Claud Russell wishes BR had renounced his pacifism in the House of Lords. Claud writes from Trematon Castle, Saltash, Cornwall (later the home of Hugh Foot and Paul Foot).

Claud Russell asks if BR knows whether some travel diaries of Lord John Russell's have been published. He refers to "the sad holocaust of your family papers".

On Hastings Russell, Duke of Bedford, whom BR has now met for the first time. "About Russia, will our left-wing admirers ever admit that they misjudged the Soviet Union?"

About Pembroke Lodge when he and BR were young.

Claud refers again to the nude female statue ("Italia") presented to Lord John Russell, which he supposes Agatha left to Newnham and not susceptible to "an unruly thought".

Obituary of Sir Claud Russell, who died at 85 on 1959/12/09, his birthday.

The letter was reproduced in an illustration in Christie's catalogue, 1 November 2006, lot 113. It was transcribed by K. Blackwell with assistance from Christie's who checked the original.

Russell replies to Nock's letter of 18 Feb. 1925, document .053927, record 2357.

BR encloses stamps (not present) for Julian's collection.

The year may be 1912 or later. There isn't anything indicative of 1911 in BR's letters of that year.

Massingham encloses (not present) a Churchill pamphlet.

Ottoline had written her about Elizabeth, the former Duchess of York, now the new Queen of England.

Morrell's defence of the C.O.s in the House of Commons is much appreciated.

On mining safety in a new Bill.

William Southcombe Lloyd Webber (1914-1972) was the father of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.

BR recalls "no fuss" about Marriage and Morals until 1940. The carbon of this letter is document .055814, record 3052.

The letter concerns a science and mathematics education for Maitland's son but not at a "public" school. BR refers to the first 3 parts of Newton's Principia.

The letter is missing at least the final leaf, as the last one present ends in mid-sentence and without a signature. The following is a transcription by the seller, Bonhams. Sold 2006/07/11. https://www.barnebys.co.uk/realised-prices/lot/russell-bertrand-autograph-letter-signed-cD3ZtUp98c. The realized price was 620 GBP.

”Discussing education in the modern world and foretelling the end of the British Empire ("... Everybody who is in any vital contact with modern life & the modern world knows that the English upper class is isolated & dead ... If you travel in America, Germany, Russia, or China, you will find in each of these countries something happening which is of great moment for the future of civilization; to understand what is happening, you must know mathematical physics & industrial technique. Those who have been at English public schools are incapable of getting any grip of the modern world; this fact is going to make us lose our empire within the next 30 years, unless people like yourself can bring themselves to feel that knowledge is more important than membership of a snobbish clique ..."), 5 pages, envelope, 8vo, Carn Voel,

BR thanks Rosenbaum for photocopies of his letters to Moore.

BR suggests that Rosenbaum telephone his secretary for an appointment.

Homage from a family member for BR's 90th birthday.

Cosmo knows that BR attended the 1948 Congress of Europe at the Hague, which gave birth to the Conseil de l'Europe.

"I am gratified that you think I have worthily carried on the Whig tradition."

Diana has a very different impression of Lady Stanley of Alderley from what BR has written in his introduction to the book on Dorothy Henley.

BR believes some people irritated Grandmother Stanley and others did not. His Swiss tutor irritated her.

Flora congratulates BR on his O.M. She is the oldest Russell alive.

Flora refers to Harold Nicolson in The Spectator on BR's "Russellian Consonants".

Claud Russell told Flora of BR's letters and that BR treasures any letter from home. Flora did drawings of bridges in Paris.

Flora signs herself "Your aff. child". The letter was discovered in BR's copy of Lady Susan Townley's My Chinese Notebook (Russell's Library, no. 2385).

A birthday letter for BR's 80th. Flora heard that BR got very angry at Lord Samuel (doubtless during a broadcast discussion).

Flora asks about family papers. Herbrand, Duke of Bedford, was convinced to destroy the papers that Agatha entrusted to him.

Flora asks to see a printed copy of BR's European Service broadcast on the BBC.

Flora is interested in the names of all the Llewelyn Davies brothers.

BR's convalescence. Extract from their great-grandmother's diary.

Letter is marked "Confidential".

She quotes Human Society and suggests BR meet Nehru.

On some little books that she sends BR, illustrated by "Aunt John" (see next letter).

"Christmas day 1954." Flora listened to the "Man's Peril" broadcast Friday evening.

She suggests Tito to lead the anti-H-bomb movement.

She invites the Russells to stay: no pool, no TV, but a belfry.

Flora refers to Edith Russell's heart trouble. She is kept immobile.

Flora asks why Alan Wood died. He had interviewed Flora about BR's childhood.

The card has animals sitting at a table.

"This is an allegorical or abstract picture of the first meeting of the World Council."

She has his book (very likely Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare).

Flora would like a trip on a hovercraft.

Re Woburn.

Flora asks about Christopher and Sir Sydney Cockerill.

Flora thanks BR for writing about Claud (Russell).

Feeling old is "a feeling that grows gradually more difficult to avoid."

Motor-cars.

Flora lunched with Madeleine, née Stanley.

On The Trojan Women, the play translated by Gilbert Murray.

She listened to the discussion with Mrs. Roosevelt. She believes BR was thinking, "How stupid they are".

Russell is not able to attend on 3 December 1926. He is reading a paper then to the Moral Science Club.

On the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Russell asks MacDiarmid to join the Committee of 100.

BR invites Sheffer to lunch in Hall.

Russell will be staying at the Hotel Corneille near the Odeon in Paris and invites Sheffer to dine.

On Sheffer's reduction of the number of primitive propositions.

Volume 3 of Principia is out. At Harvard BR must teach logic without symbols—"rather a farce".

BR asks for an offprint when the paper he comments on here is published. He later received an inscribed offprint of "A Set of Five Independent Postulates for Boolean Algebras, with Application to Logical Constants", Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 14, no. 4 (Oct. 1913) : 481-8.

Letterhead: "Colonial Club".

Couldn't Sheffer come east? BR always mentions to his classes Sheffer's reduction of "not" and "or" to one indefinable.

This letter is missing the lower 3/4 of pages 1 and 2 on a single sheet (p. 4 is blank). Harvard's comments: "Page torn, partially missing".

On the spatial order of symbols in print and revising Principia.

BR thanks Sheffer for his review of Principia in Isis (which BR had seen). Now BR takes seriously Sheffer's "remark about the printer's ink and the sense of relations".

A statement endorsing a project by Lionel Rogosin to make a film on nuclear war, disarmament, and peace. The film in question is partly BR's interview by Dom Moraes. The interview part of the film is in the Russell Archives.

A carbon of this statement is in RA1 630, record 59982.

The carbon of this letter is document .145375b, record 90989.

BR refers in part to the filmed interview by Dom Moraes.

The carbon of this letter is in RA1 630, record 60152.

BR provides contacts in Japan. The signature is secretarial.

The carbon of this letter is at RA1 630, record 60195. It concerns a filmed interview with Dom Moraes, part of a larger project on nuclear war.

Russell is going to London on 11 Nov. 1962 and hopes to see the film material on the 12th.

The carbon of this letter is document 315.156239, record 100370.

The carbon of this letter is document 410.143722a, record 89451.

BR draws Tito's attention to Rogosin's film project on nuclear war.

The carbon of this letter is in RA1 313, record 10645.

BR is glad to hear the film project is finished.

This memorandum records Dulles's thoughts on what response, if any, should be made to Russell's "Open Letter to Eisenhower and Khrushchev". The memo may have been written for Eisenhower's attention.

The subject line of this memorandum is: "Reply to the Bertrand Russell Argument for the Renunciation of the Use of Nuclear Weapons on the Part of the United States".

The subject line of this memorandum is: "Resume of Memorandum dated June 3, 1959 titled 'Reply to the Bertrand Russell Argument for the Renunciation of the Use of Nuclear Weapons on the Part of the United States'."

Evidently Balgemann wanted to be in contact with one of Russell's grandchildren or children.

(A photocopy of this letter is in Rec. Acq. 1295.)

At 91, Flora may attend the Feb. 18th demonstration.

Bismarck paid a visit to "Uncle John" [Lord John Russell] at Pembroke Lodge.

BR thinks "quite solemnly" it would be better if Flora stayed away from the Feb. 18 demonstration. Life-lines from gaol (jail) may be needed.

The large envelope has a newsclipping photo of BR glued to it. It was posted while BR was in Brixton Prison.

Apparently BR was "deceived" by Ian, Duke of Bedford, or his wife.

Re Ian: "Judgment reserved until another glimpse of him!" Edith asks Flora to bring the bust of Socrates to be photographed with BR.

She has had "wonderful letters from Elizabeth and others who felt Bertie's emotion". Presumably this is a reference to BR's speech at the 90th birthday concert in his honour.

Re photographing BR with the bust of Socrates and the "little head" of Uncle John (Lord John).

BR likes the idea of being photographed with the two busts. That of Socrates was presented to BR at the concert.

Flora writes chiefly about Ian, Duke of Bedford, and refers to a 90th birthday celebration (possibly the dinner).

A photo of BR with "Socrates" appeared in The Times. Flora continues her criticism of Ian Russell.

She cannot reach Edith on the telephone.

Flora wrote to Nicole, Duchess of Bedford, after she told Edith their family had no "family feeling".

Flora writes about another photo of BR and "Socrates". Nicole wrote her that BR was "miraculous examining Woburn".

The year is conjectured. The Russells wrote recently from the Isle of Wight.

She invites the Russells for a visit.

Written at the foot on the verso of Flora's letter.

Flora encloses (not present) photos of BR with "Socrates", a small bust.