T. E. Lawrence to Eric Kennington

5. XI. 23.

Dear Kennington,

I sent you a day ago four Dobson's, numbered 1. 2. 3. 4. They are all of Colonel Joyce, and one of them (3) is his choice for himself.

I'm to buy one: have paid for it out of C's. bounty. I like 2, the slighter chalk, and 4, the rather too smooth pencil profile. Will you judge for me, take the best drawing, and send the odd three back to Dobson.

It's a case which I can't judge. They seem to me all very good... and very like....

  Yours ever

The Army is muck, stink, and a desolate abomination.