Total Published Records: 135,510
BRACERS Notes
Record no. | Notes, topics or text |
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1201 | Fülöp-Miller encloses (not present) Ganeshan's Current Thought with an article on BR by Fülöp-Miller. He is also sending BR his book on new Russia. |
1202 | Representative Fulton congratulates the Russells on their imprisonment. |
1203 | BR thanks Fulton for his support. |
1204 | Schoenman asks if Fulton has seen BR's "The Myth of American Freedom", The Minority of One. |
1205 | Gellner encloses a review of BR's broadcast, "The World and the Observer" and an offprint (not present). |
1206 | BR read Gellner's "How to Live in Anarchy" in The Listener. |
1207 | Fry comments on BR's "illuminating" book, Why Men Fight. The original is in the scrapbook for that book, p. 6. |
1208 | BR has added a late note on a separate slip of paper on having "much discussion" with Goldman in Russia in 1920. BR provided the year with a query. |
1209 | BR is mentioned as a potential signatory to a letter. |
1210 | This copy of BR's letter was sent to him by G. Mendelevich. |
1211 | BR states that he does not have any letters from Gorky. |
1212 | Graves proposes that the majority of men be gelded. She refers to the population chapter of Principles of Social Reconstruction. |
1213 | BR's physical strength is "no longer equal to long journeys". |
1214 | BR would be pleased to see him. |
1215 | Graves blames BR "most strongly" for what he did with Siegfried Sassoon and the war. |
1216 | Greene invites BR to a cocktail party on July 31. |
1217 | Colette is mentioned, as is Greenwood's love of the sea for all moods, which she wonders if BR shares. The photo is of a baby, "Michael". |
1218 | Greenwood says that BR "may be able to fertilize the field". |
1219 | Gabor and his brother have written on "the mathematical theory of freedom". |
1220 | BR confirms his views on eugenics. |
1221 | On the philosophy of perception in BR's broadcast "The World and the Observer", heard on the New Zealand B.C. |
1222 | On argument as a game. |
1223 | On the continuity of temporal series. |
1224 | On Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare. |
1225 | Enclosed with document .050193. |
1226 | On BR's essay "Determinism and Morals", whose publication suggests a date. |
1227 | Gandy asks if he and Georg Kreisel and Martin Löb may visit BR. Gandy writes from Penrhyndeudraeth. |
1228 | BR will be pleased to see the 3 logicians on April 7: "You will have to treat me as an ignoramus." |
1229 | Gardner would like to see BR about Vernon Lee. |
1230 | BR instances the CCNY case of 1940 in respect to social diversity. |
1231 | "Private". BR hopes that The Observer will review Gellner's Words and Things. |
1232 | Astor hopes that The Observer's treatment of the Ryle-Gellner matter will not seem "lacking in loyalty" to BR. |
1233 | Copleston agrees with BR as against Ryle in the controversy over Gellner's book. |
1234 | |
1235 | |
1236 | BR's letter with envelope was returned: "no such street number". The letter appears to have been typed by Edith Finch. |
1237 | BR's secretary (i.e., R. Schoenman) has asked Garnett to join the Committee of 100, but he does not think civil disobedience will get anywhere in the U.K. |
1238 | On the value of mathematics. |
1239 | BR has left an annotation on a separate slip: "[Mathematical master at Bedales]". The letter concerns the definition of pure mathematics in The Principles of Mathematics. BR answered the letter. |
1240 | |
1241 | Gatehouse has suggestions for combatting the threat of nuclear war and asserts that it is women who will suffer most in nuclear war. She encloses her earlier letter; see document .050204a. |
1242 | BR disagrees that English women will suffer more than men and children in a nuclear war. |
1243 | On the possible publication of Lady Ottoline Morrell's memoirs. Gathorne-Hardy is first literary executor; Hope Mirlees is another. |
1244 | Gatliff regrets the cancellation of BR's lecture "this afternoon", i.e. at the Brotherhood Church, and looks forward to a lecture in November. |
1245 | Gavin was a "retainer" of the Russells and Stanleys. |
1246 | A plea for a Civil List pension for the widow of Philip Lindsay. |
1247 | The Gengerellis of U.C.L.A. invite the Russells to "a simple Italian dinner", complete with menu. The first and last items are whiskey. |
1248 | BR's certificate is for the "supreme award of merit and honorary fellowship ... for outstanding contribution to the betterment of race relations and human welfare". |
1249 | |
1250 | Not a letter but an issue of The Rationalist, 7, no. 5 (May 1962), with an article by Gerke, "Bertrand Russell—A Tribute". |
1251 | BR thanks Gerke for the article about him in The Rationalist. |
1252 | Gernsback writes in response to BR's "Can Scientific Man Survive?". Gernsback, who claims to have coined the term "science fiction", enclosed 7 issues of Forecast, 1951-57, mainly about future inventions as predicted by Gernsback. |
1253 | BR has not seen Gernsback's book, Ralph 124c 41. |
1254 | Lady Ottoline has told Gertler of an opportunity to write to BR. |
1255 | Ghosh encloses a review of Basic Writings and notes that his forthcoming My English Journey has a reference to BR. |
1256 | BR thanks Ghosh for his review. |
1257 | Ghoshal requests that BR write in support of the Nobel Literature Prize for Sudhin N. Ghose. Enclosed are copies of letters from Joseph Needham and J.E. van Lohuizen. A note from BR in Edith Russell's hand is at the top. |
1258 | BR declines to nominate Dr. Ghose for a Nobel Prize. |
1259 | |
1260 | Gibbs asks BR to sign a letter to The Times opposing the obscenity prosecutions. |
1261 | Gibbs states that BR's broadcast "The World and the Observer" was anticipated by his own work. |
1262 | BR states that the doctrines of his "The World and the Observer" broadcast are contained in Human Knowledge. |
1263 | Girbau encloses an article by Eduardo Ortega y Gasset in Spanish, dedicated to BR. |
1264 | Goertzel and her husband have written Cradles of Eminence. |
1265 | BR is interested in the book she mentions. |
1266 | BR feels sure that Cradles of Eminence is interesting and valuable. |
1267 | Gibbs wants to attend BR's lectures on the philosophy of mathematics. He is starting work as a coach. |
1268 | Gibson has heard BR lecture and asks him about the basic reasoning of The Problems of Philosophy. |
1269 | Gilbert asks to borrow BR's letters from Clifford Allen for Plough My Own Furrow. |
1270 | BR sends Gilbert "all the letters and relevant material" on Clifford Allen in BR's papers. |
1271 | Gilbert enjoyed David Susskind's interview with BR. |
1272 | BR sends her two copies of his History of the World in Epitome. |
1273 | Gill sends BR 10 shillings for an unspecified purpose and recalls meeting at Cornford's "years ago" and at Schnatel's Beethoven concerts. |
1274 | The envelope contained (not present) Gille's book of poems. |
1275 | BR is "encouraged that you should attempt to control the horror of nuclear danger to man in poetic form." |
1276 | Gillett commiserates on BR's court case "tomorrow". |
1277 | The recipient is assumed to be Arthur B. Gillett, although only the surname is given. |
1278 | Gilman is reading Why Men Fight. |
1279 | Gilmore disagrees with BR's contention that dead matter is unable to exhibit conditioned reflexes. |
1280 | Gilson knew BR in Chicago. |
1281 | Tea with the Russells at Hasker Street was a high point. |
1282 | BR tells Gilson that he is no longer married to the wife she knew. |
1283 | Girdwood tells BR that he and many of his clerical colleagues are "struck with the remarkable agreement between your own ideas and those of Jesus of Nazareth himself." |
1284 | BR is asked to be a candidate in the rectorial elections. Also signed by Mark I.M. Thomson. |
1285 | Glass wants to re-photograph BR and refers to "a pleasant evening together with a bottle of Jameson's whiskey" in July 1949. |
1286 | Glass would like to re-photograph br. |
1287 | BR and Edith have to be away when Glass would like to photograph them. |
1288 | Glass encloses (not present) a thank-you from New Left Review for BR's role in the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
1289 | BR thanks Glass for her comments on his role in the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
1290 | Collins objects to BR's closing salutation, "Yours, etc." |
1291 | |
1292 | BR refers Gleich to Human Society in Ethics and Politics, but he is "not at all sure that what I have to say in that book is adequate...." |
1293 | Gleich asks BR why we should strive for the good life if we are part of nature that knows no good or evil. |
1294 | Glick sends BR a copy of his The Administration of Technical Assistance. |
1295 | Trafford writes about a possible relative of BR's, Miss Edith Mary Adelaide Godfrey. |
1296 | The legal firm writes to BR about a possible relative. |
1297 | On Godwin's letter to The Guardian. |
1298 | BR has seen Godwin's letter published in The Guardian. |
1299 | On the idealist view of experience. |
1300 | Dr. Goldsiher mentions Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy. |