T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 362

To Major F Yeats Brown G. IX. 27. -2- for the Lawrence article. In my previous reviewing attempts I've generally been left with the book as my reward. Sometimes they have paid as highly as a guinea a thousand. But your guineas is fantastic. Will you chasten them gently? The virtue of the Spectator is not my province: but it can't be a gold-mine, after that fashion. The paper must have been in low water before Trench went to its help: and if he pulls it round he will be doing very virtuously & gaily. But he can't pull it round by over-paying book- reviewers (and anonymous book-reviewers too)! What few shekels he can spare must go to popularity-chasing. A sick paper is a very troublesome baby. My sympathies. Yours ever T E Shaw