BRACERS Record Detail for 131548
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Boston University, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center
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.
BR TO PARTISAN REVIEW / WILLIAM PHILLIPS, 22 NOV. 1948
BRACERS 131548. TLS(DX). Boston University, Gotlieb Archival Research Center
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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