BR TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 29 JAN. 1934
BRACERS 47081. TLS. Norton papers, Columbia U.
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Deudraeth Castle Hotel
Portmeirion Peninsula
Penrhyndeudraeth,
North Wales1
29.1.34

Dear Warder,

Thank you for your letter of Jan. 18, received to-day. I am returning the contract herewith, duly signed. I will manage acknowledgements to Miss Spence in a preface, in a way that won’t interfere with the sales. Unwin had already expressed the same view as yours.

The book goes merrily. I am about to start on Rockefeller, and think of beginning the section on him: “The modern world begins with Rockefeller and Bismarck. It was they who, in economics and politics respectively, refuted liberalism, and brought to an end its foolish dream of universal competitive happiness.”

It is sad that my books no longer sell, and I gather that this has partly to do with me, not only with the depression. I don’t know what I have done to vex America.

Yours,
Bertrand Russell.

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