T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 157

[To A.F.Chambers.] Southampton 16.VIII.34 Dear Jack I am so glad to think that you got my desperate wire in time. I had just got back from Wolverhampton and was off ... again next morning....and there was your letter, and ...., still full of them, I Clouds Hill full of strange people the next ten days ... ... suppose; for I hope to go there in the next ten days ... ...; but on them to make sure of it. Roberts is a good artist: but all his family paint. So I marched down that night about 6p.m. to the Docks Post Office, which is open all night and handed in that "Not enough added..." The grillman was suspicious, "Ah" replied I as he said,"What's this Faddington D.O?" "You expected to know that: sweetly as I could "you couldn't" It is not a public post office: from which all the Southampton Mails go and to which and in all the Southampton Mails go and come". He gave a grunt and said it would be sent. laughed and said he mustn't judge: the House whole by provincial sundries. So he sent it. I hope Leysdwn was good enough for the change. Clouds Hill has suffered a bit from its fires, but the main part is still safe and creat, spring very slow, pool full. Some rain lately. Your porch-like shelter on the ... garage is well - begun. We will thatch it sometime. Pat ... has gone to work at Dorchester. Place nearly finished. He will put in another fortnight for me after the cottage is ... free again. Have you got Sassoons Picture Show? Not that I want it, only I forget its going, and it is a friend I would not lose! Saw him a month ago. Harried and very happy-looking. Good for him Yours T.E.S.