T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 351

To Sir Evelyn Wrench. From Toby Karachi. 5. V.27. Dear Wrench, Your letter arrived duly, and has been thought over, but I can't imagine what sort of a reception you'd give to the only sort of stuff I'd consider writing. I'll never again use the name Lawrence, nor allow anything I write to be connected in any way with the reputation I have made as Lawrence. Nor will I ever write upon the Middle East, nor upon any political subject. Nor upon archaeology. If you want poems reviewed, anonymously, or literature (biography, criticism, novels of the fith date - sort of Newtons, Joyces, D.H. Lawrences, etc.) at an interval of three months from the fountain head; - but of course you don't .... Probably you didn't think at the time that I was 5,000 miles off, and had finished with my Arabian incarnation. Best of luck to the Spectator, in your hands, Yours ever, T. E. SHAW. If despite time and space, you still feel charitable, why ... be deployed: I'm not anxious, financially (my pay and sole resource is the R.A.F. £5/- a week) and not over- critically, for I've never imagined that my writing was any good. So I'll do the very smallest stuff, gladly.