T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 22

LH 9/13/42 Mount Batton 4.1X.31 Dear Flight Lieutenant Beauforte Greenwood About MacWord. He has built boats at Saltash for some years, and this winter bought Rogers yacht-yard at Cremyll (which belongs to Mount Edgecumbe) and is setting up there on a bigger scale. He has not yet properly opened, I fancy, but am hoping to get better news of that soon. While at Saltash he did only light work, but did it well. The rowing clubs used to go to him for the racing stuff; only nobody can tell me yet what he means to do at his new place. It has been quite a decent old-fashioned yacht-repairing yard. They rumour that he is putting in machinery. The last tenant(Rogers) went bankrupt, and the place is rather out of repair. No news of that cable for the Scillies yet. An Irl... was going down there to-day, but is held up by the bad weather. It was to have taken it, had it come in time. W/Cmbdr. Burling is living there, on leave, for the moment, in his Holgate's Hotel. Yours Sincerely T; E. Shaw.