BR TO ELKAN ALLAN, 17 FEB. 1947
BRACERS 55664. TLS(X). John Lenz
Proofread by K. Blackwell

27, Dorset House,
Gloucester Place,
LONDON,
N.W.1.
17th February, 1947.

Elkan Allan, Esq.,
10, Coleherne Mansions,
Old Brompton Road,
London, S.W.5.

Dear Mr. Allan,

I am quite willing that you should publish my talk “A Scientist’s Plea for Democracy”1 for a fee of 10 guineas, assuming, as you say, that the B.B.C. have no objection.

Yours sincerely,
<signed> Russell

• 1

  publish my talk “A Scientist’s Plea for Democracy” See record 57528. This reprint was in Living Opinion: a Collection of Talks from the BBC’s Third Programme, ed. Allan (London: Hutchinson, [1949]).