BRACERS Record Detail for 135574

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Collection code
RA3
Recipient(s)
Lehmann, Inge
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1911/04/24
Full date (Estimate)
1911/04/24
Form of letter
PD
Pieces
1
Notes and topics

"On April 24, Bertrand Russell himself wrote a brief note to Inge agreeing to start private instruction the next day at 11:00 and asking her to let him know after his lecture if she was coming.14  Evidently, she  had  decided to  do  what one  typically  did when aiming for the mathematical Tripos— hire a private tutor. She presumably chose Russell because she already knew him both privately and as a lecturer. However, their collaboration did not last long. In mid-May, Russell wrote to her again, this time to express  his  understanding that  she  did not  have  the time  required for intense work with a private tutor. “I can quite see that under the circumstances, you wouldn’t have time to do any work for me. If next year or the year after you have more time I shall (so far as I can see) be quite able and willing to resume the lessons then”, he wrote.15" (Hanne Strager, If I Am Right, and I Know I Am [New York: Columbia U. P., 2025], p. 82. 

The later letter is at record 135573.

Transcription

BR TO INGE LEHMANN, 24 APRIL 1911
BRACERS 13553. PD.  Strager,If I Am Right, and I Know I Am , p. 82
Proofread by K. Blackwell

1 "On April 24, Bertrand Russell himself wrote a brief note to Inge agreeing to start private instruction the next day at 11:00 and asking her to let him know after his lecture if she was coming."

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    [document] The letter is summarized in Hanne Strager, If I Am Right, and I Know I Am (New York: Columbia University Press, 2025), p. 82. This and another letter from Russell are said to be in the private collection of Nils Groes.

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Transcription Public Access
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Record no.
135574
Record created
Dec 18, 2025
Record last modified
Jan 30, 2026
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