BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 8 DEC. 1946
BRACERS 19835. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

Trinity College
Cambridge1
8.12.46

My Darling Colette

It is very great joy to get letters from you, and I long with all my heart to see you again. Whenever you do come to England I shall be able to come to lunch and tea, or dinner, only not to go away. When I see you I will explain further.

My job here continues,2 and I shall be here one night in every week during term; the rest of the time in London in winter, N. Wales in summer. Owing to the great success of my History of Philosophy I am richer than at any time for the last 40 years.

Conrad3 is happy at Dartington.4 John5 has had to stay in America for the moment, as his wife6 was threatened with a miscarriage. I go on with my big book on Human Knowledge, its scope and limits, which I hope to finish next summer. I haven’t a spare copy of Polemic7 but I have written to them to send it you if still in print.

Have you read The Dark Side of the Moon8 (anon.) about Russian doings in Poland? Very horrible.

All my love, dearest Colette.

Your
B.

• 1

  [document] Document 200841.

• 2

  My job here continues BR had taken up a multi-year fellowship and lectureship when he returned to England from America in 1944. He retired from teaching in 1949 and was made a life fellow.

• 3

  Conrad Conrad Sebastian Robert Russell, born 15 April 1937 to BR and his wife Patricia.

• 4

  Dartington Dartington Hall, a progressive school in Devon, where BR’s older children, John and Kate, had also been educated after they left Beacon Hill School.

• 5

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

• 6

  his wife Susan Doniphan Lindsay, the daughter of the American poet Vachel Lindsay, who married John in August 1946. Their daughter Sarah Elizabeth was born on 16 January 1947.

• 7

  a spare copy of Polemic Presumably a copy of the issue containing an article by BR, “The Atomic Bomb and the Prevention of War”, Polemic no. 4 (July–Aug. 1946): 15–22 (B&R C46.07; 68 in Papers 24, forthcoming).

• 8

  The Dark Side of the Moon Published anonymously in 1946 by Faber and Faber, with a preface by T.S. Eliot, the author was an Irish woman Zoë Zajdlerowa.