T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 335

To H.Williamson Ozone Hotel Arldington 31.1.35 Dear H.W. Thank you for the "John of London" with your article upon Yeats. I suppose it was too late: but one reads it with a sense of shame. He ought not to have been let die. The book would have helped him in time, for I am sure it will go to some thousands in the end. The big seller makes its bang and drops dead: the slowly growing sale lasts for years and brings in as much, eventually. I cannot see Jinged Victory dying short. How about his wife and children? They are more than half the tragedy. Is there any prospect of help for them? You must do something about Yeats (this article or a Secret of it ) in your next volume of miscell- anies. The picture you draw of him is very good, and his own letters help out your sense. The poor ...... .....th ... been able to do anything. It was good of you to offer him the means to go ......, for you haven't anything to spare. In such cases I fancy the ......t is only a last illusion, so perhaps he was right to say no. I cannot think of anything useful at the moment. It was (it is, so good a book. Yours T.E.S. One month to go! Only a month. I can feel it happen- ing now. 709