Lawrence, Frieda, 1879-1956

Date: 21 Jul 1913

By: Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923

Reference: MS-Papers-9476

Description: Folder comprises a handwritten letter from Lawrence (28 Percy Avenue, Kingsgate, Broadstairs, Kent) to Mansfield (Chaucer Mansions, Barons Court). The two page letter begins "I hope you found my book at your new address" [The book is possibly `Sons and Lovers']. Lawrence invites Mansfield down to Kent for the weekend then asks her to act as the go-between in Frieda Weekley's attempts to see her son Montague Weekley. He continues and offers "to get a little flat for you in Bavaria, for a month". A pencilled postscript has been crosshatched on the reverse of the letter and refers to the gift of half a sovereign to Montague Weekley. Accompanying the letter is a typed description of the letter prepared for sale by Michael Silverman. The entry is in part from a Maggs Catalogue, printed in the Cambridge Edition of `The Letters, V111. 6. Source of title - Supplied by library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms & typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Mr M Silverman, Bookseller, Sep 2009

Date: 4 Jun 1946-8 May 1956

From: Murry family : Literary and personal papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11327-060

Description: Typescripts of letters from Frieda Lawrence to John Middleton Murry from Taos, New Mexico, and Port Isabel, Texas. Dated 4 Jun 1946 to 18 May 1946. Typescripts are annotated in an unknown hand and are accompanied by a note reading `Sent to E W Tedlock Jnr' from the English Department at the University of New Mexico. Letters include reminiscence of her relationships with both Murry and D H Lawrence and reflections on Murry and Katherine Mansfield's relationship and Lawrence's homosexuality. She describes life in Taos, New Mexico, and comments on Murry's life back in England and his writing, including 'Community Farm', 'Between Two Worlds', and his biography of Jonathan Swift. Adaptations of Lawrence's novels to plays and films, publications on Lawrence, and various universities (Texas, New Mexico, and Nottingham) who have an interest in D H Lawrence are mentioned. Named figures include Mary Gamble, Angelo Ravagli, Dorothy Brett, Lawrence Pollinger (D H Lawrence's literary agent), Ernest Weekley, Aldous Huxley, S.S. Koteliansky, Ida Baker, and William Henry Hocking. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts with mss annotations

Date: 27 May 1946-24 Sep 1956

From: Murry family : Literary and personal papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11327-057

Description: 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

Date: Aug-24 Sep 1956

From: Murry family : Literary and personal papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11327-059

Description: Contains papers relating to the death of Frieda Lawrence, including telegram from Angelo Ravagli informing Murry of her death and a typescript of obituary published in The Times and a thank you note from the Obituary Department. Further inward correspondence are responses to Murry's obituary: from Frieda's daughter, Barbara Weekley Barr (with an accompanying account of Frieda's last days and funeral from Joe Glasco), Richard [?], and Frieda's husband Angelo Ravagli. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript

Date: 30 Aug-19 Sep 1923

From: Murry family : Literary and personal papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11327-056

Description: Five letters written from D H Lawrence to his wife Frieda from the United States (one from a train between Chicago and Los Angeles, one from Santa Monica, and three from Los Angeles). In addition to discussing personal affairs (Frieda's travels, money, and his own travel ambitions) and literary matters (working on an essay, Melville and 'Moby Dick', and the novel `The boy in the bush', which he co-wrote with Mollie Skinner) he writes about his impressions of America, both the landscape and the people. The animals and performers in Barnum & Bailey circus feature in one letter. Names mentioned include painters Knut Merrild and Kai Gotzsche Samuel, Will Levington Comfort, Solomonovich Koteliansky, and Prince Bibesco. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: [1986]

From: Sundborn, Maggy, 1937-1990 : Papers relating to Katherine Mansfield

Reference: MS-Papers-6736-05

Description: Film treatment Cornwall to Ospadeletti, with photographs Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [19--]

From: Morris, Maude Ethel, 1888-1977 : Morris collection of Mansfieldiana and personal papers / Guy and Maude Morris

Reference: MS-Papers-3981-122

Description: Notes on KM in Frieda Lawrence's memoirs and correspondence. Includes typed extracts from `The Memoirs and correspondence' by Frieda Lawrence Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1 Sep 1990-10 Feb 1991

From: Murry family : Literary and personal papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11327-062

Description: Newspaper clippings relating to Jeffrey Meyers' `D H Lawrence: a biography' and Claire Tomalin's play on Katherine Mansfield, 'The Winter wife' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 2 Oct 1936

From: Murry family : Literary and personal papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11327-063

Description: Letter from Murry sent from 'The Oaks' commune in Essex, complaining about Frieda repeating criticisms of him, attributed to H G Wells, and clarifying Murry's beliefs about communism. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 19 Jun 1931

From: Murry family : Literary and personal papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11327-058

Description: Letter from William Platt regarding John Middleton Murry's biography of D H Lawrence 'Son of Woman' and Frieda Lawrence and her marriage to Ernest Weekley. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 7, 18 Jun 1940, 27 May 1946

From: Murry family : Literary and personal papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11327-027

Description: Contains (i) typescript copies of two letters written by Middleton Murry from the Old Rectory, Larling, to Billy Wordsworth, 7 And 18 June 1940. They deal mainly with the domestic problems Middleton Murry was facing with his wife Betty as a result of his relationship with Mary Gable. (ii) Carbon copy of a typescript letter written by Middleton Murry from Lodge Farm Thenetham, Norfolk, 27 May 1946 to Freda Lawrence. In response to Freda's request he outlines what has happened to him since he last wrote. He begins his narrative in March 1939. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typscripts and typescript (carbon copy)

Date: 1930, 1932

From: Murry family : Literary and personal papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11327-208

Description: `D H Lawrence deceased. Draft, proof of J Middleton Murry, Field Roscoe and Co Ltd, Lincoln Inn Fields, London, Oct 1932'. In it Middleton Murry testifies to the validity of a will written by Lawrence that he witnessed in 1914. Also correspondence with Percy Robinson and Co (Solicitors, London) relating to the estate of D H Lawrence and correspondence with Curtis Brown Ltd,International Publishing Bureau (London and New York) relating to his literary affairs, including payment of royalties on his published books. This correspondence is mainly with Freida Lawrence and John Middleton Murry. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 9 Nov 1914

From: Murry family : Literary and personal papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11326-084

Description: Will, in which `all those things real and personal of which I die possessed' are given and bequeathed `unto Katherine Bowden, nee Beauchamp', signed by John Middleton Murry. Will is hand-written by D H Lawrence and witnessed by D H and Frieda Lawrence. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1957-1966

From: Murry family : Literary and personal papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11327-150

Description: Nine letters written by Dorothy Brett to Mary Middleton Murry. All except one were written from Taos, New Mexico. They contain references to John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield and D H Lawrence. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: [ca 1893], [ca 1913-1923], [ca 1950-1959]

From: Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957 :Photographs relating to Katherine Mansfield

Reference: PAColl-10046

Description: Photographic prints relating to Katherine Mansfield taken circa 1893, circa 1913-1923 and circa 1950-1959. Photographers unidentified. Comprises photographs of John Middleton Murry, Katherine, and other family members and friends (including DH and F Lawrence) in various locations. Arrangement: Arranged in a loose chronological order, except for the last two items. Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s). 1 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: [1986]

From: Sundborn, Maggy, 1937-1990 : Papers relating to Katherine Mansfield

Reference: MS-Papers-6736-11

Description: File of information on Mansfield and J Middleton Murry, D H and Frieda Lawrence, also Bertrand Russell and Ottoline Morrell from various printed sources Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1935-1946

From: Morris, Maude Ethel, 1888-1977 : Morris collection of Mansfieldiana and personal papers / Guy and Maude Morris

Reference: MS-Papers-3981-007

Description: Names indexed; letter from de la Mare has signature W J de la Mare Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: [1986]

From: Sundborn, Maggy, 1937-1990 : Papers relating to Katherine Mansfield

Reference: MS-Papers-6736-12

Description: File of information on Mansfield and J Middleton Murry, D H and Frieda Lawrence, also Bertrand Russell and Ottoline Morrell from various printed sources Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1955-1987

From: Dane, Klaus Peter, 1921-2016: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-9217-31

Description: Letetrs from Graham Greene, 1959-1960, 1987; letter from Frieda Lawrence, 1955 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 20 Jun 1931

From: Murry family : Literary and personal papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11327-203

Description: Sheet of paper with inscription `For JMM: The ashes of a copy of `Son of woman' (otherwise Love's labour lost) burnt before the Phoenix tree at Kiowa Ranch, New Mexico on 20th June 1931. It was probably written by Freida Lawrence. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Ms