BR TO CARL E. HIRSCH, 21 SEPT. 1957
BRACERS 131539. TLS. Internet print
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Plas Penrhyn,
Penrhyndeudraeth,
Merioneth.1^, 2
21 September, 1957.

Dear Mr. Hirsch,

Thank you for your letter of September 16. You will find all that I have to say about romanticism in my History of Western Philosophy in the chapters ona the Romantic Movement, Rousseau and Byron. I have not studied Existentialism at all carefully but what I know of it makes me think it is rubbish. My essay called “In Praise of Idleness” was published in a volume called In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays. I do not remember who published it in America, but in England it was published by Allen & Unwin and in England it is still in print. I did not know of Stevenson’s Apology for Idlers. If I had, I would have made acknowledgement to him.

Yours sincerely,
<signed> Bertrand Russell

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  [envelope] Mr. Carl E. Hirsch, | 422 West Freedley Street, | Noristown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Pmk: POR? | CAR? | 22 SEP 57

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