T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 349

To Col. C.E. Wilson 336171 Ac2 Shaw Hut 106 R.A.F. Cadet College Cranwell Lincs. Dear Colonel Wilson 19.2.26 I held your letter up a while, hoping that the two present holders of my Oxford text would send them back to me. They reach you in a week or so, whichever reaches me first. It will Massett is wrong in his "censorship" ideas. Dawnay cut out the only thing incident (less than a page). It was a trifle. That is shortened it considerably, by shortened the new edition. Words to for six. Where Archie Murray was described as "jealous, spiteful, bad-tempered, vicious, clever, quick & narrow" he is now called "feminine & stained". Don't tell Mrs.Wilson of this improvement! They are improvements, though! A soldier, for the print of the Oxford text. It was not meant to circulate. The new one is decently done. It will follow in May perhaps. Proof-correcting is not a suitable activity for the barrack! Yours ever T.E.S.