T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 171

LH 1/13 k-2. 8.4. 34 To Major Cooper -2- not to trespass on your kindness again - unless it happens again! It was wholly worth it. Yours sincerely T E Shaw If the Admiral did hear of it, will you please offer my apologies, and say that I was filthy and labouring. all that day, and disappeared early the next; I could not have paid my respects without neglecting my duty. Please say also that we are building better and better boats (and the C. in C. Portsmouth has wangled one for six months out of Air Minister, for himself). Better put the last sentence in very small print! But they are good boats.