48709

Letter 23
BR VIA FRANK RUSSELL TO J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, 20 JUNE 1918
BRACERS 48709. TL(CAR). Reading
Previous Brixton letter, BRACERS 19316; next letter, BRACERS 19312
Edited by Kenneth Blackwell, Andrew G. Bone, Nicholas Griffin and Sheila Turcon

20 June 1918.

J. B. Lippincott Company¹
Philadelphia

Dear Sirs,

My brother, Mr. Bertrand Russell, being now in prison, I have to deal with his correspondence, and have received your letter of May 23.² I have been able to consult him upon it, and he is very much astonished at its contents, and he points out that he wrote the book³ at your request, and that you knew his view on Socialism, and could therefore hardly be surprised at it. He has asked Messrs. George Allen & Unwin to write to you and make a suggestion, as a result of which he would not suffer by your unwillingness to publish it.

Yours faithfully,
RUSSELL

Notes

• 1.

  [document] The letter was edited from a photocopy of the unsigned carbon copy in the Allen & Unwin archives at the University of Reading. The signature is typed.

• 2.

  your letter of May 23 BRACERS 48708.

• 3.

  the book I.e., Roads to Freedom. Henry Holt and Company published it in March 1919 as Proposed Roads to Freedom. See Letter 21, note 5.