 As we have seen, Jones’s and Russell’s respective analyses of identity statements are similar and, moreover, similarly motivated. This raises a question: did Russell, prior to their public exchange (discussed below), have any awareness of Jones’s work? Complete ignorance on Russell’s part seems unlikely, considering that her teacher, Ward, and her champion, Stout, were Russell’s teachers at  Cambridge.[2]  It seems plausible that they would have attempted to interest Russell in the work of someone whose concerns overlapped with his so significantly. Moreover, Russell was a regular reader of the journals to which Jones contributed; in several cases, the two appeared in the same issue of Mind or of the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. (In fact, Jones’s contribution to The Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society for 1906–07, which occurs in the same issue as Russell’s “On the Nature of Truth”, is in part a commentary on Russell’s paper.) But then we have another question—why does he never cite her distinction? Surely his audience, in particular readers of Mind, members of the Aristotelian Society and members of the Moral Sciences Club (see below), could be expected to be acquainted with it. If so, then it would make sense to mention it, if only to show how his (or Frege’s) version of the distinction is markedly different. Even if there is disagreement with the framework in which the distinction is grounded, Russell’s total silence demands an explanation. After all, in “On Denoting” Russell cites approvingly Bradley’s account of universal generalizations in terms of conditionals, even though he has decisively parted ways with Bradley’s logic. So he was clearly capable of separating a valuable idea from the framework in which it is expressed.