LAWRENCE D.H.: (1885-1930) On Lady Chatterley´´´ s Lover - ´ We have lived too long to be shocked by words any more´

LAWRENCE D.H.: (1885-1930) On Lady Chatterley´´´ s Lover - ´ We have lived too long to be shocked by words any more´

LAWRENCE D.H.: (1885-1930) English writer. An excellent A.L.S., D. H. Lawrence, two pages, 8vo, Hotel Beau Rivage, Bandol, France, 29th December 1928, to G. R. G. Conway. Lawrence commences his letter stating ´I am most distressed to learn that your copies of Lady Chatterley´s Lover have not turned up´, explaining that they were sent by registered post a longtime ago (´and surely the Mexican govt. would not confiscate them, as the U.S.A. customs do!) and adding that Conway must obtain others, if any remain, ´Orioli has very few, I know - they may all be ordered. But one at least I´ll rescue for you. But we must find out what became of the others. The book is selling at $50 in U.S.A. - and anything over £5 here in Europe - so you see it is quite a loss´. Lawrence continues his letter by thanking Conway for their Christmas card (´how pretty it is!´) and a book, and also writes of future travel plans and his health, ´We have given up the Villa Miranda, and are at a bit of a loose end, wondering where to go & where to live next. I think in about a fortnight we shall go to Spain, and try that. But we might go to New Mexico for the summer, so if ever you are passing, make sure first if we are there and do stop & see us if we are- I was ill last year but am much better now & getting to be myself again´. Lawrence returns to the subject of his book, ´Some people were much scandalised by Lady C, but many took it in the right spirit, and remain staunch to me. I do hope you´ll get your copies, & will read it & not be shocked. Mrs. Conway too. We have lived too long to be shocked by words any more´. Lawrence concludes by asking how Conway and his wife are, remarking ´I think of you often, and quake sometimes for you, seeing the Mexican news. But you´ll go on for ever, I feel, running those trams & deciphering Spanis MS´. Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Lawrence. Autograph letters by Lawrence referring to one of his most famous, and controversial, works, Lady Chatterley's Lover, are rare and desirable. One extremely minor, light paperclip rust stain to the upper left corner, VG

Giuseppe 'Pino' Orioli (1884-1942) Florentine bookseller, best known for privately publishing the unexpurgated first edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover, of which around 1000 copies were released in July 1928.

George Robert Graham Conway and his wife, Anne Elizabeth, were among D.H. Lawrence's English friends. They met the writer in New Mexico in 1925. Conway, an engineer specialising in the rail transport industry, was a great collector of documents relating to Spanish colonisation in America.