BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
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There is a typed copy of this letter at document .081190, record 120010.

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Typed copy of document .081191, record 120011. A typed carbon copy is also present.

There is a note in BR's hand at the foot of the letter: "My sympathies were with Adila, though at that time I did not know her."

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"I am late in the day in reading your last book but have been trying to digest Bryce's American Commonwealth which is ... perhaps rather stale!"

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Typed copy of document .081198, record 120018.

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"I am very sorry that I have been so remiss about the book you sent me. I was embarrassed because, with the best will in the world, I could not see any merit in the book. In fact, I agree with the judgment of Professor Cohen."

BR encloses Professor John Cohen's letter (not present in file).

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"My husband, who is ill and unable to write himself, asks me to thank you for your letter. ... The letter came while Bertie was away from home, and, when he returned, it was with a very severe case of shingles."

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"I am glad that you too support Nuclear Disarmament and I congratulate you on your march."

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"I have just bought my copy of your Fact and Fiction, coming on it by chance in a Dublin bookshop, and after reading of your earlier interest in love-poems thought I would send you my wife's book, herewith."

Strong sends BR his book of poems, From Inner Fires (Russell's Library, no. 1708).

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BR thanks Strong for sending his book of poems, From Inner Fires (Russell's Library, no. 1708).

"Edith and I find them very remarkable and very interesting. There are many that we like, and best of all the one called 'Remembrance Day'."

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The carbon of this letter is document .057146, record 81143.

BR cannot take part in a Tom Paine meeting on June 7.

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BR declines to come to Vienna this year, having had to put off his U.S. trip due to pneumonia; BR has arrears of work. Nicod has died.

BR hopes Schlick will have Our Knowledge of the External World translated.

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Dora writes that her husband will not be able to see Schlick (who could bring news of Wittgenstein) during his visit to England because he is in America.

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Written from the Hotel Monopol.

BR "had to abandon the lecture tour in Austria and Scandinavia, on account of overwork." He telegraphed Frau Jacoby (of Vienna's Kulturbund).

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Schlick solicits BR's assistance for a new journal, Zeitschrift für Exacte Philosophie, and mentions Wittgenstein as a possible contributor.

Schlick's reply to BR's reply is document .055581, record 2875.

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BR does not understand how purely linguistic questions can be connected with politics. BR "can be seen in Trinity in the rooms of Mr. Bessicovitch on Thursdays from 2-30 to 4."

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This letter is presumed to be a draft of the letter BR received (see his reply at record 120042).
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Written from Trinity College, Cambridge. On BR's instructions she is enclosing a cheque for £1; a contribution towards the purchase of a new typewriter.

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A receipt (not present) for BR's contribution is enclosed.
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They will consider Meijer's Crime, Punishment and Society.

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Bing is improving the English of Meijer's manuscript, presumably Crime, Punishment and Society. [There is no trace of it being published.]

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The letter concerns the Russells' household effects left with the Farrs in Bryn Mawr.

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The letter concerns books left with Farr by BR which belong to the Barnes Foundation. BR, although thinking the books were a gift to him, has authorized their return to the Barnes Foundation.

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Farr notes that the Barnes Foundation has not approached him for the return of any books. The boxes he has mainly contain household goods, although there are a few books.

120051

On Barnes's request for the return of books loaned to BR.

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The letter contains the text of a cable from BR which has been entered separately (record 120053).
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The text of this cable is contained in a letter from T.R. White to F.W. Elliott Farr, record 120052.

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White encloses a typed copy of a letter from BR.

White suggests that Farr ship the boxes to England. Then Barnes will have to deal with BR directly. See record 120055.

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This typed copy of BR's presumed holograph letter was made by White and Williams and enclosed with White's letter of 11 July 1946, record 120054.

BR outlines his plan of dealing with Barnes with regard to the boxes in Farr's possession. The boxes contain private letters, including those of other people "given into our charge to avoid the war-time censorship of two governments."

120056

Enclosed is a letter from Patricia Russell with regard to the boxes in Farr's possession. See record 120057.

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Patricia Russell provides the Welsh address that the boxes should be sent to. The letter was sent to F.W. Elliott Farr by White and Williams, record 120056.

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Re method of payment of Farr's expenses.

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White encloses a copy of a letter from BR, record 120060, regarding expenses.
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This copy was typed by White and Williams and sent to Farr with White's letter of 3 March 1947. It concerns payment to Farr's sister [Anne Foot] for the amount owing to Farr.

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Guran lives in Toronto.

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The carbon of this letter is document 710.110420, record 3914.

BR requests copies of the letters he wrote to Peggy Dakyns's husband and father-in-law (Arthur L. and H. Graham Dakyns) for his Autobiography.

[In an email in December 2009 or a little later to S. Turcon, Andrew Dakyns wrote that his mother did not like the tone of BR's letter and thus refused his request. The letters subsequently disappeared.]

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The carbon of this letter is document .175449, record 108200.

On U.S. chemical warfare in Vietnam.

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BR does not believe the journal Thompson has it in mind to found would have any chance of success.

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BR agrees to a meeting on Feb. 4. The dictated version of this letter is in class 750.

Someone has hand-corrected the year from 1956.

The letter was inserted in a copy of the German translation of Freedom and Organization, catalogued as Freiheit und Organisation, 1814-1914, copy 2, in the Russell Archives supporting library.

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BR declines a position at Harvard offered by Woods by cable via N. Wiener. Trinity is dreary.

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BR accepts the offer to teach at Harvard offered by Woods. He prefers to lecture on symbolic logic rather than on theory of knowledge. He agrees to "social psychology and ethics". He would welcome the opportunity to lecture on more popular subjects in his spare time.

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There is a note from BR on the top of the letter: "[This is an unofficial letter, for your personal advice.]"

BR encloses the syllabus (1 copy is present) of the lectures he will give on "Contemporary Ethical and Social Problems". Some of them will appear in the Atlantic Monthly.

"Accepted institutions have proved compatible with the present horror...." BR states that he has no "argumentative basis" for ethics. He discusses a possible 3rd "course" on theory of knowledge and adds "Elements of Logical Symbolism" to his old logic syllabus.

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BR encloses some syllabi (not present), presumably of "Philosophy of Social Reconstruction".

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BR sets a fee on outside lectures.
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Since 1916 BR has come over more completely to the point of view of the Harvard realists especially Holt and Perry. His admiration for William James has become even greater.

In England BR has become "quite respectable" due to his criticism of the Bolsheviks.

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BR accepts the Department of Philosophy's invitation. He will be staying with Whitehead.

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"What good news! We are all so glad to hear of your success. ... I am so so glad about this fellowship. I hardly dared hope for it".

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"I am interested to hear from your branch of my rather large cousinship. I enclose a sheet with my autograph and good wishes which perhaps could be inserted in the volume that you are giving to your son."

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"My grand-mother, Lady Stanley of Alderley, has often spoken to me of you as a cousin."

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There is also a typed copy and carbon copy in file.

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"The writer of the above letter was my cousin Lady Grove—very beautiful and very vain. ... Her husband, Sir Walter Grove, was a timid country gentleman, who used to take guests into a corner and whisper: 'you know, I don't believe in votes for women'. Lady Grove and Lady Carlisle were both feminists, but of different factions."

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Lady Henley encloses correspondence from the 1907 Wimbledon Election (present).

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Enclosed are extracts from Rosalind Carlisle's letters to Mary Howard, see documents .081237a to .081237f.

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Nancy sends BR best wishes for Christmas and married life.

"I saw in the Figaro a lovely photograph of you being married you are wonderful. Now you must come to Paris...."

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