BR TO MIRIAM REICHL, 9 JUNE 1946
BRACERS 52789. ALS(X). Ruth Reichl
Proofread by K. Blackwell

Trinity College,
Cambridge.
June 9, 1946.
[This will always be my address.]

Dearest Miriam

It was very nice getting a letter from you. I couldn’t write to you till I got it, as I couldn’t remember what your name has become. Inability to remember names is a sign of senility.

Peter got ill, and the Doctors decided that she ought not to live in Cambridge. So we sold our house, and bought a smaller one in North Wales, in very lovely country. I am here till term ends, then I go to Switzerland for a fortnight to lecture, and then I join Peter and Conrad in Wales. In future we shall probably spend holidays in Wales and winters in London. Conrad will be at school at Dartington, where John and Kate were. John is still in Washington, but coming home in the autumn. Kate is at Radcliffe, where she has a Fellowship. My views on the state of the world are the same as they were last October, but I still manage to be cheerful and enjoy life, in spite of gloomy opinions.

I am very much interested to hear you are to have a baby in November. I hope you will let me know the result when you can. And I hope your publishing venture prospers. I prosper because my History of Philosophy has had a huge sale.1

Give my love to your mother. It makes me sad to reflect that I shall probably never see either her or you again.

Yours ever
<B.R.>a

• 1

  History of Philosophy has had a huge sale As early 22 Dec., Keynes had told Russell that the book was on the American best-seller lists (record 48803).

Textual Notes

• a<B.R.> The last line of the original letter escaped Ruth Reichl’s photocopier. At this time Russell usually signed his letters to Reichl “B.R.”