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T. E. Lawrence to Sydney Cockerell
Jan. 13th, 1924
Dear Cockerell
Did I ever thank you
for The Rover? A very good book; but not better than the other
Conrad's. Don't you think a man would strain himself each time to
surpass the last mark? There is no strain in this.
About the Tokio
professorship - not for me I'm afraid. I'm not going to be respectable
again. Also I'm not fit either to be respectable, or to preach what I
don't practise. Literature is beyond my grasp as a craft, and I don't
aspire to it as a science.
Haven't heard of
Charlotte Mew: but all the women who ever wrote original stuff could
have been strangled at birth, and the history of English literature (and
my bookshelves) would be unchanged.
Is it true that
Doughty is writing again?
Yours
T.E.S.
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