A Lady, Her Philosopher and a Contradiction

( I must thank the staffin the Ready Division ofArchives and Research Collections at McMaster University Library for their assistance in gathering the information I needed for this paper. I am particularly indebted to Carl Spadoni and Ken Blackwell for all their help. All original correspondence quoted is in the Bertrand Russell Archives. A grant from the Aid-to-Creativity Committee from Monmouth University (New Jersey) made this project possible. . 2 "Le Realisme analytique", Bulletin de fa societefranraise de philosophie (1911); ''L'Importance philosophique de la logistique", Revue de mitaphysique et de morale (1911); "Sur les axiomes de l'infini et du transfini", Sociite mathematique de France, Comptes rendus des seances (19II)-all reprinted in Papers 6. 3 The paper was entitled "On the Relations of Universals and Particulars" and was read at the annual meeting of the Aristotelian Society on 30 October 1911 and published the following year in their Proceedings. Russell, as newly elected President of the Society, had to hold their meeting on "the last Monday of October to suit the everlasting [Henti] Bergson, who would then be present" (SLBR, I: 393, letter #177 to Lady Ottoline Morrell, [16 Sept. 1911]). A LADY, HER PHILOSOPHER AND A CONTRADICTION