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LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
A 2pp. a.l.s. by Lawrence, writing as T.E. Shaw, to H.M. Tomlinson, dated R.A.F. Mount Batten, Plymouth, 19/2/30, discussing the latter's book 'All Our Yesterdays', thanking him for an inscribed copy: 'Now what am I to say about it? It is impertinence to say anything, you being such a writer, and me a nothing at all ... You are still alive and strong enough to fight and hate. I am so wearied with every human activity, that if I saw the House of Commons drowning there, in that ditch, I would not cross the road to push it under ... There is some poise, some calmness regained, by letting oneself just drift down the current of the days. Nothing, you see that I want to do, nothing that I want done ... I am really sorry: it is that I love books, and decent ones start my poor mind working away.'
A 2pp. a.l.s. by Lawrence, writing as T.E. Shaw, to H.M. Tomlinson, dated R.A.F. Mount Batten, Plymouth, 19/2/30, discussing the latter's book 'All Our Yesterdays', thanking him for an inscribed copy: 'Now what am I to say about it? It is impertinence to say anything, you being such a writer, and me a nothing at all ... You are still alive and strong enough to fight and hate. I am so wearied with every human activity, that if I saw the House of Commons drowning there, in that ditch, I would not cross the road to push it under ... There is some poise, some calmness regained, by letting oneself just drift down the current of the days. Nothing, you see that I want to do, nothing that I want done ... I am really sorry: it is that I love books, and decent ones start my poor mind working away.'