T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 541
T. E. Lawrence Correspondence
Page 541
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3. And they would have to promise to respect this privacy.
I hope never again to be the victim of the press.
4. Six months because the writing of the first ten pages
or so fixes the style of all the rest, and is the hardest part.
And I do not want to do it for nothing. Fifteen or twenty pounds
would see me nicely through it.
My strongest advice to you is to get someone better, to do
you a more certain performance ; I am nothing like good enough
for so great a work of art as the Odyssey. Nor, incidentally,
to be printed by B. H.
Your kindness remains overwhelming. Do realise that I
have no confidence in myself, and what I'd like is some little
job, unquestioningly within my strength and my leisure hours
in the R.A.F.
Yours ever
T. B. SHAW
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