STRANGE LETTERS
FROM “LAWRENCE OF ARABIA.”
Two striking lettift's, believed to be the last written by “Lawrence of Arabia” (Mr T. E. Shaw), were read at Foyles’ literary luncheon in London last week. One was as. follows: You wonder wliat I am doing. So do I. What I am going to do puzzles and bewilders me. Have you ever felt like an autumn leaf fallen from a tree and been really puzzled about it? Peace to me and everybody.” Sir Ronald Storrs said that Lawrence was a non-smoker and an abstainer. His drug was speed. He had ordered a motor-cycle, on which were 10 improvements that had been designed by himself. Captain B. H. LiddelL Hart, the writer on military questions and on Lawrence’s work in Arabia, said that Lawrence wrote to him as follows: “During an O.T.C. field day I was told to disguise myself as a battalion in close order. I have done so ever since.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 176, 25 June 1935, Page 2
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158STRANGE LETTERS Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 176, 25 June 1935, Page 2
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