T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 454

To Nogarth 29.X.22 The delays of getting us here are so great that I asked A.J.B to write you direct; however it seems by today's note from you that M.O. did it after all. That's decent of him as a last act. I'll write and say thanks- for I suppose that's the answer to my request. I wish he had waited as I shave you the bother of getting up the memorial. Here's the Freisal paper back - with only a trivial change. I think it contains all there is to say in matters of fact. It is rather a a photographic satirical Roman-second-class: and reasonably miserable at it. Femington has done... for comic pictures for the Seven Pillars, & six or seven wonderful imaginative things in colour & crayons, plus-like, of life and mine. One, illustrating dysentry, is as powerful a thing as I have seen: its rays out lustily; a lighting-coloured picture of the night over Tafas which is almost whitely. In spite of the forgery, he's also done a poor head of Poylt. Roberts has done a forgeson bedoutn, and I hope to put him on to direst (in red chalk) "would you let yourself roam in to the gallery?" So far only Youngs has refuses to sit, & I'm going to put in a white page saying so baldly. If you can give me suggest Swinbum-Lewis as your executioner. An artist of great power, & as he would, capable of making a sizeable thing of it. He is very fast, so that one sitting (in typical would do the trick. I'm trying to get hold of him, but he is so often strong. Also all the crayons (over 50 now) I feel less a less inclined to publish the whole work, a almost decided not to publish any thing. My price wobbles between the need of money & the desire to unwithrawn, & it's a didicule exhibition on my part. If such the brawny book has never been written, Garnett's reduction is a rig habit, & is a good one: but it's a basgarising of the story & the motives of it, & (gives,eclecc) would give the public a false impression. I don't like the idea action of going that, it's a favourably-false impression, _us as A.L.