"Some years ago when you had trouble with garbled newspaper reports of your views about the atom bomb you startled two Cambridge undergraduates living at the top of a staircase in St. John's by paying them the honour of a visit. Even though we were reading for the Moral Sciences Tripos we did not on that occasion find much to say, though you were very considerate to us."

Townsend's 1948 interview with BR is B&R E48.03. [K. Blackwell corresponded with Townsend about that interview some 45 years later.]

Townsend asks BR to read and comment on his new book, The Family Life of Old People (1957).