Yet another attempt to clarify what BR said about preventive war against the Soviet Union in 1948.

Name in France: Union Mondiale des Libres Penseurs.

Hertzberg asks for a few lines about BR's forthcoming article. He will use them in the next issue to draw attention to the article.

Hertzberg thanks BR for his article on India.

Ms. is a conclusion Palmer asked BR to write to an article on divorce for the New York World.

Three photocopies of this letter are in the file.

"Sunday". "An egotistical letter".

"I did very wrong to let my friendship become anything you would miss...."

"... I hope you have forgiven me."

BR has been on "10 days' holiday in Somerset and Devon".

Re standing for election in Wimbledon.

"The Lake of Garda is one of the most lovely places on earth...."

Written from Prince of Wales Hotel.

"When I leave here I am going with my wife and others to Skye...."

Other people going to Skye: Arthur Dakyns, Cornford, Miss Silcox, perhaps Miss Sheepshanks.

"... the big book [Principia Mathematica] I have been at so long begins to approach completion."

BR mentions Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

BR anticipates feeling light and free once Principia Mathematica is done.

The first mention of Ivy's engagement, which was probably never made public. "... I am so glad you have such a good prospect of happiness with a man who sounds as nice as men can be." His name was Mr. Napier.

Her engagement to Mr. Napier has not yet been announced.

Written from the Hotel Minerva.

Re the problems of her secret engagement.

Written "In the train, France".

Re Sicily.

Her engagement is over. Her fiancé was heartless.

Re the conduct of her fiancé, this time called "A".

"I always find the greatest comfort in friends, but books are no use to me when I am unhappy, and religion I don't believe in."

"On average days I do 9 or 10 hours' work at my book [Principia Mathematica]—on other days I have various jobs." BR describes several of them.

"In the train up and down I read the proofs of the French translation of my book on Leibniz practically the whole time."

BR is just starting off on holiday, "having let my house [Bagley Wood] for 5 weeks". He is going to North Devon and the Murrays will be there. He has "finished the 4th and last section of the 4th part of my book [Principia Mathematica] late last night". He mentions Gertrude Bell and Lloyd George.

"Everything you say about Charlie Tennyson sounds nice."

Re Walt Whitman.

"I have never before or since made friends so quickly, or wished to, with any one as with you."

"Friday".

Written on 14, Cheyne Walk letterhead with the address scratched out. BR must have been using old letterhead dating from the period 1902-04.

"Friday night".

"Friday".

He hopes to get a letter from her at the Hotel Minerva, Rome.

"Friday".

Re her broken engagement to Napier.

"Saturday".

Dated by the reference to the French translation of BR's Leibniz.

"Monday".

"I liked Napier very much indeed."

"... the train shakes too much for more writing."

[The year seems very early.]

To come to Sweden BR needs an invitation to lecture at the university or "at some society concerned with international relations".

BR needs an invitation "from some university or learned society to give a lecture on some political or philosophical topic".

BR is "willing to speak, to broadcast, or to write articles for publication in Sweden".

For his hotel bill and £50 (equivalent), BR is willing to "write an article for you, and/or broadcast, and undertake any moderate amount of engagements". (Hansson's letter of 1948/05/18 details BR's obligations, including "your talk on the situation will be on Thursday, 27th of May, at 4 o'clock at the Parliament Buildings".

BR does not know what article the Danish title refers to.

Addressed to BR at Harvard University.