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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
1413
Recipient(s)
Brockway, Wallace
Simon and Schuster
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1944/04/25
Form of letter
ALS
Pieces
1
BR's address code (if sender)
PNP
Notes, topics or text

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.

Transcription

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.

Publication
Re History of Western Philosophy
B&R D lead
Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
107242
Record created
Jun 18, 2014
Record last modified
Sep 27, 2023
Created/last modified by
duncana