T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 444

To Hogarth 29.9.1913 Hittite cylinders on earth: Other people have isolated spec- imens of minor interest! I hope we strike a nice patch of stuff this year to keep up our average...for if the F.W. prolong the this another direct ..... at present rates you will be unassail- able - and bust. As for loop-bored seals and Tell Bashir district...it is quite likely because the Gedatlia have been found in our district especially at the same time, very few people have got cylinders out of Syria: if your loth, and Woolley's and Wise's lot-portions were taken out of the Armenian Caucasians would not be so much in a minority. You know Cappadocia...are there no seals to be bought up there?..or has nobody looked for them at Kara? Not about Incidentally a German Fr. ... ....son, who passed by Moghas? ..t about G... .... ago, told us presents there were crimpers, and brought to him passes in cuneiform tablets for sale. He saw no complete ones, ...... pieces as big as this hand, and prices ruled about 3 pts asked usually: I forget your send ... iple 50/- for th .., if you cannot latch it purchased withou .........nit it will do wh get back if you prefer it. I've have rt lovely bilor figu .got village here: figures torn off, un .......d out and .......ched up with leather...but glor- ious col ..and very old. I nil be astonished if it doesn't crew you I hope I send you a selection of the Marco, oil seals by next opportunity. But the government here collered first 15 cases of Von Oppenheim's, and then, after they had been compelled to re- lease them, two others came this way up to the Baghdad line. Opp. ... must be an ass. So I am waiting for a trustworthy passenger to Beyrout, to post them there. You can pay for them when you next grant coues on....though with h.l. and otters you must have spent most of it already. The Baghdad bridge is bearing again: but they have to cut it once more in 2 weeks time to put in some more piles. They hope for to "enrich" trouble .... this. The retail laying is stagnant for . the moment, about x 6 kiluetres beyond the river...but they say the ban. . is so .. rete to the Harran line. I have not had out that way lately. ...... 3 the man who came to Oxford to see you Lionel travelling F. cam. here before yesterday, and had a public banquet in his honour. Grenorl came a we.y ago, and is now in Jerablus house-building. We are setting the roof in skeleton out shelving out the winter on the site. He is very flourishing, anc deadly jealous of the two who went to England. They talk very fully of what they want but are too sophisticated to be ridiculous about it. I. any rate they declare to him the world that Syria is a mere flea-bite in pub ... worth...And the Arabs too few to matter much. Please salaam me to Billy..though I don't suppose you'll set him for months.