T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 283

Trenchard has read it. I do not think he could have understood quite how well I meant, quite how ... I've written about the Air, for the notes shocked him. Now, re-reading it, even afterwards, I still think it is right, so far as it goes. If only it had gone the whole way. Then I'd have been proud, I fancy, of something which I'd written. Its the work of my maturity, the Seven Pillars had taught me something of the writers craft : and surely parts of it are powerful? and my own? Yours. T.E.S.