LAWRENCE, David Herbert (1885-1930). Autograph letter signed ('D.H.L.') to Juliette [Huxley], Villa Mirenda, Scandicci, Florence, 17 April 1928, two pages, 4to . THE EFFECTS OF LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER ON A 16-YEAR OLD. A fine, wide-ranging letter, in Lawrence's highest moral vein, inspired by Juliette Huxley's shocked reaction on reading Lady Chatterley : 'If [people] were decent enough, they'd come freer, like you. But they aren't honest, most folks. Why do you say I laugh at you? I may laugh at some things about you. I laugh at you when you say "What if Anthony were sixteen, & read this novel!" - He'd be too bored at 16: but at twenty of course he should read it. Was your mind a sexual blank at sixteen? is anybody's? and what ails the mind in that respect is that it has nothing to go on, it grinds away in abstraction ... But of course I don't laugh at you , nor at your mother either. For absurdities I laugh at everybody, including myself'. The novel is, as ever, causing difficulties: 'publishers, agents etc in London holding up hands of pious horror ... & trying to make me feel disastrously in the wrong ... I'm in the midst of the proofs -- hope to finish them this week. But I still haven't chosen the cover paper. The orders came in very nicely from England. Are you risking a copy, or not?'. Lawrence was on the verge of leaving Italy for the last time, staying only to see Lady Chatterley's Lover through the press. Juliette Huxley was married to Aldous's brother, Julian.
LAWRENCE, David Herbert (1885-1930). Autograph letter signed ('D.H.L.') to Juliette [Huxley], Villa Mirenda, Scandicci, Florence, 17 April 1928, two pages, 4to . THE EFFECTS OF LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER ON A 16-YEAR OLD. A fine, wide-ranging letter, in Lawrence's highest moral vein, inspired by Juliette Huxley's shocked reaction on reading Lady Chatterley : 'If [people] were decent enough, they'd come freer, like you. But they aren't honest, most folks. Why do you say I laugh at you? I may laugh at some things about you. I laugh at you when you say "What if Anthony were sixteen, & read this novel!" - He'd be too bored at 16: but at twenty of course he should read it. Was your mind a sexual blank at sixteen? is anybody's? and what ails the mind in that respect is that it has nothing to go on, it grinds away in abstraction ... But of course I don't laugh at you , nor at your mother either. For absurdities I laugh at everybody, including myself'. The novel is, as ever, causing difficulties: 'publishers, agents etc in London holding up hands of pious horror ... & trying to make me feel disastrously in the wrong ... I'm in the midst of the proofs -- hope to finish them this week. But I still haven't chosen the cover paper. The orders came in very nicely from England. Are you risking a copy, or not?'. Lawrence was on the verge of leaving Italy for the last time, staying only to see Lady Chatterley's Lover through the press. Juliette Huxley was married to Aldous's brother, Julian.
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