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135 Shaikh Aiicla abu Tayya and Howcitat, BL p. 271. Gertrude
seems to have had an easier time with this colourful shaikh
than either Lawrence or Shakespear. See Lawrence, Seven
Pillars of Wisdom and Winstonc, op, cit,
135 Gertrude’s map of her route together with field notes, RCS
archives and map room. Map contains her own annotations.
136 Hail. See Palgravc, Doughty, Blunts and subsequent
travellers (Bibliography), BL pp. 279-81, CEB. Several
guest houses established by Abdullah of Hail and Tallal ibn
Rashid, vide Palgravc and Guarmani. Description of Hail,
GLB Diary (Nov. 1913 to April 1914), and unpublished
document at N. upon T., used in Gertrude Bell Exhibition
assembled by Department of Archaeology at Newcastle
upon Tyne, London and Oxford, 1976-77.
140 Doughty-Wylie letters, loc. cit.

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M3 Letter, Baghdad, to Doughty-Wylie, UBL, VC.
143 Mallet, dispatch 355 Constantinople to Sir Edward Grey,
May 20th, 1914.
144 Letter to Chirol, VC.
145 HB and FB to America. See Bertrand Russell, Autobio­
graphy, p. 219.
146 Letter to The Times, June 13 th, 1914. ‘An Englishwoman’s
Desert Journey. Arab Intrigues.’
147 For background to Britain’s policies from Palmerston to
First World War, see Kedouric, England and the Middle East,
vide p. 11, ‘The Ottoman Empire was to remain inviolate,
and yet the Ottoman Empire was not able to defend itself,’
etseq. See also Tempcrlcy, Cambridge Historical Journal, 1933,
p. 166; Gooch and Temperley, British Documents on the
Origin of the War; Stewart, The Middle East - Temple of
Janus.
147 Government of India, attitude of Cox and Shakespear,
restiveness in central Arabia, L/P&S/10/384.
i47 Asiatic policy. Above file. Correspondence between
Holderness (70) and Louis Mallet (FO). Government of
India telegram to Cox, June 10th, 1913, repeated July 1st
and 8 th.
148 Suffragettes, CEB. Also see The Times correspondence
columns throughout month of June 1914.
148 RGS award. Gill Memorial prize for 1913-14 journey to