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Harry Chase Portraits, 1918, 1919

Posted by Jeremy Wilson, UK, List Moderator Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 15:47:39 -0500 As most people on this List know, Lowell Thomas’s photographer Harry Chase took a series of photographs of Lawrence in London in 1919. This would seem to include all the indoor photographs of Lawrence in...
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Lawrence and Lowell Thomas

Posting from GD, a French subscriber Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:16:59 GMT I found very interesting the posting by St. John Armitage (the first posting in “Biographical Problems”), especially its passage on the Thomas/Lawrence relationship. I would actually like to know more about this particular...
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Carchemish: Woolley and Lawrence

Posted by JA, an American subscriber My interest in Lawrence derives from his pre-war background in archaeology, and particularly in his relationship with C. Leonard Woolley. As an archaeologist, I was familiar with Woolley’s work long before I learned that Lawrence served as his assistant...
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What does ‘El Aurens’ mean?

Enquiry received by email Is the Arabic epithet, El-Orens, merely a mispronunciation of “Lawrence” or does it have a meaning in the Arabic language? - - Comment by St. John...
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The 1919 Peace conference – locations

Posted by an American subscriber: Lawrence’s letters, if I recall correctly, indicate he stayed at the Hotel Continental, room 98 while at the Versailles Conference. Does this hotel still exist,...
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‘Portrait de l’Aventurier’ by Roger Stephane

Posted by a French subscriber: I am currently reading Roger Stephane’s Le Portrait de l’Aventurier, which is mainly a comparison between Lawrence, Malraux and Ernst von Salomon, as “adventurers” and...
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