"Indian Ocean" "My Beloved—Your little letter to Djibouti did arrive although you thought it wouldn't—"

"Off Ceylon My Darling—It is a joy getting your letters everywhere with your dear words of love."

"Between Singapore and Saigon" The day before Singapore, BR spoke to ship's passengers on Bolshevism.

"Near Hong Kong" Wrote up Professor Liang's Chinese feast in a long letter to Elizabeth Russell.

"My Beloved—Another dear letter from you as soon as we got here this morning."

Principles of Social Reconstruction was twice translated into Chinese. Chinese "demand endless lectures and interviews". "My articles on Russia have already appeared in their papers." Plans to "learn Chinese".

BR had to prepare six lectures on his boat to Changsha at a moment's notice. He and Dewey both to give six lectures there.

"Since landing in China we have had a most curious and interesting time, spent, so far, entirely among Chinese students and journalists who are more or less Europeanized."

Letter is headed "Copy of letter from the Hon. Bertrand Russell". The date on this copy is "28 Oct. 29", instead of the correct year of 1920.

This is the "Diary" enclosed with letter no. 1576 to Ottoline Morrell, which BR indicates she should send it to anyone who wants it (document .001577, record 18784.) There are two other transcriptions: document .201209, record 116711; document .201210 (carbon of .201209), record 116712.

"My Darling At last we are really on our way to Peking—we arrive tomorrow night or next morning."

"Tues. Beloved—I arrived here the day before yesterday, and got my letters yesterday (because the university is closed on Sundays)." Re typescript she sent and order of prison letters. Special ones to locate.

BR's lectures in China.

"I am worried about the letters. I find, rather to my surprise, that I can't bear the thought of my love letters being published during my life-time. I shouldn't mind the parts that are not about personal things, but I have a feeling of reticence about intimate letters to you—I hoped there was more that was impersonal."

"2 Suei an Buo Hutung" "My Darling Love—Here I am, moved into a house—a house round a courtyard, only ground floor, very Chinese and delicious—"

On the typed letters Malleson sent.

"The Deweys, who have been here over a year, are utterly discouraged."

"[The war] was only the beginning of an epoch of violence in which I don't know how to play a part."

"Here there was such a lot of speaking and journalism to do".

Address: "2 Sui an Po Hutung" "I am doing 3 courses of lectures, as well as odd papers and newspaper articles."

Payment for articles.

Yamamoto letter is enclosed (see record 19717).

"Happy Christmas all love". The date is taken from the telegram at its place of origin, Peking. It arrived in London on 25 December and is stamped three times with this date.

"I wonder, my Darling Love, where you are for Xmas—I hope you are somewhere in the south with C.A. [Clifford Allen]"

"My Darling Love—At last I have made up my mind as to what I feel about this place—it is not cheerful—I send it you as the first 'Chinese letter'—these days I don't have to lecture. It gives me time to think."

The first Chinese letter is actually document .200722, record 19721.

"You say you find it difficult to imagine me here, so I will try to describe the world in which I am living."

This was the first Chinese letter for BR and Malleson's literary letters book. It has no salutation and was not signed.

"My Darling Love—Thank you 1000 times for the lovely soap and shaving sticks which came the other day—it was dear of you to send them—"

This letter contains 3 sentences from a letter to BR from a Japanese socialist re an article he published by BR. That would be Sanehiko Yamamoto of The Kaizo.

"I find myself still thinking that they [the Bolsheviks] are exactly as bad as Curzon and Winston,* indeed hardly different." Japan Chronicle has "exactly one's own views". Today BR is to lecture on religion.

*[Churchill.]

"I have a busy life—3 courses of lectures, a Seminar, and odd lectures—for instance today lecture on Religion."

"My Darling Love—The Shirborn Ballads have just arrived—" (The correct spelling is "Shirburn".)

"Govt. University" "I felt them [Bolsheviks] totally devoid of every vestige of human kindness—men essentially akin to Winston [Churchill]."

BR writes articles for Japanese Socialists [Kaizo]. He works "a great deal at relativity"—is lecturing on it.

He remarks that it looks like war to come between America and Japan. Party for "Society for the Study of Russell's Philosophy".

"My Darling—This is only one line because I forgot to say please address c/o Thomas Cook and Son Shanghai as I leave here the end of April and shall be at Shanghai or up the Yiangtse after that till July, when I go to Japan."

"My Darling—I have just had a letter from you written Dec. 9 (it came later than one written later) which worries me."

Malleson destroyed ms. of "Letters".

(Although she had written she would do this, she did not do so.)

"I feel that once back in England the Irish horrors will drive me mad."

BR is trying to get a simple "absorbed in Einstein" statement of Einstein's theories.

"2 Sui an Po Hutung" "I wonder, my Dearest, what has been happening to you—your letters are so strange—I feel something has caused you a great deal of pain but I don't know what."

Prefers abstract "I have to lecture every Sunday on social questions such as Atlantic Monthly. Grown interested in Math. again."

"German Hospital" "Colette My Beloved Do not freeze or imprison your love for me—it is not necessary—I still feel you my Heart's Comrade—"

"German Hospital" "Colette My Darling Just after I wrote you my last little line I got your long letter of March 16 which was a great comfort as it told me something of what you were feeling."

"2 Sui an Po Hutung" "My Darling Colette, Your birthday letter came today—thank you for it."

"My Darling—4 letters from you written in Feb. (mostly from Paris) reached me yesterday."

"Dora is going to have a child (due about November) so we are anxious to get home—we are both very glad of it—"

"Quite recovered home September love".

"Of all the people I have got to know here, I think the kindest and the most interesting were the Bolsheviks of the Mission from the Far Eastern Republic." Especially Yourine, "the head of the mission".

This telegram was handed in on 23 June and received on 26 June 1921.

"Address Post Office Montreal".

"Grand Hotel de Pekin" BR gave his farewell lecture yesterday, and may be 2 days in the Canadian Rockies.

Letterhead: "The Canadian Pacific Ocean Services Limited R.M.S. Empress of Asia". BR writes that he and Dora Black sail CP from Montreal August 17.

They were 13 days in Japan.

(The Empress took Russell and Dora from Yokohama, Japan to British Columbia. They took the Metagama from Montreal to Liverpool.)

"Radio Metagama 6 pm" "Liverpool Thursday noon Hotel Russell evening all well love".

"Heart's Comrade—I have read the letters you left here for me—and I understand."

"I had not realized till I got home that you did not know I meant to live with Dora."

Dated in another hand. The date is correct; see document .200748, record 19742.

"Arrive Weybridge Sunday eleven six Russell".

"My Dear Colette For a very long time I have been wishing to write to you and ask if we could be friends, but I have been afraid you would not wish it."

"Soon I shall be the only person living who doesn't know how to use a typewriter." BR has seen none of her writing.

"My Dear Colette You were adorably kind to John today and he lost his heart to you."

"Tuesday My Dear Colette Thanks, I will bring John with pleasure on Friday to tea at Eccleston Square."

This letter written from the Mallesons' cottage, Nimmy Not. It was moved from box 6.67 to box 6.71, file 11.

"Lee Abbey Hotel" "My Dear Colette You really are angelic to John—you can hardly imagine the unutterable bliss that he has got from his train."

"My Dear Colette How amusing that St John Ervine said exactly the opposite of what I said. It shows how little criticisms are worth: but I stick to my view. I think emphatically that you ought to get your play published; I thought I had made that clear—it seems to me well worth it—"

"My Dear Colette Thank you for your p.c. from Ireland with the picture of lovely country and sea."

"My Dear Colette The engine gave John all the delight you could possibly have hoped for."

"John and all of us are spending Xmas at the Shiffolds Holmbury St. Mary Dorking. BR".

"My Dear Colette John sends his thanks for the crystallised fruit and the letter."

"My Dear Colette I am dreadfully sorry we never wrote to thank you for the Easter eggs, which gave very great pleasure."

The letter is in reply to Malleson's of 30 April 1927 to John Conrad Russell c/o BR, document .052482f2, record 73963.

"My Dear Colette It was nice to get a letter from you, but I am sorry you are being turned out of your cottage."

"My Dear Colette Thank you with all my heart for your letter."

"Dear Lady Annesley Thank you very much for asking me to dinner on March 25."

The letter is written on the verso of document .200766, record 19759, describing BR's letter as "just come".

"Wed. My Dear Colette I am afraid it is quite impossible for me to come Sunday week."

"I have a lecture at 8:30 every Monday" in London.

"My Dear Colette I am delighted that you will come Sunday."

"I did not know till that day how I still feel towards you—some things, it seems, are indestructible."

The letter is not signed. The letter was written just before Malleson left for South Africa on 20 April 1928.

"Your letter of Sp. 6 came yesterday."

"My Dear Colette Thank you for your letter."

"The Pacific Limited The Milwaukee Road Union Pacific System Southern Pacific System" "My Dear Colette Thank you for the p.c. of Wuthering Heights, which reached me in San Francisco."

"My Very Dear Colette Yesterday I got back from America and found your letter."

"My Dear Colette Our term here ends April 5, and it would suit me best, if it suits you, to come for Apr. 5-7 to Blagdon."

"My Dear Colette The best date for me would be April 7-9, if Neilson doesn't fill that up." (Neilson was probably a lecture agent.)

"Dearest Colette The date I gave you before still holds as far as I am concerned; I am very very glad you are free then."

"My Dear Colette I am very sorry tomorrow is impossible as I have to be in London."

"Tuesday My Dear Colette I can manage Holy week quite well, or possibly Easter week."

This letter was written in late January or very early February.

"My Dear Colette It doesn't matter, I will come a day or two after the 14th."

"My Dear Colette Wed. 16th is all right for me."

"My Dear Colette The 16th remains all right for me, but I may not be coming from Cornwall, as Kate has just developed measles."

"Wed. My Dear Colette Just a line to say I shall be in Cornwall, so I will come from there as we arranged: arriving Exeter (St. David's) 12.10."

"Saturday My Dearest Colette I will leave here at 10 a.m., as I find the household has so much to do that I don't like to ask them to give me breakfast at 6.45."

"Then Wittgenstein came and had to be argued with on account of a job he wants for which I have to recommend him...."

"My Dearest Colette Thank you ever so much for the lovely match-box with its inscription." "At this moment I am in London."

"My Dearest Colette The end of the term is getting near, and I hope before very long you will be with John and Kate and me in Cornwall."

"My Dearest Colette Your lovely letter was a great joy to get."

"My Dearest Colette I found your letter when we got here last night."

BR's feelings are very complex. "At times I felt that John and Kate make it impossible for me now to give you the last agony of love."

"My Dearest Colette Thank you ever so much for the snapshots."

"Dearest Colette Ever since I said goodbye to you in Exeter I have thought a great deal about you."

"My Dearest Colette Do come to London when you can; either Tuesday or Wed. any week is likely to suit me."

[Suggested meeting place is BR's flat at 38 Bernard Street.]

"Dearest Colette It was lovely of you to send me those sweet lovely roses on Thursday."

"Friday Darling Colette Alas and alas, Wednesday is impossible for me."

"My Darling Colette I am very sorry you were so sad: it was unlucky, as I seldom have anything I can't get out of, but I hoped you would come again soon—is that impossible?"

"My Dearest Colette A thousand thanks for The Best of Both Worlds—it is a lovely binding, and I am very glad to have the book."

BR on himself in her ms.: "The time when you and I were together was the summit of my life, and I no longer possess such fire as in those days."

"Dearest Colette I am sending back your autobiography today."

He requests two changes to it.

"Dearest Colette Thank you very much for your telegram to Marseilles."

[Re Frank Russell's death.]

"My Dearest Colette Thank you very much for your letter; I like to know all that you tell me."

BR goes to London two days a week to write a "damned book".

"Dearest Colette Thank you very much for your book, which arrived on my birthday."

"Dearest Colette Your letter shows that there has been some misunderstanding."

"It is exciting about Lapland. The only person I ever knew who chose the Arctic for the winter was Wittgenstein. It was there he got the ideas for the book he wrote in the trenches."

"Your Hilary was impotent."

On Fear in the Heart.