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

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

There is no draft of this letter in RA1 750.

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

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

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.

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

BR thanks Prasad for his "stimulating" letter.

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

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

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

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."

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

Re speaking at Aberystwyth.

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

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

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

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

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

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".

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

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

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."

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

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.

BR identifies as a Russian Jew the man in his story who regarded himself as Julius Caesar. BR does not remember his real name.

BR forwards Yukawa's letter.

BR does not believe it worthwhile to write on world government for the Russians.

BR responds to several questions put by Heckstall-Smith in his letter of 19 April 1958, document .153123a, record 97226, who will present them at a Totnes meeting in early May. The questions concern the radiation hazard. BR believes it is not yet the time to exclude fish and cod-liver oil from the diet of children.

The transcription of this letter is contained in an email to K. Blackwell from John Fairbrother, 7 Feb. 2011. Fairbrother, an internet bookseller, offered it on Abebooks.com on 6 Feb. 2011.

BR calls Hung's paper on Schlick "excellent".

On Beacon Hill School, to supplement the biographical information in Who's Who.

BR declines to write at present for Pall Mall Magazine. The recipient may be Lionel Brittain.

Kotte notes that the letter is written on Portmeirion letterhead and is stamped 12 July 1946. It concerns permission to translate "Physics and Experience" for a Swiss pamphlet edition.

Fleckenstein (1914-1980) taught in Basel where the pamphlet was published, and BR had recently lectured there.

A report from BR to a Girton official re Dorothy Wrinch’s mathematical research.

A transcription by Marjorie Senechal from the original at Girton College, it is contained in an email to K. Blackwell, 6 Oct. 2011: It is corrected accroding to a scan by Girton Archives of the original document in BR's hand.

"Here is what I transcribed at Girton, from their Wrinch folder on her earlier years at Girton, 1913–1924 or so:"

"Notes, to whom is not clear, from Bertrand Russell (March 17, 1918) about DW’s research:"

Miss Wrinch’s notes consist in the main of an interesting development of certain ideas suggested by Hausdorff: they deal with the investigation of series constructed by the “principle of first differences”. There are a number of new results, and the method employed is obviously a fruitful one, giving possibilities of very important theorems. The subject is one upon which, hitherto, not much work has been done; but it is very desirable that it should be investigated carefully, on account of its connection with some of the outstanding problems of the theory of aggregates, notably the comparability of the cardinal number of the continuum with the Alephs.

Miss Wrinch’s classification of the elements and gaps in various very general types of series is original and valuable. Moreover it points the way to a whole field of new research. From her notes, there can be no question of her competence and her capacity for adding to mathematical knowledge. If she is appointed to a Fellowship, the College may feel as much assurance as is ever possible that her work will justify the appointment and will be highly valued by all who are interested in the subjects with which she is dealing.

I have known Miss Wrinch’s work for nearly two years, and I have no doubt that she will devote herself whole-heartedly to research if circumstances render it possible. Apart from what is in her Notes, she is engaged in other investigations on cognate subjects, and there is every reason to believe that she will arrive at valuable results in these also.

Bertrand Russell.
17 March 1918.

Although he is writing on Plas Penrhyn letterhead, BR informs Gellner that he is in London for two weeks and invites him for tea.

He likes all the work that Gellner sent him, particularly "The Spurious Fox". "It is a comfort to find some one who does not think [like?] the O.E.D."

This letter is located in box 6 of the Gellner papers, along with an offprint of "What Is Mind?" (B&R C58.02), inscribed in BR's hand: "With the author's compliments".

The carbon of this letter is document .050219, record 1206.

"I read your discussion of How to Live in Anarchy in The Listener and I found it very interesting."

The carbon of this letter is document .050232, record 76667.

BR encloses his introduction to Gellner's book Words and Things. This letter is located in box 67 of the Gellner papers, while the introduction is in box 60.

The carbon of this letter is document .050233, record 76668.

BR agrees to be a referee for Gellner in his application for a chair in Sociology at LSE.

BR asks Gellner to join the Committee of 100 which is being formed.

The carbon of this letter is document .050234, record 76669.

A photocopy of this letter was also obtained from Warwick University, Rec. Acq. 663, record 56334.

The second to last sentence of this letter appears in the Notes record 76669.

BR denies making a remark, critical of Gellner, that Mr. Mehta attributed to him.

BR encloses literature on "the recently formed Peace Foundations".

The carbon of this letter is document .142429, record 88332.

The carbon of this letter is document .050235, record 76670.

BR is pleased that Thought and Change is dedicated to him. He notes that Gellner believes in progress.

The carbon of this letter is document .050236, record 76671.

BR is "very glad" to possess Crisis in the Humanities, especially Gellner's chapter.

An invitation to attend a dinner at the Café Royale in BR's honour on 18 May 1962, BR's 90th birthday. Since replies were to be sent to Ayer, it is assumed that the invitation was from him.

A greetings card which contains a brief extract from Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind. It was issued by the CND, Hemel Hempstead and District Group.

The carbon of this letter is document .050223, record 76665.

BR has just written to The Times and privately to The Observer about Words and Things.

The letter from the editor concerns B&R C59.23.

The letter which BR received is document .142425, record 88327.

This letter is in box 60 of Gellner's papers along with BR's introduction to Words and Things.

The carbon of this letter is document .142425a, record 88328.

BR agrees to changes that Gellner wanted in his introduction to Words and Things. With the letter is the hand-revised typescript of the introduction.

Viney, who works for the BRPF, asks Gellner to send greetings to BR on his 95th birthday.

She writes on letterhead that merely has the BRPF's address but not the name.

BR applies for a position at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, if there is a vacancy.

Flexner reluctantly informs BR that there are no vacancies available, because of lack of funds. Any new hires will be in the area of the humanities and economics.

BR is disappointed that Flexner will not be able to employ him at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Dewey notes that the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton has a new head, Frank Adelyotte. He wonders if Adelyotte should be approached on BR's behalf, regarding employment.

Veblen encloses the letter he received from Dewey (record 120962) and his reply (record 120964).

Veblen informs Dewey that he thinks the basic difficulty with regard to hiring BR at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton is that he is already older than the normal retirement age of 65.

Aydelotte agrees that Veblen's reply to Dewey regarding BR's employment at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton has struck the right tone and he will not add to it. He hopes to see Felix Frankfurter, presumably on another matter.

Morris asks Einstein to assist with the employment of BR at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Morris attended a recent BR seminar at Chicago on words and facts.

Einstein encloses a letter from Charles Morris (record 120967) concerning BR's employment at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

"There is no doubt that Bertrand Russell is one of the leading minds of our time in mathematical logic and philosophy in general and this writings are—in my opinion—of permanent value." Einstein suggests that "it may be possible to get some special funds to enable this great mind to do his valuable work in Princeton for a few years". "... it must be avoided that later generations should have to tell that this master could not find opportunities to finish his work."

Aydelotte asks Veblen to read the enclosed letter from Einstein (record 120967) and advise him on how to reply. He questions "whether Bertrand Russell would fit into the group at the Institute [for Advanced Study in Princeton]".

"I am very much puzzled to know what to do about Bertrand Russell. Our funds at the Institute [for Advanced Study in Princeton] are exhausted, but I have lately become a member of the Executive Board of the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars and I shall raise the question of assistance for him at the next meeting."

"So far as 'fitting in' is concerned, B. Russell would do it all right, at least at the mathematical end.... I have known him and liked him since 1908." "In his favor are his preeminence in mathematical logic and as a master of the English language. The chief point against him is the fact that he is already well past our retiring age in years. If someone came forward with what would amount to a pension for the rest of his days, I can see no reason for not giving him asylum, as it were, in the Institute [for Advanced Study]".

Mrs. Gilkyson writes that Albert Barnes has dismissed BR from the Barnes Foundation. His situation is not good. "Mr. Russell is convinced that no college or university would dare to have anything to do with him, and of course the middle of the year is a hopeless time to make a change." "He hopes to get along by having a few lecture engagements until summer, when his new History of Philosophy would be finished."

John F. Lewis, Jr., has urged her to tell Aydelotte of the Russells' situation.

Dr. Aydelotte is away from Princeton. He will reply upon his return.

Aydelotte is sorry to hear of BR's dismissal from the Barnes Foundation but notes "it is extremely difficult to find any kind of academic appointment for a man of seventy". He suggests BR should "put himself in the hands of a good lecture bureau in New York or to take the advice of Dr. Stephen Duggan".

Mrs. Gilkyson will pass on Aydelotte's advice to BR.

Aydelotte invites BR to give two seminars at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, sponsored by the School of Economics, as previously discussed in a conversation. The dates are changed to 10 and 14 April. BR will be paid an honorarium of $100. The meetings will be held in the office of Professor Walter Stewart. Those attending will have read BR's book Power. The general subject is Profit vs. Power as a motive of economic activity.

This letter from Aydelotte was also sent to Henry Allen Moe and Herbert H. Maass (copies in the file).

Aydelotte gives all three men the details on the upcoming two seminars to be given by BR at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Wolman declines Aydelotte's invitation to attend BR's seminars at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton because he is too busy.

Director Duggan has received several (not revealing) letters from Patricia Russell about BR's future. He knows no details of BR's dismissal from the Barnes Foundation. "Russell is notorious as well as a distinguished figure, I question whether any approach I might make to the colleges and universities for him to lecture would be any more successful than efforts he himself might make."

Aydelotte writes: "I understand that Russell has been quite a success as a lecturer and I should think it extremely likely that your office could get engagements for him if you listed him as you do others." He is not surprised that relations between Barnes and BR developed as they have.

Aydelotte thanks BR on behalf of the School of Economics for the two seminars BR gave and encloses the honorarium of $100.

Writing to BR c/o of the BBC, Lasky re-introduces himself as the editor of Der Monat. He would like a contribution from BR; the review's first issue will include a BR reprint. They had previously met when Lasky edited The New Leader and BR gave lectures at the Rand School, located in the same building in New York.

Lasky encloses (present in BR's periodicals with a signed "with compliments" slip from Lasky, dated 15 Oct. 1948) the first issue of Der Monat with a reprint contribution from BR. He has heard from both Freda Utley and Sidney Hook about BR. Lasky wants to give a reception for BR when he visits Berlin and for that purpose has contacted "the British people here who are managing your trip".

BR thanks Lasky for sending him a copy of Der Monat "which interested me a good deal". He hopes to be able to attend the reception in Berlin, but that will depend on the Foreign Office (Trevor Davies), who are making his arrangements.

The reception for BR in Berlin on Saturday (23 Oct.) was a great success. A telegram message (no details) given to Lasky by BR has been dispatched. Lasky asks for another.

Lasky's original letter to BR is located in RA1 410, filed under Monat, record 84875.

Lasky wishes to translate BR's lecture (B&R A81) which they discussed in Berlin.

BR informs Lasky he has remembered that the lecture (B&R A81) Lasky wants to publish had been previously published by Cambridge.

BR cannot locate the manuscript but is having CUP send Lasky a copy of the book. He is sorry for the long delay in replying and to seem "so unbusinesslike; many of my papers were sunk at Trondheim".

Lasky is having "Philosophy and Politics" translated into German.

He would like further contributions.

The file also contains Lasky's handwritten draft of this letter.

He sent BR no. 5 of Der Monat, which has a review of the German translation of Freedom and Organization.

BR finds Der Monat "an exceedingly creditable publication" and enjoys receiving it.

"As you know from the atmosphere in Germany, which you yourself sensed, the kind of intellectual and international attitudes which we represent do not have exactly easy-going here".

Lasky is grateful that BR has agreed to act as a sponsor for the Berlin Congress of the Congress for Cultural Freedom. He would like BR to send a message, since he has to be in Australia at the same time. He suggests various Cold War themes.

(No message has come to light.)

BR cannot continue as one of the five honorary chairmen of the Congress for Cultural Freedom due to disagreement with accounts in the press and otherwise. "I should like, nevertheless, to assure you that I am in general sympathy with your work and that my disagreements, such as they are, concern only shades."

A typed copy of this letter is also in the file; it is also in Rec. Acq. 1161c, record 58140.

BR uses the German term "Kongress Kulturelle Freiheit" in addressing his letter to Lasky.

A typed draft of this letter using the heading "Monat" is also in the file.

Lasky tells BR that the press accounts re the Congress for Cultural Freedom that appeared in Britain were very prejudiced. He has discussed this with Arthur Koestler who is a Congress executive member and suggests a meeting.

Arthur Koestler has visited BR, who has agreed to do nothing for the present and is persuaded that the reports he had read were "somewhat biassed".

Lasky informs BR that Der Monat will be printing Koestler's review [that in The Observer, probably] of BR's Unpopular Essays and some excerpts from the book. Lasky's handwritten draft of this letter is also in the file.

BR agrees to anything satisfactory to Allen and Unwin with regard to his publications in Der Monat.

Franck encloses a reprint of an article by Niels Bohr (not present). Although BR had earlier agreed to meet Franck (who was at the University of Chicago), Franck had not called him because "it would not be right for me to play the defender of the point of view of men like Bohr, Heisenberg, etc., in a discussion with a philosopher like you to whom I cannot be a comparable opponent." Franck agrees with the article by Bohr.

James Woods wants to know whether Judson would like BR to lecture at the University of Chicago when he is in America in 1917.

Re BR possibly lecturing at the University of Chicago.

Dean Angell notes that BR lectured at the University of Chicago in 1915 [i.e. 1914]. "Russell has made himself so obnoxious on the war issue that he has been substantially confined and removed from his post at Cambridge." He doubts that BR will be allowed to come to the USA.

Re BR possibly lecturing at Chicago.

Judson informs Woods that since BR lectured at Chicago the previous year, we "shall hardly have occasion therefore to repeat the matter".