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A portrait photograph of T E Lawrence, and another of his Arab servant, each 9.5 x 7.5cm and inscribed to the reverse by Helle Flecker, wife of James Elroy Flecker. Note: The poet J.E. Flecker was a friend of Lawrence in Beirut and Areya before the war and referred to him as "the amazing boy". Flecker's wife, Helle, sent the photographs to John Mavrogordato to illustrate the intended Flecker's 'Letters from the East'.

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