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Full Record / Document / Box # / Class (Recent Acq.) | Recipient(s) | Date | Sender(s) | Notes, topics or text | Published / Form / Pieces |
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132100 17.01 F-2 by name RA4 340 |
BR | 1966/10/15 | Hay, Jorge | Confederacion Universitaria Democratica Española |
A note in a corner of the request indicates that BR signed (on 18 Oct. 1966) the manifesto "To the Intellectuals and Free Men of the World" on suspensions at Barcelona University. |
F lead | TLS |
132199 17.01 F-4 by name RA4 330 |
Schoenman, Ralph | 1966/11/28 | Yen, Wilbur | Yen, Michael |
The Yen brothers are sending presents to BR and Schoenman. |
ALS | 1 |
132126 17.01 F-2 by name RA4 315 |
BR | 1966/11/29 | Merle, Robert |
In French. BR is asked to sign an appeal on behalf of Ben Bella and other Algerian victims. |
TLS | 1 |
132200 17.01 F-4 by name RA4 330 |
Yen, Wilbur | Yen, Michael | 1966/12/08 | Schoenman, Ralph |
The Yens are allowed to see their parents for 2 weeks a month. |
TL(CAR) | 1 |
132127 17.01 F-2 by name RA4 315 |
Merle, Robert | 1966/12/20 | Schoenman, Ralph |
Schoenman tells Merle that BR is willing to sign the new appeal on behalf of Ben Bella. |
Lead | TL(CAR) | 1 |
132153 17.01 F-3 by name RA4 330 |
Peristerakis, Michalis | 1966/12/20 | BR | TL(CAR) | 1 | |
132157 17.01 F-3 by name RA4 372 |
Rabinowitch, Eugene | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | 1967/02*/ | BR |
BR rebuts Rabinowitch's letter of February 3 (record 132156) at length in defence of the IWCT and against US aggression in Vietnam. |
TL(CAR) | 4 |
132201 17.01 F-4 by name RA4 330 |
Yen, Wilbur | Yen, Michael | 1967/02/02 | Schoenman, Ralph |
Schoenman thanks the Yens for the present of a beautiful tray. |
TL(CAR) | 1 |
132156 17.01 F-3 by name RA4 372 |
BR | 1967/02/03 | Rabinowitch, Eugene | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists |
Rabinowitch refuses BR's invitation to serve on the War Crimes Tribunal, and gives his reasons at length. |
TLS | 4 |
132145 17.01 F-3 by name RA4 315 |
BR | 1967/02/14 | Patterson, E.F. |
Patterson requests BR's assistance on behalf of an American pilot, Porter Halyburton, being held prisoner in North Vietnam. |
TEL | 1 |
132146 17.01 F-3 by name RA4 315 |
Patterson, E.F. | 1967/02/16 | BR |
BR writes: "I do not favour the release of United States' pilots taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese." "All those who embark upon war crimes should consider their consequences before doing." (Another copy is at record 106399.) |
TL(CAR) | 1 |
132190 17.01 F-4 by name RA4 710 |
BR | 1967/02/21 | Wasserman, Ben |
Wasserman requests BR's advice on resistance to the Vietnam War. He refers to BR writing him 4 years earlier. |
TLS(X) | 2 |
132147 17.01 F-3 by name RA4 315 |
BR | 1967/02/25 | Patterson, E.F. |
Patterson approves of BR's refusal to request the release of a pilot held captive in North Vietnam (DRV). He looks forward to BR's Autobiography and has written letters to the press defending BR. |
TLS | 1 |
132191 17.01 F-4 by name RA4 710 |
Wasserman, Ben | 1967/03/07 | BR |
BR promotes the IWCT for stopping the Vietnam War, rather than prayers, petitions, or armed resistance. |
TEL(CAR) | 1 |
132062 17.01 F-1 by name RA4 710 |
BR | 1967/03/12 | Bagnall, Stephen |
The original of this letter is not to be found, although it was photocopied for editing. The letter is edited by Barry Feinberg, possibly while he was working on Dear BR … or Bertrand Russell's America. Bagnall cherishes BR's comment on Prime Minister Harold Wilson in The Observer's colour supplement of 12 March. |
TLS(X) | 1 |
132063 17.01 F-1 by name RA4 710 |
Bagnall, Stephen | 1967/03/21 | BR |
The letter is edited by Barry Feinberg, possibly while he was working on Dear BR … or Bertrand Russell's America. BR could say much more about Harold Wilson. |
TL(CAR,X) | 1 |
132064 17.01 F-1 by name RA4 710 |
Bagnall, Stephen | 1967/03/21 | BR | TL(CAR) | 1 | |
132076 17.01 F-1 by name RA4 710 |
BR | 1967/05/14 | Carnap, Rudolf |
Carnap sends BR 95th birthday greetings. He says the Autobiography is "most fascinating and deeply moving". |
TLS | 1 |
132056 17.01 F-1 by name RA4 340 |
Ali, Muhammad | 1967/05/18 | BR |
Another copy is at record 99301. |
TL(CAR) | 1 |
132077 17.01 F-1 by name RA4 340 |
Carnap, Rudolf | 1967/05/27 | BR |
BR thanks Carnap for a $50 donation to the BRPF. Another copy is at record 99311. |
TL(CAR) | 1 |
132084 17.01 F-1 by name RA4 710 |
BR | 1967/06/07 | Dunham, Barrows |
Birthday greetings from one who sees BR as a "philosopher-king". |
TLS | 1 |
132198 17.01 F-4 by name RA4 220 |
BR | 1967/06/12 | Woodley, Geoffrey | Times, The |
BR's letter to the editor concerning Regis Debray will not be printed (likely it was B&R C67.14 or similar to it). |
Re B&R C67.14 | TLS | 1 |
132085 17.01 F-1 by name RA4 710 |
Dunham, Barrows | 1967/06/17 | BR |
BR makes a "blunt request" for a donation (to the BRPF). |
TL(CAR) | 1 |
132136 17.01 F-3 by name RA4 330 |
Bolivia | 1967/06/18 | Needham, Joseph |
Probably addressed to a Bolivian ambassador ("Your Excellency") or high government official, the letter concerns French journalist Régis Debray, detained in Bolivia. |
TLS(X) | 1 |
132086 17.01 F-1 by name RA4 710 |
BR | 1967/06/26 | Dunham, Barrows |
Dunham donates to the BRPF from time to time. He mentions that he is acquainted with Russell Stetler, whom he much admires. |
TLS | 1 |
132060 17.01 F-1 by name RA4 710 |
Armstrong, W.M. | 1967/07/12 | BR |
BR comments on Armstrong's "typescript concerning my visit to the United States in 1969." Among other things, he says: "It is misleading to describe me at any time as a mathematician or a philosopher, because at no time was I ever entirely one or the other." |
Re B&R Hh69.05 | TL(CAR) | 1 |
132187 17.01 F-4 by name RA4 330 |
BR | 1967/08/11 | van Gelderen, Millie | Committee for Solidarity with the Victims of Repression in Peru |
BR is Honorary President of the Committee. A letter from Rosa Alarco is quoted: BR's telegram was published. |
Lead | TLS | 1 |
132140 17.01 F-3 by name RA4 330 |
Noel-Baker, Philip | 1967/08/13 | BR |
BR asks: "Is there anything that can be done about the evil and quite unnecessarily cruel situation of the so-called 'Communists' in Greece?" The document is a typed copy of a letter BR must have written by hand. It is with a TL(TC,CAR). |
TL(TC) | 1 |
132188 17.01 F-4 by name RA4 330 |
van Gelderen, Millie | Committee for Solidarity with the Victims of Repression in Peru | 1967/08/17 | BR |
BR is encouraged by the efforts on behalf of Hugo Blanco. |
TEL(CAR) | 1 |
132141 17.01 F-3 by name RA4 330 |
BR | 1967/08/31 | Noel-Baker, Philip |
Re Greek political prisoners: Noel-Baker's son, Francis, succeeded in getting 4,000 of 6,000 prisoners released. Ambatielos is mentioned. |
TLS | 2 |
132179 17.01 F-4 by name RA4 330 |
BR | 1967/08/31 | Stefosis, Kostas | Union of Greek Political Refugees in Poland |
BR is urged to intervene in the case of composer Mikis Theodorakis. Note at the top: Reply dictated. |
TLS | 1 |
132142 17.01 F-3 by name RA4 330 |
Noel-Baker, Philip | 1967/09/06 | BR |
BR is sorry Noel-Baker has not been well and is glad that Francis Noel-Baker is working hard to liberate Greek political prisoners. |
TL(CAR) | 1 |
132057 17.01 F-1 by name RA4 340 |
BR | 1967/09/11 | Ali, Muhammad | TLS | 1 | |
132096 17.01 F-2 by name RA4 320 |
BR | 1967/09/25 | Gray, Camilla |
Gray is attempting to secure a Russian visa so that she can marry Oleg Prokofiev and asks BR to write to Premier Kosygin on their behalf. |
TLS | 1 |
132180 17.01 F-4 by name RA4 330 |
Stefosis, Kostas | Union of Greek Political Refugees in Poland | 1967/09/29 | Stetler, Russell | TL(CAR) | 1 | |
132058 17.01 F-1 by name RA4 340 |
Ali, Muhammad | 1967/10/17 | BR |
Another copy is at record 94776. |
TL(CAR) | 1 |
132097 17.01 F-2 by name RA4 340 |
Gregory, Dick | 1967/12/11 | BRPF |
The BRPF supports Gregory's call for boycott of the 1968 Olympics. |
TEL(CAR) | 1 |
132059 17.01 F-1 by name RA4 340 |
Ali, Muhammad | 1967/12/16 | BR |
Another copy is at record 99307. |
TL(CAR) | 1 |
132178 17.01 F-4 by name RA4 320 |
Daniel, Larisa Bogoraz | Litvinov, Pavel | 1968/01*/ | Auden, W.H. | Ayer, A.J. | Bowra, Maurice | Day-Lewis, Cecil | Hawkes, Jacquetta | Huxley, Julian | McCarthy, Mary | Menuhin, Yehudi | Moore, Henry | Orwell, Sonia | Priestley, J.B. | BR | Scofield, Paul | Spender, Stephen | Stravinsky, Igor |
Attached to letter from Spender to BR, 14 January 1968; see record 132177. This article, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-need-to-launch-a-new-defence-of-freedom-of-speech-and-debate-8g90rtdwp, claims that BR signed a letter with many others “49 years ago”, which is impossible. What
The Times article is by Ruth Smeeth, former Labour MP and now head of Index on Censorship. Her article linked below describes the founding of the organization. Wikipedia has more: “The original inspiration for Index on Censorship came from two Soviet dissidents, Pavel Litvinov, grandson of the former Soviet Foreign Minister, Maxim Litvinov, and Larisa Bogoraz, the former wife of the writer, Yuli Daniel, who had written to The Times in 1968 calling for international condemnation of the rigged trial of two young writers and their typists on charges of 'anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda'. (One of the writers, Yuri Galanskov, died in a camp in 1972). “Spender organised a telegram of support and sympathy from 16 British and US public intellectuals, including W.H. Auden, A.J. Ayer, Yehudi Menuhin, J. B. Priestley, Paul Scofield, Henry Moore, Bertrand Russell and Igor Stravinsky, among others. In reply Litvinov suggested, in a letter later published in Index's first issue, for some form of publication "to provide information to world public opinion about the real state of affairs in the USSR". [BR was personally acquainted with nearly all of them.] In this, Wikipedia is echoing Spender’s statement in the first issue of Index on Censorship. He quotes the text of the telegram that BR signed: “'We, a group of friends representing no organization, support your statement, admire your courage, think of you and will help in any way possible.” (https://journals-sagepub-com.libaccess.lib.mcmaster.ca/doi/pdf/10.1080/03064227208532143) The telegram is at BRACERS, http://bracers.mcmaster.ca/132178, with the full list of signatories. The date is January 1968. BR also made a BBC statement. A movement was soon formed to take the side of writers who had been oppressed by their governments. Although it might appear that BR’s name was used after he had died, “49 years ago” is a simple mistake arising out of the early history of the growth of the Index on Censorship movement. BR did sign what Smeet says he signed. |
See B&R C68.03 | TEL(TC,CAR) | 1 |
132177 17.01 F-4 by name RA4 320 |
BR | 1968/01/14 | Spender, Stephen |
BR's name and Stravinsky's "will mean a great deal" to Larisa Bogoraz Daniel and Pavel Litvinov. |
Re B&R C68.03 | ALS | 1 |
132133 17.01 F-2 by name RA4 710 |
BR | 1968/01/25 | Musgrave, Margaret Meakin |
Musgrave talks about having worked at Telegraph House when it was home to Beacon Hill School: "How kind you were! What a privilege to listen, during those few months, to your wit and wisdom over the evening meal!" Etc., etc. See record 56958. |
ALS | 1 |
132134 17.01 F-2 by name RA4 710 |
Musgrave, Margaret Meakin | Musgrove, Margaret | 1968/01/25 | BR |
BR replies: "I doubt I deserve all that you say, but it is rewarding to know that one's efforts were not entirely in vain." "Musgrove" appears in a Name field because that's how the name is (incorrectly) spelled in BR's letter. |
TL(CAR) | 1 |
132186 17.01 F-4 by name RA4 330 |
BR | 1968/02/26 | Turner, Eileen | Appeal for Amnesty in Spain |
Turner thanks BR for his message to the West-European Conference for Spain. They will be issuing a newsletter referring to the conference and will send it to BR. |
Lead | TLS | 1 |
132072 17.01 F-1 by name RA4 710 |
BR | 1968/03/04 | Brooks, Rachel Gleason |
She talks about her "China MS" and wonders if the Foundation will publish it. (Her "China MS", "The YMCA Government of China", is in RA3, box 6.37.) |
TLS | 1 |
132067 17.01 F-1 by name RA4 710 |
BR | 1968/04/19 | Boswell, David |
Boswell was the "disturbed child" who set fire to "your estate" at Telegraph House when it was home to Beacon Hill School. |
ALS | 2 |
132068 17.01 F-1 by name RA4 710 |
Boswell, David | 1968/04/25 | BR |
BR is amused by Boswell's reminiscences. |
TL(CAR) | 1 |
132138 17.01 F-3 by name RA4 710 |
BR | 1968/05/28 | Neill, A.S. | Summerhill School |
Neill's comments on Telegraph House when it was home to Beacon Hill School and laments difficulties facing Summerhill School. He writes very humorously. "Why weren't you in N. Wales when I was in Bryn Llewelyn, Festinog?" |
TLS | 1 |
132139 17.01 F-3 by name RA4 710 |
Neill, A.S. | Summerhill School | 1968/06/05 | BR |
BR tells Neill he has "signed the joint letter to The Times" re Summerhill. |
Re B&R F68.02 | TL(CAR) | 1 |
132163 17.01 F-3 by name RA4 410 |
BR | 1968/06/20 | Rosten, Leo | Look |
For the enclosure, see record 132305. |
TLS | 1 |
132078 17.01 F-1 by name RA4 710 |
American Humanist Association | Chambers, Bette | 1968/06/21 | BR |
BR addresses "these continuing rumours of my imminent conversion to Christianity." Another copy is at record 82068. |
B&R Hh68.01a | TL(CAR) | 1 |
132108 17.01 F-2 by name RA4 710 |
BR | 1968/07/04 | Kang, Sugwon |
Kang asks BR for information on Graham Wallas, the subject of Kang's doctoral dissertation. |
TLS | 1 |
132109 17.01 F-2 by name RA4 710 |
BR | 1968/08/01 | Kang, Sugwon |
Kang thanks BR for his reply on Wallas (record 4194), which included directing Kang to McMaster. |
TLS | 1 |
132192 17.01 F-4 by name RA4 710 |
BR | 1969/08/11 | Wenger, Elisabeth |
She asks for BR's autograph and favourite quotation. The letter shows editing by Barry Feinberg, possibly while he was working on Dear BR …. The original is not to be found, although it was photocopied for editing. |
TLS(X) | 1 |
132193 17.01 F-4 by name RA4 710 |
Wenger, Elisabeth | 1969/08/20 | BR |
BR supplies his favourite quotation: "'Lord, what fools these mortals be' (Puck)." The letter shows editing by Barry Feinberg, possibly while he was working on Dear BR…. Another copy is at record 5004. |
TL(CAR,X) |
132137 17.01 F-3 by name RA4 710 |
Neilands, J.B. | 1969/08/27 | BR |
BR discusses the recent moon landing. The letter is edited by Barry Feinberg, possibly while he was working on Dear Bertie … or Bertrand Russell's America. Another copy is at record 118714. A quotation, presumably from Neilands' letter, is inserted at the foot. For the signed original, see record 118714. |
TL(CAR,X) | 1 |