![[LAWRENCE, D. H. (1885-1930)]. Ajanta Frescoes being Reproductions in Colour and Monochrome of Frescoes in some if the Caves at Ajanta. London: Humphrey Milford, 1915. 4°. Coloured and monochrome plates, unbound as issued in original green printed portfolio (a little damp-affected). THE PORTFOLIO INSCRIBED, 'A Merry Xmas! Frieda," and 'To Ottoline Morrell from D.H. Lawrence.'](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CSK/2006_CSK_04074_0089_000(010053).jpg?w=1)
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[LAWRENCE, D. H. (1885-1930)]. Ajanta Frescoes being Reproductions in Colour and Monochrome of Frescoes in some if the Caves at Ajanta. London: Humphrey Milford, 1915. 4°. Coloured and monochrome plates, unbound as issued in original green printed portfolio (a little damp-affected). THE PORTFOLIO INSCRIBED, 'A Merry Xmas! Frieda," and 'To Ottoline Morrell from D.H. Lawrence.'
LAWRENCE, Frieda (1879-1956). Autograph letter signed to 'Ottoline', S.S. Delvalle, 6 April [19]34, 2 pages, 4to; envelope. 'Here I come knocking at your red door, I hope you are at home.' [The front door at the Morrells' home at 10 Gower Street was painted bright red; all the neighbouring houses had black doors.] Frieda Lawrence urges Ottoline to come to America 'you would be such a "success"'. Frieda writes whilst on board the S.S. Delvalle, returning to New Mexico following a month spent in Rio de Janeiro. She is 'longing for the ranch again - after all, my life is there - If I had Lawrence there, I would have everything.' D.H. Lawrence and his wife had first visited Taos in New Mexico in 1922, returning in 1924 with Dorothy Brett, when Frieda was given Kiowa Ranch. Here she tells Ottoline, 'we built a house, besides the old cabin, with a bath & "hot & cold", a triumph out there'. Following Lawrence's death four years earlier, Frieda had returned to live at the Ranch, and in 1934 had her husband's ashes brought there. Morrell's relationship with the tempestuous Frieda had always been difficult. The visit she proposes here is as improbable as the utopian scheme that Lawrence had suggested to Ottoline in 1915 (see Seymour, pp.215-16). (2)
LAWRENCE, Frieda (1879-1956). Autograph letter signed to 'Ottoline', S.S. Delvalle, 6 April [19]34, 2 pages, 4to; envelope. 'Here I come knocking at your red door, I hope you are at home.' [The front door at the Morrells' home at 10 Gower Street was painted bright red; all the neighbouring houses had black doors.] Frieda Lawrence urges Ottoline to come to America 'you would be such a "success"'. Frieda writes whilst on board the S.S. Delvalle, returning to New Mexico following a month spent in Rio de Janeiro. She is 'longing for the ranch again - after all, my life is there - If I had Lawrence there, I would have everything.' D.H. Lawrence and his wife had first visited Taos in New Mexico in 1922, returning in 1924 with Dorothy Brett, when Frieda was given Kiowa Ranch. Here she tells Ottoline, 'we built a house, besides the old cabin, with a bath & "hot & cold", a triumph out there'. Following Lawrence's death four years earlier, Frieda had returned to live at the Ranch, and in 1934 had her husband's ashes brought there. Morrell's relationship with the tempestuous Frieda had always been difficult. The visit she proposes here is as improbable as the utopian scheme that Lawrence had suggested to Ottoline in 1915 (see Seymour, pp.215-16). (2)
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