\brief{Ernest Nagel an Rudolf Carnap, 17. Juli 1935}{Juli 1935}

%London, July 17, 1935.

\anrede{Dear Professor and Mrs. Carnap,}

\haupttext{This is just a brief note to tell you that I am leaving London Saturday, and that if you should write me again to please
address me either c/0 American Express Co., Rue Scribe, Paris, or to Columbia University\II{\columbiauniversity} in New York.

Both Edith\IN{\nagelfrau} and I have enjoyed our stay in London very much, primarily because we met some very interesting people. As I
think I wrote you, there was a meeting of the Joint Session of the Mind\II{} and Aristotelian Societies\II{} at Bedford College\II{\bedford}
last week, and among others I got to know Max Black\IN{\black} and Ayer\IN{\ayer}. I was very favorably impressed with both of them, and I
wish I could have got to know them better than I did; unfortunately, both of them had to leave London shortly after the
conference. We have also been seeing Miss Stebbing\IN{\stebbing} as often as her schedule of work will permit, and have lost to her
completely whatever portion of our hearts we have not previously given away. She is really a remarkable woman, and it is
a great pity that so much of her time has to be given to routine matters. Through Miss Stebbing\IN{\stebbing} I met Dr. O. Helmer\IN{\helmer}, a
friend of Hempel\IN{\hempel} ``aus Berliner Zeiten'', and spent an interesting afternoon discussing various points in your
\uline{Syntax}\IC{\logischesyntax}.

I had expected to meet Dr. Woodger\IN{\woodger} at the Joint Session\II{}, but for some reason he didn't appear. I wrote him afterwards,
and have arranged to meet him Friday. But as you see, I will hardly have a chance to get to know him.

The Joint Session\II{} was very much better than I had dared to hope, especially one meeting devoted to the problem of
``internal relations''; it was symposium in which Ryle\IN{\ryle}, Ayer\IN{\ayer}, and Moore\IN{\moore} took part, and was very exciting indeed. Ayer\IN{\ayer}
wrote a brilliant paper in which he employed your distinction between material and formal mode of speech with great
success. But I imagine he will send you a reprint of his paper, so that I do not have to give you a necessarily distorted
account of it.

I have read Hempel's\IN{\hempel} reply\IW{\hempeltheoryoftruth} to Schlick\IN{\schlick} with great interest and delight. He seems to me to have made the matter very
clear, and I do not see what there remains for Schlick\IN{\schlick} except to be convinced of his errors.

I regret more than ever that I cannot attend the Paris Congress\II{\pariserkongress} next September. I feel rather sad on the eve of our \neueseite{}
departure for New York that I have not been able to see both of you again. I am counting on making up for some lost
opportunities at Harvard\II{\harvard} next year, and meanwhile hope that you will write me occasionally. If I can be of any service to
you, please let me know, for it will be a delight to me to be of some aid to you. And if you cannot find anyone better
fitted for the task, you can count on me to help in the revision of the translation of the \uline{Syntax}\IC{\logischesyntaxenglisch}.

With warmest regards to you both, from Edith\IN{\nagelfrau} and myself, and with my profound esteem,}

\grussformel{Yours always,\\
Ernest Nagel}

\briefanhang{P.S. If you can spare a reprint of your ``Les concepts psychologiques''\IC{\franzoesischeraufsatz} in the \uline{Revue de Synthese}\II{\revuesynthese} could you send
me a copy? Auf Wiedersehen!}

\ebericht{Brief, msl., 2 Seiten, \href{https://doi.org/10.48666/870387}{RC 029-05-04}; Briefkopf: msl. \original{London, July\,17, 1935}.}
