BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 1 JULY 1946
BRACERS 19831. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

Trinity College
Cambridge1
1 July 1946.

My dearest Colette

I have been thinking of you constantly and wondering how you have been getting on.2 I should be very glad of a letter. Seeing you3 was very very delightful — I wonder when we shall next meet?

I shall be spending the summer with Peter4 and Conrad5 in N. Wales6 but this address will find me. I shall be back here early in October. I have just been to Switzerland for a fortnight’s lecturing7 — the people were kind and pleasant but not exciting. I am still writing my big book on Human Knowledge, its scope and limits.8

It was lovely to find you so unchanged — like a rock covered with soft moss — your rock-like quality has always profoundly impressed me. Goodbye my very Dear.

B

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  [document] Document 200837.

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  how you have been getting on Colette had left England and was staying in Raahe, Finland, despite BR’s earlier warnings that she should stay away from Finland because it was too close to the Soviet Union. She received this letter in Raahe as she noted in red ink on the top of the letter.

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  Seeing you They had met twice during February and March at her sister’s London flat.

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  Peter Patricia (“Peter”) Russell, née Spence (1910–2004). She and BR were married from 1936 until 1952.

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  Conrad Conrad Sebastian Robert Russell, born 15 April 1937 to BR and his wife Patricia.

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  N. Wales BR was spending the summer at the Hotel Portmeirion while his newly purchased home in Llan Ffestiniog was being renovated.

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  fortnight’s lecturing His lectures for the British Council were on the “Ethics of Power”. He spoke in Geneva, Zurich, St. Gall, Bern and Basel between 13 and 29 June 1946.

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  Human Knowledge, its scope and limits  Published in 1948 (B&R A82).