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LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward. Autograph letter signed ('T.E. Shaw') to an unidentified correspondent ('Pat' [?Knowles]), n.p. [Karachi], 1 December 1927 [erroneously dated 1926], one page, 4to (weak at folds, laid down on card).
DESPONDENCY AT THE DEATH OF HIS MENTOR. Lawrence is 'out of action: for Hogarth, of whom I thought more than of any man alive, has died lately: and the colour of England seems to have faded. It makes me wonder if I shall come home after all'; Lawrence promises to write a 'decent letter, if I can, sometime', but complains 'this is an awful place, in which we do not live: we hang, suspended, between plain sand & white sky'; he will try to send a book or two; 'My letters would be poor reading, this year'.
The archeologist and traveller David George Hogarth (1862-1927) was a formative influence on Lawrence's early life, as he summed it up in a letter to Charlotte Shaw: 'Hogarth sponsored my first tramps in Syria -- then put me on the staff for Carchemish, which was a golden place -- then moved me to Sinai, which led to the War Ofice: which sent me to Cairo on the Staff: and there we worked together on the Arab business, untill the War ended'; Alan Dawnay considered him 'an easy first in T.E.'s friendships'.
DESPONDENCY AT THE DEATH OF HIS MENTOR. Lawrence is 'out of action: for Hogarth, of whom I thought more than of any man alive, has died lately: and the colour of England seems to have faded. It makes me wonder if I shall come home after all'; Lawrence promises to write a 'decent letter, if I can, sometime', but complains 'this is an awful place, in which we do not live: we hang, suspended, between plain sand & white sky'; he will try to send a book or two; 'My letters would be poor reading, this year'.
The archeologist and traveller David George Hogarth (1862-1927) was a formative influence on Lawrence's early life, as he summed it up in a letter to Charlotte Shaw: 'Hogarth sponsored my first tramps in Syria -- then put me on the staff for Carchemish, which was a golden place -- then moved me to Sinai, which led to the War Ofice: which sent me to Cairo on the Staff: and there we worked together on the Arab business, untill the War ended'; Alan Dawnay considered him 'an easy first in T.E.'s friendships'.
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