BR TO OTTOLINE MORRELL, [1 NOV. 1911]
BRACERS 17324. Morrell papers #238, Texas
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Wed. evg.1^, 2

My Darling

This must be only one line as I have no time for a letter. I had a walk with Keynes, who came back to tea; then Ogden came, then my lecture, at which the nun reappeared. My German was very argumentative and tiresome. He wouldn’t admit that it was certain there was not a rhinoceros in the room. Since then I have had to talk to Geach, and now it is almost time to dress for the feast — I hope I shall keep awake! Probably there will be a letter from you at 8.30, and it will wait ever so long before I can get it. I expect I shall have a levee in my rooms after dinner. Friday night I read my Aristn. paper to the Moral Science Club, so I am tied here then. Sat. I have Miss Silcox in the afternoon — not Arthur Russell and Adela Aranji — they are coming Wednesday 15th.a — I enclose some French proofs of an article about me3 — the first 2 or 3 paragraphs express what always happens with me. When I first published my definition of numbers everybody found fault with it — then insensibly they all came to accept it. It is only the first few paragraphs that would interest you. It is an article I got in MS at Peppard — they didn’t print it till they had asked me if I thought it worth printing, which was a compliment to my candour, as it is a criticism of me.

Goodnight my Darling love — I am already looking forward to Friday morning 10.45. No time now. Goodbye my Beloved.

Your
B.

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  [document] Document 000238. Proofread against a colour scan of the original.

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  [envelope] A circled “238”. The Lady Ottoline Morrell | 44 Bedford Square | London W.C. Pmk: CAMBRIDGE | 10. PM | NO 1 | 11 | 2

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  article about me Alexander Koyré, “Sur les nombres de M. Russell”, Revue de métaphysique et de morale, 20 (1912): 722–4 (English translation, Appendix VIII.1, Papers 6). The French proofs are with the current letter at Texas.

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