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LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). Autograph letter signed ('TES') to the Hon. Francis Rodd ('Dear F.R.'), n.p. [Cranwell], 28 January 1926, two pages, 8vo, (small nick in top edge, traces of mounting in margins on recto).
Appreciation ('The best of thanks possible') for the loan of his correspondent's London flat. 'I've got to thank you for four exceedingly good nights in London ... The place so quiet, so absolutely mine and the door locked downstairs, so that it was really mine. Why there isn't a lock in my power at Cranwell, not even on the shit-house door! The happiness & security of those nights were very keen'.
Lawrence had been posted to the Cadet College at Cranwell on re-enlisting in the RAF as Aircraftman Shaw in the summer of 1925. He first met the Hon. Francis Rodd (later the second Baron Rennell) in Intelligence in Egypt and Palestine during the war. The latter offered him the use of his London flat in November 1925 and, inspite of his refusal, sent him the keys shortly afterwards. Rodd, who had crossed the Sahara and published his account ot the Touareg in 1926, later became a banker and in 1934 conveyed to Lawrence Sir Montagu Norman's extraordinary proposal that that he should be offered the post of Secretary to the Bank of England.
Appreciation ('The best of thanks possible') for the loan of his correspondent's London flat. 'I've got to thank you for four exceedingly good nights in London ... The place so quiet, so absolutely mine and the door locked downstairs, so that it was really mine. Why there isn't a lock in my power at Cranwell, not even on the shit-house door! The happiness & security of those nights were very keen'.
Lawrence had been posted to the Cadet College at Cranwell on re-enlisting in the RAF as Aircraftman Shaw in the summer of 1925. He first met the Hon. Francis Rodd (later the second Baron Rennell) in Intelligence in Egypt and Palestine during the war. The latter offered him the use of his London flat in November 1925 and, inspite of his refusal, sent him the keys shortly afterwards. Rodd, who had crossed the Sahara and published his account ot the Touareg in 1926, later became a banker and in 1934 conveyed to Lawrence Sir Montagu Norman's extraordinary proposal that that he should be offered the post of Secretary to the Bank of England.
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