T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 462

To Miss G.Bell 18.VIII.23 Dear Gertrude The £300 was an old estimate for setting up 350,000 words. Chis- wick Press. There is a slight smugness about the Clarendon Press, & I shrink from the task of educating them suddenly. The difficulty of a subscription edn. is how many to print, & what to go with the materials left over (plates etc.). For this reason I would rather be indebted to one than to many. I'm turning over in my mind the alternatives - to publish Garnett's abridgement (approved by Hogarth) & do the subscription edition with its profits. On Monday I may go to Oxford (they may send me near there as escort to a lorry column) & if so will try to see D.G.H. Yours T B L