Letter is written to "Dear Madam". Patricia accepts the invitation to speak on BR's behalf, provided he can speak on "Liberty in War-Time".

Greisser indicates that she sent BR a telegram this morning accepting the topic with the proviso it be called "Liberty in Time of National Emergency".

Barnard notes some biographical details about BR since he arrived in the U.S. in 1938.

BR accepts the title suggested by Greisser in her letter of 9 July. He will provide notes for the talk.

The notes are in place of a preliminary conference.

BR encloses his notes "Liberty in Time of National Emergency".

The notes, in BR's hand, appear later in the file (4 leaves).

BR notes that he was not satisfied with the notes he sent her yesterday. He would like to come an hour or so before the broadcast to settle the final form of the text.

BR encloses the corrected script (not present). BR regrets that she does not think it safe for him to make any allusion to the anti-Semitism which is rife in the U.S. He notes points on liberty and democracy which lack of time prevents him making in his talk.

Dora writes: "Charlie [Sanger] delighted to hear you were getting large sums for relativity but very sniffy about my books."

She hopes the Dutch understood BR better than the professor from Moscow.

Dora asks BR "to telephone Frida Laski and ask if she would go (representing the WBCG) to a conference of the Eugenics Education Society, Monday February 1, 5 o'clock".

Dora asks that Doreen Joad send her something.

BR provided the year in his hand.

Dora sends BR his letters (not included), mentioning one from a Mr. Schott. She had tea with old college friends—Marjorie Lockwood and Ida Woodward, who "told an amusing tale about an article in the Times Educational Supplement referring to a circular of the Board of Education which suggested teaching 'mothercraft' in girls' schools (just washing babies etc.) and said 'this instruction may be given by a married woman on her staff'".

Dora remarks on BR's face. She opposes the "religious" view of the sex act.

Dora writes "Wheelers have one or two requests for the house...."

The Russells can avoid shipping costs on coffee beans if they order 14 lbs. at a time, using 2 lbs. a week.

She discusses a possible building for a forerunner of Beacon Hill School.

Kegan Paul wanted publicity for the US edition of The ABC of Relativity. Dora sent them "the little bit from Vogue and one of your photo postcards and the little notice that came with Principia."

The Russells will arrive in time for tea on Saturday.

Elizabeth writes that "each time we come you both look so much better and less tired."

March 30-31 could be their next visit. Conrad is "a bit depressed about the demonstration at the American Embassy last weekend."

Conrad is "glad you're both well, though sorry about the Canadian: I hope his visit has gone off well. [This may refer to William Ready's intended visit following purchase of the Archives; the visit did not take place due to the death of Ready's mother.]

Conrad is writing to John Conrad Russell today and hopes to see him soon.

Their next visit will be April 11-16.

"Conrad finds it an enormous comfort to see and be with Diddy...."

Dora writes, "3 friends of Mr. Randall's are after the house...."

She has a winding up of the Birth Control Committee on the 1st.

Dora forwards letters (not present) from Kegan Paul and the PEN Club.

Dora writes that she will agree to an offer of 4.5 guineas per week for the house, 1 April-20 September, subject to references.

She will bring down (to Cornwall) two registered letters from Polish mathematicians when she comes.

Dora gave her delighted mother a picture of BR and herself.

Apparently BR suggested that Conrad write to Farley because BR said he would like Conrad to have some money, to be arranged through the BRPF.

Document .104924 is a typed extract from the letter, as telephoned by Farley to Plas Penrhyn at 12.30 on 23/4/68 with the query as to what he should do about it.

A published letter to the editor.

Dora writes on letterhead of Harrods Writing Rooms, Knightsbridge.

BR is sorry he gave Conrad the impression he could make him a gift of money. "I do not enjoy writing this to you."

Also in file: a second TL(CAR).

Re the Russells' next visit.

Dated "Wednesday" only.

Dora writes she does not have measles, but a bad cold. She has kept a letter with a cheque for £24 something.

Telegram addressed to BR, Porthcurno. The telegram reads: "False alarm but probably bronchitis don't worry coming tomorrow love".

Dora writes of the defeat of the S.J.C. [Standing Joint Committee of Women's Organizations, Tamarisk Tree, p. 172] by 6 votes, "who tried to get themselves re-elected for 2 years".

Dora reports on her activities at a conference she is attending involving birth control. [It is probably the Labour Women's Conference in Birmingham, where the envelope was postmarked.]

Conrad reports on his visit to John Conrad Russell. He is not mad and not incurable. BR should write him a friendly letter. Susan is the one most responsible for giving John a sense of failure.

Conrad is sorry for the misunderstanding about money.

Conrad had an enjoyable weekend in Wales, and thanks his father for the gift of a pipe.

The Russells have moved in, and finally Conrad has a study of his own.

Lucy is staying with them and is a "very considerate and helpful guest". Conrad is resigning from his (Labour) constituency and will no longer have to defend Wilson. "The papers would give the impression that you're rather busy...."

The enclosure is a page of "Exam. Candidates' Howlers".

The little card reads: "To Diddy. Love and many happy returns from Conrad and Elizabeth".

Conrad hopes "the Daily Express hasn't taken advantage of Volume II [of the Autobiography] to bother you both."

Conrad has just returned from seeing John Conrad Russell.

July 6 will do well for the next visit.

"Tell Lucy we shall be glad to see her if she comes. It is a long time since I last saw her, and I do not know what is her present frame of mind."

Lucy definitely wants to visit BR and Edith.

Conrad provides more examination howlers.

BR regrets Conrad's absence last weekend and hopes Elizabeth has every confidence in her doctor.

Conrad is sorry he couldn't make the journey to Wales while Elizabeth was ill. Lucy is sorry, too.

Conrad provides more examination howlers.

Conrad plans another visit. Lucy wants to come, too.

Conrad hopes "that the odd pieces of business which crop up in the paper aren't causing too much worry."

BR and Edith are waiting to hear from an American friend who is coming to Wales soon.

Elizabeth is much better. Lucy hopes to visit the Russells soon.

Conrad makes plans to visit.

In a postscript Conrad asks if Kosygin answered BR's telegram. [See BR to Kosygin, 21 July 1968.] The topic requested the USSR not to use military force in Czechoslovakia.

Elizabeth thanks the Russells for a very pleasant and relaxing long weekend; "... go on both being as well as when we saw you."

On the USSR and Czechoslovakia, and the effect on the American Presidential candidates.

On whether to call a baby girl Rachel.

On "a delightful book on the Bradlaugh case". Conrad asks BR for any memories of it.

Dated "Tuesday" only. Dora remains concerned whether she has measles or just a heavy cold.

Conrad praises BR's message to Brezhnev.

His book is going well—"it's almost all written in my head already". The first chapter concerns Henry VIII.

"Son born 2.15 both well love = Conrad", referring to the birth of Nicholas Lyulph Russell, the 6th Earl.

[He died in 2014.]

On Nicholas's birth and appearance. Conrad asks to borrow the family high chair.

Dora writes from her conference, reporting "The voting was, to refer back to recommendation 1,530,000, against 1,820,000. The miners I believe abstained from voting.... I hate the Labour Party and men are quite disgusting. They know nothing about politics."

The telegram reads: "Deborah arose shall return tomorrow all love thanks Dora".

Dora writes on letterhead of the Grand Hotel, Cliftonville, Margate: "I did carry the conference. There is no doubt. Ramsay spoke against me in vain, and very badly. I spoke just before the luncheon adjournment, and really moved them, then the T.U's were able to consult during lunch and I think some of them decided to support us."

"Frank Horrabin has done a caricature of me for Lansbury's weekly.... It is called Dora Russell's coiffure."

The Chief Land Registrar informs BR that an instrument has been deposited by which BR transfers ownership of 31 Sydney Street, Chelsea to the Honourable Dora Winifred Russell. BR has 3 days to object.

BR replies to many points in Conrad's letter of Sept. 14. As for the baby's long upper lip, "The remedy would be a moustache, but I hope it would not be green like mine."

About baby Nicholas.

Conrad asks BR if he might like to look at his book manuscript for amusement and for "criticisms on points of logic and style".

Conrad thanks BR for the silver mug for Nicholas. "When he really wants to understand something, he looks at it with an air of concentration which is exactly like you working."

The University of London is not in turmoil, despite what the papers say.

BR invites Conrad and his family to spend Christmas with him and Edith.

On plans to spend Christmas with the Russells.

Conrad asks BR if he was aware that Asquith put him on the list of peers to be created in order to pass the Parliament Act in 1911.

Conrad encloses (not present) photographs of BR with Nicholas at Christmas, and wonders if they're good enough for Volume III of the Autobiography.

[One photo was likely the one published in an article on BR by Conrad, "My father—Bertrand Russell", The Illustrated London News, 14 Feb. 1970, p. 13.]

On Nixon possibly cancelling the Sentinel missile.

Despite trouble with undergraduates at London School of Economics, there is no trouble at Bedford College, where they are not neglected.

The Russells will come to BR's birthday and hope to visit earlier as well.

Elizabeth provides her opinion on Franz Hample [Frank Hampl].

Nothing aroused any suspicion. He "seems very pleasant, intelligent and eager to help."

Dora writes on letterhead of the Cunard R.M.S. Aquitania en route to her American lecture tour. She is at the doctor's table, who did not appear at lunch and she talked to an elderly gentleman "who thought me very wicked to leave my babies behind".

She has written her Spanish article.

Dora writes: "This is one of the worst crossings for 3 years (they say)—terrific headwind mountainous sea—a great deal of pitching but not much rolling." She mentions an American, Dr. Russell, on board, "talked to me a lot about Lincoln School and biological teaching in schools, which he is fearfully keen on."

[Probably he was James Earl Russell, 1864-1945.]

Dora writes the boat will be 2 days late, because of the weather.

She has used her time to prepare 3 lectures and write a 1200 word article. "I find it awfully funny being with all these conventional people, every time I open my mouth I put my foot into it unless I address someone under 27 years of age."

BR's letter answers a series of questions posed by Chatalian in point form. They concern the origins and aims of World War II, including the claims and purposes of Germany and Japan.

https://www.barnebys.co.uk/realised-prices/lot/russell-bertrand-autogra… the date is 1942/09/21 and “RUSSELL, BERTRAND. Autograph Letter Signed, to George Chatalian, giv-ing his views on a variety of topics dealing with the causes of WorldWar II, speculating on the aftermath, and the role of capitalism. 2 pages, single 4to sheet; folds, minor toning. With original envelope. Malvern, 21 September 1942 E1,000/1,500 The letter is in response toa series of questions. ". . . Causes of the war. Go back to Adam, butwe will begin with Napoleon. He sensed German nationalism . . . Thereis a hysterical mood in Germany, making Hitler seem acceptable. Nazis think Germans must be tyrants or slaves . . . Axis victory means a) enslavement of China and India, with an intolerable tyranny involving large-scale starvation to make room for Japanese population b) subjection of Europe to Nazis, destruc-tion of distinctive civilizations, torture of Jews . . . Capitalists, etc. are not responsible for this war - on the contrary, both here & in England they were the chief appeasers . . ."

BR thanks Eastman for his Marx, Lenin, and the Science of Revolution and refers to his refusal to publish a paper by Dora in 1921.

The item was removed from the frame for preservation reasons, Jan. 2019. The photo of Russell, and the framers details, have been preserved and are stored with the letter. 

BR is interested in "the question of the development of Indian opinion".

BR thanks him for sending In Man's Own Image. [Not in Russell's Library.]

Dora writes on letterhead of the Cosmopolitan Club. She arrived in New York and "scooped the evening papers". Harpers gave a party. Dora "can't get over my astonishment at being so famous". Mrs. Norton and a friend wanted Dora to stay at the Ladies' Club and Dora finds "it has a certain lady like atmosphere which I dislike."

Van Loon and his wife are "adorable people". Re Roy Semple and guardianship.

The letter concerns a meeting between BR and Ray in London.

BR enclosed a short statement in support of Ray and his reasonable views on India. He hopes Ray's book will be published there.

BR reads the Radical Humanist edited by Ray. He wishes him success in the venture but cannot contribute anything just now.

BR writes on his anti-nuclear strategy, "to attempt the systematic obstruction of the entire technology of extermination".

This is the draft text of a night letter to BR's lecture agent. It outlines a possible lecture on preventing World War II. The name of the telegraph company does not appear. The draft was dated by James Hamilton, night desk clerk at San Ysidro Ranch, Santa Barbara (see www.sanysidroranch.com).

The colour image is from an Ebay auction. McMaster's bid did not meet the reserve and the item was not sold.

BR encloses an anti-Franco message with support for a protest march to be held on 27 March.

A typeset version is also in the file.

BR thanks Neilands for his work as an investigator in North Vietnam last spring. He would like him to carry a message, to be sent to him later, to the Scientists' Symposium and Tokyo Tribunal which Neilands will attend as a representative of the BRPF.

BR thanks him for his work on the Tribunal and the BRPF. He would like Neilands to report on any research he knows of on the military use of laser rays.

BR is glad to know Neilands attended the Stockholm Conference on Vietnam. He would be pleased to see the text of any remarks made by him.

In the file there is a 3-leaf mimeographed document submitted in Stockholm by Neilands on 3 May 1967. The meeting with the American P.O.W. Pilots, mentioned in the document, appears on a film also donated to the Russell Archives by Neilands. It has been converted to DVD and appears on the PW20c website (pw20c.McMaster.ca).

BR was pleased to receive Neilands' article on chemical and biological warfare in The American Medical News.

In response to a query from Neilands, BR comments on John F. Kennedy's and Richard Nixon's motives on getting a man to the moon.

Dora writes on letterhead of the Hotel Brevoort that she has a cold and is depressed because she gets so few lectures. She spent an evening with the Harveys and Dudleys. They hate their country more than the Russells hate theirs. She mentions relations of the sexes.

Dora is worried by BR's report on Beacon Hill School finances.

Dora writes on letterhead of the Stevens Hotel, Chicago that she attended a Child Association Conference. She mentions Alice Crunden, who is very rich.

Dora writes on letterhead of the Hotel Brevoort: "I told the people at Madison that it would be a pleasant relief to me to return from their liberal university to my school where free discussion was allowed and all the children knew where babies came from".

Americans consider her a bomb that might go off at any moment.

The year is added in Russell's hand.

On Hannah and BR and Alice Stücki.

Dora writes about a letter from Roy [Randall] saying "Kate had a flu cold and was in bed". She is glad Beatrix [Tudor-Hart] is going.

Dora has written an introduction to Judge Lindsay's book. The Sunday Chronicle takes her articles regularly, most recently on what she would do if she were dictator.

Dora writes about staying with the John Wilsons. [The letter is dated from The Tamarisk Tree, p. 184.]

Dora writes on letterhead from the 1917 Club, London. "Cook's have to get a form signed for the passport, but they say they can get it done in plenty of time if you go in there first thing Wednesday when you arrive in town."

Dora discusses the difficulties of getting staff for Beacon Hill School. BR should be "tactful" to Mrs. Sutherland.

Conrad and his family enjoyed their recent visit; he offers dates for the next one. He refers to Mr. Hampl helping them "so effectively".

News of baby Nicholas Lyulph's progress.

Conrad writes that his family has agreed to appear in a BBC TV programme of tribute to BR in honour of his birthday and the publication of Vol. III of the Autobiography. Conrad suggests that BR might wish to appear for a short time.

Edith tells Conrad that BR does not want photographers to shoot him or the house and gardens. Disappointed photographers will even threaten to interview unsympathetic neighbours.

Also in file: a second TL(CAR).

Conrad thanks BR for the gift of his watch, which Conrad will pass on to Nicholas in due course.

Re cottage bookings for the Russells' next visit.