BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
1701

BR provides what he knows of Spalding.

1702

Jeger reminds BR of a meeting of the Cyprus Conciliation Committee.

1703

BR "renounces membership" from the Cyprus Conciliation Committee as he is unable to attend its meetings.

1704

On D.H. Lawrence.

1705

BR states that he did not make copies of his letters to D.H. Lawrence.

1706

Rev. Jenner asks BR to sign a Petition for Mercy for Robert Marwood, condemned to death on the basis of his confession.

1707

A transcription of document .051496, provided by Jenner.

1708

Jevons could not, in the end, make it to hear BR lecture on Mill. He encloses a letter (record 1709) to the Foreign Secretary, Eden.

1709

Jevons has an anti-war proposal for the Prime Minister. The letter is enclosed with record 1708.

1710

BR thanks Mr. Jinarajadasa for the review in New India and mentions the competitive spirit in education.

1711

Johnson knew BR in Richmond: "Used to trudge back with you from Grosvenor College at Twickenham to Richmond." He was known as "Pudding" Johnson. His 3rd initial seems to stand for Dijnn or Dynn. He lives now at Alkali Lake, British Columbia, Canada, and his daughter married the Lieutenant-Governor.

1712

Johnson took the Chair for BR "at a large meeting in Manchester in Nov. 1917 when we jointly welcomed the new Soviet government." He sends a book of sermons.

1713
1714

Johnston very much liked Why Men Fight.

1715

A transcription of document .057834; also a carbon. BR has added a note on Wittgenstein's furniture.

1716

Dr. Jonas tries to interest BR in his book, Irritation and Counterirritation.

1717

BR is interested in Jonas's book.

1718

Lief Jones, a politician, returns Couturat's review.

1719

Jones would like to attend BR's "Thursday lectures on the Concepts of Mathematics".

1720
1721

On the teaching of mathematics. BR has written at the top: "Show ANW".

Dated 1912 because Henry Jones' other letters to BR are 1912.

1722

Not the same writer as she at record 1733. Jones wants references to Peano's works, with a view to applying symbolic logic to biology.

1723

Jones asks if BR has received telepathic messages from him, for he has "seemed to have had access to and replies from your mind".

1724

BR states: "I have never received telepathic communications either from you or from anyone else."

1725

Jones has "got a very good mould and cast of your head". Jones, a sculptor, sculpted BR. (See document .051599.)

1726

BR gives Jones permission to exhibit and sell his new bust of BR. (For a photograph of the bust, see J. Jones, The Gallipoli Diary.)

1727

Jones, wife of Jonah Jones, congratulates BR on receiving the Jerusalem Prize. BR has told her that he met her father, Prof. Grossman, at the (1912) Mathematical Congress.

1728

BR is grateful for Jones's offer re receiving the Jerusalem Prize.

1729

"I have greater affection and respect for you than for any other living man", Rev. Jones tells BR on the eve of his imprisonment.

1730

Jones, who heard BR in World War I at Balliol, asks if the humanities are taking an active enough approach re nuclear war.

1731

Jones wants to dedicate his play, "The High Jinks of Canon Saull" to BR for his 90th birthday.

1732

BR asks to have a copy of Jones's play.

1733

Not the same writer as he at record 1722. A note in Edith's hand states: "From Miss W. Tudor Jones (later a teacher at Telegraph House School)". A Japanese professor wants BR to have his The Principles of the Moral Empire.

[Edith is referring to Beacon Hill School housed in Telegraph House.]

1734

Jordan writes on behalf of a southern anti-segregationist, P.D. East.

1735

Jordan sympathizes with BR at this time of "martial law" in England.

1736
Jordan asks br to sign a card for her collection.
1737

On true propositions following from false ones, after the discussion "last night".

1738

Joss was caricaturist and cartoonist of the Star and in 1938 visited BR to draw him. Now Joss is in a mental hospital. He was certified insane in 1956, he says.

1739

Jovanovic is sending BR his book Nucleus. A translation of the letter is in the file.

1740

BR thanks him for his book in the pursuit of peace.

1741

Lord Jowett asks BR to vote in the Lords on 20 November 1953.

1742

Joynt sends (not present) BR an article on Toynbee.

1743

BR enjoyed Joynt's article on Toynbee.

1744

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .155065.

1745
1746

Students from the Socialist Society of the London Institute of Education would like to visit BR in Wales.

1747
1748
Jurick, a student, poses some religious questions.
1749

BR does not believe in the miracles or prophecy, and the Bible is a mixture of myth and history.

1750

Kallen arrived in Oxford Oct. 1907 and soon corresponded with William James about his conversations with BR and Moore. This letter seems to be early in his philosophical relationship with BR, but it might be Jan.-Mar. 1908.

1751

BR thanks Kallen for his letter and offprint.

1752

"Pax" suggests that Kallen advise BR to curtail his "dictating" what Americans should do, referring to his "base attacks against France" made in the New York Times, 3 April.

1753

Count Karolyi sends BR a translation (not present) and hopes to see him in London. BR has written Karolyi's name on a separate slip of paper.

1754

Countess Karolyi asks BR to review Michael Karolyi's memoirs, BR being "so well acquainted with central European affairs".

1755

BR is willing to be patron of the scheme to support writers and artists. He has been "very busy with the consequences of the open letter".

1756

Kastner encloses a bulletin from his Superintendent of Schools in Indiana. The copy here was made by BR's secretary.

1757
1758
1759
1760
1761

On Dulles's reply to BR's "Open Letter to Eisenhower and Khrushchev".

1762
On probability.
1763

King asks BR to sign a letter to the press about the International College at Geneva. Enclosed is the draft letter.

1764

King's note is written at the top of a mimeographed TLS with the following signatories: J.D. Beresford, Noel Buxton, John Cockborn, W.H. Fyfe, A.D. Lindsay, W. Manchester, Parmoor, A. Ponsonby, BR, M.E. Sadler, H.G. Wells. This letter appeared as B&R F26.04. In document .051811, there is a "preliminary memorandum" about the International College, and a pamphlet about it that lists BR and most of the above signatories as supporters.

1765

BR is assumed to be the author, since he mentions "on going to Geneva this autumn" and in letter 1651 (record 18862) to O. Morrell he tells her that Dora and he "are going to Geneva for a week ... primarily to look at a school connected with the League of Nations" (8 Sept. 1926).

1766

King-Hall, Intelligence Officer of the Mediterranean Fleet, likes BR's On Education.

1767

BR likes Defence in the Nuclear Age but is in doubt about the efficacy of non-violent resistance.

1768

BR urges a Penguin edition of Defence in the Nuclear Age.

1769
1770

This letter belongs to the Mudd-Crowley correspondence. The original has yet to be located.

Also in file: a carbon copy of this transcription.

1771

Kaiser has used BR's Nightmares in his humorous course on "Shakespeare's Insomnia".

1772

BR wishes he could have heard Kaiser's lecture using his Nightmares.

1773

Le Lionnais informs BR that he will be considered for the Kalinga Prize, if he is willing to visit India.

1774

Friedweld informs BR that he has been nominated for the 1957 Kalinga Prize.

1775

Auger tells BR that he has won the prize of £1000 for 1957.

1776
Reception details are provided.
1777
Tabbush includes newsclips and the script of a radio programme on br (not present).
1778

Steigner informs BR that the South African Broadcasting Corporation broadcast BR's Kalinga Prize speech on 7 March 1958.

1779

Maheu, Acting Director-General of UNESCO, recalls BR's visit and congratulates him on his 90th birthday.

1780
1781

BR accepts the nomination but would not be able to go to India.

1782

BR could come to Paris for the Prize in the latter half of January.

1783

BR will make a short speech on Jan. 28, in French if it is translated for him.

1784

Drafts of biographical data on BR, sometimes corrected by him.

1785

BR is "completely occupied with nuclear work" and cannot write on Aldous. He would like to know what Juliette thinks of Ottoline.

1786

BR thanks Maheu for his 90th birthday message.

1787

Kar has proofs of a photographic sitting for BR re Epstein.

1788

BR wants to replace his copies of J.L. Austin's "Excuses" and Bernard Williams's "Personal Identity".

1789

Kaufmann is a conscientious objector on his way to Wormwood Scrubs, sentenced to "two years' hard labour".

1790
1791

Kaufmann seeks a blurb for Critique of Religion and Philosophy. He recalls inviting BR to speak at Williams College on "The Basis of Morality" in Nov. 1940 and breakfasting with BR the next morning. In 1950 BR dined with the Philosophy Department at Princeton.

1792

BR considers Kaufmann "too kind to the Old Testament".

1793

BR thanks Kedzierski for his book in Polish.

1794

Kellogg is Supervisor of the Schools. She sends BR a paper on children's problems (not present). She is on a first-name basis with BR, since BR had stayed with her when she was Mrs. Stanley Rypins in 1939. Enclosed is a print of a child's "folded finger painting". She wrote books on the psychology of children's art.

1795

BR cannot spare the time to read Kellogg's manuscript.

1796

BR is too ill to write, and is forbidden to do so by doctors.

1797

Full name: Frederic Richard Kelser. He is glad BR spoke "tonight" against the basing of U.S. submarines in Scotland.

1798

BR is encouraged by Kelser's campaign.

1799

Kemble writes about his hesitations in joining Committee of 100 demonstrations.

1800

BR "could only give positive praise to those who do not hang back" from civil disobedience since large-scale destruction may occur at any moment.