BRACERS Record Detail for 48191

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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
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1950/12/13
Form of letter
ALS(X)
Pieces
1
BR's address code (if sender)
LRI
Notes and topics

BR requests a substitution of 3 lines (13-15) in "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish" on p. 119 of Unpopular Essays re blood. (This was never done. Yet it has always read in the revised way re "discovery of genes" in the U.S. edition, p. 90.)

Transcription

BR TO ALLEN AND UNWIN, 13 DEC. 1950
BRACERS 48191. ALS(X). George Allen and Unwin Ltd.
Proofread by K. Blackwell

41 Queen’s Rd
Richmond Surreya
13.12.50

Messrs Allen & Unwin

Dears Sirs

On p. 119 of Unpopular Essays I have made a mistake which I wish corrected in a reprint. For lines 13, 14, 15 I wish the following substituted:

“blood of neither father nor mother enters the child. The importance attached to blood before the discovery of genes is therefore a superstition”.

Yours faithfully
Russell

Textual Notes

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    Llan Ffestiniog
    Merioneth

Publication
Re B&R C43.07
Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
48191
Record created
May 08, 2008
Record last modified
Oct 21, 2024
Created/last modified by
duncana