BR TO WARDER NORTON, 6 JUNE 1935
BRACERS 70528. ALS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell

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Telegraph House
Harting, Petersfield1
6 June 1935

Dear Warder,

With regard to the draft contract you sent me, one or two points arise:

1. I have already sold the Canadian rights to Allen and Unwin; I wrote to them on the subject, and they told me to refer you to them.
2. Under Clause III (a),a most of the book has already been published in magazines. The wording, therefore, must be modified.
3. Under III (b), I suppose you don’t mind if one essay appears in a magazine before date of publication, though this is contrary to the letter of the Clause, which says I must publish at least three in any magazine which takes one.
4. The last paragraph of VI(a)b is an innovation. It seemed to me I had done enough in foregoing any advance, and I don’t quite see why I should consent to an almost certain reduction to 10% to after two years. But I do not object to VIII.
5. The Home Library is publishing a little book by me, and the Nonesuch Press is bringing out a collection of my parents’ papers with a memoir by me. Neither of these, I presume, is a “general work”.
6. I sincerely hope you won’t go bankrupt, but in view of the time-limit (90 days) in XII, it should be stipulated that, if you do, I must be informed of the fact, which otherwise I might not know till too late.

Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell

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  [document] Proofread against a microfilm printout of the original. The letter, designated “(Copy)”, is filed with the contract with W.W. Norton for In Praise of Idleness.

Textual Notes

• a (a) inserted
• bVI(a) inserted to clarify a write-over