ABSTRACT
FORTUNATELY, THERE EXISTS an almost complete picture of Russell’s writings for the twenty-seven-month period covered by Collected Papers 29. Many of his publications were reprinted a number of times, and in nearly all cases there are some prepublication documents as well. Even the rather smaller number of hitherto unpublished papers are usually extant in both typescript and dictated manuscript form. In addition, Russell’s publishing correspondence and the letters he exchanged with the BBC enable the context of his written work to be recreated quite easily. There are a few exceptions: Russell’s intentions for the hitherto unpublished Paper 2 remain somewhat obscure, and there is neither a pre-publication trail nor any external evidence to shed light on the appearance of Paper 47-perhaps some time after its composition-in a Dutch journal. Although some speculative editorial commentary has been required on occasion, gaps in the publishing correspondence are rare. The detailed record of Russell’s writing and broadcasting activities even provides some leads to the few texts relevant to the present volume which may reasonably be classified as missing.
