Tuesday, February 26, 2008

T. E. Lawrence letters, 1934

T. E. Lawrence letters, 1934: ". E. Lawrence to Sir Ronald Storrs

13.IX.34.

Dear R.S.,

I have been away for a while, during which your p.c. sat on the edge of Southampton Water, peacefully, in blazing sunshine. If all of the years were like this, no man would need to go abroad.

I hope you are comfortably settled in London, without the urge to gad about.

Here are your K. articles, which I return because I know how rare fugitive writings become in time. Once I did three or four columns in the same paper, but I have never seen them since; they gave me the idea that newsprint"

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