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On the "Failure of Good Manners" following Popper's paper at the Cambridge Moral Sciences Club. "In Wittgenstein this was to be expected...."
BR TO KARL R. POPPER, 18 NOV. 1946
BRACERS 56964. TLS(X). Stanford U., Hoover Institution
Proofread by K. Blackwell
Trinity College,
Cambridge.
18th November, 1946.
Dr. R.K. Popper,
The London School of Economics and Political Science,
Houghton Street,
Aldwych,
London, W.C.2.
Dear Dr. Popper,
Thank you for your letter of October 27th which I meant to have answered sooner. I agree with you in what you say about the debate at the Moral Science Club. For my part I was much shocked by the failure of good manners which seemed to me to pervade the discussion on the side of Cambridge. In Wittgenstein this was to be expected, but I was sorry that some of the others followed suit. I was entirely on your side throughout, but I did not take a larger part in the debate because you were so fully competent to fight your own battle.
I should very much like to see you again at any time when it is possible. After December 6th I shall be in London where my wife and I have a flat; the address is:
27a Dorset House, Gloucesterb Place, N.W.1.
Yours very sincerely,
<signed> Bertrand Russell
