6. Wilson, Authorised,p. 342.
7. Wilson to Clayton, 7 December 1916, PRO FO, 882.
8. ibid.
9. SPW,1935, p. 134.
10. PRO FO, 686.
11. N. N. E. Bray, Shifting Sands,London, 1934, p. 133.
14. I Do Not Suppose Any Englishman Before Ever Had Such a Place
1. Literally ‘Father of the Ostrich’.
2. SPW,1935, p. 187.
3. Wilson, Authorised,p. 358.
4. PRO FO, 88/6 196.
5. Brown Letters,p. 103.
6. Richards, A Portrait of T. E. Lawrence,p. 97.
7. Friends,p. 87.
8. Joyce, BBC interview, 14 June 1941 and 30 April 1939, in MS. Res., 55/2.
9. British Library, Add. Mss. 45915.
10. Mack, Prince,p. 239.
11. SPW,1935, p. 193.
12. ibid., p. 198.
13. Mousa, T. E. Lawrence: An Arab View,p. 56.
14. Lawrence to Joyce, PRO FO, 686/6.
15. British Library, Add. Mss., 45983a.
16. SPW,1935, p. 216.
17. PRO FO, 686/6, 24 April 1917.
18. ibid.
19. PRO FO, 686/6, 150.
15. It is Not Known What are the Present Whereabouts of Captain Lawrence
1. Auda was a great tale-teller, and the stories of his eating the hearts of his victims, as well as the toll of his killings, could well be exaggerated. J. N. Lockman has suggested that Auda’s tendency to elaborate might well have influenced Lawrence – in particular, Auda was so certain of his own fame that he would even tell stories against himself – perhaps giving Lawrence a precedent for the Dara’a fantasy – if fantasy it was (see J. N. L. Lockman, Scattered Tracks,p. 133). It is, however, by no means impossible that Auda had killed seventy-five men: even at the end of the twentieth century there exist men such as the Sardinian bandit Francesco Messina, who was convicted of killing fifty men in a family blood-feud.
2. Murray–Robertson correspondence, British Library.
3. Vickery to Clayton, PRO FO, 686/6 47.
4. Clayton to Vickery, PRO FO, 686/6 46.
5. Clayton, PRO FO, 882/6.
6. Lawrence’s ‘shopping list’ for the Aqaba mission, handwritten in his skeleton diary, includes a Lewis gun, but this is not referred to at all in his reports and dispatches.
7. Wilson to Clayton, PRO FO, 882, 351.
8. British Library, Add. Mss., 45983a (Skeleton Diaries).
9. ibid.
10. British Library, Add. Mss., 45915 (War Diary).
11. Richards, A Portrait of T. E. Lawrence,p. 95.
12. SPW,1935, p. 28.
13. British Library, Add. Mss., 45915 (War Diary).
14. SPW,Oxford text, 1926, p. 45.
15. SPW,1935, p. 382. J. N. Lockman has claimed that this ‘Shimt’ is actually Gasim Abu Dumayk, the volatile Sheikh of the Dumaniyya Howaytat. This seems unlikely, for though the Dumaniyya fought at Aba 1-Lissan, they were not at Mudowwara: Lawrence clearly states that he had banned them from accompanying this raid.
16. British Library, Add. Mss. 45983a (Skeleton Diaries).
17. British Library, Add. Mss. 45915 (War Diary).
18. Lowell Thomas, MS. Res., 55/2.
19. Lyn Cowan, Masochism: A Jungian View,Texas, 1982, p. 124.
20. British Library, Add. Mss., 45915 (War Diary).
21. SPW,Oxford text, 1926.
22. Wilson, Authorised,p. 410.
23. British Library, Add. Mss. 45915 (War Diary).
24. SPW,1935, p. 284.
25. Mousa, T. E. Lawrence: An Arab View,p. 175.
26. RG,pp. 88–90.
27. Brown Letters,p. 408.
28. ibid., p. 274.
29. British Library, Add. Mss, 45915 (War Diary).
30. SPW,1935, p. 325.
31. Lawrence does not mention Slieve Foyin the 1935 text. He told Liddell Hart that the ship had actually been put in place to support the Arab attack on Aqaba: this does not square with the idea that the mission was unauthorized.
16. An Amateurish, Buffalo-Billy Sort of Performance
1. Lawrence, ‘Evolution of a Revolt’, p. 45.
2. W. F. Stirling, ‘Tales of Lawrence of Arabia’, Cornhill Magazine,74 (1933), pp. 494ff.
3. SPW,1935, p. 324.
4. ibid.
5. Lawrence, Secret Dispatches.
6. Garnett Letters,p. 228.
7. After writing this, I discovered that both Richard Aldington and J. N. Lockman had discovered the discrepancy. All credit must go to both of them for coming across this fact before myself.
8. SPW,Oxford text, 1926, p. 262.
9. Clayton to CIGS, PRO FO, 882/6.
10. SPW,1935, p. 330.
11. ibid., p. 582.
12. PRO FO, 882, 12/13.
13. SPW,1935, p. 395.
14. Clayton to Joyce, 18 September 1917, PRO FO, 882/7.
15. ibid.
16. SPW,1935, p. 360.
17. Friends,p. 167.
18. ibid.
19. 13 September 1917, PRO FO, 882/4.
20. SPW,1935, p. 369.
21. PRO FO, 882.
22. Brown Letters,p. 126.
23. Garnett Letters,p. 238.
17. Ahmad ibn Baqr, a Circassian from Qunaytra
1. SPW,1935, p. 253.
2. Philip Graves later asserted that Lawrence could himself perform this act. It is picture which smacks more of red Indians or the heroic world of Malory than of Arabia Deserta.The average camel stands about six feet at the shoulder, and perhaps nine feet at the withers. For a man to ‘leap into the saddle’ one-handed would require something more than the ability of an Olympic high-jump champion. More probably, ‘Ali mounted his camel by stepping on the animal’s neck and swarming on to its withers – a customary way of mounting, yet one so ungainly and vulnerable in its lack of control as to be scarcely worthy of the expression ‘leaping into the saddle’.
3. SPW,1935, p. 397.
4. ibid., p. 415.
5. Garnett Letters,p. 239.
6. SPW,1935, p. 545.
7. ibid.
8. ibid.
9. SPW,1935, p. 454.
10. ibid., p. 456.
11. ibid.
12. Brown Letters,p. 166.
13. Friends,p. 124.
14. SPW,1935, pp. 445–8.
15. Brown Letters,p, 132.
16. Mack, Prince,p. 233.
17. Wilson, Authorised,p. 1084.
18. Friends,p. 124.
19. It is, of course, possible, that both the Artillery and Khalfati incidents were mere figments of Lawrence’s masochistic fantasy also – no independent corroboration exists for either.