BR TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 10 JUNE 1930
BRACERS 46995. TLS. Norton papers, Columbia U.
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Beacon Hill School
Harting,
Petersfield,1
10th June 1930.

Dear Norton,

I have now read the extract from the work on Husserl that you sent me, and I return it herewith.

So far as I can judge from the table of contents and the sample chapter, the author is a thoroughly competent philosopher and is doing a useful work in explaining Husserl to the American philosophical public.

Husserl’s philosophy is not mine, but it certainly needs to be known and studied by philosophers, as he is an important man. Aa book on him, however good, cannot expect a large sale in America, and I do not know to what extent you are anxious to publish books appealing only to students of philosophy. The book in question is, of course, if I may judge by the sample I have seen, not an original contribution to philosophy, but only an exposition of another man’s theory. As such, however, it seems to me to be admirably done.

Yours cordially,
Bertrand Russell.

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