BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 4 MAY 1927
BRACERS 19756. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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Carn Voel
Porthcurno
Penzance.1
May 4, 1927

My dear Colette

I am dreadfully sorry we never wrote to thank you for the Easter eggs, which gave very great pleasure. I meant to get John2 to write, which requires waiting for the mood, as we don’t make him do that sort of thing when he doesn’t want to. And then I forgot it hadn’t been done.

We are starting a small school3 for contemporaries of John and Kate4 at my brother’s house5 on the South Downs. It starts in Sep., but I go to America6 then for 2 months so I shan’t be there till its second term. How are you?

Your
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  [document] Document 200763.

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  John John Conrad Russell, born 16 November 1921 to BR and his wife Dora.

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  starting a small school Beacon Hill School.

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  Kate Katharine Jane Russell born on 29 December 1923 to BR and his wife Dora. Her surname was changed to Tait upon her marriage.

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  my brother’s house Telegraph House was in Sussex and near Petersfield, Hampshire.

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  go to America The lecture tour in fact lasted three months (21 Sept.–21 Dec. 1927). It helped to pay the costs of running Beacon Hill School. He spoke on education, democracy, European chaos, his philosophy of life and other general interest topics mainly at college campuses and to women’s groups. His tour took him along the East coast as far south as Washington and to the Mid-West. He also travelled to Montreal. He began and ended the tour in New York.