T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 447

To Hogarth Grand Continental Hotel Cairo 7...1945 A long time since I wrote to you:- but office from 9 AM till 10 X P.M and all confidential work doesn't lend itself to letter writing: one has to seize the moments that eddy out is airs of the thing by dark.... We nearly wired for you the other day, to come & go civil gover- nor of our conquests... but we noticed it was too a fall a job to warrant it ........... How quaint the Ottomil would have been. They ... are foolish in their generation, and no no doubt child- ren of light. I rate Tuball's knowledge among the Turks as much use than line Arab:- the English army officer is naturally illiterate: & argues hours. Woolley also all day Going pigsie, & writing windy concealers of truth for the press..... Newc...be runs a prop.. and offensive spirit, & takes too Our stale I deman it gets, while geopraphers reports, trying to establish, is Turks, this is not peopled entirely by Turks.....Aub- rey refuses to be bers...ia conspirartres. The ten principles ,f...ve our were oule by their indecilir... Line we took each one independently & secretly by night to the General, & pave away his fellows. It was so hard to Keep them from settib on the Courses..and even the plot named, it was less to see sme men from crime. Yours the try...ian it is the same thing. for...ish to hate us so. I thought it was only a colloness....but it is a most burning dislike. They are also very much afrsid. ...