T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 355

To Major Yeats Brown 353171 AC2 Shaw Room 2 ERS R A F Delhi Road Karachi India. 23.VI.27 Dear Yeats Brown (Is that right? Your signature & mine are much on a low level). Did I say I'd "write" for you, or try to come? I'm not a writer by instinct. You know, & things of the things doesn't impress me, any more than the way I put them. However I'm going to have another try. My last two employers cast me away very firmly, after a trial. I'm expecting you to do the same. The books you mention in your letter of June 1 have not turned up. Book-post is quick; parcel post twice as long. But my India is off, so you must choose me subjects which, like Stilton, are the better for a little keeping. D.H. Lawrence I'll be delighted to have a try at. I've read all his stuff since the White Peacock. Hakluyt is only a name to me. So on that you'll get the reflection of a fresh mind; if it does reflect anything. The Koran is barred. Nothing Arabian or related. Besides it's a proper mess of a book. A mixture of Bradshaw and major prophet and police news. Balzac: perhaps. I like him, like Shakespeare, at times. Quodalla I had the misfortune to meet at Oxford. Disraeli's novels: no! I think not. I got through two of them. It was nearly as sad stuff as Chesterton's. I'll do you the best I can; and will trust in you