The Recipients of Complimentary Copies Could Drive Him Mad

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Will you please let somebody send me three copies of the Peacock, with the bill therefor? Three rapacious relatives are turtling with indignation at my neglect: if they were not ten times better able to spare the cash than I, I might tell them to buy their own books and go to the devil; (Li 221) Thus Lawrence reacted angrily to some requests for complimentary copies of his first novel. But on the whole Lawrence was a willing and generous provider of his books to family and friends, and the su...

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