Mrs. Darby and Alys discussed whether men should confess their pasts to their wives.

Alys is very happy that she will soon meet BR.

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"Evening".

Alys enjoyed her horseback riding.

Now Alys favours travelling with Beatrice.

"Be sure to bring the specimen page of thy book with thee."

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They have been separated for 51 days—a mistake for her, she's sure, but not for BR.

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Alys is excited at the prospect of seeing BR.

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Alys will drive to meet BR, presumably at the station.

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Alys is sorry for her tears, but being with BR again was a great event. "It was everything to me just seeing thee look so well and kind."

"Take home plenty of cash to pay the servants' wages."

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Alys writes a lot of their moves and reasons for them.

"Thee spoke of so many changes in thy attitude towards things on Saturday that thy letters had given me no indication of, and I felt as if I could hardly follow thee, it all seemed so new."

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Dr. Boyle is glad BR did not see the "living skeleton" where Alys is staying.

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Evidently BR would prefer to avoid Mariechen and Bernard Berenson, just as they prefer to avoid the coronation.

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Alys wants to give BR a set of Maeterlinck. She lists the titles they have.

She encloses the wages sheet (not present) and gives instructions.

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Wedd.

Alys describes the plight of a new patient in the nursing home.

Alys continues to have depression.

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Alys is holding back BR's letter to her mother about Friday's Hill, at his request.

She has ordered the Maeterlincks.

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Alys knows a widower who was one of Frank's junior counsels last year.

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"I am delighted with thy poem about wives."

They are meeting again next Saturday.

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Alys mentions that her birthday is the 21st, presumably July.

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Plenty is sent to Madams.

Her massage adds about 10 guineas to the 50 she has to pay Dr. Boyle.

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BR is to bring her cheque book and envelopes of unpaid bills, with all the receipts he has received in her absence.

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"Tues. evening".

Alys details their rent from the Millhangar.

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Alys felt well seeing her mother today. She has great hopes for their "interview" next Saturday.

Details of loans to her mother are given.

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BR has written train times on the last page of this letter.

Alys asks to see a proof, and to remind her of the title he has chosen.

She is sending the "incompetent idiot" Dr. Duke a reminder.

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They met. "I shall soon imagine thee on thy bicycle, with the wind blowing thee home from Chichester."

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Alys expects that BR remains "cool", under the King's illness, as does she. BR would like Wells's Anticipations.

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"Wednes. evening".

Two extra bank holidays.

"I feel frightened sometimes when I think how happy I have always been with thee, until I got ill, and how little I deserved it."

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[There are no letters in the Russell Archives between Alys and BR from 28 June to 8 September, inclusive.]

Alys thanks BR for his kindness the past few days—a great comfort.

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Alys describes Berenson's new diet to put on weight (a raw egg and a glass of milk 5 times a day between meals). He likes the Hippolytus very much.

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BR will be writing tomorrow or Saturday to 14 Cheyne Walk.

The Berensons have sold another picture to Mrs. Gardiner by which they will make £2,500 and can pay off their debts of £1,100.

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Alys will bicycle to Pembroke Lodge to tea on Sunday.

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She hopes to find BR's letter at 14 (Cheyne Walk) this evening.

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"Thee was not needed at all in the moving...." Alys uses letterhead of 14, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, S.W.

"The view of the river is most beautiful...."

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Alys reports on her visit to Aunt Agatha at Pembroke Lodge.

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"Please write only about surface things." BR writing about resignation made her worse. "I would much rather have broken down in the Hague than feel now that I spend eight years doing harm to thee. It is more terrible than anything."

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Alys is concerned about BR staying away, making a long separation.

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"Many thanks for thy first letter of yesterday...."

A dining club is mentioned, doubtless the Coefficients.

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"Wednesday morning".

Visiting the Mill House will be traumatic for Alys, but she wants to get the first time over with. She knows his letter was meant to be kind, but it had a terrible effect on her. The cat at 14 is called "The Sage".

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"There is no letter from thee this morning...."

"Miss (Dr.) [Gertrude] Stein recommends" a milk diet for Alys. She will not be going to Cambridge.

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"Thurs. afternoon". Alys has misdated this letter 17 September 1902, which was a Wednesday.

Now Alys is on the raw egg and milk diet.

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"The money has come from Child's".

Alys is resigning from the Training College Council at Cambridge, to which Evelyn got her elected.

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"It was terrible to have to seem so unloving and so ungrateful to thee, but it seems to be my last defense against such tortures, and yet it is the last straw of my misery to know that I am such a worry. Forgive me!"

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BR's letter is an unexpected pleasure.

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She would like to have a telegram this evening, "if at all possible", about whether Evelyn cares to have her.

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Apparently Alys is working somewhere (perhaps for an exposé).

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Dr. Boyle has given Alys an arsenic and iron tonic.

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Two appointments: B. Creighton and dinner with the Davieses.

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"No. 3 to-day".

Dickinson on Friday.

[Alys signs herself "A.W.R.", which would expand to "Alys Whitall Russell".]

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Alys is going to speak on the rope factory.

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Alys describes her depression: "Thee has no idea of the terrible misery of that black cloud...."

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Train times are written in BR's hand on the last page of this letter.

She will meet Lady Ottoline Morrell at lunch, for the first time, at last.

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BR is in Devon.

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"Westminster".

Apparently Alys moved out of 14, Cheyne Walk yesterday.

The "inventory man" said they had done unusually little damage.

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BR is working with Whitehead.

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"Important.

I. Send me the address of Jane's architects.
II. Borrow the Whiteheads' Normandy guide book, if they have one.

I hope that you are getting on well with Vol. II, and that Alfred still believes in thy solution."

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Alys lists their engagements for Sundays in June.

She had an amusing lunch with the Webbs.

She likes [Bagley Wood architect] Fletcher's plan very much: "It gives thee a study 28 x 12 ft., and a charming shape." [Though this is not the Bagley Wood project.]

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Alys mentioned BR's proposed Maeterlinck article to Gilbert Murray, which he thought an excellent idea.

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From Churt: "That accursed door and window in thy room!"

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Alys refers to BR's "little P.L. table". They seem to have been moving.

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Fletcher sent estimates for the house he designed, totalling £950. He is disappointed not to have the building of Robert Trevelyan's house. She quotes 2 other estimates.

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The Murrays are paying, evidently for the building project.

Alys has ordered for BR "the most delightful little book, Richard de Bury's Philobiblion".

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The Frys are afraid of smallpox at Cambridge.

"Erasmus's letters are rather disappointing...." Schiller.

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BR settled the contract with Fletcher. Alys encloses (not present) Murray's letter about it.

She is reading Henry George. She has found a copy of the other book recommended by Theodore, Farrer's Fair Trade and Free Trade.

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Alys wonders if they were mistaken in accepting Crosby's offer (to build).

She wonders also what BR has bought on the subject of free trade. Henry George is too simple.

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"Lucy [Donnelly] will tell thee of our two quiet days, and of the nice visit we have been having, especially to-day."

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Miss Taylor.

"I have had a busy day over sites, but have found nothing to compare with the Bagley Wood, really Radley Wood, site which we saw yesterday."

"There are great advantages here [Oxford] the way of good music, a great deal of Brahms and Bach, and I have simply lost my heart to the beautiful country, especially at Radley."

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Alys likes Lower Copse better than Upper Copse at Bagley Wood.

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"... moving is always a terrible expense, and the money seems to trickle away."

Henry James is quoted on Janet.

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Alys expects to move into Ivy Lodge Thursday.

Alys writes more on moving to Ivy Lodge.

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This is printed out on the same sheet as the 23 March card.

Fletcher approved of (Lower) Sugworth Copse. The well digger is to begin at once.

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BR is too busy to be able to discuss Poston's manuscript and returns it.

"Thy study seems tiny, but charming...."

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She went to a play with so many their friends there, but does not name the play.

"I enclose [not present] another article of Chesterton's, not so good as the one on the simple life."

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"Sanger is, I suppose, with the reading party...." "I only wish thee had a congenial companion" on his trip.

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BR came across Janet and George (Trevelyan), newly wed.

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"I have a very great admiration for Lincoln which I have expressed in my book Freedom and Organization." BR disagrees with Lord Acton in regard to the U.S. civil war, Acton lacking a sense of proportion.

Alys is reading George Fox's journal "with the greatest interest".

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Alys declined the Webbs' invitation, but BR can send another wire if he wants to go. Alys mentions Fan Wilson. She is the one with the illegitimate child, mentioned in the next letter (record 123908).

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BR has supported Canon Collins on the race question in South Africa, where BR has reaped "virulent abuse".

"I can understand Alfred's taking an interest in the baldness of the King of France's head, or Gilbert or B.B. might, but why should thee?"

[Alys mentions Fan Wilson. She is the one with the illegitimate child, mentioned in the previous letter (record 123908).]

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A long-haired poet called, having at last found Ivy Lodge. (BR must know him.)

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"It deals with matters about which I do not feel competent to form an opinion."

3 cheques are to be sent to Child & Co.

BR will give Egner any permissions to which the publishers agree.

BR advises Piper on what he could do to work against nuclear war. "Writing is, of course, immensely beneficial if one can get widely read, but that is not always easy."

Simon's Liverpool man has come to London to talk with him about the supply of chimpanzees. [Possibly Flexner.]

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BR's Uncle Algernon (Stanley, the Bishop) was announced.

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Beatrice Webb is expecting Balfour to arrive.

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On a performance of the Hippolytus.

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Alys ordered half a Canadian cheese. It weighed 37 lbs. and cost £1.0.3.

She sent on 3 fat envelopes from Whitehead this morning.

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Alys has sent on the builder's contract, which she hopes BR will understand.

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"Evelyn is in Lady Courtney's bad books, by the way, because she published the Temperance manifesto in their paper."

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"I send thy drawers—mended!"

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BR arguing with Lady Carlisle is mentioned.

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She mentions the Verralls and their visitors—the Ryles, very grand in the Episcopal carriage.

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"Friday no. 2".

Alys has charge of some girls with a throat epidemic. BR should stay away, and she instructs him where to send his laundry.

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Alys encloses (not present) Lady Monteagle's letter. No. 13 (Cheyne Walk) is out of the question.

BR met with Oliver Strachey yesterday.

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Alys asks BR to come to Haslemere: "I am sure the family would be awfully pleased if thee could pay them just this one little visit."

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BR is giving the Cobden Club another donation.

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Alys suggests BR inquire whether they can have the MacCarthys' house from Xmas to Easter, as nos. 13 and 14 [Cheyne Walk] will not be available?

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"I meant to write to-day, but cannot."

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