PATRICIA RUSSELL TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / STORER LUNT, 26 JULY 1939
BRACERS 47271. TLS. Norton papers, Columbia U.
Proofread by K. Blackwell and A. Duncan

76 San Leandro Lane
Montecito
Santa Barbara
Cal.1
July 26 1939

Dear Storer,

I don’t know whether it is to be you or the Nortons or all of you to look after John and Kate, so as Bertie has written to Warder I will write to you. The tickets and instructions have gone to him, or are going. They will feel very lost, poor lambs, but I know that seeing you and/or the Nortons will cheer them up, as it did me.

I ought to have replied to your nice letter in June, but my lord’s illness kept me very busy. He is very well again now, and much better for the enforced rest; but he can’t dive or climb mountains. Conrad is well and growing enormous. He still treasures the fragments of the Noah’s Ark you sent him, and his conversation is full of biblical allusions arising therefrom. Miss Campbell is still with us, and has decided to stay till next summer, which is a great comfort.

It would certainly be delightful if we could foregather again with the Gregorys. We liked them so much. They have a peculiar quality of unworldliness which is rare now-a-days.

John and Kate will be very shy, but that you will expect. I can’t think of anything but their coming.

Yours very sincerely,
Peter Russell.

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