BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 12 SEPT. 1947
BRACERS 19842. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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Penralltgoch
Llan Ffestiniog
Merioneth1
12 Sep. 1947

My dearest Colette

Your disappointing letter2 came yesterday. It is a blow. I think it would be good plan if you would approach my publisher in Sweden3 — I think I have met him, but don’t remember his name. I could leave London May 28, not earlier. But in view of English currency restrictions I should have to be able to earn some money in Sweden. I would lecture or broadcast or write for a newspaper or magazine,4 if they would pay me a moderate fee. I should need enough Swedish money to keep you and me in tolerable comfort at a hotel. I don’t want merely expenses, because of you. There would have to be an invitation that would seem adequate to the British authorities. If you can work this, I shall be happier than I can say.

No more for the moment.

All love.

Your
B.

• 1

  [document] Document 200848.

• 2

  disappointing letter Not extant.

• 3

  my publisher in Sweden Johan Hansson who founded Natur och Kultur in 1922.

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  lecture or broadcast or write for a newspaper or magazine On his Swedish trip, BR lectured at Stockholm University on “Mind and Matter” and at Uppsala University on “Culture and the State”, spoke on the international situation in the parliament buildings, and addressed a group of scientists. He also published two articles on international politics in Dagens Nyheter (B&R C48.13 and C48.15, 71 and 72 in Collected Papers 25).