BR TO ALLEN AND UNWIN / STANLEY UNWIN, 7 JULY 1947
BRACERS 48093. TLS(X). George Allen and Unwin Ltd.
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27 Dorset House
Gloucester Place
N.W.1.
7th July, 1947.

Sir Stanley Unwin,
Messrs. George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.,
40, Museum Street,
W.C.1.

Dear Unwin,

I enclose herewith an attempt to describe my new book. I am afraid it is a little longer than you wanted, but you can probably condense it. If you think my compendium1 too dry I will try to write another, making the book sound more exciting. It is not the sort of book that can have the wide success of the History, since it is, in part, considerably more difficult.

Yours sincerely,
<signed> Bertrand Russell.

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  my compendium Russell made three attempts at a blurb for Human Knowledge. The second was on 14 July (record 48095) and the third on 27 March 1948 (record 48130; B&R Gg48.01).