BRACERS Record Detail for 79621
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"Saturday". The letter concerns the subscription fund for BR. This sheet could have been enclosed with another letter. Rinder states that Carr claims BR has £400 under his marriage settlement. BR provided relevant facts the previous week to Rinder.Lady Ottoline Morrell and Rinder visited Carr in early September. BR told the former on 11 September 1918, record 18692, that he had written Rinder: "I have written to Miss Rinder telling her what I told you about my finances and saying she may tell Carr. I don’t like him to be puzzled. I had no idea of what you told me about Carr’s having collected money before. I didn’t need it then. I could earn, and I had much more capital. Also I need more for philosophy because I want to be able to have my books, which is difficult in a garret. Also it is desirable to have Gordon Sq. All these things together make a vast difference. I did not tell the Whiteheads I had £400 a year in my marriage settlement. Mrs W. wrote me a worried letter, purely private and personal it seemed, and I wrote back soothing her worry."
W. GLADYS RINDER TO BR, 7 SEPT. 1918
BRACERS 79621. ALS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell
Saturday
My dear Bertie, —
Gave Carr your message about income, but he keep telling us last week that you had £400 under your marriage settlement, which you should still have! He is too conscientiously curious. However I daresay the facts you gave me will keep him quiet. He said he had seen a letter from you to Mrs Whitehead about that £400, and we couldn’t contradict or re-assure him, except vaguely. But don’t worry about money, its going to be as easy as possible, Carr has been told that only a nominal sum is needed from philosophers to head the list with names (not amounts), the rest is owing from friends, Withers seems to think it as easy as eating his dinner! (This is v. dull, written in middle Nat Ctee!, 2 members have just said Milton “was deep in their hearts”, doesn’t it sound painful.
N.B Above may amuse you written Sat morning!
