BRACERS Record Detail for 48152
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BR asks if the royalties to Authority could be made payable to son John Conrad and escape surtax and at least half of income tax. U.S. periodicals are reprinting some of the Listener articles.
BR TO ALLEN AND UNWIN / STANLEY UNWIN, 8 JAN. 1949
BRACERS 48152. ALS(X). George Allen and Unwin Ltd.
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18a Dorset House
Gloucester Place
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8.1.49
Dear Unwin
Thank you for the draft agreement. I see nothing in it to query, except clause 7(c): I seem to remember that hitherto you have paid 90% of translation rights, but perhaps I am wrong.
I am not sending back the Agreement, because I want to ask you if you think the following plan feasible. My son John has three very young children and a meagre salary, and I wish to help him out. If I can make the proceeds of this book payable to him instead of me, they will escape surtax and at least half of the income tax they would otherwise pay. Is there any legal obstacle to my assigning the proceeds to him?
If this can be done, I would leave you to negotiate the American rights, on condition that you first approached Simon and Schuster. American periodicals are reprinting some of the lectures form the Listener. I suppose this doesn’t matter.
I could let you have the MS in March.
Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell.
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