BRACERS Record Detail for 18023

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
69
Document no.
000883
Box no.
2.62
Source if not BR
Texas, U. of, HRC
Recipient(s)
Morrell, Ottoline
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1913/10/03*
Form of letter
ALS(M)
Pieces
2E
BR's address code (if sender)
LRC
Notes and topics

"Friday night" Came back from the Whiteheads tonight.

"I went to the Whiteheads as soon as I reached London, and stayed to dinner. Mrs. Whitehead persuaded me to abandon the plan of writing to Alys about a divorce, because if it came out it wd. prevent a divorce ever. Whitehead and I had a good talk about work, and I brought back stacks of his ms."

"Wittgenstein stayed late last night and read me bits of the work he has done. I think it is as good as anything that has ever been done in logic. I was utterly worn out when he went—too tired to sleep much."

"This morning I finished re-writing Lecture I*—I lengthened it by giving grounds for preferring reason to instinct in metaphysics."

*Apparently now the same as Ch. I, "Current Tendencies", of Our Knowledge.

Permission
Everyone
Record no.
18023
Record created
May 23, 2014
Record last modified
Apr 08, 2020
Created/last modified by
rstaple