T. E. Lawrence Correspondence With Henry Williamson Edited by Peter Wilson With a Prologue and Epilogue by Anne Williamson and a Foreword by Jeremy Wilson

Hampshire: Castle Hill Press, 2000. 219pp. Original publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt, with the tan dustwrapper lettered in black. Single tear to bottom rear panel, with a light crease. Internally bright and clean save annotation on page 44 in red pen, initialled AW, further corrections in red p179. With a frontispiece sketch of Williamson by Powys Evans, and 16 photographs of correspondence and drafts. From the family library of Henry Williamson, recently dispersed. Henry Williamson's family copy of the T. E. Lawrence Letters series, volume ix, in which Williamson and Lawrence's correspondences are collected. With a prologue and epilogue by Anne Williamson. 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. T. E. Lawrence was a dear friend of Williamson, who published 'The Genius of Friendship', an account of their correspondence in tribute to him, six years after Lawrence's tragic death. . Limited edition, ex-editio - copyright holder's copy. Quarto.