BRACERS Record Detail for 135601
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"I do not possess Chrome Yellow and therefore have been unable to look up the passages concerned. The chief passage was one repeating my remark that I liked the underground because nothing visible in it was created by God. This was said as a joke but Huxley's character said it in deadly earnest."
BR TO MARTIN TURNER, 23 MAR. 1964
BRACERS 135601. TLS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell
From: The Earl Russell, O.M., F.R.S.,
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Plas Penrhyn,
Penrhyndeudraeth,
Merioneth.1
23 March, 1964.
Dear Mr. Turner,
Thank you for your letter of March 13. I do not possess Chrome Yellow and therefore have been unable to look up the passages concerned. The chief passage was one repeating my remark that I liked the underground because nothing visible in it was created by God. This was said as a joke, but Huxley’s character said it in deadly earnest. I did not allude to this with a view to proving that Huxley had no sense of humour, but with a view to proving his habit of injustice as the character in question was obviously meant to be me.
Yours sincerely,
<signed> Bertrand Russell
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