"Dearest O.—I am so looking forward to seeing you again next Monday—it will be the greatest joy, and there are so many things to talk about."

[Letter no. is not on letter.]

"Dearest O.—Thank you very much for your letter—it was a great joy, like your visit."

"Wittgenstein's dining table was so vast that it couldn't be got into any room except the basement, and that only by taking out the window, so our dining-room has to be in the basement." [This concerns the move into 31 Sydney St., Chelsea.]

"I am so relieved. I made [was(?)] sure the child would have 3 arms and no eyes, or something queer—but he seems no worse than other people's babies."

[Letter no. is not on letter.]

"I saved [£]1000 in the Far East and now everybody wants articles on China because of the Washington conference, so wealth keeps pouring in."

"I want to do a little book on China, and it must be done quickly." BR notes that many of his books are missing.

"Dearest O.—I am sorry I haven't written all this time, but I have been very busy—I kept hoping I could suggest a time to come to Garsington but I think it will be another 6 weeks before I can manage it."

BR asks her to imagine Gertler, Augustus John and Lytton Strachey as artist-governors of China.

"Sunny Bank, Treen, Penzance" "Dearest O.—We are both very sorry indeed not to come to Garsington, before getting buried here, but it was quite impossible."

[Letter no. is not on letter.]

"Wednesday" Will read paper at Oxford this term, on Feb. 14, 15, 16 or 17. [BR was banned from doing so by the Vice-Chancellor.]

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"Sunny Bank, Treen, Penzance." "I have just finished a book on China, which will be out in the autumn."

"Sunny Bank, Treen, Penzance" "I'm 50, which is a fearful age!"

In August he's going to International Congresses—one in Germany, one in Italy.

Also going to "Elizabeth's" Swiss chalet*, where Wittgenstein is coming too.

*Chalet Soleil, Randogne sur Sierre, Switzerland.

"Sunny Bank, Treen, Penzance" "Dearest O.—I am so glad you are coming."

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"Sunny Bank, Treen, Penzance" "My Dearest O.—I very well understand your not wanting to come while Dora Sanger is here—we are finding her a bit of a trial, and she is certainly spiteful."

[Letter no. is not on letter.]

"Sunny Bank, Treen, Penzance. Tuesday, Dearest O.—I telegraphed to you today—any time up to July 20 suits us, and we shall be alone from July 1st onward."

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"Sunny Bank, Treen, Penzance." "I thought very little of it [his lecture on free thought], and didn't talk about it at all ... the Americans have published it both as article in a paper and as a pamphlet, which I am glad of, as it is chiefly aimed at them."

Says he hasn't thrown away any of her letters since the 1910 letter asking him to come to Burnley.

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"Dearest O.—We are just back from abroad and should very much like to come to Garsington."

"Dearest O.—We both meant to write to you after our visit but both got immersed in things to do—"

A charming letter from Dora: she's married an old Victorian! She thinks of giving him away to Lytton for a book.

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"Dearest O.—I hadn't time to write during the election."

[Letter no. is not written on letter.]

"Thursday Dearest O.—Thank you very much for your letter and I hope the 'small operation' was really small and has been successful."

[Letter no. is not on letter.]

"My Dearest O.—1000 thanks from us both for your lovely present—how clever you are at finding just the appropriate thing—we thought them very good likenesses of Dora and me and the boy."

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"My Dearest O.—I am so sorry it was such a long time that I didn't write—your little letter has just come."

[Letter no. is not written on letter.]

"... have to go to Leicester for the night to lecture."

"I am glad you have liked Wittgenstein's book. I like it enormously, even where I disagree."

"I have just finished a book called The Prospects of Industrial Civilization. I have also contracted to write another before the end of May."

"I am writing a book about atoms."

[Letter no. is not on letter.]

Loved Sinclair Lewis—more so Boardman Robinson.

"I haven't read Proust, though I have tried to...." Finished Atoms yesterday.

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"My Dearest O.—Thank you so much for your letter after your visit—I was afraid you might find it dismal owing to Dora being ill."

"Dearest O.—Your letter about Frau Hethey was rather a blow as she is in such desperate circumstances that I fear she will die of hunger and cold during the coming winter, and having raised her hopes we are all responsible."

John "terrified the Whitehead boy (who is just the same age), so that he fled to his mother for protection."

"Dearest O. Thanks for letter and for writing to Frau H." [Hethey]

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Has just spent two days at Garsington.

"It was exciting to get hold of Eliot's Waste Land."

"I have become involved in a controversy about Roads to Freedom and Kropotkin's views on agriculture. Philip had a book by a practical agriculturist praising Kropotkin." (BR wants author and book title.)

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Encloses letter for Gorky—had sent him New Leader articles on atoms but prefer he translate ABC of Atoms—mistakes corrected in the book.

Loved Gorky only time he saw him.

On the election.

"Dearest O.—Dora's child was born Saturday night, quite successfully—a girl, which is what we hoped." Re Katharine.

Going to Oxford on 22nd (Friday) to speak to University Labour Club, and Oxford Majliss on Saturday 23rd.

"Dearest O—Thank you very much, I will come Friday night."

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"On Board S.S. Celtic." Stayed with T.S. Eliot's brother in Chicago. Saw Helen Dudley. Elizabeth Bibesco.

"The most attractive person I met in America was Frost the poet. I read also some of the poetry of Sandberg—some of it was excellent."

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"I have had to work very hard to finish the introduction to the new edition of Principia Mathematica."

"Dearest O.—Your letter to Dora came this morning—I am all right—it was only a cold aggravated by electioneering."

[Letter no. is not on letter.]

"Dearest O.—Thank you for your letter."

"Have been and still am terribly busy with the new edition of Principia Mathematica". "I felt [Joseph] Conrad's death very deeply."

"Dearest O.—Thanks for your letter."

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"Dearest O.—I return Lytton's [Strachey] letter."

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"Dearest O.—I am very sorry Friday evening is no good."

"Lee Abbey Hotel, Valley of Rocks" "Dora and I had each contracted to write a little book so we came here for a week (ending tomorrow) to get leisure. Mine is finished and hers nearly."

[Letter no. is not on letter.]

At Cambridge 25th to 28th "I am going to debate with Professor Sorley as to whether Xtianity* produces virtue!" "I have undertaken a popular book on relativity, a book on education, one on the stars (popular), and one on matter—so I have plenty to do. Also they are starting a Philosophical Institute in London where I shall lecture, beginning in the autumn."

*Christianity.

Lunched with Léon Blum in Paris. "Must write 50,000 words before May 1st."

"Dearest O. It is a very long time since I have heard from you—perhaps it has been my fault."

"Am going four Sundays running to Leicester to lecture."

"Dearest O.—Thank you very much—I will come on Oct. 31 and go to Leicester next day."

"Dearest O.—Unfortunately I could not ring up Yeats till the morning after I got your letter, and then he was already gone."

[Letter no. is not on letter.]

"Dearest O.—Thank your very much for your Xmas present, which reached me here, and gives me a great pleasure."

"Dearest O.—I have been so dreadfully busy that I haven't written for ages."

"Dearest O. I am very sorry indeed that I couldn't come to Garsington before going to Cornwall, but it was quite impossible."

[Letter no. is not on letter.]

Russell neglected to cross out the letterhead address.

General strike—Dora and BR make speeches in Cornwall. "I am inventing a new geometry, and I go on steadily, strike or no strike. I have to give it in lectures at Trinity* in the autumn."

[*The Tarner Lectures, published as The Analysis of Matter.]

Dora "is a born proletarian leader, and will probably die on the barricade".

"Tuesday Dearest O. Thank you very much, I will come to dinner at 8 on Thursday."

[Letter no. is not on letter.] The letter may not be 1931, but in 1931 Russell visited Lady Ottoline several times at 10 Gower St. The letter had been dated 1927, but there is no support for that date.

"Have just finished a long dull book on Analysis of Matter." Dora and BR going to Geneva for a week. "The Mexican Government is the best in the world...."

"Dearest O.—Thank you very much for the lovely pocket-book, which is just what I wanted."

"I am immersed in Chinese affairs—every free evening this month I am speaking on China". UK foreign policy. School.

"My Dearest O.—It is a very long time since I have heard from you, and I don't really know which wrote last, but I do know I should like to have news from you."

"I am so completely happy."

This letter crossed Ottoline's of 24 July 1927, record 73925.

Will go to America on 21 Sept. 1927. Re Beacon Hill School.

"On Board S.S. Homeric." "Dearest O. I meant to answer your letter at once but the time slipped by and then I gathered you would be away in France."

[Letter no. is not on letter.] The handwritten year is difficult to read, but it must be 1929 because BR took the Homeric to America that year.

"C/o Mr. William B. Feakins; Times Building" "Dearest O.— Just as I was leaving England I got a note from you, but it was too late to see you before sailing."

"On Board the Cunard R.M.S. Berengaria" Saw T.S. Eliot's brother and Helen Dudley's three sisters.

On Eliot not divorcing.

"Dearest O. I have been meaning to get a wedding present for Julian but have found it quite impossible."

[Letter no. is not on letter.]

"Dearest O. Thank you very much for your letter."

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"Dearest O. May I come to you for the night on Monday?"

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"My Dearest O. I am most terribly distressed to hear that you have had such an awful time."

"Dearest O. Thank you very much for your birthday letter."

"Dearest O. I was very sorry to hear from Charlie Sanger that you are still very ill."

"Dearest O. It was kind of you to write while you are still so ill."

"Dearest O. Congratulations on becoming a grandmother!"

[Letter no. is not on letter.]

"Dearest O. Yes, it will be lovely to have you and Lucy Silcox come here on Saturday."

[Letter no. is not on letter.]

"Dearest O. Thank you very much for the delicious picture book."

[Because of references to staying at Gower St., which Russell did several times in the first half of 1928, this letter has been redated 1927; besides, the "7" doesn't curve out to the left.]

"On Tuesday, the critical day [for his son John's illness], I had to come to London to debate the Xtian [Christian] religion against Bishop Gore.... I wanted to spit in their faces—they were so cold and abstract, with a sadistic pleasure in the tortures their God inflicts."

"Thursday Dearest O. What a dreadful long time of illness and misery you have had!"

[Envelope probably doesn't belong.] The letter was written in April or May 1929 because it was then that BR had whooping cough. The letter was originally dated here as March 1929.

"Lytton's [Strachey] book came safely, and I read it with the greatest delight. Virginia's [Woolf] Orlando also pleased me very much, although her history is extraordinarily full of mistakes."

"On Board the Cunard R.M.S. Berengaria".

On southern U.S.A: a Principia quote: "Texas, which on the movies is nothing but cow-boys, contains the only known human beings who have read all three volumes of Principia Mathematica."

"Dearest O. Could I come to either lunch or tea on Thursday?"

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"Wed. Dearest O. It is dreadful about Charlie Sanger."

"Monday Dearest O.—I tried to telephone last Wed. to say I wasn't coming as I had a bronchial cold, but I couldn't make myself heard."

"Dearest O. I am very sorry to have had to be so variable in my plans."

"Dora and I returned last night from Hendaye, the s.w. corner of France, where we took a villa for the summer...."

"Dearest O. Thank you very much for your letter of sympathy."

"Dearest O. May I come to lunch or dinner on Thursday?"

"Monday. Dearest O. I telephoned to you this morning but I seemed to be inaudible."

"Dearest O. What a pity the telephone was so inaudible."

"Today I got a bundle of letters to my mother from the Carlyles, H. Spencer, Mill, Palgrave, and a host of other Victorian celebrities."

[Re Archives.]

"Dearest O. I haven't been in London for a long time, because Dora has been there with the prospective father."

"Tuesday" "We have promised to take the children to a private show of a film of the school and I must be there to see there is nothing objectionable." Re Beacon Hill School.

"I am doing no work, but correspondence takes me several hours a day, and I teach John arithmetic and geometry, and I write to the papers about our gaol-bird friend."

"Friday Dearest O. May I come to lunch Tuesday instead of Wed?"

"Going to America on Oct. 18."

"Dearest O. Since people think my new book not so awful, I am sending it to you."

"Dearest O. Thank you very much for your Xmas presents, which were lovely."