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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
1895
Box no.
16.83
Source if not BR
Jordan Musycsyn
Recipient(s)
May, Stephanie
May, John W., Mrs. (aka)
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1968/09/21
Form of letter
TLS
Pieces
1
BR's address code (if sender)
PP
Notes and topics

BR thanks May for her report from the Democratic Convention. He shares his reasons for not supporting the “peace candidates” Robert F. Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy.

Transcription

BR TO MRS. JOHN W. MAY, 21 SEPT. 1968
BRACERS 135348. TLS(DX). Jordan Musycsyn
Proofread by K. Blackwell

FROM: THE EARL RUSSELL, O.M., F.R.S.
<letterhead>
Plas Penrhyn,
Penrhyndeudraeth,
Merioneth.
21 September, 1968

Mrs. John W. May
113 Duncaster Road
Bloomfield, Conn.

Dear Stephanie May,

Thank you for your long report from Chicago of the Democratic Convention. It was both interesting and illuminating. It seems that Americans are to have a “choice” in November of Nixon, Humphrey or Wallace.

I have deliberately refrained from supporting either Robert Kennedy or McCarthy, because there seemed to me to be nothing in their public record which would prevent them on taking office from going the same way as Lyndon Johnson after his victory as peace candidate over Goldwater.

With all good wishes,

Yours sincerely,
<signed> Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell

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Transcription Public Access
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Record no.
135348
Record created
Feb 19, 2025
Record last modified
Aug 01, 2025
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