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Add. MS a/747/55
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Letter from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Norman Malcolm
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- [Jan-Mar 1951] (Creation)
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2 sheets.
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(1911-1990)
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Storey's End, Storey's Way, Cambridge. - Is in Cambridge, staying with his doctor [E. V. Bevan], 'an extremely kind man and an excellent doctor'; is to have radiotherapy; had a poor time in Oxford but is feeling better; the Bouwsmas were 'angelic, & so was Miss Anscombe'; cannot think of work; 'it doesn't matter, if only I don't live too long!' Is not depressed. Von Wright has come to see him twice.
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- Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann (1889-1951), philosopher (Subject)
- Bevan, Edward Vaughan (1907-1988), doctor and rower (Subject)
- Bouwsma, Oets Kolk (1898-1978), American philosopher (Subject)
- Anscombe, Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret (1919–2001) philosopher (Subject)
- Wright, Georg Henrik von (1916-2002), philosopher (Subject)