T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 628

To F.L. Lucas, Cambridge LH 9/13/42 338171 A/C Shaw slope 12 GSH R A F Depot Delph Road Kerachi Dear Lucas B.L.P. told me about your Uchster. Of course it is a book I want to have; but, as you realize in our late r, India is also a considerable lf. It is very large; bn our publisher could provide the brwn paper and similar The 'etage' would be heavy; but ... the over paper and slotter- go rs end is quite quick. Wouhally book-post is not sort on the oint of your actually giving me them. The real point which hangs uncertainly in my mind that two years in this country will not be eno ; for t lf completion. I have been out here twelve months; lont but my skin is leather: torpos, and both much neutral graue. Webstr is probably cloth; better, cloth, for India; or ) inauab of sort.Alikhp phils printed into the bindings of leather-covered boOks. However let us suppose Webstr in cloth, of the proper library-rague-cloth style. Then this binding wouldn't matter. I'd cxrcumde or Tilt beok is ever other than unxkishly covered. The Doms behind those Presses are too plain to dress their books gaily. So apparently my Zears have no base. I want to read more Webster. I have a book case which would hold all the Websters in the world. Oh a glant of a book case; not as fifty years could I fill it. The problem of the Badlerian would be solved if they had as big rooms as the R A F Depot at Delph Road. I have time to read WEBSTER actually I could read the Grand Cyrus here before I came home. We work only B hours a day and all the interval middle and end of the day is our own. Igreed I am often tigaery and lazy: but would even Webster's comus( for that is now your appointment, prob:bly, in the eyes of Cambridge) want to read Webster all day, or Cat sit for ziesing Kebster? Your zraze was it ... a long sentonce. But after all Webste is good. I'd choose Webster too, if I had to spend Zour years with a portio transmitt ed Shakespeare. I have been through Shakespeare from A to Z once, since I got here, and am reading bits of him again; so let it be Webster, please, if you still have a spare set. If his covers wrinkle, I'll have him bound in 1920. 441 7 ... ... ... .... ...