Edith orders cognac for Countess von Zeppelin.

Edith orders chocolates for various people and other gifts for Alex, Michael and Elizabeth Farley.

Edith orders chocolates and special crackers

Edith orders groceries for herself as well as jars of cheese for others.

Edith orders cheese, stem ginger, and honey for others.

Edith orders groceries; at the bottom of this letter she noted that she cancelled some items by telephone on 2 December 1968.

Edith orders chocolates for others.

Edith orders cognac to be sent to Countess von Zeppelin.

Edith orders cake, cheese and honey for others and some items for herself.

Edith orders confections for others as well as herself.

Edith orders groceries; on this letter she also noted what she ordered from Harrods on 11 August, including Lapsang Souchong tea.

Following their telephone conversation, Edith sends a cheque for her order of 17 July.

Edith wrote on the enclosed printed card: "Application for credit Account sent ... 16/8/77"

This item is Fortnum & Mason's Christmas 1960 catalogue; Edith marked items she ordered on pp. 12, 15, 18, 21, 25.

Fribourg will no longer sell Silcut cigarettes; Edith made an original note in the margin of this photocopy.

Ling apologizes for not sending Edith's standing cigarette order on the correct date.

Edith cancels her standing order "after this week's supply is sent." The order was for 200 cigarettes; the brand being sent is "too strong" for her taste.

Re knitted neckties for sale; Edith notes "green tie kept" on 29 September 1967.

Re knitted neckties for sale; Edith notes on 15 November 1968 that she sent him or her £1.10.00.

Christmas greetings. Green once met BR. His writings brought great comfort to her in her youth.

Christmas greetings, not sent. Signed by Edith as "Lord and Lady Russell." Miss Humphreys worked at Plas Penrhyn.

Two Christmas cards, evidently not sent, signed in Edith's handwriting "Lord and Lady Russell." 

A Good Wishes card. A "Scene from Richmond Hill" is pasted on the card. Edith signed in fountain pen ink with only her first name.

Edith orders "one dozen 1/4 lb. packets of the best Lapsang Souchong tea".

A stamped empty return envelope with the address of "Proprietors of Red Hackle Scotch Whisky". The queen's image is young.

Re motor-car insurance, now renewed.

This is a transcription by Edith of part of a letter that Juliette sent her, record 27952, recollecting BR at Garsington in 1915.

The Garden Party was a fundraiser for the hospital and was named "Bring and Buy a Book"; it was to be held on 21 July 1973. Edith noted on the letter she received what four books she sent. She did not attend.

Edith encloses the four books she sent to the Garden Party named "Bring and Buy a Book". The titles were provided in a note to record 133036.

Philibert gives the titles and greatly enjoyed reading the books donated by Edith.

Edith noted on the letter that she signed and sent a group message to be included in a casket to be placed under the foundations of a new hospital in Hanoi.

An update on supported hospital services in Hanoi.

This is a printed invitation to a reception in London; Edith wrote "no" on the invitation.

Edith asks if more copies of the bronze 90th birthday medallion, 1962, which Ironside designed may be made.

Ironside agrees to making more copies of the 90th birthday medallion, although he raises the question whether the original lot was advertised as limited. "The medal was cast by Messrs Morris Singer. I do not recollect if a master bronze cast was made—probably not. [I think Ralph Schoenman has the original plaster]."

"The existing medallions were taken to the United States by Ralph Schoenman when he broke with my husband ... I believe I have the original plaster framed in Wales." She asks if an edition in silver is possible.

He will visit the Singer Foundry to see whether they want to work with "the original plaster or one of the bronze casts." He thinks the Royal Mint could be brought to participate.

He has an estimate from the Singer Foundry. £40 in bronze and £136 in silver.

Edith asks if the medallions may be advertised before ordering any.

Utley's Odyssey of a Liberal is not possessed by the London Library.

Christmas card.

Lloyd includes a remembered BR question from a lunch at the Grosvenor Hotel: "Tell me; do you think that on the whole it is desirable for the human race to continue to exist?"

On listening to a BBC programme on BR. Ted Lloyd died in 1968.

She is grateful for the large print books. John Lloyd and his brother Richard had a "much valued talk with Bertie"; The year isn't mentioned.

The enclosed statement,  "Tillingbourne Housing Association" is a typed carbon dated April 1970. Lloyd invites Farley to see the homes.

Farley withdraws his interest as his family needs 5 bedrooms and cannot afford to live in Hemel Hempstead.

On Linus Pauling. On insufficient women on the editorial board of The Spokesman, which has made a small start on rectification.

Re replicas of Jacob Epstein's bust of BR. The BR Society is interested. 

Re making copies of Jacob Epstein's bust of BR and the Tomkiss bust of BR.

John Lloyd has the cast of "the other one", meaning the bust by Tomkiss.

This letter is described as "not a copy but a sketchy 1st draft of reply."

She critiques the Tomkiss bust with profound knowledge of the subject, and compares it with Epstein's.

Makino hopes very much to visit Plas Penrhyn. He hopes also to attend the BR Centenary Celebrations at McMaster.

Edith thanks Makino for sending his book; she has kept the envelope the book was sent in.

He has started reading several books by BR and hopes to engage in correspondence with Edith.

The content of this letter is almost the same as that of record 133062. He says Edith did not reply to it, but she marked "Ans" on the original envelope.

She wants any personal belonging of BR's, for which she is willing to pay. She assumes Schoenman interfered with a previous request. Edith notes that she sent a photo.

Re the death of Lucy Russell.

She will do her best to come to the meeting on BR on 8 June.

A change in local representation.

Edith notes in the margin of this letter that she sent a cheque to this painter on 22 Oct. 1966.

Christmas greetings.

McLeod is writing a book on British prime ministers and asks Edith's help.

Re miniatures: Edith thinks that Agatha Russell sold some of the contents of Pembroke Lodge but gave "what she considered to be its treasures" to Woburn Abbey.

She has obtained a used copy of Edith's biography of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

Re books, with nothing particular about Edith.

Transcendental meditation is mentioned as beneficial.

He sat down with BR and was at his birthday concert. They do pottery.

Colette thanks Edith for her letter and notes that Edith "gave B. peace & happiness after all his bad times." She also commented that she admires Christopher Farley "for the calm way he has treated Schoenman's ravings."

"B.'s birthday roses for Edith from Colette, 1970."

A postal strike may interfere with the roses Colette ordered to be sent to Edith on 2 February.

"There seems to me now no greater pleasure than to keep in touch with someone who loves Bertie, and I cherish your letters."

On BR's death. She was a friend of Edith and Lucy Donnelly at least as early as 1940.

She recently visited Plas Penrhyn and hopes "the teeth come out on schedule".

The Carey Thomas award is mentioned.

Re Hasker St.: she hopes Edith hasn't sold it and that "your most encroaching granddaughter doesn't really have a lien on it".

Manning broke her leg.

She asks if BR minded the infirmities of old age.

She must use 2 canes.

On people she knows.

On close friends and having no terminal illness.

Her travel days are over.

This is an empty envelope addressed to Miss Hawksley, 44 Redcliffe Gardens, London. It is postmarked Mortlake, S.W. 14, 30 January 1952. Someone has written in pencil on the envelope, which may be a return address: "SCC's friend: Mrs. Terry Martin, 37 College Circle, Stillwater, Oklahoma, U.S.A."

He inquires about BR's brusque break from Ralph Schoenman.

Edith directs him to Russell's "Memorandum concerning Ralph Schoenman", "piratically published" in The New Statesman of 11 Sept. 1970.

As a BRS member, he wants to help on International Civil Liberties.

Edith writes at length on political prisoners and refers to Farley's reply, too, at record 133095.

Farley draws distinctions between the work of Amnesty and the BRPF in regard to political prisoners.

"[F]ollowing a lead from the most helpful of librarians, Kenneth Blackwell", McGuinness requests a meeting with Edith because he is writing a biography of Wittgenstein and wants to see a couple of books in BR's library. She noted in the margin that she would meet with him.

McGuinness will see Edith on 2 September.

He thanks Edith for the visit and letting him see Russell's Library. This sort of contact with great men is rather humbling.

Re a biography of Lord John Russell by John Prest. Edith's reply is written in the margin. She has no photographs of Lady John Russell apart from those already published. She suggests McMaster University, Anton Felton, and Woburn Abbey as sources.

Anton Felton has provided a photograph of Lady John Russell.

"Kenneth Blackwell, at the McMaster University Archives, is now closely in touch with me, checking material he is trying to track down, mentioned in letters. He sent me a newspaper interview with Ralph Schoenman and another indicating that BR finally had to repudiate him...." If there is any income from McMaster publishing BR's old material, does any come to Edith? 

Medlock explains the enclosure. She's "not trying to convince".

She has shipped Edith a copy of her growing book ms. on BR. She is waiting to hear from the RA what material can be supplied to her.

Notes written attached to Julie Medlock's envelope for her book ms., and letter of 18 May 1970, record 133103.

Edith has sent Medlock notes on inaccuracies in her book ms. on BR. She begs that her name not be mentioned as approving it, and she says this generally. For the draft of this letter and the notes, see record 133148.

[At McMaster] "Ken Blackwell has finally come through with 120 photocopies of my letters to BR and some of his to me, and some others in general". Now Medlock can check some facts.

The offprint is from The Sunday Standard Magazine Section, 28 June 1970 re Auroville.

Postal strike in Canada has held up "photo-copies promised by Kenneth Blackwell".

Medlock responds to a number of Edith's notes on her book ms.