BR TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 11 MAR. 1934
BRACERS 47086. ALS. Norton papers, Columbia U.
Proofread by K. Blackwell and A. Duncan

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Deudraeth Castle Hotel
Portmeirion Peninsula
Penrhyndeudraeth, North Wales1
11.3.34

Dear Warder

Thank you for your letter. I have no doubt of the truth of all you say about the causes of my not selling in America, and I am glad to know it. We must hope that time will undo the evil. As this is a serious book, perhaps you would like the title-page to call me

Bertrand Russell, M.A., F.R.S.,
late fellow and late lecturer of Trinity College, Cambridge.

If so, do.2

By the way, the MS. which I hope Unwin sent you contained some pages called “Introduction” which are not to go in the book. One has to write the Introduction after the book is finished. All good wishes.

Yours very sincerely
Bertrand Russell.

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  [document] Proofread against a microfilm printout of the original.

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  If so, do. Only the British first edition carried both lines, the American confining itself to the first.