There is a note from BR on the top of the letter: "[This is an unofficial letter, for your personal advice.]"

BR encloses the syllabus (1 copy is present) of the lectures he will give on "Contemporary Ethical and Social Problems". Some of them will appear in the Atlantic Monthly.

"Accepted institutions have proved compatible with the present horror...." BR states that he has no "argumentative basis" for ethics. He discusses a possible 3rd "course" on theory of knowledge and adds "Elements of Logical Symbolism" to his old logic syllabus.