"I am fascinated by Griselda's notebook for it stirs long forgotten memories. The photos are very helpful too in bringing memories back."

"The background that led up to the founding of Beacon Hill is fascinating. Your thesis will be fabulous!"

Una thanks them for the flowers they sent.

Re Beacon Hill School.

BR prefers speaking early and having a cold supper at the hotel.

He particularly likes the quotation from Eisenhower on a leaflet given to him by Davies.

BR is honoured by Spivak's invitation, but it is unlikely BR will ever again come to the US.

Refusal.

BR approves of Professor Joynt's article on Toynbee.

BR addresses his correspondent as "fellow lunatic". The asylum will have to be very large but will not contain Mr. Luce.

BR has read Gore's paper with interest and approval.

BR will not be in London and will be unable to support Beveridge's motion.

The amount of £37.15.0 is to go to BR's accountant.

BR has decided to be present for the Lord's debate on May 14.

On surrender to the Russians and BR's critics. He encloses his reply to Hook (not present).

BR returns a book: "It seemed to me completely devoid of sense."

"I am so sorry about B.R. Yes, I saw him once; he was awfully kind about my work and I enjoyed talking to him. He was in the mood. We didn't talk about present people and present affairs, but the kind of 'odd' things—like flattery and praise and what is it one really wishes to convey in writing."

Wilson describes the Russell Centenary Conference and the Russell Archives at McMaster University, even how the letters are interfiled with acid-free paper.

BR wrote the poem "The Prelate and the Commissar" after reading Paul Blanshard's book, Communism, Democracy and Catholic Power.

Scott asks if the American Humanist Association will order copies of the revised The Faith of a Rationalist if Watts & Co. agree to publish it.

Also in the file is a photocopy of the front page of The Faith of a Rationalist, marked "Proposed Edition"; there is a pencil drawing of Russell on the verso. As well, there is a leaflet, The Faith of a Humanist, published by the Humanist Guild, University of Toronto.

Wilson replies that Scott should make the Faith of a Rationalist a Canadian project.

Schoenman asks for messages for BR's 90th birthday. The letter is datestamped 4 June 1962 by the recipient. On Schoenman's behalf, the letter is signed by B.E. Fulbel(?).

Blanshard asks that Wilson publish the enclosed poem (not present, but it is the one titled "The Prelate and the Commissar") by BR. He wrote it in response to Blanshard's book. Blanshard asks that BR's note be returned to him.

The letter is written in French from Cambridge to Halévy's mother. Halévy has taken tea with BR. He notes that BR's wife, Alys, is away in London, working on the election of a radical candidate for the County Council.

Halévy writes in French to his mother from London. Halévy has spent some time in Haslemere (where the Pearsall Smith family had their home at Friday's Hill). Mrs. Costelloe, Alys's sister, is mentioned.

Halévy writes in French that he will dine with BR the following Sunday.

There is no salutation on this letter written from London in French. Halévy mentions Logan Pearsall Smith and "Les Russell".

There is political discussion.

This is a typed extract from a letter from Halévy to his mother in French. He has spent two nights with BR and Alys in Haslemere. He refers to the "blasphemous" terms in which they spoke of Rhodes and Chamberlain.

A group entry for 87 letters written to Rollo Russell.

A group entry for 156 letters written to Rollo's second wife, Gertrude Russell.

A group entry for 14 letters from Frances, Countess Russell, to her brother.

A group entry for 4 letters to her grandson Arthur Russell.

A group entry for excerpts from 5 letters to her daughter, Agatha Russell.

Dora writes at length about Beacon Hill School. She saved Carn Voel "from War Office requisition by skill and cunning and then later from being sold by my creditors through the support and help of my lawyer." [About 1941 she went bankrupt.]

Dora writes: "I do not think that you can get an adequate knowledge of my point of view without having read [my] book" In Defence of Children. She notes: "On the whole it is not good for children to be in a school run by their parents".

Dora writes about the plays written and performed at Beacon Hill School; also about A.S. Neill.

Dora writes about the plays written and performed at Beacon Hill School. She notes: "The great difficulty about bringing up children free of Christianity is, as I see it, that they will be all the time surrounded by myths, phrases, expressions, ways of thought that arise out of the long Christian tradition."

Mannin compares BR and A.S. Neill as educationists. BR was progressive but Neill was a revolutionary. She directs Harley to her husband's book, My Life and Crimes. Her husband was Reginald Reynolds.

On Denis Wheatley; on Neill and BR as educators.

Stevens' daughter, Judith Ann Bickford, was a pupil at Beacon Hill School. Stevens (aka Bickford as well) provides contact information.

A second letter is from a secretary, Jean.

Deborah Schwabach appears to be in possession of a copy of a 1926 Winds of Doctrine by Santayana marked up by someone (possibly BR if he could be verbose). Her letter notes the passages. She sent a photocopy of a letter BR wrote to her (Rec. Acq. 660, record 56317). Her name at that time was D. Wickes.

This file contains copies or transcriptions of official letters that BR made secretarially in a large round hand when he was employed at the British Embassy in Paris. Some are in French. Some are annotated "Phipps". BR mentions E.C.A. Phipps in letters to Alys at the time.

BR agrees to have tea with Moore and then talk later. Alys writes of a scheme to purchase Helen Fry's clavichord as a grand wedding present for Robert Trevelyan. "The Whiteheads and Bertie and I are modestly subscribing".

She refers to a telegram conveying "hard luck".

Alys writes: "We are going to a flat at 94 Ashley Gardens for the holidays."

Alys informs Moore of her separation from BR. "Bertie and I have been very unhappy together for many years, but we have done our best to make a possible common life." This is no longer possible. "We hope our friends will stick by us and go on loving us both as much as they can."

The writers object to BR not being selected for election as a Fellow of Trinity College.

They ask recipients to sign the protest (not present) and forward it to S. Alexander.

Greg (Chief Librarian at Trinity and author of The Calculus of Variants with symbolic relations à la Principia) thinks that the non-election of BR as a Trinity College Fellow is "preposterous".

Almost illegible, the letter concerns a Fellowship for BR at Trinity College.

Will Durant visited BR on a "side trip" in Wales in 1948. "He was in good health and good cheer, and ambled with us over his grounds" of his "Welsh hideout". His and Ariel's A Dual Autobiography will have "a few friendly pages" on BR.

Hardie recollects his only meeting with BR which took place in Oxford on 3 June 1931. BR was there to speak to the Oxford Labour Club on "Scientific Civilization". Afterward, he and others took BR to a hotel for refreshments. Left alone, Hardie did not know what to say and the two of them sat in silence.

Hardie refers to a polished account of an encounter with BR in C.E.M. Joad, A Year More or Less (1948), pp. 92-7. BR responded to Joad's review of History of Western Philosophy at the Aristotelian Society, 18 Feb. 1947.

Wood asks Barnes (Bishop of Birmingham) to read the closing chapter of his book Why Bertrand Russell Is Not a Christian.

Barnes (Bishop of Birmingham) comments on BR after reading Wood's book:

"I should also have admitted that much that he said on the Quaker side (if I may so put it) during the war was not in any way provocative: he was vilely abused for saying things which today are the commonplaces of Christian pulpits." "When you oppose his views to those of the Roman Church I began to be uneasy: in theory I prefer Rome to Russell, in practice Russell with his honesty would be far pleasanter to deal with than Rome with its evasions."

Barnes (Bishop of Birmingham) comments on G.H. Hardy's book Bertrand Russell and Trinity:

"I can supplement what Hardy says as to the Council resolutions of May 21, 1915, for after these resolutions had been passed I put before Russell the suggestion that I should bring the issue before a College meeting. He replied that the animus against him was due to his pacifism and that my proposal was equivalent to conflict on his behalf. I felt—and still feel—that his refusal to allow even such a form of war was true Christianity." "The bitterness of college feeling in 1915 against those of us who were pacifists was such that even now I do not like to recall it." "One other foot-note to Hardy's record may interest you. After Russell's sentence of imprisonment in the Second Division in 1918, I was asked by some of my legal friends whether I would with others, testify as to his 'character' when the appeal for First Division treatment was made. Of course, I assented at once: but it was subsequently learned that the request would be granted without such testimony."

Written from Ravenscroft, Katharine comments on the recent robbery at Pembroke Lodge. She hopes that Agatha's success in meteorology will cheer up Lady Russell. She and her husband are going to contribute to Rollo's studies.

The author of this letter (J. Bickersteth?) is looking after Lady Russell at Pembroke Lodge. He is concerned about her health. He mentions BR (who got a Red Cross), Frank (who won a rowing race on the pond), and the fireworks at Kingston. Even though it was August it was cold. When Lord Russell suggested a fire, he was given a warmer waistcoat instead.

Frank Russell is writing from Castle Howard, Yorks. He thanks Rollo and BR for their birthday greetings.

Alice Godfrey became Rollo Russell's first wife in 1885. She writes: "I hope poor little Bertie was not in a dreadful state of grief after you told him. I am afraid he will not like me at all at first."

This comment may concern the announcement of their engagement.

Re a certificate of tax on Dora Russell's money.

BR declines to broadcast on Darwin. The H-bomb business takes up all of BR's time and energy.

BR sympathizes with her circular and leaflet on behaviour at demonstrations. He agrees to become a sponsor.

On the objection to the pacifist movement cooperating with Communists (she is one).

BR not being a nuclear scientist, he refers the editor to Rotblat.

BR invites the Fieldings to visit him in Wales. He refers to a letter from Joseph Lewis.

BR sends a "3rd no" (also one to a "Chinese").

BR cannot make the contribution suggested in Foster's letter of 3 May.

Though honoured, BR cannot accept an invitation for 4 June.

BR supports a visa application for D.F. Skobeltzyn to meet with a (Pugwash) committee in London, 1-4 June.

BR proposes to speak in the Lords in support of Beveridge's motion on world government and needs to know whom to inform.

BR invites Musacchio to Wales, if he does not mind the 7-hour train journey.

BR notes the termination of his tenancy at 29 Millbank. (The addressee is probable from record 121317.)

Re his tenancy at 29 Millbank, which is to terminate on 12 Dec. 1958.

On 2-valued and 3-valued logics. BR has never admired Korzybski's work and does not "endorse the supposed connection of Aristotelian logic with mental illness." For the "laws", see Principia, early chapters.

BR requests a copy of the German translation of In Praise of Idleness.

BR will send Schochlin In Praise of Idleness in German, but cannot send him a "Leitspruch".

"If the hydrogen bomb goes, as you rather light-heartedly predict, it will only be because there are those who work to make people aware of the dangers to which it exposes mankind."

BR and Mrs. Williams-Ellis will doubtless meet before long. (Is she Amabel?)

BR approves the South African campaign using his name and sends £5.

BR points out that he is not Lord Russell of Liverpool.

BR directs a broadcast to Lord Russell of Liverpool and the BBC.

BR could see Mr. Hasan in Wales after 20 May.

BR declines an invitation connected with the LSE Students' Union.

BR sends an article "on hand" to International Journal.

BR forwards a Home Office letter about Skobeltzyn.

BR gave The Observer an unspecified article. It seems the German Swiss have a veto on what the French Swiss may read.