Editing T. E. Lawrence (section)

===Posthumous===
Lawrence left ''[[The Mint (book)|The Mint]]'' unpublished,<ref>Doubleday, Doran & Co, New York, 1936; rprnt Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1984 {{ISBN|0-14-004505-8}}</ref> a memoir of his experiences as an enlisted man in the Royal Air Force (RAF). For this, he worked from a notebook that he kept while enlisted, writing of the daily lives of enlisted men and his desire to be a part of something larger than himself.{{sfn|Wilson|1989|p=810}} The book is stylistically different from ''Seven Pillars of Wisdom'', using sparse prose as opposed to the complicated syntax found in ''Seven Pillars''. It was published posthumously, edited by his brother [[A. W. Lawrence|Arnold]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Mint, by 352087 A/c Ross A Day-book of the R.A.F. Depot between August and December 1922|first=T. E.|last=Lawrence|publisher=Jonathan Cape|year=1955}}</ref>

After Lawrence's death, Arnold Lawrence inherited Lawrence's estate and his copyrights as the sole beneficiary. To pay the inheritance tax, he sold the US copyright of ''Seven Pillars of Wisdom'' (subscribers' text) outright to [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday Doran]] in 1935.{{sfn|Orlans|2002|p=134}} Doubleday controlled publication rights of this version of the text of ''Seven Pillars of Wisdom'' in the US until the copyright expired at the end of 2022 (publication plus 95 years). In 1936, A. W. Lawrence split the remaining assets of the estate, giving Clouds Hill and many copies of less substantial or historical letters to the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]], and then set up two trusts to control interests in his brother's residual copyrights.<ref name=SPOWF>{{cite web |title=Seven Pillars of Wisdom Fund |url=https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=92933 |website=Research.britishmuseum.org |publisher=British Museum |access-date=19 January 2020}}</ref> He assigned the copyright in ''Seven Pillars of Wisdom'' to the Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust,<ref>{{EW charity |208669|Seven Pillars Of Wisdom Trust}}</ref> and it was given its first general publication as a result.{{sfn|Orlans|2002|p=133}} He assigned the copyright in ''The Mint'' and all Lawrence's letters to the Letters and Symposium Trust,{{sfn|Orlans|2002|p=134}} which he edited and published in the book ''T. E. Lawrence by his Friends'' in 1937. The work contained recollections and reminiscences by a large number of Lawrence's friends and colleagues.{{sfn|Orlans|2002|p=134}}

A substantial amount of income went directly to the RAF Benevolent Fund and to archaeological, environmental, and academic projects.{{sfn|Wilson|1989|p=774}} The two trusts were amalgamated in 1986, and the unified trust acquired all the remaining rights to Lawrence's works that it had not owned on the death of A. W. Lawrence in 1991, plus rights to all of A. W. Lawrence's works.<ref name=SPOWF/> The UK copyrights on Lawrence's works published in his lifetime and within 20 years of his death expired on 1 January 2006. Works published more than 20 years after his death were protected for 50 years from publication or to 1 January 2040, whichever is earlier.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.telstudies.org/writings/tel_uk_copyright.shtml |title=British copyright law and T.E. Lawrence's writings |publisher=T.E. Lawrence Society |access-date=19 January 2020 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191205094137/http://www.telstudies.org/writings/tel_uk_copyright.shtml |archive-date=5 December 2019}}</ref>