T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 212

Doughty. Fifty years hence: possibly much more than £400 put out at compound interest : possibly less. Will you let me have your reply, if possible this week ? If you agree to sell (and in spite of that missed hundred I think it a fairly good offer) I'll tell the people. They say they will send me the money in a week after, and I could bring it down in one of my teaching excursions to Eastbourne, and carry off the book when I go. People I meet are delighted at the "Observer" article. Hognoth should take a leaf out of my bad book, and ask you to let him use it as a preface to the second edition of his history, which will probably be one of its results : I hope Mrs. Doughty continues to improve. Yours sincerely, T. E. Lawrence. We can discuss other ways of making money when we meet. It is rather fun. If I had been appointed your Vice-agent about 1900 I'd have grown fat on my commission long ago ! TEL.