BRACERS Record Detail for 56990

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
857
Source if not BR
Slater, John G.
Recipient(s)
Eisler, Robert
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1946/08/31
Form of letter
ALS(X)
Pieces
1
BR's address code (if sender)
HP
Notes and topics

This and the next two letters to Eisler are not to be listed in "Recent Acquisitions" this century (J.G. Slater). The embargo has expired (6.7.04, K. Blackwell).

BR mentions difficulties concerning Eisler's review of History.

"Your proposal about the Jewish question is ingenious, but I see various objections which prevent my actively supporting it."

BR cannot "get at the Hibbert journal till Sp. 24, when I return to Cambridge."

Transcription

BR TO ROBERT EISLER, 31 AUG. 1946
BRACERS 56990. ALS(X). U. of Toronto, Fisher Library, Slater papers
Proofread by K. Blackwell

<letterhead>
THE HOTEL PORTMEIRION
PENRHYNDEUDRAETH NORTH WALES
[As from] Trinity College.
Cambridge.
August 31, 1946

Dear Dr. Eisler

Owing to my being away on holiday your letter was much delayed in reaching me. I am sorry, on my own account as well as on yours, about the difficulties concerning your review of my History, but it is not a matter in which I can do anything.1

Your proposal about the Jewish question is ingenious, but I see various objections which prevent my actively supporting it.

I much regret that I cannot get at the Hibbert Journal2 till Sp. 24, when I return to Cambridge. I will then send it to you.

With apologies and regrets, yours sincerely

Bertrand Russell

  • 1

    Owing to my being away … I can do anything.The Nineteenth Century and After had omitted the laudatory first paragraph. See Russell to Unwin, records 48064 and 48065.

  • 2

    I much regret that I cannot get at the Hibbert JournalEisler’s request is unexplained.

Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
56990
Record created
Jun 02, 2014
Record last modified
Jun 23, 2025
Created/last modified by
duncana