Venetia Stanley "has left the fold" (to become a Jewess). Will BR consent to be Ethel's trustee?

"I admire your courage and straightforwardness ... would make a golden bridge any way of the love I bore to your father and mother and deeper love I felt for your grandfather, my father."

A note is attached in Edith Russell's hand: "From Ethel Peel (daughter of 'Aunt Georgie')".

"Can't you put off speaking about your anti-war convictions...?"

BR is invited to Georgiana's 84th birthday party. Ethel would like to hear what BR thinks of Recollections.

The year of the letter is found by reference to this book, p. 17.

The date is conjectured. BR is invited to a pantomine in connection with the Duke of Bedford. BR "refused", he noted on the letter.

Peel has found letters between BR's parents. She encloses (not present) Amberley's last letter. She has a large case of letters from her mother to Kate Amberley.

A transcription, corrected by BR, of document .080911, record 100213; also a carbon copy.

A transcription, corrected by BR, of document .080913, record 100216; also a carbon copy.

Peel comments on The Amberley Papers. She wondered why BR did not include "your father's wistful letter to his mother when he felt himself dying." (See record 100213.)

Aunt Agatha provides building advice. She quotes a letter from Mr. E(?). Carpenter, who knew BR in his youth. BR has annotated his name.

Agatha has not been well but is glad that Alys now is. She remarks that public events are "stirring". Her new home is to be called Rozeldene.

Mrs. Praeger thanks BR for his kind letter on her father's death, quoting 2 phrases. She has visited Agatha Russell at Rozeldene.

She writes from Buckminster, Grantham.

The initial sheet is lacking. The remaining sheet is black-edged and refers to BR's Grandmother Russell as if recently deceased, and to the life of Sir James Simpson that BR and Alys gave Agatha (the book was published in 1896). Dora Bühler is visiting Agatha.

Agatha is sorry BR was not at Dora's [Bühler's] funeral and hopes he has written to her sister. Miss Sedgfield hopes to attend BR's (free trade) lecture next Friday. Agatha has never heard BR or Alys lecture. "Retaliation" is neither Tolstoyan nor Christian.

Agatha is glad to see the Spectator review of The Principles of Mathematics. BR must beware of overtaxing his brain. She encourages him to stand for Parliament some day and refers to "this hateful jingo and imperialist spirit".

"Confidential".

Smith is identified by BR as Agatha Russell's doctor. Smith states that her mental condition is abnormal but under her control; her physical condition is "quite perfect".

Agatha expected a great "outburst" in Russia. BR has met Balfour.

"Private". The letter concerns Lord John Russell's watch, and is annotated by BR. Lord John's last words to BR were "good little boy".

Attached is the document at record 118819, concerning the watch.

A birthday letter, referring to "all the bitter trials you have so bravely endured".

BR's letter touched her deeply. She will give him Lord John Russell's watch.

On the death of Theodore Llewelyn Davies.

There is no year, but the proposed visit seems to fit with letters of November 1906.

Agatha asks BR to tell Dr. Gilbert Smith how helpful sympathy is to her in her illness.

Agatha leaves all letters and journals to BR. (The year 1906 is assigned because there is more such discussion in her 1906 letters.)

Stewart is Agatha's nurse. Agatha half expects to die. Miss (Ada) Sedgfield is gone, never to return.

Agatha sends BR more advice: "Your grandfather ... had strength of mind to see that 'health' is more unselfish than overwork."

For BR's birthday Agatha recalls "the bitter trials you have so bravely endured."

Agatha is considering an editor for Lady John Russell: a Memoir. Apparently BR suggested Desmond MacCarthy.

Agatha is going to refuse Stuart Reid as editor. She hears BR has been "working desperately hard".

Agatha is favourably impressed by what Crompton Llewelyn Davies says an editor should bring to her volume on Lady John Russell.

Agatha has heard from Ada Sedgfield, now in Australia. Agatha encloses a letter about Rollo Russell's letters. She mentions other literary properties. See record 118822 for the enclosure.

Agatha answers BR's question, what to do with Rollo's letters if Agatha survives Rollo.

Writing from Woburn Abbey and mentioning Herbrand, Agatha has learnt of Ada Sedgfield's death in Melbourne and refers to the very happy years before Granny Russell's death.

BR has annotated Sedgfield.

Agatha discusses her insomnia. She hopes BR and Alys are enjoying their garden.

BR's "love helps me in everything." Arthur Russell sent her "such nice photos of Lower Copse". BR has annotated that as "my house at Bagley Wood".

Agatha is happy that BR has been made F.R.S. She may send BR her book of quotations in manuscript for his vetting.

Agatha wants BR to be a friend to Arthur Richards when she dies. BR has annotated Richards as her chauffeur.

The date was misread as 1910 when the letters were put in order. Agatha refers to BR going to Russia and China.

Agatha has just received BR's letter announcing his and Alys's decision to separate. She is sure they are right.

Agatha approves BR's plan to visit her on Dec. 22-24. She has had a business visit from Crompton Llewelyn Davies. She is happy that BR wrote her such a nice letter on November 15 (Granny's birthday). She quotes a letter on BR from Sinclair (record 118828).

"Private".

Agatha writes about a provision in her will regarding her papers, should BR predecease her.

Agatha writes about Arthur Russell's love affair, copyright permission for her book of quotations (The Golden Grain, 1912), and asks BR to identify some. She will get The Problems of Philosophy, but will she understand it?

Agatha is glad to be given The Problems of Philosophy but "you might have written in it".

Agatha sends BR the silver mug that belonged to his sister, Rachel, "who used to love and care for you like a little mother".

Agatha critiques BR's laugh, which "has become rather loud and harsh and would give a false impression of you." She mentions the Mathematical Congress.

On Maud Burdett's "sisterly friendship" for BR.

Agatha is concerned about a rumour that correspondence of BR's mother and father is to be published. [This would be Amantium Irae, 1914.] She is surprised at BR remembering he was a "horrid" little boy at Sandown.

A transcription of the document at record 100272; also a carbon copy.

BR has annotated the ribbon copy, although not in his own hand.

He identifies the letters as ones that Agatha left to him but got mistakenly into the hands of the Duke of Bedford.

Agatha is pleased with Hilda, whom BR annotates as "fiancée of Arthur Russell". She asks when BR is to be abroad.

BR has not answered her letters. Agatha wants him to send her War the Offspring of Fear.

"Private. Burn".

Agatha has heard of BR's "misconduct" with married women, Lady Ottoline Morrell and Lady Constance Malleson.

Agatha knows of BR's lecture course in London and wishes he would visit her, notwithstanding their views on the war. BR's The Policy of the Entente is his best writing on the war, though she picks out his "unworthy" phrases. She congratulates him on the [Butler] medal.

Agatha has heard of Frank Russell's third marriage.

Agatha is upset that BR would think that their differing views on the war should prevent their meeting. She respects the courage of those who stand alone.

She warns him not to overwork his brain and to reduce his consumption of tea ("a slow poison").

BR has apparently not answered her last 3 letters. Arthur Richards is very ill. Agatha remarks on President Wilson.

Agatha remarks on BR's upcoming imprisonment. "The snapshots in the papers—horrid things—make you look terribly old!"

Agatha congratulates BR on the birth of John Conrad and thanks Dora for her letter. She critiques BR's use of "religion" in his Bolshevism articles.

Agatha disagrees with BR in What I Believe on the fear of death—it is not common. She discusses birth control; also BR's father, "and memories of your boyhood and youth crowd upon me".

Agatha finished the letter on 7 September.

She quotes several times from BR's previous letter and discusses Alys's photograph and love for BR, sex and lust, BR's love of flattery, old age's recriminations, money and charity, birth control, inheritance, what BR would feel if his children died, and her own brain-overwork.

Agatha is pleased to have the truth: that Dora's people are not well off. It is not true that Agatha is "always scolding him for having left Alys".

"I shall not write again...."

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .156143.