BR TO ROBERT GATHORNE-HARDY, 18 OCT. 1946
BRACERS 57267. TLS(X). Indiana U.
Proofread by K. Blackwell

Trinity College,
Cambridge.
18th October, 1946.

Robert Gathorne-Hardy, Esq.,
The Mill House,
Stanford Dingley,
Nr. Reading,
Berks.

Dear Mr. Gathorne-Hardy,

Thank you for your letter and for its reassuring contents. I do not suppose that you would wish to publish much that I should object to, but after I am dead there will still be my wife to consider, and I should be sorry if anything were published that would be painful to her. I should be rather glad, assuming that she is still alive when publication is contemplated, if she were allowed a veto on matters concerning me.

I do not know whether the memoir would contain letters to Ottoline, but if so there would, of course, be a legal obligation to obtain permission from my literary executors1 for letters from me.a

I well remember meeting you, both at Garsington and at Gower Street.

Yours sincerely,
<signed> Russell.

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  permission from my literary executors In 1968 Russell assigned the rights in his unpublished letters to McMaster University. Gathorne-Hardy quoted from some in Ottoline: the Early Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell (London: Faber and Faber, 1963), and in Ottoline at Garsington: Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell 1915–1918 (London: Faber and Faber, 1974).

Textual Notes

• a

  for letters from me inserted