T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 120

To Colonel R. Buxton. A/C Shaw M. A. F. F. Felixstowe S. V. '3 Dear Robin That was a heart breaking business, and I hates it. Always I hope to attend no funerals until my own I and fail! Now here comes a letter from the Oxford-University Press of New York, with two cheques "so that you can cash the one immediately, if you wish, and hold the other, if you wish, on the chance of an improvement in the rate of exchange" That is what they say in the letter. I do not exchange it is what they say in the letter. I hand it your hands. Know, and leave the whole business, I shall to prophecy the course Do not race. your brain in such a tempts, it your daily visitors, and of business is ask one or other of ... I want you to waste time on it. The ... said last Sunday, "Sit down". So the News of the World said last Sunday. I don't know what will happen about income tax on this amount. The U.S.A. proportion has been deducted, I see. The British share will be worse. The cheques represent the royalties of the U.S.A. Odyssey up to the slump. No more sales, I expect, since. Yours T F Shaw Felixstowe will be my address for a week. Mount Batten is finished with. I may go to Cowes (Isle of Wight) afterwards. T B S.