BR TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 22 SEPT. 1935
BRACERS 47138. ALS. Norton papers, Columbia U.
Proofread by K. Blackwell and A. Duncan

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Telegraph House
Harting, Petersfield.1
Sp. 22, 1935

Dear Warder

Thank you for your letter of Sp. 5, which I found awaiting me on my return from a philosophical congress in Paris. I am glad of what you say about “chance” and “change”, but it is a pity the old error was repeated in your next blurb.

Miss Spence has made a very rapid recovery and is in better health than she has been for years. However, we can’t get going on the new book quite yet, as I have a lecture tour in Scandinavia in Oct. I note what you say about getting the book out next autumn, and everything possible shall be done. I think I would rather wait till Xmas for a contract; by then, the whole thing will be clearer. I look forward to getting the author’s copies of In Praise of Idleness and am glad to learn that the get-up is so successful.

God knows how many of us will still be alive this time next year!2

Yours very sincerely
Bertrand Russell.

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  God knows … next year! See “The Dangers of Bluff”, 13 in Papers 21, published during the Abyssinian crisis when the use of force was contemplated in opposition to Italy’s aggression.