BR TO PAUL A. SCHILPP, 24 OCT. 1950
BRACERS 54719. ALS(X). Paul A. Schilpp
Edited by A.G. Bone. Reviewed by S. Turcon

Mt. Holyoke College.
Oct. 24, 19501

Dear Dr. Schilpp2

Thank you for your letter of Oct. 14,3 which reached me today.

I am sorry my time-table is filled up, so that I cannot come to Evanston. It would have been a pleasure to see you and to make the acquaintance of the present Mrs. Schilpp.4

Yours sincerely,
Bertrand Russell.

• 1

  [document] The letter was edited from a photocopy (acquired by the Russell Archives from the recipient) of the signed original written in BR’s hand on a single leaf. "South Hadley, Mass." was written in the upper-centre of the single leaf document in another hand, presumably the recipient's.

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  [recipient] Paul Arthur Schilpp (1897–1993) was Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University from 1936 until his retirement in 1965. He was also the founder (in 1939) of the Library of Living Philosophers, a series of which he remained editor until 1981 and whose fifth volume (published in 1944) was devoted to BR’s work. During his six-year sojourn in the United States (1938–44), BR corresponded regularly with Schilpp.

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  your letter of Oct. 14 BRACERS 54718.

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  present Mrs. Schilpp Schilpp’s second wife, Madelon (née Golden), was a graduate of Northwestern and a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times when they married in July 1950 (see Schilpp’s posthumously published memoirs [part-authored by Madelon], Reminiscing: Autobiographical Notes [Carbondale: Southern Illinois U.P., 1996], p. 60). She later taught journalism at Southern Illinois University.