BR TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 30 APR. 1935
BRACERS 47129. ALS. Norton papers, Columbia U.
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Telegraph House
Harting, Petersfield.1
30.4.35

Dear Warder

I can now give you a complete table of contents of the proposed book of essays:2

1. In Praise of Idleness (5000 words)
2. Useless Knowledge (4000)
3. Architecture and Social Questions (4000)
4. The Modern Midas (5000)
5. The Ancestry of Fascism (6000)
6. Why I am neither a communist nor a fascist (2000)
7. The case for socialism (8400)
8. Western Civilization (4000)
9. Why is modern youth cynical? (3000)
10. Modern homogeneity (2500)
11. Men versus Insects (1000)
12. Education and Discipline (1000)
13. Stoicism and Mental Health (3000)
14. On Comets (600)
15. What is the Soul? (1000)                    Total 50,500.

Possibly the title of No. 7 might be altered, though the present title seems to me the most descriptive.

Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell

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

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  book of essaysIn Praise of Idleness (1935).