BR TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 13 OCT. 1934
BRACERS 47115. ALS. Norton papers, Columbia U.
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Telegraph House
Harting, Petersfield.1
13.10.34

Dear Warder

Thank you for your letter of Oct. 4 and for the cheque for $1013. It seems to me that in these times 2000 is quite a good number of copies to have sold by the day of publication. Both the reviews you send are very gratifying. I don’t think the typographical errors were serious; the only one that could possibly matter was chance for change in the preface. Allen and Unwin made a much worse mistake: they omitted the last word but one in the preface, and had to add an erratum slip to put it right. Some mistakes are sure to occur. I hope they are sending you the very numerous additions to the Index that are to be made in a reprint.

So far, I have seen only one English review, by Hammond, in the New Statesman2 — very favourable, which I am glad of, as he has worked much and admirably on the early nineteenth century in England.

I shall look forward to seeing further reviews when you can send them.

Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell

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  [document] Proofread against a microfilm printout of the original.

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  New StatesmanJ.L. Hammond, “The Rise and Fall of Liberalism”. New Statesman and the Nation, 8 (13 Oct. 1934): 473–4.