BR TO JEAN NICOD, 13 SEPT. 1923
BRACERS 78854. ALS. McMaster
Proofread by A.G. Bone

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31 Sydney Street
London. S.W.3.
13.9.23

Dear Nicod

I have been meaning to write to you for the last 8 months, but have somehow never done so. Did Keynes ever answer your letter? He is now so busy with politics and money-making that I doubt if he ever thinks about probability. He has become enormously rich, and has acquired The Nation. He is Liberal, not Labour.

Principia Matha. is being re-printed, and I am writing a new introduction, abolishing axiom of reducibility, and assuming that functions of props are always truth-functions, and functions of functions only occur through values of the functions and are always extensional. I don’t know if these assumptions are true, but it seems worth while to work out their consequences.

What do you think of the enclosed proposal? I have undertaken to try to get articles. I asked if they would admit Frenchmen, and they say yes, if they write in German or English. Will you send me an article for them? I want to help them as much as I can. Do.

All goes well with us. Dora expects another child about Xmas time, and unfortunately I have to go to America to lecture for 3 months at the New Year.

The world gets more and more dreadful. What a misfortune not to have lived 50 years sooner. And now God has taken a hand at Tokyo. As yet, he beats human war-mongers, but they will equal him before long.

Yours ever
Bertrand Russell.