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T. E. Lawrence to his mother
[Karachi]
26.4.28
This is only a line, to tell you not to write again to Karachi: I have asked Sir Geoffrey Salmond, the Air Chief here, whom I know from Palestine days, to shift me to some other camp. There is no present need: but I was told some private information, which decided me that I'd better shift before the changes came.
Salmond has so large a stock of stations to which he can post me, that I can't even guess which it will be. Peshawar probably. The insides of the camps are all much the same. So I am largely indifferent. I only hope the place will be generally warmer than this. Karachi climate is like a continuing spring: whereas it seems silly to go to all the waste and trouble of living in the East, without getting the sunlight and warmth which is usually the East's blessing. No other news. I hope that Bob is settling down a bit, and thinking of English work. The advantage of doctoring one's countrymen is that they can tell one what they really think of it!
N.
| Source: | HL 373-4 |
| Checked: | jw/ |
| Last revised: | 12 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