BRACERS Record Detail for 131548

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
1781
Source if not BR

Boston University, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center

Recipient(s)
Partisan Review
Phillips, William
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1948/11/22
Form of letter
TLS(DX)
Pieces
1
BR's address code (if sender)
LD
Notes, topics or text

BR cannot contribute a requested review, because he has too much work on hand. He acknowledges that it would provide him a chance to refute accusations of anti-Semitism against him "without the faintest basis of truth". The book to be reviewed is not identified.

Transcription

BR TO PARTISAN REVIEW / WILLIAM PHILLIPS, 22 NOV. 1948
BRACERS 131548. TLS(DX). Boston University, Gotlieb Archival Research Center
Proofread by K. Blackwell


18, Dorset House,
Gloucester Place,
N.W.1.
22nd November, 1948.

Mr. William Phillips,
Partisan Review,
1545 Broadway,
New York, 19,
N.Y.

Dear Mr. Phillips,

I am very sorry to refuse to do the review that you suggest. The more so as some Jewish publications have accused me, without the faintest basis of truth, of anti-semitism, and this would give me an opportunity to refute such an accusation. But I am, at the moment, so overwhelmed with work already undertaken that I cannot possibly take on any more.

Yours sincerely,
<signed> Bertrand Russell

Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
131548
Record created
Aug 02, 2017
Record last modified
Oct 03, 2023
Created/last modified by
duncana