BR TO NATUR OCH KULTUR / JOHAN HANSSON, 27 DEC. 1947
BRACERS 55292. ALS(X). Natur och Kultur
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[As from] 27 Dorset House,
Gloucester Place, London N.W.1
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Penralltgoch
Llan Ffestiniog
Merioneth
27.12.47

Dear Mr. Hansson

It was most kind of you to write and invite me to Stockholm at the end of May, and as you know I very much wish to come. But I am very much afraid I may not get a permit to come unless you can procure an invitation from some University or learned society1 to give a lecture on some political or philosophical topic. For this I should not expect a fee. I think possibly I could arrive as early as May 24. Do you think you could manage such an invitation?

Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell.

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  an invitation from some University or learned society Hansson seems to have done the procuring requested of him, although only after repeated entreaty. See records 55294 and 55296.