Original brown cloth (stained and torn). Roberts A61b. Ottoline Morrell's copy, with her elaborate monogram on the front free endpaper, with two quotations from the letters written beneath: 'I wish I could sail away to somewhere really thrilling' and 'The dead don't die, they look on and help'. Marginal lining and annotation, occasionally supplying missing words ('Garsington', 'Ottoline'), plus additional index reference (under 'Morrell, Lady Ottoline'); and with extensive page references and notes on rear endpaper. Quotation from a letter not printed here, from Lawrence to Koteliansky dated 13th June 1927, pasted to rear flyleaf, expressing sympathy for Morrell over the ridiculing of her by W. J. Turner in his 1927 book The Aesthetes. (Morrell had been very distressed in 1921 by Lawrence's portrait of her in Women in Love , and this disloyalty by another friend led to a permanent breach: she never spoke to Turner again. Relations with Lawrence were warily restored by 1928.) Includes nearly 40 letters to Ottoline Morrell: 'About Lady C---- you mustn't think I advocate perpetual sex. Far from it. Nothing nauseates me more than promiscuous sex in and out of season. But I want, with Lady C., to make an adjustment in consciousness to the basic physical realities' (28 December 1928). Miranda Seymour speculates that there is a strong possibility that Lawrence's inspiration for Lady Chatterley's Lover came from hearing about Lady Ottoline's affair with the stonemason, 'Tiger' Lionel Gomme (Seymour, p.318). TOGETHER WITH GALLEY PROOFS of Huxley's 25-page introduction to The Letters, with a few small discrepancies from the published text, and a few marginal corrections and notes. With autograph letter from Huxley to Morrell dated 'La Gorguette, Sanary, 2. iii. 32', concerning the editing and publication of the Letters. 'I think it is very interesting - also sad, profoundly sad: it is the spectacle of a man pursued by some inexplicable malignant fatality of his own breeding and inward contriving ... The more I think of him, the stranger & more tragical his case seems to be.' Huxley reassures Morrell that publication of Lawrence's letters to her will be 'the best retort' to the account of her in Catherine Carswell's biography of Lawrence, The Savage Pilgrimage , which had just been published. 'I have put in practically all: and there is also a phrase in one of his letters to us when he heard that you had been ill, where he says: "After all she is a Queen among women" -- & that I really think was his final feeling.' (3)
LAWRENCE, D. H. (1885-1930). The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, edited by Aldous Huxley. London: Heinemann, 1932. 8°. Original brown cloth (stained and torn). Roberts A61b. Ottoline Morrell's copy, with her elaborate monogram on the front free endpaper, with two quotations from the letters written beneath: 'I wish I could sail away to somewhere really thrilling' and 'The dead don't die, they look on and help'. Marginal lining and annotation, occasionally supplying missing words ('Garsington', 'Ottoline'), plus additional index reference (under 'Morrell, Lady Ottoline'); and with extensive page references and notes on rear endpaper. Quotation from a letter not printed here, from Lawrence to Koteliansky dated 13th June 1927, pasted to rear flyleaf, expressing sympathy for Morrell over the ridiculing of her by W. J. Turner in his 1927 book The Aesthetes. (Morrell had been very distressed in 1921 by Lawrence's portrait of her in Women in Love , and this disloyalty by another friend led to a permanent breach: she never spoke to Turner again. Relations with Lawrence were warily restored by 1928.) Includes nearly 40 letters to Ottoline Morrell: 'About Lady C---- you mustn't think I advocate perpetual sex. Far from it. Nothing nauseates me more than promiscuous sex in and out of season. But I want, with Lady C., to make an adjustment in consciousness to the basic physical realities' (28 December 1928). Miranda Seymour speculates that there is a strong possibility that Lawrence's inspiration for Lady Chatterley's Lover came from hearing about Lady Ottoline's affair with the stonemason, 'Tiger' Lionel Gomme (Seymour, p.318). TOGETHER WITH GALLEY PROOFS of Huxley's 25-page introduction to The Letters, with a few small discrepancies from the published text, and a few marginal corrections and notes. With autograph letter from Huxley to Morrell dated 'La Gorguette, Sanary, 2. iii. 32', concerning the editing and publication of the Letters. 'I think it is very interesting - also sad, profoundly sad: it is the spectacle of a man pursued by some inexplicable malignant fatality of his own breeding and inward contriving ... The more I think of him, the stranger & more tragical his case seems to be.' Huxley reassures Morrell that publication of Lawrence's letters to her will be 'the best retort' to the account of her in Catherine Carswell's biography of Lawrence, The Savage Pilgrimage , which had just been published. 'I have put in practically all: and there is also a phrase in one of his letters to us when he heard that you had been ill, where he says: "After all she is a Queen among women" -- & that I really think was his final feeling.' (3)
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