BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
2101

MacKarness reports to Alys Russell on an apparent breach of law during BR's trial. Alys has written at the top: "Do not return".

2102

Mackarness, a lecturer on poetry and M.P. for North Oxfordshire, provides contact information.

2103
2104

MacKenzie encloses a letter from Meinong (document .052864) and is glad BR may write on "quantitative determination in ethics" for "our journal". BR has noted on the verso: "Hinton Amer. M.S. Bull, (2) iii".

2105

McKeon responds to BR's inquiry about good books on medieval philosophy.

2106
2107
2108
2109

MacNaghten seems to be with the Labour Party. He asks BR as a Boxer Committee member to press the funding of the school of Miss Pao Swen Tseng.

2110
Macy writes on space from an artist's viewpoint with many examples.
2111

Magee describes himself and asks BR to read his manuscript, Politics.

2112

BR has read Politics and agrees with much of it, but it is not novel.

2113

Magee requests a cable from BR commenting on the importance of his international development project.

2114

In German.

On Leibniz.

2115

Maitland consults BR on translating Poincaré, Science et Methode. BR had sent two corrections to the publisher.

2116

Makower, whom BR annotates, congratulates BR on his Cambridge success.

2117

Malcolm will find out what subjects BR should speak on if he visits Paris at the end of February, on his return to Germany.

2118

Although the telegram spells it "Jacon", it is probably "Jacob". Jacob Malik was the U.S.S.R. Ambassador.

2119

Mallik heard BR's Fabian speech (at Oxford, March 2) on U.D.C. aims, apparently in debate with A.D. Lindsay. Mallik criticizes the British for controlling other nations.

2120
2121

Mantoux, who has translated Religion and Science, asks BR to recommend him to Éditions de la Baconnière to translate Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare.

2122

BR considers Mantoux's French translation of Religion and Science excellent.

2123

Malone will come to see BR on Dec.15.

2124
2125

The Honorary Secretary is glad BR will speak to the Society and suggests Oct. 23.

2126

Lady Mander (Rosalie Glynn Grylls, Rosalie Glynn) asks BR to comment on her biography of Godwin and his circle.

2127

Mander asks Neville to "introduce" her to BR with a view to his commenting on her book on Godwin.

2128
Mannin reminds br of how he liked to be called when he was at her cottage or flat. She asks him to declare himself on universal unilateralism.
2129

BR apologizes for the mode of address. He has "had to turn over a large part of [his correspondence] to him [his secretary] to deal with.

On unilateralism.

2130
Manning asks br for the location of a quotation from his works.
2131

BR cannot locate the quotation.

2132

Australian Lecture Tour (1950)

BR demands an apology from the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne for the untrue statement that BR was barred from entering the U.S. BR's address is The Esplanade Hotel, Perth. (Evidently it was Frank Russell who was barred — see Alys Russell to Bernard Berenson, 1950.)

2133

BR is asked to donate again to a boys' club and summer camp. Sir Ian Horobin, M.P., is the warden.

2134

Mansley, who is attempting a biography of George Gissing, asks BR about him.

2135

BR, who read most of Gissing's novels "with considerable admiration", relates a story about H.G. Wells and Gissing.

2136

BR replies that Coon is incorrect.

2137

A pipe cleaner was inserted between pp. 516-17 of The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock (Russell's Library, no. 1783). BR has written "Colette, September 16, 1918, Bury Street" on the half-title page. Patricia Russell has written "Revolt against Reason. p. 115" on the rear endpaper.

2138

Marder, on behalf of Charles A. Moore, editor of Philosophy East and West, asks BR for a short contribution to the journal.

2139

"I think well of early Buddhist philosophy and of early Taoist philosophy", but that is it for the East's contributions to philosophy.

2140

Mariani did sculptures of BR and of a group of participants in a 1955 Congress, presumably that of Parliamentarians for World Government. The enclosed booklet mentions her sculpture of BR.

2141

BR thanks Mariani for sculpting him.

2142
David and she were happy to meet the russells.
2143

BR describes having to resort to the police re the sit-down in his home and writes at length on the publication of Committee of 100 names.

2144
Markham thanks br for writing his books on social problems.
2145
Markham thanks br for a book.
2146

In view of Frank Russell's death, the Chairman asks if "Earl Russell" may be retained in the list of Vice-Presidents.

2147

BR agrees to be a Vice-President of the League.

2148

BR has been elected a Vice-President of this Society and of the Divorce Law Reform Union.

2149
2150
2151
2152
2153
2154
2155
2156
2157
2158
2159
2160
2161

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .154922.

2162
2163
2164

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .154927.

2165
2166
2167

May would like to meet BR on a trip to the U.K.

2168

May will be eternally grateful for the afternoon she and John May spent with the Russells.

2169

BR tells May it will be a great pleasure to meet her and her family.

2170

On Mme. Nhu's visit and napalm as a weapon of torture.

2171

Mayer would like to interview BR.

2172

Mays encloses a typescript of his article, "Notes on Wittgenstein's Manchester Period".

2173

As BR notes, "from a former tutor of mine". Mee remarks on BR's cycling and on mathematicians who cycle. He warns BR it is "better to be read in advance of what is going on, than to be just able to keep up" in one's studies.

2174

Megarry, a barrister, questions whether it was Sanger's edition of Jarman on wills or Vaughan Hawkins on wills that BR meant in his broadcast.

2175
The card may have accompanied a photograph and was probably answered by document .052876.
2176

Meitner-Graf apologizes for being out of contact with the Russells. She is glad of their choice of photograph of BR and has printed glossies. Enclosed is a 2-page list of prices.

2177

BR would like a small copy of the photograph of himself that Meitner-Graf has in her Bond Street window.

2178

The Russells prefer photograph 1463 as best, but please delete "the tuft of hair".

2179

Lady Melchett asks for a donation towards an Augustus John memorial.

2180

"... For the present, I give money only to the campaign for preventing nuclear war which seems to me to transcend in importance every other object of human endeavour."

2181
Melland sends br a pamphlet on rectifying parliament, direct action being a dangerous precedent.
2182

This physician objects to BR's Britannica entry on relativity regarding Einstein's position in 1905. Menaker heard BR lecture at the University of Minnesota 15-20 years ago.

2183

De Menasce would like to meet BR in early October.

2184
Mennell, who worked with br in 1916, delighted in his broadcast on "cambridge friendships".
2185

Menninger reminisces about reading BR, hosting him in Topeka, and his need to decline a series of debates with BR in California (they had been arranged by Littaur).

2186

Menon makes a donation to the fund for the marchers from San Francisco to Moscow.

2187

BR is glad Menon supports the Committee of 100.

2188
A thank-you letter.
2189
2190

Menuhin feels a "kinship with BR" as a result of "The Expanding Mental Universe". He encloses his own "Art and Science as Related Concepts".

2191

BR tells Menuhin: "Your last paragraph has my whole-hearted agreement." In it Menuhin refers to impersonal self-enlargement: "by enlarging and enriching our personal wants to include each other's."

2192
Meredith is planning to start a mixed school for ages 10-18.
2193

In German with a translation.

Mesch asks BR to help get his son out of Romania.

2194

BR thinks his intervention "in present very tense atmosphere" would not be beneficial.

2195

Mettler wants to arrange a meeting between BR and Albert Schweitzer after Oct. 20 during the latter's private visit to London.

2196

BR does not doubt the correctness of Schweitzer's statement that at one point the world was on the brink of atomic war, but wanted a source if he referred to it.

2197

Full name: Comite van actie Tegen de Bestaande Opvattingen Omtrent Misdaad en Straf (C.M.S.)

Meijer asks BR to introduce an English translation of a Dutch booklet by his wife (who died in 1922), Clara Meijer-Wichmann, an anarcho-communist or -feminist. Harold Bing is correcting the English. A 1913 lecture is mentioned.

2198

Meyerhoff asks BR to provide a Guggenheim reference for him. He refers to BR's "brief sojourn on the UCLA campus".

2199

On painting, with an invitation to see Meyerowitz's exhibition.

2200

BR is unable to attend the exhibition.