BR TO ALYS RUSSELL, 6 MAR. 1950
BRACERS 21823. ALS(X). Barbara Halpern. SLBR 2: #498
Edited by N. Griffin. Proofread by K. Blackwell

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Penralltgoch
Llan Ffestiniog
Merioneth
6 March 1950

Dearest Alys

I have only just this minute discovered thy letter of Sep. 30 enclosed in Logan’s book about thy mother.1 I put the book aside to read when I should have more leisure, and did not notice that there was a letter in it. Thee must have thought it strange that I did not reply.

What thee says about our marriage is very generous, and fills me with shame. There is not a syllable that is wounding to me.

I have most of the letters I wrote to thee from Paris in 1894; also the two enormous note-books “Mit Gott”2 which we bought in Berlin.

After Easter I shall be at Richmond,3 and will then come to see thee again, if thee is willing.

Thine ever
B.

• 1

  Logan’s book about thy motherA Religious Rebel: Selected Letters of Hannah Whitall Smith (1949).

• 2

  “Mit Gott” These are now in the Russell Archives. In them he made notes on philosophy, mathematics, and the German social democrats. The words “Mit Gott” appear in large Gothic type on the title pages.

• 3

  Richmond In John and Susan’s house at 41 Queen’s Road.