T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 460

To Miss G.Bell 18.7.11.23 Dear Gertrude The £500 was an old estimate for setting up 350,000 words. Child wick Press. There is a slight smugness about the Clarendon Press, if I spring from the tusk of educating them suddenly ????????, ?? the difficulty of a subscription edition is how many to print, & what to do with the materials left over (plates etc.). My view would be, as I would rather be indebted to one than to many, to "la .... arrivé over in my mind the alternative -- to publish it wish its profits approved by Hogarth) & do the subscription edition (mar their .....). On Monday I may go to Oxford (they may same a D.C.H. ed advort to a lorry column) & if so will try to see Yours T. S. L.