Note added to letter in BR's hand regarding writer of letter.

"The writer of the above letter invented electric light, then went to Tibet and became a Buddhist, then went bankrupt fighting the Swan-Edison Co. for infringement of patents, then became a company promoter and married a sister of Lord Alfred Douglas."

The letter states "Dictated" at the top.

Cecilia Roberts was the daughter of BR's Aunt Rosalind, Lady Carlisle. The letter hopes that BR will visit Castle Howard. Frank, McTaggart, and Gilbert Murray have all been there.

Typed copy of document .081263, record 120121.

Note added: *["My Uncle Lyulph, who gave my mother her first lessons in free thinking. He stood by me all through the war, and even took the chair at one of my meetings."]

Re Fabia, Lady Stanley of Alderley. Statement for the next of kin of the late H.E.J. 3rd Lord Stanley of Alderley.

Typed copy of ALS document .081266, record 120124.

Date added in pencil.

Typed carbon copy letter of ALS, document .081270, record 120128.

He recommends that Dr. Tsai see Arthur Ponsonby.

Waterlow seeks a meeting with Dr. Tsai and Dora re the Boxer Indemnity money.

Ponsonby has arranged for Dr. Tsai to see the Head of the Far Eastern Department.

The editor will try to publish her letter tomorrow. [Fyfe's mention of "Dr. Phai" may be in error for "Dr. Tsai".]

On the sense of helplessness in the face of the nuclear threat.

BR refers Habermel to the Canadian CND and James Whichell. The letter is glued to a backing.

Extracts from letter from Percy Griffith on the philosophical outcome of modern physics published in An Outline of Philosophy (London: Allen and Unwin, 1927), pp. 124-6.

It's unclear what writing by BR Griffith was reacting to on the subject of causality (possibly one of the ABC books).

Russell writes of visiting Joseph Conrad on 22 July 1914. He had taken the manuscript of "The Perplexities of John Forstice" for Conrad to read and advise him. The last part of the poet's speech in the manuscript concerns his thoughts on poetry. He also writes on his religion and his article in the Hibbert Journal, "Mysticism and Logic"; his impression of Prime Minister Asquith "jolly, red-faced, quite untroubled", whom he has met twice at dinner since returning to England; and reformers, quoting a line from the poetry of William Blake. "When one can write, all other troubles become bearable." He asks for her poems.

BR writes about the effect of World War I on him. "It is a challenge to one's belief and hopes, an assault upon one's reason, and a call to courage and independence." He admires President Woodrow Wilson and hopes he will play a prominent role in peace talks when the war ends. BR finds himself "all but a disciple of Tolstoy". He is "ashamed of the blindness of former years", when war was thought too mad to be possible.

Both a handwritten transcription in pencil and a typed transcription of this letter are with the original.

The verso has remnants of glue; it may have been stuck in an album.

BR writes about World War I. "The world has become so dreadful that it is hard to go on." "One of the hardest things to me is the hostility to truth in all countries." "The whole tragedy seems to me wholly futile, and incapable of leading to good, unless by revolting the conscience of Europe." "I am convinced it is wrong to fight, and that the Sermon on the Mount should be taken as practical politics." He can write of nothing except the war. He remarks on the similarity of English and Germans.

"At the last, England could not have kept out".

"The casualty lists are heart-rending".

Tsai mentions interviews and thanks Dora.

"Confidential." H.G. Wells has asked him to forward a draft on the Boxer Indemnity Fund. Any action by BR needs to be immediate.

Chao is planning to go to Berlin and thence to Sweden.

BR had suggested Ting as a Chinese representative on the committee. Waterlow is glad to hear that "Bertie is immersed in mathematical logic." Is Wittgenstein likely to come to England?

On his travels and travel plans.

Ewer is Foreign Editor. He asks about Feng.

BR is now able to have more interests in his life, including philosophy. And he is able to do anti-war work although he is not specific about what he is doing. The Perkins's and the Merrimans have visited from Boston.

"I imagined my views of life not very rosy, but the truth is far worse than I had realized." The difference of age in people's humane and decent feelings, and lack thereof.

BR thanks her for the Blakes and provides Hollond's address.

A typed transcription of this letter was made and is with the original.

BR writes about World War I. "I feel now that in my own spirit I have conquered the war—it cannot abase me again." He felt a lust for destruction after the sinking of the Lusitania but he no longer feels that way. Life has becoming "infinitely precious" and he wants to welcome the new world that will emerge after the war.

He is writing "The Philosophy of Social Reconstruction". It is "a sort of guide-book to the new radicalism which we shall need after the war." He will not "go in for socialism", being "more nearly an anarchist".

The war has taught him "more of man and his needs and follies and joys and despair" than he knew previously. But still "the universal madness is in my blood". "I try to have in my own person as much life as 20 men, to make what amends I can for the death all round me." "If I have not been shot as a traitor".

"You have done me a great and essential service—you have nourished faith in dark days—and I bless you for it."

BR's address is "c/o Mr. French, Garsington".

As far as BR knows, H.A. Hollond is alive and well even though he is not writing to Mrs. Warren.

BR is still working on his "Principles of Social Reconstruction" although it has been delayed. A book of his essays will be published by Open Court in the United States and the UK. He has no plans "to write anything more on the war". "An individual can do nothing but dissociate himself from the horror of hate."

There is a typed transcription of this letter.

BR thanks Mrs. Warren for the gift of her poems [not in his library]. (He had previously discussed poetry with her in his letter of 23 July 1914.)

Dated by BR's mention: "As you will perhaps have seen in the papers, I have had much to occupy my time." (Thus this undated letter may have been written at the time of BR's open letter to President Wilson. And she published a book of poems in 1917, Trackless Regions: Poems.

In 1919 she published The Sword: Poems, which may contain "To One Who Sleeps by My Side", mentioned by BR in Auto. 2: 98.)

BR remembers the beauty of Harvard "after the long dismal New England spring".

"I am very glad you liked my article in the Magazine Digest." BR has bought a house.

"Copy." On Susan's wish to see the children.

On how John Conrad might have been treated about 20 years earlier.

On her activities. She knows the Burns.

She has received "wild" letters from John.

Susan is glad the children write to her and of how "splendidly" they are growing up.

Susan complains of Anne Russell's letter, which she encloses for BR. See document .104388a, record 121517.

Poems, with the first page being an approximate list of the 17 poems that follow. BR has replaced the title of the second poem with "Swimmers". Some alterations are in Lindsay's hand.

Dated 1950?, because in this year BR told Kate Tait that Susan had an aptitude for poetry.

The daughter of Ottoline Morrell is sorry she had to take legal action against Continuum. "I had looked on you with great respect, and as a friend as well."

"Was it similarly your view that my name should not have been mentioned in your mother's [Ottoline Morrell's] memoirs?"

Dr. Pearce's bill for professional services for John Conrad Russell.

A receipt for professional services for John Conrad Russell.

A receipt for professional services for John Conrad Russell.

Three invoices for John Conrad Russell.