BR TO GILBERT MURRAY, 22 JULY 1911
BRACERS 52349. ALS. Murray papers, Bodleian
Edited by W. Bruneau. Proofread by A.G. Bone

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Trinity College,
Cambridge.1
July 22. 11.

Dear Gilbert,

Many thanks for your letter. I think in view of what you say my stuff2 will be all right. I have used hardly any technical terms, and the very few that are used are introduced with a good deal of explanation. There is a fair amount of metaphysics, but there seems to me so little that is ascertainable in metaphysics that I felt I must make theory of knowledge the framework. However, the two mix: Platonic ideas, e.g., which I believe in and expound, are very much on the border-line. The title will do, I think.

In September or the end of August I should like greatly to visit you if you can have me for a week-end. Till then I am rather occupied with writing and pupils here. Two of my pupils complained that in all my lecture I had never proved that minus times minus is plus, so I undertook to prove it in the Long, and am doing so.

I too was nervous over the Parliament Bill. I am immensely relieved to find the nervousness was unnecessary.

Love to Mary.

Yours ever
B Russell

• 1

  [document] Proofread against a photocopy of the original letter.

• 2

  my stuff  The MS of The Problems of Philosophy (BR’s note).