BRACERS Record Detail for 48050

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
70
Box no.
6.42
Source if not BR
George Allen and Unwin Ltd.
Recipient(s)
Allen and Unwin
Unwin, Stanley
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1946/04/10
Form of letter
ALS(X)
Pieces
2
BR's address code (if sender)
FFL
Notes and topics

BR asks Unwin's approval to include 2.5 chapters from Power in a Swiss publication of BR's 3 lectures on power in Geneva and Zurich. His History has sold 35,241 copies in the U.S.

Transcription

BR TO ALLEN AND UNWIN / STANLEY UNWIN, 10 APR. 1946
BRACERS 48050. ALS(X). George Allen and Unwin Ltd.
Proofread by K. Blackwell

[Address till April 20]
Pengwern Arms
Llan Festiniog
N. Wales
10.4.46

Dear Unwin

I am giving three lectures on Power at Geneva and Zurich in June.1 They said I could utilize my book on that subject, but now they say want to publish the lectures. As these will consist in the main of 2½ chapters from Power, this must be arranged with you. I don’t know whether you have any arrangement about French or German translations of that book. I should be glad to know your views on the subject.

Do you know yet when my History will be published?2 I hear that in USA to date it has sold 35,741 copies.

After Easter Sunday I shall be back at Cambridge.

Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell.

  • 1

    three lectures on Power at Geneva and Zurich in June Russell’s Swiss lecture tour was for the British Council, 13–29 June. The overall title was “The Ethics of Power”, and he also lectured in St. Gall, Bern and Basel. Russell prefaced a German translation of Power in 1947, but no French translation appeared until 2003.

  • 2

    when my History will be published The UK edition was published on 19 Nov. 1946.

Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
48050
Record created
Jun 13, 2006
Record last modified
Jun 23, 2025
Created/last modified by
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