T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 152

[To A.P. Chambers.] Clouds Hill 14 Feb. 1934 Dear Jock You will here been imagining that I have forgotten about those rubber boots - but actually I have asked everywhere in Southampton for a pair pair to mine, and cannot find anything that is even like them! It must have been orange, and I must have got a rare sample, or some- thing of the sort. Thank you for returning all the books. They are back on the shelves, or on others. Sometimes I ... to the cottage, and try to arrange them. No great changes. The ... of the spring is helped, and the ram only just works. I have ... three hot baths this year there. The heating plant is a great success. Pat is working on the timber framing which will eventually cover the whole of the pool. The front has preceded the proper cementing of the pool's sides, and the erection of ... lists courses of brick. We carry on at what is possible, and the attacking... is being collected... ... it: now about 2 feet deep. We hope to fill it before the summer comes, and will not allow bathing, unless the weather goes very hot, when; for I expect the spring to dry right up this summer, and then the water in the pool will be all that stands between Clouds Hill and a ... drought, it is a very ... prospect;for the heath fires will be worse than ... they were last year. However, there ... is, and we are help- less - except for the water that ... from store. ... ... ... I hope you'll be able to come ... this summer. The place is continually yours - but you'll have to cultivate a habit of ... -bath, like an Indian swimmer: ride daily to Lulworth, if the sea does not dry up...! Poof: why do I think always of long wet rains? And me a motorcyclist. Yours TES