DENTON, HALL & BURGIN,
Solicitors.

EDWARD L. BURGIN.
E. LESLIE BURGIN, LL.D. (LOND)
ERIC O. M. FLETCHER, LL.D., B.A. (LOND)

PMA

TELEPHONES
CHANCERY 7485
7486
7487 5 LINES
7488
7489

CABLES & TELEGRAMS
BURGINHAL, HOLB. LONDON.
KENNERLEY, PARIS.

CODES:
BENTLEY.
A.B.C

3, GRAY'S INN PLACE,
GRAY'S INN,
LONDON, W.C.I.

AND 4. RUE STé ANNE
(CORNER AVENUE DE L'OPERA)
PARIS.

11th July

19 35.

Miss Rebecca West,
15, Orchard Court,
Portman Square, W.1.

Dear Miss Rebecca West,

You will recollect Mr. Thackrah's call upon you when you were good enough to hand to him a photostat copy of the original letter despatched by the late Aircraftsman Shaw to Colonel Isham the day before his accident.

In accordance with Colonel Isham's cables we had communicated with Mr. A.W. Lawrence, the brother, but had obtained no response. On the 13th June we received a letter from Messrs. Field Roscoe & Co., a very well-known firm of solicitors in Lincoln's Inn Fields, who informed us that they were acting for the executors. They asked for communication of documents, which of course we sent them.

On the 28th June we received from Colonel Isham a letter addressed to Mr. A.W. Lawrence, with a request that we should add his address and cause it to be despatched. We did so.

On the 9th July Colonel Isham cabled asking whether we had "contacted" Lawrence and delivered the letter which you

COPY LETTER.

FROM: Messrs. Field Roscoe & Co.
TO: Messrs. Denton Hall & Burgin.
DATE: 8th July, 1935.

Dear Sirs,

re Lawrence of Arabia.

Referring to your recent call, we have now been able
to communicate with Mr. A. W. Lawrence. The publication of
this letter in the United States was no doubt an infringement of
the rights of the executors of which they would be entitled to
complain and for which they could obtain damages. We have
advised Mr. Lawrence, however, that this is not a case in which
it will be desirable to take proceedings in the United States.
We have here merely a single publication of the letter in
question. It is not as though a book had been published which
kept the letter in permanent circulation. It is not therefore
a case for an injunction and so far as damages are concerned our
feeling is that these would be assessed at a very small amount.

Bearing in mind that a litigant in the United States has to
bear his own professional charges even if he is successful in
those proceedings, it seems to us it would not be worth while for
Mr. Lawrence to intervene in this matter nor does he propose
to take any notice of the publication in the News Chronicle.
We return the newspaper cutting and are obliged for the informa-
tion which you and Colonel Isham have supplied.

Encl.