BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
1801

Kennedy seeks reminiscences of Ralph Vaughan Williams.

1802

BR knew Ralph Vaughan Williams well as an undergraduate.

1803

On the right of U.S. Citizens to travel freely. The letter is addressed "My Fellow American". The enclosure is a petition.

1804

Kent defends BR's charges about the situation in Vietnam.

1805

On Roads to Freedom, Kropotkin, and manured gardening.

1806

Count Keyserling met BR at Karin Costelloe's before the war. He invites BR to contribute to a book on marriage.

1807

Leonie is apparently the sister of Count Keyserling. She admires Justice in War-Time and writes from Rappel, Estland (i.e., Reval or Tallinn, Estonia).

1808

BR has supplied the year for this letter about John and Susan; BR's way of loving his partner; and Colette. Kielland longs to be a convinced socialist.

1809

Kiely asks BR where he first propounded the Barber paradox.

1810

BR believes the Barber paradox was first propounded by König.

1811

Lord Kilmuir thanks BR for Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare.

1812

Not a letter but verse entitled "The Radical `Quicunque Vult'". The poem mainly concerns Winston Churchill, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1924-29.

1813

On China. The enclosed letter is from Kingman to H.T. Hodgkin, document .051823a.

1814

This letter was enclosed with Kingman's letter to BR of the same date, document .051823. It concerns China.

1815

BR is invited to speak to the Society.

1816

BR encloses (not present) "the notes you wanted for my speech".

1817

Kish is a Hungarian immigrant to Canada who asks BR for a loan.

1818

BR will try to help but has "a multitude of other obligations".

1819

Margaret Adams Kiskadden, formerly married to Curtis Bok, mother of Derek Bok, who became president of Harvard University.

1820

Kite, acting for P.E.B. Jourdain's executrix, Eleanor Jourdain, requests that BR pay £100 that Jourdain borrowed to advance to BR.

BR has annotated the letter.

1821

In German.

1822

Full name: Hildegard Klainguti-Schaumann. She encloses a typescript, "A Methodological Approach to the Space-Time of Non-Relativistic Physics and Cosmology".

1823
Br's thanks for the photograph of the portrait are conveyed.
1824

Kletschka asks BR for a handwritten "Dedication" to insert in Heller als tausend Sonnen.

1825

BR refers to "politicians, who prostituted scientists' search for knowledge to massacre hundreds of thousands of people at Hiroshima and Nagasaki".

1826

BR has evidently written Knight about Lord John Russell.

1827

BR comments on Lord Byron's Marriage and quotes Lord John Russell to Amberley.

1828

Knight is delighted with the response from her broadcast and BR's anti-religious article in The Observer. When she was taking the Moral Sciences Tripos at Cambridge, the S.C.M. organized debates, with BR and Broad representing unbelievers. (Knight lived 1903-1983, so the debate may have been in 1923-27, Broad having returned in 1923.)

1829

Kohlberg complains of BR's changes of policy on nuclear war since his Plain Talk article in 1947.

1830
1831

BR defends his changes in anti-nuclear policy, especially on preventive war.

1832

Celeste Holden (1900–74) was the mother of Jackie, a pupil at Beacon Hill School. Celeste later married "Kohler of Kohler, Wisconsin, supporter of McCarthy", as a note by BR states. Celeste later became Mrs. C.M. MacFadden. Her maiden name may have been McVoy.

1833

On Jackie Holden's moral character.

1834

Kollerstrom, a psychoanalyst, wants to visit BR and discuss "H. 3". Fifteen years ago Daphne Phelps had BR and him to dinner.

1835

BR will be very glad to see Kollerstrom, if a time can be found in the present crisis in international affairs.

1836

König accepts BR's invitation to a sectional meeting of the Mathematical Congress in Cambridge.

1837
Korry confirms his arrival the next morning.
1838

Kothari, Scientific Adviser to the Ministry, is sending BR the revised, enlarged edition of Nuclear Explosions and Their Effects (Russell's Library, no. 2211).

1839

BR looks forward "to deriving great profit" from Nuclear Explosions and their Effects (Russell's Library, no. 2211).

1840
Krohn is extremely grateful for br's letter.
1841

A transcription of document .051862; also a carbon copy. Both are corrected by BR, who has annotated the ribbon copy.

1842

In German. The enclosure seems to be a typed review of BR's account of Hume in History of Western Philosophy.

1843

On Hume's two levels.

1844

An editor of a journal, Krumbhaar, M.D., praises BR's "Can Americans and Britons Be Friends?" and recalls BR "speaking some months ago at the Lenape Club on British policy in India". (The Lenape Club was for faculty at the University of Pennsylvania.)

1845

Krutch seeks permission to quote from B&R C34.39 in his Autobiography.

1846

BR readily gives Krutch permission to quote from B&R C34.39.

1847

Kulka hopes to translate Roads to Freedom into German.

1848
1849

BR is invited to dinner on Feb. 2, 1927.

1850
Kennedy wonders about the steps to a nuclear-free world.
1851
Edith writes on br's behalf that the banning of nuclear weapons is only the first step.
1852

Kutner questions BR on behalf of her history class, assuming that he is a Communist.

1853

BR provides a bibliography on why he is not a Communist. "Warmongers have countered my propaganda by pretending that I am a Communist."

1854

Kwo says the Chinese Legation is getting the current China Year Book. BR should write on Japan's actions in Shantung.

1855

The governor's initials, "CH", are on the letter.

Kyle has a parcel of books for BR. "I wonder if you will manage to fit in your 'half-minute's high thinking during the six months." This is a reference to Russell's remark in "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism" lectures, which Kyle must have taken down, typed or corrected. He said: “There is a good deal of importance to philosophy in the theory of symbolism, a good deal more than at one time I thought. I think the importance is almost entirely negative, i.e. the importance lies in the fact that unless you are fairly self-conscious about symbols, unless you are fairly aware of the relation of the symbol to what it ro symbolizes, you will find yourself attributing to the thing properties which only belong to the symbol. That, of course, is especially likely in very abstract studies such as philosophical logic, because the subject-matter that you are supposed to be thinking of is so exceedingly difficult and elusive that any person who has ever tried to think about it knows you do not think about it except perhaps once in six months for half a minute. The rest of the time you think about the symbols, because they are tangible, but the thing you are supposed to be thinking about is fearfully difficult and one does not often manage to think about it. The really good philosopher is the one who does once in six months think about it for a minute. Bad philosophers never do” (Papers 8: 166).

1856

Ladd-Franklin likes The Problems of Philosophy. She declares she is "the Sole ... Solipsist".

1857

Lamont recalls BR's intervention on his behalf in 1924 and points out an error in BR's "The Greatness of Albert Einstein": some teachers *have* refused to testify before Congressional Inquisitions. Enclosed is a typed copy of Lamont's letter of June 2, 1955, to The New Leader.

1858

BR states that he would now make the statement: "I do not now believe in any genetic superiority of white men to Negroes."

1859
1860

Laski is sorry he could not give BR more attention during his visit.

1861
1862

Kerry-Laski tells BR that Laski is glad BR is reviewing his book and that Harvard needs BR.

1863

BR was given a transcription and carbon copy of his letters from Lawrence when he sold them to Wells c.1935.

1864

BR has dated the letter February 1916.

1865
Dated by br.
1866
1867
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872

In French.

Labin recalls BR's letter praising her Stalin's Russia (Gollancz, 1949) and asks for a preface for another book.

1873

The Fellowship invites BR to be a sponsor. (He declined.)

1874

Brian asks for a donation. The pamphlet is titled It Must Be Peace!

1875

Also signed by Frank Allaun and Denis Brian. A donation is requested.

1876

Allaun invites BR to speak during Labour Conference week.

1877

Godfrey invites BR to speak at the Fellowship's meeting at the Blackpool annual conference.

1878

BR sends a donation and regrets the official policy of the Labour Party.

1879

BR declines to speak.

1880

Mrs. D. La Fern is very annoyed at receiving a printed card stating that BR has no time to read manuscripts and does not return them.

1881

La Follette is grateful to BR for writing Why Men Fight.

1882

Lal is trying to find the International Review.

1883

On the education question in the 1906 election and Colonel Woods' candidature, BR has annotated the letter: "Re Wigan Election 1906".

1884

On "nationalities" following BR's lecture (on "Nationality" to the U.D.C., June 14).

1885

Landers is against the war and is inspired by BR and the Sermon on the Mount.

1886

Lane sends BR material on Santayana.

1887

In German.

1888

Laric encloses (not present) an issue of Ideas with an article on epistemology.

1889

BR is surprised that Laric is uncertain as to BR's views on physical objects.

1890

BR has annotated the letter: "From a teacher at Beacon Hill School". The letter's year is provided by the reference to the new baby, a girl, who must be Harriet.

1891

Laslett asks BR to be in a delegation to see Lord Cadogan of the BBC.

1892
1893

The enclosed report is on "Sound Broadcasting in the Last Quarter of 1957".

1894

BR thinks managing the finances of the war was irresistible to Keynes, despite his pacifist sympathies.

1895

Lord Lansdowne thanks BR for Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare.

1896

On Leibniz and "monas monadum."

1897

Lawrence claims that teachers who are conscientious objectors are to be penalized. BR has written at the top: "Copies to Salter & Langdon Davies."

1898

BR will try to get someone less "tarred" than he to approach people on Lawrence's matter.

1899
1900