Description
ALS signed “T. E. S.,”
One page both sides, 7″ x 9″
February 13, 1935
Letter to Pat Knowles, anticipating retirement. In part: “Sorry, I owe your two notes: have been very hard at it day and evenings, lately. Glad when it’s all over…The Press are getting curious about my discharge. I’ll try to dodge them by slipping away…and coming to Clouds Hill…Expect me about March 5…but don’t wonder if I’m early or late by a week! Good news about the Ram. It’s a stout little article. Very wet here lately. Hope you’ve had some rain too…Good about painting the tank. I think we ought to do the above-water-wall as well… or does it look right, as it is…Follow your own judgment…I sent a few books lately: don’t suppose you’ll have the time to look at them, though. Hard luck. I remember that one or two of them were good.” In fine condition, with some light soiling and toning.
Arthur Knowles and his son Patrick helped Lawrence rehabilitate the small cottage at Clouds Hill; an eyewitness account of Lawrence’s life at Clouds Hill by Patrick Knowles, entitled A Handful With Quietness, has since been published. Lawrence would be fatally injured in a motorcycle accident close to his Clouds Hill cottage in May 1935, just two months after leaving military service.
