On correcting Mill's birth year and Frankfurt in History. "Mr. Compton-Rickett is one of several thousands who pointed out the errors."

BR has finished Human Knowledge except for revision of details.

Re an advance.

BR will be back in London on Oct. 10. "I am going meanwhile to Amsterdam, Brussells, and Paris to preach international government."

Typed copy of the original, of which a photocopy is catalogued at record 48808. BR will deliver the ms. of Human Knowledge prior to their lunch.

BR enjoyed lunching with Unwin and thanks him for Plant Ecology (which Patricia is reading). BR does not want £500 in the next 12 months.

BR has no objection to emendation of Freedom and Organization. Re Bengali translations.

On German translations of 2 passages in Freedom and Organization.

BR has no copy of the preface to German Power. The Italians will have to translate it from the German. [They did not publish his new preface.]

BR asks for Burns' The First Europe for Patricia, who is ill.

BR approves an unspecified Italian correction in History and wants other corrections sent to the Italian publisher.

The printing of Human Knowledge is well advanced if not complete. BR suggests Samuel and H.H. Price (or Murray) for endorsements.

BR approves proof of the preface to The Scientific Outlook and asks Unwin to employ an indexer for Human Knowledge.

BR asks for something to be posted to Mr. Hanssen, whose letter he has mislaid. (In BR's appointments diary, 21 April 1948 has "Hanssons".)

The quotation from Schrödinger is gratifying. BR has Chatham House on 17 Jan. Something is said to be correct about the Agency for Intellectual Relief in Germany. (See record 49736.)

Re proofs and indexer's corrections for Human Knowledge. On multiplication dots.

BR requests sheet Y (pp. 337-54) of Human Knowledge.

Reprint of History. Listing other books by BR. Thanks for kind things about his speech and debates.

Re rights in BR's talks on the Victorians.

BR requests 2 copies of the revised proof of the index to Human Knowledge to complete his sets.

BR asks whether Burns left another book in his papers. BR is reviewing The First Europe for the BBC.

BR thanks Unwin for 2 copies of the reprint of History. All corrections have been made. BR thinks very highly of Burns.

BR attempts for the third time to delete "books of which I am not the sole author" and quotes from his broadcast on Delisle Burns.

BR does not want to revise Principles of Social Reconstruction.

Re a muddle over BR's Victorian talks.

Memo re a phone call from BR.

Philip tells Stanley that he and M.E. Barnes had reconsidered the Victorian series because of the expense of compensating over 30 authors.

BR sends something "to do with money due".

BR sends a new blurb (for Human Knowledge).

BR defines "hecceity" but would have expected it to be in the "larger Oxford Dictionary". [It is, as "haecceity".]

Re U.S. publication of Human Knowledge. BR asks for any readers' reports. 

On a new edition of Practice and Theory of Bolshevism.

BR will write the introduction to Bolshevism in June.

Victorian broadcasts' contract is signed.

BR encloses a letter from W. Lutosławski (not present). He tells Unwin that Lutosławski has found "no errors" in his account of Plato in History of Western Philosophy. That is "high praise", as it comes "from so eminent an authority". BR asks Unwin to send Lutosławski 3 of his books, as the Pole is "marooned in Krakow". BR is off to Sweden for 10 days.

BR requests that Unwin find an indexer for Human Knowledge. (But he requested this in December and had seen the results.)

The reprint of Bolshevism should be a "cheap edition".

BR says he has not seen the Human Knowledge index at any earlier stage and requests 2 further copies.

BR sends corrected proof of the preface to the new edition of Roads to Freedom.

BR has "too much on hand to undertake an introduction to Planck".

Re Britten ("Britton"). BR finds foreign-language copies of his own books a "nuisance".

Index (to Human Knowledge) was "well done".

BR writes on behalf of Lost Illusion by Freda Utley.

No need for BR to see proof of reprint of Bolshevism.

Enclosed form is in Swedish and concerns income tax.

On tax arrangements for royalties due to Patricia and BR.

BR did not see Utley while he was in Berlin. BR likes the "get-up" of Human Knowledge. Reprint of History?

BR asks for reviews of Human Knowledge.

BR will do the introduction in about two weeks.

BR could make Authority and the Individual a book of 40,000 words.

BR asks if the royalties to Authority could be made payable to son John Conrad and escape surtax and at least half of income tax. U.S. periodicals are reprinting some of the Listener articles.

Thanks for "pleasant quotation" from the Foreign Office. It is Lecture I that is being published in the U.S.

This letter was written on 27 Dorset House letterhead; Russell neglected to change the number to 18.

BR sends the introduction to Utley.

BR highly approves of his photograph in last Sunday's Observer.

He would like Authority to be published in the spring if possible.

(The photographer was Jane Bown.)

On contracts. BR can increase Authority ms. from 27,000 to 40,000 words. Nothing in the Observer profile [by R. Crawshay-Williams] should be used without BR's sanction.

BR would like to keep Authority to 30,000 words.

BR sends a letter from Der Monat ("which is controlled by the Americans in Berlin") and one from the Kuwait Oil Company.

Correct Hermann to Ernst Kantorowicz in History.

On advances from Simon and Schuster ($3,000 for History).

Arrangements for royalties in order to pay surtax. BR will be abroad.

BR likes the Observer profile photo.

The letter is dated "13.4.29".

BR returns from Taormina on the 20th. Re advance on Authority.

Two misprints in Human Knowledge.

BR does not want Authority's title changed. He has heard that the book is out.

BR declines to write a preface to D.H. Lawrence's letters to him.

BR would like to know how Authority is selling.

BR accepts Unwin's judgment about a proposed, unspecified selection.

Ms. is a list of corrections from an unnamed correspondent for History. BR has annotated it.

Utley is distressed that Unwin has rejected The High Cost of Vengeance.

BR has "enough reprintable essays to make a volume of about 70,000 words", to be called Unpopular Essays.

Re royalties to Patricia.

On letterhead of Baldwin's Hotel, 19, Dover St., Piccadilly, London, W. BR encloses a letter of permission from Haldeman-Julius (see record 48174) and has told John Conrad Russell to get in touch with Unwin.

BR hopes John Conrad "completed the contract with you".

BR sends a Swedish demand for taxes.

BR recommends consulting Ernest E. Moody, author of The Logic of William of Occam, for reprint advice on Occam.

On BR's upcoming Australian lectures, including "Obstacles to World Government".

BR returns proofs (of Unpopular Essays) and is sorry he "missed so many places where modernizing was necessary".

Re Unpopular Essays. "I am sorry about the heavily corrected proofs and the blotting of my record." BR considered New Zealand, but decided he could not spare more time away from England.

The sales of BR's old books are gratifying.

BR describes John Conrad Russell at length and asks if a job in a publishing house is possible for him.

In an unknown hand, except for BR's signature.

BR invites Unwin to Richmond to meet John Conrad and Susan. He will not add autobiographical information to Unpopular Essays.

Thanks for Beachcroft book. BR is curious as to Unwin's verdict on John Conrad's short story.

BR would like Unpopular Essays sent to R. Greenish and Arthur Gask, and requests Arthur Waley's address.

BR requests Unpopular Essays be sent to Alys Russell.

"The Swede whom you sent to me brought some very pleasant news."

[Re Nobel Prize for Literature.]

BR returned from U.S. two days ago. He is told that the Nobel runners-up were Churchill and Croce. The prize will enable BR to do less lecturing.

Re rights in 3 unnamed books: BR sold U.S. rights to Liveright's creditors when he went bankrupt.

BR requests a substitution of 3 lines (13-15) in "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish" on p. 119 of Unpopular Essays re blood. (This was never done. Yet it has always read in the revised way re "discovery of genes" in the U.S. edition, p. 90.)