BRACERS Record Detail for 107242
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BR, wishing to take Allen and Unwin a complete copy of History, finds that he is missing Book I, Chaps. xiii-xiv, and Book III, Chap. vii.
Brockway presumably had the latter chapter typed from the manuscript that BR sent him some 3 months ago. He would like the manuscript back. The other 2 chapters can be retyped at BR's expense.
BR will be in New York Thursday and wants to see Brockway. BR has a discussion at 8.30.
BR TO SIMON AND SCHUSTER / WALLACE BROCKWAY, 25 APR. 1944
BRACERS 107242. ALS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell
Princeton R.D.1.
April 25, 1944
Dear Brockway
I propose to sail to England by the first available boat, probably some time in May. I wish to take with me a complete copy of my Western Philosophical Ideas to give to Allen & Unwin. I find that, in the copy I have, three chapters are missing, viz.
Book I, Chap. XIII, The Sources of Plato’s Opinions.
" " XIV, Plato’s Utopia
Book III, Chap. VII, Francis Bacon.
As regards this last, you will remember that I sent you the MS some three months ago. You presumably had it typed, but did not return the MS to me. If you can find the MS, I shall be glad to have it.
As regards the other two Chapters, could you (if you have no spare MS or typescript) have a typescript made as soon as possible at my expense (I mean not to come out of eventual royalties but to be paid when I get the typescript). This is important to me — I don’t care who does it so long as it is done quickly.
I shall be in New York Thursday — I am engaged for lunch, and I have to take part in a discussion at 8.30,1 but I could come to see you in the afternoon or for a fairly early dinner. I will ring you up Thursday about 12.30 — if you are out you can leave a message with your secretary. I should like to see you — probably it will be the last chance before I sail.
Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell.
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take part in a discussion at 8.30 No further details are known.