Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia (107 page)

491
“bear a brave face”:
Lawrence,
Home Letters
, 304.

491
At times he broke out of his depression:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder
, 287.

493
“Bow Street was jammed”:
Lowell Thomas to “Ronnie,” March 29, 1956, Lowell Thomas Papers, Marist College.

493
“he would blush crimson”:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder
, 276.

493
“Thomas Lawrence, the archaeologist”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 624.

494
“In the history of the world”:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder
, 287.

495
“Colonel C. E. Florence”:
Aldington,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 352.

496
The truth is quite simple:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 627.

496
an “official” one:
Ibid.

497
“95% of the book in thirty days”:
Ibid., 628.

497
At one point he wrote 30,000 words:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder
, 84.

499
“flying suit”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 629.

500
“the book had now assumed”:
Ibid., 630.

501
“boy-scout”:
Ibid., 635.

501
Among the dozen or so alternative ideas:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder
, 284.

502
His scholarship from All Souls:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 637.

502
Thomas Lawrence had left:
Ibid., 637-638.

503
Perhaps because he had overestimated:
Ibid., 637.

503
Neither Will nor Frank had lived:
Ibid., 637-638.

504
make him look “silly”:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder
, 65.

504
This did not prevent him from buying rare:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 641.

505
“too sparsely peopled”:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder
, 291.

505
“learning opportunities”:
Ibid., 634.

506
“one never knows how many”:
Storrs,
Orientations
, 505.

506
Far from being extreme:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder
, 293.

507
Some idea of the aura of celebrity:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 633.

509
“to relieve Curzon”:
Graves and Liddell Hart (eds.), T. E.
Lawrence to His Biographers
, 354.

510
he had “a virgin mind”:
Young,
The Independent Arab
, 324.

511
Churchill’s omnipresent private secretary:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 643.

511
Though it was not appreciated at the time:
Ibid., 644.

513
“little Lawrence”:
Meinertzhagen,
Middle East Diary
, 55-56.

513
Lawrence became a civil servant:
Graves and Liddell Hart (eds.),
T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers
, 143.

513
“Talk of leaving things”:
Ibid.

514
“You must take risks”:
Ibid.

515
“Lawrence can bear comparison”:
Liddell Hart,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 384.

515
“Our most trusted”:
Graves and Liddell Hart (eds.),
T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers
, 131.

517
The western border with Syria:
Fromkin,
A Peace to End All Peace
, 503.

518
“with 30 officers and 200 Bedouins”:
Ibid., 504.

518
“living with Abdulla”:
Lawrence,
Letters
, Brown (ed.), 197.

518
“suspicious of his influence”:
Abdullah,
Memoirs
, 170.

518
“He was certainly a strange character”:
Ibid., 170-171.

518
“Lawrence was the man”:
Thompson,
Assignment Churchill
, 30.

519
“I know Abdullah”:
Fromkin,
A Peace to End All Peace
, 510.

519
“shrewd and indolent”:
Ibid.

520
“The atmosphere in the Colonial Office”:
Meinertzhagen,
Middle East Diary
, 99-100.

520
“consternation, despondency”:
Ingrams,
Palestine Papers
, 105.

521
“a typewritten receipt”:
Storrs,
Orientations
, 391.

521
“E.&O. E.”:
Samuel,
Memoirs
, 154.

522
“Their cries became a roar”:
Mack
A Prince of Our Disorder
, 304.

523
“the Greek epitaph of despair”:
Storrs,
Orientations
, 527.

523
With a typically British manifestation:
Fromkin,
A Peace to End All Peace
, 508.

523
“against his own people”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 650.

524
“I take most of the credit”:
Ibid., 651.

525
“quit of the war-time Eastern adventure”:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder
, 314, attributed to Lawrence’s notes in SP, 276.

525
“to negotiate and conclude”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 655.

527
Reading Lawrence’s report:
Ibid., 660.

528
Lawrence took a steamer:
Ibid.

529
“for in Trans-Jordan”:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder
, 308.

529
“I leave all business to Lawrence”:
Ibid., 309, quoting from Philby’s Forty Years in the Wilderness, 108.

530
This refers to the fact that his father’s younger sister:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 944.

chapter eleven
“Solitary in the Ranks”

539
He would laboriously correct the copies:
Jeremy Wilson, “Seven Pillars of Wisdom: Triumph and Tragedy,” T. E. Lawrence studies Web site, telawrencestudies.org.

540
“to leave the payroll of the Colonial Office”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 674.

541
“God this is awful”:
Lawrence,
The Mint
, 19.

542
“With regard to your personal point”:
Hyde,
Solitary in the Ranks
, 46.

542
“considerably embarrassed”:
Ibid., 48.

542
“secrecy and subterfuge”:
Swann, quoted ibid.

542
“disliked the whole business”:
Ibid.

542
“One would think from [his] letters”:
Lawrence,
Letters
, Garnett (ed.), 363.

546
Johns resourcefully found a civilian doctor:
Hyde,
Solitary in the Ranks
, 52.

547
“with the memory of a cold”:
Ibid., 53.

547
“As they swiftly stripped for sleep”:
Lawrence,
The Mint
, 25.

550
“a strict disciplinarian”:
Hyde,
Solitary in the Ranks
, 57.

551
“I must hit him, I must”:
Ibid., 58.

551
“Let the old cunt rot”:
Ibid., 76-77.

551
“and see him privately”:
Ibid., 65.

552
Lawrence had been writing:
Ibid.

552
“consistently dirty”:
Breese, quoted ibid., 66.

552
“that he had always felt”:
Ibid.

552
“I think I had a mental breakdown”:
Ibid., 62.

553
“There are twenty-thousand airmen”:
Lawrence,
The Mint
, 98-99.

554
“mummified thing”:
Ibid., 184-185.

555
“I’d like you to read”:
Lawrence,
Letters,
Garnett (ed.), 362.

556
“It seems to me that an attempted work”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia,
686. See 1126, n 21, as V. W. Richards to T. E. Lawrence, September 24, 1922, Bodleian Library transcript.

557
“Of the present Ministry”:
Quoted ibid., 688.

560
“was appointed to the Adjutant’s office”:
Hyde,
Solitary in the Ranks
, 67-68.

560
“why A/c2 Ross”:
Ibid., 69.

560
“was not at all sympathetic”:
Ibid.

560
“frankly perplexed”:
Ibid.

560
“His blue eyes were set”:
Ibid.

561
“‘Yes, Lawrence of Arabia!’”:
Ibid.

562
“I am afraid you are rather making a labour of it”:
Lawrence,
Letters
, Brown (ed.), 226.

562
“road tubthumping round”:
Holroyd,
Bernard Shaw
, Vol. III, 85.