BR TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 30 APR. 1937
BRACERS 47201. ALS. Norton papers, Columbia U. SLBR 2: #426
Edited by N. Griffin. Proofread by K. Blackwell and A. Duncan

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Telegraph House
Harting, Petersfield.1
30.4.37

Dear Warder

I have had a letter from a Dr Scott Buchanan of Chicago offering me what seems a very agreeable job. But from what he says I fear that it may be reactionary and the sort of thing my radical friends would think I ought not to be connected with. You probably know about it; it is a committee concerned with a conservative reform of education. In some ways I agree, as I think American education needs more grind than it has. Would you be very kind and let me know whether, on public grounds, I ought not to be a member of their committee? President Hutchins is the leading spirit. So far as I can see, they offer me what is virtually a research fellowship, on condition of my taking some part in their work. My wish is to accept, but not if doing so would be wicked. They seem to be anti-Dewey, but I don’t mind that.

Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell.

Conrad Sebastian Robert Russell, now a fortnight old, flourishes; so does his mother.

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