BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [3 NOV. 1918]
BRACERS 19382. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

<London>
Sunday mg.1^, 2

My Beloved,

You were adorable last night — I came home very happy and have been so ever since — I do hope you are well — I finished the Index3 last night and made the fair copy for printing this morning. It is impossible to go a walk today but I shall lunch with Wrinch4 and make her help me to concoct an answer5 to Jourdain.6

My lovely cherub I do love you so much — you are so kind and tender with me and I feel humble about it — We will have a wonderful heavenly time abroad7 — within measurable distance now — and all the colour and joy of the South will make you live. I do want you to have every delight — I hate you to be poor — I have behaved ill to you sometimes but I shall learn better gradually — Bless you my dear Heart’s life —

Your
B.

I send the foolish letter8 because you wanted it — but I am not in for a mood of gloom.

• 1

  [document] Document 200372.

• 2

  [date] The date was assigned from the surrounding letters which are dated.

• 3

  finished the Index For his book Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919).

• 4

  Wrinch Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894–1976), mathematician and theoretical biologist.

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  an answer If the answer was a letter, it is not extant.

• 6

  Jourdain Philip E.B. Jourdain (1879–1919), mathematician and logician, went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1899, taking his degree in mathematics in 1902. In 1904 he received honourable mention in the annual mathematical competition for the Smith’s Prize. Failing health kept Jourdain’s career in jeopardy. In 1901–02 he attended BR’s lectures on the foundations of mathematics, beginning a correspondence soon after. See I. Grattan-Guinness, Dear Russell — Dear Jourdain (1977) for the end of their relationship and Jourdain’s death.

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  a wonderful heavenly time abroad They never took this planned vacation.

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  the foolish letter Not identified.