Lot 110
THOMAS EDWARD LAWRENCE (1888-1935)
Closed25 September 2008
Price Realised
GBP 1,375
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THOMAS EDWARD LAWRENCE (1888-1935)
Autograph letter signed ('T.E.L.') to 'Willmore', 7 Dover Street, [London], 30 October 1919, 2½ pages, 4to, bifolium (some light soiling along folds); with a photograph of Willmore. Provenance: Sotheby's sale, 18 December 1986, lot 159; the Spiro Family Collection.
'I PREFER TEL. PLAIN ... NO ARMY TITLES: NO DECORATIONS'. Lawrence replies 'Seriatim' to a series of questions from an Aqaba acquaintance: '(i) Address any way you please: I prefer TEL. plain: some nice people put Esq. which is kind. No army titles: no decorations. Sancta simplicitas. (ii) I haven't seen Feisal since May last. Sancta simplicitas again. (iii) Yes I remember a transaction of some sort between us at Akaba. I hope I didn't do you in: it is generally that way, but without intention ... No remedy therefore, if your conscience accuses you of something, except sleep', ending with approval of Willmore's project to establish himself as a tropical disease specialist in London ('most of the service clubs are full of them (the diseases)') and brief news of old colleagues, mostly 'strewn over three continents. Quelle vie!'.
Autograph letter signed ('T.E.L.') to 'Willmore', 7 Dover Street, [London], 30 October 1919, 2½ pages, 4to, bifolium (some light soiling along folds); with a photograph of Willmore. Provenance: Sotheby's sale, 18 December 1986, lot 159; the Spiro Family Collection.
'I PREFER TEL. PLAIN ... NO ARMY TITLES: NO DECORATIONS'. Lawrence replies 'Seriatim' to a series of questions from an Aqaba acquaintance: '(i) Address any way you please: I prefer TEL. plain: some nice people put Esq. which is kind. No army titles: no decorations. Sancta simplicitas. (ii) I haven't seen Feisal since May last. Sancta simplicitas again. (iii) Yes I remember a transaction of some sort between us at Akaba. I hope I didn't do you in: it is generally that way, but without intention ... No remedy therefore, if your conscience accuses you of something, except sleep', ending with approval of Willmore's project to establish himself as a tropical disease specialist in London ('most of the service clubs are full of them (the diseases)') and brief news of old colleagues, mostly 'strewn over three continents. Quelle vie!'.
THOMAS EDWARD LAWRENCE (1888-1935)
Autograph letter signed ('T.E.L.') to 'Willmore', 7 Dover Street, [London], 30 October 1919, 2½ pages, 4to, bifolium (some light soiling along folds); with a photograph of Willmore. Provenance: Sotheby's sale, 18 December 1986, lot 159; the Spiro Family Collection.
'I PREFER TEL. PLAIN ... NO ARMY TITLES: NO DECORATIONS'. Lawrence replies 'Seriatim' to a series of questions from an Aqaba acquaintance: '(i) Address any way you please: I prefer TEL. plain: some nice people put Esq. which is kind. No army titles: no decorations. Sancta simplicitas. (ii) I haven't seen Feisal since May last. Sancta simplicitas again. (iii) Yes I remember a transaction of some sort between us at Akaba. I hope I didn't do you in: it is generally that way, but without intention ... No remedy therefore, if your conscience accuses you of something, except sleep', ending with approval of Willmore's project to establish himself as a tropical disease specialist in London ('most of the service clubs are full of them (the diseases)') and brief news of old colleagues, mostly 'strewn over three continents. Quelle vie!'.
Autograph letter signed ('T.E.L.') to 'Willmore', 7 Dover Street, [London], 30 October 1919, 2½ pages, 4to, bifolium (some light soiling along folds); with a photograph of Willmore. Provenance: Sotheby's sale, 18 December 1986, lot 159; the Spiro Family Collection.
'I PREFER TEL. PLAIN ... NO ARMY TITLES: NO DECORATIONS'. Lawrence replies 'Seriatim' to a series of questions from an Aqaba acquaintance: '(i) Address any way you please: I prefer TEL. plain: some nice people put Esq. which is kind. No army titles: no decorations. Sancta simplicitas. (ii) I haven't seen Feisal since May last. Sancta simplicitas again. (iii) Yes I remember a transaction of some sort between us at Akaba. I hope I didn't do you in: it is generally that way, but without intention ... No remedy therefore, if your conscience accuses you of something, except sleep', ending with approval of Willmore's project to establish himself as a tropical disease specialist in London ('most of the service clubs are full of them (the diseases)') and brief news of old colleagues, mostly 'strewn over three continents. Quelle vie!'.
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