Editing T. H. White (section)

==Education and teaching==
White went to [[Cheltenham College]] in [[Gloucestershire]], a [[independent school (UK)|public school]], and [[Queens' College, Cambridge]], where he was tutored by the scholar and occasional author [[Leonard Potts|L. J. Potts]], who became a lifelong friend and correspondent. White later referred to him as "the great literary influence in my life."<ref name="timeslit"/>  While at Queens' College, White wrote a thesis on [[Thomas Malory]]'s ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'',<ref name="lett">{{cite book |editor-last=Gallix |editor-first=Francois |title=Letters to a Friend: The Correspondence Between T. H. White and L. J. Potts |year=1982 |publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons |location=New York |isbn=0-399-12693-7 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/letterstofriendt00whit }} p. 93-95. (Reprinted [http://lettersoftheday.blogspot.com/2007/10/s-word-s-tone.html here].)</ref> and graduated in 1928 with a first-class degree in English.<ref name="nyobit"/>

White then taught at [[Stowe School]] in Buckinghamshire for four years. In 1936 he published ''England Have My Bones'', a well-received memoir about a year spent in England. The same year, he left Stowe School and lived in a workman's cottage nearby, where he wrote and "revert[ed] to a feral state", engaging in [[falconry]], hunting, and fishing.<ref name="nyobit"/><ref name="nybio">Allen, Walter. [https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0F16F93F5F127A93C3AB178FD85F4C8685F9&scp=1&sq=%22lucky+in+art%22+AND+%22t.+h.+white%22&st=p "Lucky In Art Unlucky In Life"] (fee required), [[The New York Times]], 21 April 1968. Retrieved on 2008-02-10.</ref> White also became interested in aviation, partly to conquer his fear of heights.<ref name="merlyn">{{cite book|chapter=The Story of the Book|last=Townsend Warner|first=Sylvia|author-link=Sylvia Townsend Warner|title=[[The Book of Merlyn]]|editor=White T.H.|isbn=0-00-615725-4|publisher=Fontana/Collins|location=London|year=1978}}</ref>