From Edith Russell's transcription when she was Edith Finch:

"Reading Lady Constance Malleson's book which Alys Russell has said 'Very good about Bertie'. I remember Mildred's saying Lady Constance was much better sort than Lady Ottoline and that Bertie made a stipulation with Dora for non interference regarding Lady C. when he married. Though why any stipulation was necessary I wonder."

"I should like to speak for you at the meeting on October 14 but, before definitely accepting your invitation, I should wish to know where the meeting is to be and how long you would wish my speech to be." BR believes his office in London has been misinformed as to his wishes to speak.

BR asks Davies if he would be willing to help him find a secretary. BR lays out various qualifications that he would like the candidate to have: "... live in the neighbourhood ... come to us daily from ten to five ... competent shorthand-typist ... in general agreement with our political point of view .... be capable of representing us in interviews and letters and telephone calls ... filing ... collecting facts for articles....." "A paragon".

Creasey asked BR whether he should accept the publisher's suggestions for his new book The Evil that Men Do, but BR says that only Creasey alone can make that decision.

Re Communism: "I should like to make my views on Communism completely clear. I dislike Communism as an economic system and I have a low opinion of Marx. Both these things I expressed in the book on Bolshevism which I published in 1920.... Communism like other -isms varies according to the people who are carrying it out. At the present time, I think that Russia has a more wholesome outlook on world politics than the U.S., but this view might change tomorrow and is totally independent of the relative merits of Communism and Capitalism in the abstract."

"Your theory is interesting and may be true in many cases.... There is one important instance against it, which is that of English utilitarians and there <their> influence on legislation."

BR thanks him for his booklet, Be Happy. "... I have twice treated the same theme in print: once in Part II, Chapter II, of the Practice and Theory of Bolshevism and once in Part II, Chapter II, of Human Society in Ethics and Politics. ... I place more importance than you do upon social desires such as ambition and rivalry … irradicable ... your book might be useful, especially during the present conflict between India and Pakistan."

"Your remarks about Helsinki were such as we could very largely agree with. We do not doubt that Ralph Schoenman's manner of conducting his campaign was needlessly rough and offensive as it generally is when he comes up against disagreement. We have warned him of this…."

"... I have no objection to you publishing memoires concerning me, but I should rather like to be allowed to see them before they are published in case there should be any item for which I should not desire publicity—which, however, I do not think probable."

BR is interested to learn that Adam's son, Andrew, was tutored by his son Conrad.

"Russian letter > Medlock".

From Edith Russell's transcription when she was Edith Finch:

"Alys' 'devotion' to B. is mingled with a certain pleasure in seeing her foibles shown up."

From Edith Russell's transcription when she was Edith Finch:

"I enclose a notice about Bertie's divorce. Alys talks a good deal about it, often with tears in her eyes, but her chief feeling I think concerns Dora's having the title. She is also very hard on the new young woman, Margaret Spence, repeating that she has got what she deserves. Perhaps this is natural but I could not refrain from a mild protest that she was young etc. Alys admitted that she had probably been carried away by Bertie, adding however that what she did was wrong. She says Bertie's friends report that the same Margaret is very graceless to them."

[Donnelly is mistaken in regards to the name of the "young woman"—it is not Margaret Spence, but Marjorie Spence (later Patricia Helen Spence, then Patricia Russell).]