BR TO EMMANUEL HALDEMAN-JULIUS, 6 DEC. 1946
BRACERS 53919. TLS(X). Kansas State College, Pittsburg
Proofread by K. Blackwell

Trinity College,
Cambridge.
6th December, 1946.

Mr. Haldeman Julius,
Girard,
Kansas,
U.S.A.

Dear Mr. Haldeman Julius,

Thank you for your letter concerning Let the People Think, and for your cheque for $100. I find that I have not the power to dispose of the American rights of this book, which consists of reprints from books1 published by W.W. Norton, 101, 5th Avenue, New York, N.Y., from whom you will have to obtain permission to print the book for circulation in the United States. Outside the United States the rights belong to Allen & Unwin in London.

I ought to return your cheque for $100, but unfortunately before I discovered these facts I sent it to my bank, and I cannot here write a cheque to be paid in America. I can, however, adjust the matter through Simon and Schuster, and will do so as soon as I hear from you as to what you wish done. I have very little doubt that W.W. Nortons will give permission in return for a payment, the bulk of which would come to me, so it might be as well to see what arrangements they are willing to make before I try to refund to you whatever balance may be due. You realize that the law makes this a somewhat complicated process.

Yours sincerely,
<signed> Bertrand Russell

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  consists of reprints from books Some are from Sceptical Essays (1928) and others from In Praise of Idleness (1935).