"Friday" "I had a debate with Durant (of The Story of Philosophy) in Boston. He is a vain donkey, and did not afford very good sport. After the debate was over I went out to see the Whiteheads; it is funny how they still talk in Victorian rhetoric—I felt them quite strangers."

BR refers again to "Homo".

"I lunched with Helen Flexner yesterday—as you know, I loved her 30 years ago."

BR has written to Crompton Llewelyn Davies.

"My Darling—I have just had your letter of October 10, written after my first letter came."

[A long letter about their relationship.]

"Friday" "My Darling I am afraid I wrote you a very depressed letter yesterday—today I am rested and feel better."

For the enclosures, see documents .250384-.250385.

Enclosed with BR's letter of 21 Oct. 1927 to Dora.

Enclosed with BR's letter of 21 Oct. 1927 to Dora.

"My Darling Love—I am sorry to have written you depressed letters."

On finances.

"Fort Pitt Hotel" "I spoke last night at a place called Erie, and stayed in the country on the lake of that name."

"Darling I enclose 2 letters that may interest you."

[Not extant in RA files.]

"Hotel Wisconsin" "I have just finished addressing (at 9 a.m.) the teachers of the State of Wisconsin. There were about 8000 listening to me, and I felt, for once, that it was perhaps really worth while. The day before yesterday I spoke to 2000 students at the University of Wisconsin; that also seemed worth while."

"At the University of Wisconsin I stayed with Meiklejohn and his wife—charming people, with a marriage in some ways like ours."

BR received a letter from Dora yesterday. He sent a cable "about 5 days ago when I first heard from you about your tumour." (lost)

"Columbia Club" "6.11.25" " ... but jealousy and inferiority-complex keep me from being happy with you. I am hoping that will get right with time, but I am afraid you may need patience and kindness to restore my self-respect." BR received Dora's letter of Oct. 24 in Milwaukee. He has wired Clifford Allen about the weekly-boarder plan. Alice [Stücki] loves BR "whole-heartedly".

"Hotel La Salle" "My Lovely Darling—I have written you such horrid letters lately; I am sorry."

"New York Central Lines En Route" "My Darling Love I suppose this won't reach you till after your operation."

BR has had a letter from Alice [Stücki].

"I saw Freda Kirchwey last night, and she told me that old Villard (editor of The Nation), after being a puritan all his life, has been converted by your book, which he admires enormously. I was debating revolution with Max Eastman last night, to raise money for the new masses. He is a pleasant fellow. I saw Crystal* for a moment."

*[Eastman.]

"My Beloved—I keep thinking of you every moment with anxiety, and love."

BR reports that he has not had a letter from Dora today.

"Ritz-Carlton Hotel" "Sunday" "You wouldn't believe what a big-wig you have become. I find the people here reading papers on you at women's clubs, etc."

"In Chicago I made friends with Clarence Darrow, whom I liked much better than I had expected."

BR has received Dora's cable; also her letter of Nov. 16. BR cabled her yesterday.

BR remarks in a minor way on Canada.

"Ritz-Carlton Hotel" "—I had also a P.E.N. Club luncheon and a dinner with the professors of McGill University."

"I would give up other women without a pang if it would make you happier—they are all unimportant to me—" BR has received Dora's letter of Nov. 17. He encloses (not present) "a few cuttings all from this morning's newspaper—they represent no more than I have been doing all the time. And they are not all...."

"I have written unhappy letters that I have torn up— perhaps that is a pity." He has had a cable from Randall.

"The New School for Social Research 465 West Twenty-third Street" "I have had so far one cable immediately after your operation; I don't know how things have gone since."

BR has received Dora's letter of Nov. 20. He cabled today for further news of her operation. Now a journalist has arrived for an interview.

"Tomorrow: at 10 I start a round of modern schools in New York; at 1 I lunch with a grand society lady named Roosevelt prior to lecturing on pre-school education to a club of similar ladies; then I go out to a place in Long Island to dine and speak—all my days, almost, are like that. Last night I spoke in a large hall on companionate marriage—the chair was taken by Ruth Hale, who, you may remember, objected, in a review, to your not keeping your maiden name—a tiresome female. But she loves The Right to be Happy."

BR has had Dora's wire saying she is up and doing well.

"New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad en route to Boston" "I am on my way to debate birth control at the Harvard Liberal Club and to argue in Boston about companionate marriage with a Presbyterian minister. This whole nation, moralists and all, is sex-mad."

"Saturday I go to Bryn Mawr; that is my last excursion. On the night I sail I have a three-cornered debate with Norman Thomas and Maurice Hillquit—"

"Hotel La Salle" "Beloved—This is only a line in haste to say I have got out of the black mood and I love you with all my soul."

"My Darling Love I got a letter from you today written Feb. 16."

"Monday" "My Sweet Darling I am most dreadfully sorry you feel so depressed and sad about your tour."

"My Darling I don't know if this will reach you, but if it does you might ring up Boswell, 4 Pond Street, Hampstead, if he is on the phone."

"My Darling A queer shyness kept me from saying what I want to write now."

"My Darling I have suddenly decided that I would rather spend these days in long country walks—with the girl I told you of, though probably on a platonic basis."

"Anchor Hotel" "My Darling The above is my address in case there is anything to telegraph about."

Approximately dated from Russell's pocket diary.

"Anchor Hotel" "Sat My Darling Love I am bored to extinction, as I knew I should be—indeed I now realize that subjectively that was my intention, so as to be all the more happy at home."

Dated from Russell's pocket diary. Although it is dated Saturday, the letter must have been written on the Sunday.

"Sat. My Darling all goes well here."

[Written on Telegraph House note paper, but BR is not there.]

"Thursday My Darling What very bad news about Bettie."

On his upcoming trip to Moscow with Dora Russell.

"Grosvenor, Belgrave Rd." "Monday My Darling This is a perfect place, with a balcony facing due south, on which it is as warm as summer."

"Tuesday My Darling Your Spanish article has been done and will go by today's post."

"Wed. My Darling I forgot to tell Hynes I shall be coming back Sunday, not Saturday."

"My Darling I enclose a satisfactory letter from Kit [Hines], and a characteristic one from Vernon Lee."

[Vernon Lee letter is not extant here.]

Enclosed with BR's letter of 22 July 1929.

"My Darling All goes very well here."

"My Darling Love Your letter and 2 p.c.'s for the children, from the Kiel Canal, came today."

"My Darling Your p.c's from Helsingfors came today and we all rejoiced at them."

"My Darling Love Your letters to the children and me, with the picture books, came today and gave pleasure to us all."

"Les Grands Hotels de la Société Thermale de Vernet-les-Bains" "Tuesday My Darling Love I hope you have got home safely from Russia and found everything all right."

"My Darling All goes well here."

"My Darling It was nice to get a letter from you this morning."

"Rebecca* has sent me a long letter asking me to be a guardian of her son in case of her death. It is a bit awkward."

*[Rebecca West.]

[Letter is not signed.]

"On Board S.S. Homeric." "The only people I know on the ship are John B Watson and Villard of the Nation—and Katherine Dudley, who is in the 2nd class, so that I don't see much of her."

"I was met by Feakins and W.W. Norton. I find I go west almost at once, then south; I shan't be back in New York till December."

"This country* seems to me like a young tiger just growing up, learning to roar, and licking its lips in anticipation of the first meal of human flesh."

*[U.S.A.]

"My Darling Love A line on business, with enclosures, came from Mrs. Harrington, but I have had nothing from you yet."

"Last night I debated with a Dr. Mather of Harvard 'Is Man a Machine?' It went off well; he was effective, but not too much so. On Sunday I debate with Durant 'Is Modern Education a Failure?' Tomorrow I go to Pennsylvania."

[Letter is not signed.]

"I leave New York tomorrow morning; tonight I have a big debate with Dewey." (BR's debate was actually with Will Durant.)

"Hotel Statler" "I spoke at the University of Vermont, and at Dartmouth, where a young Rockefeller entertained me as president of a society...." "I had a debate with Durant in New York and wiped the floor with him. His wife is awful: she made a dead set at me after the debate and I didn't know how to endure her." "... so I stayed a night at the Sinclair Lewis's...."

"In train to Grand Rapids, Mich." "Tomorrow I start for Winnipeg, then Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco etc., Salt Lake City, Texas, Alabama, and back to New York—" "I read a novel by a man called Hemingway, who is all the rage. It is called A Farewell to Arms. Hard, objective, well written, but lapsing into cheap sentimentality at the end."

"Royal Alexandra Hotel" "This place contains several intelligent people:...." "Did you read Rebecca's letter which you forwarded? I find her statements about Jane even more incredible than those about H.G.* I think H.G. ought not to be allowed to suspect that she says things against Jane. If H.G. has no objection to my guardianship, I can take it on without bothering as to the truth or falsehood of what she says." "I felt I should become religious if I lived on a farm in the middle of this vast prairie." "Winnipeg is full of socialists and atheists—more than if it were in U.S.A."

*[H.G. Wells]

"My Darling—I got your cable saying you had written by every mail—the mails are erratic." "British Columbia is beautiful and moist—I love it, because it seems rather like home."

[The postcard depicts skiing on Grouse Mountain.]

"'Shasta' is not a place, but a train. Yesterday evening I lectured in Seattle, then got into this train, which lands me in San Francisco tomorrow morning. Tomorrow evening I go on to Los Angeles, and then to San Diego: this makes, from Vancouver, the whole breadth of the U.S. from north to south." "At a bookshop in Seattle they had already sold out all their copies of Marriage and Morals though they had had a great many." "The New York papers review the book favourably, and do not hint that it is shocking. Perhaps I shall not be tarred and feathered after all!"

"The Hotel Californian" "Two days ago, being Sunday, I found myself near Mexico with 2 hours to spare, so I took a taxi and went over the border." "Yesterday I met Millikan, the eminent physicist—a pleasant fellow but an earnest Christian. I was lecturing to students on the philosophy of physics. Then I was entertained by Upton Sinclair: a dull man, just like his books. He talks on and on, in a flat voice, about scandals."

Good section on John B. Watson's views on sex as told to BR during the trip across the Atlantic.

"The Pacific Limited" "I am on my way to Salt Lake City; from there I go to Denver, where I shall be entertained by Judge Lindsey. From there I go south."

[Continues] "Next morning".

"The Pacific Limited" "My Dear John This is to wish you many happy returns on your birthday."

"Betw. Denver and Lawrence Kan." "Yesterday I arrived at Denver in the mg. and left in the evg. I saw a lot of Lindsey and a little of his wife—he is a terrible talker and would soon become a bore." "Tonight I debate with Durant again—"

*"Union Pacific System"

"Hotel Jayhawk" "My Darling I enclose herewith picture p-c's for all the children except John and Kate, who have had lots from me."

"In train, Kansas to Texas." "When I first knew America, Oklahoma was an Indian reservation. Alas those days are over—"

*"Texas is quite different from what Gertrude Beasley would lead one to think. It is full of people who have read all three vols. of Principia Mathematica; also of old Spanish churches of the 17th and early 18th centuries, very lovely." "Everybody treats me well, and nobody minds Marriage and Morals. It seems to be selling very well."

*"Sunset Limited"

"All right love".

"Gay-Teague Hotel" "My Darling Love I got your letter this morning saying your period was late, and I cabled at once. I should not at all like you to do anything about it—if it is so, much better let nature take its course. Since I cannot do my part, it is better some one else should, as you ought to have more children. But I dare say it was a false alarm. In any case, there is no need to worry; you won't find me tiresome about it."

"The St. Charles"

"I do not know whether he wants every one to know that it is his* child; for my part, I think it would be better not. Legally it will be mine in any case. I shan't mind much. There will of course be arrangements to talk over, but I have felt so strongly that you ought to have more children that in a sort of way I am almost glad."

*[Griffin Barry's.]

"The St. Charles 4 a.m." "My Darling I have begun to know what I feel about your being pregnant."

[Letter is not signed.]

*"My Darling I am now near the end of my long journey from New Orleans to Minneapolis—from heat and palm-trees to snow-clad hills of birch and pine."

*"The Pioneer Limited The Milwaukee Road"

"Don't worry will stand by you to limit".

"In train from Cleveland" "I am worried about Barry. I have written out on a separate sheet what I think*, so that you can show it to him if you think fit."

[Written on stationery from Olin Hotel, Denver, Colorado.]

*BR's ms. (1 s.) concerns the rights of those involved with the coming child of Barry and Dora Russell.

"O. Henry Hotel" "I passed through New York on my way from Buffalo and Syracuse, and saw Dorothy Harvey."

"These last days are going to be the most fierce of all—in Boston I shall have three lectures one day, two the next, stay with the Whiteheads and discuss mathematical logic with Sheffer. Then I go to Montreal, then on the day I sail back to New York to debate marriage with John Cowper Powys."

"My Darling Love There has not yet been any news from you today; I hope Barry is going on all right."

"Friday" "My Darling I hope you are all right—you mustn't work too hard just now."

"Sat." "My Darling All goes well here."

"Monday" "We needn't make up our minds till Xmas, but I am for closing next summer."

"All the children prefer Battine to Telegraph, and regret having to go back. They like the garden here."

"Friday" "My Darling I am sending this by Evelyn."

"Arton Harting Six. Arrive Petersfield Wednesday evening 7.17. or 8.41. with husband, governess three children".

[After Harriet's birth (1930, May?); a draft telegram.]

"Darling Bindy will bring John in the morning, reaching you at 11."

[N.D. Originally with 1929 letters. Possibly during Dora Russell's 1930 confinement.]

"Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen D. 'Bremen' Monday". "My Darling It was painful parting from you and the children yesterday."

"Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen D. 'Bremen' Wednesday" "I have written a Doran article, which a German steward typed for me, and read most of the book about Frederick II, who is a glorious man."

[Written on the same sheet as the letter of 1931/10/19, record 20079.]

"My Darling The Bremen arrived at noon yesterday after a very good voyage. On the boat they took a talkie [film with sound] of me, and the afternoon was spent seeing journalists and Feakins."

"The Nortons are kind; I have seen no other friends yet except Aannestad. They didn't much like my Autobiography."

"I am depressed about the world and also about our private income. Unless things revive in America we shall be very hard up."

"My Darling I got a letter from you yesterday saying you were just starting off to Winchester."

"I am terribly busy with interviews—my last was with Louise Bryant, who described Reid's last illness, the hospital, and his disenchantment."

"My Darling I have just had your dear letter written after Peter's miscarriage. It is amazingly kind.—On reflection, I am not sorry for the event: it will be much better for Peter to have the Oxford career out. Also it relieves financial worry. Whatever may happen, I do not wish that you and I should separate, though of course I would consent if you wished it."

"Tomorrow I start for California. Hearst asked me to stay with him out there but I refused; I shall, however, go to see him."

"In train to San Francisco" "My Darling Your letters about Peter have been most wonderfully kind, and have touched me profoundly."

"I am at Kearney, Nebraska, which is 2149 feet above the sea and has a population of 10,000, all of whom believe in God and oil. Most of this information was written up in the station."

"I have a journalist, a stenographer, a Rabbi and Moritz Schlick coming between now (2.30) and my big speech this evening. In the interstices I have to prepare my remarks."

"The Arcady" "My Darling I enclose a lot of picture post-cards for the children in the school."

"The Arcady" "Otherwise I see only Jews and Judge Lindsey and Upton Sinclair. I don't have so many lectures as I should like, but I have immense numbers of interviews."

"Darling I replied to enclosed saying I couldn't decide without consulting you. In addition to an official reply for Woods* (who is a dear man), I wrote a private note saying how awkward it would be for me to be away next autumn."

*[of Harvard]

"Somewhere in Arizona. Golden State Limited" "I saw Judge Lindsey, no longer a judge, and quite deflated. He is not a bore now. He and his wife still talk of sending their child to us. He is pathetic. I also saw Upton Sinclair, who remains rotund and complacent.... "

"The world is hell just now. We must love each other and stick together."

"I went into Mexico again for a few hours—the Rabbi took me in his car. It was lovely there and I wished I could have stayed—"

"The Meteor between St. Louis and Oklahoma" "It is news to me about the legal status of Harriet. So far as I am concerned I would just as soon have her and the next one reckoned as mine; it is only for Barry's sake that it is worth while to do things."

"This time I shall stay with the Rypins (you remember him in Russia?). I stayed with them in San Francisco and had a slight affair with Mrs Rypins, from whom however I heard nothing afterwards until she turned up at my debate in New York."

"My Darling Your letters sound very troubled about the legal status of Harriet and the prospective child. I am willing to fall in with anything that makes matters easier for you. But if Griffin is going to have the children legally his, he must meet the financial responsibility."

"You know, Darling, that I have a profound affection for you, and an immense respect. I never remain physically attracted to any woman more than about seven years, so I cannot build any permanent relation on physical attraction. But I want my relation to you to be permanent. I want to grow old with you about, and I want John and Kate to have the example of your courage and indomitableness."

"A man named Sidney Hook, a friend of Calverton, wishes definitely to send his boy to us next autumn."

"University of Michigan Union" "My Darling Love The last lap of my tour is getting rather hectic and I haven't much time for letters, but as always happens I don't mind it so much as at first."

"I saw the Brudnos. They are dears, especially Mrs. Brudno."

"The New Dunlap Hotel" "I shall sail on the Adriatic (White Star) on Dec. 18, arriving at Liverpool Dec. 27, so I shan't get to T.H. till Dec. 28. This is the best I can do; all the fast boats avoid Xmas on the Atlantic."

"Darling Thanks for your 2 letters from the train and for the telegram from Palma."

"My Darling I am glad to have had your telegram from Majorca, as no letter has yet come—the last was the one from near Toulouse."

"My Darling I enclose copy of a letter from the man Hamsted who was here Sunday."

[Letter is not present.]

"I find the thought of giving up the school* very distasteful. But I want to spend more time in London, and try to stir people up to think out a programme to urge on the Labour Party."

*[Beacon Hill School.]

"The world is going to the devil faster and faster. I see no hope anywhere but in Russia. I am lunching with the Soviet Ambassador next Friday."

"My Darling Your letter of Jan. 19 came today; letters are very slow from Majorca."

"I wish very much to go on with the school* if it is at all possible. It certainly costs a great deal less since we gave up Battine."

*[Beacon Hill School.]

"Peter has more or less quarrelled with her mother, and will be very much on my hands when she leaves Oxford. I think it will be best to give her a job in the school, and perhaps build that second bungalow and make it her domain. I don't want to make either you or her unhappy, and that seems the nearest approach to a solution that I can think of."

"I read a fascinating book, Behind the Scenes of International Finance by Paul Einzig. It is savagely anti-French, but seems to prove its points."

"... apparently this is to be the beginning of a virtual alliance between England and America. If it does not lead to war, it may do good."

"I have been reading enormously. Hogben—good but very technical. Wells's new book—the parts about money and giving biographies of very rich men are good, but the rest has not sufficient unity or direction. A life of Bismarck; also one of Luther. Several books on American big business."