Letters to Frieda Lawrence

One original and numerous transcribed letters written to Frieda Lawrence by John Middleton Murry during 1946-1956. Also correspondence exchanged with Angelo Ravagli after Frieda's death in 1956. Correspondence with Frieda concerns reminiscences of time spent in the 1920s, including their menage a quarte and Murry's own love for Frieda and their trip to Germany together. Murry describes the intervening years: his marriage with Elizabeth Cockbayne 'Betty' and his subsequent marriage to Mary Gamble and their life at Lodge Farm in Norfolk, his own children and grandchildren, suffering from Buerger's disease, travel to the south of France, and croquet. The letters also discuss D H Lawrence and Frieda's relationship, Lawrence's influence on Murry (both personal and literary), biographies of Lawrence (both Leavis and Moore's), Dylan Thomas's death, Murry's book 'Love, Freedom and Society', and Murry and Mary possibly visiting Frieda in America. Correspondence with Ravagli concerns the obituary Murry wrote for The Times and Ravagli's response to to the typescriptsthe obituary. Transcriber [Katherine Middleton Murry?] has made some annotations.

Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Physical Description: Mss, typescript