Item 128 - Letter from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Piero Sraffa

Open original Digital object

Identity area

Reference code

Add. MS a/427/128

Title

Letter from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Piero Sraffa

Date(s)

  • 29 Feb. 1940 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

2 docs.

Context area

Name of creator

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Encloses letter from J. H. Clapham to Wittgenstein, 28 Feb. 1940, discussing Yorick Smythies' appearance before the Conscientious Objectors' Tribunal. Clapham writes of Smythies: 'He seemed to us singularly remote from the external world - theread more

Access points