T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 218

LH 9/13/42 To: Dr. C. H. Doughty. 27. IX. 23. Dear Mr. Doughty, I'm reading Mansoul: it's not ended yet, but my reading time is only ..."., and ..."...s of time: but I want to give you my opinion that the added parts work perfectly into the old, and fill it out to a much better roundness. There is a strange finality across the whole poem, which makes a queer impression on me as I read it. What to call it (the impression) I don't know. I feel less human as I read, as if I'd been taken out of the world of living things, and had been made part of the hills or woods. Probably I won't feel like this when I end the book: which is why I'm sending you this interim note on the power with which you have written it. I mentioned Lord Hartington to you, didn't I, once in Eastbourne ? He has just written to me asking for an introduction to you. I've replied that you have moved, and that he needs no introduction. I think he still comes (Kent is not, like Eastbourne, a place where he visits of necessity) you will find him very good. His brother-in-law, Harold Locker, would like to come with him. My regards to Mrs. Doughty. I hope that Merriesecroft succeeds well. Yours ever, T. E. Lawrence