BR TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 1 SEPT. 1940
BRACERS 47348. ALS. Norton papers, Columbia U.
Proofread by K. Blackwell and A. Duncan

Fallen Leaf Lodge,
Lake Tahoe,
Cal.1
Sp. 1, 1940

Dear Warder

Thank you for your letter. I am glad to know the MS. arrived safely. I think there are parts of the book that you will feel at home with; certainly the title-page, which I gathered you had not noticed. (The last two lines2 are the point.)

Proofs should go to Harvard, where I shall be from Sp. 17 onwards. We leave here on Sp. 8.

When I have a more specific address at Cambridge, I will let you know it; but Harvard will find me.

Could you let me have three proofs? I should like an extra one to send to England, in case the MS. I sent is sunk by Hitler.

I hope we shall meet soon, as I shall be in the East, and presumably in New York some time. Best wishes from both to both.

Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell.

• 1

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

• 2

  last two lines “Judicially pronounced unworthy to be Professor of Philosophy at the College of the City of New York (1940)”. Allen and Unwin did print them (below a list of BR’s major academic honours).