T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 136

LH 9/134-2 To A.P. Chambers Saturday 10 March Dear Jook You will have thought me slow in sending you this: but I am contented only to have remembered it. I go seldom to Chingford, where my books lie idle: and I do have many things to look after. I hope you will like it; had it not been meant to improve the American Navy it would have been a better book: but at least that is an honourable ... & the ... was achieved. I would willingly have done something in this manner upon the R.A.F. - a much finer show than the State's Navy of 1830: - but that's another of the undone things. The book is part of a set, so I hope you'll be able to return it eventually: (J.H.Ross. Pole Hill , Chingford: Beech! for it's my unbalanced age day to live there & read again. Yours ever R. Above address will always find me - at long last: & don't hesitate to write if you think I can ever be of use to you. Probably I go abroad in October.