BRACERS Record Detail for 58154
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BR is "quite willing" to write an introduction to Utley's The High Cost of Vengeance, but not until September and then with a few reservations.
BR has sent Peter Blake an account of the rupture with Patricia. (See record 52543 for a description of the transcription.)
It is not known where BR was staying in Ffestiniog. His home, Penralltgoch, had been sold. He was possibly at the Pengwern Arms.
BR TO FREDA UTLEY, 8 JUNE 1950
BRACERS 58154. ALS(X). Stanford U., Hoover Institution
Proofread by K. Blackwell
Ffestiniog.
8.6.50
Dear Freda
Thank you for your letter of May 28. I am quite willing to write an introduction to your High Cost of Vengeance, if you don’t mind my making a few reservations. But I am just off to Australia for a lecture tour, and cannot do it till September. I hope that is not too late?
About writing to Lasky: I am very sorry, but I do not quite feel I can. First, because he represents America, not England; second, because I only partially agree with you. I shall be glad if you are able to go, but I should not like to have any responsibility for your opinions. Please forgive me.
I never said nasty things about you, except such public things as I might have said in print. I am sorry Peter is talking against me. She tells people I keep her short of money, which is quite untrue. I sent Peter Blake an account of the rupture, which I should like him to show you. Her hostility to me is hysterical and delusional. I can do nothing about it.
If you write to me, address
c/o Coward Chance and Co.
133 Fenchurch Str., E.C.3.
I get home at the end of August.
Love as always.
Yours ever
B.R.
