However, many people in many parts of the world helped us. Artists - painters and sculptors and musicians - of different countries have been especially generous. Indeed, one of our first money-raising ventures was an art sale of their paintings and sculpture given by the artists, which took place, through the kindness of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey. I could not attend the opening of the sale, but I went some time later, arriving, to my amusement, on the same day that the Miss World beauties were being entertained at Woburn and I was privileged to meet them.
Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.3 chap. 4
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