W. GLADYS RINDER TO BR, 23 AUG. 1918
BRACERS 79629. TLS. McMaster
Proofread by S. Turcon and K. Blackwell

23 Aug. 1918
7 Mecklenburgh Sqre WC1

Dear Mr Russell, —

Thank you for your letter. I have delivered all your messages, and here are a lot of messages for you! — Lady Ottoline asks me to say that she finds English novels so bad that she is collecting some French ones for you — getting names of good ones from experts!! — She will bring some. She has also sent you two parcels of novels, this week and last. Arthur and I feel most excited as she (Lady O.) has asked us to spend a week end at Garsington quite soon! — Saw Mrs Hamilton this morning, she gave me some more novels which I am posting to you to-day. She asked me to tell you that on the day on which she saw you she sat next at dinner to General Hennessy — home on leave from Mesopotamia, going to Bagdad on Saturday last. He asked her to convey to you his kindest remembrances and to say how much he wished he could come and see you and continue a conversation of which he had a lively recollection, — which you once at Camberley on the French and German war-methods. Mrs Hamilton also met Lytton Strachey who sent greetings. — I have sent Miss Kyle another list of books suggested by various people. She has not sent you any books by Voltaire on himself as she thinks you have already read them. I think Lytton Strachey said there were a great many volumes<;> if you want any or all will you let me know? Miss Dudley left yesterday, Mrs Hamilton saw her off. She sent you her love and will write from America. I saw Stanley Unwin yesterday: he will get the Introduction out as soon as possible, but does not wish to commit himself to any definite time at present: much depends on the increase which is due in September, the rate of which is not yet known. R. to F. should be out in Oct. if not before, — as far as I could make out, — but it is not yet quite certain. He was most interested in your criticism of “Concepts of Consciousness” as a shoddy book which he discovered in the extracts from your letters dealing with your work. He has not yet received all the typescript of the “Introduction”<.> I am making inquiries about this. Dorothy Wrinch returns from T.H. tomorrow and I will get into touch with her somehow. Percy and I both want that paper of Jourdains about you, will you let us see it after you have finished with it, it looked most entertaining. Find we have it. By the way do you wish to read Madame Delaney, Lady Sarah Lennox and the Harvey Memoires, all of which were suggested by Mrs Whitehead some time ago when you said you did not want any more books? If so, let me know.

Later. — Just received letter from S. Unwin in which he says how very interested he was in the extracts about your work and adds “I must confess I am somewhat staggered by Mr Russell’s criticism of Holt’s “Concepts of Consciousness” for the book has been so unanimously praised in other directions and I gathered that Holt was quite one of the most promising of the younger American Philosophers. — Also had a letter from Miss Dudley, very glad of your last messages. — Do you remember Mr Brown, who used to work with me? He has discovered a twin soul in a young Australian artist. She seems a very nice girl: fortunately their tastes in Art coincide, otherwise there might be trouble, as he is one of those people who streak cheek bones with vivid green and foreheads with wicked looking purple!! Any way, they are full of enthusiasm and very happy, which is a great thing. He lent me some novels for you, among them several GK Chestertons, I will bring them with me on Wed. — Mrs Rollo Russell asks me to tell you that she and Margaret “have just returned from a most delightful holiday in N. Wales — and we want him to join us there some time later on perhaps. Please also say that we have to-day that John may have leave in Sept. He has been in Salonica for nearly 2 years.” End. Eliot came to see me on Wed., poor man I fear he is very worried. But he has a good many irons in the fire; among other things, there seems to be a chance that he may be given a commission in the Interpreters Corps or some other more or less sedentary section of the U.S.A. Army. He is going to let me know the results of some steps he is now taking at once. He struck me as such a boy, rather too highly strung for a rough world, but very attractive. G.L. asks me to say that he has read with enormous pleasure the Journal of Philosophy etc which has just reached him. He sends his love and is thinking of you. — Percy goes to day to St Margarets Bay to “stay with Priscilla until next Wed.” Will write to me from there on Monday so that I shall have the letter before I see you on Weds. Just heard this from him. The change should be beneficial, he has found the heat very trying — Fancy, C.A. is staying at an hotel in Edinburgh with CEM, who is having massage treatment. I’ve known it 2 weeks but was forbidden to tell a soul! Now she’s told E.E.H. under no seal of secrecy. She says they will be there for some weeks! Also that she’s had flue really badly but C.A. escaped, and is really better just going to Winchelsea. All good wishes. Love from lots of us.

Yours v. sincerely
W.G. Rinder