T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 475
T. E. Lawrence Correspondence
Page 475
To Hogarth
14.1.'26
Some illeg(ib)le name has written me for a gratis copy of my book
the owner of it having been with me in Arabia. United Services
Club. Mentions you. Is it Dowsett, of the Armoured Cars?
(The rec. ink is not for public-
Encyc. Brit. Yes by all means. Let me try my hand..... ation)
"L's family, though not Irish in origin, had been settled for some
time near Dublin. I.J.) (since Sir W.Raleigh)
His only origin suggested, with oriental lath-
creates appears to have been that Vansittart who worked in India
beside Clive & Warren Hastings, but not always in harmony with them?
Does that ring with the right vofiness of the D.M.Sp.
At it again....
"L. the second of Ialve brothers, was educated privately at the
City of Oxford school ...badly) (not at all)
ing the first examination of the Honour School of Modern History
he was elected to a Demyship of Magdalen College Oxford, which he
held till 1919. In 1919 he was elected to a research fellowship
at All Souls College." (which he held for three years)
"L.was interested in the history of the Crusades, & explored
Syria from 1910 onwards studying their records on the ground.
At this time he joined an archaeological expedition
(D.G.H. did this for him)
his request to be attached to the British Museum about
to excavate Carchemish on the upper Euphrates. He worked for the
British Museum for some years, and for the P.E.F. for some weeks
(by D.G.H.)
in 1914.. On the outbreak of war he was appointed to the Geograph-
ical Section of the General Staff, in the T.O.P.
After the War,
(with regret)
"L was attached to the British Delegation during the Peace Confer-
(constipated)
ence. Afterwards he resided for a year in All Souls'
was made Adviser to the Colonial Secretary (Mr. Winston Churchill)
(silently)
upon Arab affairs. & as such attended the Cairo Conference, &
(uncomfortable)
passed some later months in Palestine. In 1922 he resigned this
(in which some interim misfortune)
appointment to enlist in the R.A.F. (in which he was still serving
in 1926."
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