A transcription of document .052178; also a carbon copy.

BR has annotated Littlewood's remark "that your new book dooms the British monarchy to the fate of the Chinese and Russian empires". Littlewood is referring to both the Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (see pp. 35, 46, 176) and to The Problems of Philosophy.

BR's annotation is: "[I had said in print that I was not acquainted with the Emperor of China, but I knew he existed. Before the book was published I knew he didn't. So in the next edition I altered "China" to "Russia". In the next after that, "Russia" became "Germany"; finally "Japan", which so far, thanks to MacArthur, I have not had to change.]"

(No "Emperor of Germany" alteration is known; "Kaiser von Japan" occurs in the German translation of 1926, which has a foreword by BR.)