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LAWRENCE, David Herbert (1885-1930). Autograph letter signed ('D.H. Lawrence') to Allan W. Steele of William Jackson Ltd, Kesselmatte, Gsteig bei Gstaad, Switzerland, 29 July 1928, acknowledging Steele's cancellation of an order for eighty copies of Lady Chatterley's Lover: 'Since you did not make your order provisional, and since already seventy-two copies of the book had been posted to you at the time you wrote your letter cancelling the order, I don't see how you can so confidently withdraw'; Lawrence will however ask a friend 'to call immediately with a taxi, and collect what you have in hand -- and to repeat the call every day until all the seventy-two copies are collected', ending with an acid 'Thanking you for your courtesy', one page, 4to, in a cloth case.
The firm of William Jackson, book-exporters with Wesleyan connections, had cancelled their order after reading Lady Chatterley; Lawrence wrote the previous day to his friend Enid Hilton, asking her to collect the copies. See the Letters, ed. Boulton, Boulton and Lacy, vol. VI.
The firm of William Jackson, book-exporters with Wesleyan connections, had cancelled their order after reading Lady Chatterley; Lawrence wrote the previous day to his friend Enid Hilton, asking her to collect the copies. See the Letters, ed. Boulton, Boulton and Lacy, vol. VI.
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