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.

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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.

562 “she began ecstatically reading”:Ibid.

564 “This letter has got to be”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 690.

564 “Your offer is a generous and kind one”:Ibid., 691.

567 “a brace of thoroughgoing modern ruffians”:Ibid., 695.

567 “Nelson, slightly cracked”:Ibid.

567 “You are evidently a very dangerous man”:Holroyd, Bernard Shaw, Vol. III, 85.

568 a “virtuoso” essay:Ibid.

569 “unreasonably”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 74.

569 “previous service”:Ibid.

569 “ ‘I am convinced that some quality’“:Findlay, “The Amazing AC 2.”

570 “an accomplished poseur”:Holroyd, Bernard Shaw, Vol. III, 88.

570 ”‘There is no end to your Protean tricks’“:Ibid., 86.

572 “The cat being now let out of the bag”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 697.

573 “How is it conceivable, imaginable”:Ibid., 699-700.

573 “get used to the limelight”:Ibid., 700.

574 “that his position in the RAF”:Ibid., 701.

575 “the position, which had been extremely”:Ibid., 706.

575 “well-known for its large pond and bird life”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 76.

575 “played up at Farnborough”:Ibid., 77.

576 “how his men were to distinguish”:Lawrence, SP, 574.

577 “sounded out”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 80.

577 “sees no very great difficulty about it”:Ibid.

577 “A good idea!”:Ibid., 80-81.

578 “To Pte. Shaw from Public Shaw”:Holroyd, Bernard Shaw, Vol. III, 88.

578 “and was posted to A Company”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 81.

579 “queerly homesick”:Ibid., 86.

579 “prevailing animality of spirit”:Ibid., 85.

580 “speak and act with complete assurance”:Ibid., 82.

580 “It’s a horrible life”:Ibid., 83.

580 “this cat-calling carnality seething”:Ibid., 84.

582 “inarticulate, excessively uncomfortable”:Shaw letter, July 19, 1924; or Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 190.

582 “Lawrence did nothing without a purpose”:Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 168.

583 “His disloyalty reminded”:Jerusalem Post, 1961, quoted in Graves, Lawrence and the Arabs, 230.

586 “called him a bastard”:Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 174.

586 “turned his back on God”:Ibid.

587 “an unsigned, typed letter”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 88-89.

588 “to report in writing”:Ibid., 89.

588 “Circassian riding whip”:Lawrence, SP, 498.

589 “it was rather his pied-а-terre”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 93.

590 “Hardy is so pale”:Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 429-431.

590 “craving for real risk”:Mack, Prince, 343.

590 “swerved at 60 M.P.H.”:Lawrence, Letters,Garnett (ed.), 419-420.

591 “Lawrence is not normal in many ways”:Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1926, Vol. I, 45.

591 “Damn you, how long do you”:Arnold Lawrence (ed.), Letters to T.E. Lawrence, 154.

591 “I can’t cheer you up”:Ibid., 64.

594 “A black core”:Lawrence, Letters, Brown (ed.), 233.

594 He persisted with it, however:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 719-720.

595 “he looked very much like Colonel Lawrence”:Arnold Lawrence (ed.), T. E. Lawrence by His Friends, 244.

595 “I have written another magnificent play”:Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1926, Vol. I, 51.

596 “upon the throne of a nation-state”:Holroyd, Bernard Shaw, Vol. III, 86.