Item 05: George Washington Thomas Lambert narrative, ca. 1915-1919 - Page 5

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To hold your interest I should have liked to open this Chapter, fittingly illustrated with a colour record of the "Wazza", with a Crash of word painting begginning with CAIRO in large & illuminated Capitals and taking you first to Shepherds, have cracked a bottle of the best by way of cleaning the palette from the after taste of shipboard & Ship Cabin & Train compartment & leaving clean & white the mental plane upon which according to your nature the Oriental Grandeur of Egypt past & present are about crowded with stimulating kalaedoscopic colour pattern or the deadening insistence