BRACERS Record Detail for 125696

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
1735
Source if not BR
Internet print from eBay
Recipient(s)
Gray, Mab
Funk & Wagnalls Company, Inc.
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1963/02/11
Full date (Estimate)
1963/02/11
Form of letter
TLS
Pieces
1
BR's address code (if sender)
PP
Notes and topics

BR encloses (not present, but see RA2 220.148146) a statement on Mario Rossi's The Third World. For the carbon of this letter, see record 5942. The corporate recipient has been inferred, as has the first name of Miss Gray. See her letter at record 5941.

The letter was sold on eBay on 20 Jan. 2015 for US$171.40, and relisted in February 2015 at US$895.00. It was relisted in March 2020 at US$695.00.

Transcription

BR TO MAB GRAY / FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, INC., 11 FEB. 1963
BRACERS 125696. TLS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell

<letterhead>
Plas Penrhyn,
Penrhyndeudraeth,
Merioneth.1
11 February, 1963.

Dear Miss Gray,

Thank you for your letter of January 14 and for the proofs of The Third World which I have read with much interest. I enclose a statement2 which I hope you may find useful.

Yours sincerely,
<signed> Bertrand Russell

  • 1

    [document] Proofread against an image of the original letter.

  • 2

    statement It was published as a preface to Mario Rossi, Paesi Nuovi e Politica Mondiale (1965; B&R B224).

Publication
Re B&R B224
Permission
Everyone
Image
BR to Funk & Wagnalls Company, Inc. (Mab Gray), 1963/02/11
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
125696
Record created
Mar 07, 2015
Record last modified
Jun 04, 2026
Created/last modified by
duncana