BRACERS Record Detail for 57449

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
1021B
Source if not BR
BBC Written Archives
Recipient(s)
BBC
Blewitt, Trevor
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1944/12/27
Form of letter
ALS(X)
Pieces
1
BR's address code (if sender)
GLC
Notes and topics

"I shall say 'it is'" (rather than "it's").

BR indicates what revisions he has accepted or made to his script as a result of Blewitt's suggestions.

Transcription

BR TO BBC / TREVOR BLEWITT, 27 DEC. 1944
BRACERS 57449. ALS(X). BBC Written Archives
Proofread by K. Blackwell


Grosvenor Lodge, Babraham Rd.,
Cambridge
[Not Trinity College]
27.12.44

Dear Mr. Blewitt

I enclose the script, having accepted most of your suggestions.1

In your letter, 2(c): I have added a short paragraph.
2(d). I think the added paragraph covers this.
2(e). “Monarchs” is not an over-simplification. Our Civil War, the French and Russian Revolutions, were all primarily against monarchical power; so were most of the revolutions of 1848.
2(f). I agree to “bureaucratic”.
2(g). Already covered.

I hope this will do. By the way, where you have altered “it is” to “it’s”, I shall say “it is” whatever you may print. I feel as if you were asking me to say “cheerio”. I hope you don’t mind.

Xmas delayed me but I have been as quick as possible.

Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell.

  • 1

    having accepted most of your suggestions For “Where Do We Go Now?”. See Blewitt’s letter of 22 December. The suggestions are quoted in the headnote to 35 in Collected Papers 24. Not suggested but altered for him in Russell’s script was “it is” to “it’s”.

Publication
Re B&R C45.02
Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
57449
Record created
Jun 02, 2014
Record last modified
Jun 23, 2025
Created/last modified by
duncana