BRACERS Record Detail for 17311

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
69
Document no.
000225
Box no.
2.55
Source if not BR
Texas, U. of, HRC
Recipient(s)
Morrell, Ottoline
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1911/10/18
Form of letter
ALS(M)
Pieces
1E
BR's address code (if sender)
TC
Notes and topics

"Wed. evg." "—This raised a lot of complicated problems, which we were in the middle of when an unknown German appeared, speaking very little English but refusing to speak German. He turned out to be a man who had learnt engineering at Charlottenburg, but during his course had acquired, by himself, a passion for the philosophy of mathematics, and has now come to Cambridge on purpose to hear me. This took till 5.15;...."

Russell wrote (presumably later) up the left margin of the page by this paragraph: "This was Wittgenstein". [Perhaps the annotation dates from #441. (q.v.), record 17538.]

Publication
SLBR 1: #179
Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
No
Record no.
17311
Record created
May 20, 2014
Record last modified
Jun 23, 2025
Created/last modified by
duncana