Granddaughters have returned from their travels. Lucy did poorly in physics and mathematics and has fallen in love with a young Moroccan and wishes to go back to Tangiers.

BR will look through his volume on Buddhism, although he does not know much about it and "I have never made a study of Buddha or Buddhism". Davies wants to publish a small book of quotations from BR's writings and give half the earnings to the Foundation. BR would be delighted, but thinks that perhaps the publishers would say that there are already enough books of quotations of him.

"I am quite willing to write a signed greeting in your copy of The Impact of Science on Society if you will send it to me."

"I am afraid that you have too little experience of politics to be suitable for my secretary."

"I do not remember at what date Whitehead and I decided that he should have sole charge of the fourth volume of Principia Mathematica on geometry. I should say, at a guess, that it was about 1905. It seemed natural to leave geometry to him as he was working on it and especially interested in it, whereas I was more interested in other parts of our subject."

"My warm thanks for your letter and notes on India and Pakistan. Your point of view in the latter is exactly what I hoped for. I am, of course, sorry to be unable to use your name in connection with what you have to say, but I understand your position as to publicity."

"I, too, am very sorry that the prospects of some kind of collaboration seem to have come to nothing. You may, of course, be right that my methods are wrong, but I do not see how I can honestly alter them."

"Many thanks for your two interesting letters about the Foundation's future. We have discussed them in detail with Ralph and he, I believe, is to talk with you about them, especially about Argyll Mansions."

Re William Faulkner. "The only time when I have seen Faulkner was at the Nobel Prize ceremonies of 1950. I thought he felt himself out of place in the atmosphere of Royalty, trumpets, and general grandeur. I therefore tried to make friends with him, but found it uphill work as he was shy and reticent. Like the rest of us, he had to make a speech, but it was totally inaudible. The only impression that I carried away was that it is difficult for Kings to be kind to rebels."

"I cannot come to the Western Hemisphere even for the purpose of debating with Goldwater, as I am completely occupied with a campaign in this country. If this were not the case, I should enjoy having a go at Goldwater and I should also enjoy seeing you."

"I look forward to the disclosures that you promise presently, but I do not know of any individual or organization who could help you in making them."

"I do not think it possible to evade letting a boy of fifteen know the facts about nuclear warfare and I think that, if you tell your son everything, you may find he is much less upset than you expect. ... If you do not explain the situation frankly to him, you let him grow up in a world of make-believe and leave him unprepared for possible disasters. ... I think that by the age of 15 he has a right to know what to expect of the world."

"My wife and I send you warm thanks for your book on contemporary Arab literature."

"Thank you for sending me the two books dealing with aspects of philosophy at work. I think they should prove useful and I hope they will have a large circulation."

"I have to confess with great sorrow that I cannot at present or in any foreseeable future express any opinion for or against any theory about the paradoxes of logic … it would be difficult for me to acquire afresh the competence that I once possessed.... I am ... completely occupied with work concerned with warfare which seems to me, for the moment, more important."

"I am glad to know that we have your sympathy in the fight against nuclear warfare."

BR thanks Csato for sending a photo of his second picture of BR. "I hope that, if you come to stay with Michael Williams on some future occasion you will look me up."

"I am hardly surprised at the BBC banning a record on this subject as I suppose the BBC, in common with all other organs of the British Government, is engaged in promoting murder wherever it can." BR critiques the record.

"I don't know who told you that I don't wish to meet fresh faces. Half my life is spent in doing so and I hope that if you go again to stay with the de Hamels you will not be deterred from looking me up."

"My warm thanks for sending me Dominican Diary which I am reading with the very greatest interest. If I have any comments after I have read it, I will write again."

"Thank you for sending me your typescript on my political thought. So far as I have read it, it appears to be an accurate and sound piece of work."

"Thank you ... for the accompanying interesting document giving a Freudian interpretation of certain nuclear crises. I find your interpretations interesting, but I am not enough of a Freudian to be able to accept them. I agree with Freud as to the importance of the unconscious, but not as to its content, since I attach more importance than he does to self-preservation."

Re Lucy's accommodation in London.

"As far as I am concerned, I am quite willing to give the consents asked for."

"I do not think there is any evidence of cosmic purpose and I do not think that there is any validity in the points you make."

BR encloses a message to the National Secular Society, congratulating them on a "... hundred years of successful work for liberal causes".

"Einstein was not only a great scientist, he was a great man. He stood for peace in a world drifting towards war. He remained sane in a mad world, and liberal in a world of fanatics."

In the early 'forties at Princeton there were weekly meetings with Einstein and one or two other eminent physicists and BR. BR "remarked at a meeting that, when Germany had been defeated, the victors would lend money to the German Gov't and would forget the German crimes. Einstein indignantly repudiated the suggestion, but subsequent experience proved that on this occasion he was mistaken." [Remark was not included in B&R B192  but in Papers 11: 593.]

Lucy had informed BR that Ahmed may be coming to England during the Christmas holidays. "If you do, they and my wife and I would be very happy if you would pay us a visit at Plas Penrhyn."

"Thank you warmly for your congratulations on my leaving the Labour Party."

"I am now convinced that the policy of running candidates will prove the best way of defeating the Labour Party's present policies, but I have some hesitation as to whether this policy should be inaugurated at once."

"I am glad you thought the meeting went off well. It struck me as very well organized and I was glad your own speech was so admirably direct and firm."

BR would like a second copy of The Problem of China.

BR thanks Eames for her article on his philosophy. "... there is a certain absurdity in criticizing a philosopher for changing his mind as a result of new scientific work..... In theology, it is expected that a man should be willing to be burnt at the stake rather than change his mind. But, as philosophy becomes more associated with science than with theology, a philosopher's opinions should have a certain flexibility."

BR encloses a statement of his gross earnings for the year.

"... I have decided to resign from the Labour Party on the ground that I cannot support its agreement with American policy in Vietnam and elsewhere. I resign with regret, but I do not see any other alternative."

"Tylor—Insurance of bust".

BR suggests some of his books: History of Western Philosophy, Principles of Social Reconstruction, Human Society in Ethics and Politics, Human Knowledge, Outline of Philosophy but first Problems of Philosophy.

"I am honoured by the request to become the Honorary President of the University of Wales Humanist Society and I gladly accept on the understanding ... that I am not expected to do any work for it."

"I am told that any objects of special value that I may possess have to be specially insured.... The only such object that I have is Epstein's bust of me. I cannot remember whether this is already separately insured or not. If not, I should wish to insure it for a thousand pounds." [Re Archives (by omission).]

"Thank you very much for sending me the German translation of your book which deals with an important theme. Unfortunately, I am too busy with immediate matters to be able to read it at present...."

A foreword to the reprint of The Problem of China.

BR sends £20 to be spent on Christmas presents.

BR says that there is no inconsistency between the two sentences concerned. "The sentence about snow on a Manhattan Island is intended to be an assertion, whereas when an actor says 'This is I Hamlet the Dane' he is not making an assertion, but is saying something which does not have the property of either truth or falsehood."

"I think the only advice I can give you is to read some more of my books...."

BR answers questions on Leopardi: "1) I read Leopardi in Italian and my friend Robert Trevelyan translated his short poem 'L'infinito' which I have also printed; 2) I consider Leopardi's poetry and pessimism a good expression of what should be a scientist's creed; 3) I should not say that he was a 'great inspiration' to me as his thoughts were very similar to those that I had already; 4) I have not read any later Italian poets".

BR thanks him for the index proofs. "I have gone through them, but found few corrections were necessary, and those mostly in proper names."

BR asks for explanations in regard to various "queries and changes" in the Will and codicil. (It is unknown whether this will is in the Russell Archives.)

B.D.S. Lock, of Coward, Chance & Co. may have been sent a copy as the top of the first page says "Add Lock?".

Edith also writes: "I, too, have been re-reading my will because of Anne's forthcoming marriage and I have one query ... I should like, if I predecease my husband, to leave everything of which I die possessed ... to be left unconditionally to my husband."

"Thank you for your letter about Plenty & Son. ... I should like, also, to know whether they have any objection to purchasing part or the whole of my investment in their firm at an equitable rate."

"I have one or two letters from Cantor, but they are of no particular interest ... What little I have to say about him as a man, you will find on pp 24-5 of Portraits from Memory...."

BR agrees with Kate on Johnson and Rusk. "I hope Charlie will get the University job.... I will send you the Sterling equivalent of $500 as soon as I can get the permission of the Bank of England...."

"I think the plan of a Socialist Library connected with the Foundation is excellent."

"I am very glad to know that you are engaged in organizing some of the opposition to the Vietnam war and I shall be glad to send you a short tape recorded statement."

"Return 'Our Dogs' statement".

BR encloses a short message to her school regarding its interest in the Vietnam war.

Koslow supports what BR says in Has Man a Future?. "But, as I know nothing of you or your work, I do not feel that I can turn over my documents and papers to you for you to read." [Re Archives.]

"I am very sorry that I am too busy to agree to your request." It involved making records.

"It would be interesting to have a first hand account of the uproars in British Guiana".

"I am very glad that you approve of my statement to the Havana Solidarity Conference and should be glad to have you translate it into Malay to publish in your country. I am sending your letter to the BRPF asking them to send you a copy of the message and any other of my statements...."

Letter is to be forwarded to Pamela Wood.

"I am very glad that you are making a protest against the policy of the American Government and I am sorry that I cannot be present on the date that you mention."

"I am sorry that I cannot accept your invitation to speak, but I cannot promise so far ahead as I do not know what my engagements may become."

"My correspondence with Frege is not sufficiently bulky to make even a small volume. It ought to be published some day along with my correspondence with other people...." [Re Collected Letters.]

BR does not have time to speak at meetings for the H.G. Wells Centenary.

"Portraits from Memory tells of early reading".

"Have you applied to the London Mathematical Society for a recommendation to someone competent to judge the value of your work?"

"Schuster (Israel) | Koya (Munich) | Yusufzai (Port) > Foundation".

BR gives him his London, Plas Penrhyn and Foundation addresses.

"Weingarten—OK".

"Your husband was a worthy addition to the long list of victims of bigotry from Socrates to the present day. I send you my deepest sympathy in your loss."

"I think the guilt in Vietnam falls exclusively upon the U.S. and the countries (like my own) who support her." It is probable that the U.S. is behind the difficulties of Indonesia.

"Mary Weik enrolment for World Citizens > Foundation".

BR encloses a form. "I am very sorry for the delay which is due to my secretary getting married. I fear that cupid is no assistant in business."

"Thank you for ... the information you enclosed which is thoroughly satisfactory."

Re BR's Autobiography: "The question of publication of the first volume during my lifetime is a little more difficult. I feel that, perhaps, a long book by me about myself while I am still alive might seem unduly egotistical." "I have to write a new and fuller account of my life during the past ten years or so.…"

BR thanks him for sending his book The Rise of Christian Europe. "I am particularly interested by your interweaving of technique with historical events...."

Re Dr. Schützner's book on Leibniz: "I am grateful to you and Dr. Schützner for sending it to me, although from the title I fear I shall not be able to read it."

"I find your idea interesting, but, unfortunately, I am too busy to write such an article as you suggest."

"Thank you for the short manuscript which you kindly sent me and which I have found interesting."

"OK, but probably permission of Saturday Review also needed".

"PEN NO".

BR thanks him for sending his The Identity of Man which he looks forward to reading.

"NY Academy—Schweitzer—No".

BR sends him his dedication.

"I <am> busy with the end of my Autobiography and hope to send it to you soon if you are in a hurry for it."

"You ask whether I still smoke a pipe. I have smoked one without stopping for seventy-five years and I do not expect to stop until everything stops for me."

"We are both very sorry to hear that you are suffering from an endemic amoebic dysentery. We hope there is a cure and that you will be taking it."

"We are completely absorbed in Vietnam and expect soon to be blown up when China becomes involved."

"I am ashamed to say that I never heard of the war between England and Abyssinia a hundred years ago. I have no papers on the subject and I do not find Abyssinia mentioned in the index to the official biography of my grandfather. ... you should write to the Duke of Bedford asking him if he has any papers of my grandfather's dealing with the episode that you mention which I was completely ignorant of until this morning."

On Medlock's complaints about Ralph Schoenman in her letter of August 17: "I have been involved in many incidents concerning Ralph <Schoenman> which have led me repeatedly to consider whether the work could be done without him or whether speaking to him would be enough."

"I know of no case in which he has put forward a policy in my name which I have not initiated or to which I have not agreed."

"My own belief is that there are felt to be two grounds of objection to Ralph: the first, his policy; the second, his manners and manner. ... Ralph's political excellence and energy seem to me invaluable and I cannot resist the conclusion that much of the criticism of him should be replaced by apologies for inactivity."

"I cannot agree that those who favour Vietnam have a case which is largely bad. Nor can I concede that my statements have been one-sided and have shown bias. I should be grateful if you would point out which of my statements have shown this character...." BR encloses a copy of his recent book War Crimes in Vietnam "... which I beg you to read."

(The draft shows considerable revision.)

"I should be grateful if you would thank Mr. Scott for sending the documents and would, at the same time, assure him that my husband himself opens, reads and replies to all post sent to him here as he has always done."

"Your mournful letter which came this morning makes me rather sad. I shall probably be able sometime within the next few weeks ... to send you.... You will no doubt have noticed that quite recently the regulations about sending money out of England have been greatly stiffened."

"As to mentioning you in connection with my Autobiography, I will mention your name as the person to whom I dictated its early version long ago in 1931—though so many people have helped me during my 95 years that I cannot mention them all and the mention of you name alone may be misinterpreted."