T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 472

To Hogarth 9.v.26 Yes, that was it. I took thought for a night, & then de- clined. The job is a hazardous one (to "literary" wants it seems to me by history, the C.I.D. & "technical" detectives, very, compare unfav- ourably with the six-inch br...s. The terms (three years) the responsibility, reason of its subjects, which the Army officers I saw shouldered it. Also it's probably with the aid which I had shouldered it. I saw it as being down to crowd- ing of climbing i t's is one which I'd regret as soon as the end of life. It no use, having gone through thr for three years recent life. It was at once to rise it up for another effort at level. at one up to me by would leave me older, less strung the seven years in the Army I poor living. If I can complete my ability into a job of some sort at the end, should be able to slip into one There is a minor place here which might take me on. which you have I hope you are fit against much of the illness had need to be that ungrateful book. had lately I put down to the latter prisoner. You must feel like a ferrits ved prisoner, so still that often I there at Bovington I seem to sit still: a warning about me can be fancy (that, deleted) the slow for a person, who has been as unsparing as heard. Isn't it he has pursued quietly of all cad, even the "birds," to be lurged except when I the longing or regret for the R.A.F: slept in its uniform. That was come succeshy at a turn as that loss another use: to dig fo lt because I'd have had to visit Aerodomes, each time the horse-lon gness would have made it a more than is becoming difficult for writing to people I have known me. Wherefore...... T.E.S.