BR TO MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE / VICTORIA SCHUCK, 8 NOV. 1949
BRACERS 65409. ALS(X). Mount Holyoke College
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FESTINIOG,
N. Wales.
Nov. 8, 1949

Dear Miss Schuck

Thank you for your letter of October 31. I should very much like to accept your invitation, but I hardly see how it will be possible. I no longer lecture at Cambridge, but I shall be lecturing at Oxford in January, February and March, and in June I am going to Australia to lecture.1 As far as engagements go, I could come in May, but I think I must keep the time free to prepare my Australian lectures, which will entail a good deal of work so as to have opinions on the future relations of Australia with Asia — a subject in which I take a great interest. I suppose it would not be possible for you to put off my visit till October? After my return from Australia (which will be in August) I have as yet no engagements.

The only friend on the Eastern seaboard that I should be really anxious to see is my married daughter at Radcliffe.

I am much honoured by the invitation, and very much regret that I cannot accept for the current academic year.

Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell.

• 1

  Oxford in January, February and March, and in June I am going to Australia to lecture See record 57215 (28 Dec. 1949).