Record Number: 34087
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'While walking about there before continuing my reading I fell into a little lake, between two rocks, and I wet all my legs. It was "A still salt pool, locked in with bars of sand "Left on the shore." [Quoted from "The Palace of Art", Tennyson] From my reading desk "I see the waves upon the shore "Like Light dissolved in star-showers thrown."'[Quoted from "Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples", Shelley]. '...I have got into the habit of quoting any appropriate lines to myself, and this time I thought I would put them on record'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:26 Aug 1906
Country:France
Timeafternoon: 'before two and stayed till seven'
evening
city: Dinard
other location: 'seat on the cliff'
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:16 Aug 1888
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Student
Religion:Church of England
Country of Origin:Wales
Country of Experience:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[unknown]
Genre:Unknown
Form of Text:Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:34087
Source:T. E. Lawrence
Editor:M. R. Lawrence
Title:The Home Letters of T. E. Lawrence and His Brothers
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1954
Vol:n/a
Page:33-4
Additional Comments:
'Letter from T. E. Lawrence [signed Ned] to his Mother, Dinard, Sunday, 26th August, 1906'.
Citation:
T. E. Lawrence, M. R. Lawrence (ed.), The Home Letters of T. E. Lawrence and His Brothers, (Oxford, 1954), n/a, p. 33-4, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=34087, accessed: 09 May 2025
Additional Comments:
citation for section 3:4 'T. E. Lawrence studies' accessed at http://www.telstudies.org on 5 February 2016 'I have not entered all the relevant reading experiences from this book'.