"My wife and I both thank you most warmly both for your gifts and for your letter...."

"Birthday 'Thank-yous' for 18/5/67". It is assumed that a separate thank-you went to each person named from BR, except where otherwise indicated. The list is connected to the list of gifts (record 10404).

"Portmeirion Italian—Portrait of BR
Chris—Vietnam painting—?
Japanese scroll—Themersons
Madoc and the Discovery of America (& cutting—Observer)—Michael and Benita Williams
Japanese doll—Tsuruko Saito
3 different China teas—Ursula Stickland [telegram from her family]
Chris—Record—Aoks, Armenia
No—Book Rich Within—Nannie Walker (& letter) No
Painting—Mary Trevelyan
Cognac—Mary and Julian Trevelyan
Card from Mary Trevelyan's mother—Mrs. Feddan
Anne Whiteman ('the Whitemans') Abano Bath Oil capsules
72 Thrillers—4 Dane Street Nottingham—Pat Jordan?
Napoleon Brandy (1811)—Mr. Felton
Dimple Whisky—Kevin <Holland>
Book and Letter—Margaret Huntington (& Letter Jack Huntington)
Embroidered Landscape (& Letter)—Miss Iinuma
Miniature rose bush (& telegram)—Anne & Ian <Dryden>
Brandy—Ayers
Chocolates—Lloyds
Beethoven script and mug—Williams Ellises
Lillies of Valley & thriller—Crawshay Williams
Little enamel box—Gogi
Chris—Etched Portrait on copper of BR—A Turk
Michael Angelo vols. and Japanese art vol. and Sevedish animals—Ralph & Foundation etc. Portrait drawings by Horowitz's 5 1/2 year old son and Italian jug and Meerschaum pipe
Poster and buttons—American Students' Protest Movement
1 Cake bath soap—Juliette Huxley
Cup for good boy, white heather and orchid—Burns
Portrait with Dove of Peace—Willi
2 jars marmalade?"

A list of names to be acknowledged from his birthday, in both Christopher Farley's hand and Edith Russell's hand. See record 10403 for the list of names.

"My best thanks to you and Ted for your letter about my Autobiography."

"Thank you for getting the publisher to send me your book which I have read with very great interest, especially the earlier part. Your description of Hungary before the First World War is amazing and very fascinating." BR is particularly struck by the way in which the girls took their baths.

"Many Happy returns of the day. Affectionate good wishes. Bertrand & Edith Russell".

BR thanks her for sending him her book The Wind off the Small Isles and for the gift of the large-print books which he looks forward to reading.

"Thank you very much for sending me Mrs. <Mary> Stewart's books in large print at her request. They are most welcome."

BR hopes that Price's autobiography will be published. "A great deal has happened since 1914. During Stalin's lifetime I disliked the Russian Government, but since his death it has been possible to revive early hopes."

"I am giving you this watch (with its key) on my 97th birthday hoping that you will enjoy possessing it as much as I have done and will pass it on to your son and he, in return, to his so that it may remain in the family."

BR thanks her for the Abano Bath Oil. "You will know that the War Crimes Tribunal, etc., has kept us breathless busy." He refers to reports of the IWCT in Le Monde and the New York Times.

[The prose seems to be Edith Russell's. The sheet is a ribbon copy, folded as if for mailing, but unsigned.]

"I was interested by your account of my rheumatic contemporary. Fortunately, I have escaped this affliction so far."

"I hardly think that truth has disappeared from the world. I think it has only disappeared from the minds of those who cannot abide it. ... It is a pity, but I suppose they will soon be wiped out along with the rest of us. I should like to live until the international situation is clarified, but I think the chances of my doing so are infinitesimal."

"My very dear Zora".

"I wish it had been possible to see more of you during the 95 years that have been spent so largely in toiling and moiling. ... I do not think that I shall live to see a happier world, but I hope that some now living will do so. Meanwhile, as Bentham said to Robert Owen's son, 'God bless you—if there be such a Being—and in any case take care of yourself'."

"The outer world itself is so far from comforting. I wish it were more ready for the reforms that it needs."

"I am happy to know that you have had a little holiday in Wellesley." Davy is coming to Plas Penrhyn.

BR has no letters from her brother, H.T.J. Norton, but is glad that she is publishing an edition of his letters. "I thought extremely well of his intellect and was one of the people whose judgment Trinity College asked in relation to his fellowship dissertation."

(There are 2 letters from Norton: records 2362 and 78818. The edition seems not to have appeared.)

"Your recollections are very vivid and are pleasant (except for Conrad's capsizing your boat!)."

BR thanks Huntingdon for her "delightful" book Purely for Pleasure. "I enjoyed particularly the Earl's rules as to etiquette on the way to the gallows."

"I do not know of any use of Greek mathematics in the building of Greek temples. This is not to say that there was no such use, but only to confess my complete ignorance." He refers also to the building of Ely Cathedral.

"Thank you very much for sending me your paper on linguistic philosophy. ... I am reading your paper with much pleasure and approval, but unfortunately I am very busy with matters in the Middle East and Vietnam and it may be sometime before I am done with these topics."

"I am going through volume III and revising everything that seems open to your criticisms.... If you think it desirable I will make a statement to the effect that the whole volume is mine...."

(The criticisms originated in part with K. Blackwell as an employee of Continuum.)

"I believe that you hold for us the lease of 43 Hasker Street.... Can you tell me what the possibilities are of the lease of this property being transformed into a freehold.... A journalist from the Sunday Times rung me up saying that my leasehold was about to turn into a freehold."

"Ralph has just been here on the eve of setting off for Bolivia. We are sorry to have him go, as I am sure that you are, though we agree that the mission is very important and that he seems to be the person to carry it out. He seems to be doing a very good piece of work in connection with the Latin American countries."

"I have substituted Nathan's translation of Einstein for the one that I made myself. ... I am very grateful for the additional letters that you sent me for the Appendix to Volume II, and I am incorporating most of them in the Volume."

The document includes .132725 and .132726. "Thank you ... for the photo stats of the appendices for Volume II as well as the translation of the Einstein passage quoted by Ernest Jones...."
"About the Henri Barbusse correspondence ... the draft statement addressed to the President Elect is the draft of the letter mentioned in Barbusse's letter to which I reply."

"I shall be very happy if you allow me to see the work which you intend to show at your seminar as I fully believe it is important."

"I like to feel myself at one with Zarathustra. As I cannot myself read Persian, I am especially grateful to you for letting me know his opinion."

"Thank you for your sad letter informing me of Flora's death. I was very fond of her and her death is a real loss to me."

Re the death of Isaac Deutscher. "I was much shocked and grieved by the news of your husband's death. ... I shall miss him not only in our joint public work but in his friendly support and advice to me." BR encloses (not present) the "press notice" he put out the previous week.

"Mansell Davies".

BR agrees entirely with her article on BR that she sent him.

BR thanks Whyte for the account of his work which he will read carefully when he has time. "All good wishes for your MIT seminary."

"I am deeply apologetic for having said that I had finished with your typescription <of Laws of Form> when there were still several matters to be cleared up. One of the most important of these is how one turns your formulae into money."

A note at the top of the page says: "Dictated to Edith 12/12/67".

"I meant to have written to you long ago but have been very ill, in fact dangerously ill. I am now beginning to recover, but the house is still the house of an invalid." BR would like to see him and Elizabeth as soon as he is able.

"Bertie and I want very much to give you a Christmas present that you might really like, but we find that we do not know what you would like. We greatly hope that you will accept the enclosure...."

BR is willing that he should reprint the passages of Roads to Freedom, but would like him to mention that the book was published in 1918. "I retain the hope, though hardly the expectation, that a free form of socialism may some day prevail."

"I hope that you will like Volume III of the Autobiography. Erni's portrait hangs here in the small dining room...." BR refers to Thompson's mother, Grace Forester, who was his first cousin.

The letter is signed "Dumpus".

BR has no objection to the name Rachel if the child is a girl. [Nicholas Lyulph Russell was born on 12 September 1968.]

BR knew nothing of Bradlaugh except the story "... of his taking out his watch and challenging the Lord to strike him dead." "I spent 20 years on a book which hardly anybody has ever read." (Re Principia Mathematica, but including Whitehead's 10 years in the 20.)
 

"Thank you very much for the Woburn Rose. I have a number of roses in my garden, but they fade. Yours, I hope, will not."

BR tells her that her information about indexes is "interesting".

Apparently in reply to Hastings' letter of 7 Aug. 1968, record 36162. "But what I chiefly want to say is how much we enjoyed our visit from Rouge Dragon. There was only one thing lacking, and that was his name...."

"... I wish to have no connection with the Encyclopaedia of Sexual Education and I do not believe that its editors were given permission to use either my name or a contribution from me."

"I entirely agree with you in not wishing to have any connection with the Encyclopaedia of Sexual Education and like you, I do not believe that its editors were given permission to use either my name or a contribution from me."

"I detest linguistic philosophy more and more as time goes on and I am sorry that at one time I thought well of Wittgenstein. So far, fortunately, his philosophy has not achieved a great vogue in foreign countries and I hope that it may never succeed in doing so."

The front of the postcard has a picture of a bull.
"From the 2000 years old Masters of Lascaux, whose art was great and arrows primitive—greetings, and love from us".

It describes the policy of the United World Federalists. On the National Advisory Board, Albert Einstein is a member.

"Thanks for Black cloisonnée vase".

There are five entries for Bertrand Russell on his 80th birthday, as part of the New Statesman competition.
Three newsclips compromising the article are pasted on a single sheet.

A drawing of two bears holding four peace sign balloons.
"CND greetings and hopes for a nice time on Sunday".

A "Get Well Soon" card from Dentan and Filer, who are members of the YCND, Hendon branch.

A Valentine's Day card, unsigned, with a poem written on the back entitled "Ode to a delinquent".

"With best wishes from the Tylors". Edith has answered the card, noting "Thanks".

A birthday card to BR from Osborne.

"With the Honorary Secretary's Compliments".

Written on the verso of a business card for J. Keller, Optikermeister in Basel: "Best greetings for Mr. Bertrand Russell".

"Happy Easter".

Paintings by Nancy Kuo illustrating a trifold card, featured at the Mount Gallery in Hampstead. The exhibit is to remain open until 13 May 1963.

"Wishing you a Happy Easter", from the Vicar of the Penrhyndeudraeth Parish Church.

St. Paul has listened to everything of BR's since 1939. "I am forever one of your thankful listeners...."

"With our best regards".

"Our best greetings...."

Edith attached a message to the envelope "To be filed after Ralph has seen it. Note the Address!"
Schneiderman wrote the address as:
"Sir Bertrand Russell
In Care of Buckingham Palace
London, England".

Sarnum, a candidate for a Master of Arts (candidatus magisterii) in Copenhagen, Denmark, congratulates BR on his engagement to Edith.

Card is from "A Well Wisher" congratulating him on his "great fight for Nuclear Disarmament".

Card is signed "Two, who love you". 

An invitation to an event on 20 September 1958 for the Third Pugwash Conference.

A note on Hotel Imperial, Wien letterhead is enclosed inviting BR to the press conference at "No. 10, Strudelhofgasse 17 hours 30".

An invitation to attend the graduation of the class of Social Work at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro from the 4th year Social Work class, who had chosen BR as patron. He is praised for the IWCT.

Telegram sent to Brixton Prison. Underwood congratulates BR on his "stand against nuclear weapons" and will visit him Sunday.

Full name: Ceskoslovenská Akademie ved Pedagogický Ústav J.A. Komenského.

A passage from J.A. Comenius is mentioned.

Kolb wishes BR happy birthday.

Jean Redmond wishes BR happy birthday.

Griffiths wishes BR happy birthday.

Redmond wishes BR happy birthday.

The Smiths wish BR happy birthday.

Mound wishes BR happy birthday.

Wishing BR a happy birthday. Charles S. Hertz says he got an A on his CCNY, 1940 paper, thanks to BR's help.

Mrs. Edwards wishes BR a happy birthday.

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Sommer wishes BR a happy 81st birthday, from "Your little, 14 years old German friend".

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