"Feathers Hotel Ludlow. Saturday My Darling—Two letters from you have reached me, and I am very grateful for them both—the second really did say things that help."

"I think I shall stay here long enough to get an answer from you. I like the place, which I came to last year—the castle and the river are delightful, and there are beautiful wooded hill-sides beyond—it is so difficult to get a bed anywhere at August Bank holiday time that one can't go on at hap-hazard from place to place—I long for the sea but may not go to it."

Dating this letter is difficult.  On Saturday, 28 July BR was at the Southgate Brotherhood Church (the site of the mob incident); on Sunday, 29 July he was in Knighton with Constance Malleson; on Monday, 30 July he was at the Feathers Hotel in Ludlow; on 31 July, he was at the house called "The Avenue" in Ashford Carbonell.  The most likely explanation is that the latter was written on Monday rather than Saturday and just before he and Colette found The Avenue and moved there.

There is nothing to indicate that Russell had ever been to Ludlow before. However, he did spend 14-23 June 1916 doing a walking tour of Wales (Papers 13 chronology), and Ludlow is near Wales.  BR returned to the Ludlow area on only two other occasions, March 1918 and April 1919, so this letter cannot date from those years.

BR wrote one further letter to Ottoline but only a fragment survives (letter no. 1466, transcribed as document .053189, records 18653 and 119385), telling her that he had left the Feathers for a farmhouse 3 miles away.