Alan Wood writes about BR's meeting with Arthur Gask in Australia, misspelling his name "Gasc". Wood notes that BR visited Gask because he was a favourite mystery writer of his, and that "When Russell had to leave Australia, Gasc wrote to him:

"My Dear Master,
"You came like a flash of lightning into my life, and now the sky is very dark and empty...." (Bertrand Russell, the Passionate Sceptic, p. 213).

This letter is not in the Russell Archives. The source for Wood's quotation may have been Russell himself.