Sleeping bag
Category
Textiles
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cotton, wool and metal
Measurements
1140 mm (Depth); 2510 mm (Length)
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Clouds Hill, Dorset
NT 628445
Summary
Brown cotton sleeping bag for the use of Lawrence's guests, embroidered TUUM ('thine' in Latin)
Provenance
'As regards bedding', wrote T.E.L. to his brother Arnold, 'there are two sleeping bags (of 3 and 2 blankets, respectively) and about four loose blankets, one eiderdown and, I think, two sheets.' These two simple sleeping bags where made for him in the 1930's, and into which Lawrence himself had stitched 'MEUM' and 'TUUM' ('mine' and 'thine') the former for himself and the latter for his guests.
Marks and inscriptions
TUUM (embroidered)