BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
2001
Malinowski will gladly send br several of his books.
2002

BR will deliver Malinowski's hat when he goes to lecture at London School of Economics on 17 Nov.; he mentions meeting Briffault.

2003
2004
2005
2006

Malleson remarks on the Nation's review of what is surely Principles of Social Reconstruction.

2007

BR agrees to read the notes for Malleson's anti-nuclear play and suggests that they meet.

2008

Malleson recalls Taormina, Beatrice Webb, D.H. Lawrence (quite a reminiscence).

2009
On conscientious objection.
2010

Bennett will not sign a manifesto in support of C.O.s, for he believes that the majority are not conscientious.

2011

Mansfield encloses (not present) a manuscript and a letter and mentions St. John Hutchinson's refusal of a reference.

2012

On visiting the Pearsall Smiths; Robert Bridges.

BR has written Marsh's name on a slip of paper.

2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
Steer thanks edith and br for a visit to them.
2018
2019
2020
2021

A "with the compliments" card (mentioning Ernest Gellner) was inserted between pp. 164-5 of Crisis in the Humanities (Russell's Library, no. 1761).

2022
2023

Also in file: a second TL(CAR).

2024
2025
2026
2027
2028
2029
2030
2031
2032
2033
2034
2035

In German.

BR has noted at the top that the letter was addressed to Mackenzie.

2036

In German.

2037

Lord Milford writes to BR with great familiarity.

2038

BR will not abandon the endeavour to save mankind in return for cash.

2039

On his dissertation.

 

2040

Moore thanks Lady Russell for a warning, but he will still attend the [Save Europe Now] meeting of Feb. 3, 1946.

2041

BR declines to visit Cambridge for a meeting against H-bomb tests.

2042

Moore thanks BR for his telegram and obituary of G.E. Moore in The Times.

2043

BR corrected the year.

Morel provides extensive bibliographical and topical advice for BR's undertaking "the magnum opus", i.e. The Policy of the Entente.

2044

Morel enclosed this letter for BR to sign. It is a fundraising letter for the Union of Democratic Control.

2045

BR agrees to write again for The U.D.C., but points out that he was robbed editorially in his last article of his prophecy about revolution sweeping over Europe.

2046

BR missed the U.D.C. celebrations on "Tuesday". Morel missed the announcement of John Conrad's birth in The Times "last Thursday".

2047

Wuliger, who discussed his book on Morel with BR, points out some inaccuracies (marked "Done" by BR) in BR's unpublished autobiography. (It appears that Wuliger's book was not published.) Roger Morel was grateful to see the pages on this father.

2048

An archival note states: "Derek Wragge Morley received a grant from the Philosophical Fellowship Fund — see file for C.A. Strong for relevant correspondence." Also to be circulated to "Prof. Moore".

Wragge Morley writes that Julian Huxley is to be his mentor and encloses a typed research programme on ants for 1946-47.

2049

Mosley writes about "the two root differences between us" in international politics and sends BR 2 of his books. (They are not in BR's library.)

2050
2051

Mosley, a cousin once removed of BR's, expresses her admiration of him. (She is Oswald Mosley's wife and sister of Nancy Mitford.)

2052

Dictated to BR's secretary and copied by K. Blackwell from RA1 750.

2053

Murray responds to BR's comments on his work and on The Bacchae. He likes the phrase, evidently BR's, "an Atlas to the world of one's own ideals."

2054

BR describes how he had given up pacifist work, which caused his prosecution. The criminal law secures the money by which we live in luxury.

2055

Mary Murray philosophizes on Naworth's death and forwards Martin's request.

2056

A transcription of the original at record 61032; also a carbon copy.

On tragedy. Yeats's plays.

2057

In this draft Murray's signature is absent, but he eventually signed the letter, which is on food parcels for the U.K. versus starvation in Germany.

2058

A transcription of the document at 52311; also a carbon copy.

BR has read in proof Murray's chapter on slavery; the degradation of women and the birth-rate. (This concerns Murray's chapter in the book, Liberalism and Empire.)

2059

A Bodleian transcription of the original, record 61040.

John Buchan told Murray that BR's "letters were the best free trade statements that there were."

2060

They ask BR to sign a letter for Murray.

2061

BR is asked to sign a memorial for the release of C.O.s. Enclosed are 2 printed memorials, one for absolutists.

2062
Smith provides titles of books on language for br.
2063

Rinder has just met with BR and encloses his letter to Wildon Carr.

2064

On BR's honourable commitment re pacifism.

2065
On helping br.
2066

Wrongly dated 1917.

McTaggart declines to sign a plea on BR's behalf.

2067

A transcription of the original; also a carbon copy.

Barnes is pleased at the result of BR's trial. Tindal Atkinson.

2068
Bradley is willing to sign on br's behalf.
2069

Petition letter signed by A.C. Bradley with the typed signatures of S. Alexander, Wildon Carr, and Gilbert Murray.

2070
Bosanquet signs the appeal, which is enclosed (document .0536974a).
2071
2072

Murray asks Alexander if he is willing to sign a letter asking philosophers to sign a petition re BR.

2073

Murray asks Darwin if he is willing to sign a letter asking philosophers to sign a petition re BR.

2074

Murray asks Smith if he is willing to sign a letter asking philosophers to sign a petition re BR.

2075

Murray asks Ward to sign a letter on BR's behalf.

2076

A transcription of the original; also a carbon copy.

Frank Russell conveys several points from his meeting with BR yesterday.

2077
Hamilton is distressed at the state of br's health.
2078
This draft letter has the purpose of gathering signatures on br's behalf.
2079
Rinder relates appeal business.
2080
On meaning.
2081

McAllister and Wolfgang Foges and others are coming to Criccieth for a luncheon meeting with BR.

2082

MacCarthy encloses a clipping of his short story, "Lord of Creation".

2083

McCarthy would like to interview BR for his thesis, "The Notion of Freedom in the Writings of Bertrand Russell".

2084

BR tells McCarthy that he lives in a remote corner of Wales.

2085

McCloy asks BR to contribute a letter to the editor of a Calgary, Canada, newspaper on the Christian religion.

2086

BR congratulates McCloy "on your valiant assaults against citadels of prejudice".

2087

A humanist, McCollum would like to meet BR. Edith Russell has noted at the top: "Came to Plas Penrhyn 3 June '61".

McCollum published an account in Russell.

2088

BR agrees broadly but has not the time to comment in detail on McCollum's enclosed article.

2089

"I will greatly appreciate a short contribution from you giving conclusive reasons why you believe in God."

2090

BR tells McConnell that she is "suffering under a misapprehension, as I am an atheist".

2091

McDonald is a Trappist Monk who asks BR to be his "Father-Confessor".

He left the Roman Catholic Church and joined the modernist movement of the Anglican Church. He asks BR whether with his doubts he should accept a living.

2092

BR has provided the year with a query.

MacDonald quotes from Stephen Graham, A Private in the Guards on bayoneting and kicking prisoners of war to death.

2093

MacDonald asks BR to broadcast his peace poem from the enclosed hand-decorated copy of My Own in Moscow.

2094

BR thanks MacDonald for My Own in Moscow.

2095

An invoice was inserted between pp. 92-3 of Club Voltaire, vol. 1 (Russell's Library, no. 1759).

2096

MacDougall appears to cite Shakespeare and Milton against BR's examples of Blake and Shelley as C.O.s.

2097

On the war aims of Belgium, Russia and Austria.

2098
2099
2100

MacIntosh thinks he detected a change in BR's lecture at Yale last night in respect to The Problems of Philosophy.