BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 28 JULY 1947
BRACERS 19840. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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27 Dorset House
Gloucester Place
N.W.1.1
28 July 1947

My dearest Colette

Enclosed from Broad2 is sad. Do you know any one who is coming from Sweden to England, to whom I could reimburse money paid to you?

As for next June, nothing is decided yet. The British Council started the plan, suggesting only Norway;3 but it seems that June is a bad month, and probably I can’t come any other time. So things as yet remain in doubt.

As for your coming to England, the time when I am most tied is Conrad’s holidays4 — about Dec. 20 to Jan. 15. Except then, other times are alike to me; I should have a fair amount of time free, i.e. often lunch and tea, sometimes dinner — possibly more. Easter I am booked for France.5

I haven’t been very quick with my book.6 I began it in 1943.

Very much love.

B.

• 1

  [document] Document 200846.

• 2

  Enclosed from Broad A letter dated 25 July 1947 in which he writes that he is not able to transmit money to Colette in Sweden (BRACERS 3807).

• 3

  The British Council started the plan, suggesting only Norway BR’s lectures in Norway were delayed until October 1948. He did lecture in Sweden in May 1948 at the invitation of the publishing house Natur och Kultur (Ronald W. Clark, The Life of Bertrand Russell [London: J. Cape, 1975], p. 501).

• 4

  Conrad’s holidays Conrad Sebastian Robert Russell (1937–2004), son of BR and his wife Patricia. He was attending Dartington Hall School which he did not enjoy.

• 5

  Easter I am booked for France. In 1948 Easter fell on 28 March. His plans must have fallen through as he spent Easter at Ffestiniog.

• 6

  my book  Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (B&R A83).