Dora requests a message from BR for the Women's Caravan of Peace, and provides background (documents .104246a-b).

BR confesses to knowing almost nothing of Albania.

Dora asks BR to "say a few words" on June 17, prior to the film of the Women's Caravan of Peace.

BR cannot be present to introduce the film of the Women's Caravan of Peace.

Dora suggests that BR write to Thérèse Nicod on the death of her son, Michel.

BR will write to Thérèse Nicod but wants confirmation of her surname.

Dora asks BR to sponsor an education forum, mentioning the National Assembly of Women.

BR is willing to sponsor the education forum that Dora wrote about.

On a dental visit for the granddaughters.

BR has written to Dora at the top of document .104196, record 119052:

"Very sorry to bother you, but I expect you have the receipts that Buckland wants. He only needs the amounts, which would appear in the school accounts. BR"

BR gives him (mistaking him for a her) permission to quote from his writing in Matarisvan's articles.

"I hope you don't mind my having added some points about the murder of Ozuki and Ito Noe, which have been reported since I wrote my article. If you do, you can ignore the additions I have made."

B&R C24.01 was first published in The Outlook. It was reprinted in Villard's Nation with additional material, to which this letter refers.

Correction spelling is "Osugi" Sakae.

Adler introduces himself to BR as the Joint Secretary of the Labour and Socialist International Club. In this job he spends part of the year in London and he wishes to meet BR.

BR agrees to meet Adler but only after the election of 6 December. Before that he invites Adler to a Town Hall meeting he is holding in Chelsea on 28 November.

Adler sends Dora Russell an article from the American New Leader, probably "Bertrand Russell, British Socialist is Here Next Week", 29 March 1924, p. 2.

Dora tries to enlist Adler's help in stopping the execution of professors at Kiev.

Adler asks Dora to check BR's library for a German edition of Ernst Mach, Die Principien der Wärmelehre, which he wants to borrow for an hour.

BR writes about physics, "The Free Man's Worship", and Why Men Fight.

BR apologizes for inadvertently contravening the regulations of the Institute.

(Although a photocopy of this letter was made it is not legible because it was written in green ink. The Institute has provided a holograph transcription of the letter.)

Also in the file is a transcription of BR's speech, "Academic Freedom in America", 3 June 1952.

In her capacity as BR's secretary, Joad returns a report which has been checked over by BR.

The letter concerns lecturing for the Association on Feb. 13.

BR disputes what Köhlberg has written about his anti-nuclear policies.

This letter is a facsimile printed on one side of a sheet of paper. Another facsimile is printed on the other side.

This letter is a facsimile printed on one side of a sheet of paper. Another facsimile is printed on the other side.

BR notes that Köhlberg has published his letter without permission. Also re Patrick Henry's dictum.

This letter is a facsimile printed on one side of a sheet of paper. Another facsimile is printed on the other side.

This letter is a facsimile printed on one side of a sheet of paper. Another facsimile is printed on the other side.

BR has been ill with flu. The letter is accompanied by an envelope addressed to Crowther, not in BR's hand.

BR agrees with Kingman's outlook on Chinese affairs.

BR states that Carn Voel is his address from March 20 to September 20; otherwise it is Sydney St., London.

A thank you letter in which BR notes his enjoyment over the visit to Aberystwyth, where he spoke on nuclear disarmament.

The letter concerns the difficulty of getting correct news from China. BR asks to be remembered to Alan (?), and refers to a letter from a Mr. Hippesley.

BR was ill after the election in late 1924.

BR seems to refer to Dora's article and The Liberator in 1920 when Eastman was editor.

On the White Star Line, S.S. Adriatic.

BR has sent a letter to Tom Mooney as Eastman suggested. He had very little time in New York. After the debate on 17 December he went to Brooklyn to re-enact the debate for the "talkies". He then sailed on the 18th.

The debate was that with Rabbi Stephen S. Wise on "Is Modern Marriage a Failure?".

Dora enclosed this letter with hers of 11 Dec. 1956 to BR (document .104243, record 119100). Attached is a printed 4- page "Declaration of Mothers for the Defence of Children Against the Danger of War", issued by the Permanent International Committee of Mothers.

Enclosed with Dora's letter 16 May to BR (document .104246, record 119103). The attachment is a printed multiple-signatory letter headed "West to East / Women's Caravan of Peace".

Dora's address is used.

This letter was written in reply to an unknown woman ("Dear Madam"). Her letter had been addressed to BR's wife, Alys Russell who was not with BR in America. The woman had wanted Alys to speak on suffrage. The original letter is pasted into a copy of Education and the Good Life which was given to Katharine Tomkins by her mother for Christmas 1927. The mother may be the woman who wrote to Alys.

A photocopy of the letter has been placed in the Rec. Acq. 1441 folder; the original letter remains pasted into the book.

Thompson has written a column on the atomic bomb. Graves has written an article.

"Today in the English-speaking world the only person of great distinction who has seen with complete clarity the implicatons of atomic destruction is Bertrand Russell. But then he has been thinking for a long time about power. Wrote a superb book with that title."

Russell writes Koons that he never had any association with Robert Briffault. (Actually BR prefaced one of them.)

The original letter is in the Robert Briffault Collection, Archives and Research Collections, box 2, file 7.

The letter is a statement of agreement with regard to a motion picture film to be produced by NBC. It is signed by BR under the words "Approved and Accepted." Possibly the film is B&R M51.01.

The address for both BR and Julie Medlock is given as Public Interest Inc. in New York.

Thanks for John Foster Dulles's reply to BR's "Open Letter" to Eisenhower and Khrushchev.

The dictated version of this letter is at record 16046.

Re Kenneth Stern's letter.

The dictated version of this letter is at record 16111.

The letter concerns publishing a short article about the civil disobedience demonstration which the Committee of 100 is organizing for 18 February.

The typed carbon of this letter is at record 85030.

BR notes that all letters addressed to him are opened by him and read before anyone else sees them. BR is replying to a letter which Mason hand delivered; the reply cannot be located in BRACERS, but as part of the "Memorandum concerning Ralph Schoenman" it is quoted in Clark, pp. 647-8, where it is dated May 1967. See record 119414.

The letter is a defence of Ralph Schoenman's conduct.

Lord Amberley accepts the speaker's invitation to dinner on 18 March.

BR declines to see her about Wittgenstein as he has nothing fresh to add to what he has already written and said in Portraits from Memory and in B&R C56.09.

A typed copy was previously obtained from Dutt; it is in Rec. Acq. 158, record 54496.

BR wants to write a reply to the Labour Monthly's "Editorial Notes" which recently discussed his anti-nuclear politics.

The original of this letter is document .049633, record 854.

The letter concerns Dutt being sent down from Oxford and BR's problems with Cambridge, the U.D.C. and the I.L.P.

The original letter is in RA1 410, record 6385. Dutt encloses (not present) the editorial notes from the Labour Monthly which refer to BR.

The original letter is in RA1 410, record 84352.

This congratulatory 90th birthday note was perhaps the text for a telegram.

Karachmer was a short story writer living in Texas who had asked for BR's autograph.

Wilson was a councillor on the Crook and Willington Council, County Durham. He sometimes lectured on BR to his students.

In 1953 and again in 1956 he got BR to inscribe cards for his students, but only the 1956 batch was to include one for himself.

See letters of 10 June 1953 (record 31170) and 25 August 1956 (record 31176) in Ra1 720.

Re Davies having done a kindness for Lucy Russell.

There is a typed carbon of this letter, document .151946.

There is a typed carbon, RA1 720, record 29898.

"I do not for a moment claim that I have 'swept two thousand five [hundred] years of metaphysics into the discard'. The most I should claim is that something of this sort has occurred in logic, but that I have been only one of many contributors in this work. I have the highest respect for many philosophers of past times."

There is a typed carbon of this letter, document .150777, record 94697.

Russell seeks a copy of the New York Times editorial of 21 August regarding U.S. bombing policy in Vietnam.

BR accepts her invitation to write for her magazine.

The original letter was acquired; see record 119828.

There is a typed carbon of this letter in RA1 720, record 21176.

Re an American girl who was given a Polaris missile.

An extract from this letter appears in the Alexander Autographs auction catalogue closing on 24 June 2003. The recipient is not identified by name, but is called a publisher. Viking published Sacco and Vanzetti's Letters.

"Thanks for sending me the report of Horace Kallen's speech and Alexander Meiklejohn's address. I shall be much interested in seeing Sacco's and Vanzetti's Letters. It looks as though some real good might come out of their martyrdom in the end."

In a letter to Horace Kallen, written on the same day as this letter, BR indicated that Horace Gardner had sent him a report of his speech (Rec. Acq. 168a).

BR declines Reyman's request for a photograph but sends his autograph. The letter is dated from the dictated form at record 11954 and a photograph Dr. Harley's original.

The year is conjectured.

BR has left Chelsea for good and thus is unable to accept an invitation as he will not be in London during the coming winter.

BR sends Dershaw an autographed photograph (by White) which also appears on the internet page. David Harley is the current owner of the letter, of which a printout of a hasty photograph by K. Blackwell is in the file.

There are two carbons of this letter: documents 313.501178 and 720.123575, record 8805 and record 34382.

BR declines an invitation to the Third Erewhon Dinner. The date is taken from the date of the dinner; BR's reply would have been earlier. He had attended the 1909 dinner at the invitation of Desmond MacCarthy.

"I think that abortion ought not to be a legal crime; at the same time, as it is apt to be injurious to health, I think that birth control methods are much to be preferred."

Ts. carbon of this letter: document 720.130113, record 39993.

BR sends a photograph in reply to her handwritten letter. The typist has misspelled her name. The typed carbon of this letter is at record 11239.

"I am sorry to say that I do not feel competent to express an opinion on unemployment. Politicians have to pretend to know what to do and economists may really know, but being neither I may confess that the problem baffles me."

Crown City Books, in offering an original Russell letter for sale on abebooks.com, included a transcription of the TLS. BR writes he does not dislike America, "only certain Americans who manage at the moment to be very vocal."

The dictated copy of this letter is at record 11637.

BR has not "grown less hostile to Christianity."

The ts. carbon of this letter is at record 23026.

He will probably sign a petition she is circulating but omitted to enclose.

Ottoline writes about BR's financial situation.

The original letter is one sheet of paper with writing on both sides; it has been photocopied as two sheets.

The date in April is illegible.

The letter concerns "an unofficial Fellowship" for BR. Also in the file is a typed document headed "Confidential" which outlines the plan to provide BR with a special lectureship.

The original letter is one sheet of paper with writing on both sides; it has been photocopied as two sheets.

Trinity College deprived BR of his lectureship on 11 July 1916. Dickinson's letter concerns a petition that was being organized by the Cambridge Magazine to protest this action.

Enclosed is a printed draft text with the name W.E. Armstrong written on the top.

BR comments on the mess that the world is in. "I sometimes wish I believed in hell, as then I could think that some of them were already getting their deserts. But that is an unworthy thought."

The letter enclosed (not present) the autographs of Queen Victoria and Earl Russell, i.e. Lord John Russell. 

BR declines Beaton's invitation to photograph him: "I have spent too much of my life being photographed...."

Membership card, removed from the card index of the Mountaineering Association. BR had been President of it for 20 years as of April 1966 (document .111354). The Founding Chief Administrative Officer and Director of Training, J.E.B. Wright, told him so in his letter of retirement after 21 years of service.

The card has 3 addresses for BR, the first 2 of which are crossed out: 18, Dorset House, Gloucester Place, N.W.1; 41, Queens Road, Richmond, Surrey; and Penrhyndeudraeth, Merionethshire.

18 Dorset House was BR's second address at Dorset House. There is no record of his using the second address before 1948/10/11. 27 Dorset House was used as early as 1946/12/08. Thus BR's presidency may not have begun as early as 1946.

BR invites Daly to join the International War Crimes Tribunal.

Daly agrees to join the International War Crimes Tribunal. He indicates the invitation was approved by the Scottish Executive Committee of the N.U.M. (National Union of Mine Workers) of which he is General Secretary.

BR encloses a copy of a letter which he has sent to Vladimir Dedijer, 14 May 1967. He urges that if Dedijer does not resign as Chair of the Tribunal he must be unseated. There are several copies of the letter to Dedijer already in the Archives; see record 104924.

Russell's signature is secretarial.

On resolving internal differences in the Tribunal with reference to Laurent Schwartz.

The signature was cut off in photocopying the letter; it is assumed from its contents to be from BR.

The letter concerns aggravated conditions in the Bolivian tin mines. BR wants Daly to head an investigative commission to travel to Bolivia, funded by the BRPF.

BR acknowledges Daly's letter of 13 October in which he declined BR's invitation to investigate Bolivian tin mines.

BR asks for Daly's support of the enclosed declaration to be issued by the International War Crimes Tribunal. The declaration is not present here.

Perry tells Brownell that BR is currently living at the San Ysido (i.e. San Ysidro) Ranch in Santa Barbara.

Perry tells Brownell that BR is to teach for the next three years at UCLA.

Helen Wedgwood writes of her impressions of BR at a dinner party given by the Cornfords. "B.R. is a wretched little worm of a pessimist...."

The letter was offered for sale by Swann Auctions, 12 May 2005.

Page 2 of the letter was posted on the internet. The text of that page concerns the difficulty of opening a school for young children.

Part of the text of the first page is quoted in the auction catalogue: "The attitude of all Christian countries towards sex seems to me obscene", plus two other sentences.

Jones writes on BR's similarity to W.K. Clifford.

The original letter is document .051578, record 77586.

Jones questions a sentence in BR's article on Einstein in The Observer. He includes an extract from Einstein to Freud in April 1936; the German has been translated into English (probably by BR) on the verso of the sheet with a correction in Edith's hand. The sheet is from a version of the typescript of BR's Autobiography, 3: 95.

BR responds to Jones's letter of 25 April, writing about Einstein and Whistler.

The dictated letter is at record 13798.

The letter concerns BR's 1901 conversion; D.H. Lawrence; and religious letters to the editor of The Sunday Times.

The dictated letter is at record 15323; the typed carbon is document .051584, record 77594.