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BR "would rather enjoy writing an article on Shaw", but could not do it until the winter. He asks for the length and fee. "As for delaying publication until he is dead, I should like to write the article first and then see whether its publication would be likely to hasten that lamentable event."
BR TO THE VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW / CHARLOTTE KOHLER, 11 JULY 1947
BRACERS 114583. TLS(X). U. of Virginia Library
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<letterhead>
27 Dorset House,
Gloucester Place,
N.W.1.
11th July, 1947.
Mrs. Charlotte Kohler,
The Virginia Quarterly Review,
One West Range,
Charlottesville,
Virginia.
Dear Mrs. Kohler,
Thank you for your letter of July 1st. I should rather enjoy writing an article on Shaw,1 but I could not do it in the immediate future, i.e. not until some time during the winter. Before I decide whether to do it or not, would you be so kind as to let me know what sort of length you had in mind, and what fee you could contemplate.
As for delaying publication until he is dead, I should like to write the article first and then see whether its publication would be likely to hasten that lamentable event.
Yours very sincerely,
<signed> Bertrand Russell.
- 1
article on Shaw “George Bernard Shaw”, The Virginia Quarterly Review, 27 (1951): 1–7 (B&R C51.01; reprinted as 4 in Collected Papers 25). Several subsequent letters concern the gestation of the memoir.
