BR TO SOCIÉTÉ D’ÉTUDES PHILOSOPHIQUES / GASTON BERGER, 2 MAY 1947
BRACERS 3132. TL(CAR). McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell

2nd May, 1947.

M. Gaston Berger,
Société d’Études Philosophiques,
120, Rue Ferrari,
Marseilles.

Dear M. Berger,

Thank you for your letter of 25th April; it suits me perfectly to lecture at Aix on 13th and at Marseilles on 14th. I am sending you, under separate cover, a lecture on “Physics and Experience”1 which I hope may be suitable for Aix. The lecture on “Non-demonstrative Inference” I will send to you as soon as it is ready.2

I should prefer to deliver both lectures in French, provided you can get them both translated, and I could not be sure that my French would be either idiomatic or correct if I attempted the translation myself. I shall be grateful if you will let me have the English typescript of both lectures when I get to Marseilles.

Will you please convey the thanks of my wife and myself to Madame la Comtesse Pastré for kindly allowing us to be at her house while we are in Provence.

We are both looking forward eagerly to our time in the South of France.

Yours sincerely,

• 1

  “Physics and Experience” See record 48048.

• 2

  “Non-demonstrative Inference” … as soon as it is ready In record 3132, same date, Russell gave the title “Non-deductive Inference” to one of his promised lectures. The two titles are likely to be for the same lecture. Russell replaced this lecture with another — see record 80925.