"Tuesday mg My Darling—Your letter just came—I was glad to hear—I am sorry you have been so overdone."

"Sunday evg. I gave your letter to [D.H.] Lawrence who says he will come to tea with you tomorrow."

"Friday mg. My Darling Love—I was very glad of your dear letter."

"Wed. night" Written to Nation ["The Policy of the Allies", The Nation, 16:13 Feb. 1915, 619.] "Longmans have written to say my Philosophical Essays are nearly sold out, and suggesting reprinting with additions and omissions. I should like to omit 'Ethics', and put in 'History(?)', 'Science' (from the New Statesman), 'Mysticism and Logic'—and possibly some more strictly philosophical ones. Have you any views?" "I enclose an article I have in this week's Cambridge Review."

"Sat. mg. My Darling Darling—Your letter from Oxford has just come."

"Sat. mg My Darling I am very sorry indeed that you have been so depressed and tired."

"Wed. night My Darling Love—Thank you so much for your dear letter."

"Tuesday My Darling No letter has come from you so far, today, but I hope one will come tonight."

"Wed. mg." "Now I must work at my article for the Atlantic Monthly." [Possibly "How America Can Help to Bring Peace" (not published).]

"Evening My Darling Darling—It was a very happy little moment this morning—I did love it."

"Tuesday evg. My Darling Love—This is just one word of love to tell you how very happy I was in the little moment this morning when you were here, and how I love your roses—they bring such a feeling of delight—they seem full of joy."

"Saturday" "I dread the Whiteheads—I would as soon walk over red-hot ploughshares."

"Tuesday" "The time at Lockeridge was very successful. I told Mrs. Whitehead I thought she failed in truth—and having told her, I got it off my mind."

"Friday" "I will send round my appeal to the intellectuals." [International Review, 1:10 Aug. 1915, 145-51, 223-30.]

"Thursday night My Darling—I am just back from the Women's Peace meeting." [Date in BR's hand is 13 April 1915 but is incorrect because 13 April was a Tuesday, his birthday was 18 May, the meeting in the Hague took place in May. The envelope doesn't belong to this letter since it is pmk. April.]

"Monday night My Darling Love—I loved our little time today, tho' it was terribly brief."

"Sunday evg. My Darling Love—I keep thinking about Marie, wondering about her, how she is, whether she realizes the harm she might have done, whether she will be more considerate in future."

"Friday My Own Darling—At last I have time to write—I must send you a word of love—your letters and the pictures of you that I generally have with me had got into a tin box that wouldn't open—today at last the man came and opened it—I was so glad to get them back."

"Friday My Darling—Thank you very much for your letter and for the notice of Cramb [?] (which I haven't had time to read yet!)."

"Friday My Darling—It was a joy to get your letter, which has just come." "Dent ... was one of Wittgenstein's pet horrors." [Dated from poem ref. which is linked to Buxton.]

"Friday My Darling I found your yesterday's letter waiting for me when I got back here this morning, after submitting to the ministrations of Miss Jones and listening to her confidences—she begins to grow confidential."

[There is another l. written on this day when he describes the Women's meeting on the 13th.]

"Out of doors. Thurs. mg. My Darling—I have to use odd scraps, as the note-paper that was in my coat-pocket has fallen out and vanished."

[Poem is by G. Lowes Dickinson. See letter no. 1250.]

"Monday [date: possibly June] My Darling—No letter came from you yesterday or today." "I had a letter from Wittgenstein telling me he is in Cracow. It was a very friendly letter."

"Sat. mg." Writing on non-resistance.

The sinking of the Lusitania has just happened.

"Sat. aftn. My Darling Your little letter this morning was a great relief—I was very anxious last night."

"My Darling I was very glad to get your Sunday letter, which arrived late last night."

"Friday mg My Darling There was no chance last night to ask you to fix a time next week."

"Thursday My Darling—I was very glad of your letter by 2nd post this morning."

"I enclose my 'Plea for Justice'."

Letter from Demos afraid of his country going in.

"Wednesday night My Darling—I was very glad of your letter telling of the caves and Lawrence's novel."

"Sat. mg. My Darling I was very glad indeed to get your letter this morning—it seemed a long time since your last—I will telegraph as to whether I come Monday."

"Thursday mg. My Ottoline, my Darling. Your wonderful little letter last night was such a joy to me—I kissed it over and over, and felt very very happy."

"Wed. night."

"I enclose my letter to my American, which I shan't post till I have seen you. He is sure to publish it, so I want to know if you think it suitable." [To Chester A. Reed, letter no. 1,155, record 18317.]

"Next Monday I lunch with the Whiteheads." [Entry for this in pocket diary has a line drawn through it.]

"Sunday evg. My Darling—I have been thinking of you at Welbeck today—I wonder how you got on—it must have been very trying."

"Tues. evg. My Darling—I was glad to get your little letter today—Portland and Welbeck must have been boring—I have all but finished Dead Souls—it is very good."

"Thurs. mg. My Darling—Your Tuesday letter arrived this morning and I was very glad to get it."

"Thurs. evg. My Darling—I found two letters from you when I got back this evening."

[Letter no. is not written on letter.]

"Friday My Darling—The Cossacks came this morning—thank you very much for it."

Butler Medal this morning.

[Letter no. is not written on letter. It is part of 1218 according to Texas, though it is a day earlier.]

"Wed. night My Darling Love—I am very sorry indeed that my aloofness made you suffer."

"Sat. mg. My Darling—My brother is here and I haven't much time."

[Renumbered 1269 from 1269b on 30 Jan. 2015.]

"Thurs. evg. My Darling your letter came this morning."

[Letter no. is not written on letter.]

"Sunday My Darling—I am very grateful to you for the two books on Education."

[Letter no. is not written on letter.]

"Forgot to say I am not going straight to London but to a cottage near High Wycombe which has been lent to the Eliots, Thyme Cottage, Upper Bourne End Bucks tonight and tomorrow night."

[Letter no. is not written on letter.]

"Tues. mg. My Darling I was very glad of your letter this morning."

"Wed. My Darling—I was glad to find your letter when I got back from Glasgow last night."

[Letter no. is not written on letter.]

"Wed." "Have to prepare a philosophical paper for Glasgow; I will dictate it to Mrs. E. [Eliot]"

[Letter no. is not written on letter.]

"Saturday My Darling Here I am, nearly at Glasgow—glad of the change, and enjoying the journey."

[Letter no. is not written on letter.]

"Wed. night. My Darling Here I am, just returned from dining with the Whiteheads. The time went off fairly peacefully. She has now grown more or less sane, but he is utterly cold and mad in his determination to crush Germany, and his belief in the quite special wickedness of Germany."

[1279 is written on the letter envelope, but it is also written on another letter. Since there is no 1277 that number has been assigned to this letter.]

"Sunday night My Darling—I couldn't get a moment to write in time for tonight's post—but in any case I suppose you wouldn't have got my letter tomorrow."

"Sat. mg. My Darling I was very glad of your letter."

"My Darling I found your birthday letter when I got here this mg."

[No letter no. written on letter.]

"Friday My Darling—I was very glad to get your letter this morning."

"Monday My Darling I will come Wed. with pleasure."

"Sunday night. My Darling—I haven't heard from you yesterday or today—I hope nothing is wrong."

"Friday night" "From Lloyd George one gathers there is not to be conscription for the army, but only industrial compulsion. Lloyd George's speeches have at least the merit that they admit there is good in the Germans. Salandra's speech in this morning's paper interested me. His quip about Italy having had twenty centuries more of civilization than the Germans is not likely to make the Germans love him. I feel convinced America will be forced in—I have thought so ever since the sinking of the Lusitania. The Germans seem mad with pride, like Napoleon. The more success they have now, the more they will be defeated in the end. But all the rest of us will be almost equally defeated."

"Monday mg. My Darling—Your letter to Chichester arrived all right, and caused much inquiry, as it was delivered at breakfast, an hour before the usual post—it turned out that it had been brought by the Churchwarden!"

"Wed. night My Darling—I have been kept from writing by unexpected visitors, Neville at tea and Dickinson in the evening."

"Friday My Darling—I was very glad of your letter from Welbeck this morning."

"Sat. My Darling I am sorry you found Welbeck so horrid."

"Sunday night" "I had a nice letter from Wittgenstein."

"My Darling Love Just one line to come to you tomorrow morning and wish you many birthdays in happier times and give you all my love."

"Thursday My Darling Love—In spite of Mrs Lawrence, it was really a very happy time to me—and our moment in the evening was wonderful."

"My Darling Jane Addams is anxious to see me Wed. night, the only time that suits her."

"Sat. mg. [BR dated this 20 June 1915; date probably added later by him.] My Darling—I have just been seeing Miss Addams, who is interesting."

"Friday night." "Cecil Burns who wanted me to write an introduction to a book he has written....."

"Wed. night My Darling—I found Miss Addams rather discouraged by her interviews with Lloyd George, Lord Robert Cecil, Lord Crewe etc."

"Friday My Darling I was very glad of your dear letter this mg."

"Sat. mg My Darling I don't wonder you couldn't write with your tea-party going on."

[Envelope doesn't belong to this letter.]

"Monday" "The thought of my lectures [Principles of Social Reconstruction] pleases me more and more. We must try to found a new school of philosophical radicalism, like the school that grew up during the Napoleonic wars. The problem is to combine the big organizations that are technically unavoidable now-a-days with self-direction in the life of every man and woman. There must, for instance, be railways, but those who work on them need not be their slaves. I believe the State ought to cease altogether, and a man ought to belong to different groups for different purposes, each group chosen by himself, not determined by geography like the State. But that is a distant speculation."

"Thurs. night." "My Darling Today I have been occupied with a peace conference summoned by the Quakers—partly religious people, partly U.D.C. It seemed to me very futile, and the people who talked seemed unconscious of the outer world and the vast forces at work. I met there an American named Nock, [Alfred Jay Nock] who impressed me very much. He is a really complete non-resisting pacifist, but unlike most, he realizes all the passions of ordinary people. He was in Belgium during the German invasion, and himself saw women without breasts and children without hands. (He is undoubtedly truthful.) But he says he thought it naive of people to be surprised—the discipline of militarism, he says, is bound to produce that sort of result. He had no indignation, only understanding. He knows Bryan well and Wilson slightly. He was all against Miss Addams and her schemes—he says she is viewed in Washington as the Pankhursts were in Downing Street, and is about as welcome there as the Black Plague. Apart from him, I think it is better for Miss Addams' sake that she should not have me to back her up. I find the F.O. knows all about my sins, and even if they did not prevent my seeing Wilson, they would make my support damning to Miss Addams. Dickinson still means to go, and I think he may as well. But I don't think I ought to touch anything that has to do with governments, I am too discredited.—Mildred* is very devoted to Nock; wherever he goes, she trots after him.—Her fear of truth is maddening."

[*Mildred Minturn Scott.]

"Sat. My Darling—I wonder how your eyes are, and whether the oculist will succeed in doing them any good."

"Sat. Just one line my Darling to thank you for your letter this morning and to say I am quite sane and in my right mind again."

"My Darling—It was a joy to get your dear letter last night—I am glad you can see again—I hope your oculist is a wise man and will do you good."

"Tuesday My Darling—I was very glad to hear from you this morning—I had not been surprised at not hearing sooner."

[Letter no. is not written on l.]

"Thursday evg. My Darling—Desmond [MacCarthy] came to my tea party and helped me to entertain Jelli and Titi." [d'Aranyi]

"Friday evg. My Darling Your letter has just come—I was very glad to get it."

"Tuesday My Darling I was so very glad of your dear letter to Cholsey which I got Sunday."

"Sat. aftn. My Darling Love—I am so very sorry I made you more unhappy just at the last today."

"Monday mg." "My Darling The visit to the Lawrences is safely over."

"My Darling—I was out when Marie came (I called on the Webbs) but I have just found your letter."

"Thursday My Darling I am so dreadfully sorry I wrote you such a horrid letter yesterday, I was upset, and surprised that you had not known my state of mind."

"Friday My Darling Love—Do forgive me for having been so hateful."

"Friday night. My Darling Darling I am so full of sorrow that I have been so cruel—I can't think why—it is past now—it was a fit of folly which is gone—I do wish I didn't have such an impulse to hurt."

"Thursday My Darling Love—I was very glad of your letter this mg."

"Sunday aftn. My Darling—It was a really happy time—the first since I have been in those lodgings."

"Friday evg." "My Darling I read this mg. the account of the wedding in the paper and was interested to see Queen Alexandra was there."

"Thursday It is such a joy, my Darling, that you are feeling happier—it makes the whole world different to me."

"Tuesday mg My Darling Love—It was an unexpected joy to get your letter this mg—a very great joy."

[Probably early 1915, before May 17 when Ottoline moved to Garsington.] "My Darling I shall be very glad to see you tomorrow at 6.30 or thereabouts, tho' I am sorry it will be such a brief moment—I suppose you can't stay and dine?"

"Tuesday night My Darling Thank you for your letter and enclosures."

"Thursday mg. My Darling—I was very glad of your letter this morning—such a dear letter."

"Friday My Darling—I will come tomorrow by my usual train, and get to Garsington about 12."

[Autumn 1915 or early 1916] "Oxford Station My Darling—The 10 is taken off, and I have to wait for the 10.40."

"Friday night. My Darling—As I walked home, I thought I was going to write you a letter full of passionate love, but the odd cynical insight derived from the war has made me see that the impulse was more or less theatrical."

"Saturday My Darling—I have still a moment before going to the No-Conscription meeting so I am writing now."

"Brit. Museum. Friday mg." "I had a very busy day yesterday—shopping and odds and ends in the morning, lunch with Miss Cumming to talk about the U.D.C. monthly which she is editing, then dentist, then Mrs. Eliot to tea, then Elizabeth, who is still full of hesitations about my brother. I don't know how she will decide. I saw all I could of the Zeppelin damage in the Strand and Aldwych. They missed all the buildings except the Belgian refugees place, which they wrecked. Several bombs made large holes in the street, and several fell in the empty space between Aldwych and the Strand. It is astonishing that they didn't hit more buildings. They just missed the Lyceum. There were huge crowds to see the damage, admiring the broken windows, of which there were very many. The crowds seemed to enjoy it. It was strange to think Germans had been up there in the sky."

[Autumn 1915] "Sunday night. My Darling—It was a very happy 2 days at Garsington—it is a long time since I have been so free from obsessions and so able to be interested in everything and enjoy all the beauty that you create wherever you are...."

"Wed. night. My Darling I went to dine with the Whiteheads tonight, and while I was there a Zeppelin came—bombs were dropped on the Lyceum and (they say) on the Morning Post!" Sends off Policy of the Entente.

Fn in unknown hand (not Irene's) is found on the microfilm between 1323 and 1324. It's on p. 53 of Policy of the Entente.

Letter no. is not written on letter.