T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 149

you were making someone carry a bag of your books. The books have not increased much, in the last five years. Sometimes I send three or four to join the others in Richards' hands: sometimes I part with a few. Richards himself has now gone to s.wales, & his brother, I.r.E.M.Richards of 3 Loudoun Road, St. John's Wood (not so far from Dollis Hill tube & then walk it, probably) has them in his house. If you had this letter, & found him in, he would let you take a bag-full of them away, & exchange at leisure. Jock, I'm very weary of being stared at and discussed and praised. What can one do to be forgotten? After I'm dead they'll rattle my bones about, in their curiosity. Aurevoir T.E.S. I've put W.C.Chambers, because those obviously aren't your initials. We always called you Jock, for short. That's C.E. in the address?