T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 284

To Major General A. P. Wavell, Myrtle Cottage W.C. Southampton 5. IV. 32 I have carried your address about with me in a booklet for months & months, on the chance that I might call on some journey up and down - but it is no use. I up and I down at top speed and Ald-ershot is miles off the road. I am so sorry. Also I wanted to say that I enjoyed your lam-poon of military science. Of course it couldn't always keep its highest levels : but it was well worth while. Liddell Hart is getting somewhere, I think. His "British Way" impresses me, so far as Chapter V, which is my present halting place. I have spent two years working on motor-boat design & equipment : very hard work and unsuitable factory, for each type is old-fashioned the day after it is finished : but we have changed the fashion, anyway. I hope your life is not all grit and glanders. Yours T.E.S. 665