T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 59

To Captain R. de la Bere, R.A.F. College, Cranwell, Lincs. XXXXXX With c/. E from R.A.F.College, Cranwell, 19th/po. Mount Batten Plymouth, 8.X.30 Dear - Only what is it? "Prof." they used to say(only that is a bit too rapid. Your College Magazine surely must be the best of its kind? It brings back the old place so clearly, and has sent me reading the condemned book I began to write upon the R.A.F. in 1922. There are some Cranwell chapters at the end of it, and the impulse came to send you this part of one, which was condemned. I think, not for any great ...insult in it, but for the company it kept. At least I cannot see a word harmful to discipline here. Of course it confesses to a violation of the speed limit: but that has gone far. I do not know if it is any good, either to you or as writing. You are welcome to it; and you must burn it if you do not want it, for I have altered words from the original, here & there, so that it has no end in life, now, except as a magazine article; and I will not write for any public magazine. I have signed it J.C. Tell them it means anybody or nobody." 1926 is so many College generations back that hardly anyone but you will suspect an outside author. I have not written anything for years and would not have ... think I meant to start again. Yours ever T E Shaw. Tell them it means Jesus Christ!