BR TO RUPERT CRAWSHAY-WILLIAMS, [17 FEB. 1946]
BRACERS 56043. ALS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell

Babraham Rd,
Cambridge
17.2.47<1946>1

Dear Crawshay-Williams

My wife, who has been in a nursing home, is now back here, but by Doctor’s orders is going to Wales tomorrow. She has been very ill indeed and now needs a complete rest from household, parental, and wifely cares. She is going to the Pengwern Arms at Festiniog where Conrad and I will join her when the Easter holidays come. In the meantime cheerful society would be a great boon to her. I hope you will both be able to do something to that end. (She is no longer obviously an invalid.) She will have to have some business interviews about our cottage, and if you could help her out with them you would do us both a great kindness. She expects to reach the Pengwern Arms on Tuesday evening.

I hope you won’t find this a bother.

Yours sincerely
Russell.

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  [date] Although BR seems to have written the letter year “47” (it’s a very odd shaped “7”), he must have meant to write “46”. The Russells had sold Grosvenor Lodge in Cambridge on 15 Oct. 1945 and would move out by 31 July 1946. Meanwhile they looked for a place in North Wales. By 17 Feb. 1946 they had found Penralltgoch in Llan Ffestiniog, and well before it was ready Patricia went to stay in the Pengwern Arms there. Moreover, in late January 1946 she had tried to commit suicide; by the true date of this letter, 17 Feb. 1946, she was recovering.