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"Monday afternoon" [written on Peppard Cottage letterhead; pmk. London*] "I think there is already enough material for a book; and it is clear it ought to be a book."

—Too bad he can't do an imaginary biography.

—Began yesterday and finished today chap. on truth for Problems of Philosophy.

—Ref. to "A long polemical article by a German mathematician, [Schönflies, "Uber die Stellung der Definition in der Arithmetik", JSBR. Der dtsch. Math.-ver., 20 (1911), 222-55] mostly against me. It ends with a statement in italics: for Cantorism, but against Russellism!

BR is secretary of Cambridge P.S.F. [*Although pmk. London the letter was written in Cambridge; he then got on the train and mailed the letter in London.]