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T. E. Lawrence to Clare Sydney Smith
13, Birmingham
Street,
Southampton.
12.XI.33.
Twice lately I have paid fugitive visits to London: but this week I am to be there for two or three nights. So I have great hopes of our meeting.
The G/C sent me an admirable letter from his ship, regretting I was not with him - not on the ship, I mean, but at Singapore on the strength. I regret it, too. State-papers were once one of my strengths, and we could have written some bright ones together.
What a pen. All fits and stops. That was a stop. This is, too.
However, London this week, I hope. My name and address are
353172 A/C Smith, H.E.,
Union Jack Club,
Waterloo Road, S.E.1.
Telephone 403 Air Ministry. Room 366 c/o F/Lts. Beauforte - Greenwood and Norrington. Name of SHAW, there.
T.E.S
| Source: | GR 227-8 |
| Checked: | jw/ |
| Last revised: | 4 July 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