T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 320

To H.Williamson Myrtle Cottage Pythe Southampton -rits.m- 6.1.x.32 Dear H.W. Another year gone, and us still wide apart, despite one perfectly good Silver Eagle Alvis, and one "rough" .. Truch. I spend my days & nights working on motor boats, still, and chase all round the English coast after them or in them. Web-footed now, and qu..ck before meal I have not written to anyone till tonight for months. Now I have written sixteen letters. That is not corres- pondence// but massacre, and I am ashamed. Likewise I have read almost nothing: and only by the ..ic pile of letters awaiting re;ly can I guage how far i lag behind human decency. As for books, there stand two shelves of them. How can I ever get a free mind again. As for writing books, myself: I have done one. "Hand- 209/ book to the Test"" Class of 27 ft. 6 ins; Fany Motor Boat". 30,000 words of the packiest stodge. It vill not be included in my collected Works. I hope you are not more penniless than the rest of us: nor unhappy. Yours T B Shaw