Total Published Records: 135,558
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. |
| 120808 | BR himself will speak, and Patricia will drive him (to San Diego). |
| 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. |
| 120812 | Dora Russell thanks her campaign workers in the general election of 1924. The letter is illustrated by her photograph. |
| 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. |
| 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". |
| 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. |
| 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. |
