T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 459

To Miss G.Bell 16.VIII.23 Dear Gertrude The £300 was an old estimate for setting up 350,000 words. Chis- wick Press. There is a slight movement about the Clarendon Press, & I shrink from the task of educating them suddenly. The alternative of a subscription edition is too much of a print, & this season I would rather be indebted to our 3%s on £2 for not turning over in my sind the alternative - to publish an abridgement (approx: by Hogarth) & do the subscription privately for its profit. On Monday I may go to Oxford (they may ... Dodd there as escort to a lorry column) & if so will try to see Yours J B L