Correspondence – Page 6

To Major General A. P. Wavell.

Cloud’s Hill
Norton
Dorset.

23. 1. 24

Dear Wavell

Press of bestiality must be my excuse for not writing. When things are unspeakable I fly out in the evening & debauch myself with canned music till my mind is sick……and in those periods there is no letter-writing.

The maps arrived properly: and the project of a 1/4,000030 interests me very much. Will you find out

1. On what scale its brown & blue plates are being drawn?
   If it is large enough I might have my own, or a modified black-plate prepared, & reproduce it, or my own special area of it (Damascus – Mecca, & E. to Jauf.)
2. Didn’t the G.S.G.S. reproduce the International million, or a smaller scale (1/1,500,000 or so) in three colours, or in one colour?
   For the above area, or for parts of it?
3. At what stage the work of the 1/4,300000 stands, & when I could see a proof of it.

Sorry to bother you so…..but I can’t come up & do it, & you are the sole survivor of my period at the W.O.

The bike did splendidly the other night, & I’ve not been on the peg for weeks: or rather I’ve scored heavily (& escaped) lately.

Yours

T.E.S.

Alias & address as [illegible] and [illegible]