A letter full of friendly criticisms with a reference to Miss [Eva] Kyle coming to type for BR on 3 September. BR is not a democrat until he has eaten chips out of a newspaper on the street.

The letter is undated. A copy of BR's letter (which is presumed to be to Catherine E. Marshall of the No-Conscription Fellowship) that Pallister calls "that dreadful letter" is at record 53372. Since BR dated this one himself as 14 August 1916, her letter to him must have been written within a few days later. The matter of Russell's unsuccessful visit to see Clifford Allen prior to his court martial, down to the sergeant who may (or may not) have been awaiting beheading (as Pallister jokes) is written up in Jo Vellacott, Conscientious Objection: Bertrand Russell and the Pacifists in the First World War (1976, 2015), pp. 110-11, without mentioning Pallister's letter.