BR TO EDWARD FULLER, 24 MAY 1952
BRACERS 11845. ALD. McMaster. Russell 15 (1995): 50
Edited by K. Blackwell

Dear Mr. Fuller,1 ^, 2

Thank you very much for your letter which it was very encouraging to get. I remember your getting into trouble for repeating Bodkin’s words.3 At the time, we were all indignant because Bodkin was not also put in gaol. I hope you are right that I had some share in procuring your release.

Yours sincerely

• 1[document] Published in K. Blackwell, “Two Days in the Dictation of Bertrand Russell”, Russell 15 (1995): 37–52 (at 50).
• 2

  Mr. Fuller Edward Fuller, who wrote BR on 18 May 1952 (RA1 723) on the letterhead of the Save the Children Fund. His letter is excerpted in Papers 13: lii. BR helped free him from “the shackles of conventional Christianity”, but he says he has not followed BR in his “recession from what we used to call Pacifism”.

• 3

  Bodkin’s words Archibald Bodkin (1862–1957), later Director of Public Prosecutions, was the prosecutor of BR in the Everett leaflet case (June 1916). Bodkin repeated BR’s unlawful words in court. The transcript of the proceedings, Rex vs. Bertrand Russell, was confiscated because it quoted Bodkin.