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T. E. Lawrence to B. H. Liddell Hart
119 Clarence Road
East Cowes
Isle of Wight
Friday, 19.V.33
I stayed only a few nights in Felixstowe. Then went to Hythe: then here for two nights. Then to Nottingham and Manchester and returned this afternoon to find your letter waiting.
I'm sorry: I had not realised that you wanted to come to Felixstowe to see me: but I shall not be there for a long while now. My jobs lie in Hythe and in Cowes, and I move between them.
There is rumour of my coming to London next week or the week following for an afternoon conference. That would probably afford you time for us to meet. Cowes is not very good: it means a voyage by ship as well as a trip by train. Or do you fly down? I expect to be here for 3 weeks, at least.
| Source: | B:LH 64-5 |
| Checked: | jw/ |
| Last revised: | 15 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