LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888–1935). Autograph letter signed (‘R’) to [R.A.M. Guy], n.p. [Bovington Camp, Dorset], 21 March 1923, 2 ½ pages , 8vo , bifolium.
LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888–1935). Autograph letter signed (‘R’) to [R.A.M. Guy], n.p. [Bovington Camp, Dorset], 21 March 1923, 2 ½ pages , 8vo , bifolium. Lawrence hated his new attachment at Bovington, and his dissatisfaction with his new routine is immediately evident here. Beginning ‘My rabbit, I do no good here…You in the R.A.F. are as lucky as I thought myself in the old days’, he goes on lamenting the tedious realities of camp life. Although he has much free time (‘they give us great leisure…On Friday our work is drawing pay, and wondering afterwards why they, out of all the possible payments in the world, should have given us just that little or that much’), he finds the preoccupation with drill absurd – ‘I’m going to dazzle you, if I ever see you again, with the perfection of my salute: while at slow marching…God help them, they are fools, & myself the solitary wise man in Dorset’. He greatly regrets that he will not be able to see Guy over Easter, the latter having suggested a holiday in Oxford, as he has no leave: ‘There are no rabbits here (or at least no imitation ones) and it would give me contentment to see your queer but jolly face again. There are men from Brum, but their accent isn’t like yours (except when they miss an h)’. M. Brown The Letters of T. E. Lawrence , p. 230.
LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888–1935). Autograph letter signed (‘R’) to [R.A.M. Guy], n.p. [Bovington Camp, Dorset], 21 March 1923, 2 ½ pages , 8vo , bifolium.
LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888–1935). Autograph letter signed (‘R’) to [R.A.M. Guy], n.p. [Bovington Camp, Dorset], 21 March 1923, 2 ½ pages , 8vo , bifolium. Lawrence hated his new attachment at Bovington, and his dissatisfaction with his new routine is immediately evident here. Beginning ‘My rabbit, I do no good here…You in the R.A.F. are as lucky as I thought myself in the old days’, he goes on lamenting the tedious realities of camp life. Although he has much free time (‘they give us great leisure…On Friday our work is drawing pay, and wondering afterwards why they, out of all the possible payments in the world, should have given us just that little or that much’), he finds the preoccupation with drill absurd – ‘I’m going to dazzle you, if I ever see you again, with the perfection of my salute: while at slow marching…God help them, they are fools, & myself the solitary wise man in Dorset’. He greatly regrets that he will not be able to see Guy over Easter, the latter having suggested a holiday in Oxford, as he has no leave: ‘There are no rabbits here (or at least no imitation ones) and it would give me contentment to see your queer but jolly face again. There are men from Brum, but their accent isn’t like yours (except when they miss an h)’. M. Brown The Letters of T. E. Lawrence , p. 230.
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