BR TO EDITH RUSSELL, 3 AUG. 1949
BRACERS 20237. ALS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell

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Penralltgoch
Llan Ffestiniog
Merioneth
August 3, 1949

Dear Edith

My warmest thanks for sending me Lucy’s delightful work on Mrs. Macaulay, so “celebrated” that I knew nothing of her. It is deliciously done; and the pictures too are a joy.

I don’t forget about Lucy’s letters, but I should like to keep them a little longer as I am having parts typed. They help my autobiography very much.

I very much want to get hold of my letters to Helen Flexner, or at any rate of one which I wrote on Dec. 31, 1900. Lucy had promised to help me to get hold of it. Can you suggest anything I could do about it?

I don’t know whether Judge and Mrs Learned Hand would care to come up here — I could put them up at the Hotel in the neighbourhood. Conrad is here, but Peter is kept in London.

Thank you for your congratulations on the O.M., and for writing such a very nice letter. Please write again. With much love, dear Edith,

Yours ever
B.R.