In 1929, the manuscript of his Book of poems, Pansies, was seized in the mails, and the police invaded a London exhibition of his paintings, removing pictures judged obscene.

• 1929年,他的诗集《三色堇花》的底稿被邮局没收,同时,警察突袭伦敦的劳伦斯画展,抽走被定为淫秽的绘画。