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Correspondence from Norman Mudd to Bertrand Russell
[14 September 1924]
Dear Sir,
I have the honour to invite your attention to the enclosed pamphlet [An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbrook], and to appeal for your help in insisting on the open discussion of this atrocious state of affairs. The last of my own resources have been exhausted in the printing of this statement, and I need at the moment financial backing to get it circulated to some three thousand persons and institutions to whom the cause of liberty and the honour of English letters still have some meaning. But still more I need that some few persons of public standing, who can command publicity, should force this matter on the public conscience of the English people.
I am sure that this latest and foulest attempt to blackjack a great English poet will arouse your fierce indignation. Will you help me, in any way you can, to vindicate the cause of truth and justice against these venomous curs who care nothing for the highest interests of humanity except to defile and destroy them?
Yours faithfully,
Norman Mudd
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