T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 60

To Capt. R. de la Bere, R.A.F. College, Cranwell, Lincs. Hythe Southampton 5.v.31 Dear Proffr! So far from coming to Cranwell, I have grown webs between my toes and splash about Southampton water in speed boats from dawn till dark. It is wet, cold and excellent. Actually we are testing (? of us ) some new fast motor boats for the R.A.F. It has lasted since the end of February, & may continue for another month. Every now & then I get tired of it. Splash all day and report all night, and win one's judgement, hazardously, to this hull and that engine. That bundle of notes on R.A.F. life(it is far from being a book) from which the paragraphs of a bike ride along the Ramper were taken, is not now in my hands, but in London, being read by a curious-minded chap. When he sends them back I will look through them to see if any other not-obscene pages can be offered you. In memory I would say not. Nothing in it all was meant for publication, and it's all terribly rough. Will you please tell Dunn, if you see him, that I owe him a letter and am sorrowfully conscious of it, but quite unable to right myself? This pen alone is sufficient excuse, I think. Yours T.E Shaw