The proofs are undated, but BR must have read them in 1966. The volume was published in March 1967.

BR's unbound page proofs of the Autobiography, Vol. 1, are in 15 trimmed gatherings placed inside loose boards joined together; the illustrations are loose on two folded pages. Not all the illustrations listed on page 11 are included. Russell corrected pp. 67, 68, 73, 75, 80 and 84. The second to last gathering has uncut pages. The index is not included.

Page 65 doesn't have a correction. Instead, in BR's hand it has "Press [underline] B.R."

BR missed a number of misprints. E.g., on p. 16 it states "In 1876 my parents went to America..." His parents were dead by 1876. They went to America in 1867. It is not known whether anyone else read the proofs.

There is also a separate piece of paper listing the pages with corrections in this set of proofs; noted in an unknown hand.