T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 308

To H.Williamson Dear Williamson Your village book is the real thing - with just the touch of the preacher behind it, trying to convert the heathen. I am loving it. On page 50 I checked for the first time a ... point of prose; lst. sentence (you find beginning difficult, eh...a thing):.... In red brown swirls... pushed by....drained into...by a "hundred....in the valley" Rules are meant to be broken; but one shouldn't usually have more than one of each... repetition in sentences: nor more than five or six of any one upon a page. A counsel of perfection, that all my writing fails to re...; but then my writing does just fail, unlike yours... The badger-hunt struck me as restrainedly & magnificently ghastly. A despair of finishing this. It began weeks ago. Since, I have had not a spare moment... & have lent the Village Book to Higgins/, one of ours who reads impatiently, & has been asking for it for weeks. I was only dog-in-a-manger by it. The fellows here like your books, & queue up for them. Later I will get it and leisurely read it. I think it is most lively & truthful st... - and balanced TES [Envelope dated Jul. 23, 1927] 685