T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 592

- 5 - (10.2.24 cont.) As I explained, the wise man must prepare for trouble. too poor a.being to pay damages, too degraded a being to fear imprisonment. .... "Blow your pocket, of course, while you've done so superb a thing as the monument ... but yourself is probably hunger-satisfying as a jolly thing, but about as T B ? Fixe is labouring splendidly. It's going to be a wonderful bit of printing. Subscribers are coming along well. Ten last month, I believe, and several lately. One Smith today, .... 7. 3. 25 .... "Fixe has been very low, to judge from his letters, in weather non-plussed: .... If I go on writing him cheerfully, the letters will lose force, one of monotony. Yet he finished proofs of Book I. are wonderful. As good press-work as has ever been done. The man is a treasure, and shall take artist, at need." 21.X.26 .... "What's this about the Times having a copy of the book? I know Geoffrey Dawson, the Editor of the Times, quite well, and can easily find out what it means and where it came from. He got me my All Souls Fellowship, Only I won't write to him until I'm sure there is anything in the story. It will be a great pity if sheets have leaked away. I took no open precautions against it, since that would be the surest way of provoking it. Savage can't bring actions, and I won't ... so disregard all that sort of noise. And nobody has rights in the complete text, except myself ... so disregard all yarns that anybody is hurt or peevish!"