[RUSSELL (Bertrand)., his copies].
Two issues of the Left Review from the library of Bertrand Russell.
FROM THE LIBRARY OF BERTRAND RUSSELL
[RUSSELL (Bertrand)., his copies].
Two issues of the Left Review from the library of Bertrand Russell.
The first two issues of the Left Review, an important British socialist periodical, from the library of Bertrand Russell, with his ownership inscription ‘Russell’ in black ink to title page of October issue and front cover of the November issue.
The first issue, October 1934, includes extensive pencilled underlining and a single marginal annotation in Russell’s own hand to the article ‘Pens Dipped in Poison’ by Charles Madge (pp. 12-13). The pencilled annotation, “Now leading man for L of N [League of Nations]”, is a pertinent reference to Gilbert Murray (1866-1957), with whom Russell had a strained relationship owing to their opposing stances on the question of pacifism during the First World War.
The second issue, November 1934, bears some pencilled annotations in a different, unidentified hand to the article on ‘Artists International’ by T.H. Wintringham (pp. 40-41).
