BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
2201

Meynell is glad to have met BR and asks for an article for The Herald.

2202

In French, regarding corrections that Mrs. Mikhail has made in crayon, perhaps on transcriptions of Bradley's letters that she has borrowed from BR.

2203

In French.

Milhaud requests a letter from BR on Gaston Milhaud's centenary.

2204

BR has not much to recollect about Milhaud.

2205

BR tells Millay, who would like to visit Beacon Hill School, "There is no interest in modern education in England whatever." He recalls her Against the Wall and her book of poems.

2206

Miller asks for works dealing with the mathematical theory of space, following The Problems of Philosophy, pp. 229-30.

BR answered this letter on Sept. 3, 1917.

2207

BR must confine himself to anti-nuclear work and cannot read Miller's manuscript (i.e., book).

2208

The U.K. Minister of Power's secretary thanks BR for Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare.

2209

Miller recalls a conversation with BR at U.C.L.A. and sends him his Progress and Decline.

2210

Miller invites BR to speak to the Club and to provide his paper 10 days in advance.

2211

Milligan sends BR some pamphlets by J.L. MacBeth Bain.

2212

Milliken offers corrections and revisions to Why Men Fight.

2213

Mitchell will be "supporting" BR in a speech at the annual dinner of the Rationalist Press Association on May 14.

2214

BR addresses him as "Dr. Chalmers Mitchell".

BR may mention in his speech to the R.P.A. on May 14 how the Vicar of Chelsea "in his Parish magazine stated that I must feel lonely as being the last surviving atheist (this at a time when I lived next door to him)."

2215

Mitchison writes at length on education, as if BR has sketched his project for a school. That would date the letter before Beacon Hill School was launched.

(Probably in reply to BR's "long" letter of Nov. 9, 1924, to be auctioned May 12, 2004 by Swann.)

2216

Mokre asks on Rudolf Kindinger's behalf whether BR has any letters from Meinong.

Mokre translated parts of Principia Mathematica into German in 1932 under the name of Hans Mokre.

2217
Monforte, a university student, asks for br's assistance in discussing his political thought.
2218

BR outlines his political thought and suggests that there be a willingness to sacrifice in order to achieve it.

2219

Montagu asks BR for anti-nuclear campaigning advice for a Council meeting in India.

2220

A transcription of document .052965; also a carbon copy. Both are corrected and edited by BR.

2221

Caplan invites BR to address the annual meeting of the Conference of Educational Societies on "Education", Jan. 1, 1927.

2222

Monti is proud to be BR's Italian publisher.

2223

BR is heartened by the recent declaration of Italian intellectuals.

2224

On the Sydney Orr dismissal case at the University of Tasmania. BR made a donation.

2225

BR does not know enough about the case to involve himself further.

2226

Moore invites BR to lecture at Chicago in the fall of 1913.

2227

On work being done at BR's home, Lower Copse, Bagley Wood; and on the death of Theodore Llewelyn Davies.

2228
2229

Moore wants to know contexts for military statements quoted by BR, quoted in turn by the New York Times, 26 Feb. 1962.

2230

BR provides contexts for 3 military quotations.

2231
Moore writes at length in defence of pragmatism and its view of truth, with many quotations.
2232

BR defends his view that pragmatism is what it "pays" to believe, citing James and Dewey and denying that Peirce is an orthodox pragmatist.

2233
2234
2235
2236
2237
2238

Morgan sends BR his Herbert Spencer and compliments him on his writings, especially The Problems of Philosophy.

2239
Morgan was the russell's cook, as christopher farley points out in a note.
2240
2241
On logic and a contradiction.
2242

BR writes; "As regards your contradiction derived from the principle that a law cannot be applied to itself, I think that the doctrine of types will deal with it as well as with Gödel's problem."

2243

Morland queries two passages in BR's History.

2244

Morris suggests publishing extracts from a Japanese who died of radiation sickness.

2245
2246

BR will try to get the Japanese extracts published.

2247

BR asks Astor to consider publishing Morris's extracts.

2248

Annotated by BR in old age: "[a mathematical professor in US]." Morley tells BR he will be glad to print BR's "Memoir", i.e. "The Theory of Implication". He raises questions about symbols and moods, entities and propositions. Mrs. Morley wishes success to Alys Russell's "plan for women's scholarships".

Erroneously filed originally under "Mosley".

2249
If death is final and the universe temporary, why should we care about one another?
2250

BR maintains there is no connection between human life ceasing one day and what we should do now.

2251

Moury opposes BR's view that WWI is a civil war and that Germany should be treated benignly.

2252

Mozley hopes for BR's return to Cambridge but supports having entered the war while wishing ardently for peace.

2253

Mudd encloses a pamphlet, An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbrook, which concerns the case of Aleister Crowley.

2254

A pamphlet, inscribed by Mudd to BR, concerning Aleister Crowley.

2255

Buxton forwarded this letter from Muhlestein to BR. Muhlestein writes of Nelson and Hilbert's admiration for BR before the war, and its increase during it.

2256

Muhlestein asks Mrs. Buxton to forward his Europaische Reformation to BR. He, Nelson and Hilbert are all interested in BR's social ideas.

2257

Muirhead read BR's Nation letter enclosing Clifford Allen's defence and praises Principles of Social Reconstruction. "You must be very old to have as much wisdom...."

2258

Muirhead, who talked with BR at the Rome Congress of Mathematicians about superposition as the logical basis of geometry, wants BR to schedule his Cambridge Congress paper on the subject.

2259

Mullin asks whether BR recalls discussing Peirce with Wittgenstein.

2260

BR writes that Wittgenstein "read very little in philosophy and and got few ideas from other people."

2261

Munoz asks BR to imagine what The Times would say upon the outbreak of nuclear war.

2262

BR offers what The Times might say on the outbreak of nuclear war.

2263

Munro tells BR that Mysticism and Logic has been a revelation to him. "Smillie was talking to me the other day about you."

2264
On heaven and hell with br. Munter has been acting as a secretary to br.
2265

Murchie sends BR Music of the Spheres for which he credits The Analysis of Matter, and invites him to Andalusia.

2266

Murchie sends Schoenman praise of BR for his 90th birthday. To BR he writes that he missed seeing BR in September for "the perfect and most forgivable of all excuses" — BR was in jail.

2267

BR is too ill to write but thanks Murchie for the copy of his book, Music of the Spheres (Russell's Library, no. 2853).

2268

BR was sorry not to see Murchie in September.

2269

Murra would like to meet BR. He teaches philosophy of education.

2270

BR is ill, but says: "If educators were allowed to educate they could do a great deal." The same statement is written by hand on Murra's letter. Not only formal education is meant but education as to the present world situation.

2271
Murray critiques "pragmatism" by br.
2272

Re the rectorial election at Glasgow. The Socialist Club wants to run BR.

2273

Murray has read BR's review of Sinclair's Defence of Idealism and asks for a reading list on mathematical logic.

2274

BR provides an annotated reading list on logic and the new realism.

2275

Murthi encloses (not present) his Commonsense about Defence.

2276

BR thanks Murthi for his letters and requests another copy of his pamphlet.

2277

On political and educational conditions in Australia; Lowes Dickinson.

2278

Mutti calls for social reform; he is Swiss.

2279
Myers, a student, suggests that br write an anti-war book.
2280

BR explains why he cannot replace Why Men Fight and prefers the road of international government.

2281

On BR's book On Education. "I do not share your enthusiasm for Montessori."

2282

BR encloses letters to Sir Charles Trevelyan and Margaret Bondfield (documents .053816a and .053816b), on Neill's French hiring problem. BR wonders if Neill made the mistake of mentioning psychoanalysis.

2283

Dora Russell provides train times for the Neills' visit.

2284
2285

BR defends Neill's project and criticizes the "ignorant busybodies" in the Ministry of Labour.

The letter was originally dated jan. 12.

2286

Trevelyan will keep BR's representation in mind if the question of Neill's French teacher comes up again.

2287

BR criticizes Bondield's approach to the case of Neill's French teacher.

The letter was originally dated Jan. 7.

2288

Neville disagrees with the war aim of economic suffering for Germany.

2289

BR evidently wrote Newman about his article in Mind.

2290

BR's note reads: "From M.H.A. Newman, a distinguished mathematician".

2291

BR has provided the year. Nicod sends BR a paper on types.

2292

BR has written on a scrap of paper: "Jean Nicod was a brilliant and very lovable mathematician and philosopher, who died young."

2293

A transcription of document .053898.

2294

See document .053886 for the dating. Mme. Nicod sets out her own academic plans.

2295

Noel-Baker asks BR to recommend a paper prepared by the United Nations Association, "A Policy for Disarmament".

2296
2297
2298
2299

Edith relates that BR "is almost as strong as ever and is, of course, again hard at work". She thanks him for writing about the Baruch proposal.

2300

Noel-Baker reveals that the Baruch Plan was really the Robert Oppenheimer Plan with the addition of provisions inserted by the Pentagon to make it unacceptable to the Russians. He provides an anecdote about General Groves that is not for publication.