PATRICIA RUSSELL TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 10 APR. 1940
BRACERS 47317. TLS. Norton papers, Columbia U.
Proofread by A. Duncan

212 Loring Avenue
Los Angeles1
April 10 1940

Dear Warder,

Bertie has asked me to thank you for your kind letter in reply to our telegram, and for all you are doing for him, and I thank you on my own behalf too. Bertie himself shows how much he is above common humanity by minding all this much less than one would expect, but I mind it the more on his account.

When we telegraphed we were both worried because we knew so little of what was going on and felt we ought to be doing something. It seems strange to be the centre of a fight and yet so far away from it, and unable to do anything. It hadn’t occurred to either of us that my going to New York would be noticed by anyone; I have always been so private and nobody has taken any interest in me. But I suppose they do now that they think I go about naked. I was very much relieved that you and everyone else thought it unnecessary, as only the sternest sense of duty prompted the suggestion.

We feel now that everything is well in train and we can await the outcome in patience. We have been getting about sixty letters a day, mostly kind ones, and dozens of telegrams. I am trying to deal with most of it myself, as Bertie, you will be glad to hear, keeps having new and better ideas about Language and Fact. He complains of this: they will keep coming, he says, when he thinks he has it all settled.

He sends his love,

Yours sincerely
Peter Russell

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