Who would have thought that poet Ezra Pound and adventurer T. E. Lawrence, aka Lawrence of Arabia would have anything in common? Or that they would write letters to each other?
Lawrence asked Pound for advice when he was wanting to write about his experiences fighting against the Ottoman empire during the Arab Revolt in the early 1900’s. Pound obliged and they continued to exchange letters for many years.
Discovering these connections is one of the most fun thing about doing the research for Arts in Letters. We never know what (or who) we’ll find!
