Joyce

[tr ed p 558], pencil, Dobson

'Joyce' typeset brc of page, artist's signature and date, 'Frank Dobson/23', blc of drawing. Palest ghost-like image [paler than it appears in the trade edition], grey on natural paper colour.

Lt-Colonel Pierce C Joyce, senior British officer with Feisal, and Lawrence's commanding officer.

p 88 [tr ed p 110] - 'This was my first meeting with Joyce and Davenport, the two Englishmen to whom the Arab cause owed the greater part of its foreign debt of gratitude. Joyce worked for long beside me.'

p 304 [tr ed p 323] - 'He suggested Joyce as commanding officer at Akaba: a notion which suited me perfectly. Joyce was a man in whom one could rest against the world: a serene, unchanging, comfortable spirit. His mind, like a pastoral landscape, had four corners to its view: cared-for, friendly, limited, displayed.

'He had won golden opinions at Rabegh and Wejh, practising that very labour of building up an army and a base, which would be necessary at Akaba. Clayton-like, he was a good cartilage to set between opposing joints, but he had more laughter than Clayton, being broad and Irish and much over six feet in height. His nature was to be devoted to the nearest job without straining on his toes after longer horizons. Also, he was more patient than any recorded archangel, and only smiled that jolly smile of his whenever I came in with revolutionary schemes, and threw new ribbons of fancy about the neck of the wild thing he was slowly rearing.'

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