“You cannot conceive how dark and hideous London is today, mouldering in a dank fog,” wrote D.H. Lawrence in a 1915 letter. “I am glad we have let this flat.”
The flat in question was 1 Byron Villas, the author’s first residence in London. He and his wife, Frieda, moved in in the summer of 1915 and left at the end of December the same year.
