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Boar's Hill

Oxford

18.10.[19]25

Dear Mr. Woolf,

This cutting, from yesterday's Daily Mail, may interest you. I wish it had come in time to be a footnote to what I said about Lawrence's statue, in the Medal book. One knew that a long duel between official pigheadedness, refusing to remove an incredibly insolent & medieval inscription, & Indians who were determined to smash it, would result in the latter getting past the police some time.

Yrs. sincerely | Edward Thompson

[Cutting from the Daily Mail, 17/10/1925: EMPIRE ITEMS. Lawrence Statue Mutilated.-The statue of Lord Lawrence, "the saviour of India," in Lahore (Punjab) was yesterday found mutilated.]