8vo. Original publisher's pale buckram lettered in brown. Some wear to boards, and bumping to all edges. Internally bright and clean. From the family library of Henry Williamson, recently dispersed.

The selected letters of T. E. Lawrence, first published only three years after his death, edited by literary contemporary David Garnett.

From the family library of Henry Williamson, to whom only one entry is included. The telegram, dated May 13th 1935, was addressed to Williamson in response to his most recent letter, confirming 'Lunch Tuesday wet fine, cottage 1 mile North Bovington Camp. Shaw.' Lawrence was thrown from his motorcycle on his return from the post office; never to regain consciousness.

Henry Williamson (1895-1977), novelist and writer on natural history and the English countryside, is predominantly remembered as the author of Tarka the Otter (1927) for which he won the Hawthornden Prize. His wartime experiences on the Western Front having altered his life inexorably, he spent the remainder of his post-war life in Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk, writing naturalistic novels very much in the romantic tradition.