T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 142
T. E. Lawrence Correspondence
Page 142
To A.F.Gl. ...berry,
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Gloucester Road
Hurston
Dorset
S. VIII. '4
Dear Jock,
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to ... a few days in my cot... [Lines blacked out]
not writin...
You are all the hous-hussy vista, reading for the sheep
rich one. I was at Oxford, aged .. ...) of so, and [very crossed out]
in sin linguistic. Is it well with you [Lines blacked out]
opinion or in word.
Are you far from Cambridge? There's a snob there,
of him, his kindness should prevent my using such a word
Biily, locally,) and could be useful to you if you wished;
for writers & grantees come to him sometimes, & he is abreast
of these house & cultures; - not that he knows the young, next-
movement men: his taste lies back, rather, and he? is a friend
of Morris&,he is more literary than learned: in fact isn't
learned. If you answer this I'll write to him,& let him to write
to occupy one of your spare afternoons: a [large crossed out]
decent fellow really : only a little assiduous.
I'm still a private, in the depot of the Trk Corps at
Bovingtion, in Dorset, & fed up keeping as ever that I'm ... ...
.rong service. Trenchard won't see it, though I have crawled to
him continually, & wailed to be taken back. I doubt Foreign
Service this year, (glad, since I'm proof-reading for a private
journal of my own-hook) but will probably. ...ce it next...
This address is my safest one: it may be any name.
"Shaw" I will myself, but some "rule rose & other surnames
sha-poo-ling doesn't care". Have you read Herculitus?......
... ... good man,
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