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LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). Autograph letter signed ('T.E.S.') to Wing Commander T.B. Marson, Plymouth, 19 November 1932, one page, 8vo, autograph envelope.
Friendly encouragement for the literary ambitions of Lord Trenchard's former private secretary, agreeing to 'read your stuff with pleasure', but warning that 'the book-boom is over' and 'It is hard to get printed now-a-days. Yet that is no reason for not writing. Quite the contrary'. Trenchard [Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Force, 1931-35] is unlikely to be able to help for 'he is the prisoner of Scotland Yard -- not its dictator'.
Lawrence had already helped Marson to find a publisher for an earlier work (his autobiography, Scarlet and Khaki). The present letter relates to a manuscript about farming, which Lawrence returned and commented on early in January 1933, although the crash of another seaplane was to prevent him from helping with the text. T.B. Marson served in the Boer War, lost a leg at Gallipoli, and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. He was Sir Hugh Trenchard's private secretary until 1926 and took up farming in his retirement. Lawrence's correspondence with him appears to have continued sporadically up to his death.
Friendly encouragement for the literary ambitions of Lord Trenchard's former private secretary, agreeing to 'read your stuff with pleasure', but warning that 'the book-boom is over' and 'It is hard to get printed now-a-days. Yet that is no reason for not writing. Quite the contrary'. Trenchard [Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Force, 1931-35] is unlikely to be able to help for 'he is the prisoner of Scotland Yard -- not its dictator'.
Lawrence had already helped Marson to find a publisher for an earlier work (his autobiography, Scarlet and Khaki). The present letter relates to a manuscript about farming, which Lawrence returned and commented on early in January 1933, although the crash of another seaplane was to prevent him from helping with the text. T.B. Marson served in the Boer War, lost a leg at Gallipoli, and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. He was Sir Hugh Trenchard's private secretary until 1926 and took up farming in his retirement. Lawrence's correspondence with him appears to have continued sporadically up to his death.
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