T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 127

There is, please, no obligation to read all this. You will realize I'd never written a book before; and never will again: and a man in that position shoots into his book all the luggage he carries. For publication in a limited shape at this year: and it is being cut about 80%. For publication for sale in 1957 it will be cut down to a third. So I am trying to be merciful to the public. T.E.S. I remembered you, of course; that's why I wrote. Mesopotamia was the only campaign where the old army set the tone; and I was grateful to you for being different.