BRACERS Record Detail for 68066

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Collection code
RA2
Class no.
710
Box no.
11.69
Source if not BR
BR Estate Addenda
Recipient(s)
BR
Sender(s)
Earnshaw Smith, Antonia
White, Antonia (aka)
Date
1926/02/20*
Form of letter
ALS
Pieces
3
Notes and topics

Signed only "Antonia, etc." and addressed to "Lo-su-tze". At this time, c.1926, she was married to Eric Earnshaw Smith.

Farley's attached note states that BR "knew her quite well. She lived in King's Road Chelsea" and that BR "can't remember surname".

Her return address is Glebe House. She lived here with her first husband, Reginald Green-Wilkinson. Yet her daughters say it was at her 2nd husband's suggestion that she made BR's acquaintance. Susan Chitty's edition of White's diaries states that she attended lectures by BR. The letter uses philosophical terms that she may have picked up at BR's lectures for the British Institute of Philosophy. He gave a series in Jan.-March 1926. This letter concerns her reading of The Problem of China (1922). Thus it is probably 1926 rather than later.

White's other daughter, Lyndall B. Hopkinson, states that her mother wrote inviting the Russells over in January 1926 (Nothing to Forgive, p. 55.) Hopkinson cites and quotes not only letters from BR, but also letters to him from her mother. See also Jane Dunn's biography, Antonia White, for other quotations from BR's letters, with dates.

Publication
Re B&R H275a
Permission
Everyone
Record no.
68066
Record created
Jun 03, 2014
Record last modified
Aug 06, 2015
Created/last modified by
duncana