Re Ralph Schoenman's arrest in Bolivia.

Enclosed is Conrad's offprint (document .104897), "Arguments for Religious Unity in England, 1530-1650", The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 18 (Oct. 1967): 201-26.

Mitcham Labour is considering Conrad. It's the constituency next to Wimbledon.

Edith describes BR's illness and the effect of drugs on him.

An elevator is being installed in Plas Penrhyn.

Dora has received BR's letter from Bergen, Norway.

The envelope is postmarked 5 May 1920 and is addressed to BR in Reval, Estonia.

The envelope appears to be postmarked 5 June 1920 and is addressed to BR in Reval (Tallinn), Estonia.

Dora has received BR's letter from Stockholm. She wrote more than one letter to him in Stockholm. This one's envelope is addressed to Reval, Estonia.

Dora cables from Paris to BR at the Hotel Continental, Stockholm, to say she intends to join BR in Russia.

Letter written on Hotel Continental, Stockholm letterhead.

The envelope is addressed simply to BR, Labour Delegation. He noted: "Received July 19 in London".

Dora writes from Petrograd. The envelope is addressed to BR c/o Goukovsky, Reval. It reached the Battersea Post Office on 27 July.

Dora writes again from Petrograd and addresses the envelope to BR at 70 Overstrand Mansions.

Dora is evidently still in Russia. A loose envelope postmarked 10 July 1920 may belong with this letter.

Dora states she will remain in Moscow one month. She seems to date her message 28 May. The telegram was evidently received in London on 3 July.

A stray envelope in the file is postmarked Copenhagen, 8 August 1920.

From Reval. Allen states he has sent Dora a letter and introductions.

From Reval. Dora is in or is going to Stockholm.

From Reval. Dora will arrive at the West India Dock on 3 August.

From Reval.

From Danzig. "East India Dock Saturday night or Sunday morning".

Dora is staying with Dorothy Wrinch.

A letter from Swinnerton is mentioned.

Written from Motherwell. Dated by reference to Russell's letter of 20 March 1926, document .250357, record 19980.

Re politicking for birth control; see Dora Russell, The Tamarisk Tree, p. 183, for the resolution she quotes.

Typed transcription of document .103908, record 118557, corrected by BR. He added the year with a "?".

Also in file: a TL(CAR).

The text is: "Bertrand Russell S/S Celtic Lpool = Bless you goodbye = John Kate and Mummy".

Dora's letter includes BR business news and mention of the Doomsday oak table.

H.G. Wells will go on a deputation. Dora has told Thérèse Nicod that BR will do a preface on his return.

Dora encloses (not present) a letter from Keynes. [Possibly the one at record 75088.]

She refers to a capital punishment deputation.

Mrs. Mitchison is mentioned, as is Catherine Marshall who asks for signatures for the No More War group (it is "out and out pacificism"). Dora declines her request and an appeal on behalf of a professor banished by the Spanish government.

Chwistek is mentioned, as is No More War.

The "Russell baby case". Charles Read. "Birth control goes well".

"I don't believe Fyfe has printed your letter yet".

High praise of St. Joan by Shaw.

Dora encloses a proof sent with "a charming letter" by T.S. Eliot (see Rec. Acq. 1077; record 57866), who doesn't want his Criterion piece to be construed as an attack on BR. It begins with an excerpt from "A Motley Pantheon".

There is a galley correction. BR gives his sentiments on nineteenth-century men of culture: "When one views the nineteenth century in perspective, it is clear that science is its only claim to distinction...."

Other topics: Tsai, Chancellor of Peking University, and Boxer Indemnity. Rent Act and Labour government.

Re Dora's father's evident prostate operation. Her brother, Freddy. An "amazing banquet at the Chinese legation". Sidney Waterlow.

Re Dora's brother, Freddy. Miss Brooks. Dora talked to Croydon I.L.P. about birth control.

"Elizabeth Bibes invites you stay Romanian legation for your Washington lecture hotel expensive and uncomfortable." The envelope is addressed to BR c/o W. Feakins, Times Building, New York City U.S.A.

Freddy has been found. Dora describes an ILP political meeting.

The envelope is readdressed to BR c/o Dr. H.M. Kallen, 472 W. 23 St., New York City, U.S.A.

Dora writes of H.G. Wells and of Rebecca West (who had a boy) wanting him to divorce Jane. Fyfe has printed BR's letter almost as a leader.

Dora mentions the sales of Icarus, BR's row at Harvard and an interrupted meeting in Boston.

Now the envelope is readdressed to Kallen at W. 24 St. "O you bad fellow—what reading your letters will be for a biographer."

She mentions Helen Dudley and Y.R. Chao's report of BR "red and well". The birth control campaign was attacked for being too respectable. An Italian, Miracca, has BR's flat.

The envelope is addressed to BR c/o Mrs. Marshall L. Darrach, Women's City Club, Rochester, NY.

Dora has been working extensively on a deputation. She gives news of friends and mentions French and German politics. The Göttingen Library has requested the return of a book. (This would be Behmann's dissertation on Principia.)

Dora sends news from the Albert Hall Women's Demonstration during the Labour Women's Conference.

The enclosure is a "letter from John and Mama written on the bang bang". See document .103928a, record 118592.

Telegram to BR c/o Wm. B. Feakins Inc., Times Bldg, NY: "Happy returns all well."

Dora writes: "More babies for us, I think, my treasure."

The envelope is readdressed to BR, S.S. Celtic, New York to Liverpool, New York City, U.S.A. The verso is stamped May 29, 1924, so BR missed receiving the letter in New York.

Telegram to BR c/o William Feakins Inc., Times Bldg, New York: "Kate splendid gained seven in three days." A note on the envelope: "We thought we could help by opening it. Please pardon. Wm. B. Feakins."

Conrad could come up to Plas Penrhyn for as long as would suit BR, even for a few minutes. Conrad has been getting rather worried.

Conrad has been reading some of BR's philosophical works.

The Times didn't publish Conrad's letter about Schoenman's case.

BR says he has been "dangerously ill".

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

Conrad sends BR Augustine of Hippo by Peter Brown. [Not in Russell's Library.]

A card, in Elizabeth's hand, that accompanied a gift: "The decanter is for Red Hackle at bed-time."

A telegram stating the time of Conrad's arrival at Portmadoc.

Conrad and she enjoyed their stay with the Russells. "I know it gave Conrad much joy and pleasure to be so long with his father and you."

Conrad was glad to see BR walking before they left Plas Penrhyn.

Anne and Ian drove them to the station. Conrad is still reading BR's books and summarizes Marxism in a limerick.

"Letter from John and Mama written on the bang bang".

Enclosed with document .103928, record 118579.

The telegram reads: "Bertrand Russell S.S. Celtic Liverpool North Western Hotel Lime St Dora."

Dora writes in excitement re Ramsay MacDonald, on Labour Party 24th Annual Conference letterhead, asking BR "... couldn't you get in touch with the Penzance people, Trembath, 10 Bay View Terrace, and offer to speak for them once before you go?" Birth control is held over.

Conrad puts BR's Bolshevism book above Power. Wilson's government is ceasing the role of world policeman because of lack of cash.

Conrad and his wife can get to Wales at any time convenient to the Russells.

Conrad asks for suggestion of a name for their baby, if it's a boy. "Lyulph" would make life at school too difficult.

Elizabeth thanks the Russells for a very pleasant weekend.

Dora informs BR about the move back to Sydney Street and advises him that 2,000 people will attend his Fabian lecture. She gives information about the UDC meeting on the 17th at 10.30 am, and reports a favourable reaction to Pat Hastings.

Dora asks for BR's help on the Dawes Report and unemployment. (She was standing for Parliament.)

Felton writes at the foot of the unsigned duplicate document at record 117946 that he acknowledges receipt of the original letter, accepting as notice that BR has transferred all his interest in his papers to the BRPF in accordance with Continuum's agreement with BR on 10 September 1966. The transferees are acceptable.

The letter is located in file 1.

"Notes for speeches". Manuscripts of these notes are in box 3.40, document 220.012270. The topics are: MacDonald, Labour, Dawes Report, Russia, unemployed, education.

"[Instructions while Dora was away standing for Parliament]", corrected and annotated by BR. Also in file: a typed carbon.

Conrad finds he has 2 weekends in March free, thanks Edith for the thermos of Complan, and hopes "that life is not becoming too busy now my father is so much better."

Conrad sets March 9 for his next visit. He encloses a transcription of a 12 April 1885 letter from Sir Edward Burton to Sir Henry Layard, found in the British Museum. It concerns the Buddhism of Frank Russell and mentions his uncle's [Lyulph Stanley's] Islamism.

"My finances are at present at a particularly low ebb, as part of my taxation has not been paid since 1964 and is being demanded."

"Instructions while Dora was away standing for Parliament", as BR described the typed transcription at document .103941, record 118606.

Conrad is going ahead with the house purchase. They are definitely expecting a baby in September. He has had three short notes accepted for publication: "... they add to my list of publications, for the benefit of those who use such criteria."

Dora describes a telephone conversation she had with Chu, "... he begs you to come there." It is the eve of nominations.

Re Alys Russell's talk on Walt Whitman, Whitman's friendship with the Pearsall Smith family, and BR's visit to Whitman's home in 1896.

Enclosed is BR's statement to the press on 9 July 1955 (launch of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto).

Re Cuban Missile Crisis. The signature is Edith Russell's imitation of BR's signature.

BR writes: "It is very difficult to avoid entanglement with linguistic questions when discussing the possibilities of journeys into the past." He refers Hirsh to his book Human Knowledge (Chapter 8, Part 4).

BR writes that there are currently no staff vacancies at Beacon Hill School. David Harley is the current owner of the letter.

BR corrected by hand "I will" to "I shall".

Russell signs a form letter petition on the case of pacifist prisoner Philippe Vernier. The letter was written after August 1934. Russell's name also appears on a multiple signatory letter in the same file as this one. See record 118623.

The enclosed list of names is of people who are concerned on behalf of Philippe Vernier. Russell's name appears on the list.

BR asks permission to publish two letters from Huxley's father to Russell's mother in The Amberley Papers. Russell encloses the 2 letters (not present) and tells Huxley to keep them if he would care to.

Russell indicates that he has not written about God and "the meaning and purpose of life" in the inscription to the enclosed copy of his Philosophy of Leibniz.

Moorhead published BR's letter in facsimile in The Meaning of Life (1988). Rick Warren has used the quotation.

BR states that he no longer has any letters from D.H. Lawrence.

Norton thinks BR will accept an invitation to broadcast on the Council for Democracy's programme.

It appears a carbon of this letter was sent to BR at Little Datchet Farm.

Norton thinks that Russell will agree to speak in a series of radio programmes, "Speaking of Liberty", and provides his address.

Griesser invites BR to take part in a series of radio programmes "Speaking of Liberty".