Dora writes to BR from the Grand Hotel, Moscow: "I begin to feel it a shame you did not come too, it would have enriched and refreshed you (partly by irritation!) before you go to America."

(Dora will arrive home after BR leaves for his U.S. lecture tour.) "I don't think one ought to be afraid of flying."

Griffin Barry says it is undignified to live anywhere nearby [the Russells].

Dora wants to bring the children next year. What the Russians do for children is admirable in every way.