BR TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 6 JUNE 1934
BRACERS 47093. ALS. Norton papers, Columbia U.
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Hotel Victoria,
London, W.C.2.1
6.6.34

Dear Warder

Thank you for your letter of May 23. I am most grateful for all you have done and are doing about my book. I am sending you the rest of the typescript as soon as I get back to Wales; the last little bit is in MS, and I should like it back when you have done with it, as I want to keep the MS.

I will restore Little Jack Horner for the American edition before I send you the proofs. Also I am quite willing that you should cut out the long Peacock quotation from the American edition; I will leave that to you. I am sorry to say I did less polishing than I intended. My wife has begun to run amok, and is trying to deprive me of all share in my children, using for the purpose an artificial innocence which she acquired for divorce purposes. I am having to fight her, and the legal position is complicated. I just managed to finish the book before getting engulfed in this turmoil, but I had to hurry. Apparently it will occupy me most of the summer. It is damnable and very worrying. And it probably means giving up all hopes of divorce.

With good wishes and much gratitude,

Yours sincerely,
Bertrand Russell.

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