BR TO RALPH BARTON PERRY, 3 JUNE 1911
BRACERS 54116. ALS. Harvard U.
Proofread by K. Blackwell

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Trinity College,
Cambridge.1
June 3. 1911

Dear Professor Perry

Your proposal that I should come to Harvard to lecture in 1912–13 comes as a great honour, and attracts me very strongly indeed. I have long wished to go to America and make acquaintance with the younger realists, with whom I am so much in sympathy. But I am now regularly booked for lecturing here in Cambridge, and I do not quite see how I can reasonably absent myself during the academic year. Until last October I was completely free, but now I am a good deal tied by my duties here. Therefore, tho’ with the greatest regret, I feel I ought to decline the offer.

With best wishes to Mrs Perry and yourself,

Believe me

Yours faithfully
Bertrand Russell.

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