BRACERS Record Detail for 54819
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BR declines to write a preface, as "a good deal of rather tedious explanation would be needed".
BR TO A.K. STOUT, 21 AUG. 1949
BRACERS 54819. ALS(X). A.K. Stout
Proofread by K. Blackwell
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Penralltgoch
Llan Ffestiniog
Merioneth
21 August 1949
Dear Professor Stout
I have read the six chapters you sent me with great interest, and am glad to have seen them. I am sorry I do not feel I can write about them for publication. My views are not what they were, and a good deal of rather tedious explanation would be needed. I could not defend myself — so far as I still think my past self defensible — at all briefly, and I incline to think that what working time remains to me ought to be spent rather on the future than the past. But I hope you will not take this as implying any underestimate of the importance of your father’s work.
Yours sincerely
Russell
