BRACERS Record Detail for 17928
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"Wed. mg." "I gather from Lucy Silcox that the New Statesman has at last printed me on science."*
"The three parts I spoke of will, I think, be only the first half, the analytic part; with luck there will be a constructive part to follow. But I may find it better to make that a separate book."
"I have recovered from the effect of Wittgenstein's criticisms, though I think in all likelihood they are just. But even if they are they won't destroy the value of the book. His criticisms have to do with problems I want to leave to him—which makes a complication."
*On 24 & 31 May 1913, as "Science as an Element in Culture."
BR TO OTTOLINE MORRELL, [28 MAY 1913]
BRACERS 17928. ALS. Morrell papers #792, Texas
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Trinity College,
Cambridge.1
In the train
Wed. mg.
My Darling Love
Your first letter from Avenue Agassiz reached me this morning. It sounds rather gloomy and Maeterlincky having all the people blind and having such solemnity at meals, but I am glad you are away from building noises.
I am going to see the Whiteheads — I shall return tonight — I managed to write 5 pages before starting!
I gather from Lucy Silcox that the New Statesman has at last printed me on Science.2
I am sorry you got no letter from me Monday but I don’t think it is possible, unless Sat. morning’s letter gets delayed by accident. — Fortitude interests me. Stuart (a classical fellow) knows Hugh Walpole — says he was at Camb., is about 30, and gives all his time to writing. But he had nothing interesting to tell about him.
The part of my writing I am at now is very difficult — it wants more thinking and I am really out of my depth — but I shall be in it again after a bit, and I am plunging on so as to have the framework of the whole done. The three parts I spoke of will, I think, be only the first half, the analytic part; with luck, there will be a constructive part to follow. But I may find it better to make that a separate book.
I have recovered from the effect of Wittgenstein’s criticisms, tho’ I think in all likelihood they are just. But even if they are they won’t destroy the value of the book. His criticisms have to do with problems I want to leave to him — which makes a complication.
Now we are arriving so I must stop. I had a dear little letter from J. I will write to her soon. I have been neglecting all letters except to you. Goodbye my Darling — I send all my love and many many kisses.
Your
B
