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Lawrence (Thomas Edward, intelligence officer and author, 1888-1935) Autograph Letter signed "TE Shaw" to Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley, 2pp., RAF Cadet College, Cranwell, Lincolnshire, 26th January 1926, initially on recognising Shaw as Lawrence, "The postmaster with a grin gave me your letter, saying 'This is perhaps for a friend of yours!'", turning down the offer of writing an article, "I've given up the hope and attempt to write", and his admiration of Charles Montagu Doughty (1843-1926), explorer, travel writer, and poet, "Old Doughty was a genius, and his poems are wonderful. I'd put 'Adam cast forth' at the head of them. Of course Arabia Deserta is very good too... . I'm very sorry he died... but he had written everything he ever wanted to write: and was satisfied with having lived. So'd I be, if I'd written an epic!", folds, tipped-in to a third impression of Robert Graves' Lawrence and the Arabs, 1927, with a bookticket of Lieut-Commander Atwood RN (Retd) and signature of Anna S Hedley on front free endpaper, original cloth, gilt spine, chipped at head of spine, 8vo. ⁂ "Dr. Hogarth heard that Lawrence was at a loose end and got him given a week's trial, as a favour, by Colonel Hedley, the head of the Geographic Section of the General Staff at Whitehall. Three weeks later Hogarth met Hedley and asked him, 'Did you find young Lawrence any use? 'He's running my entire department for me now,' said Hedley shortly. Lawrence's task here was making maps of Sinai, Belgium and France." - Robert Graves Lawrence and the Arabs, p. 81, 1927. Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley KBE CB CMG (1865-1937), British Army officer who began his career in the Royal Engineers and later moved into military intelligence.