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T. E. Lawrence to H. S . Ede
Cattewater
29.vii.29
[20 lines omitted] Another and another letter from you turns up, unanswered, I'm afraid I'm a beast. One holds an admirable summation and demolition of the thesis of No Love: I am entirely with you. Such titillations of the spirit are prostitution, and nasty Maddox St. prostitution at that. Better be like a healthy bull and cow in a field. [12 lines omitted]
The Meynells. I have not met them. Do not worry about David Garnett's criticism. The man is over-educated, too good a craftsman, and so short-sighted. People chasing anything big have no use for rules. Your Gaudier is the goods.
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| Source: | DG 667 |
| Checked: | dn/ |
| Last revised: | 29 October 2008 |
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