T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 122

To Colonel R. Burton Clouds Hill Moreton Dorset 13.IV.35 Dear Robin The Press have not troubled me for two weeks: nor in that time have I looked at a newspaper, so we are quite, I think. Life here is pottery: I think in time I will get used to the feeling that nobody wants me to do anything today. For the moment it is a lost sort of life. Money. Will you deposit this in the proper place? I see things have slumped since our valuation. However Igue la galere. We are embarked on this new building: and on a fire pump and other things. By the end of May all these capital expenses will be over. I shall then again sum up the situation and decide how I stand. My "trust" last expenses" the last three weeks:- £22/- weekly, which is encouraging, for keeps. Please ask your Income Tax Branch to claim Tax deductions from dividends in future. Not for last: beginning from March (or April) 1935. I shall not ask you to send me a regular allowance down here till after this capital expenditure is over. I do not like civil life, nor leisure. Thank you for sending the Hogarth portrait so swift to Oxford, I hope they will like it, this time. Things point that way, I think, but I shall hear for certain in ten days or a fortnight. My little cottage is charming, I think, for what it is. What ails me is this odd sense of being laid aside before being worn out. However I musnt bore you with that, and Time is on my side. yours T.E.S. Heres a cheque for my mother: which please fling into the overdraft