BR TO RUPERT CRAWSHAY-WILLIAMS, 18 JULY 1949
BRACERS 56051. ALS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell

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Penralltgoch
Llan Ffestiniog
Merioneth
18.7.49

Dear Rupert

I enclose cheque for whisky. Do you remember Omar Khayyam:

I often wonder what the vintners buy
One half so precious as the stuff they sell.

The question is relevant.

Thank Elizabeth for Yorkshire pudding etc.

Yrs aff
William Collins1

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  William Collins Eighteenth-century poet, author of Persian Eclogues​​​​​​ ​— a rare use, for Russell, of an epistolary pseudonym.