BR TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 2 AUG. 1938
BRACERS 47245. ALS. Norton papers, Columbia U.
Proofread by K. Blackwell and A. Duncan

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Amberley House
Kidlington
Oxfordshire.1
2.8.38

Dear Warder

I have your cable about additions, but I have now returned the proofs, and I don’t think the additions are important. The only one I thought might be worth making was about Jenghis Khan in Chap II, about the 5th page. I thought of putting the following footnote:

“Since writing the above I have learnt much about Jenghis Khan’s mother from Ralph Fox’s life of her son. It appears that she was a fierce and terrible woman, of whom, all his life, he stood in terror. When he was fifty, she scolded him for quarrelling with his brother, and he meekly accepted her rebuke, saying he was sorry he had been naughty. This is another example against severity in education.”

But on reflection I think this note may just as well be omitted, along with the reference to Jenghis Khan, leaving the text to refer only to Attila.2

Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell.

• 1

  [document] Proofread against a microfilm printout of the original.

• 2

  refer only to Attila The reference to Jenghis Khan was retained and the footnote included (Power [New York: Norton, 1938], p. 20).