BR TO AUSTIN DAVIES, 24 MAY 1952
BRACERS 11846. ALD. McMasster. Russell 15 (1995): 50
Edited by K. Blackwell

Dear Mr. Davies,1^, 2

Thank you for your very nice letter. I well remember my visit to Merthyr Tydfil3 and I also remember your uncle4 whose conversation I enjoyed. I have written an autobiography but it will not be published till I am dead so I cannot tell you the exact date.5

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. Davies Austin Davies, who wrote BR on 17 May 1952 (RA1 723).

• 3

  Merthyr Tydfil In July 1916.

• 4

  your uncle Harry Davies, who was with the No-Conscription Fellowship (see Papers 14: 494) and is mentioned in BR’s 1916 correspondence with Lady Ottoline Morrell. (Thanks to Nicholas Griffin for this information.)

• 5

  it will not be published till I am dead so I cannot tell you the exact date BR finally relented in spring 1966 and saw his Autobiography published in 1967–69.