BR TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 27 APR. 1940
BRACERS 47322. ALS. Norton papers, Columbia U.
Proofread by K. Blackwell and A. Duncan

212 Loring Avenue
Los Angeles.1
April 27, 1940

Dear Warder

Thank you for your letter to Peter of April 22. I sent you some provisional material about Language Fact and Truth. I can send you more if you want it.

As for the length of the book, it is a little difficult to say. It will certainly be as much as 100,000 words, and may be more. I have now about 80,000 in typescript, but not yet in final form. I can be sure of its being between 100,000 and 150,000; the probability is about 120,000. But until I have finished my lectures here I can’t get the leisure necessary for greater definiteness.

I shall be curious to know whether La Guardia is able to prevent the B.H.E. from employing Buckner. His moves to prevent a proper trial of the issue are very mean.

Mrs Kay should have a complimentary copy of “Language Truth and Fact”,2 with the author’s thanks for her help in advertising it. Her counsel asserts that I am “aphrodisiac” — evidently he hasn’t the vaguest idea what the word means. I should like to think him right on this point.

Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell.

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

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  “Language Truth and Fact” Published as An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth (New York: Norton, 1940).