T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 394

To H.G. Hayter, 91 Kel...ott Road, S.W. 11 (i...e. Huyton Road., Birkenshah, Wasirist..n.) 27.IV.29. 332171 A/C Shaw R.A.F. Catteswater Plymouth 27. IV. 29. Dear Hayter That's good news about Birsnahah. I hope it will make up for your time and the next. A really decent little place it was, and I'll grudge it to the jackals and white ants. Sorry you have lost Daphne. Is General Easton holding out still? And still living in the a/c Cabin? That brings the ......ents down to two... or have they filled up your places? We have daily hot water here now. So you see I can still enjoy things. A good gramophone has turned up for me. It runs off the old gramo-engine, the an ..rchestra which has got loose from its concert-hall. Decent though. I wish we had had it at Birsnahah. We'd have put it in the Mess Deck verandah, and heard the bars, all night. Did the grass die? It was looking very ill when I left. That was the last thing I noticed as we flew off. An A.O.C. is to be here in 14 days. So you can guess that we are not altogether happy. Ah well. Tell Corpl. Easton, if he's yet there, that Mrs. Easton is looking altogether herself, now. No signs of damage from her "illn..."s". If"m ..king quite happy, up a down the barbican, tell him. You want to get a good ride, & fry it, & hide it in one of his b/d bases. It would remind him of home, in a few days. All the same, I ..ke Sutton Pool. Very cold still: and life feels as if the spa... had gone off. Yours T B D. I hope the pink letters come regularly. I tried to get some envelopes like it, to cheer you up, but was unlucky.