T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 269

To Major General A. P. Wavell. Cloud's Hill Kempton Dorset. 23. 1. 24 Dear Wavell Press of bestiality must be my excuse for not writ- ing. When things are unspeakable I fly out in the even- ing & debauch myself with canned music till my mind is sick.......and in those periods there is no letter-writ- ing. The maps arrived properly: and the project of a 1/4,000030 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, & re- produce it, or my own special area of it (Damascus - Mecca, & E. to Jauf.) (ii) Didn't the G.S.G.S. reproduce the inter- national million, or a smaller scale (1/1,500,000 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 be.n on the peg for weeks: or rather I've scored heavily (& escaped) lately. Yours T.E.S. Alias & address as ... and ...