Malleson, Constance [aka O'Niel, Colette], Letter, 3 November 1939

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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: 
3 November 1939
Place: Blagdon, England
Collection/Fonds: 
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: 
00001231-4
Language: 
eng
Type: 
image
Format: 
jpg
Transcript: 

[partial transcription]
... Mosley’s reason for not fighting is that he does not consider England or the Empire threatened in any way.… Here in the village the local children go to school at 8 a.m. and the evacuees in the afternoon.… Some theatres open in London and many star companies touring provinces – but terrible unemployment in theatrical profession in rank and file....
A bike is more precious than gold, for price of even the small petrol ration is going up. People buying horses (and carriages – if there were any to get).… How impossible it is to be logical: one’s heart melts with pity at the corpses of young German airmen washed up on Norfolk and Yorkshire coast; they aren’t the corpses of Hitler and Ribbentrop! ...
So very much love from Colette.