BR TO ALLEN AND UNWIN / STANLEY UNWIN, 11 JULY 1947
BRACERS 48094. TLS(X). George Allen and Unwin Ltd.
Proofread by K. Blackwell

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27 Dorset House
Gloucester Place
N.W.1.
11th July, 1947.

Dear Unwin,

Thank you for your two letters. As regards The Scientific Outlook, I should be delighted to have it appear as a Guild Book1 as you suggest. Do you wish it brought up to date? I do not think there is anything in it that subsequent events have falsified, but there is a passage speaking of Japan as a great power, and perhaps there ought to be some allusion to its fate. It is, however, as you choose.

With regard to the synopsis of Human Knowledge that I sent you, I am wondering whether it would be wise to try to make it sound more attractive, which I could do by means of actual quotations from it. I think the level of difficulty in it is about the same as in Our Knowledge of the External World; it is definitely easier than An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth. Perhaps it would be as well if I were to make another shot at a more attractive synopsis.2

Yours sincerely,
<signed> Russell

• 1

  The Scientific Outlook … appear as a Guild Book At record 48097 Russell provided corrections to update The Scientific Outlook. It is unclear whether there was a Guild Books issue or edition.

• 2

  more attractive synopsis See record 48095.