LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). Autograph letter signed ('TE Shaw') to 'J. B[enham]', Plymouth, 28 February 1933, one page, 4to . A rueful explanation of his whereabouts. 'Alas! I am at Mount Batten now and for some time past. Mount Batten minus the Sydney Smiths ... My work on boats ended abruptly, when an article in a Sunday paper told the Air Ministry that I was doing it. Nervous people, air-officers'. The letter includes instructions for returning a copy of Seven Pillars to V[ivyan] W. Richards in St. John's Wood, where it belongs, and a reference to a recent visit [to the Smiths] at RAF Manston, Kent. The letter is one of several about the loan of the book which Benham, presumably one of his RAF friends, appears to have requested the previous year. Wing Commander Sydney Smith, the commanding officer of RAF Cattewater near Plymouth, and his family had welcomed Lawrence as a friend on his arrival there in 1929, and it was largely at Lawrence's instigation that the name of the station was changed to Mount Batten. Smith was responsible for Lawrence's employment on seaplanes. Vivyan Richards, Lawrence's Oxford friend with whom he had planned to set up a printing press, had been one of the readers of the 1922 'Oxford' edition of Seven Pillars , about which he wrote him a perceptive letter (J.Wilson. Lawrence of Arabia (1989), page 83).
LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). Autograph letter signed ('TE Shaw') to 'J. B[enham]', Plymouth, 28 February 1933, one page, 4to . A rueful explanation of his whereabouts. 'Alas! I am at Mount Batten now and for some time past. Mount Batten minus the Sydney Smiths ... My work on boats ended abruptly, when an article in a Sunday paper told the Air Ministry that I was doing it. Nervous people, air-officers'. The letter includes instructions for returning a copy of Seven Pillars to V[ivyan] W. Richards in St. John's Wood, where it belongs, and a reference to a recent visit [to the Smiths] at RAF Manston, Kent. The letter is one of several about the loan of the book which Benham, presumably one of his RAF friends, appears to have requested the previous year. Wing Commander Sydney Smith, the commanding officer of RAF Cattewater near Plymouth, and his family had welcomed Lawrence as a friend on his arrival there in 1929, and it was largely at Lawrence's instigation that the name of the station was changed to Mount Batten. Smith was responsible for Lawrence's employment on seaplanes. Vivyan Richards, Lawrence's Oxford friend with whom he had planned to set up a printing press, had been one of the readers of the 1922 'Oxford' edition of Seven Pillars , about which he wrote him a perceptive letter (J.Wilson. Lawrence of Arabia (1989), page 83).
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