BR TO ALLEN AND UNWIN / STANLEY UNWIN, 9 AUG. 1946
BRACERS 61209. ALS(X). George Allen and Unwin Ltd.
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THE HOTEL PORTMEIRION
PENRHYNDEUDRAETH NORTH WALES
[As from] Pengwern Arms,
Llan Festiniog, N. Wales.
Aug. 9, 1946

Dear Unwin

My book on Human Knowledge: its Scope and Limits makes good progress, and the first draft is nearly finished. I hope to finish the book next summer. It will be about 150,000 words, possibly more. I am now quite willing to make a contract with you about it. I do not at present need any advance, being unusually prosperous. But I should be glad if there were some provision that I could have an advance, say next summer, if necessary. I suppose it may be possible to publish in autumn 1948. When will the History be out?

Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell.