"Professor James Boulton , who has died aged 89, was an authority on political writing of the 18th century and on the works of DH Lawrence. Boulton was Professor of English Literature at the University of Nottingham when, in 1966, the university’s library acquired a series of letters written by DH Lawrence to his fiancée, Louie Burrows. Although Lawrence was outside his period, Boulton undertook to prepare the letters for publication , and Lawrence in Love: Letters from DH Lawrence to Louie Burrows appeared two years later. A direct result of this project was his appointment by Cambridge University Press to head the team that would produce its proposed new edition of The Letters of DH Lawrence, which eventually ran to eight volumes. He also became general editor of the 38-volume Works of DH Lawrence, a commitment that would keep him busy for the rest of his life. James Thompson Boulton was born at Pickering, North Yorkshire, on February 17 1924, and went to a local school and Durham University, where he read English from 1942. At the end of his first year as an undergraduate Boulton joined the RAF and trained as a pilot. He was about to take part in an attack on occupied Singapore in 1945 when the Japanese surrendered. He left the Service as a flight lieutenant and resumed his studies at Durham in 1946, graduating two years later with a First and going on to Lincoln College, Oxford, to undertake postgraduate research." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10329346/Professor-James-Boulton.html
