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Letter from Frank Plumpton Ramsey to Charles K. Ogden (1889-1957), 1923 (Circa)

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/124

Scope and Contents

Postcard from Puchberg am Schneeberg, Austria, where Ramsay went to visit Wittgenstein and to work on translation of 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'; 'LW explains his book to me from 2-7 every day. It is most illuminating... we seem to get on at about a page an hour... he says that his mind is no longer flexible and he can never write another book'; he teaches in a village school, is very poor, and 'regarded by most of his colleagues as a little mad.'

Dates

  • Creation: 1923 (Circa)

Creator

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Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased at Stride and Son, Sale Room, Chichester, 1987

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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