Letter : Ayot St. Lawrence, Welwyn, Herts., to T.E. Lawrence, 1927 March 7.

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Letter : Ayot St. Lawrence, Welwyn, Herts., to T.E. Lawrence, 1927 March 7.

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Letter to T.E. Lawrence, with salutation "My dear Luruns". Remarks on a press clipping, containing "a journalist's notion of paraphrasing" his preface to the catalogue of the Leicester Galleries exhibition of paintings illustrating "Seven pillars of wisdom", and expects that his forthcoming review of "Revolt in the desert" will be similarly treated; recounts a dinner "for married bachelors" given by James Barrie, with other guests [Stanley] Baldwin, Grey [Edward Grey, Viscount Grey of Fallodon], and Donald Maclean; Baldwin was pleased with the copy of "Seven pillars", and he is still lobbying Baldwin for a pension for Lawrence, remarking "you will be hurled out of your monastery before you can say Jack Robinson seven times" (Lawrence was in the RAF, stationed in Karachi from Jan. 1927-Apr. 1928); in his review he has referred to Eric Kennington as the "Perfect Screever", i.e. pavement artist, remarking that "he is a real character without being characteristic ... You and I are worse than characters: we are character-actors"; his own book [i.e. The intelligent woman's guide to socialism and capitalism] has stretched to 180,000 words and needs one chapter more, but work has been interrupted by a lawsuit.

1 leaf ([1] p.) ; 18 x 23 cm.

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