Donnelly writes from Kyoto, Japan.

Donnelly writes from Shanghai, China.

Donnelly has returned to the U.S.

She has just read Why Men Fight: "It must count among the great utopias of the world...."

Donnelly's ship will soon reach Gibralter.

On her retirement.

(Letters between 1920 and 1936 must be lost. There is no indication of a break in their friendship, although it is evidently some time since they corresponded.)

Donnelly mentions BR's (lost) letter at Christmas.

On BR's joining the Barnes Foundation.

There is mention of Edith Finch.

Another mention is made of Edith.

Re BR's response to Edith Finch's biography, Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr. Edith shared her two letters from BR. Barnes has been quiet.

In Auto., the letter is incorrectly dated 1945.

Donnelly asks about breathing more freely after the Italian elections.

The sheet of Bryn Mawr letterhead is unused.

"Edith asks me to give you her love with mine...."

Donnelly will not fail to send BR his old letters, which are "too precious to give up easily".

Donnelly is in Venice. She will talk with Mrs. Smith in September.

Included in this file is a photocopy of a BR note describing his friendships with Helen Thomas Flexner and Lucy Donnelly. The original is at the start of the Flexner files. On the verso of the transcription at record 58427, is a note by BR, but not in his hand.

BR states that he has finished The Principles of Mathematics.

A transcription of document .049397, record 58426. On the verso is a note by BR, but not in his hand.

On the past.

A transcription of document .049399, record 58428.

On real life vs. books. William James. Carlyle.

"We have all been reading with great pleasure James on Religious Experience—everything good about the book except the conclusions."

A transcription of document .049401, record 58430.

On experience. Fitzgerald's letters.

A transcription of document .049403, record 58432.

On Helen Thomas's engagement (to Simon Flexner).

A transcription of document .049405, record 58434.

Gilbert Murray is their near neighbour. "We are living a quiet country life."

On aphorisms. On bitterness.

"As from Friday's hill".

A transcription of document .049409, record 58438.

The address of the original read "Friday's Hill Haslemere", but on the transcription this was struck through and "Thames Ditton" written instead.

Above the "14 Cheyne Walk" address is the pencil note, "rented furnished", in Patricia Russell's hand.

Letterhead of St. Catherine's House, Fowey, Cornwall.

The envelope has notes in Patricia Russell's hand; the theory of descriptions is mentioned.

BR thanks Donnelly for her sympathy.

On Meredith; on the Sidney Waterlows.

A transcription of document .049419, record 58448, and a carbon copy.

BR annotated the reference to Meredith on the ribbon copy, and Edith Russell indicated an editorial omission on the carbon.

On one's life as a whole; frivolousness; the Minturns.

On the Howard family, one by one.

On sympathy. George and Janet Trevelyan.

A transcription of document .049425, with a carbon copy.

The date is incorrectly transcribed as August 19, 1904.

On Ivy Pretious and R. McKenna. BR has annotated the letter.

On not growing intimate with people. The Churches of Brittany. Drunkenness.

On helping others.

On Helen and Simon Flexner and his concealment of the truth.

Self. Miss Hamilton. BR has left his work because of a difficulty (in Principia).

BR has annotated the letter.

On a dinner-party which included Werner the imperialist (see the character Hatfield Lane in Forstice). BR has annotated the dinner with reference to B. Webb's description of it in Our Partnership.

The Flexners. Isabel Fry. Mrs. Masefield. Loss of very dear friends.

A transcription of document .049437, with a carbon copy. BR has annotated the ribbon copy.

On the carbon he has indicated further omissions.

"... if I am not to fail in my main work, I must somehow diminish the wear and tear from other causes." "Tomorrow The Trojan Women is to be acted and we are going to it." Translation by Gilbert Murray, at the Court Theatre. BR's address on this letter is "Chelsea"; for this time period it means he is at Ralston Street.

A transcription of document .049439, with a carbon copy. "EF" (Edith Finch) indicated omissions on the carbon. BR's address on this letter is "Chelsea"; for this time period it means he is at Ralston Street.

Re the Theory of Descriptions.

Bagley Wood.

BR has indicated an omission.

Re Theodore Llewelyn Davies' death. "On Denoting".

After trying to comfort Crompton, BR has toured alone for a week. Work on Vol II [of The Principles of Mathematics] [i.e. Principia] has made great progress.

Dickinson's A Modern Symposium is quite excellent.

Helen Flexner.

On Arthur Dakyns and his father.

The difficulty of 1901 [the paradox] is resolved [by the article on the theory of descriptions]. The "South African slave trade in Chinamen".

"I have myself been horribly depressed lately."

BR has been in the south of France, avoiding "the glaring Riviera" but had already been to Avignon [where his godfather, J.S. Mill, was buried].

BR is in Clovelly "in absolute solitude for the best part of two months".

"And another thing I greatly value is the kind of communion with past and future discoverers. I often have imaginary conversations with Leibniz, in which I tell him how fruitful his ideas have proved, and how much more beautiful the result is than he could have foreseen; and in moments of self-confidence, I imagine students hereafter having similar thoughts about me."

A transcription of document .049455. BR has annotated his original claim of successful work as "all rubbish".

On the inhabitants of Clovelly. Tomorrow, a "giddy whirl" for 4 days.

BR is "overjoyed" at the abolition of the rank "senior wrangler" in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos.

BR writes of a succession of deaths. Maitland, Mary Bateson; and Arthur Llewelyn Davies dying of cancer.

"Whitehead has blossomed out into an orator, and is one of the speakers at a great women's suffrage meeting in Exeter Hall this week."

On the Women's Suffrage Committee to which BR has been elected.

On love.

Miss Reilly and logic.

On Lucy negotiating for a better position at Bryn Mawr.

BR has had influenza. Since September he has written about 2400 pages of Principia.

Lucy won her ultimatum to Carey. Miss Reilly's logic lectures.

Dated from the death of Dickinson's father, mentioned in the letter. He died in the winter of 1908.

BR has a committee meeting the next day.

The letter was torn into several pieces (?) and has been preserved in lamination.

Written "In the train"; enclosed address, in BR's hand, reads: "Godrevy House St. Ives Cornwall". It is written on the verso of a list of names.

BR writes fondly to Lucy.

BR is staying at Godrevy House. He writes: "Your actions have seemed to me always perfectly right...."

On letterhead of the Grand Hotel Imperial et Pension du Soleil, Riva, Lake of Garda, Italy. BR is walking with Sanger in the Dolomites.

Tomorrow will be "a great moment": BR takes the ms. of Principia to the printers; over 4,000 pages are done. "It is a mark of failure when one's religion becomes concentrated on impersonal things—it is monkish essentially."

"I suppose peace is a thing I shall never find—some demon keeps me always restless."