ROBERT B. GOODDEN / UK EMBASSY, REVAL, ESTONIA TO BR, 14 AUG. 1920
BRACERS 1302. ALS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell

Reval.
14. VIII. 20.

Dear Mr. Russell.

I have just received 4 copies of the Nation, containing your 4 articles, which I have devoured with the greatest interest.

If you are the kind person who sent them, I am most grateful to you. If not, and you know who did, be so kind as to pass on our gratitude — for they are now going the rounds.

I was a little puzzled as to the arrival of the first — for it so happened that the last number came a day or two before the other 3 — and was addressed to the “BR. Mil. Prison”! the others, however, not so.

It is a great satisfaction to be assisted by such a lucid and judicial summing up of the situation. I thought your own impartiality was in striking contrast to my friend CR Buxton’s article in the same number, which I found disappointing on that score.

I am entirely in favour of the hunting down and showing up of evil (at least I want to be) and equally so of insisting on the good which others cannot or will not admit. But “The Narva Waiting Room” seemed me merely obsessed.

I found other interesting, and refreshing, also irritating things in those Nations, which luckily came in time to go on a railway journey.

I think our most interesting visitor since you left has been Dr. Nansen — a really charming person.

[Clifford Allen. Consul Leslie. 5th number just arrived!]