Total Published Records: 134,906
BRACERS Notes
Record no. | Notes, topics or text |
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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. |
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". |
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. |
2216 | Mokre asks on Rudolf Kindinger's behalf whether BR has any letters from Meinong. |
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". |
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. |
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. |
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. |