Evidently for tax purposes, BR increases his telephone, postage and telegraphic expenses because of long cables, long-distance calls, and "a vast correspondence with all parts of the world" by air mail.

BR thanks him for an interesting enclosure.

BR cannot contribute to her Alumnae Bulletin. He considers "conformity in matters of opinion a very grave evil".

BR sends his agreement to be on the Wolfenden Honorary Committee on Homosexuality.

BR will await the arrival of Bettelini's book before deciding what can be done about an English translation.

BR is willing in principle to do a certain pre-recorded broadcast.

BR asks to speak early at the Aberystwyth CND meeting and to leave early—"it would greatly reduce the fatigue of the occasion".

BR is sorry Rauh encounters "men who have not wholly rejected the Nazi philosophy".

This is a clipping of an editorial cartoon in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, 13 May 1967, p. A-12, and reprinted from the Louisville Courier Journal. It shows BR costumed as the White Rabbit and holding a scroll on which is written "Bertrand Russell's Tribunal on 'U.S. War Crimes'". The cartoonist, Haynie, notes: "After a Tenniel illustration for Alice in Wonderland". The caption to the cartoon is: "'We find,' said the White Rabbit, 'the defendant guilty as charged and as previously announced before the beginning of the trial'."

A person signing himself "Bill" or "BH" has written at the top: "Did you see this? A friend of Caro Stillwells did it, I think." The comment is dated 3/3/1968.

BR encloses Rauh's letter (record 121010) and requests Sceptical Essays be sent to him.

BR recommends the Portmeirion Hotel.

BR will give serious consideration to World Peace through World Law.

A tax slip is signed and sent to the solicitors for the Woods.

BR thanks Mettler for an excellent photograph (presumably the one of BR and Albert Schweitzer).

BR is pleased by the sales of his old books. He would not like Unwin to emulate Simon and Schuster's style of blurb.

Mound has been "impressed more than is necessary by C.S. Lewis". BR continues on Soviet confessions of guilt and "spectacular self-sacrifice in a distant country".

"My relations with Lawrence were extraordinarily similar to Hume's relations with Rousseau."

BR has every sympathy with Miller's editorial policy, but nothing new to send him.

Re the CCNY case. BR has requested the ACLU to select an attorney to represent him.

Re the CCNY case. "I very much hope the Board of Higher Education will appeal". Many people have shown sympathy.

BR should like to speak at CCNY "on some topic connected with theory of knowledge" in November or December 1940. He assumes that Colston Leigh will not object.

BR is going to reason with Colston Leigh, presumably over his objection to BR speaking at CCNY on a topic related to the theory of knowledge. BR's contract "makes no exception for any sort of address".

Colston Leigh has reluctantly agreed to BR speaking at CCNY on November 26, on some topic related to the theory of knowledge.

BR replies to questions posed by Mr. Demeree on his method of social investigation—he does not "employ any particular method". BR writes about social psychology and notes Lenin and "the statesmen who made modern Japan" as exceptions to his behaviourist approach. "I should always, in interpreting behaviour, allow myself to use psychological imagination of the sort required in novels and dramas" and self-observation. He finds "Rivers's writing the nearest approach to a scientific basis for the way in which to ... to investigate social problems."

This letter is in the papers of Charles Merriam, who was shortly to become the founder of the University of Chicago's Social Science Division.

The University Extension Division wants to know when BR's appointment at the University of Chicago will end.

BR's appointment at the University of Chicago will end on 31 March, although his lectures will conclude a week earlier.

Wang asks how long BR's appointment at the University of Chicago will last. She writes from Toronto, Canada.

BR's lectures at the University of Chicago will end on 20 March 1939.

Mr. Church of the National Association of High School Principals wants BR to address the annual meeting in Cleveland on 15 February 1939. Woodward is Vice-President and writes to BR at the Plaisance Hotel. [The address took place on 25 February.]

A typed note records a telephone call from Feakins. BR will speak to the National Association of High School Principals. All engagements involving a fee must be made through Feakins.

BR will speak to the National Association of High School Principals in Cleveland but arrangements must be made through William B. Feakins.

BR is offered a visiting professorship of philosophy at the University of Chicago for the 1938-39 academic year with a salary of $5,000. Outside lecturing will be allowed as an extra source of income. He mentions the (Buchanan) plan that moved to St. John's College, Annapolis.

McKeon is Dean of the Humanities Division and Hutchins is President.

BR has accepted the University of Chicago's offer for the academic year 1938-39 as a visiting professor in the department of philosophy.

Filbey is Vice-President.

BR has accepted the University of Chicago's offer for the academic year 1938-39 as a visiting professor in the department of philosophy. It is understood that the cost of $5,000 will come from a donation to the University from a benefactor.

Barkley is in the President's office.

The Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago has appointed BR as visiting professor in the department of philosophy beginning on 1 Oct. 1938. The appointment was made on 12 May 1938.

BR agrees to write something short for Morris's encyclopaedia pamphlet. "I have no differences of principle with logical positivism."

"I was invited, not to a university post, but to join a committee of liberal arts, run by Buchanan" at the University of Chicago. "I wrote making a few inquiries, but fully expecting to accept; I received a reply informing me that the offer was withdrawn."

BR asks for Morris's advice re what he should write for the encyclopedia. He is concerned that "I have already said the sort of thing that naturally occurs to me in the article I wrote for the proceedings of the Paris conference."

BR encloses (not present) a few pages for Morris's encyclopaedia and returns his paper on scientific empiricism.

BR has had little time to think about the Sixth International Congress for the Unity of Science and can only endorse what seems good to Morris. He was "distressed to hear that Otto Neurath was interned in England.... I wish to express my highest appreciation of his character, and my firm conviction that he is the last man who ought to have been interned."

Neurath (1882-1945) left Holland in May 1940 with his third wife-to-be, Marie Reidemeister. In England they were interned as enemy aliens on the Isle of Man for a period of 9 months, being released in Feb. 1941. See http://www.holywellhousepublishing.co.uk/Neurath.html.

BR regrets he is unable to go to Chicago in September 1941. He doubts he can help Morris get work at the Barnes Foundation; he feels Barnes only hired him because he "was a victim of persecution". All money in the Strong Fund has to be spent inside the sterling area. When he next writes anything for a conference it will be on "proper names. I think all current theories of them untenable". He spends all his time on the history of philosophy.

BR gives his view of sabbatical years.

BR invites Simpson (of the University of Chicago) to attend a conference in Pugwash, Nova Scotia from 8 to 11 July on nuclear issues. Appearing after BR's signature are the following names:

Max Born, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, L. Infeld, Linus Pauling, C.F. Powell, J. Rotblat, H. Yukawa.

The draft agenda consists of a single sheet with 6 main headings.

Simpson declines an invitation to attend the first Pugwash Conference.

He asks for opinions and suggestions on how to improve The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

The ribbon copy of the letter is in RA1 625, record 117018.

A half-size sheet announces:

"The University of Chicago the Department of Philosophy presents three public lectures by Bertrand Russell March 20, 1944 'Probable Inference' March 21, 1944 'Physics and Knowledge' March 22, 1944 'The Limits of Empiricism' Social Science Research Building Room 122 4:30 p.m. Admission without ticket".
 

"Introduction of Mr Russell, Oct. 31, 1927, at the City Social Club, Chicago, by E.H. Lewis, of Lewis Institute."

Adler's notes are for his debate with BR in 1941 and another in 1942 or 1943. The group comprises 8 sheets (with a 2nd, double-sided copy), and there is a report in The Daily Maroon, 21 Jan. 1941.

Adler's notes are for his second debate with BR.

The title is "Interview with Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, 30 January 1974". The interview took place at a University of Toronto Press reception for the editor (Adler) and the new edition of The Encyclopaedia Britannica.

"This is to confirm that my associate, Mr. Tom Kinsey, is working for me and is seeking support for my work against nuclear war."

Kinsey's son sent a pdf file of the original document via the BRPF's Tony Simpson.

"The bearer of this letter is my associate, Mr. Tom Kinsey, who is representing me in your country. He has worked closely with me over a considerable period and has my entire confidence."

Kinsey's son sent a pdf file of the original document via the BRPF's Tony Simpson. Probably this letter is later than the previous one, record 121050, because of the reference to Kinsey's having worked for BR and his fundraising.

Iversen has sent BR a book in a language that BR cannot read. "I wish all learned works were written in Esperanto." The book is not in Russell's library.

For Iversen's letter, see document .051407, record 1643.

BR declines his invitation to lecture at the University of Copenhagen.

BR reconsiders Jørgensen's invitation to lecture at the University of Copenhagen.

BR writes that it is not possible to undertake a trip to lecture at the University of Copenhagen in 1931 or early 1932.

BR expects to be abroad when Jørgensen visits England.

BR thanks Jørgensen for sending him "your magnificent volumes on formal logic". The 3-volume set is in Russell's library, A Treatise of Formal Logic: Its Evolution and Main Branches, with Its Relations to Mathematics and Philosophy (1931), and is inscribed to BR.

BR has now read Jørgensen's Treatise of Formal Logic (Russell's Library, nos. 1882-1884) and finds himself "naturally in practically complete agreement with your outlook." BR is "relieved to find that your views are so closely similar to those of Principia Mathematica". "I have since August 1914 practically abandoned the study of mathematical logic. In reading your book I began to feel that perhaps this had been a mistake. In case there should ever be another edition, I should be glad to let you have a note as to a few small misprints, especially as regards the use of dots."

"... I know no other man, whose opinion about my Treatise I appreciate so much as yours...."

"Together with this letter I am allowing myself the pleasure of sending you a copy of A Treatise of Formal Logic."

He writes again about a Scandinavian lecture tour for BR.

He discusses a possible lecturing trip to Copenhagen by BR.

"I thank you very much for your letter of January 27." Jørgensen mentions sponsorship of lecture visits by the Rask-Orsted Foundation.

"Referring to a conversation my wife had with you during the congress of W.L.S.R...." This is a reference to the 1929 Congress of the World League for Sexual Reform. He mentions a fee of 600 kr.

"Received of Professor Jørgen Jørgensen kr. 600,00. p.t. Copenhagen".

The draft refers to BR's letter of 18 February (record 121055).

The letter is in Danish and refers to Niels and Harald Bohr and Otto Jespersen; also the Congress of Philosophy at Oxford in summer 1930.

This is an English translation of record 121065.

A transcription of a telegram from Patricia quoted in a letter from Jørgensen to Einar Tegen, University of Lund. "Much regret. Russell ill. Doctor absolutely forbids any work for a least three months." See record 121069 for the letter. It is assumed that the telegram was sent no later than the day before Jørgensen's letter quoting it.

This is a statement denying that BR ever conducted a nudist colony, paraded nude in public, or went in for salacious poetry.

He would like the opportunity to deny the allegations on oath.

There is a textual alteration in Patricia's handwriting.

Jørgensen tells Tegen of Lund University that BR has had to cancel the tour for now. See record 121067 for the telegram from Patricia that he quotes.

Leslie Allison lived in The Millhangar in the 1920s. She writes about the house which was occupied by BR and Alys for a few years, beginning in 1896.

Leslie Allison lived in the Millhangar in the 1920s. She writes about the house which was occupied by BR and Alys for several years, beginning in 1896.

Weisberg sent BR a copy of his book Whitewash: the Report on the Warren Report, a month ago and wants to know if BR received it. It is in Russell's library and concerns the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Weisberg thanks Schoenman for his letter of 18 July but notes that it does not answer the question whether his book Whitewash: the Report on the Warren Report was received.

The carbon of this letter is document .157958, record 102074.

BR confirms that he has received Weisberg's book, Whitewash: the Report on the Warren Report, but its small print makes it too difficult to read. "I read so much that it is a strain to read your book as now printed."

The original letter is document .157959, record 102075.

Weisberg discusses his plans for a second volume on the Kennedy assassination and defends the decency of Earl Warren.

The carbon of this letter is document .157960, record 102076.

Schoenman states the BRPF's interest in seeing the second volume of Whitewash.

Weisberg's letter to Schoenman will be answered upon his return.

Schoenman refers to Fensterwald and the John F. Kennedy assassination.

Weisberg thinks it "baloney" that there is enough [evidence] for a trial and that Fensterwald can name those who fired on Kennedy.

The letter is addressed "Dear Madam". It concerns topics for BR's address to L.S.E. students scheduled for 25 Oct. 1922. The image is courtesy of the seller in February 2012, Antiquariat Inlibris, Vienna.

The letter apparently concerns BR addressing the student union at L.S.E. The letter is part of a large lot of letters addressed to members of the student body (perhaps officials of the Union) at L.S.E. The seller, Antiquariat Inlibris, Vienna, supplied the dates and formats for record 121081, record 121082, record 121083, record 121084, record 121085, record 121086, record 121087 and record 12088.

The letter described and pictured in this record was highlighted when the LSE lot was sold at Bonhams on 22 Nov. 2011.

The letter apparently concerns BR's address to L.S.E. students scheduled for 25 Oct. 1922. The letter is part of a large lot of letters addressed to members of the student body (perhaps the Union) at L.S.E. The seller, Antiquariat Inlibris, Vienna, supplied the dates and formats.

The letter apparently concerns BR's presidential address to L.S.E. students scheduled for 25 Oct. 1922. The letter is part of a large lot of letters addressed to members of the student body (perhaps the Union) at L.S.E. The seller, Antiquariat Inlibris, Vienna, supplied the dates and formats.

The letter apparently concerns BR's presidential address to L.S.E. students scheduled for 25 Oct. 1922. The letter is part of a large lot of letters addressed to members of the student body (perhaps the Union) at L.S.E. The seller, Antiquariat Inlibris, Vienna, supplied the dates and formats.

The letter apparently concerns BR's presidential address to L.S.E. students scheduled for 25 Oct. 1922. The letter is part of a large lot of letters addressed to members of the student body (perhaps the Union) at L.S.E. The seller, Antiquariat Inlibris, Vienna, supplied the dates and formats.

The letter apparently concerns BR's presidential address to L.S.E. students scheduled for 25 Oct. 1922. The letter is part of a large lot of letters addressed to members of the student body (perhaps the union) at L.S.E. The seller, Antiquariat Inlibris, Vienna, supplied the dates and formats.

The letter may concern BR's presidential address at L.S.E. on 17 November 1930. The letter is part of a large lot of letters addressed to members of the student body (perhaps the Union) at L.S.E. The seller, Antiquariat Inlibris, Vienna, supplied the dates and formats.

No text can be discerned.

The letter may concern BR's presidential address at L.S.E. on 17 November 1930. The letter is part of a large lot of letters addressed to members of the student body (perhaps the Union) at L.S.E. The seller, Antiquariat Inlibris, Vienna, supplied the dates and formats.

BR declines to write an article on a topic suggested by Spender.

BR declines an interview as his time is "completely filled".

BR declines to attend an International Writers' Congress out of England.

BR declines to give an opinion on Neville's paper.

BR sends a document concerning the Berlin Academy to Rotblat.

At the Basel Conference BR will state his indignation at the murder of Nagy.

Exeter is to be told no.

BR declines to see Mrs. Lilo as he is just off to a congress at Basel.

BR encourages the reprinting of works such as "Mathematical Concepts of the External World" (by Whitehead), but he does not think such reprinting would be remunerative.

The letter concerns Duthie's symposium, which cannot be identified; it may have been for a magazine. It was offered for sale by Maggs Brothers, catalogue 971, spring 1976. The catalogue contains an extract from the letter: "I am at the moment exceedingly busy, or I would send you with pleasure a contribution to your symposium. As it is, I send you a guinea for your funds, with warm wishes [for a successful campaign]." The bracketed words appear only in Houle's catalogue entry on Abebooks.com.

Houle Rare Books, Los Angeles, offered the letter for sale again in March 2012. (The price rose from £14 in 1976 to $1,750 in 2012.)

This is a letter "To the Metropolitan Press" as Goltz says in his covering letter (record 46446).

Re Jean Kay's application to review BR's appointment to CCNY.

This mock letter, written by Michael and Mary Burn, was signed by John Stuart Mill, Ludwig van Beethoven, and others. The letter was enclosed with document .119739, record 46139.

It is reproduced in facsimile in Burn's autobiography, Turned towards the Sun.

BR writes following his 97th birthday party: "My warmest thanks, again, for the posthumous missive with the signatures of your and my heroes" (record 121101).

Edith Russell added a handwritten postscript to the letter. It is reproduced in facsimile in Burn's autobiography, Turned towards the Sun.