BRACERS Record Detail for 132319

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
1821
Document no.
000007
Box no.
16.79
Source if not BR
Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
Recipient(s)
Lavin, Irving
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1950/04/26
Form of letter
ALS
Pieces
1
BR's address code (if sender)
FFE
Notes, topics or text

BR apologizes for the delay in his response. He notes that T.S. Eliot "is a re-incarnation of Henry James — a snob and (spiritually at least) a eunuch". 

Transcription

BR TO IRVING LAVIN, 26 APR. 1950
BRACERS 132319. ALS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell

<letterhead>
Penralltgoch
Llan Ffestiniog
Merioneth
April 26, 1950

Dear Mr. Lavin1

I am sorry to have been so slow in answering your letter. Marcus Aurelius says I mustn’t say it was because I was busy. I am glad to hear you have the means of going on with your work.

T.S. Eliot, whom at one time I knew very well, is a re-incarnation of Henry James — a snob and (spiritually at least) a eunuch. But I would not defend the “Free Man’s Worship”:a though my opinions are roughly the same, I think it too rhetorical.

With all best wishes

Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell

  • 1

    envelope: Irving Lavin Esq | Three Ways | Stapleford | Cambridge.

Textual Notes
  • a

    “Free Man’s Worship” quotation marks supplied editorially

Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
132319
Record created
Dec 10, 2019
Record last modified
Oct 03, 2023
Created/last modified by
duncana