T.E. Notes was begun in 1990 by Denis W. McDonnell, Mary E. McDonnell, and Janet A. Riesman as a newsletter devoted to T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935) and his world. This British soldier and scholar, also known as Lawrence of Arabia, led the Arab Revolt during the First World War, wrote Seven Pillars of Wisdom and The Mint, and translated several works, including Homer's Odyssey

We have published articles about all periods of Lawrence's intriguing life - from his boyhood growing up in Oxford, through his days working on archaeological sites in the Near East, to his role in the Arab Revolt, to his final years as a mechanic in the Royal Air Force. Essays have covered a broad range of topics: collecting books in the Lawrence canon, reminiscences of people who knew Lawrence, accounts of his Arabian experience, literary analyses of his outstanding writings, reflections on what Lawrence has meant to those fascinated and inspired by his life and values, questions about his ill-understood search for happiness in the RAF, and debates and controversies concerning his character, his psychological make-up, to say nothing of the perennial mystery surrounding his untimely death in 1935 at age 46 in a motorcycle crash.

Contributors have included:

• Jeremy Wilson, past chairman of the English T.E. Lawrence Society and author of Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography

• John Mack, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Lawrence, A Prince of Our Disorder

• Malcolm Brown, BBC producer of films on Lawrence, editor of several collections of Lawrence's writings, and co-author with Julia Cave of the Lawrence biography, A Touch of Genius

• Maurice Lares, author of T.E. Lawrence, la France et les Français, a scholarly study of Lawrence's relations with the French

• Suleiman Mousa, who assesses Lawrence's role in the Arab Revolt from an Arab perspective in his T.E. Lawrence: An Arab View

• Robert Morris and Lawrence Raskin, authors of Lawrence of Arabia: The 30th Anniversary Pictorial History, a definitive study of the David Lean film

• Harold Orlans, an expert on Lawrence's literary correspondence, whose Lawrence of Arabia: Strange Man of Letters was published in 1993

• Fred Crawford, author of Richard Aldington & Lawrence of Arabia: A Cautionary Tale

• Clifford Irwin, who is creating a database of Lawrence's letters.

We have also published essays by correspondents from all over the world - the British Isles, the United States, Canada, France, Israel, Australia, India, and Japan - that reflect the extraordinary interest in Lawrence in all corners of the globe. T.E. Notes has tried to strike a balance between scholarly and informal with the idea of appealing to the broadest number of readers interested in T.E. Lawrence.