BR TO PERCY A. POPKIN, 13 SEPT. 1950
BRACERS 110191. TLS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell

61, Queen’s Road,a
Richmond, Surrey.
13th December, 1950

Percy A. Popkin, Esq.,
131, Main Road,
Romford,
Essex.

Dear Mr Popkin,

I enclose herewith the expenditure guide which you sent me. The alterations required seem to be as follows: —

1) Instead of 18 Dorset House, you must put 61, Queen’s Road, Richmond. And I do not think the sum can be made as large as it was in the previous year.

2) Under the heading Secretarial and Research Assistant, the word “Wife” must be deleted.

3) I do not think I can claim anything under the heading of Foreign Travel or Provincial Travel. All the journeys that I have made, except such as were purely pleasure, have been paid for by the people who wanted them made. Otherwise I think things may stand as in the previous year.

With regard to invested income, I do not think I can give you any information beyond what my bank account and Mr Tyler can give you. In case my bank does not know that it should give you information, I enclose a letter to it.

I did sell some investments in connection with the expenses of this house. The bank could tell you what they were, but I do not remember. In April or May of last year I transferred £3000 of income to a trust for my son Conrad. The Bedales’ School mortgage is always paid, not through my bank, but through Coward, Chance, and I presume that Tyler has the vouchers. I presume that Tyler has kept you fully informed of financial arrangements between Lady Russell and me.

In your letter of September 11th, you raise a query as to my receipts from Odham’s Press in the year 1948–49. In my accounts I have noted the sum of £63 paid in February 1949 for an article in the News Review. And a sum of £42 paid in March for an article in World Review. Perhaps I made a mistake in thinking that the World Review is published by Odham’s Press. I have not hitherto been in the habit of using a paying in book, because I can never find it when I want it. However, if it will save trouble I will make a point of doing so in future, and have written to my bank to ask them to send me one.

Lady Russell’s address at the present is still 18, Dorset House. I think she is likely to move soon, but I do not know what her new address will be. If she is willing, I should much prefer that you should go on acting for her. It would very much simplify matters to have the division of income between her and me, dealt with by one person.

I enclose a list of my earnings for the year 1949–1950.1 My earnings from Trinity College have come to an end.

Yours sincerely,

(Earl Russell)

Enclosures.

Notes

• 1list of my earnings … 1950 See record 41113.

Textual Notes

• a61 Surely this is a typo for "41", where Russell had lived since May; yet "61" reappears below.