BR TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 26 JULY 1939
BRACERS 47272. ALS. Norton papers, Columbia U. SLBR 2: #440
Edited by N. Griffin. Proofread by K. Blackwell and A. Duncan

76 San Leandro Lane,
Montecito,
Santa Barbara, Calif.1
July 26, 1939.

Dear Warder

John and Kate are arriving at New York by the Queen Mary on August 7; I believe they are travelling 3rd class, but there is a chance that they may be travelling tourist. May I take advantage of your very kind offer to meet them, as they may feel rather lost and bewildered? Or, if you cannot do so, perhaps Storer Lunt2 could.

I am having their railroad tickets and reservations sent to you to give them. Their reservations are: a double bedroom on the 20th Century, leaving at 5 p.m. on the day they arrive; and a section on the Forty-Niner from Chicago next morning. We are so impatient to see them that we want them out here as soon as possible. Perhaps on their way home they will spend a night in New York.

We are meeting them with a car at San Francisco. We wish their heavy baggage checked straight through to Santa Barbara, but they must have enough for some days in suit cases. Would you mind advising them as to how much they ought to tip people in the train, and helping them to change their English money, unless they have done that on the boat.

John is 17, Kate 15, both about 5 ft. 3 in. John very dark, Kate fair and plump and spectacled. Sure to be both shabby and without hats.

I shall be eternally grateful to you for doing me this kindness.

Love to you both from us both.

Yours sincerely,
Bertrand Russell.

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

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  Storer Lunt The vice-president of Norton’s publishing company.