BR TO MARGARET  BULLARD, 28 APR. 1952
BRACERS 11792. ALD. McMaster. Russell 15 (1995): 44–5
Edited by K. Blackwell

Dear Mrs. Bullard,1

Thank you for sending me your novel.2 I have read most of it and shall probably finish it tonight as I have the bad habit of reading novels in bed. If Cambridge is as you represent it, it must have become more amusing since I was an undergraduate, which was in the early ’90’s. In those days we were all strictly celibate, which cannot be said of your characters. I am finding your novel amusing and pleasant reading and am hoping that it gives a true picture of Cambridge life.

Yours sincerely

• 1

  Mrs. Bullard In response to Margaret Bullard’s letter of 10 April 1952 (RA1 710). She identifies herself as married to the Director of the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington.

• 2

  novel Probably A Perch in Paradise, published in London by Hamish Hamilton on 21 March 1952. Bullard also wrote Wedlock’s the Devil (1951) and Love Goes West (1953). In her letter Bullard tells BR that he is mentioned (with respect) in the novel.