BRACERS Record Detail for 1302

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Collection code
RA1
Class no.
710
Document no.
050345
Box no.
5.18
Recipient(s)
BR
Sender(s)
Goodden, Robert B.
UK Embassy, Reval, Estonia
Date
1920/08/14
Form of letter
ALS
Pieces
2
Notes, topics or text

Goodden uses "Reval" even though the name had been changed to "Tallinn" in 1917. Goodden refers to "The Narva Waiting Room," an article probably by C.R. Buxton in the 4th Nation issue.

Transcription

ROBERT B. GOODDEN / UK EMBASSY, REVAL, ESTONIA TO BR, 14 AUG. 1920
BRACERS 1302. ALS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell


Reval.
14. VIII. 20.

Dear Mr. Russell.

I have just received 4 copies of the Nation, containing your 4 articles, which I have devoured with the greatest interest.

If you are the kind person who sent them, I am most grateful to you. If not, and you know who did, be so kind as to pass on our gratitude — for they are now going the rounds.

I was a little puzzled as to the arrival of the first — for it so happened that the last number came a day or two before the other 3 — and was addressed to the “BR. Mil. Prison”! the others, however, not so.

It is a great satisfaction to be assisted by such a lucid and judicial summing up of the situation. I thought your own impartiality was in striking contrast to my friend CR Buxton’s article in the same number, which I found disappointing on that score.

I am entirely in favour of the hunting down and showing up of evil (at least I want to be) and equally so of insisting on the good which others cannot or will not admit. But “The Narva Waiting Room” seemed me merely obsessed.

I found other interesting, and refreshing, also irritating things in those Nations, which luckily came in time to go on a railway journey.

I think our most interesting visitor since you left has been Dr. Nansen — a really charming person.

[Clifford Allen. Consul Leslie. 5th number just arrived!]

Publication
Re B&R C20.17
Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
1302
Record created
May 20, 2014
Record last modified
Oct 26, 2023
Created/last modified by
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