"Lucy Donnelly had a great collection of letters from Alys Russell. They exchanged long letters with increasing frequency from the last years of the last century till Lucy's death, most of which were preserved. And I had a fairly large collection, especially from the late 1940s. But when I left the U.S.A. in 1950, I think I destroyed the lot, certainly most of it. How I regret, now, that I did not keep them."

[However, Edith hand-copied many of the letters, and they arrived in 2013, Rec. Acq. 1685.]