BR TO ELIZABETH TREVELYAN, 20 AUG. 1941
BRACERS 52842. ALS(X). Trinity College Library
Proofread by K. Blackwell

LITTLE DATCHET FARM
MALVERN R.D.I
PENNSYLVANIA
August 20 1941

My dear Bessie

I have been meaning to write to you for ages, but always something of more immediate urgency intervened. I was very glad to get your letter, and very much in trustful in all you said. Thank you for sending me what your German friend Dr. Bluth says about my book, which is most gratifying. I am however a little puzzled by his allusion to Reichenbach, who is a professor at Los Angeles, and when I got to know well while I was there. He is a man of simple kindliness, and, I should say, remarkably free from complexes; his philosophy is thoroughly sane. I never came across any “reactionary sentimentality” in him. I paid a visit to Moore at Princeton. He was exactly as usual, very charming and very unperturbed. We had a visit from Joe Wedgwood, which was very enjoyable. He got into hot water here for suggesting that possibly in some points the British contribution might be better than the Americans. I am afraid the British Government has been foolishly harsh about German refugees and public opinion just as bad. Probably it will get worse as time goes on. Here, as yet, people are fairly reasonable, but I fear it won’t last. It grows more and more difficult to be hopeful about the world after the war. I wonder how much the war touches your daily life — in physical ways, I mean. Do you constantly have the noise of aeroplanes? Are the woods cut down? Is the beauty of your neighbourhood destroyed? I am very very sorry your eyes are bad. I hope Bob continues to read books you like. So may times you have read to him and me — I hope to think of your being unable to read. Much love from us both

Yours affectionately
Bertrand Russell

All goes well with us.