He’s had enough of Europe and so sets sail to America in the hope of claiming unpaid royalties…
‘Thank goodness we are getting out of Europe. It is a weariness to me,’ bemoans D.H. Lawrence as he sets off on the R.M.S Aquitania. He observes that ‘most people are unpleasant nowadays, particularly those going to America to make a fortune.’ Lawrence is not going to America to make a fortune. He is there to pay his tax bill and claim unpaid royalties from his absent publisher, Thomas Seltzer.
Customers on the liner are issued with a Daily Mail each day which they read cover to cover. Never one to miss an opportunity, Lawrence writes to his friend S.S. Koteliansky, suggesting if he were to publish ‘an ‘important’ daily on a liner’ that ‘it would command attention’ and provide an ‘opportunity of making oneself heard!’ Koteliansky had been doing a stint at The Adelphi magazine and was keen on setting up some form of publishing of his own. Could this be an opportunity to avoid censorship?
These video essays are based on the letters of D.H. Lawrence one hundred years ago and are published monthly as part of the D.H. Lawrence Memory Theatre project.
To see previous Locating Lawrence videos from 1922, click here.
To see previous Locating Lawrence videos from 1923, click here.
To see previous Locating Lawrence videos from 1924, click here.
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