BR is sent 2 sets of proofs of the German Power and a letter from Europa Verlag.

BR's latest History corrections have been rushed to the printer.

When BR returns from France, he is urged to see what can be included in a volume titled My Own Philosophy and Other Essays.

Thanks for descriptive paragraph for Human Knowledge: "It makes the work sound rather formidable."

Unwin requests a descriptive paragraph for Human Knowledge for their announcement list and to send at once to overseas representatives.

Beard asks for corrections for a reprint of Principles of Mathematics in October.

Unwin thanks BR for the "blurb", which is "rather long".

The History is criticized in Blackfriars.

Unwin thanks BR for corrections to the preface to Principles of Mathematics.

BR is sent a publicity paragraph for Human Knowledge, shortening BR's draft. An article on logical positivism from Australian Journal of Psychology is sent to BR. See record 48098 for a corrected bibliographical citation of the article(s) in question.

Unwin thanks BR for corrections to The Scientific Outlook and the prefatory note re Brave New World.

Re Feigl and Sellars, eds., Readings in Philosophical Analysis and reprinting "The Validity of Inference" from Outline of Philosophy: permission fee?

The volume does not include this selection, only "On Denoting".

E.G. Allaway finds the History saying that Gregory the Great was born 110 years after St. Augustine died; if so, how could he have sent Augustine to Kent?

Unwin apologizes for troubling BR over a self-evident point in History, and is dealing with Kerpen's inquiry.

On errors in History re Mill's birthdate and Schopenhauer in Dresden, pointed out by Charles E. Compton-Rickett.

This is the grant of the Order of Merit to BR, signed by King George VI and the Secretary and Registrar. The document is blind-stamped with a seal and was published in Bertrand Russell Centennial Celebrations: Catalogue of the Exhibition (McMaster, 1972).

In a custom oversize art box that is stored above range 7, bay 4.

On the title-page for Inquiry: they would like their specimen returned.

BR will deliver the typescript of Human Knowledge Wednesday, "and I will then motor you down to the Club for lunch."

Unwin is glad of their lunch yesterday. Tansley's Plant Ecology is being posted to BR. BR may have the £500 advance at any time.

Three copies of the German translation of Power are being sent to BR.

Re Speaking Frankly by James F. Byrnes [U.S. Secretary of State, June 1945–early Jan. 1947] will be published almost immediately by Heinemann.

On the German translation of Freedom and Organization.

Enclosure is a printed notice of an award presentation by the Royal Society of Literature to BR for his History of Western Philosophy, to be presented by the Earl of Lytton with a lecture by Lord David Cecil.

Unwin was present for BR's "very graceful bow" but no speech, apparently.

German preface of Power for Italians, too? [It is not in the first edition of the translation.] BR is asked whether he kept a copy.

BR as model author (Unwin on the BBC, Light Programme, Saturday). The first 32 pages of Human Knowledge are on their way to BR.

The printers were short of composition and have proceeded quickly.

Unwin requests a blurb for History of the Homeland by Henry Hamilton.

Unwin sends a copy of Burns, The First Europe, which is to be published 9 Dec.

Cambridge University Local Examinations Syndicate is prescribing Power for study for their diploma in English studies.

The translations department has sent History corrections to Longanesi and "all the various translations".

Proofs of Human Knowledge, DD-KK.

Triplicate proofs of final sections DD-KK of Human Knowledge are sent to BR.

Duplicate proofs of the prefatory note to the 2nd edition of Scientific Outlook are sent to BR, who is thanked for corrected proofs of sections T-Z of Human Knowledge.

Beard thanks BR for corrected proofs of signatures AA-KK of Human Knowledge. Does BR wish them to employ their "best professional indexer" for it? He or she indexed History.

Unwin asks for suggestions of whom to request letters for an application to the Moberly Pool so that 20,000 copies and not just 10,000 can be printed of Human Knowledge.

Lord Samuel has provided "a magnificent letter" supporting the paper application for Human Knowledge.

BR gave books to the Agency for Intellectual Relief through Dr. Erich M. Vermehren.

Unwin invites BR to lunch before his Chatham House speech on 27 Jan.

Corrections to the text of Human Knowledge as suggested by the indexer.

Re corrections to Human Knowledge.

Re proofs of the index to Human Knowledge.

Unwin has reprinted 32,000 copies of History, of which 10,000 were exported.

Books on which BR collaborated will no longer be listed with his own.

Serial publication in The Listener is fine.

Final revised proofs of the index to Human Knowledge will be provided.

Unwin sends BR 2 complimentary copies of History. Delisle Burns left no more books to be published.

Re revised proofs in triplicate of the index for Human Knowledge.

Index received. Re BR's removing mention of his collaborative books.

"Not sent". Re Victorian talks, following BR's telephone message on Wednesday.

The form BR sent is an application for Swedish income tax.

Paper is available to reprint Roads to Freedom. Has BR any corrections for it?

Unwin asks BR to return the enclosed letter from Schrödinger (not present).

BR is asked to approve a shortened descriptive paragraph for the announcement of Human Knowledge.

Thanks for new descriptive paragraph for Human Knowledge.

Will BR introduce a book on Schopenhauer?

A reader of History wants the meaning of "hecceity" on p. 615.

Unwin suggests "hecceity" was a misprint for "haecceity".

No formal opinion yet on Human Knowledge, but Inquiry did well.

Re reprinting Practice and Theory of Bolshevism.

Another letter, same date. Re the BBC Victorian talks and the Sylvan Press.

Four Spanish copies of History have arrived from the Argentine.

Re a contract for the Victorian talks.

Another letter, same date. Re Ravenscroft and the Amberleys from an exhaustive local history of Monmouthshire. (It says Amberley was just 5 feet tall.)

Thanks for sight of Lutosławski's letter on BR's treatment of Plato.

Beard asks BR for any minor corrections to Our Knowledge and Mysticism and Logic.

Does BR wish Unwin to take over any books of his from Routledge and Kegan Paul? A copy of a letter from Cecil A. Franklin is enclosed (not present).

Re designating the reprint of Bolshevism as a cheap edition under BR's contract.

Beard sends BR about the 4th proof of the index to Human Knowledge.

Two more copies of the index to Human Knowledge will be sent.

They hope that the Reith Lectures as recently announced will be a new book. For some months the BBC had been pressed to identify the first Reith lecturer.

Two copies of the index to Human Knowledge enclosed (not present).

He hopes BR has no corrections but will make any and reprint the pages concerned.

Rough proofs in duplicate are enclosed (not present) of the new preface to Roads to Freedom.

The bilingual German-English edition of Philosophy and Politics is now going through, with an increased fee to 15 guineas from the government. (Reference is made to a 1 July letter, which is not in file.) (The edition was not found.)

(Payment is recorded in the royalty statements for 1948; see document .140104, which has a note at .140113 that the Czech edition advance royalty came through the Foreign Office.)

Thanks for press proof of the preface to Roads to Freedom.

Four complimentary copies of the Italian translation of History of Western Philosophy are being sent to BR.

BR's opinion is sought on Lionel Britton's ms., "The Foundations of the Human Imagination", which Allen and Unwin have already declined but will reconsider.

The letter is signed with an illegible initial.

Four copies of the Czech translation of Freedom and Organization have been sent to Russell.

Re introducing a volume of Max Planck's papers.

Unwin is glad of BR's opinion on Britton, and will no longer send BR translations of his own works.

Re Utley, Lost Illusion, which Unwin will study in typescript.

Unwin is grateful for the 3 months' start (on Human Knowledge?). They will lunch at the Reform Club on 15 Oct. BR's upcoming visits to Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris are mentioned.

BR is sent copies of the royalty accounts to 30 June 1947.

BR is sent proofs of opening pages of The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism, and is asked to approve redating the prefatory note to October 1948.

They will give The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism an "extremely careful reading" in proof.

A Swedish document is an application for income tax. Royalty accounts are enclosed (not present). Do BR and Patricia wish royalties to be paid in the current tax year?

Re Utley, Lost Illusion.

Human Knowledge has made a very good start. A good review is in The Observer [by Rupert Crawshay-Williams].

A reprint of 23,000 copies for History is almost done; 8,000 will be for Readers Union.

Re Patricia's illness.

Unwin is to chair BR's Halley Stewart Lecture on 23 Nov.

Unwin sends reviews of Human Knowledge. 20,000 copies were printed.

On the in-print status of BR's books. The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism in the U.S. Would BR approve U.K. publication of Lawrence's letters to him?

Re the Trondheim incident. Unwin sends thrillers "which you might appropriately be found reading!" He requests the introduction to Utley.

Utley's friend, Jane Benney, has the only copy of Lost Illusion. Furth sends the torn-out pages of Marquand's U.S. introduction (which BR's introduction will replace).

Unwin, who has listened to the first Reith Lecture, encourages BR to expand the lectures for the book.

Unwin sends BR a contract for Authority and the Individual. He encourages lengthening it 40,000 words.

Duplicate galleys of BR's Atomic Age contribution are enclosed (present in RA1 220.018500).

Unwin tells BR he is correct about the 10% translation fee. Unwin suggests that BR sell the copyright in Authority and the Individual to John Conrad Russell.

Unwin quotes a letter on the Reith Lectures from a Foreign Office friend: "... I want to let you know what a valuable bit of work we think it is."

Unwin quotes Sidney Hook's review of Human Knowledge.

Furth tells BR that "a system of diary noting" reminds them that his introduction to Utley is due.

Their only copy of Lost Illusion by Utley is being sent to BR.

Furth thanks BR for his "moving" introduction to Utley.

A complete set of page proofs of The Atomic Age and BR's original galley proofs are sent to BR. The pages of his own contribution are to be returned for press.

An advance copy of The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism is being sent to BR.

Allen and Unwin want to use Jane Bown's Observer photo of BR.

Is it in BR's copyright?