BRACERS Record Detail for 68066
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Signed only "Antonia, etc." and addressed to "Lo-su-tze". At this time, c.1926, she was married to Eric Earnshaw Smith.
Farley's attached note states that BR "knew her quite well. She lived in King's Road Chelsea" and that BR "can't remember surname".
Her return address is Glebe House. She lived here with her first husband, Reginald Green-Wilkinson. Yet her daughters say it was at her 2nd husband's suggestion that she made BR's acquaintance. Susan Chitty's edition of White's diaries states that she attended lectures by BR. The letter uses philosophical terms that she may have picked up at BR's lectures for the British Institute of Philosophy. He gave a series in Jan.-March 1926. This letter concerns her reading of The Problem of China (1922). Thus it is probably 1926 rather than later.
White's other daughter, Lyndall B. Hopkinson, states that her mother wrote inviting the Russells over in January 1926 (Nothing to Forgive, p. 55.) Hopkinson cites and quotes not only letters from BR, but also letters to him from her mother. See also Jane Dunn's biography, Antonia White, for other quotations from BR's letters, with dates.
