An autograph letter signed (as T.E. Shaw) to 'Dear Bordewich', relating to 'boats for the RAF'
by [LAWRENCE, T.E.] SHAW, T.E
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In brief, this letter concerns anti-fouling paint; in essence, it captures the spirit referred to above. 'Dear Bordewich (Let's drop titles: mine are so cumbrous). Your racing green is not so dear' at two-and-a-half times 'our present anti-fouling composition, which is not an anti-fouling, nor a bottom paint, nor an under-water mixture. It's an arsenious oxide which floats off as the boats are launched and poisons the fishes. Dear at any price, that is.... My notion is to give your new stuff (when it comes) some months of a trial, and then try to persuade Air Ministry to stock it, for application to all the fast boats in our fleet: - if it does what I expect of it (like Nelson of the English!) I mean'.
The letter is collected in 'Boats for the RAF, 1929-1935', edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson (Castle Hill Press, 2012: see '68. T.E. Lawrence to Mr. Bordewich, November 24' [1932]).
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- An autograph letter signed (as T.E. Shaw) to 'Dear Bordewich', relating to 'boats for the RAF'
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- [LAWRENCE, T.E.] SHAW, T.E
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