On Tom Grenfell, BR's cousin.

Alys is talking with Mrs. Ralph Wedgwood.

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Much about the Amoses.

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Alys engaged in various gossips "against" people she names.

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Alys has a good group of Y girls.

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BR requests that Principles of Social Reconstruction and Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare be sent to I.F. Stone.

"I see that Mr. Whitehead's father has died, and I have written Evelyn a decent note of condolence."

"How wealthy we are! It is too grand. Let us spend a hundred or two helping our friends, just for the fun of feeling rich."

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"Friday" written on letterhead of "The Palace, Londonderry".

"Hurrah for no popery". [No reason is given for this exclamation.]

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"I long to be back at my desk and our Gibbon evenings." Last week was a perfect week with BR.

"I simply rejoice at the thought of that £1000 for Newnham." They'll likely pay down remaining debt.

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Someone Alys refers to as B.F.C.C. is a pig and makes her furious. [That is Benjamin Francis Conn Costelloe, 1855-1899, her brother-in-law.]

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On women's equal right to smoke.

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"I am glad thee is getting a lot of work done. So am I. Perhaps we had better always stay apart!"

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"I was too disgustingly cross this morning—forgive me."

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"I have answered Mrs. Sidgwick's letter that we shall be delighted to become ordinary members of the College." I.e., Newnham.

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Alys has bought a lovely 3-volume edition of William Robertson's Life of Charles V.

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"Tell Moore that I have been seeing his medical sister this afternoon, and she sends him a message that she would be very pleased to see him on his way through town. She tells me that contradictoryness [sic] is a family trait."

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Alys visited Llandaff Cathedral.

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Alys saw Cyrano and BR is due to go. Mariechen and Logan are with him.

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"Sunday". Written from Italy, Alys awaits BR's arrival.

BR is cycling. In Bologna he will get mail she has sent him.

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BR's proofs must be on the way.

Alys is taking Italian lessons. "The teacher's mother was thy mother's governess at Alderley."

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"North Stoke Hotel".

Alys is hoping to hear BR's Cambridge news.

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"It is quite agitating to think that Moore only just got his Fellowship."

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Written in the summer of 1899 when Costelloe was ill and could not manage to keep Friday's Hill Cottage. (Remarkable Relations, p. 191) "Logan, Bertie and I think that we can manage thy cottage in this way. We will take on all expenses, paying rent and taxes in Bertie's name." Further details of the arrangement follow.

Alys tells Frank he has not realized how inconvenient it has been not to have set times in the year when Mariechen is allowed to see Ray and Karen.

Frank died later in the year.

"I have sent thy letter to Gaz——. I am sure Mariechen would approve of it." [BR wrote Alys about Humbert and gave her his reply to mail. It was time to threaten legal measures, he told her, though it didn't commit them.] Alys's father was a glass-manufacturer.

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"The death of a duke is a dull news when we want to hear that the Boers are surrounded."

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Dora Pease means to accept Sanger. [He married her in 1900.]

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"Withers says that Mabel Edith can prosecute for criminal bigamy, and that she will certainly get Frank in prison, if she does! He is furious at Frank."

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"Here is a page in the diary of a modern woman". There are many entries.

Hewins thinks BR ought to attend their function (LSE's?) on Monday week in order to show his connection with the place.

Alys writes on the letterhead of the W.W.C.T.U. Convention, Edinburgh.

She dislikes Mr. S. more and more.

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Despite the "Scotch Sunday", BR's letters to her were delivered.

She would like to work on Newnham with BR: "I feel horribly cut off from thee this time, now that I have admitted the possibility of other work." The society she is involved with is too religious for her to take a prominent role in it.

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"I am afraid we must both go to the unveiling of that tablet." Also to the Hewinses (re LSE, no doubt; see record 123758).

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Alys mentions Roger Fry staying at "our" hotel.

She is glad BR has plenty of proofs to correct.

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"It is grand the way I attend to everything, without fuss or bother!"

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Mrs. Amos spread a rumour that Alys smoked.

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"Admiral Beaumont will probably be left near Vancouver."

[See "Arethusa Going to China", New York Times, 8 July 1900, p. 2 ("Victoria, B.C., July 7.—This morning, when the second-class British cruiser Arethusa arrived at Esquimault [Esquimalt, B.C., Canada] from Vancouver, she was met by a telegram from Rear Admiral Beaumont, in command of the British squadron in the Pacific, asking the skipper how long it would take him to prepare for service in Chinese waters."]

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Alys visited the place where the Amberleys honeymooned.

"I know that thee is happy with Alfred to talk to."

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"May thee soon see Moore and get plenty of shop."

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BR is evidently still with Moore.

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BR found "all Cambridge reading thy book". The Webbs also found BR's fame to be growing as "a young mathematician". They plan to bring Haldane down to the Russells in November.

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Alys opined in a discussion against respect for parents.

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Alys is at a women's conference and has mixed opinions on the attendees.

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"I am indeed glad thy philosophy does not run to popular novels?" (No explanation.)

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"I imagine thee just getting to work now (9.30)...." He is to tell Edmund to meet her, and she will see BR about 7.

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Alys tells BR to take care of himself and the cats, "imagining thee at tea after, I hope, a brisk walk".

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Evidently she and BR are reading Clarendon's account of Cromwell.

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Alys signs herself "Pigue".

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"Don't kill thyself with overwork, as I am doing!"

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On the difference their marriage has made to her character.

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Alys is staying in a grand house. She was provided with a bath in her bathroom. [Alys very frequently mentions baths.]

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Alys' new dress is a success, Evelyn's lace tucker being especially admired. Lady Henry Somerset caught cold at the Queen's funeral. "I know you are happy and I hope Evelyn will feel better tomorrow."

"Give her [Evelyn Whitehead] my best love and tell her to take care of her precious self."

The envelope attached to this letter is addressed to BR in Alys's hand. The letter is addressed to an intimate; perhaps "Pond" was a nickname for Alys.

In the letter, which is hardly legible, Evelyn says BR is "just like a dropped angel". See record 123782 for Alys repeating the word "angel".

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Alys is trying to recover her spirits. She thinks of their talk on the terrace Sunday afternoon, "and thee said a great many lovely things which will [be] the greatest comfort to me all this month."

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"Neither of us is the other."

BR encloses the letter to The Times signed by BR (text is present), and tells Lord Russell of Liverpool that the present wording is more likely to secure attention than a more solemn statement.

Alys thanks BR for his Salisbury letter and Marlborough p.c. She is planning for a visit from Evelyn and her nurse.

What does BR think of the new budget? "I think it is wicked to tax the poor any more, even if they did make the war."

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Alys refers to the time she saw Salisbury plain.

She can imagine BR enjoying "the garden" with Evelyn.

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"Forwarding letters, however, is not thine strongest point, tho' I admit that it is not thine weakest either—answering letters is that."

BR has a headache again.

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On her despair during this separation. She takes the blame for making BR unwell.

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Alys had a talk with Ray: "I repeated all the things thee has said to me about excellence and first rateness, etc. etc., and she was much interested and begged me to go on talking."

Alys will see Dr. Boyle.

She sent BR 2 volumes of Mrs. Carlyle's letters: "She was almost as ill as Evelyn, and he made her feel that she was of no use to him." Etc.

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Alys describes a quarrel between Frank Russell and Withers.

Dr. Boyle (a woman) guessed most things about Alys's depression.

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Dr. Boyle is in medical partnership with another young woman. Boyle detests introspection.

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If only Alys could see BR. "But realizing at last, at long last, that it is imperatively necessary for thee to be away from me, I have a real motive for bearing the separation." She refers to Mrs. Carlyle.

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Alys has been told she needs a 3-month rest cure in the mountains.

"Thee must buy a new book list book".

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Alys wants BR to tell her how many hours sleep he is getting every day. 6 1/2 in his p.c. of yesterday "was none too good".

"... thee is the only person with whom I can be myself."

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Dr. Boyle wants Alys to exercise: walking and cycling do not suit Alys; "She says that I must get a horse, even if I cannot afford it." Swimming is good.

BR may read the enclosed (not present) letter from Beatrice Webb, "Tho' thee will not understand the household mysteries."

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Alys is anxious about BR making "a dead set at thy book" when he is far from fit.

She refers to her "silly morbid thoughts about desertion".

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"One more dead heave" and perhaps BR's book will get done.

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She says she really is better.

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Alys asks if BR has seen that Prussian women may now attend political meetings, but must sit apart.

She is on to the 5th volume of Walpole's letters; there are 4 more.

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Alys wants BR to take the Halévys to lunch tomorrow in Soho and supper with Evelyn next Sunday.

When they are under the same roof soon, she will have to sleep alone. "Thee won't mind going into the last resort, will thee?"

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BR is working very hard.

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The doctor says Alys' rheumatism has a nervous origin.

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"Thee will be a man of action by the time I emerge, and I shall have nothing to do."

The doctor does not want her to go home.

She wonders if writing to Halévy in French made BR dream in French. She is glad he is "unemotional", too.

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"I am answering her [Aunt Maude] and telling her that thee is working too hard to go to the coronation. Though if thy mind is filled with "classes", thee would find the coronation a very classy affair."

BR has sent her a generous cheque (she asked for £2).

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"I was growing very near to the ridiculous delusion that thee no longer cared for me."

Alys quotes a passage from Walpole's description of his friend, Mr. Chute, and asks BR to ask Evelyn if it is not a fairly good description of BR.

"His impatience seemed to proceed from his vast sense, not from his temper: he saw everything so clearly and immediately, that he could not bear a momentary contradiction from folly or defective reasoning. Sudden contempt broke out, particularly on politics.... His truth, integrity, honour, spirit and abhorrence of all dirt, confirmed his contempt.... His possession of the quintessence of argument reduced it at once into axioms, and the clearness of his ideas struck out flashes of the brightest wit."

It is part of Walpole's description of his friend, Mr. Chute, after his death, Alys says. BR replied on May 11: "I think it is exactly like me."

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"Mother sends me a constant shower of postcards...."

Alys writes again against the idea of going to Switzerland.

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BR approved of Walpole's description of Mr. Chute as applied to himself.

"That novel about Frank, too, was filthy, and horribly like him in some traits."

"Good luck to the variable, which also dominates my health."

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"I am better again, as thee can always tell when I make improper jokes."

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"It is very interesting that thy book is nearly done. Exactly when does thee expect to finish it?"

She will not write of her ups and downs again.

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Alys is reading "The Fairie Queene".

Alys knows exactly why she received various letters when she did. [The Russells' knowledge of the postal system was masterful.]

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Dr. Boyle calls BR "the most brilliant young man in England".

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BR still has 2 months to go on his book. For his birthday she has bought him a new little book list. "I have left the Carlyles for thee to enter, as we have read them at the same time."

Alys got angry with her doctor over not being allowed to see BR.

At the end of the letter is Alys's next address in BR's hand:

Birchwood Cottage
Burgess Hill
Sussex

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Her writing to BR has to be on the surface. "It is dreadful to think that I have known nothing that has been going on in thy mind for four months (I think that first awful day at Cambridge was Jan. 18th), and it will take months of conversation to catch up again."

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"I know it is difficult for thee to write gossip, but I should like to hear how Jane and Beatrice got on."

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Old and ill Leslie Stephen, whom Logan visited, is going to read BR's book, "which will finish him", adds Logan.

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"I have really learnt some of thy Aristocratic feelings, and their dining-room is sordid beyond words, hideous room, dirty table-cloth, door open...."

"My idea of happiness is a winter alone with thee in the country...."

[Again there is a mention of Evelyn; she frequently appears in these separation letters.]

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"It is very good of thee to say that perhaps I have not spoiled thy book."

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"It seems dangerous, thy making such tremendous efforts, but thee must do what Moloch demands. That would have been such a nice dedication—pity mathematicians are not more subtle and understanding."

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"Tell Evelyn that Philip and Lady Ottoline have been seen walking along the embankment hand in hand. I love to think of Philip being so happy."

Alys is concerned that BR is flogging his intellect too hard.

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Alys has the "perfectly delightful news" that BR's book, The Principles of Mathematics, is finished.

It can be said in BR's biography that the book was written before he was 30, "thy last time of being an infant prodigy".

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They are neither of them "well enough to be together yet", but perhaps in 3 weeks, Alys hopes.

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"I am glad thee has given up thinking and taken to reading." She supposes he is taking his manuscript to the Syndics today.

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The summer school run by Lady Henry Somerset has had to be given up because of "the coronation. If I had been well, I could not have helped it without killing the King." (Edward VII's Coronation took place 9 August 1902.)

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"Birchwood Cottage".

Alys suspects Dr. Boyle of suspecting that she meets BR clandestinely on her walks.

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"Burgess Hill"

"Fancy the press beginning to print thy book at once!"

Alys thought it would be nice if they accepted Helen's invitation to the US, but "thee will never want to do proofs from America again." (Presumably German Social Democracy is not meant but rather The Foundations of Geometry.)

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Alys is worried that BR has continued to work and not start resting.

She often mentions Logan's recently published Trivia, which BR is reading.

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Beatrice Webb has offered to go to Switzerland with Alys. Alys would hate it, she says.

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Alys has got Dr. Boyle, as an experiment, to invite BR to a meeting with Alys soon.

Alfred North Whitehead is mentioned. So is Beatrice Webb and the nature of time spend with her.

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The Boer War is over.

Alys saw the news of Theodore (Llewelyn Davies)'s appointment.

Alys does not feel she could discuss food and Wells's novels with Beatrice Webb for a week.

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BR has written alternative train times on the front of this card. They are for travelling to a meeting with Alys.

Dr. Duke will send a cheque for about £15. The interest is about £20, due in April, but he deducts his fees for attendance.

Details about their upcoming meeting.

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