BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 22 MAY 1920
BRACERS 19661. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

Moscow.1^, 2
May 22, 1920.

By the kindness of the courier who starts tomorrow, there is a chance of writing. The delegation3 has decided to leave here on June 5, which means getting home about June 17. I should be glad to find a letter when I get home, telling your address. C.A.4 and I think of retiring somewhere to write a book, but I shall be in London about a week when I first get home.

It is impossible to write about things here — the whole impression is too complex — Petrograd is beautiful, but Moscow is far more interesting. The Kremlin is wonderful, and the churches are unlike anything I have ever seen — half Byzantine, half Mongolian, and wholly fascinating. Our time has been very full — I have already seen almost everybody — the heat is overpowering, and C.A. melts in his thick suit, but none of us are ill. I shall be glad to be home, interesting as it all is. It is trying not being able to get news of one’s friends — Ashford5 is constantly in my thoughts and even in my dreams.

Yours
Bertrand Russell.

• 1

  [document] Document 200664.

• 2

  Moscow Colette may not have received this letter until 20 October 1920. She writes to BR who was by then en route to China that she had received a rather formal letter written by him in Russia and posted in Norway (BRACERS 116418). No doubt she refers to his formal signature.

• 3

  The delegation The British Labour delegation.

• 4

  C.A. (Reginald) Clifford Allen (1889–1939). For information on him, see BRACERS 19046, n.7.

• 5

  Ashford Colette and BR vacationed in a house, The Avenue, near Ashford Carbonel in Shropshire. For more information, see BRACERS 19217, n.4.