BRACERS Record Detail for 52414

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
71G
Source if not BR
Bodleian Library
Recipient(s)
Murray, Gilbert
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1947/09/24
Form of letter
ALS(X)
Pieces
1
BR's address code (if sender)
FFE
Notes and topics

A Bodleian transcription of the original is at record 79416.

Transcription

BR TO GILBERT MURRAY, 24 SEPT. 1947
BRACERS 52414. ALS. Murray papers, Bodleian
Edited by W. Bruneau. Proofread by K. Blackwell


<letterhead>
Penralltgoch
Llan Ffestiniog
Merioneth
24 Sep. 1947

My dear Gilbert

Thank you for sending me Dodds on Plato,1 which I have read with a great deal of interest. My own feeling to Plato is ambivalent: I love him, but think I ought to hate him.

I read with great approval your letter in today’s Times.2

Yours ever
B.R.

  • 1

    Dodds on Plato E.R. Dodds, “Plato and the Irrational”, J. Hellenic Studies 65 (1945): 16–25 (?).

  • 2

    your letter in today’s Times“Political Trials”, 24 Sept., p. 5, re the trial of M. Petkov in Bulgaria and the proposed trial of seventeen members of the Polish Peasant Party in Cracow.

Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
52414
Record created
Jul 09, 1993
Record last modified
Jun 23, 2025
Created/last modified by
duncana