BR TO OTTOLINE MORRELL, [15 SEPT. 1911]
BRACERS 17261. ALS. Morrell papers #180, Texas
Proofread by K. Blackwell et al.

Grosvenor Hotel.1^, 2
Friday morning

My Darling

Your telegram, which I got when I arrived, was a great joy, it was good of you to send it. Tomorrow your letters ought to begin to come, so I shan’t be long without any news of you. — I arrived without having seen a soul I knew, which was lucky. The letters I found waiting for me were few and unimportant, and none of them such as ought to have had an immediate answer, so I am safely out of all difficulties.

I have had my hair cut, and look an awful bounder. But by the time you next see it it will be quite long. London seemed unfamiliar and odd last night — like some new continental town — I could hardly believe it was the old place I am so used to. I couldn’t believe it was full of people I knew, and that it wouldn’t matter if I met them. — I have not quite finished Sandra. She is charming, and all the different sentimentalists are very well done.

My head is a blank. Travel and sleep together have emptied it of everything except a vague sense of things to do. I have to go out very soon to see Lucy Silcox. I have not heard from her — I gather from the Hotel Porter that he forwarded a letter from her to my Uncle Rollo Russell.

I am going now to take Life in the Universal3 to a typewriter. The end of a long review of my Philosophical Essays by Santayana4 reached me here. It is largely critical, but serious and quite good. His ethic is very different from mine; I don’t think it can be right, but it is hard to feel sure.

I hope P. arrived well and is enjoying his holiday. Here it is fine and warm — much warmer than Marienbad. Please thank P. from me for the Times review.5

Goodbye my Darling. I will write again on my way to Ipsden tonight. I love you, I love you. Take care of yourself.

Your
B.

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  [document] Document 000180. Proofread against a colour scan of the original.

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  [envelope] A circled “180”.

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  Life in the Universal  An alternate title for Prisons.

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  by Santayana “Russell’s Philosophical Essays, III. Hypostatic Ethics”, Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, 8, no. 16 (3 Aug. 1911): 421–32. The full review was reprinted in his Winds of Doctrine (1913).

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  Times review “The New Symbolic Logic”, Times Literary Supplement, no. 504 (7 Sept. 1911): 321–2. The review was published anonymously; in BRACERS 17285 BR wrote that he knew it was by G.H. Hardy.