LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). Autograph letter signed ('T.E. Shaw') to Mrs Lionel Curtis, Miranshah, 11 December 1928, on a bifolium, 3 pages, 8vo . A letter of thanks for some 'Hardy articles', recalling that Mrs Hardy allowed him to read the typescript of her book about 'T.H.' and he is 'delighted to see that she has cleaned up the text admirably. The first half of the book is splendid. The second volume had not the idyllic character of the first'. Commenting on John Brown's Body , 'a modern American Epic-narrative' which Curtis had sent him ('It's first rate:- no: not quite. It is very good') Lawrence denies that he keeps up with modern literature, but praises an 'English Epic', the New Argonautica by Professor Henderson, describing 'Sir Walter Raleigh's recent journey across the remoter stars into outer space...a very extraordinary book'. The letter concludes with an oblique reference to some financial arrangement, 'The prophet [Lionel Curtis] has swiped Sir Abe for £5,000: and the Spectator has given him away', paying Curtis a lavish tribute, 'If my first name was Edgar [the novelist, Edgar Wallace]...I'd write a thriller, giving him away as the hidden head in the British Government'. Lawrence had been introduced to Thomas Hardy by Robert Graves in 1923 and his visits to Max Gate, sometimes with other literary-minded members of the Tank Corps, had been among the few experiences which he had enjoyed while at Bovington Camp. He saw Hardy for the last time just before he sailed to India in 1926. In May 1928 he was transferred from Karachi to Miranshah, an outpost with a permanent staff of only five, on the North West frontier close to the Afghan border. In the autumn rumours appeared in the London and Indian press that he had been sent there on a secret mission. He spent his spare time at Miranshah on the translation of the Odyssey .
LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). Autograph letter signed ('T.E. Shaw') to Mrs Lionel Curtis, Miranshah, 11 December 1928, on a bifolium, 3 pages, 8vo . A letter of thanks for some 'Hardy articles', recalling that Mrs Hardy allowed him to read the typescript of her book about 'T.H.' and he is 'delighted to see that she has cleaned up the text admirably. The first half of the book is splendid. The second volume had not the idyllic character of the first'. Commenting on John Brown's Body , 'a modern American Epic-narrative' which Curtis had sent him ('It's first rate:- no: not quite. It is very good') Lawrence denies that he keeps up with modern literature, but praises an 'English Epic', the New Argonautica by Professor Henderson, describing 'Sir Walter Raleigh's recent journey across the remoter stars into outer space...a very extraordinary book'. The letter concludes with an oblique reference to some financial arrangement, 'The prophet [Lionel Curtis] has swiped Sir Abe for £5,000: and the Spectator has given him away', paying Curtis a lavish tribute, 'If my first name was Edgar [the novelist, Edgar Wallace]...I'd write a thriller, giving him away as the hidden head in the British Government'. Lawrence had been introduced to Thomas Hardy by Robert Graves in 1923 and his visits to Max Gate, sometimes with other literary-minded members of the Tank Corps, had been among the few experiences which he had enjoyed while at Bovington Camp. He saw Hardy for the last time just before he sailed to India in 1926. In May 1928 he was transferred from Karachi to Miranshah, an outpost with a permanent staff of only five, on the North West frontier close to the Afghan border. In the autumn rumours appeared in the London and Indian press that he had been sent there on a secret mission. He spent his spare time at Miranshah on the translation of the Odyssey .
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