From the Preface by Aldous Huxley :
“In his letters ‘Lawrence has written his life and painted his own portrait. Few men have given more of themselves in their letters. Lawrence is there almost in his entirety’ (Aldous Huxley). This in itself is justification enough for the present edition. The letters are biographical documents of the highest importance in that they inform us about his discernible life; but, in addition, they contain unique evidence for the ‘biography of an emotional and inner life’ to which Lawrence referred in the Preface to his Collected Poems. Through them we come close to the creative mind and whole personality of the private individual, Lawrence. We also acquire an intimacy with the man and the spirit which played a public role and exerted a formative influence on the modern consciousness. This influence, impossible briefly to formulate or precisely to estimate, is permanent. It has been variously welcomed and lamented; it is rarely denied. “
 
The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
Lawrence, D. H. ( Huxley, Aldous introduction )
Published by Viking Press, New York, 1932: First American Edition.
Black cloth, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 893 pp.