BR TO OTTOLINE MORRELL, 21 MAY 1913
BRACERS 17916. ALS. Morrell papers #782, Texas
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Trinity College,
Cambridge.1^, 2
Wed. aftn.

My Darling Love

Your dear letter this morning was such a joy — you do write such dear letters now-a-days — they keep me very happy. I don’t know why you got no letter Sunday — I have written quite regularly. I am sorry not to write at night, when you would get them in the morning, but I never can be sure I shan’t be interrupted then, and it worries me, besides I am apt to be so sleepy or tired with work that I can’t write properly then.

I had a pleasant 2 hours with Mrs Whitehead yesterday — Whitehead got blood-poisoning from influenza but is now better — he was very bad. She is very tired, but not more so than I expected. I didn’t see him as he was at Univ. Coll. You will be glad to hear that she was struck by my looking so well — said she had never seen me looking so well.

My theory of knowledge consists of threea parts, acquaintance, judgment, inference. Acquaintance consists of two divisions, particulars and universals. I finished particulars the day beforeb yesterday and have now begun on universals, which are harder. So one may reckon I have done a sixth of the book; but I think really it is more nearly a quarter. Wittgenstein came to see me last night with a refutation of the theory of judgment which I used to hold. He was right, but I think the correction required is not very serious. I shall have to make up my mind within a week, as I shall soon reach judgment.

I have only read Nostromo once, and I should like to read it again. I will get it from the Union. I remember thinking it was very good.

You have been busy with preparing your patients for Combe. You must get very little time for reading. Yes, it seems quite incredibly long since we last met. Much longer than it really is. It was a very happy moment, that last day. I suppose the weeks will pass somehow. But I wish they would move faster. I am consoling myself with the thought that I shall get the bulk of my book done before you come home — but that is rather a one-sided consolation.

Now this must go. Goodbye my Darling Love. I send a thousand kisses and all my heart.

Your
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  [document] Document 000782. Proofread against a colour scan of the original.

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  [envelope] A circled “782”.  The Lady Ottoline Morrell | Hôtel Riche-Mont | Lausanne | Switzerland. Pmk: CAMBRIDGE | 3.15 PM | 21 MAY 13

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