BR TO M. LINCOLN SCHUSTER, 18 NOV. 1950
BRACERS 55024. ALS(X). Columbia U. Libraries
Edited by A.G. Bone. Reviewed by S. Turcon

Washington.
Nov 18, 19501

Dear Mr. Schuster2

I was sorry to have only such a brief glimpse of you, but my short time in New York was very hectic. I go home on Monday.

Would you have the great kindness to forward the enclosed to Pearl Buck,3 whose address I don’t know.

Yours cordially
Bertrand Russell

• 1

  [document] The letter was edited from a photocopy of the signed original in Columbia University Library that was written in BR’s hand on a single leaf.

• 2

  [recipient] American book publisher Max Lincoln Schuster (1897–1970) was co-founder in 1924 with business partner Richard Simon of Simon and Schuster, the successful New York publishing house that was influential in the development of the mass-market paperback industry. Schuster was variously president, editor-in-chief and chairman of the company, until he sold his interest and retired in 1966. Although he had an eye for a best-seller, Schuster was a champion of academic as well as popular subjects and authors, and so BR was perfectly at home on its list.

• 3

  enclosed to Pearl Buck The enclosure has not been identified, but the intended recipient, American novelist Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973), was acquainted with BR and had met him in wartime when they participated with three other panelists in an occasionally heated radio discussion of Indian independence (“What about India?” The American Forum of the Air, Washington, D.C, 4, no. 41 [11 Oct. 1942]: 7–13). The daughter of American missionaries to China, Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1938 and is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of Chinese village life, The Good Earth (1932).