T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 252

To T.C.Griffin, Montreal 336171 A/c Shaw R.A.F. Mount Batten Plymouth 17.IV.31 Dear Griffin The Hardinge was very good to us - and to me- but she was also a great ship, crowded with people, and I was glad proroguéd(sic) with gras and weariness in those two war-years. So I hope you will pardon my not remembering one of you more than another. It was - how long ago? Nearly fifteen years, wasn't it? I am so old now, and it feels a lifetime away. Nine years ago I sallied, and have not thought about the Middle East since. The Air Force life suits me, and I'm happy in it. So I cannot tell you now anything about what happens now in the Red Sea. I don't write there, nor do they write to me. It wasn't a good time and I like to forget it. Seven Pillars, that book of mine? One copy did go to Canada, I think. Was it to a Colonel Leonard, at Montreal I have no copy of my own, and have not seen the book for years. It's rather long, and I fancy dull. All the story part went into a popular version called Revolt in the Desert: but that's had its day, too! I hope your affairs aren't bad. Most people's are, alas. Yours, T E Shaw.