"Thursday night" "Hardy is deeply wounded because Whitehead thought the review in the Times [doubtless of Principia Mathematica: "The New Symbolic Logic", Times Literary Supplement, 10 (504): 7 Sept. 1911, 321-2.] was by Waterlow —very stupid of Whitehead".

"Friday mg." Had proofs of Aristotelian address—also offprints of last year's. ["Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description", Proc. Aris. Soc., n.s. 11: 1910-11, 108-28.]

"Sat. mg." "My Darling Darling—Since I wrote last I have had three letters from you—two by the same post yesterday, one from Meran, one written in the train, and now this mg. your letter from Milan."

"Sat. evg." "My Darling—I am writing a line now in hopes of its reaching you on Monday—I don't feel confident it will but it is the best chance."

"Sunday aft. Oct. 15 My Darling Darling—Two letters came this mg., one from Milan and one from Lausanne."

"Monday aft. My Darling Darling—Two letters have come from you, one written in the train and on arriving, and one yesterday—they are such a joy."

"... wisdom it would follow that impartial contemplation is a mistake." [Fragment of letter only.] This fragment belonged with record 17314 and was moved to join it on 30.8.25.

Taking its place in this record is the complete letter on Miss Malecka enclosed with document 000223, record 17309.

"Tues." "I enjoyed seeing George [Trevelyan] very much. We talked about history, Russia, Miss Malecka, Tolstoy, Cromwell, etc. etc. Isn't it curious the pleasure there is in any talk with people one is really fond of? One seems to get themselves in every little word. It warms one's heart and does one good.

This is only a business note so I will stop. Goodbye darling. Your loving B."

"Wed. mg. 8.30" See document 000224A, record 135562 for a later letter sent with this one.

"Wed. evg." "—This raised a lot of complicated problems, which we were in the middle of when an unknown German appeared, speaking very little English but refusing to speak German. He turned out to be a man who had learnt engineering at Charlottenburg, but during his course had acquired, by himself, a passion for the philosophy of mathematics, and has now come to Cambridge on purpose to hear me. This took till 5.15;...."

Russell wrote (presumably later) up the left margin of the page by this paragraph: "This was Wittgenstein". [Perhaps the annotation dates from #441. (q.v.), record 17538.]

"Thursday mg." "My Darling Love—Your dear letter of Tuesday and yesterday has just come."

"Thursday evg." "Tolstoy goes on being interesting. He is trying in views about women but I still think, as I did in the avalanche, that they are absolutely of a piece with all the rest of him. They go with his thinking manual labour so vastly better than intellectual work. As I read more of him, his lack of civilization puts me off—about women, politics, science, art, everything. He relapses into the Oriental quietist. Why it vexes one is that it leaves all one's really difficult problems untouched. I feel anybody could be virtuous in such a simple life as he recommends. The problem is to live an artificial complicated life and yet retain the simple love and the directness and honesty that belongs with manual work. That is a problem he never considers. But he is no worse about women than about mathematicians!"

"My German friend threatens to be an infliction—he came back with me after my lecture and argued till dinner-time—obstinate and perverse, but I think not stupid."

[Wittgenstein]

"Friday evg." "My Dearest Love—I found your letter of yesterday when I got back here at tea-time."

"Friday mg. My Darling Darling—Your letter which reached me this mg. was short but sweet."

"Saturday evg. Waterloo. My Dearest Heart—What a joy it is to have seen you again—it is penetrating through me and still flooding into all the corners of my mind. Anybody else that I had seen five weeks ago I should feel that I had seen quite lately, but with you it seemed an age—I felt quite shy at first and feeling I must find where you were again. Also I thought you wouldn't like me in the mood I get into at Cambridge. I don't like the mood—it is hard, and rather indifferent to real things. That is what makes me sometimes rebel against purely intellectual work. Darling I was sorry to find you so tired and still feeling sick. I do hope you will be better soon and be able to start the winter with some strength to spare.—Dearest please don't ever think that I shan't understand when you give time to P. [Philip] You must know that I don't love only what you give me but all you are and all you give to others. If I ever made it difficult for you to give to others, you would soon cease to care for me—but it is not self-interest that keeps me from grudging.

I shan't have any book except Tolstoy's Life with me Monday so if you think it would be nice to read any poetry or anything you might bring some. But I dare say we shan't want to read.

Goodbye till Monday my Darling. Don't be disappointed in me if you can help it; though I don't quite see how you can help it. Your B."

"Monday aftn." About Russell Chambers.

"Wed. night." "The German, who seems to be rather good, was very argumentative."—After lecture. [Wittgenstein]

"Thursday mg. Oct. 26 My Darling Love—Your dear letter came by second post—I was very glad to have it but sorry you were so tired."

"Thursday evg." "A second German has turned up at my lectures—I begin to think they are spies. Besides arguing with my two Germans, I have written a French reply to a criticism—by what appears to be a Hungarian...."*

*"Réponse à M. Koyré", Rev. Met. Mor., 20: Sept. 1912, 725-6.

[Wittgenstein]

"Sat. evg. My Darling Darling—Today was perfectly delightful, only so tantalizingly brief—I felt like a gourmet who has been given the most wonderful soup and then told that is his whole dinner for tonight."

"Sunday evg. My Darling Love—Your dear little letter was a great joy to me when I got back to my hotel last night."

"I am writing in a restaurant." [Address code comes from postmark.]

"Wed. evg" "My German [Wittgenstein] was very argumentative and tiresome. He wouldn't admit that it was certain there was not a rhinoceros in the room". Encloses Fr. proofs of Koyré's article—had it at Peppard in ms—wanted BR's recommendation to print it!

"Wed. mg. My Darling Love—Our days have been quite wonderful—all our talks so full, with so much behind them."

"Wed. night." "My Darling Darling—Your dear letter is such a joy—yes, yesterday evening was heavenly and it is wonderful to think of many more like it."

"Thursday evg." "Finished proofs of the Shilling Shocker."

"My German engineer [Wittgenstein], I think, is a fool. He thinks nothing empirical is knowable—I asked him to admit there was not a rhinoceros in the room, but he wouldn't."

"Friday evg." New lot of Shilling Shocker [proofs].

"Proofs of my reply to that Hungarian writing in French, whose stuff I sent you."

"I enclose a page of the ms. (which please burn) to amuse you. Every one of the numbers on the left is a reference, which has to be verified." (*208.4 of Principia 2: 609 (fol. 254))

"A little oak-table belonging to my mother, made out of Doomsday-book oak at Alderley, on which I wrote almost the whole of Principia Mathematica (except of course Whitehead's part)."

*The only extant page known to K. Blackwell until 2005, when 3 half-folios came to light in a folder of mss. removed from BR's copy of the first edition of PM, vol. 1.

"Sat. evg. My Darling Love—How very dear of you to send me such lovely flowers—they are a joy, both in themselves and because of you—lovely lilies of the valley, and wonderful carnations that make one hold one's breath with delight."

"Sat mg." "My Darling Love. Your dear letter has just come."

"Sunday" "6 pm. My Darling Love—I have now at last finished all my proofs—Shilling Shocker, mathematics, and Hungarian-French—so I have a mind at peace."

Italy—foreign politics.

On Pinsent.

"Then the German [Wittgenstein] who was refusing to admit the existence of anything except asserted propositions."

"Thursday 11.30." First proofs of shilling shocker received.

[Fragment of letter beginning on page 2.]

"Thursday My Darling Love—Yes, it was a heavenly time."

"Thursday evg. My Darling—I have only time for a line before my people turn up, as I am expecting E.M. Forster and perhaps Dickinson earlier than the usual time."

"Friday evg. My Darling Darling—What a divine day it was, in spite of your being ill and headachey."

"Sat mg." "Writing my review of W. James. Quite short, as the book is unimportant."

"Sunday aftn." "My Darling—It is sad that you are so tired, but I try to think it is not to be wondered at."

"Monday night." "My lecture went off all right—my German ex-engineer [Wittgenstein], as usual, maintained his thesis that there is nothing in the world except asserted propositions, but at last I told him it was too large a theme.

"My Darling—The enclosed is rather a blow."

"Tuesday night." Dined with Whiteheads. "Mrs. W. said she had so much enjoyed seeing you."

"Wed. mg. My Darling Love—What a very dear letter you wrote in the train—it was such a joy to get it."

"Thursday aft. My Dearest Dearest—I do long to be with you again—it seems an eternity since Monday."

"Thursday mg." "My ferocious German [Wittgenstein] (who is an Austrian I find) came and argued at me after my lecture. He is armour-plated against all assaults of reasoning—it is really rather a waste of time talking with him."

"Friday evg. My Darling Darling—It was divine today—part of the time I didn't feel very expressive, but all the time it was divine."

"Sat aft'n." Working on index to Principia.

"Sunday mg." Sent off index [to Principia].

"Monday night My Darling Love—Don't feel me on your mind tomorrow morning."

"Thursday evg. My Darling—I have just got your letter, and have a few moments to write before my people come."

"Thursday mg. My Darling Love—Your dear little letter has just come."

"Friday night My Darling—Ponsonby was out and Logan was away, so I got the desk without difficulty and got it up in my room."

"Sat mg. My Darling—Your letter came by 11 o'clock post quite safely."

"Monday night." "My German [Wittgenstein] is hesitating between philosophy and aviation; he asked me today whether I thought he was utterly hopeless at philosophy, I told him I didn't know but I thought not. I asked him to bring me something written to help me judge. He has money, and is passionately interested in philosophy, but feels he ought not to give his life to it unless he is some good. I feel the responsibility rather, as I really don't know what to think of his ability."

This is in Auto., 2: 99—also "at end of 1st term".

"Sunday evg." "My Darling—I got a dear letter from you last night, and had made up my mind to get no more, so your letter which came this mg., was an unexpected joy."

"Tuesday night My Dearest Life—On reflection I saw no reason after all why I shouldn't write to you tonight—and I feel so full of things I want to write."

"Wed. evg." "Went to call on my German [Wittgenstein], which I had never done before. (It was he who got your tickets yesterday.) I am getting to like him; he is literary, very unusually pleasant-mannered (being an Austrian) and I think really intelligent."

"Thursday mg. My Darling—Your dear little letter has just come."

"Thursday evg." "I had ... a threatening of the German." [Wittgenstein]

"Friday night My Dearest Dearest—You cannot know how marvellous your passionate sympathy is—it is quite divine."

"My Darling It was good of you to manage a little note in spite of the hurry and I was very glad to get it."

"Sunday mg." [continues] "Later" on Persia.

"Tuesday mg". Mss. encl. on women's suffrage and Persia; 1 leaf apiece; published in Collected Papers.

BR provides the background of his char. She may have been Mrs. Saich. She was 28 years old.

"Monday night My Dearest Dearest—I must write you a line to keep you company on the journey up."

"Tuesday night My Darling Love—There is no letter from you tonight, but I shall hope for one in the morning."

"Wed. mg. My Darling—It was a great joy getting two letters from you this mg. tho' I see you are feeling the effort and labour a great deal as you were bound to."

"Thursday aft'n." "My German [Wittgenstein] comes to argue at 4.15."

"Friday My Darling Love—I got a letter from you at Cambridge this mg. and another when I arrived here—I am very thankful yr. time is going so well."

"Monday mg. My Darling Love—You must be on your way to Euston—I hope not very tired."

"Tuesday 6:30 My Darling—Your dear little letter was waiting for me here just now when it got back from Cambridge."

"Monday night My Darling—I enclose 2 letters and a telegram from North [Whitehead], growing more cheerful about his mother as they grow later."

Whitehead didn't turn up. [Letter is misdated 13 December 1911 by BR as he notes in letter #286.]

"Wed." Read more Ward—"a good deal" [perhaps the Realm of Ends, which BR reviewed anonymously in the Nation (Lon.), 10: 10 Feb. 1912, 788].

"During this past year I have written 3 Paris lectures (of which 2 are published and the 3rd soon will be), my Shilling Shocker, the Aristotelian paper, and Prisons. Considering how time has been taken up in lectures and proofs and seeing pupils, I don't feel seriously dissatisfied."

On philosophy—technical vs. popular (long).

"Thurs. mg." Moustache gone. India.

"Friday evg. My Darling—It is such heaven to be with you, it seemed all but impossible to go away today."

"Saturday night My Darling—This is chiefly to say that I find Crompton [Davies] goes up on Monday by a train which arrives before 10, so you needn't put off coming as soon as you can, as I shall be in my flat by about 10.15."

"Thursday night My Darling Darling—It seems absurd to write tonight when I am going to see you tomorrow mg., but I must just write to say I love you I love you I love you."

"Friday morning. [Number is not written on letter.] My Dearest Your letter of last night has just come."

There is no envelope for #291, but this number is written upside-down and circled on the recto of sheet 2.

"Friday My Darling—What heavenly days these have been—all our talks have been so wonderful."

"Hindhead My Darling Darling Your dear letter has just come—it is such a joy to me dearest."

Found Whiteheads (Marlborough postmark).

"Whitehead has lumbago, North a bit seedy, Mrs. Whitehead pretending to be well ... my absence of moustache caused horror—Whitehead likes it, Mrs. Whitehead says it is better looking but not so nice."

"Sat. evg. My Darling—Here I am nearing the end of a tedious slow Christmas journey—all the trains crowded and late, but I am not late as I have caught earlier trains than the ones I meant to get."

"My Darling—I was sorry to write such a scrap today, but the family life made it difficult and I could only get away for a very few minutes."

"Monday evg." Spends Xmas with Whiteheads. Most of the time spent in family life. "I go back in feeling to the other times when I have been with them, past years claim[?] me."

Has attacked her on religion. [Letter is not signed but appears to be complete.]

"I must go on writing—it is impossible to do anything else."

"Night My Dearest Dearest Dearest—I feel as if you wd. never believe me again when I tell you I love you and reverence you and feel myself deeply unworthy of you."

"Saturday." "My time with the Whiteheads has been a great success. Whitehead and I got through some important work and the talk was good."

"The Whiteheads report how much more use I am at Cambridge than I was at first—that is due to you."

"Thursday night My Beloved Ottoline Your dear letter reached me at tea-time today."

"Friday night My Darling Love—Your telegram was a disappointment."

"Sat. evg. My Darling—This must be only one line to reach you tomorrow mg."

"Sunday Shiffolds (I leave here tomorrow and go back to my flat) My Dearest Dearest Love—I am very sorry indeed that my letter was depressing—it shows how inadequate letters are because inwardly I had got through the depressing part and there was no need for any depression."

"Monday My Beloved Ottoline—I can't tell you what a joy it was to get your letter at Shiffolds this mg., and yr. 2nd letter when I got here."

"Tuesday mg." [Possibly a continuation of letter 297. No. 307 not written on letter.]

"Monday evg." "I want to write a sequel to those few pages I wrote on 'the Greatness of Man'."

"My Darling I didn't like to keep your maid waiting so I only wrote one line."

"Monday night My Darling—This is just a line to say I had forgotten I have a committee at 5:30 tomorrow so if you can manage some time not after tea it would suit me better."

"Tuesday." "I feel tonight a great confidence in my powers of writing. The spiritual autobiography, like Sartor, seems to me rather good form."

"Make a dramatic statement of views one doesn't agree with".