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T. E. Lawrence to Robert Graves
2.7.22
This is my usual quarter-minute scrawl. Came back from Cornwall on Friday. Found your Poetry. V. many thanks. Have glanced at it only, which isn't yet worth telling you. V. busy. Saw Winston yesterday. He will, let me go after Tuesday which is his speech-night in the House on the Colonial Office vote. I'll be kept here some time after that: because my Mother has been ill abroad and is coming here, perhaps on Thursday, to see a doctor. I must take their rooms and meet them. Otherwise I'd have liked to go down W. with you. As I'm almost a free-agent (waiting for the last batch of sheets of my Arab book) we'll be able to meet now. Thank the Lord for Winston coming round at last. I did so want not to quarrel with him. He's a most decent person.
E.L.
| Source: | B:RG 20 |
| Checked: | jw |
| Last revised: | 8 February 2006 |
T. E. Lawrence chronology
1888 16 August: born at Tremadoc, Wales
1896-1907: City of Oxford High School for Boys
1907-9: Jesus College, Oxford, B.A., 1st Class Hons, 1909
1910-14: Magdalen College, Oxford (Senior Demy), while working at the British Museum's excavations at Carchemish
1915-16: Military Intelligence Dept, Cairo
1916-18: Liaison Officer with the Arab Revolt
1919: Attended the Paris Peace Conference
1919-22: wrote Seven Pillars of Wisdom
1921-2: Adviser on Arab Affairs to Winston Churchill at the Colonial Office
1922 August: Enlisted in the Ranks of the RAF
1923 January: discharged from the RAF
1923 March: enlisted in the Tank Corps
1923: translated a French novel, The Forest Giant
1924-6: prepared the subscribers' abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom
1927-8: stationed at Karachi, then Miranshah
1927 March: Revolt in the Desert, an abridgement of Seven Pillars, published
1928: completed The Mint, began translating Homer's Odyssey
1929-33: stationed at Plymouth
1931: started working on RAF boats
1932: his translation of the Odyssey published
1933-5: attached to MAEE, Felixstowe
1935 February: retired from the RAF
1935 19 May: died from injuries received in a motor-cycle crash on 13 May
1935 21 May: buried at Moreton, Dorset