BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
120832
120833

On Telegraph House letterhead. About a children's play.

120834

Jane Wells is ill.

120835
120836
120837

Enclosed with Sinclair's letter to BR of 4 April, record 46630.

120838
120839
120840
BR sent a cheque.
120841

BR declines.

120842
120843
120844
BR sent his income tax form.
120845
120846
120847
120848

Re Samuel Butler and whether the Odyssey was written by a woman.

120849
BR declines.
120850

"I am entirely with you in your praise of walking to which I was greatly addicted when I was rather younger than I am now."

120851
120852

BR can't meet the Narayans as he will be in Wales.

120853

BR thanks Stickland for a book and quotes some Rebecca Mason verse.

120854
120855

BR has forwarded Matthews' letter to The Times.

120856

BR read Gellner's "How to Live in Anarchy" in The Listener.

120857

BR cannot meet Professor Chin Go-lin.

120858

On BR's speech commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

120859

Evidently, BR forwarded a "Montreal" letter to Duff.

120860

BR cannot be in London to meet Duncan.

120861

"Not acknowledged".

BR forwarded "Sane Policy" to the "Campaign", presumably CND.

120862

BR has signed a draft deed concerning Foges.

120863

BR agrees to an interview.

120864
120865
120866

BR forwards Edmund Penney's letter and a copy of his reply to Penney.

120867

BR requests a list of German translations of his works.

120868
Refusal.
120869

BR is too busy with H-bomb work to concoct a message for the bicentenary of Boscovich.

120870

BR is not in agreement with Welsh nationalism or that of any other country.

120871

BR declines to speak at the Cambridge Union.

120872

Payment of £55.11.0 for Griffin's wages.

120873

BR is glad Brooks agrees with his emphasis on "the common interests of the two sides in the present world tension".

120874

BR encloses an autographed photograph.

120875

BR forwards Zamindar's letter re translations.

120876

BR declines to review an unspecified book as he is too busy opposing the H-bomb.

120877

BR confines his speaking to "occasional large audiences in London". Student publications are welcome to reprint his articles.

120878

BR declines an invitation from the Society of Isleworth.

120879
BR sends payment of 10 guineas to his family's physician.
120880

BR encloses a statement re first steps to ease world tension for this Australian periodical. It has already been published in various countries.

120881

Published as "'Central Question'".

120882
120883
BR sends the 1955 statement.
120884

BR sends a signed document to Joliot-Curie.

120885
BR sends an autographed photo.
120886

BR sends 2 guineas.

120887

BR suggests cutting off his signature to make an autograph for Why I Am Not a Christian.

120888

BR encloses his letter from L.L.V. Rieselbach.

120889

BR encloses a blurb (present, at record 120918 ). "The avoidance of self-praise almost inevitably makes the book seem dull."

120890

BR cannot get Snider's poem Namus published. He needs "a shorter way of expressing" his message. Snider later sent BR an inscribed publication of Namus (record 40862).

120891

BR cannot give Banyun's "Credo" as much attention as he could wish.

Edith wrote "Bunion".

120892

Re her correspondence with BR and Wittgenstein.

120893
120894

Wrinch requests copies of her letters.

120895
120896

Also in the file are notes of the Blackwell/Wrinch telephone call of 10 December 1968; this call is mentioned in the letter.

120897

Blackwell mentions having tea in Victoria, BC, with Beatrice Whitehouse, who had attended BR's lectures in 1899 on Leibniz.

Whitehouse appears in Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page by Sandra Djwa (2012). She was Page's aunt and died on 2 May 1976. She is said there to have earned a Cambridge degree in 1896 (but not awarded it because of her sex), and had studied under Russell and Whitehead. According to the Newnham registry (see attached), she entered Newnham in 1896 and completed the degree requirements in 1899. Afterwards she trained as a nurse. She is mentioned at http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=109633&page=1 as nursing at Endell Street Military Hospital during WWI.

120898

Wrinch has had the flu and a broken wrist.

120899
120900

Re Retreat from Parenthood and BR's comment on Wrinch in 1918.

120901

Wrinch asks him to call her, although she has "practically no documents of interest."

120902

Blackwell sends an issue of Russell with an article on Jourdain.

120903

A typed carbon of this letter is in RA1 720, record 27695.

120904

A typed carbon of this letter is in RA1 720, record 27711.

120905

There is no draft of this letter in RA1 750.

120906
BR is ill.
120907

A typed carbon of this letter is in RA1 720, record 27715.

120908

A typed carbon of this letter is in RA1 720, record 16461. The signature is secretarial, and is initialled "AY" (for Alastair Yule).

120909
A typed carbon of this letter is document .111496, record 4592.
120910
A typed carbon of this letter is document .111497, record 78613.
120911

A typed carbon of this letter is in RA1 313, record 42965.

BR expects contributions will have to remain in India to be used by "our Indian office". He mentions a BRPF pamphlet and Mrs. Sundra.

120912

A typed carbon of this letter is in RA1 313, record 91296.

BR thanks Prasad for his "stimulating" letter.

120913
A typed carbon of this letter is document .111500, record 82290.
120914

Schoenman asks for messages to be presented to BR on his 90th birthday.

The signature is "B.E. Ful?", p.p. Schoenman.

120915

Coates acknowledges Prasad's message on BR's death.

120916

BR returns the typescript of a BBC interview on old age, with corrections. He explains one: "Only a very rich man could afford a house at Richmond having a view of Leith Hill."

120917
Re an appointment.
120918

The blurb is written above BR's dictated letter to Unwin of same date. See record 120889.

120919

Re speaking at Aberystwyth.

120920

BR encloses (not present) a "communication" for Astor to consider publishing. BR means that sent by Edita Morris, record 120921.

120921

BR sent her "painful communication" to The Observer, record 120920.

BR remarks that "leaflets are only read by the converted".

120922

Re an agreement with adprint for £5,000—BR instructs Madams to not hand the agreement to Adprint before the payment is made.

120923
BR is too busy and would hardly know which crime stories are his favourites.
120924

BR could manage May 8, 9 or 10 for the CBC.

120925

BR is making a collection of anti-nuclear writings for Greenish: Reply to Hook, "Steps to Disarm", "Open Letter, and Reply, to Dulles and Khrushchev".

120926

BR sends a statement for a September peace meeting in Oslo. Portions could be used, subject to BR's approval.

120927

This is a dictation note. Edwards is to be sent any article, not on Ryle, on philosophy.

120928

BR sends philosophical offprints to Edwards, and is sorry not to have acknowledged Edwards' parcel of books. "My correspondence is very heavy and I have great difficulty in keeping up with it."

120929

BR acknowledges receipt of a cheque for 3s.7d.

120930

BR has no comment on Foulkes' recent batch of typescript, except for wondering about the theory of ideas being said to be Socratic rather than Platonic.

120931
A statement on nuclear tests, in the form of two points.