Malleson, Constance [aka O'Niel, Colette], Letter, 16 September 1940

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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: 
16 September 1940
Place: Vehmersalmi, Finland
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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: 
00001235
Language: 
eng
Type: 
image
Format: 
jpg
Transcript: 

[partial transcription]
Vehmersalmi, Finland, 16 September 1940
Dearest Bertie,
The English newspapers printed in June the articles and letters I sent them about the Peace in Finland in March! One result of that peace is that all our butter goes to Russia; and what’s left over, to Hitler. … All the fish from the whole of Scandinavia and all the timber and metal also goes to Hitler. We get our lard from U.S.A.; also some oil. … I gave up Blagdon in May – so as not to be paying two rents for the whole war. So, what I shall do when the war is over, I cannot imagine. … I can’t imagine ever being able to afford living in England again. Yet I feel suspended between two worlds: torn in two.