BR TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 5 OCT. 1934
BRACERS 47114. ALS. Norton papers, Columbia U.
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Telegraph House
Harting, Petersfield.1
Oct. ’5, 1934

Dear Warder

Thank you for seven copies of my book; also for your very cheering letter of Sp. 28, with enclosures. I am very grateful to you for doing so much about my book; I like the production and think your advertising very skillful. I had not expected you to sell as many as 2000 outright before publication.

When you reprint, I suppose you will correct misprints. I am sorry to say there are a number of mistakes in the Index for which I am not responsible; Unwin says he has passed on the information to you. There is one error which does not occur in the English edition, and must have crept into yours through a too zealous proof-reader:

p. 436, l. 6. “Morocco” should be “Marocco”. [As it is, “Sic” is meaningless.]

As you have it, you do not convey the limitations of the Kaiser’s knowledge of English.

Some mistakes were noted in the review in the New York Times; I assume you will have taken account of them. I add some others on a separate sheet.

Thanks and best wishes.

Yours ever
Bertrand Russell.

P.S. You would not believe how hard I have found it, in connection with Mary Shelley, after saying “not only was her father a hoary revolutionary” not to add “but her mother was a revolutionary whore”.

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