T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 464

To Hogarth 14.XI.23 I I'll send back your drafts when I next write from the hut; this is being scribbled standing up altogether. Curtis & yourself are considering the idea of 10 guinea sub-scribers. Buxton is seeing the chance of one hundred at 30 pounds. Cape is looking for a single millionaire at £3000. I'm waiting on how the three alternatives may happen. In anticipation of it I've taken a cottage (at 2/6 a week) near camp, & fitted up a writing room in it. There I can write my text quite about a twelve-month, allowing say 2 hrs average per day - less than I'd go into an "employed job" here, which will keep me on. You (or whoever edits) have the revised text a book at a time, gradually. The pictures will have a year to go, I expect. So that the whole project may be done with a long breath. For the text I want your copy, the only one left in sheets. It can be replaced with a bound copy, if you wish it: though of course the old one. Saw Prenchard on Sunday. He made something about a month's leave for me. I said no, since returning here would be unpleasant after so long a holiday. The Army does not improve upon longer knowledge. Clarendon press might well print: I want Caslon eleven point or its nearest monotype equivalent. The book's size is determined by the ready plates (10 x 8 I think it is large quarto, much that of the 1st Edition). If I can get it to 280,000 words it will go in one vol. of 450 ... a page. .I. I should have written earlier, but things have been muddled.