T. E. Lawrence — Music

“ Dear Sir Edward, This is from my cottage and we have just been playing your 2nd Symphony…”

Sir Edward in 1931. Image: counter-currents.com

T. E. Lawrence’s love of music is self evident when you read accounts by others of the time they spent in his company. One such account is by Flight-Lieutenant R. G. Sims of the R.A.F., who served with Lawrence (then calling himself Shaw) in Bridlington during the development of the R.A.F. high speed rescue launches in the 1930s…