Malleson, Constance [aka O'Niel, Colette], Letter, 10 September 1941

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Description: 
to Bertrand Russell

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Case Study: 
“Life or Death of the World”: Letters from England and Scandinavia, 1939-1945
Creator: 
Malleson, Constance [aka O'Niel, Colette]
Source: 
letter
Date: 
10 September 1941
Place: Sundborn, Sweden
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Contributer: 
McMaster University Libraries
Rights: 
Copyright, public domain: McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format.

Identifier: 
00001239
Language: 
eng
Type: 
image
Format: 
jpg
Transcript: 

[partial transcription]
Ransnäs, Sundborn, Sweden, 10 September 1941
Dearest Bertie,
I have just come through 20 days of living on nothing but wild mushrooms and substitute coffee – but that is now past and gone and I feel quite rich as a result: having just got a month’s allowance from my bank and still having some of it in hand....
... some of us … might be allowed to travel to England.… The only thing I felt I wanted to go back for, was to do propaganda for Finland in the newspapers: and remembering our position in the last war, felt doubtful that anyone would listen to anything one said – in their present mood....