LAWRENCE D.H.: (1885-1930) English Writer. A good A.L.S., with his initials D.H.L., two pages, 4to, Scandicci, Florence, n.d. ('Friday', 28th October 1927), to Else von Richthofen, his sister-in-law ('My dear Else'). Lawrence writes of his current life and work in Italy, in part, '….here the sun is too hot, makes one tired & feels like earthquakes. Still it is beautiful. We got home safely with all the spoil…..we drank the Kirsch from the little yellow glasses when the Wilkinsons were here yesterday. I am much better, I eat more joyfully, & take the Brust-thee. Imagine, one must let it boil slowly for hours. I do believe it is good, better than all the medicines. I am already doing a story, and dabbing at my picture of five negresses - called The Finding of Moses……I had a letter from Curtis Brown, saying that next year, in November, our contract with Kippenberg comes to an end, & then we can leave him and go to a different publisher. Also that he, Kip-, said in a letter of 1923, that he would gladly agree that you should do the translations. Curtis Brown have the letter. Now I have written Kippenberg to ask him what exactly he intends to do next year, with regard to my work. We'll see if we can't have our own way in this matter, & you shall translate The Plumed Serpent if you wish…..' A couple of very light, extremely minor stains, VG Else von Richthofen (1874-1973) German Social Scientist, a cousin of Manfred von Richthofen. In 1922 Lawrence travelled in the United States of America and Mexico and wrote of his time on a small mountain ranch near Taos, New Mexico, in The Plumed Serpent (1926) and Mornings in Mexico (1927). He was forced to leave Mexico in October 1925, having come close to death when seriously ill with malaria, and settled near Florence.