BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
2701
2702

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .155147a.

2703
2704
2705
2706
2707
2708

Ratner is having trouble writing following his meeting with BR on sense-data. He has met with Moore, too.

2709

BR regrets that Rauh still meets with difficulty from pro-Nazis.

2710
Readhead would like to join a society of br's followers.
2711

BR does not know of any society of his followers, but recommends the Rationalist Press Association.

2712

Edith says that BR is glad that Readhead did not resign from the Committee of 100 for reasons of principle.

2713

Readhead asks to visit the Russells in North Wales. (Edith has indicated "No".)

2714

There is a BR manuscript outline on the letter, "Return to the Cave", in very faint pencil. It is transcribed here line by line:

"Return to Cave

Loneliness: Remember vision of

heaven: great men: Past. Nature.

contemplation: bonds: parent &

child: country: pity: the procession

of the blind: the biography of Man."

Renaud is interested in translating BR's Leibniz.

2715

The letter was found in Russell's Library copy of Raverat's Period Piece. She is glad to have BR's letter about their house.

2716

Raverat and BR may meet in Paris.

2717

Rawson would like BR to stay with him at Epsom.

2718

In French.

Ray wants to translate BR's Leibniz.

2719
On humanism.
2720

BR refers to "the opposite irrational dogmatisms of Marxism and Hindu orthodoxy".

2721
BR evidently had some money coming to him as a guarantor.
2722
Redefer wants to discuss internationalist education with br.
2723

BR asks Redefer to contact him nearer the time of his U.K. visit for an appointment.

2724

Redfron, who reviewed Philosophical Essays in the Occult Review, thinks very highly of Justice in War-Time.

2725

BR thanks Redgrave for her letter and hopes she will help in fundraising.

2726

Reed did not give BR's reply to the press, as BR had authorized him to do.

2727
Reed is sure that many sympathize with br over his persecution.
2728

Reed wants BR to contribute to a new periodical, The New Republic.

2729

Rees sympathizes with BR on his dismissal from Trinity. Her complete surname is R????tz-Rees. She refers to Miss Lowndes.

2730

A fundraising letter.

2731

Rees will undertake the miniature portraits of BR and Edith.

2732

She is Mrs. E. Robert Rees. Rees has completed the miniatures.

2733

BR has sent her letter to J. Allen Skinner, Emergency Committee for Direct Action against Nuclear War.

2734

She hopes that BR's hope that "happiness is again possible" has been realized.

2735

Reichl asks BR to remind Ralph for news of forming a BR foundation. She is loaded with "short history", "programs" and BR mugs.

2736

"It is exciting that you and your daughter are coming to England."

2737

Mrs. Harry Reid has just hosted BR; Lovejoy was there. "Yes, I shall try to have you meet Mr. Wilson—you would be friends at once." The reference is to President Wilson, as mention of the war with Mexico soon follows.

2738
On suffrage.
2739
On relativity.
2740

Rennie encloses (not present) translations from the Soviet press.

2741

BR describes for  this Amsterdam resident how he and Whitehead wrote Principia Mathematica.

2742
Reymond is studying the philosophy of mathematics. BR has noted at the top: "articles to be sent".
2743

On relativity in St. Augustine.

2744

Reynolds presented BR at a "parlor meeting" at Evelyn Nordhoff's apartment 20 years ago. He admires BR's writings on the war.

2745

BR on 20 years ago: "It is odd to think how cheerfully superficial one's outlook was in those days."

2746

BR disagrees on Reynolds' interpretation of relativity in St. Augustine.

2747

Rhees will borrow Wittgenstein, "Notes on Logic".

"Athenians" appears at the top.

2748

BR thanks Richards for his gift to the BRPF.

2749

Rev. Richards congratulates BR on being "deprived of your benefice", but BR has "forged other ties that will not quickly break".

2750

Richardson hopes for a career in philosophy and takes up a point re Principia.

2751
BR has corrected the year.

richardson connects the lunatic asylum and the war.
2752

Richman thanks BR for his philosophical writings. He encloses his "The Whereabouts of Percepts", Journal of Philosophy.

2753
Richmond offers the help of psychoanalysis in understanding temporal images.
2754

In German.

The document seems to concern peace.

2755

Rickards asks for signed books for a Socialist charity bookstall.

2756

Ricketts asks where BR quoted Shell, "that's Shell, that was". The inventor wanted to know. Note at top: History of Western Philosophy, Allen and Unwin ed., p. 173.

2757

Ridgers suggests that BR enlist the support of the British Legion in his anti-nuclear campaign.

2758

BR doubts that the British Legion would support his campaign.

2759

Ridley, BR's oculist (on Harley St.), has seen him only twice in 20 years. He sends an offprint (not present). See 12274. The offprint was of Ridley's "Some Reflections on Visual Perception", Trans. Opthal. Soc. UK 72 (1952): 635-55.

2760

BR thanks Ridley for proposed financial support of the BRPF.

2761

Rieger met BR at the Amsterdam International Congress of Philosophy in 1948.

2762

BR suggests cutting off his signature to make an autograph for Why I Am Not a Christian.

2763
2764

BR reviews his writings on education, including Chap. 20 of New Hopes.

2765
On educational matters.
2766

BR is invited to sign a letter to the Manchester Guardian on Wilhelm Reich(?). The enclosure is written in a semi-poetic, modernist, sexually oriented style.

2767
Riverso is writing a book on br's philosophy and would like to visit him.
2768

BR describes the inconvenience of visiting him in North Wales.

2769

Rix saw BR at Richmond many years ago. He has read BR's review of McTaggart and will send BR his own book on religion.

2770

Robert Burns Friendship Club (Moscow). BR has been made an honorary member.

2771

Robert Burns Friendship Club (Moscow).

BR is pleased at being made an honorary member.

2772

Robey was a servant at Pembroke Lodge and remembers the death of Lord John Russell.

2773

Archbishop Roberts congratulates BR on his 90th birthday and work for peace.

2774

BR expresses his thanks to the Archbishop.

2775

BR suggests ways to empower the individual in opposition to nuclear war.

2776

Robinson queries a sentence in BR's Daily Herald article.

2777

Robinson inquires on Gödel's theorem, leisure, and psychoanalysis.

2778

BR responds on Philipp Frank and causality; extra-sensory perception; and Mill.

2779

Rogers, from England, seeks BR's advice on whether to support the war against the Nazis and forsake pacifism.

2780

Rollis is working on time and asks for an offprint of "On the Experience of Time".

2781

The initial letter of the surname may not be "R". Rice may be the one who wrote on Hungarian morphology.

2782
2783

Roche writes to thank BR for the "joy and inspiration" of Why Men Fight. The original letter is in the scrapbook for that book, p. 6.

2784

Robinson asks BR's advice in studying his works on mathematical philosophy.

2785

BR thinks the axioms' status has not changed since Principia Mathematica.

2786

BR suggests the work of Quine for mathematical philosophy.

2787

Robson asks BR several questions re Mill and mss. Enclosed are a "preliminary announcement" for Mill's Collected Works and Robson's "J.S. Mill's Theory of Poetry".

At the top: "Have no information such as he wants. R"

2788

BR regrets that he has no information such as Robson requires.

2789

She hopes women will be able to attend BR's lectures—not only men and Vernon Lee.

2790
2791

The names are pseudonyms for BR and "Elizabeth" Russell, respectively. BR notes at the top: "[Two opening letters in an intended imaginary exchange to be written by Elizabeth and me.]"

2792

Pseudonyms for "Elizabeth" Russell and BR, respectively. Arbuthnot writes from "200 St James's Square S.W.1". He responds to "Ellen"'s fan letter.

2793

She is the daughter of Elizabeth Russell and wife of Corwin Butterworth; nicknamed Liebet. She asks to see any letters from her mother.

2794

Daughter of Elizabeth Russell and wife of Corwin Butterworth; nicknamed Liebet.

She writes about letters she will be publishing re Frank Russell.

2795

A business card was inserted between the front endpapers of Stevenson's The Meditations of Shakespeare (Russell's Library, no. 1829). The back of the card reads "Bertrand Russell with regards from the author". The front of the card identifies David Stevenson as a Probation Officer for the District of Montreal.

2796

BR's future brother-in-law writes from Paris. The date ends with a question mark in his own hand. He hopes BR went to a debate on whether the upper classes are uneducated and mentions the Order of Prigs.

2797

"To Bertrand Russell on his 90th birthday from Patricia Lindop and Joseph Rotblat".

2798

Rose raises the matter of Frederick II and bute.

2799

Rose is speaking on "Bertrand Russell on Religion" to a Philosophical Society at Oxford and asks for criticisms known to BR that are "not excessively bigoted".

2800

BR recommends the debate with Father Copleston.