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T. E. Lawrence to his family
Military Intelligence
Office
Cairo
4.6.15
I haven't written
since I got your wire as I was waiting for details. Today I got Father's
two letters. They are very comfortable reading:- and I hope that when I
die there will be nothing more to regret. The only thing I feel a little
is, that there was no need surely to go into mourning for him? I cannot
see any cause at all - in any case to die for one's country is a sort of
privilege: Mother and you will find it more painful and harder to live
for it, than he did to die: but I think that at this time it is one's
duty to show no signs that would distress others: and to appear bereaved
is surely this condemnation.
So please, keep a
brave face to the world: we cannot all go fighting: but we can do that,
which is in the same kind.
N.
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