T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 526

Hiroshima. 10/10/ 22 Dear Latham Here is a note, to Messrs Waller, which explains itself. I hope the situation will appear as now satisfactory. If you O.K. it to Bruce Rogers, then the business will all be over, & there will remain the grind of travailing for yet a few top sheets, "the all of it", the delight of a really finely-produced book at its end. About your books, I haven't a set of them. I have no place to keep anything. The life in barracks is all a common life. Everything choice is ruined by rough handling. Also I am inevitably affected (I'd be a monster if not) by my six years service; and I'm therefore like them. The very fine things are too fine for me, now. I will have great pleasure some day, when I get back to England, of seeing a set somewhere, & of handling them and reading them; but as prospect, they would be too much for me. Please don't be hurt at my saying this. It's only that I don't want, what will undoubtedly be a treasure, wasted. Hand me some odd proof-sheets. I like peopled into people's workshops. You have conferred a great benefit on me, by this scheme of an Odyssey. That cottage in Dorset will be mine, in consequence; and the surplus will get me a motor-bike, & make my 1920-25 years in England very much a ..."... I am exceedingly grateful for your care of my interests. I'd ... have asked a quarter the money, myself. Yours, T. E Elw...