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Cheryl Misak

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How Did You Write a Biography of Frank Ramsey?

i'd already started writing my biography, and had a sentence in a draft of a preface. It said, it's really a shame that no one wrote a biography of ramsey when there were still people alive who had known him. And then i was in the max newman archives at saint john's college cambridge,. I found a letter from a defill student in 19 82 in oxford, who wrote to newman saying, i'm a defail student in oxford. I'm writing a biography of frank ramsey. Well, i have a motor car. Could i come and interview you? And to make a very long story short, i tracked that woman down.

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