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Smaller T. E. Lawrence holdings in Oxford


All Souls College 
Lawrence was elected to a Fellowship of All Souls in 1918. The college holds portraits and a bust of Lawrence, an important series of 44 letters to Lionel Curtis, Lawrence's Arab dagger and ring, the Seven Pillars pen, a bowl and plate from the silver service used by Lawrence during the Arab Revolt, and other materials. Not open to the public.

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Ashmolean Museum
Holds portraits of Lawrence by Augustus John and William Roberts, one of two casts of Eric Kennington's effigy (original at St. Martin's church, Wareham), two Seven Pillars illustrations (Emir Feisal, D. G. Hogarth), Arab garments worn by Lawrence, a large collection, which Lawrence helped to form, of Hittite Seals, a brass-rubbing by Lawrence, and local medieval pottery gathered and presented to the museum by Lawrence as a boy. 

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City of Oxford High School for Boys
The original school building in George Street now houses Oxford University's Social Studies Faculty Centre. When the school merged with another in 1966 to become the Oxford School, it moved to premises in Glanville Road, Cowley. It took with it the bronze memorial plaque to Lawrence by Eric Kennington, which Winston Churchill unveiled in 1936.


Jesus College
Lawrence was an undergraduate and Meyricke Exhibitioner at Jesus College from October 1907 to June 1910. For a short time after that he held a postgraduate research award. The library of Jesus College holds the original examiners' copy of his BA thesis The Influence of the Crusades on European Military Architecture, to the end of the XIIth Century, which helped to win him first class honours in finals. The college also holds a series of 98 letters from Lawrence to his banker Robin Buxton, and other materials. There is a cast of Eric Kennington's bust of Lawrence outside the chapel, and a memorial plaque in the entrance to the college. The College is open to visitors at set times, but there is no public access to the library.

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Magdalen College
Lawrence held a senior-demy postgraduate research scholarship at Magdalen College during the years that he worked at the British Museum's excavations at Carchemish. The college holds a folio of maps for the Crusader Castles thesis, a silver cup from the service that Lawrence used during the Arab Revolt, and one or two letters.

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Museum of the History of Science
Holds T. E. Lawrence's archaeological camera, and also his father's camera. 

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see also an on-line article about Lawrence's camera


2 Polstead Road
The home of the Lawrence family from 1896 until about 1922. The bungalow built for T. E. Lawrence still stands in the garden. Privately owned, not open to the public.


St. Antony's College
The Middle East Centre at St Antony's college holds a major collection of papers relating to the Middle East. Several collections have documents relating to Lawrence, including copies of letters, etc. 

On-line:

(general description of private papers collections).


Worcester College
Worcester College has no direct connection with Lawrence, but the library holds seven letters from him to Geoffrey Cumberlege of Oxford University Press about publication of his translation of the Odyssey. The Library is not open to the public.

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T.E. Lawrence Studies - www.telawrence.info - is compiled and edited by Jeremy Wilson. Its costs are sponsored by Castle Hill Press