BRACERS Record Detail for 56298

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
630
Source if not BR
Ximenes Rare Books
Recipient(s)
Britton, Lionel
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1948/06/16
Form of letter
ALS
Pieces
1E
BR's address code (if sender)
FFE
Notes and topics

BR has commented separately on Britton's typescript (see record 55666).

Broad and Moore and "silly".

Transcription

BR TO LIONEL BRITTON, 16 JUNE 1948
BRACERS 56298. ALS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell

<letterhead>
Penralltgoch
Llan Ffestiniog
Merioneth
16.6.48

Dear Britton1

I have just finished reading your typescript, and my feelings about it are complex. I have written them out separately.

Your philosophy is not one of those that Broad calls “silly”. Moore once asserted (libellously) that an idealist thinks trains only have wheels at stations, because while you are in the train you can’t see the wheels. Such an idealist would be “silly” in Broad’s sense.

Yours
Bertrand Russell.

I will return the typescript in a few days.

  • 1

    envelope: Lionel Britton Esq | Park House | 66 Tufnell Park Rd. | London N.7

Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
56298
Record created
Jun 02, 2014
Record last modified
Jun 23, 2025
Created/last modified by
duncana