The Recipients of Complimentary Copies Could Drive Him Mad

Abstract

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...