BR TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 13 APR. 1931
BRACERS 47010. TL(CAR). McMaster
Proofread by A. Duncan

13th April 1931.1

Dear Norton,

Thank you for your letter of March 30th. I am sorry that you say there is no likelihood of our seeing you this summer. We shall spend the summer at Hendaye, in the south-west corner of France, where we have taken a villa which contains a spare room, so if you do come to Europe, you will be able to bathe with us without suffering the pains that you suffer in Cornwall.

I have finished “The Meaning of Science” except for some revision, so I hope to be able to let you have it sooner than had been planned. I am willing to work at any revision which seems to you necessary until near the end of June, but I do not want to have to work after that. It seems to me it will be wise for you to set the book from Unwin’s proofs. I suggest, however, that you should set them from the revise and that you should not receive the first proof at all, for if you receive the first proof, there is always a chance that any errors it may contain will be reproduced. If you only receive the revise, the proof correcting for the American edition can all be done by your reader.

I propose to make the American edition different from the English on one point of great importance. I mention that Galileo’s salary was 7½d. a day; in the American edition this should appear as 15 cents.

The length of the book is 70,000 words, or perhaps a trifle over. I hope you will like it. For my part, though I says it as shouldn’t, I think it is a very good book.

Yours modestly,

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