T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 513

To Isham 27.v.27 It isn't worth that. In a few years the price will drop. It isn't much good, as writing; but of course it is so rare that owners must crack up its quality. G.B.S. has been very good in helping to boost the little book. He knew the circumstances, of course, and that its success would get me out of a hole. You don't say what you are doing. Fifth Avenue means business, I suppose, of some sort. It prospers, England is not exactly booming, they say, now-a-days. But I'm so out of the way that I hear very little. I changed to Shaw in1923, when I enlisted. The other name (originally chosen for quietness' sake) had got noisy. It does well enough as a pen-name. Yours ever T E Shaw. I've just read your letter again. Long Island; and a garden. Apparently you are a millionaire. Very best congratulations. Money is a jolly thing to give your children. Often I feel that that should be the first duty of fathers!