"Waterloo great haste. Darling—One line to wish you well and bring you love."

Cottage Hotel "Tuesday evg. Darling, Here I am safe arrived—letter to Priscilla posted—I think there is one from her here—I will forward it."

Cottage Hotel "Wednesday My Darling—It was lovely to get your little line of Monday evening this morning."

"This is where I went yesterday and what I saw when I got there."

"Thursday mg. My Darling—It was dear of you to ring up last night and say such lovely things—"

"Friday evg. My Darling I was glad to find your little note just now when I came back from C.A., who is counting on you tomorrow—"

"Monday My Loved One—I have been wondering how things have gone with you—"

"Sat. My Darling—I found your dear letter when I got home today—1000 thanks for it and the £10."

This letter was previously dated the 15th. The new assigned date comes from references to Clifford Allen and Garsington recorded in BR's pocket diary.

"Beloved—I feel so happy about you that I hardly realized the sorrow of coming to an end of our wonderful time together—we have really found each other again after a long difficult search."

[Letter is pmk. "High Wycombe".]

"Wed. My Darling Here I am, comfortably installed: sitting-room on ground floor (late Clive's), bedroom above (late Shove's)—people kind, and everything nice."

"Thursday mg. My Darling—Your letter has just come, with one from Allen, asking me to decide soon, and really wanting me to come."

"Friday mg. My Beloved—I am sorry you are having such a dreadfully bad time."

"Sat. mg." "I have just finished reviewing Plotinus." [Nation 25.1.19.]

"My Dearest Darling—A letter and 2 lovely pictures of Ludlow, with another line, and 3 photos for Sassoon!"

"My Darling—Owing to its being Monday there is no letter from you today—"

"Tuesday" "I finished yesterday a review of that silly book* on politics that came at Lynton ... I am busy all the time on all my lectures, and feeling very fruitful."

*Perhaps Hearnshaw (Nation 8.2.19).

"My Darling Love Your telegram this morning was fearfully exciting—"

"Thursday (in haste for post) Beloved—Your telegram just come—how glorious—I am so excited—as if I had never been away with you before—"

The present letter begins: "I am really not unhappy, quite the reverse." It was originally part of the present record, which was determined to cover 2 letters. The second (and later) one begins: "Beloved—I am already sorry I wrote you such a beastly letter."

3 cm. of the top of sheet one have been cut off. The second sheet/letter, which is intact, was mailed later. It is at record 135004, document 200411a.

"I have hit on a satisfactory theory of 'belief', which has been my main problem for a long time past."

[Letter is not signed.]

"Just made most important discovery in work very happy discontents dispersed all love"

BR's work is triumphant, "Like the wonderful time ... I came back from Rome." (This must refer to January 1914.)

The "whole Analysis of Mind, is clear to me...." "I can begin writing at once."

"My Beloved—2 letters from you this morning, one which should have come yesterday—"

[Letter is not signed.]

"Sat. evg." "I have been working like a nigger, hugely happy."

[Continues] "Sunday".

Quite pro-Bolshevik.

"This morning I have been writing an article on C.O.'s for the Labour Leader in reply to a special request." [L.L. 6.2.19]

"I sent a ms to Wrinch to be typed yesterday. Now I have another book to review."

"Am reading a dull philosophy book at the moment—"

"My Beloved—What a heavenly plan to go away Thursday to Monday."

"My Beloved—I was glad of your little line this morning—"

[There is supposed to be a T.S. Eliot enclosure—as Malleson noted on envelope—but not so; BR's instructions were to "burn".]

"After dinner" "Working at Introspection ... Aristotelian ... no one will understand a word I say." The Dial wants an article every six weeks at £10. This means £80 a year. BR accepted.

Discusses keeping the house at Marlow. [continues] "Friday".

"Sat. night Beloved—2 letters from you today, one of them a very dear letter—"

The letter concludes on Feb. 9.

"Tuesday My Darling Love—Your wire came today—"

"My Darling Love—One line to thank you for making everything so lovely here—"

"Friday aft. My Lovely Darling—Your dear little letter has just reached me as I got back from lunching with the Charles Trevelyans."

Catherine Marshall and Clifford Allen.

"Wed. My Darling—Here I am returning to Gars. in the rain as usual—"

[Letter is pmk. "High Wycombe".]

"My Darling—Thank you for your letter which came this morning."

"My Dear Love—Your letter has just come—"

"Sunday" "I have just had a p.c. from Wittgenstein, who is a prisoner in Italy. It makes me very happy to know he is still alive. He says he has done lots of logical work and is longing to talk about it with me."

"I may perhaps in time get from some one else the daily companionship that my nature craves...."

"Tuesday evening" "Since I have been here [since Feb. 27], I have written a very long paper for the Aristotelian on 'Propositions, What They are and How They Mean'."

Probably will re-write it. Also wrote for Dial on "Democracy and Direct Action" [May 1919].

His Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy was published today. BR got five copies.

BR quotes Wittgenstein's card (710.057774).

"It will be a great event in my life seeing him again. I wonder whether the war has changed him in any way. Probably not."

Philip Morrell and he play draughts.

[Letter is not signed; it continues as document .200433a.]

"If I go to India...."

Sent Dial article to Wrinch to be typed. Colette can have one copy.

"I enclose the review of Hearnshaw, which please return." [Nation 8.2.19]

Re Clifford Allen's health. Enclosed with document .200434.

"— but what I call religion seems to have got left outside and I long to have it brought in again."

"Wed. Many thanks, Dearest, for your dear little line this morning."

"Sunday My Darling—Thank you for sending little letters—they are a great joy."

BR had to have written this on Saturday—it was then posted the next day. See document .200437, record 19449, for the letter actually written on Sunday, 9 March.

Sassoon and Murry.

Terrific argument with Gertler over Dostoewsky and Chekov. "Murry has been made editor of the Athenaeum and wants me to write for him occasionally." £50 a year.

"The starving of Germany ... about the most colossal crime in history."

"My Darling Yes, I can come Sat. morning at 12.30 very well, unless C.A. [Clifford Allen] wants me then."

"My Darling—Thank you for your dear letter this morning." "Ottoline said a word of kindness unexpectedly yesterday and it suddenly reduced me to tears."

Good letters from Nunn on new book and also from Watson, "the chief of the behaviourists in America".

"Please forget letter spring coming fondest love".

"Friday" "Colette, my loved one, please, please, don't fall back into lonely despair because of my letter."

Murry has sent BR Biology of War to review [Athenaeum 11.4.19]. Sends her the article for the Dial [28.6.19?].

"My Darling—Thank you for your dear little letter."

"And for my private happiness I have had a letter from Wittgenstein, of which I enclose a copy—please take it to Jacobs and Olroyd to be typed, telling them to be careful not to correct the spelling—I want to send it to various people to try to help him. Isn't it a wonderful letter? I want six copies made of it. I don't know their address now. Any typist will do."

"Darling—Eleanor Elder has sent me a request to join the council of the 'League of Service', for 'bringing art into everyday life'."

This was the Arts League of Service.

"Can you manage earlier next week any time suits me".

"Friday My Darling—It is good that you are going to act, but disappointing about the week-end."

"Delighted 27th to 31st excellent".

"Darling—Your letter just come—thanks for typed letter, but they have corrected all the mis-spellings, which I particularly said was not to be done. Please take the letter back to them and say they must do it all over again, keeping the spelling as in the original. Get the copies sent to you so I can get them when we meet."

[The six "corrected" copies and Russell's ms. copy are still in his archives. See von Wright, p. 68.]

"I am sorry I bothered you about getting Wittgenstein's letter re-typed—I was annoyed with the typists at the moment, but it has passed off now. I wrote to Geo. Trevelyan and Keynes about W., enclosing the letter. Geo. Trevelyan has replied saying he will do what he can."

"The Triple Alliance negotiations have been most exciting."

"As far as work goes, I see my life clear before me for years, if all goes well."

"My Darling Love—I hadn't meant to write, but I must send you a word of love in answer to your dear letter this morning."

[Letter is pmk. "Cuddesdon".]

"Sunday" "Jourdain wrote a friendly reply, so that is settled. It was he who wrote to Allen and Unwin."

"My Darling—Thank you for your dear letter which I got this morning—you are so good to me—"

"Beloved—It was a heavenly day yesterday—I felt too happy to say much—you were so loving and dear—and Priscilla was most kind—"

"Finished Barbellion. Yesterday I did a terrific day's work. (1) I read over and corrected my 1st lecture (one hour) (2) I wrote an article for the Tribunal [24.4.19] (3) I read and reviewed a book by Sir Arthur Jones [Henry? Athenaeum 2.5.19] (4) I read 270 pages of a book by Perry, Berenson's brother-in-law." [Nation 10.5.19] Reviewing (4) tonight. Start on Lecture II as soon as "cold gets better and I cease to be utterly stupid."

"Colette my dear love, I wish I could make you understand my trouble, and the real deep difficulty that faces us."

[Letter is not signed.] [BR dated letter 12 April 1919; Malleson crossed out the 12 and wrote 21; envelope is pmk. 21.]

"Tuesday Darling My cold is so bad I think it must be influenza—"

BR adds that he wrote a silly letter yesterday because he had a fever, although he was unaware of it at the time.

"Wednesday My Lovely Cherub—I rang you up last night merely to fill your ears with words of love—but you gave me no chance—"

"My Dearest Darling It seems a hundred years since I saw you—I do miss you so, beloved." Finished Lecture II.

"My Darling Love—Your dear little letter came at luncheon time."

"My Dearest Love—It is a most dreadful blow about the film—"

"My Darling Love—Thank you for your dear little letter this morning." Malleson is working on book.

"Wed. My Darling—Thank you for your letter which came this evening—"

He mentions a letter Malleson wrote to him in prison that he did not receive until he got out.

"My Lovely Darling—Thank you 1000 times for the wonderful flowers—"

Done another article for Dial [28.6.19?]

"Thursday My Darling Love—I am sorry you are so depressed—but it is no wonder—I wish I could do something to make you happier—"

"A few roses my Darling to bring love—and something to cheer you if possible—a most dear letter from you yesterday—all my heart goes out to you—I long to bring you joy—"

There is no date on this letter. The date has been taken from the letter's place in the numbered sequence.

"Wednesday mg." I have not had as much energy for work anytime the last 9 years."

"Friday night My Darling Love—You were so very dear last night—"

[Letter is not signed.]

"Monday. My Beloved—I found your dear letter when I got home this mg.—thank you for it."

"Friday" At "dismal" party at Murrys for Athenaeum contributors "last night". Swinnerton knows all about Barbellion.

[Letter is not signed.]

"Friday Sir Harry Johnston, The Gay Dombeys, The Moon and Sixpence, by Maugham My Darling—Here are 2 novels recommended by Elizabeth [Russell]."

"My Darling—Letters are terribly slow—yours of May 29 only reached me this morning (Monday)."

[Letter is not signed.]

"Whitsunday" "I have written my next lecture [XIII in Analysis of Mind], on Truth and Falsehood—very good I think! My mind has not been so fit since 1900."

[The letter as published in SLBR has a silent correction.]

"Sat. night." "Tomorrow I have to go to the Whiteheads for the day, which I hate."

Finished next Tuesday lecture—best yet.

"Dear Heart—I hate to write back a painful letter after your dear little line this morning."

[Letter is not signed.]

"My Beloved—Your letter has come."

"Saturday"

"Work, like everything else, has to be taken by storm, I believe, conquered by energy and life, not by the desperate craving that defeats itself."

There is a condensed transcription of this letter. The sentence above does not appear in the transcription.

Document .111274a, record 98479.

"Newlands Farm" "Sunday" "My Dearest Darling—I found your lovely letter at the post office this morning—it was a joy, my beloved—oh I bless you for all your dear love—I do believe in great happiness in store for us—I love you with all my soul."

"Sent two letters Russell Chambers best wishes".

"Newlands Farm" Needs Clutton Brock's book and his review of it in Athenaeum—has to answer correspondence about it [11.7.19]. Also wants reviews in Nation and TLS.

"Newlands Farm" "My Dearest Darling Your letter of yesterday arrived by 1st post—thank you for it 1000 times."

"Thursday My Darling Love—No letter this morning."

"My Dearest Darling—Thank you for all your dear kindness—soap, and lovely bath-crystals—and the Clutton Brock has duly come—and your dear letters—"

"Friday aft. My Dearest Darling This is just a little word of love to reach you I hope Sunday morning."

"My Darling Love Your letter of Thursday reached me today—I feel as if some of mine had not reached you—I have written everyday, to the Attic."

"Monday 2nd letter. Beloved—It was a horrid letter I sent you earlier today—dear heart I love you and ache for you—I can't bear being away from you—I could come up Wed."

"Sunday night" Suggestion that BR will go to U.S.A. in Oct. and Nov.