BR TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 5 NOV. 1940
BRACERS 47372. ALS. Norton papers, Columbia U.
Proofread by K. Blackwell and A. Duncan

Hotel Commander,
Cambridge, Mass.1
Nov. 5, 1940

Dear Warder

Thank you for your letter. I returned the proofs of more than half the book yesterday, and will return the rest tomorrow. I deeply regret the large number of changes; they are all due to one piece of pedantry on which Carnap insists. He has persuaded me that it is necessary.

The Index is being done, and I hope it will be completed by next Monday.

Would you object to adding a last sentence to the Preface? I am sending it on a separate page, and if you don’t object I should be grateful if you would send it on to the printers.2

I have done everything possible to be quick with the proofs, and have sacrificed all other work to this, as far as I possibly could. The changes have not increased or diminished the length of any page.

We shall love to see you at dinner Wed. next week. I am speaking in Chicago Tuesday and returning by air, so I shan’t be available before dinner: say 6.45 at our hotel, unless Peter has written something else.

Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell.

• 1

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

• 2

  I should be grateful … to the printers. The sentence (which does not appear in the UK edition) is: “This book would have formed the substance of my lectures at the College of the City of New York, if my appointment there had not been annulled.”