BR TO AMETHE VON ZEPPELIN, 2 MAR. 1950
BRACERS 135538. ALS. McMaster
Transcribed by Nicholas Marlowe. Proofread by K. Blackwell

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Penralltgoch
Llan Ffestiniog
Merioneth
2.3.50

Dear Countess Zeppelin 

I am deeply sorry not to have answered your earlier letter, but the General Election took up all my spare time.

I am afraid I cannot undertake a preface to my Problems of Philosophy; it would be difficult, since I should have to say where my views have changed. And I find in this time so much to do that seems utterly urgent and concerned with matters of immediate importance that I am very careful as to what work I undertake beyond what is necessary for earning my living.

I am very sorry about all your troubles. You should not apologize for mentioning them. There is such an accumulation of disasters in the world that one feels powerless and paralysed.

I am no longer at Cambridge, and the above is my best address.

With all good wishes, 

Yours sincerely,
Russell.