T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 271

To Major General A. P. Wavell, Clouds' Hill Moreton 7. X. 24 Dear Wavell I'm a bit slow in answering; but I couldn't get across, after all, that Sunday you asked me to Cranborne. Hope you got a wire from me in time saying so. Circumstances wouldn't let me give longer notice, because ... ... ... 'with' me cause I got no longer n.tice myself! About the map, I can do the work on the copies you have sent me : but not yet. In the reprinting I'm cutting down the text, excluding many of the place- names of the older edition. Of course the ideal is to have all the names of the book, & no more, on the map : so that it must wait till the proofs are complete, & many worries I have been having lately have reduced the proof-correcting speed. So that I shan't be able to get forward with the map until the end of the year. Sorry to have been too sanguine. My past should have cured me of that fault. Subscribers come in well. Over 80 to date. Yours T.E.Shaw