BRACERS Record Detail for 56458

To access the original letter, email the Russell Archives.

Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
714
Source if not BR
Time Inc. Archives
Recipient(s)
Fortune Magazine
Luce, Henry R.
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1945/10/09
Form of letter
ALS(X)
Pieces
1
BR's address code (if sender)
TC
Notes and topics

Attached to the letter is a company memo instructing recipients to read the letter before a scheduled meeting.

BR encloses his article, "What America Could Do with the Atomic Bomb" for personal reading by Luce even if he does not wish to publish it. "The point of view is not quite the usual one, and I think the matter of great public importance."

Luce sent BR's letter (and article?) to several editors, "to be read by them before attending the M.E. lunch today."

Transcription

BR TO  FORTUNE MAGAZINE / HENRY R. LUCE, 9 OCT. 1945
BRACERS 56458. ALS(X). Time Inc. Archives
Proofread by K. Blackwell


Trinity College,
Cambridge.
Oct. 9, 1945

Dear Mr. Luce

I enclose an article on what America could do with the atomic bomb. It is to appear in England in Cavalcade.1 I should like it to be read by you, quite regardless of whether you care to publish it. The point of view is not quite the usual one, and I think the matter of great public importance.

Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell.

  • 1

    an article on what America could do with the atomic bomb … Cavalcade “Humanity’s Last Chance”, Cavalcade, 20 Oct. 1945 (B&R C45.19); 64 in Collected Papers 24.

Publication
Re B&R C45.19
Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
56458
Record created
Jun 02, 2014
Record last modified
Jun 23, 2025
Created/last modified by
duncana