BR TO DORA RUSSELL, 24 APR. 1924
BRACERS 19952. ALS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell

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The SAINT PAUL IN SAINT PAUL,
24 April 1924

My Darling Treasure1 —

At last I have come upon something hopeful in America. The Farmer–Labour combination in the Middle West has real possibilities. I had lunch and a long talk with a man named Mahoney who is one of its leaders — an intellectual and practical socialist, the only man I have found here who is both a realist and an idealist. The movement is directed mainly against the Banks, which have got the farmers in their power. Agriculture here is so industrialized that the combination is possible. It is a new phenomenon in politics — what Levine dreamt of with his electrification. It is like a breath of life to find some one who is not a mere sentimentalist.

I am more and more persuaded that finance is the key, and what socialists ought to attack. The attack on employers in general is a mistake.

I wonder when you are going to Carn Voel. I go on writing to Sydney Str. till I know, as it doesn’t delay letters much to be forwarded that way.

Sweet Love I long to be home. It is more than a month since I left you — it seems 1000 years. The first thing I do when I arrive anywhere is to spread out the pictures of you and Kate and John on my dressing table. Goodbye Beloved.

B

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  envelope: Hon Mrs B. Russell | 31 Sydney Street | London S W 3 | England. Pmk: ST. PAUL MINN. APR 24 8 PM 1924.