BRACERS Record Detail for 48047

To access the original letter, email the Russell Archives.

Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
70
Box no.
6.42
Source if not BR
George Allen and Unwin Ltd.
Recipient(s)
Allen and Unwin
Unwin, Stanley
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1946/01/10
Form of letter
TLS(X)
Pieces
1
BR's address code (if sender)
GLC
Notes and topics

BR will send Among the Great although "it has no particular value".

Transcription

BR TO ALLEN AND UNWIN / STANLEY UNWIN, 10 JAN. 1946
BRACERS 48047. TLS(X). George Allen and Unwin Ltd.
Proofread by K. Blackwell


Grosvenor Lodge, Babraham Road,
Cambridge.
10th January, 1946.

Sir Stanley Unwin,
14, Museum Street,
LONDON, W.1.

Dear Unwin,

I really hardly think it worth while to send you D.K. Roy’s book,1 as it has no particular value and its publication in England would be, in some ways, embarrassing to me. However, I will send it if you so desire.

Yours sincerely,
<signed> Bertrand Russell.

  • 1

    D.K. Roy’s book The book was Among the Great. It reprints an interview on Russell in 1927 (B&R C27.33). Unwin did not reissue the book, which was published in Mumbai by Nalanda in 1945. What in the book could have been embarrassing to Russell? Probably it was Dora Russell’s participation in the interview and possibly the appreciation of Marx on economics and the emphasis on eugenics, which Russell had ceased advocating.

Publication
Re B&R C27.33
Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
48047
Record created
Jan 17, 2006
Record last modified
Jun 23, 2025
Created/last modified by
duncana