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[T.E. Lawrence]

Mount Batten, Plymouth.

25.11.31

A kindness, you call it! What you should
have written is

"My dear Shaw
I am wondering whether to do you a great honour? I
might perhaps dedicate my little monograph on Julius Caesar to you,
and wonder if you are worth it? If so ....... "

Of course, I am astonished and shall be pleased. Only I shall
never be able to return you such a compliment. I wish I could
write. Alexander was tempting: only I know I'm not equal to it.

By the way, it is aircraftman ... meaning a man about
aircraft: and not, alas, a craftsman of the air. The Air
Ministry lost a chance in naming us; but fortunately the public are
putting them right. I suppose the public is always right?

I hope this trouble is not hitting your interests particularly.
The mess is so great that no one knows where he is.

Do you like the Caesar book? A great but difficult
subject. His commentaries seem to me not of a piece with the rest
of him: better, in fact, and altogether different.

Yours

[TE] Shaw.