BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
120803

Frank hasn't heard anything from Wells about his divorce book. Elizabeth is sending her book.

120804

Frank fears his book on divorce "is dull and too serious." He asks Wells to write to Elizabeth once H.G. has read her book.

120805

Frank asks Wells to read a manuscript, The Retreat from Parenthood, although the title is not mentioned until the next letter. The author is a "clever woman but engaged in education and cannot afford to disclose her identity, for fear of losing her job." (The author was Dorothy Wrinch.)

120806

Frank asks for the return of The Retreat from Parenthood manuscript. He is busy with the election and has been speaking once or twice every night.

120807

The original letter is in the Catlin papers.

BR is credited with the mathematical element in the new empiricism.

120808

BR himself will speak, and Patricia will drive him (to San Diego).

The draft telegram is found on Ingram's letter, record 120642.

120809
120810
120811

This letter soliciting funds was written on behalf of Dora Russell by her honorary election agent in the Chelsea constituency of the general election of 1924.

The letterhead is illustrated with a photograph of Dora Russell.

120812

Dora Russell thanks her campaign workers in the general election of 1924. The letter is illustrated by her photograph.

This printed letter was sent from the home she shared with BR, 31 Sydney Street, Chelsea, London.

120813

[Charles] Trevelyan is mentioned in connection with education. See BR's letters at this time.

120814

Re a new monthly, School.

120815

"Apart from the romantic adoration that took me into marriage with Bertie, against my beliefs and judgment, I have loved only one man. He is now dead." She means Paul Gillard.

120816

She encloses a copy of a letter (record 120817) that A.S. Neill drafted in support of Beacon Hill School, as well as a printed programme, for a conference to be held at the school by the Federation of Progressive Societies and Individuals.

120817
120818
120819
120820
120821

This letter was sent to H.G. Wells on 4 April 1936 to persuade him to sign a letter with various other persons, as a result of a committee formed by the Federation of Progressive Societies and Individuals.

There seem to be two enclosures. They are versions of a letter to the New Statesman, record 120670 and record 120669.

120822
120823
120824
120825
120826
120827

On an interview in which Wells disparaged women.

120828
120829

Dora writes on Telegraph House letterhead, so the letter is no later than 1934.

120830

Jane Wells is ill.

120831
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.