T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 561

(2) 10/10/23 Also, I am not a scholar. If I read Greek, it is for pleasure. I fear my version will inevitably try harder to convey my pleasure than to be an exact mould of the Greek. Yet accuracy is a good thing, in its way. Will you try to find a hide-bound scholar, and ask him to snout through the sample chapter for literal errors? I'd like to avoid howlers. The sample, by the way, is provisional only. A revised version of it will accompany the first batch of books sent you in four months or so from now. It will be an expensive book. May provision be made for me to have two free copies? I think that is all the business. I feel that the invitation to work with Mr. Bruce Rogers, and to be produced by you is a great step up in the world for me, bookily speaking, and I'll do my best to give as little trouble as possible. Yours sincerely . T.E. SHAW