BRACERS Record Detail for 131544
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BR thanks Parkhurst for her letter and book, Beauty: an Interpretation of Art and the Imaginative Life (1930). He has "greatly admired" the pictures and hopes to read the book soon. BR says her letter makes his "mouth water with all the lovely places you have been seeing". He has not been to the Near East or Greece. BR alludes to a large dinner where they had met before, wishing that they could meet again, but doubts that it will happen.
Parkhurst was a graduate of Bryn Mawr in 1911, 1913 and 1917 (Ph.D., philosophy). She was a Guggenheim fellow: appointed for the preparation of a work on the aesthetics of architecture, abroad; tenure, twelve months from July 15, 1931.
On letterhead of Beacon Hill School.
BR TO HELEN HUSS PARKHURST, 7 OCT. 1931
BRACERS 131544. TLS. Internet print
Proofread by K. Blackwell
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Beacon Hill School1
Harting,
Petersfield.
7th Oct. 1931
Dear Miss Parkhurst,
Thank you very much for your letter and for your book on Beauty. I have not yet had time to read the book, but I have greatly admired the pictures, and I hope to read it soon.
Your letter makes my mouth water with the thought of all the lovely places you have been seeing. I do not know the Near East at all, not even Greece, and I wish I did.
I am just about to start for your country, to which I suppose you will be adjourning before long. I suppose I shall not again meet you at a big dinner, though it would be pleasant if I did.
Yours faithfully,
Bertrand Russell
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