BR and Edith cannot accept Clement Davies' invitation to tea on Feb. 11 as BR has to take part in a Lords debate.

"Tuesday morning". The letter continues on "Wednesday morning".

On Beatrice Webb.

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"Wednesday afternoon"

About Lord Dufferin.

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"Friday evening". The letter continues on "Saturday morning".

Tomorrow it will be only 69 days more to end of their separation.

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"Thursday morning".

Following this letter is a one-sentence newsclipping about Lady Arthur Russell visiting her sister-in-law, the Dowager Duchess of Bedford, followed by an item about Bernard Shaw.

Alys urges BR to add a "sensuous touch" to his descriptions, now that he has gone to Paris.

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BR sends a letter from W. Taylor to Duff.

Alys is reading Pater's Renaissance.

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"Sunday morning"

Alys is not "particular" about BR keeping the (teetotaller) pledge abroad, although she does so herself.

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"Sunday afternoon". The letter continues on "Monday morning".

Alys used to go to the studio before breakfast and find BR there.

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"Monday before dinner"

Alys sends BR Carpenter's latest book, Marriage, which she saw advertised in the Fabian News.

See record 123545 for Robert Phillimore's letter.

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Alys enclosed this letter with hers of 1894/09/10, record 123544.

Phillimore describes people being sent to prison and conditions there. He and another person caught some boys stealing, but at the last moment they decided not to charge them for fear of a magistrate sentencing them inappropriately.

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"This is my first lesson on the type-writer."

Alys says Beatrice Webb dictates to her husband.

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"No".

Alys has BR's first letter from Paris.

Following this letter is a newsclipping, torn into 3 parts, about Eva McLaren and also Marshall's Elements of Economics.

The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. The newsclipping is in fact a short column written by Alys, entitled "Suggestions for the Y's".

Following the typed portion of this letter Alys added a handwritten postscript.

She returns John Morley's "most kind" letter.

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"Thursday morning".

Alys refers to the Bô Tree event.

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"Thursday evening."

"How can thee call thyself stern and exacting?"

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BR sends Haring a letter from C.D. Broad.

BR does not think he will be able to speak at Liverpool.

"Before lunch".

She has had 3 letters from BR today. She asks BR to return Bevan's letter.

The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. 

BR could not come to Reeves' meeting and dinner yesterday because it clashed with the nuclear debate in the Lords.

"Friday evening". The letter continues on "Saturday morning".

Alys insists on a religious ceremony. She wants to give BR's family no reason to complain.

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"After lunch".

Alys discusses John Morley's letter in greater detail than before.

"Sunday afternoon".

Alys had an unsatisfactory letter from BR a year ago, except that it was signed "Yrs. affectionately".

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A Swiss letter and one from Mawes are to be sent to Duff.

Kohler (Mentality of Apes) was pleased with BR's remarks on the subject. BR thinks highly of Borghese's poodle. BR met her in Rome.

BR tells Unwin that Borghese is a daughter of Thomas Mann (record 123562).

"No".

BR asks that spare proofs of My Philosophical Development be sent to Borghese (record 123560).

BR does not want to seem discourteous, but asks Schutz not to send him his manuscript.

BR thinks "The Unhappy American Way" must have been an unauthorized title.

BR is glad Pances is sympathetic to peace work being done in the West.

BR sends her a letter from Fédération Internationale des Resistants.

BR does not think £5,000 to be spent on a magazine whose circulation would be limited to those who agree with its editorial opinions, would be worthwhile. He asks Young to give his regards to his father. [Young's father was Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet, to whose dining club BR belonged in 1911 and would have known through the Bloomsbury Group.]

BR thanks the ambassador for Gomulka's letter and the large measure of agreement between Gomulka and BR.

BR sends a receipt.

BR suggests that to prevent confusion, they write to The Times to say that neither is the other.

BR would record reminiscences of Moore if a recording machine were sent to Plas Penrhyn.

BR encloses letters from Takato and Wagenseil, and a Dutch press cutting; also the Gomulka letter. (Not present.)

BR declines to speak at the Aberystwyth Labour Club and points out that his opinions are expressed in Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare.

BR sends his best thanks for the "book of televised conversations". He must be referring to Wisdom.

An Eaton letter is sent to Rotblat.

BR explains why the Southern Hemisphere would be safer in a war between Russia and the West.

A photograph is to be sent to Hoffmann, Zurich.

BR tells Sir Ronald that he cannot undertake any more work, having "as much work on hand as I can possibly manage."

BR sends Foster, Esq., QC, MP, £1.

Alys wishes she could walk in the Latin quarter of Paris with BR.

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"Wednesday morning".

BR's descriptions regarding Vetheuil and the Kinsellas were "delightfully vivid".

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"Before dinner". The letter continues on "Thursday morning".

Alys wants to know where BR and his party went to eat, what they ate, and what they talked about.

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"Thursday evening". The letter continues on "Friday morning".

Alys likes BR's plans to go to Holland and skate (so they can hold hands in public).

BR has been having headaches.

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Alys has bought and sent BR an edition of The Tempest.

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"3 p.m."

Alys has read BR's note for Lion Phillimore to her.

The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. 

Robert Phillimore once proposed to Alys.

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Alys dreamt that she was married to someone else.

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"After breakfast".

Alys is concerned that BR is worried and depressed.

November 17 is when they can meet again.

The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. 

"11.15 a.m."

Logan is driving to Midhurst to meet his friend, Philip Morrell.

The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. 

A friend, Edith K., advised Alys to keep away from all relatives and friends as long as possible after marriage.

The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. 

"10 a.m."

Studying economics in Berlin is mentioned.

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"After lunch".

Sturges spoke in a coarse way to BR.

More on Morrell.

"After breakfast at thy desk".

BR did not take his bicycle to Paris.

"Friday evening".

On getting used to BR's smoking.

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Alys mentions Nietszche disparagingly. Earlier she had asked BR about him.

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"Now thy letter, no. 56, has come this morning." [It was to contain reminiscences, possibly of a sexual nature (see record 20518); the letter cannot be identified—the envelopes have the numbering and many of them weren't copied; and no letter at this time fits the description.]

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"Monday morning". Alys incorrectly dated this letter '92. Mariechen (Mary) has been at home.

Alys was left some money that has accumulated to £112, "just enough to buy all my clothes and pay all my debts before I start off with thee."

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"8 o'clock in bed". The letter continues on "Tuesday morning".

"Priggishness does only harm": re the coarse conversation BR reported.

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"Before lunch".

Alys is sorry someone she has been reading is an anti-vaccinator.

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"Before breakfast".

Re Carpenter's Sex-Love and union.

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"Before dinner". Attached to this letter is "a letter to the members and friends of the West London Ethical Society. From Stanton Coit. October, 1894."

When they get to Germany, Alys says, they must spend all their spare money on opera tickets; and go to Dresden, too. Logan asks that BR pay Logan's Paris rent, 139 francs. BR owes Alys for the money that she paid father for his board.

The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. 

Alys is worried that they won't be married in December or early January.

The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. 

The letter continues on "Saturday". Following this letter is a genealogical chart of the descendants of Mary Whitall and James Carey Thomas.

Alys asked Mariechen's children to be bridesmaids.

The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. 

"Friday morning". Following this letter is a document that Alys has copied out. It begins "Once O. said that for a woman...."; 10 sheets. It is by Mary Costello Berenson (as she became).

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Attached to this letter is a newsclipping about "Miss Willard and Lady Henry Somerset".

Some "Bostonians" have gone, whist and smoking being interdicted during their presence.

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"I hoped being in Paris would convert thee to the divided skirts" for cycling.

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"Monday morning"

Alys wants BR to go to the Comédie Française in the evening. Mariechen will mail his Louvre catalogue today.

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"Monday evening".

She explains Obrist's point of view.

"Plague it", she says.

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On taking back her past remarks.

The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. 

"Thurs. morning".

Alys has not yet had time to read BR's essay abstract.

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"10.30 a.m."

Alys is in charge of 22 boys who are drawing.

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"10 a.m."

When BR comes over to go to Cambridge, Alys is concerned that BR not see his grandmother—until everything is arranged for the wedding, including the application forms.

The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. 

"Friday afternoon". The letter continues on "Sat. morning".

Alys prefers an economics paper for a Fellowship, as it seems more immediately useful.

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"Saturday after lunch".

Alys read BR's essay to "the assembled company". Another essay is in BR's desk "here". [There is no hint of the subject matter, except that it is difficult.]

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"Sunday morning".

Alys would like to say "my dearest boy".

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"Sunday evening". The letter continues on "Monday morning".

BR's journal has arrived. "Thy mind is absurdly abstract, and mine couldn't be more concrete than it is."

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"Monday after lunch".

Alys will go to P.L. with BR at some time. They won't like him staying with her family on the 17th.

She mentions a Mrs. Duke whose husband saved a young doctor from a dissolute life.

She has BR's essay on rule and end and Wagner extracts from the journal.

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"Tuesday morning".

Re Frank Russell: "He is a dreadfully oppressive person, and fills up the whole horizon in such an exacting way."

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"8:15 p.m."

Alys describes Mary Naylor: "She is a Bohemian of Bohemians...."

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"Wednesday morning".

Alys felt awkwardness when BR came up from Cambridge last November upon her return from America.

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"Thursday morning". Following this letter are several newsclippings, which Alys says she was sending separately.

The review of Lionel Johnson's book should interest Frank, she says. Another clipping concerns the two Llewelyn Davies brothers getting Fellowships. (The clipping is not sourced.)

Alys says there is an extract from Bernard Shaw on the empire, but it is not present. Instead, there is a long article ("not bad") titled "Of Conversation".

The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. Some, but not all, of the news clippings have been replaced with the originals in 2026. 

"Thursday after lunch". Attached to this letter is a partial typescript on bringing up children. It isn't referred to in the letter.

Alys notes that Frank is afraid of BR.

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"Friday morning".

Alys writes about Dora (probably Bühler): "She is devoted to thee and so discreet".

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"Friday evening".

BR's letter today is no. 80. Bernard Shaw is mentioned.

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Alys has talked more with Miss B. (probably Bühler). She suddenly "brot" (Alys's spelling, like "thot") the subject of preventive checks (birth control). She is thinking of marrying someone with a low income and they could not see having children for at least 2 years.

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Following this letter is a newsclipping about Lord Egmont's eviction of a poor farmer from his half acre.

Alys mentions "thy brother in his complications with Mabel". Frank "was an awful fool to let himself be caught by such a girl."

The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. 

"Sunday afternoon". In 1894, 22 October was a Monday. The letter continues in the "evening".

The next record (123631) contains a letter written on Monday evening, 22 October.

Alys continues her reading of a book by Webb. There seems very little to write in the journal now.

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"Monday evening".

Alys had a charming German lesson.

The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026.