Askey's letters, filed by Russell or his staff in "Cranks", are numerous and are addressed to many political leaders. Those to BR are catalogued in BRACERS.

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

"I too have been reading Bertie's book <probably Freedom and Organization> ... and enjoying his wit and phrasing, though I wish him less bitter. Bitterness is always a mistake."

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

"Alys gave me much gossip. She talked to me a long time about Bertie with a good deal of feeling, of regret for the waste of his life on sex, but without bitterness or personal regard. She says that 'Miss Spence' is a Somerville woman, who went to teach at the school, fell in love with Bertie, began to have a child which 'fortunately miscarried'.... BR went off to London to live with 'Miss Spence', whom he introduces to all his friends, took to Spain this year, and, wants to marry.... Dora ... will probably divorce him as he wishes this autumn. He has not abandoned his children.... Next year he is sending them to 'another crank school', established by Dorothy Willard Straight and her English husband <Leonard Elmhirst>.... Bertie is hard up and inherited nothing from Aunt Agatha who lately died...."

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

"Bertie came to tea on Thursday and seemed in great form. I noticed the change in his eyes, dimmed, almost glazed, and the sharpened lines of his face, but he seemed well and happy and intensely alive, talked with great satisfaction of his children; a good deal about Peace and War; and about his family, telling many good stories after Edith came in, and his new book Power, staying until past seven. Edith said I drove him away by mentioning Aristotle! Alys tells me he came up for 'the Apostles' dinner."