BR also tells Ottoline in April 1911 that he is walking alone. The rest of the year he doesn't point out walking solitary.

BR requests a donation to the I.L.P.'s Chinese campaign. BR has given £50.

Ts. gives details of BR's case against Dora Russell in their custody battle.

There is a postscript on this letter from Patricia Russell.

BR would like to retrieve his bookplated copy of Fyffe's History of Modern Europe from the Trevelyans' home. BR and Patricia are doing "all sorts of repairs" to Telegraph House.

BR's year of 1935 is rejected in favour of 1936, for he is negotiating to sell Telegraph House; and in 1935 on this day he was in Scandinavia.

(Only BR's second extant letter since 18.5.44 -- then, or the next day or so, he sailed for home.) BR expects to visit on July 11, but is looking for autumn accommodation for his family.

The Russells have bought a small house, possession in a month; Patricia and Conrad are in a boarding-house. BR has not heard from her Chinese friend. "The BBC doesn't want me, but I am to lecture at Trinity, which I prefer."

"I marvel at your housekeeping—infinite hot water, enough warmth, and admirable food—in these days, a triumph!"

BR did not answer her letter ("I am dreadfully ashamed"): "Our plans were uncertain, and then the excitement of the election put it out of my head." "The election results were glorious."

The Russells will visit at Shiffolds, Sept. 7-10. "The Labour victory made us happy for a moment, but the atomic bomb brought one back to reality with a bump."

BR is "atrociously busy". He tells where they will be living: Hotel Portmeirion until Sept. 20; then they will take Conrad to Dartington; BR will then go to Trinity College and Patricia to the flat they believe they have secured in London. BR will often stay in London for the night.

BR does not like train journeys "above my weekly journey to Cambridge, as the Dr. urges me to be careful." ("Thursday is my Cambridge day.")

Patricia is busy with town-planning and is on her way to Harlow. They go to France at the beginning of June and then to Wales.

"In vacation time I shall be in Wales, and in term time I have B.B.C., various meetings, deputations, and God knows what." BR sees G.M. Trevelyan once a week. "John and his family are in Richmond. Everything to do with them is very satisfactory." Kate is engaged. Patricia has had her gall bladder out.

"I have to go first to The Hague and then to Sweden, and to fit in my lectures at Cambridge in between, and this means that every spare moment must be given to preparation. Later, "I am going also to Amsterdam and then to Norway." "I am sorry, but I think these foreign journeys are important."

Newsclip is about BR's plane crash: never any ill effects. To Berlin on Friday, returning Wednesday. "I am going to Berlin because the F.O. [Foreign Office] asked me to."

BR is back from Taormina. "Peter and I are parting amicably."

BR can stay at Shiffolds May 18 and 19.

Enclosed statement by BR is titled "Statement for Meeting on 'Spies for Peace', organized by London Region Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, April 28, 1963."

"I am going soon to Australia, and am very busy preparing lectures."

BR leaves on the 19th "and have masses of both work and business to get through". "I remember your coming to see us in Downing [College] during the Boer War...."

It is not known where BR was staying in Ffestiniog. His home had been sold. He was possibly at the Pengwern Arms.

BR gets home on Aug. 27.

Also in file: a TL(CAR), document .152174.

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .152182.