T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 125

Glenda Hill Moreton DORSET 29. vii. 29. Dear Candler, I've just been sent a copy of your review of Lowell Thomas' silly book: and I don't know if you are joking or not when you refer to my own account of the Arab ...olt. There's a copy in the Bodleian, where no one has bothered to look at it: most of it is being reprinted in a costly shape for some friends of mine, at the moment: and Cape (a publisher) has license to print 1/5 of it any date after the begining of 1927, for general sale. My notion was to hold it up for ten years, to let the interest in what happened die away. It was too topical in 1919, when I wrote it. I don't know if you are in England, or where; but if you would like to see the full text of the thing (horribly printed on a newspaper pres, in line, about 1920, I could arrange for a copy to be sent to you on loan for a while. By looking at it you would see that it isn't indis- creet, revealing, or even very interesting. I can't give you a copy. There were only a few proofs struck off: the reader ing that convinced me of the hopeless character of my attempt at book-making: and so the type was broken up. Your own writing has reached a point which must make you considerate to a beginner - who isn't going on! Yours sincerely, T. E. SHAW Lawrence it used to be. I changed because that name (assumed to cover a trail) became noisy itself! Don't ans- wer this, if you don't care to.