T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 643

To Expect: Mackay, A title in other regular "I've madly if care h Refuge. deov samander hed w from toil. (Typewritten on office-paper.) No shmv 336171 Pnon Ba. Fitch R.A.P.Depot Dwigh Road Rearnily Dear Mackay, Your letter is threatening to bear fruit: I wonder if you meant it, or if it is to take advantage of a "solitsnesss. I should your "dator to one of the nine hundred, a moulder (aluminium, iron, etc.) who when in Mesopotamia spent ten days at Uy, where Woolley gave him a topia and some food, and good conversation. He liked Woolley, therefore; At is not very often troops get treated as reasonable beings; in India such a thing is not dream of. However you fortgotten "sorry, which is a comperatively civilized land; so perhaps it is well. Please consult Mrs. Mackay. You would find the Moulter (name of Bell, "condruoed 11,12 the eleotrical worker) a decent ohap. He likes music, especially of the semi-light sort: Schubert to Mozart. Beethoven he finds dry. However, to business again. He said that he would give his future to visit your digs. I told him you had round practically nothing, and whether that was not dull. He sniffed at me for prejudiced, because I couldn't go myself. He swore you were not far off: ... ... matter of 15 hs, by rail, return. He said some tombs, later made, would hold him company. He said Christmas would be best of course, because we then get five days holiday ... from the 24th to the 28th ... but that if you were then full, as I hinted, they would not leave for Dot less 3 week: say in the new year He was not to write to you at once; but I pushed this eagerness to one side, so that you should have a good chance to back out, if you didn't mean it. If you can do it, the pleasure of the devils will be inordinate. You need not be afraid that they will be devilish in your neighbourhood. Devilishness is of all sorts, physical and moral. These are nice devils. The Air 479