T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 324

To H.Williamson 13 Birmingham St, Southampton 21.Xll.35 Dear H.W. I have a feeling that you are not in England, despite those regular notes in the Sunday Referee. Good notes, too. This letter turned up in an old bundle of addled correspondence. Correspondence that has been answering itself since I left Plymouth in April. Sorry. It should have come back to once. My life is still boats and more boats. I am faint but persevering. Fourteen more months and my R.A.F. status ceases: alas. It is outworn already, but will nevertheless less be regretted. Lately I have re-read Tarks - and find the old mastery that shocked and startled me in India. It is a fine book. You could make Bradshaw interesting, if you edited it. I hope my feeling that you are unhappy is not true. Perhaps you have given away too much of yourself not to feel poor: and in that ... connection, yet another "life" of me is to appear next year. Only these lives by third parties are external things. They do not break the skin. Let us meet, when we are both free men, eventually! Yours - T.E.S.