BRACERS Record Detail for 56405

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
705
Source if not BR
New York Public Library
Recipient(s)
Brenan, Gamel
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1944/04/17
Form of letter
ALS(X)
Pieces
1
BR's address code (if sender)
PNP
Notes and topics

BR's "as from" address: c/o Coward Chance and Co., 155 Fenchurch Str., E.C.3". He feels like a Rip van Winkel, "and wonder if my friends of other days will still remember me...."

Transcription

BR TO GAMEL BRENAN, 17 APR. 1944
BRACERS 56405. ALS(X). New York Public Library
Proofread by K. Blackwell


[As from] c/o Coward Chance & Co.,
155 Fenchurch Str., E.C.3
[Present address: E. Prospect Ave.,
Princeton, N.J.]
April 17, 1944.

My dear Gamel

I shall sail for England by the first available boat, probably next month. One of the things I most look forward to is seeing you and Gerald again. I feel rather like a Rip van Winkel, and wonder if my friends of other days will still remember me, but I hardly think you will have quite forgotten me. I wrote to you four or five years ago, saying I wondered if we should ever meet again, but now it begins to look probable. If it is at all possible for you, please let me see you either at Aldbourne or in London, whichever suits you best. I wonder if your shawls have survived.

Goodbye.

Yours ever
Bertrand Russell.

Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
56405
Record created
Jan 10, 2006
Record last modified
Sep 27, 2023
Created/last modified by
duncana