T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 121

To Colonel Buxton. 13 Birmingham St Southampton 4. 1. '34 Dear Robin Today with a cheque for £130 . 8 . 2 I have finished paying for the changes to my cottage. After that the cheque has come (or even earlier) will you please work out the total of my overdraft, and deduct this off my securities in your hands must be sold, to pay it off? We will begin by paying off the overdraft, and then I'll have to take stock and see how hard hit I am in the matter of income. It necessary I may even have to make a bit bores to straighten up my living. What a bore money is! But the only sensible thing, while I was on the cottage, was to finish it off regardless of ... expense; and then take stock. It is finished now, except for minor trifles which can be added as money serves. Nothing essential. Yours very sadly T.E.S. I hate giving you this work; but please take it light- heartedly. I swear that the past investment policy would be to slab the stout page of the Times from the back, with a pint