T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 359

To Major Yeats Brown 14. VII. 27 Dear Y.B Here is another poor scribble. It wouldn't work out as a review. Perhaps it was a little hard to tackle the poor worm just after D.H. Lawrence. I'm labouring at Hakluyt, but do not know if anything will come of it. In fact things do not seem to be going right. If the next effort isn't better than this we'll have to pack it in. We need to l..k for excuses. I'm quite aware (always have been ) that I can't write! And my judgements haven't got that philosophic basis of belief in something incredible which enables such as Middleton Murry to go on writing when they've nothing in God's earth to write about. Beg Wren.. to believe the astonishing truth that I can't do better than this. It just shows what a starve...g author there was, under the Arab robes of my apolog...ia. He'd better not send me any more books. I don't feel that you got an adequate return. In 1930 I'll call and apologise for myself Yours T.E.S.