BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
119732

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

119733

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

119734

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

119735

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

119736

Letter is marked "Confidential".

She quotes Human Society and suggests BR meet Nehru.

119737
Flora invites BR and edith to lunch at her club.
119738

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

119739

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

119740

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

119741
Flora hopes BR's 3-day conference of scientists went well.
119742

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

119743
Flora quotes from reflections on the disasters of 1871.
119744
Flora sends a drawing (not present).
119745
Re a luncheon.
119746

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

119747

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

119748

The card has animals sitting at a table.

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

119749

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

119750
She is with BR in his campaigns.
119751

Flora would like a trip on a hovercraft.

Re Woburn.

119752

Flora asks about Christopher and Sir Sydney Cockerill.

119753

Flora thanks BR for writing about Claud (Russell).

119754

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

Motor-cars.

119755

Flora lunched with Madeleine, née Stanley.

119756

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

119757

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

119758

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

119759

On the Cuban Missile Crisis.

119760

Russell asks MacDiarmid to join the Committee of 100.

119761
BR states when and where his first lecture will be.
119762

BR invites Sheffer to lunch in Hall.

119763

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

119764

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.

119765

Letterhead: "Colonial Club".

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

119766

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.

119767
There is no salutation or address on this apparent end of a letter.
119768

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".

119769

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.

119770

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

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

119771

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

BR provides contacts in Japan. The signature is secretarial.

119772

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.

119773
The carbon of this letter is document 315.156237, record 100368.
119774

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.

119775

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

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

119776

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

BR is glad to hear the film project is finished.

119777

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.

119778

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".

119779

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'."

119780

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.)

119781

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

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

119782

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.

119783
Re BR's shingles.
119784

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

119785

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

119786

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

119787

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.

119788
Her plans have changed.
119789

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

119790

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

119791

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

119792

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

119793

She cannot reach Edith on the telephone.

119794
She is arriving tomorrow.
119795

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

119796

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

119797
Another photographic arrangement.
119798

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

119799
Another photographic appointment.
119800

She invites the Russells for a visit.

119801

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

119802

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

119803

Flora is anxious to hear whether the photos arrived.

119804

Flora asks if BR is in London. She could bring the cast of Uncle John (Lord John Russell).

119805

The Russells will be visiting Flora, and she has Ian (Duke of Bedford)'s acceptance. She thanks BR for his book (Unarmed Victory).

119806

Ian, Duke of Bedford, cabled that this month is impossible for the invitation.

119807

She has heard on the radio that Pat Pottle is in Athens with a message from "100" (the Committee of 100).

Re Woburn.

119808

The Bedfords accept Flora's invitation for 30 May. She hopes BR and Edith can come, too.

119809

BR and Edith accept the invitation to Flora's—Duke or no Duke.

BR read his A Silver-Plated Spoon from the London Library, but Edith got to only the first few pages.

Edith describes Pat Pottle's sentence of imprisonment in Greece and Britain.

She and BR "slightly resent" the blooming daffodils and blossoming cherry trees in the bitter cold and windy weather at Plas Penrhyn.

119810

Madeline Midleton is amazed at BR's good health and ability to sit on cold pavements.

119811

Flora will post a map next week.

119812

Flora looks forward to seeing the Russells "more than I can say".

119813

Flora's relative Anthony "especially enjoyed the talk he had with Bertie".

119814

Flora refers to the Bedfords as "humbug and wife". Ian is lending Woburn for a colossal charity ball.

119815

Raymond is in Guy's Hospital.

Flora is trying to establish a visiting date with the Bedfords, but they are difficult to contact.

119816
Flora would like to see edith at once, but not today.
119817

BR has had a message from the Chinese Embassy saying a "very important" letter is coming from Chou En-lai.

Waiting for this letter "seems almost as hopeless as the doings of the Bedfords". "We have had a difficult time with them."

119818

In an undated note Flora wonders if she should come tomorrow.

119819

Flora asks if there is any news from "Cousin Humbug" [Ian, the Duke of Bedford].

119820

About Maud, Raymond, and the humbug (or better, the Mountebank).

Flora has History of Western Philosophy rebound in 2 volumes.

119821

Edith writes about the visit of Chinese Embassy officials with Chou En-lai's letter. BR has written him making further suggestions.

119822

Dictated to Elizabeth Plunket Greene. Re photos.

119823

This appears to be a plan to revise portions of *9 of Principia Mathematica, following the critique by Samuel Jacobsohn (document .1109337a, record 4175), on the verso of whose letter Wrinch's 3-part note is found. #1 is "Introduction of New Definitions Necessary" with the proposal that they be **9.081.082.

Wrinch initialled the note.

119824

Harding, whose surname is followed by what seems to be "-Akeels" in her beautiful but difficult hand, thanks BR for the "light and comfort" that his Why Men Fight has brought to her soul.

The original is in the scrapbook maintained for that book and Political Ideals in 1917-18, p. 7. A photocopy of the letter is in box 5.20.

119825

The dictated version of this letter is in RA1 750, record 14755.

BR will write again if he has anything to say after studying Clark's document.

119826

The carbon of this letter is document .151610b, record 95433.

BR agrees with Clark's document. "The difficulty lies in the means of inducing mad governments to adopt this modicum of sanity."

119827

One paragraph of a letter. The top of the letter containing the name of the recipient, the date, and the place has been cut off.

What remains of the letter was then framed. It mentions an article "What Is Happening to the World", most likely 220.013480, written in 1933.

119828

This letter had previously been printed from the internet and accessioned as Rec. Acq. 1457, record 119166.

119829

The carbon of this letter is document .121326, record 32574.

On Biggs' verses, which concern BR.

119830

About acquainting a family member with BR.

119831

Flora encloses (not present) Nicole's (Duchess of Bedford's) first letter to her.