BR TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 16 APR. 1938
BRACERS 47218. TL. Norton papers, Columbia U.
Proofread by K. Blackwell and A. Duncan

16.4.381

Dear Warder,

Thank you very much for your letter about my book on power. I am very glad you think well of it.

I quite agree about the Introduction. I will re-write it when I have finished with the rest of the book.

If you will kindly return the typescript you have, I will attend to the points you note, where the American edition should be different from the English “County Councils” should be “State authorities” (excluding County and Federal). As for the M.C.C. I need your advice. It is the body which decides the rules of cricket, and I want, for the American edition, the body which decides the rules of baseball, or something of the sort—viz., a government in the matter of games or athletics.

I have noted all your minor points, and will deal with them.

As to your letter, as opposed to Notes: 1) The Taming of Power won’t do as a title. I am open to suggestions, and will think myself. “Power” with a subtitle might do. 2) I quite agree with your suggestion re. Ken2 and the last chapter. 3) I think your suggestion of transferring the contract for The History of Philosophy is much the best way of dealing with the matter, the understanding being that when The History of Philosophy is ready, a contract on the same lines will satisfy us both. An exchange of letters is quite adequate.

Thanks for information on the “Institute for Propaganda Analysis”, which interests me.

I have accepted the invitation to go to Chicago Oct.–April unless it again falls through from their end. So I shall hope to see you in passing through New York.

Sincerely yours,
Bertrand Russell

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  [document] Proofread against a microfilm printout, which is an unsigned typed copy of a handwritten original whose whereabouts are unknown.

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  Ken Norton describes this new magazine as “heavily financed” and with “a strong anti-Fascist editorial policy”. Raymond Swing was one of the editors. Ken was to be offered the last chapter, “The Taming of Power” (BRACERS 4727), but the Atlantic Monthly published this chapter in October 1938 (B&R C38.14).