T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 446

To Hogarth Grand Continental Hotel Cairo 15 Jan. (1915) Blank! Am in an office all day & every day, acting together .... scraps of information, & writing geographes from memory of a scraps of information, it is the dullest job to hear of, but not lacking little details. It is the preparations of the Turks seem to be slacking but in motion. Their is nothing (this deleted) more cheerful I off: I'm afraid our tail you: goes well. We all pulled together here for a Our particular "them" from what we thought was a wrong line they month to twist "them" so as to have angemagec completely: so that were taking - And we seem want for the moment, & therefore a feel ... today have got all we want for absolutely bored. I care through that the Germans have laid a light line through the S.date, and are taking stone from the fields & ler- abius. The briggs is being pushed aheac ... I don't suppose that they will go serious harm merely to spite us! Brutal of government Syria is all turned aside by the uncertainty of government assurance. It just hayraic had not been a record one things would not have lasted so long. As it is they will be quite happy till next spring. It seems to be a queer sort of happiness thoufh. I'm afraid we'll never get Our game together again... This you will charter & the corjration of a complete success.... because we really have scored a very big thing. Sellam he to tessa. I can't ride to Nile, because office work is not exciting, & I haven't had an off afternoon to go & see the pyramids, & write him a little of this month. I gt away for a day in the tung day: the General Staff in Musil - the Austrian - is head guide to the tufir: things Damascus: quite things happen now a days! Moritz is also out there, and Meisner, building railways. .L. You might address to me (as above, deleted) Continental Hotel, a print of any photos. of Sellam you have. .L.