BRACERS Record Detail for 122014

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
1294
Source if not BR
McMaster U., Russell Archives Staff
Recipient(s)
Blackwell, Kenneth
Sender(s)
Foulkes, Paul
Date
1975/03/04
Form of letter
TLS
Pieces
1
Notes, topics or text

Foulkes attended BR's seminar in Sydney, Australia. BR "was not unwilling to have his own views examined, since that is what he put forward for discussion."

"The Melbourne fiasco is due to something quite different: Russell had no time for Wittgensteinians, of which the Melbourne school was full." He goes on to write at length about Wisdom of the West. "The plan of the book, the text including the preface, the diagrams and the general policy of illustration are all my work." "As for the circumstances of the enterprises, they totally discredit Fisher and Foges, with MacDonald of London and Doubleday of New York close behind."

BR agreed to this undertaking because he had three young grand-daughters to support. "What sort of publishing worthies he had fallen amongst can only gradually have dawned on him."

He asks Blackwell to keep everything he has revealed "confidential for the present".

Permission
Everyone
Record no.
122014
Record created
Nov 02, 2014
Record last modified
Apr 09, 2020
Created/last modified by
rstaple