T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 593

11. 1. 27 This isn't a letter, but a note for you to register my new address I apologise for the length and dif-ficulty of this. No one will ever learn it by heart. 338171 A.C. 2 Shaw Room 2. E.B.S. R.A.F. Depot Dri... Road, Karachi India My opinion of Karachi? None, as yet. We are seven miles away from it, and on the way here saw only squalid back-yards from the carriage-windows. I'm s...g in ... more about camp in my spare time, and avoid pleasuring in the town, so far as I can avoid it. Housed well, and fed well, in a blindin... wilderness of sand. It seems years ago since I sat to you. How did the bust please you after all? It seemed to me, on that last sitting, not to be quite finished, but to be magnificent. I hope the magnificence did not depart when the finish came. You will be very much taken up in what are called vital statistics when this note brings up. I hope item IV of the family will please me as much as item III. My regards to the remaining member.* T.E.S. x A tactful shelving of the problem whether I or II is correct.