Newspaper page
The Evening Standard
Category
Ephemera
Date
20 May 1935
Materials
Newspaper
Measurements
330 x 235 mm
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Summary
One of a series of newspaper cuttings. 'Lawrence of Arabia - D. H. Lawrence'. Numbers 18/1 - 18/7. The first of two full sheets of newspaper from the 'Evening Standard' dated 'MONDAY, MAY 20, 1935', pages 1, 2, 27 & 28. On the front cover, page one, a short piece with photograph, an article by Robert Graves and a third piece by Lawrence continued on page four. A black and white reproduction of a painting of Lawrence in Arabian dress with the caption 'COLONEL T. E. LAWRENCE-a portrait painted in 1920 by Professor Sir William Rothenstein.'. Next to which is the short article; 'MYSELF - By LAWRENCE A Remarkable Epitaph: "My Life Is Now Over" "THE GENIUS RAIDS; THE PEOPLE POSSESS" THE "Evening Standard" publishes to-day a re- markable document -"Myself" by Lawrence of Arabia. it is an Epitaph and a summary of his life's work. It was written with the consciousness that that work had been completed. It is a self-analysis of one of the most elusive personalities of the age. ....'. To the left of the above article a column; 'How This Document Was Written By ROBERT GRAVES When I was told that Lawrence had succumbed to his injuries in his motor-cycle crash, the shock was a double one - profound grief for the death of a friend of whose loyalty and generosity I had had 15 years' experi- ence and a sense of startling coinci- dence in the fact that his last letter to me had contained a self-written obituary notice. A London newspaper agency had recently asked me for a memoir of Lawrence to file away against his death. I jokingly wrote to Lawrence about this, asking him whether he would care to write it himself. He did not joke in reply. ...'. Beneath the reproduction image and next to the column article the piece by Lawrence continued on page four; 'THERE ARE NO WOMEN IN THE MACHINES By T. E. Shaw ("Lawrence of Arabia") YES, I have run short of money. I have been foolish. Long ago I found out what income I needed for retirement, and set it aside, invested. The rest-what I had and what I made -I spent on friends and books and pic- tures and motorbikes and joys of sorts. Five years ago I found I needed more, to spend on improving my cottage in Dorset, where I go when I leave the R.A.F.; so I did the translation of the Odyssey for the U.S.A. .....'.
Makers and roles
The Evening Standard, printer and publisher