"I suppose you and Bertie can't get me a ticket for the Prince of Wales's show. A friend of mine is very anxious to go. I said I would ask you, but am afraid very doubtful. In haste—Love to you both (much!)".

Letter is dated May 28th.

"Lovely to get a letter from you—and to hear of Bertie and that I'm going to have the book—which will be wonderful—tell him I am delighted to hear I'm like Mama bless her...."

"It was so very nice seeing you and Bertie the other day. I thought he looked marvellous and I enjoyed seeing you all very much, and your good food! I know you will be very busy but if you have time do say when you and Bertie can come and see my new flat—208 Coleherne Court S.W.5 FRE 8932."

"I was delighted to get yours and Edith's good wishes for Xmas...."

"I do think it was very dear of you sending me your book and I feel very flattered and uplifted! I began it and couldn't stop till I finished it. I do think you are a marvel to write as you do—every bit interested me—I'd forgotten you were so much in Cheyne Walk."

BR had sent her a copy of his Autobiography.

Letter is dated from the envelope.

"I did so enjoy seeing you and Bertie and you gave me much a good lunch! Do hope you'll have a good journey in your new car—mind you let me know when you come up again and come and lunch with me."

"It was so nice seeing you and Bertie and I do love your flat. I went off and bought Bertie's book or rather his Life—this morning—I hope you found your good eatables left after I'd gone—they were so good."

"Am disappointed at not seeing you and Bertie—do let me know when you come and I'll have a little party for you. So many of my relatives want to meet you and Bertie. ... Gogi was here to see me—several times—she wrote sometime ago and said she wanted to—so of course we made up!"

"I read about wonderful Bertie! in the Daily Mail—can you possibly get his autograph on a bit of paper! And I can paste it in his book—when I can get it. How are you and Bertie—give him my best love. I always used to enjoy seeing him and he made me laugh. I think all the Russells have got his sense of humour. I know my mother used to get quite helpless with laughing and be often a disgrace at a party!"

"I am so glad you enjoyed your birthday. I like to feel us old ones have had all the best days. I wouldn't be young again for a million!"

"Please send me 12 copies of your pamphlet 'Atrocity in Vietnam'...."

"Went to Lynton a few days ago and saw Lee Abbey—a fine place to stay. I hope you are keeping well and not becoming pessimistic, I believe there is a world solution. If I were an atheist I should be wondering why an error had not caused war by now."

"I haven't often written to you (the fault is mine) but now I really feel I must write to say how much your Autobiography has moved me. I have been terribly stirred by it, apart from the inevitable interest in it from references to my grandfather—your uncle Rollo."

"As you may know, I am a secondhand bookseller but I'm thinking of giving this up—turning to new books as this gives more scope for my interest in the modern world and in new ideas."

"I was very pleased to receive your recent letter and to read your kind remarks about my Autobiography."

"If you are ever in the neighbourhood, I hope that you will not hesitate to let me know because it would be pleasant to see you here."

"I would like to spend a weekend in North Wales in the near future. Would Whit Sunday be a convenient day to call on you (May 14th)?"

"If you should be in North Wales at that time I would be pleased to see you on Sunday, May 28th. Could you call for tea at 4 p.m.? I hope that this will be possible and look forward to seeing you."

"Thank you very much indeed for inviting me to tea. I will come at 4 pm on Sunday May 28th."

"Recently we discovered in an attic at Steep a lot of old letters belonging to Rollo and also Lord John and Lady Russell. Among them we found about nineteen letters written by you as a child and young man, nearly all to Rollo. My mother suggested I ask you if you have any objection to our selling these? They are often amusing, sometimes prophetic, and always interesting, but I cannot recall anything objectionable in them."

"I am very interested to learn of the letters that you found in an attic, and have no objection to your selling any of them from me, though I should prefer them to be sold to McMaster University. I should very much like to see copies of them if possible."

"My mother has asked me to thank you for your very kind letter of sympathy about my father's death."

"I have had some difficulty in choosing a passage from my writings which might be appropriate. It may be that you will think well of extracts from the last chapter of The Conquest of Happiness."

"With regard to your early letters, my mother has now had them photostated and I enclose 18 of them (1 to follow) with this letter. Unless you want specially to keep these, could you kindly return them to her at your leisure? We intend to do as you suggest—sell them to the McMaster Library in Canada."

"I was very interested to receive the copies of my early letters and I should very much like to keep these copies if possible."

"Of course—my mother will be delighted if you keep the copies of your own letters. I enclose one more (typed) which was inadvertently left out of the ones we had photostated."

"I have written to the McMaster Library about the original ones."

"We are very much looking forward to Saturday at the Festival Hall! I'm sure you must be anxious to save Bertie's strength and I do hope he will be able to enjoy the occasion!"

"What a lovely surprise for Ted and me, to have a copy of your Autobiography sent by you; it is most welcome, and we have both read it with the greatest interest."

"Your stand on Vietnam is heartening; the whole cruel war haunts one and makes one so deeply ashamed that our country condones it."

"My best thanks to you and Ted for your letter about my Autobiography. We shall be glad to see your grandsons...."

"Ted and I were thrilled by your invitation and are delighted to accept, for May 18th."

"It will be very good to see Bertie again—and I hope a little time with you may also be possible. P.S. Ted is 77 and I'm 73—both fit, except that I can't do much walking."

"We are absolutely delighted that you can both come. I meant to keep it a secret from Bertie, but couldn't resist telling him, and he is greatly looking forward to seeing you both—as I am."

"Drinks and cake! How nice—and we shall really be able to see Bertie—and perhaps more of you on Friday?"

"Ted and I did SO much enjoy our brief visit to your beautiful home; it is now possible for us to picture your life in this peaceful and friendly setting."

"Our only regret is that Bertie was so much in demand by charming but more 'pushful'-than-I guests—that inevitably we saw little of him; I do hope that you were not both too exhausted at the end of a day that must have meant a great deal of work and preparation."

"Of course the highlight was Miles' very warm speech and Bertie's reply—which meant a lot to those, especially, who are politically behind what Bertie is doing."

"We are much distressed by the totally unexpected news of Ted's death. ... I much admired Ted's perspicacity in political questions, which will be much missed."

"I think John, (who is being most helpful—as are the other 2) has told you that Ted died 8 days after having a stroke in hospital. It was a terrible shock to us all, as he had been so well and lively."

"In the course of sorting and clearing Ted's papers I have come across the documents concerning the trusteeship, together with Francis Meynell, of funds for John and Kate."

There is a TL(CAR) of this letter attached.

"I should be grateful if you would send me the documents concerning the trusteeship which you mentioned."

A programme for the tribute to Ted Lloyd that was held at St. John's Church in Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead on Saturday 10 February 1968.

There are notes added to the inside of the programme in an unidentified hand: "M'Hugh Gaman—reading from Marcus Aurelius" and "Lord Salter".

"With you I much wish that Ted had felt able to tackle the huge task of sorting and recording his memoirs. They would have been interesting and delightful."

"Thank you so much for your delightful birthday card. Edith joins me in sending you our love, and we both hope that you are keeping well."

"We have just learned from John that you were ill in the summer, but are now recovering well. We knew nothing of this and are most distressed to have heard of your misfortune."

"I like so much to look back on our visit to you for your 95th, on that happy occasion, and to think of you both in that lovely house and country. And still so wonderfully contributing to discussion on the increasingly distressing international scene."

"Enclosed is the final letter from John Lloyd, son of cousin Margaret" (letter is not enclosed).

"John Lloyd says he has written to 'the McMasters Library' about the originals, so perhaps he will be contacting you."

Letter is marked "Private—Burn."

"For a long long time I have been burdened with the pain of hearing of your misconduct with women—and married women—At first I refused to believe and longed for your denial—but so hate the subject, or asking you, that I refrained. Names mentioned were Lady Otteline Morrel [sic], and Lady Constance ---- ? for the moment I forget" (Agatha is referring to BR's "misconduct" with Lady Ottoline Morrell and Lady Constance Malleson).

There is also a TL(CAR) of the letter. For the original letter, see record 100277.

"Of course you may use Claud's letter of the 22nd September 1923 in any way you like."

"I have read your Autobiography with great interest. ... In so many ways you remind me of Claud. He had—like you—a gift for clear thought and clear writing. Heredity is so strange that although you aren't a very near relation you are more like him in face and disposition than his own brothers and sisters."

"It is kind of you to grant me permission to use Claud's letter in the second volume of my Autobiography."

An invoice for a gold mounted shell box.

"First of all I must thank you, all too belatedly, for being so kind as to inscribe the first volume of your Memoirs for us. It was most kind of you to do this and the book is now one of our chiefest family treasures."

"Warmest wishes and affection from your Greek cousin."

"I shall never forget our afternoon with you—It was the fulfilling of a dream, a longing I had since childhood to meet Lord Russell".

Wishing BR and Edith a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

"I shall be delighted to meet Bertie anywhere and anywhen...."

"I suppose you remember what Sydney Smith said about Euclid and Bertie Russell."

"I wonder if you are in London or in Wales? I should very much like to bring Anne and the children to see you."

"I was so disappointed that we were not able to come to see you."

"Aunt Diana enjoyed your first volume very much, 'Bertie has told us everything,' she said. I am going to see her next weekend and shall talk about volume two, I hope."

"I regret that it will not be possible to see you next weekend as you suggest, as I am fully occupied. Indeed I am very busy at present, and am unable to say when I could see you."

Regarding a letter from Woodrow Wyatt which appeared in the Times on 11 July 1963 (enclosed with Maud's letter, see record 110868).

Maud wonders why BR did not reply to Woodrow Wyatt's second question in particular. "I noticed you avoided giving an answer to this question—if I may talk frankly to a very distinguished cousin—but wrote instead about the testing of nuclear weapons by the Soviet Union and that, as an answer to Mr. Wyatt's question two didn't satisfy me and can't have satisfied any other serious reader."

There is a dictated reply by BR on the top of the page (see record 110870 for the carbon copy).

Edith writes underneath a typed copy of Woodrow Wyatt's letter which appeared in the Times on 11 July 1963.

Mr. Wyatt's second question asks: "Two, when was the last time that demonstrations involving similar numbers and similar behaviour took place in protest against political imprisonment in the Soviet Union and in the Russian colonies in eastern Europe?"

"We have no copy of the answer sent to the Times which Maud says in her first letter appeared the next day. I suppose question 2 was not answered for the obvious reasons that it was irrelevant and idiotic—cannot oppose all injustices the world round but needn't therefore cease to oppose some if they can be effectively opposed."

"You can not be aware that I have been involved in protests not only against the nuclear policies of East and West but against the retention of political prisoners in East and West as well. I should have thought you would have read of my public controversy with Khrushchev about the Soviet death penalty and persecution of Jews."

"I am glad to hear about your protests against the retention of political prisoners on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain as well as on the western side and also about your protests against the Soviet death penalty and the persecution of the Jews—which I missed through being abroad. But you still haven't given an answer to Mr. Woodrow Wyatt's second question! However I won't pursue the unwelcome subject."

"I find it strange that it should be necessary to justify opposition to barbarism and torture in one country by professions of willingness to oppose such actions in other countries."

"The 'second point' of Mr. Wyatt is not relevant to the issue. As I mentioned in my first letter, I oppose political persecution in the East as well as in the West."

Letter is marked unsent.

"I should point out that I consider Woodrow Wyatt one who is notably indifferent to suffering, but speaks and writes solely to advance those who may advantage him. I am not in the business of promoting the Cold War. To the contrary, I am concerned to prevent brutal governments from annihilating whole populations. I oppose political imprisonment as effectively as I can, no matter who is the author of it. That is sufficient answer to any such enquiry. As for Mr. Wyatt, he received more than he deserved."

"P.S. One of the important reasons why Mr. Woodrow Wyatt was unable to oppose Soviet nuclear tests which result in the poisoning of present and future generations is because he has been so shameless an apologist of Western nuclear tests. It is this sort of hypocrisy that I deplore."

Maud invites BR, Edith and the grandchildren for a visit in the coming week. "There are two Toynbee girls here and a young philosopher, Richard Wollheim, and his wife Anne and their mother."

"What does Bertie think of the events of these last weeks—first Poland then Hungary—and what appears to be the recession of tyranny in its most horrible forms. If it really meant more liberty one's spirits would soar."

"Are you and Bertie in London? If you are it would be nice to see you both again and perhaps you would come to lunch or dinner one day?"

"It is delightful to have your letter and we shall rejoice if your 'next three or four weeks' carries over into April. Bertie and I are to be at 29, Millbank from April 2^nd–10^th. He has to be in town then for some BBC and other affairs, the dates of which are not yet settled."

"18 photostats from John Lloyd. He says one more to come." 

The photostats include BR's correspondence with his Uncle Rollo and are present in this file.

"You began to tell me something of Nehru's taking on Bertie's plan for Scientists and Atom Bombs as you know that interests me greatly."

"One thing astonishes me: I think my mother could have known nothing whatever of the episode in her sister's life, or I would have been told. My mother's horror of anything to do with sex did not stop her from talking of it with deeply drawn breath and palpitating words. She could not, I think have resisted hints and dark allusions! I'm interested in the authorship coming from Cobden-Sanderson. The probably prejudiced view I used to be given by my mother who was his enemy, was that he was a raconteur rather than a historian."

"Thank you very much for your kind invitation to tea on Saturday. Mrs. Davies is sorry that she is unable to come, but my brother, Morton, and I are looked forward to it."