BR TO THE INDIAN RATIONALIST / S. RAMANATHAN, 28 APR. 1952
BRACERS 11789. ALD. McMaster. B&R C52.15
Edited by K. Blackwell

Dear[tm]Dear The letter is marked "Athenians", Russell's term not to forget about a letter or a "to-do". Sir,1

Your letter of April 11 has only just reached me, as I was abroad.2 I have the strongest sympathy with the aims that you set out in your letter, and I hope that the association and its journal will have great success. I have been for very many years associated with the corresponding association in England3 where I think that work of this sort is just as necessary as in your country. I have not, at the moment, anything suitable for publication in your journal but I will bear you in mind and shall hope to have something later on.4 With all good wishes,

Yours faithfully

• 1Sir S. Ramanathan, editor of the Indian Rationalist. His letter to Russell is in RA1 410.
• 2

  abroad BRACERS shows no letters written by BR between 8 and 26 April 1952. Let me record here how difficult it is to believe that BR went nearly three weeks in his adult life without writing a letter. The only documentation I know of for the absence is this passage in Auto. 3: 67: “In the spring of ’fifty-two we [Edith Finch and BR] visited Greece where we spent some time in Athens and then ten days or so driving through the Peloponnesus.”

• 3

  corresponding association in England The Rationalist Press Association.

• 4

  something later on The next known appearance by BR in the Indian Rationalist is not until 1956, when another message is published (B&R C56.21).