T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 187

To: Dr. C.M. Doughty, All Souls, Oxford. 7. 5. 20 Dear Mr. Doughty, After a great deal of writing Egypt have at last been able to make up their minds - of course wrongly. They say troubles that the arrears due to the interference of the local ... will take them two years to work off. After that they will be able to take on outside work again. I do not believe it, for I am sure that their local troubles are not nearly over. It is most unsatisfactory. There remain possibilities of America, and subscription. The younger poets are very anxious for the latter, since they all want Amida Dageity, and cannot afford her (she now stands at £38. 10. 0) but it would mean getting a very long .. if this least a thousand copies, I think) and I do not see how if it is fortunately not possible. As for America, the book is unfortunate: but with ..., there ... However if I may, I'll have another ... for with Duckworth. There is so large and worthy a demand out again some-one the book that it seems shameful not to get it out again for now. Then about a tame artist. That also has been difficult. John had to finish a lot of things for a show, to raise him- self money, then he went to hospital, for an operation, and now he's in France being made fit again. He is of course the great man: but meanwhile, would you allow Mr. W. Rothenstein to draw you ? He sounds formula of but did very well in the war: and makes a special point of men of books. He knows Arabic, of course, and would make his men of books. He would also to make a drawing of you. It would be very trouble you to sit all, about an hour and a half, and would not trouble you to sit piece of work. and it would be a very pleasing and honest draughtsman - not a genius, good Rothenstein is a quite safe drawing. If you will allow him, it would give all of us a great deal of pleasure. I'm sorry about Cairo: but it only means finding another way: a nuisance. Yours sincerely, T.E. Lawrence