BRACERS Record Detail for 57420

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
1021B
Source if not BR
BBC Written Archives
Recipient(s)
BBC
Bax, Peter
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1944/10/04
Form of letter
ALS(X)
Pieces
1
BR's address code (if sender)
TC
Notes and topics

Re title: "I am not a professor, so you had better describe me as "Bertrand Russell F.R.S." I do not care to use my title for publicity purposes, as no one knows who it is if I do."

BR agrees to Brains Trust on Oct. 30.

Transcription

BR TO BBC / PETER BAX, 4 OCT. 1944
BRACERS 57420. ALS(X). BBC Written Archives
Proofread by K. Blackwell

<letterhead>
TRINITY COLLEGE,
CAMBRIDGE.
4 Oct. 1944

Dear Mr. Bax

Thank you for your letter, which reached me today. I should be glad to take part in a Brains Trusta session on Oct. 30,1 but I shall be grateful if you will give me some indication of what I shall have to do.

I am not a Professor, so you had better describe me as “Bertrand Russell F.R.S.” I do not care to use my title for publicity purposes, as no one knows who it is if I do.

Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell.

  • 1

    Brains Trust session on Oct. 30 For Russell’s contributions, see App. I.1, Collected Papers 24.

Textual Notes

  • a

    Brains Trust regularized from brains trust

Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
57420
Record created
Jun 02, 2014
Record last modified
Jun 23, 2025
Created/last modified by
duncana