BR TO SOCIÉTÉ D’ÉTUDES PHILOSOPHIQUES / GASTON BERGER, [8 MAY 1947]
BRACERS 80925. TL(CAR). McMaster
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M. Gaston Berger,
120, Rue Ferrari,
Marseilles.

Dear M. Berger,

Thank you for your letter of 6th May, which I have just received. I am sorry that there has been some confusions<sic>. When I spoke to the Cultural Attaché I thought, mistakenly, that he was enquiring about subjects for Paris. In view of your letter, and in order to avoid further confusion, will it be satisfactory to arrange as follows: Aix — “Mind and Matter”,1 Marseilles — “Physics and Experience”?

I gather from your letter that the University of Aix is doing me the great honour of conferring a Doctorate honoris causa,2 of which I had not before heard anything. If this is correct, will you kindly convey to them my gratitude and thanks.

Yours very truly,

• 1

  Aix — “Mind and Matter” This “Mind and Matter” may not be the paper with the same title as 35 in Collected Papers 11, whose headnote states it was written in 1950. A “Mind and Matter” paper was also given in Stockholm in May 1948 (see record 19842).

• 2

  Doctorate honoris causaThe award of the honorary doctorate was delayed until 24 March 1949.