BRACERS Record Detail for 18079

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
69
Document no.
000937
Box no.
2.63
Source if not BR
Texas, U. of, HRC
Recipient(s)
Morrell, Ottoline
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1914/01/20*
Form of letter
ALS(M)
Pieces
1
Notes and topics

"Tues. evg." Will dine Sunday with Whiteheads.

"At last I have finished the Poincaré preface* ... it cost me a frightful lot of time and thought for such a short thing. It was a delicate matter, as the book contains a fierce attack on me, which I thought ignorant and unfair, but which nearly destroyed my reputation in France."

Thursday, a lecture to which all the world seems to be coming.

Sends her preface, of which he's made fair copy for publishers.

*Preface to Henri Poincaré, Science and Method (Lon.: Nelson, 1914).

Publication
Re B&R B4
Permission
Everyone
Record no.
18079
Record created
May 23, 2014
Record last modified
Apr 08, 2020
Created/last modified by
rstaple