BRACERS Record Detail for 48047
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BR will send Among the Great although "it has no particular value".
BR TO ALLEN AND UNWIN / STANLEY UNWIN, 10 JAN. 1946
BRACERS 48047. TLS(X). George Allen and Unwin Ltd.
Proofread by K. Blackwell
Grosvenor Lodge, Babraham Road,
Cambridge.
10th January, 1946.
Sir Stanley Unwin,
14, Museum Street,
LONDON, W.1.
Dear Unwin,
I really hardly think it worth while to send you D.K. Roy’s book,1 as it has no particular value and its publication in England would be, in some ways, embarrassing to me. However, I will send it if you so desire.
Yours sincerely,
<signed> Bertrand Russell.
- 1
D.K. Roy’s book The book was Among the Great. It reprints an interview on Russell in 1927 (B&R C27.33). Unwin did not reissue the book, which was published in Mumbai by Nalanda in 1945. What in the book could have been embarrassing to Russell? Probably it was Dora Russell’s participation in the interview and possibly the appreciation of Marx on economics and the emphasis on eugenics, which Russell had ceased advocating.
