T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 484

To Hogarth 21.4.27 Yours of 27 March. I hope they are sumptuous with you. I'm glad the spares are with you. One (my own special) is to come from McLelsh, in two or three months time. If "Revol.." has done its duty there will be no over-draft soon, & I'll be able to do what I like with ..."Max". Meanwhile please lend Col.Dyas one copy (making sure that he returns it eventually); and prepare to hand over one to Mervyn, & one, I hope, an inscript... to Bartholomew. Two or three with more of the completes, if it can be avoided. And I'm keeping their ..."Arabians" have written to me: so in a time six months or so hence, when I was able, I shall be able to let them have copies. It is obvious how I stand. I can always get some other books for sale; whereas two or three perhaps will never interest him. He, I can't give one to Carruthers. He didn't subscribe, & no, I was not one of our party. Besides which was the only gave him the Arabia chapter, in the Oxford text. Yes, I get a high royalty after 500 copies are sold; and 15% still then. Ditto in U.S.A.; though I deliberately allowed to Cape double commission on the U.S.A.receipts, so as to retain some hold (through him) upon Doran. I don't trust Doran's "intentions", when did he learn Your Doughty discoveries & his services in survey work? His map was surprisingly good, all things considered: and he laid a sort of foundation of our knowledge of the Arabian was not... The re was much more of the scientist, in the old man's intention, when he went down with the ... intention, anyhow) than of the poet. I sent you one letter of his which turned up amongst Claude's Hill papers here. I do not know where my other Doughty letters can be. There is only Barton St. and Clouds Hill, & I turned all the papers out of Clouds Hill before I left it. The cottage is going to be the basis. We look at Pike's list of addresses, & tell R.Storrs to what point his copy was sent, & when. I know it has gone off, and I understand that all the subscribers but one have had their copies: so that first free ones must have gone out too. They were sent out in a mixed-up order. I've had a letter from New York telling me that Doran failed to copyright the Seven Pillars in U.S.A.on Dec.1., as he was bound & to do, according to our contract. I have sent a cable to Sayce to secure confirmation. If it is true things will be rather difficult for me. Incidentally I had to borrow the money for the cablegram! The pay office at War has not yet bothered to put through our pay accounts, so I still get only 20 rupees a month! and that does not allow of many cablegrams to London! So prepare the trustees for my claim to repayment! I hope the story about