T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 221

All Fontana letters checked by originals LH 9/13/42 To Mrs. Fontana, "Endsmoor", Brading, Isle of Wight. Woolley has made many anxious enquiries after you ; and we couldn't find out in which continent you lay. 2. Polstead Road, Oxford, Oct.19. 1914 Dear Mrs Fontana, Mr Hogarth has been reading to me something of the epic of the Kleitiphen. I must congratulate you warmly on your enterprise, and the recording talent you show in the description of it. It is comforting no doubt, to know that you have turned the incident to good account. Are the beast and the beaste with you? Offer them my salams, and explain that in England we don't come to dinner every Thursday and Friday. Mr Hogarth no doubt has told you what Woolley & I are doing ( - nothing - but we have good intentions) so I needn't bother you therefore. Turkey seems at last to have made up its mind to lie down and be at peace with all the world. I'm sorry, because I wanted to cook them out of Syria, and now their blight will be more enduring than ever. You have no news of Carchemish I suppose? I want to write to Mr Fontana, and ask him to find out how things go. But sulphur and brimstone must be the atmosphere of the Consulate just now. Did you see that the Vali of Beyrout announced his power of arresting Mr Camberbatch? An American guardship has opportunely turned up. Road Cunningham-Graham. T.E.L.