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T. E. Lawrence to Edward Marsh
24.2.21
I don't know that you read prose, except on official subjects: this is unofficial. They are objective extracts* from a MSS story I wrote of Feisal's campaign.
I was short of cash, and wrote these for an American magazine, which was willing to blow £1000 on the speculation.
Now I'm going to get my £1000 by the sweat of my brain: so these retire into the darkness again.
They may make you laugh: and after all it's not like a telephone call. You needn't unhook them: they can be minuted back to me saying 'have seen' or 'good': or 'most amusing': or 'I really think you ought to publish them'.
These are only suggestions.
I don't ever want to see them again: but they would be difficult to destroy: so perhaps you might return them next year or so.
E.L.
*35,000 words: 10% of the whole.
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