BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
100129
100130
100131

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .156089.

100132
100133
100134
100135
100136
100137

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .156101.

100138
100139
100140

The mimeographed letter begins "Dear Comrade".

100141
100142
100143
100144
100145
100146
100147
100148
100149
100150
100151
100152
100153
100154
100155

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .156119.

100156
100157
100158
100159
100160
100161
100162
100163
100164
100165
100166

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .156134.

100167
100168
100169
100170
100171
100172
100173
100174
100175

"Aunt Lotty" congratulates BR on his scholarship examination results for entrance to Cambridge.

100176

BR's great-aunt congratulates him on his mathematical tripos results.

100177

Ethel Portal saw BR's name "in some list, giving the Monteagle's house as your address".

100178

A transcription of document .080918, record 100177; also a second TL(TC). BR has annotated Ethel's atheism and then her return to religion.

100179

Lloyd asks BR to autograph 2 copies of Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare for a garden party auction.

100180
BR sends the autographed books (see record 100179).
100181

Lloyd requests a signed copy of Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare for Lady Halsey.

100182

BR returns a signed copy of Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare for Lady Halsey.

100183

Lloyd requests BR's remarks in the "final winding up" of his Woodrow Wyatt interviews, for a CND Christmas card.

100184

BR sends Lloyd a copy of Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind.

100185

Lloyd asks for BR's permission to use a quotation from BR Speaks His Mind.

100186

BR mentions that the permission of the English publisher may be necessary, "But he is sure to agree if you tell him that I like the suggestion."

100187

Lloyd encloses (not present) a specimen Christmas card with BR's quotation. A note at the top states: "Ans. order 100 of the cards".

100188

Lloyd admires the Russells' action with the Committee of 100 and asks BR to sign photographs.

100189

Edith refers to a "Beethoven" photograph of BR.

100190

The photograph in question is an Evening Standard one. Lloyd will get a price for making cards of them.

100191

Edith asks for John Lloyd's address. "You can see to what a dotty pass we have come!"

100192

Lloyd refers to the photograph as the "angry old man" one.

100193

On her son, John Russell Lloyd, a bookseller.

100194

Lloyd presents pricing for reproducing the "angry" photograph of BR. She points out that there is no negative.

100195

Edith decides to order only 10 copies of the "angry" photograph.

100196

Lloyd sends the photographs. She thought BR was excellent on television (? "Meeting Point" on Dec. 3).

100197
Lloyd sends the bill for the photographs.
100198

Lloyd and her son send 9 copies of Unarmed Victory for BR's signature. They are for their CND garden party on Sept. 15.

100199

The signed copies of Unarmed Victory arrived.

In the file is a mimeographed flyer for the CND garden party.

100200

Lloyd refers to bringing Morton Sobell's mother to see BR at Richmond. Lloyd needs to know the book on the Rosenbergs that impressed BR. She is glad of BR's interest in Vietnam.

100201
100202

With Georgiana Peel's letters is a scrap on which BR has written: "From my aunt, Lady Georgina [sic] Peel". (See Recollections of Lady Georgiana Peel for the standard spelling.) Peel congratulates BR on winning his scholarship to Cambridge ("your work for years recognized in this way").

100203

Venetia Stanley "has left the fold" (to become a Jewess). Will BR consent to be Ethel's trustee?

100204
100205
A transcription, annotated by BR, of document .080903, record 100203; also a carbon copy.
100206
100207

"I admire your courage and straightforwardness ... would make a golden bridge any way of the love I bore to your father and mother and deeper love I felt for your grandfather, my father."

100208
A transcription of document .080905, record 100207; also a carbon copy.
100209

A note is attached in Edith Russell's hand: "From Ethel Peel (daughter of 'Aunt Georgie')".

"Can't you put off speaking about your anti-war convictions...?"

100210
A transcription, corrected by BR, of document .080907, record 100209; also a carbon copy.
100211

BR is invited to Georgiana's 84th birthday party. Ethel would like to hear what BR thinks of Recollections.

The year of the letter is found by reference to this book, p. 17.

100212

The date is conjectured. BR is invited to a pantomine in connection with the Duke of Bedford. BR "refused", he noted on the letter.

100213

Peel has found letters between BR's parents. She encloses (not present) Amberley's last letter. She has a large case of letters from her mother to Kate Amberley.

100214
100215

A transcription, corrected by BR, of document .080911, record 100213; also a carbon copy.

100216
Peel does not want BR to return the letter she sent him.
100217
100218
100219

A transcription, corrected by BR, of document .080913, record 100216; also a carbon copy.

100220

Peel comments on The Amberley Papers. She wondered why BR did not include "your father's wistful letter to his mother when he felt himself dying." (See record 100213.)

100221
100222

Aunt Agatha provides building advice. She quotes a letter from Mr. E(?). Carpenter, who knew BR in his youth. BR has annotated his name.

100223
Agatha is very sorry BR and alys will not be building nearby. She has more true happiness than he might think, despite the pain of love. BR has annotated the failure to build.
100224
100225
A transcription of document .080921, record 100223; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both and annotated the ribbon copy.
100226
100227

Agatha has not been well but is glad that Alys now is. She remarks that public events are "stirring". Her new home is to be called Rozeldene.

100228

Mrs. Praeger thanks BR for his kind letter on her father's death, quoting 2 phrases. She has visited Agatha Russell at Rozeldene.

She writes from Buckminster, Grantham.