BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 29 JUNE 1948
BRACERS 19851. ALS. McMaster. SLBR 2: #483
Edited by S. Turcon and N. Griffin. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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Penralltgoch
Llan Ffestiniog
Merioneth1
29 June 1948

Dearest Colette

Your letter from Thurso2 reached me only today. We sent you a telegram3 asking you to come for a visit — this was Peter’s4 suggestion, as I should not have been sure what she felt, but she was very keen on it, and also hoped you would settle in N. Wales rather than Scotland. What about it? Though the place you describe sounds heavenly. I walked through that district with Crompton in 1907.5 Parts of Skye are beautiful beyond belief.

We are here till Oct. 1, except that I am in Amsterdam Aug. 11–18.6 Never mind about the pyjamas7 — I am sorry you have had so much trouble.

All my love, Colette Dearest.

Your
B

• 1

  [document] Document 200858.

• 2

  letter from Thurso This letter may not be extant or it might be the letter she wrote from the Kinlochewe Lodge Hotel by Achnasheen in Scotland (20 June 1948, BRACERS 113273), but possibly not posted until Colette reached Thurso. She too had left Stockholm where they had been together. While BR flew to London on 31 May, she went by ship on 1 June to Tilbury and then to Scotland. While at the Kinlochewe Lodge she considered buying an abandoned cottage on Loch Diabaig.

• 3

  sent you a telegram Colette sent it on to her friend Phyllis Urch. On it Colette wrote: “I don’t think it’d answer, but it is nice of Peter nevertheless” (“Letters to Bertrand Russell from Constance Malleson, 1916–1969”, 2: 107).

• 4

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

• 5

  Crompton in 1907 Crompton Llewelyn Davies (1868–1935), a lawyer and BR’s closest friend from when they met at Trinity College, Cambridge. BR spent the month of August 1907 walking with Crompton and others in Scotland.

• 6

  in Amsterdam Aug. 11–18 For the International Congress of Philosophy.

• 7

  the pyjamas He had forgotten his pyjamas in Sweden.