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
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: 
00001235-2
Language: 
eng
Type: 
image
Format: 
jpg
Transcript: 

[partial transcription]
(2)
I do all my own work here and live rather like a lumberman: frying something in a pan with one hand and drinking tea with the other....
Since the invasion of Norway, I’ve not been able to earn anything in the English newspapers of course....
Priscilla had a bomb just by her garden hedge at Cox Green: she has the misfortune to live next door to a flying school....
Sometimes one feels the dead are lucky … not to have lived to see this gamble for civilisation: life or death of the world....
With love from Colette.