T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 631

To Pris. Lucas, Cambridge 14, Barton Street, Westminster, London, S.W.1. 15.2.29. This is a sad business. Your letter about dedicating your new poems came to me yesterday, via India. I went up to Dulac, and asked the eti...ques because I can't dedicate one book as you, having no book in con- templation. He says that doesn't matter. It's a wholly undeserved compliment, and a very delightful one; and, as I say, I can't do anything back. Also you say that silence till early February will be taken as refusal; and silence there has been. Well, well. A new motor-bike has arrived; so when the weather behaves itself I am free. E.M.F. says you are working at your novel, and nothing crucial. I don't mind interrupting your duties; but it seems rather hard to burst in upon the novel. Yet I'll risk it, I think, on my way north, in a fortnight or so. E.M.F. says that an unpublished book (in writing like this!) which I wrote in 1922 is worth your looking at. I ... the trouble of deciphering would be too great; but he knows more than "us" (bold word) about books. Shall I try ...: borrow it from its owner, for you? I shall, in fact, & bring it with me. So you needn't answer this line. That will be 10 more minutes for the novel. Thanks for your letter when we meet. It is cold here. TS Shaw