T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 268

To Major General A. F. Wavell, Cloud's Hill Moreton Dorset. 23. 1. 24 Dear Wavell Press of hostility must be my excuse for not writing. When things are unspeakable I fly out in the evening & debauch myself with canned music till my mind is sick......and in those periods there is no letter-writing. The maps arrived properly: and the project of a 1/4,000000 interests me very much. Will you find out (i) On what scale its brown & blue plates are being drawn? If it is large enough I might have my own, or a modified black-plate prepared, & reproduce it, or my own special area of it (Damascus - Mecca, & E. to Janf.) (ii) Didn't the G.S.G.S. reproduce the international million on a smaller scale (1/1.000,000 or so) in three colours, or in one colour? For the above area, or for parts of it? (iii) At what stage the work of the 1/4,000000 stands, & when I could see a proof of it. Sorry to bother you so.....but I can't come up & do it, & you are the sole survivor of my period at the W.O. The bike did splendidly the other night, & I've not been on the peg for weeks: or rather I've scored heavily (& escaped) lately. Yours T.E.S. Alias & address as ... and -