BRACERS Record Detail for 119719

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
1531
Source if not BR
Thoemmes, Rudi
Recipient(s)
Maitland, Francis E.
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1927/07/11
Form of letter
AL
Pieces
2E
BR's address code (if sender)
COR
Notes, topics or text

The letter concerns a science and mathematics education for Maitland's son but not at a "public" school. BR refers to the first 3 parts of Newton's Principia.

The letter is missing at least the final leaf, as the last one present ends in mid-sentence and without a signature. The following is a transcription by the seller, Bonhams. Sold 2006/07/11. https://www.barnebys.co.uk/realised-prices/lot/russell-bertrand-autogra…

”discussing education in the modern world and foretelling the end of the British Empire ("...Everybody who is in any vital contact with modern life & the modern world knows that the English upper class is isolated & dead... If you travel in America, Germany, Russia, or China, you will find in each of these countries something happening which is of great moment for the future of civilization; to understand what is happening, you must know mathematical physics & industrial technique. Those who have been at English public schools are incapable of getting any grip of the modern world; this fact is going to make us lose our empire within the next 30 years, unless people like yourself can bring themselves to feel that knowledge is more important than membership of a snobbish clique..."), 5 pages, envelope, 8vo, Carn Voel,

Permission
Everyone
Record no.
119719
Record created
Jun 20, 2014
Record last modified
Jan 13, 2024
Created/last modified by
blackwk