BR TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 28 DEC. 1936
BRACERS 47185. ALS. Norton papers, Columbia U. SLBR 2: #422
Edited by N. Griffin. Proofread by K. Blackwell and A. Duncan

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Telegraph House
Harting, Petersfield.1
Dec. 28, 1936

Dear Warder

Thank you very much for your letter of Dec. 11. I have just written to Abraham Flexner; I wonder what will come of it. Einstein, I am sure, would back me up. I don’t know what Weyl thinks of me, but I have written of him with respect in Analysis of Matter.

My feelings are threefold: (a) I have a lot of ideas in my head that I long to work at and believe to be important (b) I am faced with the likelihood of such poverty that I may be unable to give a proper education to the child that is coming (c) that Europe is no place for children, with the imminent risk of war — particularly England, which is likely to suffer most in the next war.

So if I can get a job at Princeton I shall be very glad, as my feelings will be relieveda all three points at once.

Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell.

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