The Archive · 1932

Longing for His Former Days

London, Feb. 25.

The famous "Lawrence "Arabia," who for yeats has sought abacurity "as Aircraftsman Shaw fas now broken silence and has: ence more appeared in print as the Buthor of an introduction to a book fon Arabia written by Mx. Bertram Thomas, the young Prime Minister of an Ara who made exploring history in 1930 making the first crossing of the great" unknown desert of south Arabia.

Lawrence describes the journey fof My. Thomas as "the finest thing in Arabian exploration, on to say that a reading of Mr. Thomas's manuscript has awakened in him his former longing for adventure in the desert.

"His. tiniest touches help me to remember that wide land in which lived so much 20 years ago and have awakened a longing T hoped Hence, I supp my writing him this useless foreword: that and my understanding of his vis The "writer goes on to, recall Charles Doughty Arabia

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