ABSTRACT
Russell travelled back to the U.S. in October 1950 to take up an invitation from Mount Holyoke College for Women in New England. He had undertaken to give a short course in philosophy to last until November 10. While at Mount Holyoke, Russell arranged with Irwin Edman, the Chair of the Philosophy department at Columbia University, to deliver the Matchette Foundation lectures at Colombia in mid-November. After completing the course at Mount Holyoke, Russell went briefly to Princeton to give a lecture and there renewed his contact with many friends, including Einstein, whom he had known during the latter days of his war-time stay in the U.S. It was while at Princeton that he learned he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. This news immediately brought his presence in America to the notice of the press, and when he arrived in New York on November 14 he was welcomed as a celebrity.
