T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 61

To Capt. R. de la Bere, R.A.F. College, Cranwell, Lincs. Plymouth 24. XI. 32 Dear Prof. The Odyssey copyright belongs to Emery Walker's, and is no concern of mine. Indeed my name nowhere appears in it, and is not publicly affixed. I have never signed any of my translations. It is a rotten translation, too. You will see that, if you look at it. A book costs 12 guineas! Dunn is good as a poet, I think. Now he is reading a lot of G.M. Hopkins, which may make him rather difficult, He will clear, later. Thomas sat on the camp doorstep till I promised him an introduction. I wished him joy of it at the same time. These laboured things never come off, Yours ever T.E.S.