BR TO BERNARD MALLETT, 20 FEB. 1904
BRACERS 133403. ALS(DX). Delaware University Library
Proofread by K. Blackwell

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14, CHEYNE WALK,
CHELSEA, S.W.
Feb. 20. ’04

Dear Mr. Malletta

Theodore Davies did speak to me about the Political Economy Club, and gave me the list of members, which I return. I ought to have written to you sooner, but I was so busy that it escaped me when I might have done so.

It would be a great pleasure to me to belong, and yet on the whole I think it better not to. I shall not in future be either working at Economics or living in London: my present excursion into the practical sphere is purely temporary. So I fear that I should be coming in under false pretences if I agreed to be nominated, as you so kindly suggest. Economics is not my business, and I really know very little of it, having merely got up the fiscal question ad hoc.

With many thanks for your kind suggestion,

Yours very truly
Bertrand Russell.

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  Mallett misspelt Mallet