BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
1601

BR wishes to take the oath.

1602

On the death of Wilbur Burton, who did not believe in fighting for the British Empire.

1603
1604

Howe praises The Problem of China and The Prospects of Industrial Civilization.

1605

In praise of The Prospects of Industrial Civilization.

The enclosed essay has no title but is on the condition of mankind.

1606

On unilateral nuclear disarmament following the television programme with Gaitskell, Mrs. Roosevelt and Lord Boothby.

1607

On unilateral disarmament and Britain's role.

1608
BR is ill.
1609
Powell says br is overwhelmed with correspondence since his release from prison.
1610
Hughes asks br whether agnostics should bring up their children as such.
1611

BR is unsure that steps should be taken by agnostics to keep their children inorthodox.

1612

The widow of Rear Admiral C.H. Hughes-Onslow likes to carry important writings and encloses Rachel Russell's love letters to Lord William Russell, who was committed to the tower.

1613

BR thanks her for the interesting extracts.

1614

BR's late note at the top reads: "Huntington was a Harvard logician." Huntington has revised a paper in light of BR's previous letter.

1615

Hutchinson asks BR to visit again to meet Sir John Simon (who resigned from Asquith's cabinet on Jan. 1, 1916 over conscription).

1616

In the file is a note from BR: "This letter is about a Hindu barrister who undertook to defend...." Chappelow is mentioned in the present letter. Probably BR's note was meant to accompany document .051333.

1617

A Canadian, Hyde sends (not present in BR's library) his novel in woodcuts, Southern Cross (1951), claiming that it is the first anti-nuclear book.

1618

BR is grateful for Southern Cross.

1619

A Marxist, Hyndman objects to a point in the syllabus for BR's lectures on German Social Democracy.

1620

In German. Pauling and Stopp tell BR that the Essen meeting protests BR and Edith's imprisonment.

Also in file: a translation and a carbon copy.

1621

Hellman requests BR's favourite recipe for a book.

1622

BR chooses "Lord John Russell's Pudding" from Mrs. Beeton. (See Celebrity Cooking, 1967.) (Hellman could not locate the recipe.)

1623

BR sends his best wishes for the conference.

1624

Kabadi invites BR to the Association's Indian Republic Day dinner.

1625

The Association wants BR to speak at its convention while BR is touring India.

1626

Indiana would like BR to send any letters from Upton Sinclair to be preserved in their collection.

1627

Dobrich thinks BR will be interested in the enclosed letter to Churchill reminding him of the financial oligarchy that controls the world.

1628

Dobrich takes Churchill to task for certain war decisions and reminds him of the worldwide financial oligarchy.

1629

BR is invited to become a vice-president of the League.

1630

Lang asks BR about Couturat and an international or auxiliary language.

1631

BR, who is ill, knew little of Couturat's interest in Ido.

1632

Mezerik met BR at the Pugwash party in Vienna. He sends BR Let Us Reason Together and requests BR's view of his "Early Warning System for Peace", an enclosed paper.

1633

BR thinks that Mezerik's system for obtaining peace might be very useful.

1634

Pelikan asks BR for a message for a congress in Baghdad.

1635
Isaacs asks br for an interview with a view to saving the life, or the reason, of a young man.
1636

Ishida asks BR to meet K. Tomatsu.

1637

BR's secretary tells Ishida that BR will not be in London during 11-18.

1638

Ishido's short letter on p. 9 is preceded by a long list of questions concerning World Federation.

1639

BR tells Ishido that the problem lies in inducing governments to accept a scheme for world government.

1640

Ishio sends BR her poetry on war and peace.

1641

BR sends his best wishes for a programme, asking that quotations from his works be clearly indicated.

1642

BR gives Israel permission to quote from his works in a radio programme.

1643

Iversen sends BR his Danish book, Two Essays on Human Knowledge, which concerns Principles of Mathematics.

1644

BR has evidently suggested (on 14 Sept. 1962) that Iwamatsu join Pugwash. He is writing on BR's letters for the university bulletin. He lives in Nagasaki.

At the top BR has written "Pugwash?".

1645

BR sends Iwamatsu "a recent work".

1646

She admires BR "for the perfectly splendid stand you have made for principles against the whole of England."

1647

Collier attended BR's lecture last night, which "showed that tenderness to the human soul".

1648

Collier is related to Jackson, who with her husband was a pacifist. Collier was at Summerhill but does not think Neill did much for formal education; BR visited Summerhill.

1649

BR remembers Dr. Collier's mother.

1650
1651

Hu Shih would like to meet with BR.

1652

On Jackson's wish to convert his fiancée to agnosticism.

1653

BR warns Jackson of "sexual blackmail". He should confine himself to arguments having more "logical cogency".

1654
1655
Jackson asks if man can change his ways.
1656

Lady Hobhouse's mother was Annabel Huth Jackson, née Claire Annabel Caroline Grant Duff (1870-1944).

1657

BR remembers her mother from the 1880s.

1658

BR has a note in the file saying "William James".

1659
1660

Santayana encloses BR's article with James's comments.

1661

BR's little note in the file identifies Joachim.

1662

Ellen Joachim congratulates BR on his (Fellowship) success.

1663

Joad recalls being introduced to BR at Oxford when BR came to debate with A.D. Lindsay. He wants to discuss relations with BR for a book on monism.

1664
Doreen "joad" is keen to begin working for br one day a week. BR has written a telephone number on the letter.
1665
Joad is grateful for the russells' kindness.
1666

BR would be delighted to pose for John.

1667

John still intends to come to north Wales to do a portrait of BR.

1668

BR will be away in September.

1669

BR is ill. If John were to speak Welsh, BR would have a bewildering time.

1670
1671
1672
1673
1674

Jourdain encloses (not present) some papers on which BR had written the paradox. He describes a writing by Cantor.

1675

On an Introduction to Modern Logic, a book BR would like to write; revising The Principles of Mathematics; on first reading Cantor and coming across Peano.

1676

Jourdain writes again about his proof and suggests he is at the end "of my tether".

1677

About Jourdain's illness and proof, and Open Court.

1678

Ja'fari, a Tehran philosopher, asks about free will.

1679

BR states that quantum theory raises doubts about the complete predictability of behaviour; but that does not confirm freedom of the will. For the ribbon copy, see record 131387 (there is a holograph postscript).

1680

Jack encloses (not present) a typescript of his conversation with BR on "Saturday" and asks his permission to publish it.

(See Rec. Acq. 1509, record 119685 for a later version of this typescript.)

1681

Jacks asks BR to answer the letter from Shelby (?) on which he has written his note to BR. See record 77872.

1682

Jackson congratulates BR on his Manchester Guardian letter.

1683

A message for a meeting in support of Sacco and Vanzetti.

1684

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .155059.

1685
Jackson would like to meet br again.
1686

Jackson writes on points in The Problems of Philosophy.

1687
1688

Russell declines an invitation to speak to a Labour audience unless Feakins approves of it.

In BRA, 1: 103, all but the first sentence of the body of the letter is quoted.

1689

Jager asks BR what he meant by "denoting complex". He encloses an offprint of his "Russell's Denoting Complex" in  Analysis.

1690

BR has reread "On Denoting" in order to respond on "denoting complexes".

1691

The Women's Institute at Iffley wants BR to write a few lines on Hannah Pearsall Smith, who lived at Court Place. (BR declined.)

1692

James journeyed with BR from Australia by Quantas "a decade ago".

1693

Jameson sends BR a "philosophical" work by Dora Marsden. Jameson has had a letter from BR when she was with Knopf.

1694

The chargé d'affaires asks BR to meet Gizo Tomabechi, a Parliamentarian.

1695

The Ambassador asks BR to lecture on Buddhism in Tokyo.

1696

BR declines an invitation.

1697

BR was pleased to meet Mr. Nishimura.

1698

Japolsky quotes briefly from a letter from BR in 1935.

1699

Jastrow wants BR to lecture in Madison.

1700

Jaynes asks about Douglas A. Spalding.