Stanley Unwin will be away until early August.

They are ready to rush through Authority and await the ms. and the contracts. Book publication was announced at the end of BR's last lecture. The edition will have at least 35,000 copies.

The typescript of Authority and the Individual is expected before month's end. Re Observer photo and profile.

Thanks for signed contract for Authority and the Individual.

Not a letter; rather a memorandum of conversations with BR re the publication of Authority and the Individual: the text will be c. 30,000 words, price 6/-, and royalty a flat 20%.

Notes on Human Knowledge are forwarded from S.A. Smyth, Belfast.

Page proofs of Authority and the Individual are sent in triplicate.

Thanks for press proof of Authority and the Individual.

Duplicate proofs of introduction to Utley.

Beard returns BR's Der Monat letter. May they use Bown's photo as a frontispiece to Authority?

Re Ernst Kantorowicz in History.

Is an advance of $2,000 from Simon and Schuster O.K. for Authority and the Individual?

They are sending proofs of Authority and the Individual to Simon and Schuster.

They need BR's decision on the frontispiece to Authority and the Individual.

On the balances in BR's royalty account. Authority and the Individual may be published at the end of April.

On Simon and Schuster's terms for a contract for Authority and the Individual.

"Wed. evg." Dated by BR.

OM thanks BR for his letter and she will come tomorrow: "I expect I shall be with you at 11 my beloved one."

Re corrections from BR to pages 380 and 397 of Human Knowledge.

Simon and Schuster have accepted the terms for Authority and the Individual but wish to keep open-minded about the title.

BR's author's copies of Authority and the Individual went to his London address.

Re BR's letters to D.H. Lawrence: they want to import 500 copies and add a preface by BR.

Congratulations on BR's O.M.

The Norwegian publisher with the translation rights to Power wishes to cut the text by half.

On the sales of Authority and the Individual, which continue at 500 a week.

BR has noted in the margin: "Quite agree to your handling this matter. Russell." This concerned the Foreign Office's approach on behalf of a German publisher who wanted to make a book out of The Western Tradition broadcasts. The Foreign Office could pay more. In pencil: "Phoned Miss Palmer 29 June: same terms as our letter 11 April or compounding thereof...." [Does this concern the publisher Vox Mundi?]

Re a large selection of BR's works for Odhams Press, to be edited by Prof. Heath, who showed Unwin his letter from BR.

The proposal is disadvantageous.

BR's list of annotated corrections will be kept for the next reprint of History.

Re "A Philosophy for You in These Times", to be reprinted in English Prose Selections for High Schools (Macmillan, for Indian use).

Unwin explains his rejection of Utley's The High Cost of Vengeance: a legal opinion revealed much danger of libel, and a full-page review in the T.L.S. was unfavourable.

"Not sent". Unwin wanted to ask BR to sign a copy of History for a New Zealand bookseller who has sold 102 copies. In the meantime BR "called in to see S.U. 23/9/49 and we secured a copy".

BR and Unwin will meet "Monday". Unpopular Essays ("quite effective" as a title) should be uniform with the earlier volumes, so some essays may have to be omitted.

Unwin writes on Unpopular Essays and suggests making a contract for the Autobiography.

Patricia was sent a cheque for £947 on 1 Nov. BR's solicitor is drafting an assignment of copyright re Unpopular Essays.

15 corrections were made to plates of History, and rough proofs of the pages were sent to BR.

Beard thanks BR for corrected pages of History.

The History will go to Mr. Sheng with BR's compliments. John Conrad Russell has not yet called to complete the contract for Unpopular Essays.

Not a letter; rather a (final) table of contents for Unpopular Essays.

Unwin asks BR to recommend a work by William of Occam for reissue, if it is correct that there is a growing interest in him. (See BR's BBC talk, B&R C49.29.)

On a Swedish tax demand.

Unwin has now heard from John Conrad Russell.

As requested by Dr. Nenning, his letter is enclosed (not present).

John Conrad Russell has completed the contract for Unpopular Essays, and a cheque was handed over.

"I gather that you have had a delightful time in Paris, and cannot help wondering whether there is not a book to come from the series of lectures you gave there."

Unwin hopes BR's contribution to "The United States and Europe" series will be reserved for a further volume of essays.

BR's Australian trip: please confirm so books may be on hand.

Sections I-O of Unpopular Essays are sent to BR, completing the proofreading.

"... this is the first time we have ever had any heavily corrected proofs from you. We ought ourselves to have spotted that you had missed the amendments needed in one of the essays".

The more serious corrections are in gatherings H and I, Unwin says. (All of H and I occur in "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".)

Is there no chance of BR going to New Zealand?

Unwin was very pleased to make John Conrad Russell's acquaintance.

Re lower royalties for Principles of Social Reconstruction. There is a typed note comparing royalties on ordinary and cheap editions.

BR will receive a royalty cheque for £4,770.19.4 and Patricia £604.8.7.

Broadcasting helps BR's sales but also Unwin's unique connections abroad. During the war people of many nationalities were deprived of mathematical books in English.

They will deal right away with the letter on Japanese rights to On Education that BR passed on, from Meseo (?) Tamaka. (Probably Mutsuo Tanaka; see record 30100.)

Another letter of the same date. "(I also typed one—don't know if both went! DGD.)"

Re Percy A. Popkin, who asks for the amount paid to BR ending 5 April 1950.

Re prospects for John Conrad Russell as an editor in the publishing world, apart from largely mechanical positions.

Duplicate revised proofs of sections A, H and I of Unpopular Essays are sent to BR with the original proofs.

Unwin asks for BR's Australian address and should they open answerable letters to him?

Not a letter; rather a note giving BR's address while in Australia: c/o George Caiger, Australian Institute of International Affairs, 369, George St., Sydney, Australia.

"Welcome back to the old country!"

Simon and Schuster want autobiographical material in Unpopular.

Unwin argues against it.

Should Human Knowledge go in "Muirhead Library of Philosophy"?

BR is "first author for whom I have been willing to sacrifice a Saturday afternoon's tennis." Unwin will come to tea on Saturday.

Not a letter; annual copies sold for History of Western Philosophy are tallied through 1950: 59,284 plus 8,000 Readers' Union.

Does BR wish to continue the list of appointments on the title-page to Inquiry into Meaning and Truth?

"Heartiest congratulations" (re Nobel Prize).

Re Barbara Wootton's Testament of Social Science. Furth hopes BR will review it.

A leaflet is sent to BR and "will be of interest to you". Will BR want extra copies?

A copy of Unpopular Essays is being sent to Alys Russell. Raymond Mortimer's review in Sunday Times was admirable.

Second serial rights in Unpopular Essays have been sold to Liverpool Daily Post. Unwin assumes that BR, in placing the articles originally and serially, did not grant exclusive serial rights in Great Britain.

Unwin will be at the Waldorf dinner in BR's honour tomorrow night. (The dinner was sponsored by the Philosophical Society of England.)

Unwin asks if BR objects to cutting essays in their serialization in the Liverpool Post.

Anders Byttner, who is BR's Swedish translator, would like to visit BR. (Re Nobel Prize.)

Unwin urges BR to lend a ms. to the National Book League's 1951 Exhibition of Modern Books and Writers.

Re Nobel Prize: Unwin had heard a rumour.

The Nobel Prize has stirred up the sale of BR's books.

Natur och Kultur want to know if BR will give extra lectures in Sweden.

Has BR made arrangements in the U.S. for the reissue of Conquest, Education and the Good Life and Marriage?

The printing of the 2nd impression of Unpopular Essays is finished, but they have instructed the printers to note the p. 119 alteration now.

Not a letter; rather a newsclip re BR's sore hand incurred in Australia.

Not a letter; rather a photocopy of a copy of a legal agreement between BR and Columbia University Press re Impact of Science on Society.

Re Alan Wood and a biography of BR.

Unwin's nephew is Rolf Unwin.

Unwin wants BR to suggest a knighthood to Attlee for Lancelot Hogben.

Furth sends BR Hogben's Science for the Citizen.

Re "The Use of Books".

Not a letter; rather a copy of an announcement re publication of New Hopes for a Changing World and Impact of Science on Society.

Unwin sends U.K. edition of Catlin's History of the Political Philosophers.

The Continental Daily Mail published "Facing Up to Life in an Atomic Age".