T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 398

To H.G. Hayter Esq. 40 Edithna Street, Stockwell London S.W.9. 6.1.30. 335171 A/C Shaw R.A.F. Mount Batten Plymouth. 6.1.30 Dear Hayter Alas, our kidney and bean at Lyons will have to wait. I am up to the neck in Creek, again, the next section of that stuff I used to wire into at Hiranshah. They gave me a hundred for what I did out there: an ..., to which I all last summer (with that & the Wheldiner Cup, to which I was third) and now I'm broke, and chasing hard at the second hundred. Till it comes I can't do London - not much before May, I think. Life here goes smoothly. In November I had a tiff with Lord T. our present tossa: he tried to sling me out! I was jobbing-around; blitz so am airmanning on. Our C.O. here is a treat. Grub is better than Miranshah grub; Plymouth is in a rotten hole; the set is lovely, in a glen; I had no idea a intoarho and this port was wart so wish Greek had never been invented. An Italian bad-hat dashed me one of those electric gramophones; and it sits in our hut. Everybody else plays it very well. Greek Greek Greek for me. All the same, that portable was good at Miranshah. T yours is doing its possible I ought to write to Corpl. Baston; indeed I ought; to how many people should I write; about 1342397438, I think. To how many Will I write - perhaps 6 or 7. Alas. I am a miserable sinner. Let me know about Heyford later. I was nearly sent there; and would like to know 1) Guards or Fire Pickets? 2) Drill Parades? 3) Equipment (I haven't drawn my blue yet!) When were? 4) Flight generally? 5) Week-ends ...? Just in case. Yours T E Shaw Will pink envelopes float up Heyford way? Or are you married, and a monthly postcard?