T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 160

To A F Chambers. Ozone Hotel Bridlington Yorks. 14.XI.34 Dear Jock Your organ recital have improved your handwriting. Now we miss our opportunities! Alas! Clouds Hill is yours, for the 12th or whenever you want it. The K...ps, of course, make yourselves at home. You may have the key. There is - perfectly good trough in the garage, but no soap, I fear, in the bathroom. and no water in the tank - or - swimming-pool. The spring is still feasible; and will be laid on. So you are saved from probable pneumonia. Pat Knowles has found his mother rather too much of a family, and has moved out from her house. Mrs. K. has been too long by herself, I think; sometimes Pat camps at my cottage, and sometimes he lives out in one of the Vill-ages. He hopes to marry after Xmas and settle near Pool. A good fellow, Pat. If he is there when you come, be nice to him. No chance in cottage. Heaps of dead rhododendron in the burnt areas, and some pine etc. I began that porch beside the garage, and also a bunk in the small room up-stairs. Neither is finished; and my exile to this place means that neither will be finished for months. I shall probably be here till end of February, when I get my ticket: but I may manage a few days at Christmas, and if so shall make for the cottage, and hope to find a workman to you. (Give Ozzy my regards, and implore him not to take you too seriously. Often you don't XXXX yourself know if you are serious, or not. Thank you for the books. I am sorry I cannot be there to welcome you, but it will be a great pleasure to imagine the place in your ...buthook hands. There is some split oak (you will remember this) in the woodshed, and hardly any saws or axes left. So you will be forced to make holiday. But I let a lift down and back in his side-car make things easier.