A typed copy of the original.

A typed copy of the original. On the same photocopy leaf as the previous letter.

Trinity has given BR a special Fellowship. He will return (D.V.) in the summer. He thinks the only way to send Unwin his History is in proof, after Simon and Schuster have set it up, about March.

BR asks Unwin to pay Patricia "whatever money is owing to me". He will get home about a month later. Russell wrote his address as "Princeton R.D.1 N.J." even though the previous day he had written his address as the "Peacock Inn".

Unwin has "the rather untidy ms" of History of Western Philosophy. BR believes it would be better to print from the proofs than the ms. He requests £500 to use towards purchasing a house, as none are to be rented.

"The American proofs are corrected except Book II, Catholic Philosophy..." BR asks for "the copy".

BR sends "The American corrected proofs of the whole of my book except preface and table of contents."

Re the title; the spelling of "judgment" and "St".

"I have never bothered [with permissions], as most authors like to be quoted."

BR requests acknowledgement of his American proofs.

On how BR addressed the proofs (in 2 parcels).

BR requests the remaining £500 advance.

BR urges Unwin to publish the Schilpp volume. "I am giving university extension lectures consisting of parts of my Western Philosophical Thought; they are very popular, and at one of them George Trevelyan took the chair."

BR liked the review (of Schilpp) in the Herald-Tribune, by Albert Guerard.

A copy of Freedom and Organization should be sent to Mrs. Chittenden, Cambridge.

BR would like to improve points in the History, if there is a delay in printing.

BR requests return of the American proofs of the History for some further corrections.

"I am giving every moment I can spare to the proofs...." A volume of essays would be nice but can wait. On so few of his books being available: "What a sad situation! Down with Hitler!"

On an unspecified offer to do a booklet (for Home and van Thal Ltd.).

BR has declined van Thal's offer. "I like the idea of a collected edition of my books, but of course that is for after the war."

Re paper shortage.

Re a "muddle" over rights.

On having given Simon and Schuster the Canadian rights to the History.

Written on George Allen and Unwin letterhead.

Re the advance from Simon and Schuster vs. Norton and a house lease (in 1942) at $1,200 a year.

BR is worried about a letter from Simon and Schuster.

BR has written to inquire about an unspecified sale.

BR does not need to see revised proofs, as he has made "only quite trivial corrections" to his History. Simon and Schuster have made "a very elaborate index".

The muddle over rights to the History is over.

BR sends the index to the History, having "deleted many things I thought unnecessary" and will accept in advance any further deletions. He has received the last proofs.

BR asks when it will be possible to publish History.

"Regret delay illness answer no".

BR is indifferent as to the title of his History. He approved most strongly of Unwin's Observer article.

"I hardly know Cripps, but I am favourably known to him for having spoken frequently in his support at the time of the Cripps offer, when American opinion was very hostile."

Re the title of the History and the running heads.

Copyright.

George Trevelyan.
 

Simon and Schuster sold 15,000 copies of the History in the first few weeks. BR is willing to speak in the Lords on Unwin's question on paper rationing. Human Knowledge. Constance Malleson.

BR has decided to support rather than introduce a motion on "paper for and export of books" and has told Lord Holden, who wrote him. BR is selling Grosvenor Lodge.

A typed copy of the original, which was kept in a personal file by Unwin. For the transcription, see record 48803.

BR enjoyed lunch with Unwin. "Keynes tells me my book is in the best-seller lists in America."

"No objection to proposed Indian selection."

BR asks Unwin to consider publishing D.K. Roy's Among the Great.

On Among the Great.

This is attached to a letter in January 1946.

BR will send Among the Great although "it has no particular value".

BR has reserved the right to include Physics and Experience in a future volume.

Hall conveys BR's thanks for Unwin's letter and provides biographical notes corrected by BR.

BR asks Unwin's approval to include 2.5 chapters from Power in a Swiss publication of BR's 3 lectures on power in Geneva and Zurich. His History has sold 35,241 copies in the U.S.

Hall conveys BR's thanks for Unwin's letter of 24 April. BR is agreeable to Chap. 1 of Power being reproduced.

BR agrees to lecture to the National Book League on "The Influence of Philosophers on Politics".

Thanks for royalty statement and cheque.

Thanks for advance copy of History. Re U.S. sales: "Meanwhile it is nice to think that I am helping to earn dollars for the country as much as if I exported motor cars!"

Unwin's "first edition" of 18,000 copies is over-subscribed.

BR has "misprints and slips" to correct in his History.

Re Burns' The First Europe and the lack of paper to print it.

In 1940 BR found that "a large proportion of my letters to England failed to arrive." Re translation rights to Inquiry.

On letterhead of La Residence, Florissant 11, Geneva.

On a Swiss translation of BR's Power lectures. The very good translator is F. Frutiger.

BR agrees to the plan to have only the lectures based on Power published in French. BR went over Frutiger's translation (made for BR's use in Geneva) "point by point".

Binding delay for History. BR wants an unbound copy sent to Karl Popper, whose Open Society is excellent.

Another letter on the same date.

BR wouldn't like to have an unspecified book "bisected".

BR sends proof of a review (by Robert Eisler of History) that is to appear in Nineteenth Century and suggests the first paragraph be used.

The editor of Nineteenth Century removed the opening laudatory paragraph of the review. Is this not unusual, BR asks re Eisler's review of History.

The History is to be published on 19 Nov. Unwin has "bored through the iron curtain with a gimlet" in travelling from Vienna to Budapest.

BR is glad to have Unwin's account of his "odyssey" in Eastern Europe.

A typed copy of the original, which was "given to S.U." The original is at record 48804.

BR is "immensely impressed by your list of translations arranged for" the History. J.B.S. Haldane.

Re Freedom and Organization and the services.

Thanks for review of History in Tablet: "... it is typical that no one interests them [Catholics] except Aquinas."

BR will write to Haldeman-Julius.

A typed copy of the original, which Unwin collected for his personal file.

There are small errors to correct in a reprint of History. BR is moving to London on Monday.

BR lists 23 pages on which he has marked small corrections for a reprint of History.

BR sends Simon and Schuster's draft contract for Human Knowledge.

BR wishes to receive no advance from Simon and Schuster "to keep [it] from supertax".

BR sends Unwin a letter from Lord Samuel re the Royal Institute of Philosophy.

BR lists two corrections to History.

BR makes a correction to History.

Something that Allen and Unwin raised has already been attended to.

BR agrees to write a preface to the German translation of Power.

BR is indignant about paper and if not affected much himself would like to raise the matter in the House of Lords: "... the subordination of books to cinemas and greyhound racing is utterly abominable."

Hall signs her name in BR's absence.

Re Hooper and his volume ("My Own philosophy"?), Europa Verlag (probably the preface to Power), and the paper shortage and censorship. Nick Griffin (2 March 2022) suggests the following explanation of the remark on censhorship (and films): "I don't know what Russell was specifically referring to, but I suspect it had to do with the fact that the nitrate stock on which old films were recorded was highly inflammable -- many cinemas burnt down as a result.  This would give the authorities an excuse to control how films were stored and handled and thereby some control of their distribution."

BR can't go to Blackpool (on an author's tour?) as he will be in Paris. BR admired Unwin's letter in the Observer this morning.

BR sends the preface to the German Power and is making a few corrections to the translation.

Re German translation of Power.

Re "My Own Philosophy" and a volume of BR's essays. Reprint of History.

BR makes 2 corrections to History.

Re Montano's letter and proofs of German Power.

The newsclipping is of an article by the author on English books in La Capital, Argentina.

BR wants to give books to George Schishkoff [i.e., Georgi Schischkoff], editor of new Zeitschrift für Philosophie Forschung. BR's papers are in storage.

[Re Archives.]

BR sends Unwin a description of Human Knowledge.

BR wants to make a more attractive synopsis of Human Knowledge.

Is there anything to bring up to date in Scientific Outlook?

BR sends a new blurb for Human Knowledge.

Ms. in BR's hand lists "Misprints in Principles of Mathematics, 2nd ed."

BR sends a prefatory note and corrections for Scientific Outlook.

BR approves of Unwin's abbreviation of his synopsis of Human Knowledge.

Re Feigl and Sellars's reprint of a chapter from An Outline of Philosophy, though "On Denoting" is what they reprinted: BR agrees to asking $25.

On corrections to History (St. Augustine) and a translator.