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On the prospect of warm weather, "like an American spring. May we survive till then!" Re upcoming broadcast on the atomic bomb: "Whenever I am compelled to think about it I become more or less insane."
Wales April 9-23.
"Yes, there is a feeling like the feeling when France fell, but to me it is worse, because the prospect of disaster is more world-wide."
"I have lived a great deal, but am not yet sated."
BR TO GAMEL BRENAN, 5 MAR. 1947
BRACERS 56421. ALS(X). New York Public Library
Proofread by K. Blackwell
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TRINITY COLLEGE,
CAMBRIDGE.
March 5, 1947
My dear Gamel
I was glad to get your little letter today. How brave of the aconites! We must try to learn from them, but in fact I have felt frozen up mentally as well as physically. I think it will probably get warm soon, and that when it does it will be very warm, like an American spring. May we survive till then!
I have to broadcast about the atomic bomb on Saturday.1 Whenever I am compelled to think about it I become more or less insane.
We are going to Wales April 9 to 23. I should like to hope that we might meet in London on Wed. April 30; I really think the frost will be over by then. This is the last time I shall be in Cambridge this term, so if you write please write to 27 Dorset House, Gloucester Place, N.W.1.
Yes, there is a feeling like the feeling when France fell, but to me it is worse, because the prospect of disaster is more world-wide.
I hate the way the months go by without our meeting, while the deserts of vast eternity draw nearer and nearer. I feel that what I miss now I may miss for ever, which I did not feel when I was younger. I have lived a great deal, but am not yet sated.
Goodbye dear Gamel. All my love.
B.
