BR TO GERALD BRENAN, 30 NOV. 1946
BRACERS 58219. ALS(X). Lynda Pranger
Proofread by K. Blackwell

Trinity College.
30 Nov. 1946

Dear Gerald

Thank you for your very good letter, which I have meant to answer ever since I got it. Marcos Aurelius says I mustn’t say I was too busy.

I hope to finish the big book I am writing towards the end of next summer. I suppose then it will be three years before it is published, if I may judge by my History.1

I hope you are right that we have taken too black a view of Russia, and I begin to think perhaps you are. Anyway unless you are there is not much that can be usefully done.

Pessimism about current affairs has made me more and more absorbed in philosophy — I seem to be just now finding out what are the things I want to say.

It is very nice of you to suggest my coming to Hungerford — it may be possible some time, but probably not in any near future. My private concerns go much better than they did, but only by dint of a good deal of carefulness.

After next week I shall be in London — 27 Dorset House, Gloucester Place, N.W.1. Perhaps some time when you are in London we could meet — I should like it.

Yours ever
B.R.

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  it will be three years before it is published, if I may judge by my History Human Knowledge was published in Oct. 1948.