BR TO GILBERT MURRAY, 20 JAN. 1937
BRACERS 52397. ALS. Murray papers, Bodleian
Edited by W. Bruneau. Proofread by A.G. Bone

Telegraph House
Harting, Petersfield.
20. 1. 1937

Dear Gilbert

I am sure you were right to write the letter about Ossietzky.1 I am sorry to see the prize money is to be paid to the German Government, so it will all be spent on war. I see no reason why the worshippers of Wotan should be credited with Christian feelings, which they themselves emphatically repudiate.

I am glad about the picture.2 The question doesn’t arise at once, as we stay here till September.

Yours ever
BR

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  Ossietzky [Ossietsky was a German who was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. The Nazis had imprisoned him, and confiscated the prize Money. Shortly afterwards he died of hardship in prison.] (BR’s note on a typed transcription of this letter at BRACERS 79224).

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  picture [A picture of my mother and her sister Rosalind (Murray’s mother-in-law) before they were married. It was at Telegraph House, and had to be moved when that house was sold. It is now at Naworth. 1949.] (BR’s note on a typed transcription of this letter at BRACERS 79224).