BRACERS Record Detail for 47293

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
1A
Box no.
6.36
Source if not BR
Columbia U. Libraries
Recipient(s)
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Norton, Warder
Sender(s)
Russell, Patricia
BR, Secretary to
Date
1939/05/30
Form of letter
TLS(X)
Pieces
1
Notes and topics

Peter writes that BR is "lying on his back resting a tiresome sprain".

Transcription

PATRICIA RUSSELL TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 30 MAY 1939
BRACERS 47293. TLS. Norton papers, Columbia U.
Proofread by K. Blackwell and A. Duncan


76 San Leandro Lane
Montecito
Santa Barbara1
May 30 1939

Dear Warder,

Bertie has asked me to reply to your letter, as he is lying on his back resting a tiresome sprain.

Your kind suggestion that we might have commissions in England for you filled my head to overflowing with wild schemes for the illicit importation in your otherwise blameless luggage of innumerable objects that we long for, from the notes on Nietzsche and Schopenhauer2 in the bottom right hand drawer of my desk to our large red dog, and including face cream and bath oliver biscuits; but these inconsiderable trifles would not really satisfy us, and you can’t bring the whole of England, which would, so we must rest content.

We will certainly call upon you both and upon Mr. Lunt to look after John and Kate, because we are so anxious that they should at once be given the best possible impression of America and Americans.

Please give my love to Polly.

Yours sincerely,
P. Russell.

  • 1

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

  • 2

    notes on Nietzsche and Schopenhauer Chapters on these philosophers were to appear in A History of Western Philosophy.

Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
47293
Record created
May 08, 2003
Record last modified
Jun 23, 2025
Created/last modified by
duncana