![LAWRENCE, David Herbert (1885-1930). Four autograph picture postcards signed ('D.H.L.'), two to his sister-in-law, Else Jaffe-Richtofen, Taos and Santa Fe, 10 April [1924] and [14 August 1923], one to his mother-in-law, Anna, Baronin von Richthofen, Hotel Monte Carlo, Av. Uruguay, Mexico, 24 October 1924, in German, and one to Miss Charlotte Becker, Los Angeles, 12 September 1923, the postcards showing a group of Mexican Indians dancing and playing drums, a square in Mexico City, and 'All Ages [of ostriches], Cawston Ostrich Farm, South Pasadena', together four half-pages, 8vo.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/CKS/2005_CKS_07046_0071_000(101558).jpg?w=1)
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LAWRENCE, David Herbert (1885-1930). Four autograph picture postcards signed ('D.H.L.'), two to his sister-in-law, Else Jaffe-Richtofen, Taos and Santa Fe, 10 April [1924] and [14 August 1923], one to his mother-in-law, Anna, Baronin von Richthofen, Hotel Monte Carlo, Av. Uruguay, Mexico, 24 October 1924, in German, and one to Miss Charlotte Becker, Los Angeles, 12 September 1923, the postcards showing a group of Mexican Indians dancing and playing drums, a square in Mexico City, and 'All Ages [of ostriches], Cawston Ostrich Farm, South Pasadena', together four half-pages, 8vo.
To Else in April 1924, Lawrence writes of the pleasure of being back in Taos, 'in the height and space ... Snow is still on the hills, but the sun is hot'; they have been given a 'little ranch', to which they will move on in May and 'build up the log houses a bit ... I don't suppose I shall get down to Mexico till late autumn to work on my Quetzalcoatl novel again' [The Plumed Serpent]. The postcard of August 1923 refers to arrangements for the German translation of The Boy in the Bush. The card to his mother-in-law records a pause on the way down to Oaxaca, perhaps to stay the winter there -- 'Etwas unsicher ist das Land -- besser aber darunter'. In the card to Charlotte Becker, Lawrence is in an equally uncertain mood, just 'back from Sta Barbara from seeing eclipse -- very impressive -- like another life-glimpse -- this world still a bit unreal. Saw also those 7 destroyers on rocks -- gruesome ...'. (4)
To Else in April 1924, Lawrence writes of the pleasure of being back in Taos, 'in the height and space ... Snow is still on the hills, but the sun is hot'; they have been given a 'little ranch', to which they will move on in May and 'build up the log houses a bit ... I don't suppose I shall get down to Mexico till late autumn to work on my Quetzalcoatl novel again' [The Plumed Serpent]. The postcard of August 1923 refers to arrangements for the German translation of The Boy in the Bush. The card to his mother-in-law records a pause on the way down to Oaxaca, perhaps to stay the winter there -- 'Etwas unsicher ist das Land -- besser aber darunter'. In the card to Charlotte Becker, Lawrence is in an equally uncertain mood, just 'back from Sta Barbara from seeing eclipse -- very impressive -- like another life-glimpse -- this world still a bit unreal. Saw also those 7 destroyers on rocks -- gruesome ...'. (4)
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