ABSTRACT
Russell was not to take up his appointment at Cambridge. Although he had formally accepted a position to lecture at Trinity, on 27 November 1919, he hinted, in a letter to Lucy Donnelly, at his reluctance to return to a purely academic existence:
‘… now that the war is over I no longer feel like a ghost, an impotent spectator of activities in which I cannot share. It is possible I may go back to Cambridge, tho’ probably not for long. I don’t think I could stand the academic atmosphere now, having tasted freedom and the joys of a dangerous life.’
