In reducing the text, he cut out numerous personal reflections, some of which could be revealing. The full text of Seven Pillars may clear up other mysteries about Lawrence's role in the Arab revolt.
It is estimated to fetch pounds 20,000-pounds 30,000. Stride's will auction the typescript on 2 May. The contrast between what I meant and felt I could do, and the truth of what my weakness had let me do was so pitiful." As he was talking here about the third manuscript, this would imply that he had burned both the previous drafts, including the one "stolen at Reading". Writing to Bernard Shaw about the 1922 text, Lawrence said: "When I finished it, I burned the whole thing for the third time. This pursuit of perfectionbacks up the theory that Lawrence's original manuscript was not stolen but burned.
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