Polanyi encloses issue no. 4 of the Committee's Bulletin (not present) and draws BR's attention to the article on strife between administration and staff at the University of Tasmania. The State of Tasmania supports the administration, and Polanyi asks BR for a "statement on the matter."

The letter was found in the copy at Plas Penrhyn of the Bulletin (according to a pre-McMaster note by K. Blackwell). Since the letter is listed in Feinberg's Archives of Bertrand Russell, p. 225, it must have arrived at McMaster 10 years before Russell's Library. The 4th issue of the Bulletin is not catalogued in Russell's Library; nor can it be found listed in the manuscript inventory of that library compiled in May 1967.