"1.30 a.m." [BR mss. 1 leaf is a dialogue between Russell and Tansley beginning "Awful thought!"; the other is a mathematics problem.]

Recants on what a house is for: maybe a hotel, maybe not. "I have always been in a state of internal uproar...." "I forget when I wrote thee that I had always considered the very thing thee wishes as an important thing gained by marriage, and I think I even put it into my paper I once gave thee on the subject." Tries never to act on his first thoughts. "... my tastes are of such a flabby flexible nature that they very soon become those of anybody I am fond of." Paris plan. Marsh elected tonight. Crompton to read a paper on Socialism. Discussed vice and its regulation tonight. Now early dawn, "before seven". "I love the dawn more than any other time of day but hardly ever see it." Lotze's Metaphysik. Loves this place where irrelevant subjects are discussed. Getting alarmed about Tripos. Mustn't allow love to appear to interfere with work. Enclosing [not there] 2 letters: from Grandma and former Governess. Difference between growing intimate with men and women.