BR TO SIDNEY RATNER, 28 APR. 1952
BRACERS 11787. ALD. McMaster. Russell 15 (1995): 40–1
Edited by K. Blackwell

Dear Dr. Ratner,1

I am sorry that pressure of work makes it quite impossible for me, at the present time, to write such a paper as you suggest. At the same time I have every desire to add my good wishes and congratulations to Professor Kallen2 on his seventieth birthday. I hope the other people whom you are writing to contribute to your volume3 will be more cooperative than I can be. Thank you for your kind wishes,

Yours sincerely

• 1

  Dr. Ratner Sidney Ratner (1908–1996) wrote on democracy and taxation. In a later letter he reminds BR that he attended the New York dinner-party held in honour of BR’s 70th birthday, in 1942. Several letters between BR and Ratner are extant.

• 2

  Professor Kallen Horace M. Kallen had co-edited with John Dewey The Bertrand Russell Case (New York: Viking P., 1941).

• 3

  your volumeVision and Action: Essays in Honor of Horace M. Kallen on His 70th Birthday, ed. Sidney Ratner (New Brunswick: Rutgers U. P., 1953).