T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 350

To Col.C.E.Wilson 6.3.26 Dear Colonel Wilson Yes, of course, keep the book and read it at your leisure. I'm sorry for the type: but it was printed for preservation, not for circulation. A people read it at their own risk. If you had waited a couple of months you would have for the proper edition .... Which is, typographically, pretty good. Your opinion of it will interest me: though it is too late to change any errors you find. Still, ... tell me how far you find it accurate. One-sided - yes: it must be that: for I've written only my own story, & deliberately excluded anything second-hand. That's the difference between narrative & history. I was too much of a fair man in Arabia to be impartial. Yes, let Bassett have it, after you, if he wishes: but warn him that his own copy will not be delayed very long. The differ- ence is not wide enough to ruin a pair of eyes over. Then B Bassett has finished with it (if he gets it) will he send it please, to Hogarth? (D.G.Hogarth,... 20 St.Giles, Oxford). It is Hogarth's copy. Don't you like the binding? That sumptuous tomato-coloured seal- skin: & some very beautiful McLeish tooling on it. My regards to Mrs.Wilson. Don't let her read the book. Wives all want their husbands in the foreground: and resent criticism. They are so intolerant as a class. T.E.S.