PATRICIA RUSSELL TO ALLEN AND UNWIN / STANLEY UNWIN, 9 MAY 1947
BRACERS 50581. TLS(X). George Allen and Unwin Ltd.
Proofread by K. Blackwell

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27 Dorset House
Gloucester Place
N.W.1.
9th May, 1947.

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

Dear Sir Stanley,

At my husband’s suggestion I am sending you an enormous letter from a young Australian,1 with the synopsis of a book he is writing on recent attacks on academic freedom. As you will see, if you have patience to read his letter, he wants to submit his MS to you, and my husband hopes that you will give it sympathetic consideration if and when he sends it.

Yours sincerely,
<signed> Patricia Russell.

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  letter from a young Australian Paul Edwards (1923–2004), who later edited Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects (1957) and The Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1967). Russell saved three letters from him at this time (records 5750, 5, and 83985. The appendix to his book is a history of infringements of academic freedom in Russell’s rejected appointment to CCNY.