"Dear Miss Rinder your letter has not yet arrived."

This letter is a typed copy of a letter; the original is not extant. The letter has a handwritten annotation by BR about wanting a canary and corrections of the typescript in BR's hand.

The other versions of this letter are:

Document .054846, record 79640. (This document seems to be the earliest typed copy.) The carbon copy of this version is document .20299f, record 19331.

There are two other transcriptions: document .201183, record 116692 and its carbon, document .200299e, record 19330. An even shorter extract (the paragraph about the canary and the ourang-outang has been removed) appears in "Extracts from Letters Written by the Hon. Bertrand Russell in Brixton Prison, August 1918", sent to Gilbert Murray and located in Rec. Acq. 71e, record 52372.