BRACERS Record Detail for 52601

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
435
Box no.
8.36
Source if not BR
Tait, Katharine
Recipient(s)
Tait, Katharine
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1945/07/30
Form of letter
ALS
Pieces
1
BR's address code (if sender)
TC
Notes and topics

"... perhaps things will go better when the new Govt. is established, and if not, perhaps I can prod them. I hope you are as pleased as I am by the landslide." (Re Labour and the general election.) "His [Amiel's] gloomy account of Germany is no doubt correct." "I must get hold of Koestler's book" [The Yogi and the Commissar]. The Russells go to Portmeirion 11-25 Aug.

Transcription

BR TO KATHARINE TAIT, 30 JULY 1945
BRACERS 52601. ALS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell


TRINITY COLLEGE,
CAMBRIDGE.
July 30, 1945

My dear Kate

I am sorry you are being kept waiting so long by the authorities; perhaps things will go better when the new Govt. is established, and if not, perhaps I can prod them. I hope you are as pleased as I am by the landslide.

I am interested by what you say about Amiel. Certainly it is bad for any one to be too much mothered, and I don’t wonder you get fed up. His gloomy account of Germany is no doubt correct.

I must get hold of Koestler’s book.1

We go to Portmeirion Aug. 11–25. Otherwise we shall be here.

Let me know when there is some one you would like me to write to about your business.

Love.

Yr aff
Diddy

  • 1

    I must get hold of Koestler’s book.The Yogi and the Commissar, which Russell reviewed in Forward, 22 Sept. 1945 (B&R C45.15; 59 in Collected Papers 24).

Publication
Re B&R C45.15
Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
52601
Record created
Feb 11, 2006
Record last modified
Jun 23, 2025
Created/last modified by
duncana