"I am here at last, in this city which has filled the world with history, which has inspired the most deadly hatreds and the most poignant hopes."

This was number 5 in a sequence of eight Russia letters. In the Autobiography, however, it became number 2 as the letters that Malleson wrote are not published there.

The city BR refers to is Petrograd, Soviet Russia, although the letter was not written there or on the date written on the letter. It was written after his return from Russia on 30 June 1920.

The number "5" was added in ink to this ts. carbon.

The original letter ended up in the possession of Ottoline Morrell. It is number 1563 in the numbered sequence of letters to here (document .001563, record 18770).

There are three other transcriptions of this letter:

Document .052467, record 99953 (ribbon copy of this transcription);
Document .052458, record 99934 (different typing);
Autobiography chapter "Russia", document .007050F2, pp. 149-50, record 116401.