 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
I loved the downs and the woods and my tower room with its views in all four directions. I had known the place ( = Telegraph House) for forty years or more, and had watched it grow in my brother's day. It represented continuity, of which, apart from work, my life has had far less than I could have wished.
Source: Bertrand Russell: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.2 chap. 5: Later Years of Telegraph House, 1968
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Russell remarried Dora Black in 1921 and they had two children. In 1927 (when Russell was 55), he and Dora rented his brother's house, Telegraph House, and started an infant school called Beacon Hill School (with about 20 pupils of the same age as their own children), aiming for the ideal of early childhood education. (The school takes about 20 pupils around the same age as their own children.) The attached photo shows the tower of Telegraph House. The top floor was used as a study and had a beautiful view. Russell describes the view in his autobiography as follows.
"There were enormous views to East and South and West; in one direction one saw over the Sussex Weald to Leith Hill, in another one saw the Isle of Wight and the liners approaching Southampton.