
After parting with the debentures that I gave to Eliot, I was left with only about £100 a year of unearned money, which I could not get rid of as it was in my marriage settlement. This did not seem to matter, as I had become capable of earning money by my books. .
Source:The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.2 chap. 2:Russia, 1968
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