Flora is anxious to hear whether the photos arrived.

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

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

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

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

Re Woburn.

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

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.

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

Flora will post a map next week.

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

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

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

Raymond is in Guy's Hospital.

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

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."

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

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

Flora has History of Western Philosophy rebound in 2 volumes.

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

Dictated to Elizabeth Plunket Greene. Re photos.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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

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

On Biggs' verses, which concern BR.

About acquainting a family member with BR.

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

She refers to a "memorable luncheon party here".

Flora received Edith's letter about the photographs.

Flora injured her back on a train trip to the East Coast.

Flora is in touch with Miss (long "s") Scott Thomson about Woburn. (She wrote a book on the Russell family over the centuries.)

Guy the Admiral "knew Bertie and had got him to lecture to 'naval staff'. They live near here."

John of Ethiopia said he went to Woburn on purpose to meet BR.

"When Herbrand died Hastings sent me the contents of one of his father's writing table drawers."

Flora is proud to receive "your Manifesto". She is "as well as one can be at 94 but slow and untidy."

She refers to Ian's name being on the Manifesto (presumably that of the BRPF, whose public announcement was on 29 September 1963).

Flora asks if she sent a typed letter about Disraeli's visit to Woburn.

"You have never asked me why I despise Ian" (the Duke of Bedford).

Flora noted in Edith's last letter that Schoenman and Pottle are seeing Ian.

She has ordered 3 copies of Unarmed Victory to present to friends.

Elizabeth Plunket Greene has had a serious fall.

Flora would like to have a book on peace by Lord Clonmere that was sent to BR.

Flora asks if BR was ever interested in Darwin.

Flora is posting a packet to the Russells.

Flora encloses (possibly the document at record 119863) a "letter" from her grandfather G. William Russell to Lord John Russell in 1817.

She mentions a volume of letters printed by Herbrand about 1920.

Granny inquires about the Paris Embassy, where BR is Honorary Attaché.

A transcription of document .081112, record 119846.

BR has annotated it. Also in file: a TL(TC,CAR).

Re fall out: BR has "to do my best to estimate the weight to be attached to the pronouncements of those who are" expert on physiological questions.

Original letter is at document .081113, record 119849.

Original letter is at document .081116, record 119852.

Original letter is at document .081118, record 119854.

Original letter is at document .081120, record 119856.

Original letter is at document .081122, record 119858.

Original letter is at document .081124, record 119860.

This may be the carbon copy of a "letter" mentioned by Flora Russell at record 119845. It is titled "Appendix L / a Dissertation on 'War' by Lord G. William Russell".

The letter was found in the Russell Archives before they came to McMaster by the editors of Dear BR and reproduced there in facsimile on p. 31. The letter cannot be found in RA and is assumed not to have arrived. It probably had the same unknown fate as the letter to which it is a reply at record 119257.

The document described here is in the black bound volume that is the printer's copy of the typescript for Dear BR.

The letter was found in the Russell Archives before they came to McMaster by the editors of Dear BR and reproduced there in facsimile on p. 32 and on the rear of the U.S. dustjacket.

The original letter cannot be found in the Russell Archives and is assumed not to have arrived.

The document described is in the black bound typescript that is the printer's copy for Dear BR.

The letter was found in the Russell Archives before they came to McMaster by the editors of Dear BR and reproduced there on p. 33. The letter cannot be found in the Russell Archives and is assumed not to have arrived.

BR tells Dinda and Rada that he hopes they will press for solutions of nuclear problems.

The document described is in the black bound printer's copy of the typescript for Dear BR.

The letter was found in the Russell Archives before they came to McMaster by the editors of Dear BR and reproduced there in facsimile on p. 34 and on the rear of the U.S. dustjacket.

The letter cannot be found in the Russell Archives and is assumed not to have arrived.

Six-year-old Altmann likes BR and invites him to tea in Oxford.

The document described here is in the black bound typescript that is the printer's copy for Dear BR.

The letter was found in the Russell Archives before they came to McMaster by the editors of Dear BR and reproduced there on p. 35. The letter cannot be found in the Russell Archives and is assumed not to have arrived.

BR tells Paul that his nice letter encourages him "to keep on working".

The document described here is in the black bound typescript that is the printer's copy for Dear BR.

The letter was found in the Russell Archives before they came to McMaster by the editors of Dear BR and reproduced there in facsimile on p. 36 of the first British edition (p. xxxvi of the first American) and on the rear of the U.S. dustjacket. The letter cannot be found in RA and is assumed not to have arrived.

The writers are all professors at Hosei University, Tokyo. They are impressed by BR's decision to go to prison rather than abandon plans to protest nuclear weapons.

For the reply, see document .051290, record 77843. Not indicated on the reproductions is the notation in the upper-left corner, "Ans / copy attached". This can be seen on the photocopy of the letter in the black bound printer's copy of Dear BR (document RA2 210.147507).

BR praises the collection of his letters published as Dear BR. The letter is published there under the title "Tailpiece".

It cannot be found in the Russell Archives and is assumed not to have arrived. However, there is a TLS(X) in the black bound printer's copy of Dear BR, and is described here.

The letter was addressed only to Feinberg, and bore a complete date, as the editing on the letter makes clear.

Logical jottings in BR's hand along with G.E. Moore's and Wittgenstein's hands. The jottings are on the verso of a printed leaflet dated 9 October 1935, announcing the opening of a new bookshop in Cambridge. At the top is a short unpublished letter from Wittgenstein to Moore. Wittgenstein explains that he and Russell took the leaflet from Mrs. Moore's mantlepiece to scribble on.

[The date is known from a Cambridge speaking date for BR. He gave "The Limits of Empiricism" to the Moral Sciences Club that day.]

BR is too busy at the moment to write an article.

A carbon of this letter is at RA1 710, box 8.03, record 120527.

The original letter is in RA1 811, record 46524.

Lee solicits an article from BR.

The original letter is in RA1 410, record 60742.

Kohler solicits an article from BR.

A carbon of this letter is in RA1 410, record 60743.

BR refers Kohler to Julie Medlock, his U.S. agent.

Medlock suggests BR's "Adjustment: a Fugue", i.e. "The Psychoanalyst's Nightmare" (which concerns Shakespeare's tragic heroes).

Kohler declines and returns "Adjustment: a Fugue".

Xynidis asks for BR's view on returning the Elgin marbles to Greece, doing so by hand on a mimeographed appeal. His message is dated from BR's reply (record 31371).

The letter cannot be found in the Russell Archives and is assumed not to have arrived.

The document described is in the black bound printer's copy of the typescript for Dear BR, and is in the form of a handwritten extract from the letter.

The letter cannot be found in the Russell Archives and is assumed not to have arrived.

BR has been told of "Russell House" at an unnamed school. He had visions of hundreds of boys who, in time, would come and help him with "the hundreds of letters which I receive and must try to answer."

The document described is in the black bound printer's copy of the typescript for Dear BR, and is a retyping of the original.

BR's preface to Dear Bertrand Russell is in the printer's copy of the book's typescript, document .147507. The original typescript seems never to have arrived in the Russell Archives.

BR abhors the idea of recording "bad jokes" about nuclear warfare.

The letter has not been identified in the Russell Archives.

The writer didn't mean recording "bad jokes" but cynicisms about nuclear warfare.

Schoenman sent this letter to several university academics on the same date. In addition to Goodman at Harvard, his letters went to Dana Scott, University of California; Carl Hempel, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; Robert Goheen, Princeton; Willard Quine, Harvard. The letters announce that the papers of BR are getting ready for sale.

The letter cannot be found in the Russell Archives and may not have arrived. A TL(TC) is in the printer's copy of Dear BR, document .147507, folio 177, box 8.42.

The writer champions Israel as a guardian of peace.

The letter cannot be found in the Russell Archives and may not have arrived. This TL(TC) is in the black bound printer's copy of Dear BR.

BR cannot agree that "any particular people are especially suited to solve all men's woes or to supervise his conduct." "... I have passionately opposed the Nazis from the moment of their formation."

The letter cannot be found in the Russell Archives and is assumed not to have arrived; likewise Hougham's own letter.

"Russell replies to a correspondent who is opposed to the apartheid regime in South Africa but who is equally opposed to violent forms of struggle." (Dear BR, note, p. 87)

BR does "not believe anti-apartheid organisations should dissociate themselves from nationalist movements advocating violence." "... it is very difficult to stop violence once it begins." BR instances Algeria. Yet it is not "for those of us not faced with conditions such as those which obtain in South Africa to determine the form of struggle."

The document described is in the black bound printer's copy of the typescript for Dear BR.

This is marked "copy". It refers to an enclosed letter from John Morley (record 119891). Granny Russell had sent Morley's letter to Katie to send it to Rollo.