BR TO GILBERT MURRAY, 22 FEB. 1956
BRACERS 52447. TLS. Murray papers, Bodleian
Edited by W. Bruneau. Proofread by A.G. Bone

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41 Queen’s Road
Richmond
Surrey
22 February, 1956

Dear Gilbert,

Thank you very much for your nice letter. Certainly 80 is much less remarkable than 90. When you reach 100 they will no doubt do even more. I think perhaps you hardly realize that in the eyes of many people I am still not quite respectable — e.g. no university in the U.K. has given me any Honorary Degree. Perhaps I may hope to have become respectable by the time I am 90.

I agree with what you say about our devotion to “some cause or other” and I think your definition of it is as good as it can be.

Yours ever,
B.R.