The letter concerns Elmhirst's trip to China. BR encloses (not present) cards of introduction. He describes Johnston.

BR invites Tagore, who is at Carbis Bay, to lunch or tea at Carn Voel.

BR asks Elmhirst if he would hire a young man with a forestry degree recently returned from Burma.

This letter was written in reply to BR's letter of 22 September 1935.

Elmhirst's forestry man, Hiley, is in touch with "progressive movements in forestry in this country".

BR writes about a rumour that William B. Curry, the headmaster at Dartington, was going to be dismissed.

BR writes that the chief source of the rumour that William B. Curry is to be dismissed as headmaster at Dartington Hall is Mrs. Aldous Huxley and possibly Gerald Heard.

The letter concerns Mrs. Stan Harding whose claims BR has tried to abate.

BR refers to moving house, and has written in his Amberley House address on Telegraph House letterhead.

The letter concerns Mrs. Stan Harding and the compensation she seeks.

The letter concerns Mrs. Stan Harding. Elmhirst asks that BR urge her to accept Gollancz's offer of £1000 damages.

The letter concerns Mrs. Stan Harding, whose address BR requests.

The letter concerns BR's meeting with Mrs. Stan Harding over compensation for Gollancz's libelling of her.

The letter concerns Mrs. Stan Harding.

The letter concerns Mrs. Stan Harding, with whom BR has again met. Mrs. Harrison may be included in a double writ.

The letter concerns Mrs. Stan Harding. BR apologizes for "what must have seemed an officious letter".

The letter concerns Mrs. Stan Harding, whose "difficult four years struggle" after leaving Russia are mentioned.

This holograph copy of a telegram sent by BR from Santa Barbara concerns his children Kate and John. He has applied to the Court of Chancery in order to keep them in the United States.

It may have been sent to William B. Curry, headmaster of Dartington Hall, as Curry's initials ("WBC") appear at the top, although the "C" is not clear.

The letter was found in the Russell Archives before they came to McMaster by the editors of Dear BR and reproduced there in facsimile on p. 31 and on the rear of the U.S. dustjacket. The letter cannot be found in RA and is assumed not to have arrived.

Li's letter merely asks "How are you Lord Russell?". The youth's photo is stapled to the letter.

This entry describes the photocopy of the letter in the black bound printer's copy of the typescript of Dear BR.

"Thursday evg."

"Friday."

"Friday."

"Sat mg."

"Friday mg."

"Saturday."

"Tuesday."

"Thursday night."

"Sat. aft."

"Thursday."

"Sunday night."

"Wed. mg." BR's location, "(Shiffolds, Dorking)" has been inserted secretarily.

"Thursday."

"Sat. mg."

"Friday."

"Sat. aft."

"Friday night."

"Thursday."

"Friday."

On Ottoline as a potential source of hidden wisdom: "The restraints you impose prevent my getting it".

Lawrence and BR's "former violent moods". Instinct. Passion. Mysticism. Arithmetic and music.

The letter concerns Mrs. Stan Harding. Elmhirst suggests these solicitors contact Bertrand Russell and Mr. Brailsford as they are "both keenly interested in the case."

Dartington Hall Archives note that Stan Harding's first name was actually "Constance". She was called either Stan Harding or Mrs. Stan Harding. The identity of her husband is not known.

Elmhirst hopes that she will contact either Brailsford or BR.

The letter concerns Mrs. Stan Harding. Gwatkin has received the letter from BR sent by Elmhirst.

The letter concerns Mrs. Stan Harding. Gwatkin encloses a copy of the letter he is sending to her. See record 119289.

This letter is a copy, presumably of a carbon, of the original letter that Gwatkin sent to Mrs. Stan Harding. This copy was sent to Elmhirst.

Mrs. Harding has not only corrected the letter by hand, she has added words in spaces left by the typist. She discusses Brailsford, BR and Gwatkin.

Re the case of Beatrix Tudor-Hart.

The letter concerns Beatrix Tudor-Hart. There is another copy of this letter, not signed, which is addressed by hand to Mr. Curry.

A draft letter to an editor concerning Beatrix Tudor-Hart.

Also in file: an earlier typing of the letter. In her letters to Curry and the Elmhirsts (record 119291 and record 119292), Dora Russell describes her enclosures as "two circular letters" and a "preliminary draft" of a circular letter, respectively.

Internal evidence shows this letter to be from Curry.

The letter concerns Beatrix Tudor-Hart. Curry agrees to add his signature to the letter Dora Russell hopes to publish.

The letter concerns Beatrix Tudor-Hart.

The letter concerns Beatrix Tudor-Hart.

Dora invites the Elmhirsts to visit Beacon Hill School.

Elmhirst thanks Dora for a copy of the Beacon Hill School plays.

She asks Elmhirst to write an article about the work done at Dartington Hall in the fields of forestry, agriculture and live stock breeding for British Ally. Such information would be of "very great interest to the U.S.S.R."

Elmhirst postpones his decision on writing for British Ally.

Dora Russell reminds Elmhirst of her request for an article by him for British Ally.

Elmhirst agrees to write for British Ally when he has the time.

"Tues. night."

"Friday."

"In the train. Wed."

"Wed. evg."

"Friday mg."

"Sat. evg."

"Friday evg."

"Saturday mg."

"Sat evg."

"Burns" is annotated as C. Delisle Burns, in a secretarial hand of the late 1940s.

"Sat." Let" is inserted and deleted.

"Sunday."

"Swan Hotel."

"Thursday evg. White Horse Hotel."

"Sunday. White Horse Hotel."

"Monday. White Horse Hotel."

"Sunday night."

"Thursday night."

"Monday night."

Curry has visited Dora Russell at Beacon Hill School.

Dora will not stand in the way of Grizel Mair taking a post with Curry.

Re seeing a play at Dartington.

Re Curry's subscription to an unspecified organization.

The letter is marked "Confidential". It concerns Dora's worry over the rumours that Dartington Hall School is taking over Beacon Hill School and that the 2 Russell children will no longer be pupils at Beacon Hill.

Curry addresses Dora's concerns. He has told no one that Dartington is taking over Beacon Hill. BR had visited Dartington but only to check out the school if Beacon Hill had to be closed.

Re Beacon Hill's brand of microscope.

Re a visit from the Currys.

Re visiting Dartington.

Re Dora's pending visit.

On Paul Gillard's death. Dora mentions having had a lunch with two other Gillards and herself with Curry.

Curry can provide no information on "the young man in Plymouth who knew" Paul Gillard.

On Terry Gordon, an ex-Beacon Hill pupil now at Bedales.

On Paul Gillard.

Badley of Bedales and Curry are coming to see the Beacon Hill plays.

The Stokowski couple are staying at Dartington. [BR later stayed with the Leopold Stokowskis near Philadelphia.]

Curry sends his regrets to the children and staff of Beacon Hill School. This is presumably typed on the verso of an invitation from "children and staff of Beacon Hill School".

Re the rumour that Bryanston School is to have camp in the holidays for German Nazi boys.

Curry agrees that the New Schools Association should not tolerate Nazi school representatives. Nazis have suppressed his and Dora's kind of school in Germany and confiscated their funds.