BR TO MORITZ SCHLICK, 27 AUG. 1923
BRACERS 56903. ALS. Amsterdam U.
Proofread by K. Blackwell

31 Sydney Str.
London S.W.31
27.8.23

Dear Professor Schlick

Your letter reached me today, and I certainly cannot refuse your request, as the object you have in view seems to me of the highest importance. I will certainly do all I can to help you. But I am afraid what I can do will seem to you rather inadequate. In the first place, there are very few English or Americans who are capable of writing the sort of articles you want, and most of them would probably prefer to publish in English or American magazines. In the second place, I shall be unusually busy till April, as I am going to America on a lecture tour; I do not go till the end of the year, but I have to prepare lectures as well as do my other work before them. After April I shall have more leisure, and I should like then to do you an article, but I am afraid I can’t do one sooner. Two questions occur to me. First, I have a French friend, Jean Nicod, who might do admirable articles; it was he who reduced the formal logic of the laws of propositions to one, and he has published a few things in the Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale. Do you object to French contributions? Of course any article from him could be translated into German.

Secondly, as you of course know, there is a very keen group of Polish mathematical logicians at Warsaw; some of them might be worth approaching, but perhaps political conditions make it difficult? You can see some of their work in their magazine, Fundamenta Mathematicae.

I will write immediately to the few English and Americans that seem to me competent. But I fear the results will be meagre.

I do not know the work of Reichenbach. Has he any offprints to spare that he could send me?

Yours very sincerely
Bertrand Russell.

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