T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 202

To: Dr. G.W. Doughty. Colonial Office, 13. 6. 21. Dear Mr. Doughty, I should have replied earlier, but I've been hoping to come down to see you, and had only just given up hope of it. There is too much to do here! Winston is going to make his speech in the house tomorrow, and the next to Jidda trouble of that is over I will probably try to steal a journey to see King Hussain. In that I will try to get a look at the country round about it. Abdulla is in Trans-Jordan, carrying on a government there with our help, but without any formal appointments. Indeed, he refused one, until his father had been consulted, and had approved. That was a polite way of saying never. No, I'm afraid there is no blue-book of the Hejas war, and probably will never be. We sent some reports back to Egypt, but they were kept secret, and are buried somewhere among the records. My friend Aubrey Herbert, a very splendid creature, has asked me to get your autograph to his copies of Arabia Deserta. One, that he might affix your signature upon it, is for in adding present to his brother. I'm sending them you by post, with two things of my own -- the obliged if of the large-paper A.D's. I'd be very much obliged if you would sign all four. With apologies for troubling you. Yours sincerely, T. E. Lawrence.