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Add. MS a/745/7
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Copy of letter from [J. R. M. Butler] to [?] Baines
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- 23 Feb. 1929 (Production)
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1 sheet, typescript.
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Baines has said that he thinks the Lodging-Houses Syndicate would like more information about Wittgenstein. Details of Wittgenstein's background, his distinction as a philosopher, and his difficulties in obtaining lodgings; has stayed with J. M. Keynes, at some 'unsatisfactory' lodgings', with F. P. Ramsey, and is now staying with M. H. Dobb. Can get exact dates is needed, but would prefer 'not to trouble a man like Wittgenstein with these details unnecessarily. I understand that he is far above the ordinary level of a Ph. D., and I look upon him rather as a distinguished 'savant' than as an ordinary Research Student...'