BR TO DORA RUSSELL, [17 APR. 1924]
BRACERS 19948. ALS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell

Between Chicago and Milwaukee.
Good Friday, 1924.1

My Darling Love2 —

As yet I have had no letters from you here but probably some will come. This is my last really busy day — I lecture in Milwaukee this afternoon and in Chicago this evening. Then I have one lecture tomorrow morning and then two days complete holiday. I am going to stay with Eliot’s brother those days — he has a flat in Chicago and looks exactly like Eliot. I shall see something of Helen Dudley who lives in the same part of the town, because her two sisters, whom I saw in New York, begged me to for the sake of her mental health. I am getting through this time of rush all right. — Yesterday was the worst day. I arrived in Chicago after a short night in the train with too little sleep, had to speak at 11 (Jane Addams on platform) and again in the evening — the latter a special lecture which I had to prepare in the day. But the Nortons gave me a nice bed and I slept 9 hours so today I am quite fit. The Nortons have a baby 5 days younger than Kate — healthy and intelligent but ugly. It always amazes me how dull the Nortons are, though they have been everywhere and seen everything and their flat is full of nice Chinese things. After today I have a much easier time, with occasional free days. There will be quite £1000 to invest, and a little over to enjoy. Ouf! it is beastly. It is funny that praise from Yanks gives one no pleasure. I only long to be home again and take no interest in anything here.

Goodbye Beloved — I ache to be with you again. Kiss John and Kate for me.

Your
B

<on envelope:> Letter of April 4 just come

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  date: Russell explains in the next letter that he misdated this one a day early.

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  envelope: Hon Mrs B Russell | 31 Sydney Street | London SW3 | England. Pmk: CHICAGO ILL. APR 18 1 AM 1924.