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T. E. Lawrence to John Buchan
[late-December 1926]
[omission] This copy is one of those which I am giving to the fellows
who did the Arab revolt with me. They are incomplete in the sense that
many plates are missing. I want you to ask Mr. Baldwin if he would care
to accept it. He did me the best turn I have ever had done to me, and I
think gratefully of him as often as I have leisure to think about my
contentment. It is no great return (incomplete copies have no future in
the second-hand market) but I am hardly in the position to make any
great return, and if he likes books, as I am told, he may prefer a
broken copy to none at all. The thing is, anyhow, a rarity.
Note. Lawrence sent with this letter an
'incomplete' copy of the subscribers' edition of Seven Pillars of
Wisdom
| Source: | DG 501 |
| Checked: | jw/ |
| Last revised: | 27 January 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