T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 161

To A.R. Chambers. Ozone Hotel Bridlington Yorks. 14.11.34 Dear Jock Your green ... have improved your handwriting. How we miss our opportunities! Alas! Clouds Hill is yours, for the 27th or whenever you want to take it. Also Oasys, of course, make yourselves at home. There is a perfectly good trough and no water in the garage, but no soap, I fear, in the bathroom. and no water in the taps and no water in the tank - or - swimming-pool. The spring is still feeble, and will scarcely reach, 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 villages. 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 change 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 invalided end of January, when I get my ticket: but I may ... a few days at Christmas, and if so shall make for the cottage, and hope to find it occupied by you. Give Dear ... regards, and implore him not to take you too seriously. Often you don't ... 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 hands. There is some split oak (you will remember those ... splits) in the woodshed, and hardly any saws or axes left. So you will be forced to make lodger, Beg of, for a lift down and back in his side-car. KZ