BR TO MIRIAM BRUDNO REICHL, 1 NOV. 1951
BRACERS 52795. ALS(X). Miriam Brudno Reichl
Edited by A.G. Bone. Reviewed by S. Turcon

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The Marott
N. Meridian St. & Fall Creek Blvd
Indianapolis 7, Ind.
Nov. 1, 1951

Dearest Miriam2

Unfortunately my last hours in New York are going to be entirely filled with income tax and similar business so it will be quite impossible to see you again during this visit. I have said an eternal farewell so often that I won’t say it again — so au revoir. Much love, my Dear.

B.

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  [document] The letter was edited from a photocopy (acquired by the Russell Archives from the estate of the recipient) of the signed original written in BR’s hand.

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  [recipient] Miriam Reichl (née Brudno, 1908–1992) had been a significant presence in BR’s romantic life (albeit intermittently) since they started an affair during his lecture tour of the United States in 1929, when she was still single and a bookseller in Cleveland (see Michael D. Stevenson, “‘In Solitude I Brood on War’: Bertrand Russell’s 1939 American Lecture Tour”, Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 33 [winter 2013–14]: 116–17). Early in 1951, however, with Edith Finch already ensconced in London and their romance blossoming, BR seemed to draw a line under a relationship with Reichl that he nevertheless valued as “one of the most important things in my life” (29 Jan. 1951, BRACERS 52793). But they did meet briefly in New York in November 1951 and continued to correspond until the early 1960s.