T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 466

To Hogarth Clouds Hill Robin Buxton is going miracles in the direction of rich men: so after all that edition may come off. There are nearly twenty in sight now, & the picture-work is in hand. ... she will get nothing I'll write to the greyhound inn that she will get nothing out of me: I've climbed a lip like that; & forgotten it. Her mind is quite right....and my opinion of her goes up. Sorry, very sorry, about the Air. The irritability of it was making you ill: but I felt a bit too going to be so magnificent in spirit.....You course a Staff College book is out of the question. No one worth two-pence would spend four years grinding to manglevoyble- up for such cows to set. They will ease bar to sut: but I suspect that once set free from the burden of it you will never take it up again. Ten thousand pities. Everything "Air" has a halo for me, & I did want Leigh's very fine begining career. Did Igglesden see Lurs legalitying that coin? and is Norton still at Cranwell? A man here has a son trying for the Boy-Mechanic service, & I'd help smooth his path if I could. J.