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The J.B. Lippincott Company

J.B. Lippincott Company, founded in 1836, was one of the world’s largest publishers. How it came to approach BR in 1917 is unknown, but it followed upon the success of the Century Company’s US publication of Why Men Fight (1917), the retitled Principles of Social Reconstruction (1916). See Letter 21, note 6.

General Annotations

E.g., May 2, 1918
E.g., May 20, 1918
21

Recipient:

George Allen & Unwin Ltd. / Stanley Unwin (via Frank Russell)

  June 18, 1918

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23

Recipient:

The J.B. Lippincott Company (via Frank Russell)

  June 20, 1918

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30

Recipient:

Frank Russell

  July 1, 1918

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32

Recipient:

George Allen & Unwin Ltd. (via Frank Russell)

  July 4, 1918

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34

Recipient:

Frank Russell

  July 8, 1918

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41

Recipient:

Frank Russell

  July 15, 1918

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74

Recipient:

George Allen & Unwin Ltd. / Stanley Unwin

  August 19, 1918

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This edition of Russell’s prison letters is fully annotated with letter images and reliable texts — the texts edited anew in the case of the few letters already published. The texts are printed as Russell wrote them. There are exceptions for clarity: the expansion of lower-case abbreviations, italics for some logical symbols, italics or quote marks for publications, and correction of misspelled words that aren’t names (mistakes in names can be important). See the textual notes and images for individual letters. Sources are given for the originals of the letters edited here, as well as citations of any previous publications thereof.

There are three frequently appearing bibliographical references: “Papers” is The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell (Routledge, 18 vols. to date); “Auto.”, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, 3 vols. (London: Allen & Unwin, 1967–69); “SLBR”, The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, ed. N. Griffin, 2 vols. (London: Penguin, 1992, 2001).

Edited by Kenneth Blackwell, Andrew G. Bone, Nicholas Griffin and Sheila Turcon.
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