BR inquires whether letters of a Japanese victim of "atom sickness" at Hiroshima reached Martin.

BR sends cheque for US $385.14.

BR requests financial support for travelling expenses of scientists going to the Kitzbuhel Conference of Pugwash.

BR tells Rotblat of his fundraising letter to Simon, encloses £50, a letter from Chou Pei-yuan, and that he has signed the letter to the Royal Society.

BR encloses a brief message for a meeting on 21 May.

BR has sent a message to Mrs. Turner (record 121336). He does not know what pamphlet in Spanish Duff is asking about.

BR praises Unwin's addition to BR's blurb for My Philosophical Development.

BR makes one correction to Duncan's interview with him.

BR is highly probable to sign an unspecified affidavit.

BR cannot attend "the Society's dinner" on June 14.

BR was unable to get her Hiroshima letters published.

On Time's deliberate distortion of BR's views on the (Red or Dead) alternatives.

BR is willing to grant permission for an unspecified article.

Alys writes that the lump in her breast has returned. She will be undergoing radium treatment which should be successful. "I have been very detached about living since 1911 [the date of her separation from BR], but I don't mean to die yet, and expect many happy times with both of you."

Alys is busy with her work for the British Federation of University Women; the office was in Crosby Hall, Cheyne Walk, London. She has "nice Germans" to look after. She prefers "socialism to regulated capitalism."

Alys thanks Flexner for the food he is sending. "We often talk of your delightful book".

Alys thanks the Flexners for the books they have sent. She hopes for a speedy victory in 1944.

Alys writes about Mary: "She had an interesting and on the whole a very happy life, and she radiated kindness and sympathy, and was everywhere beloved."

Alys's note: "This may amuse thee. L. [Logan Pearsall Smith] has refused." "Destroy". The note is written on a letter from the New York Times Magazine requesting an article from Logan Pearsall Smith on "What the War Has Done to the English Language".

"Cyril Connolly was dining in a restaurant where an incendiary burnt up the cloak-room, including his coat." She provides other bombing stories. Jane Synge is mentioned.

"We heard from Sweden that Marichen [Mary] had a slight stroke in November, which accounts for the rumour of her death, no doubt...." "I adore Thomas Mann." Sidney Webb is "desolate" without Beatrice.

"Our adored Churchill seems to be making great mistakes over France and over Spain".

"Bertie reached Scotland safely, and is now happily established in Trinity and seeing John and his old friends."

The Common Wealth Party "are good socialists, but thorough cranks."

"We have heard from Bob Trevelyan that Bertie lives on (in?) a staircase next to the lodge, opposite to George Trevelyan's relief library on the staircase, so he and George are near neighbours and very chummy. He has at last found a small house for Peter and Conrad, but I don't know whether it is near Trinity. (I hope not!) He was suggested as a [BBC] broadcaster, but refused by the censor—however, he has lectures in Trinity, which he likes better. "

"The general belief here is that the depression is lifting."

Ronald Clark writes that he failed to get any cooperation from Dora Russell with regard to his biography of BR.

"Bertrand Russell was an old friend and I have been continuously interested in education, especially in educational development."

A collection of letters by various people, assembled and placed in an album by Katharine Russell, Lady Amberley. Some of the letters are addressed to her, but many are not. There are also some carte-de-visite printed photographs. The album was dismantled before sale.

Approximately 40 letters with the salutation "My Dear Theresa".

Approximately 30 letters, addressed to "My Dear Theresa".

The letter begins "Sent to the Globe." Also in the file is an undated letter in Lord John's hand with a note in another hand in the corner: "To Globe, June 29/60".

Approximately 12 letters, many undated. They are addressed to "My Dear Theresa" and signed "Fanny Russell".

Approximately 15 letters, addressed to either "My Dear" or "Dear" Mrs. Villiers.

Adelaide was Lord John Russell's first wife; she was the widow of Lord Ribblesdale. The letter is to her brother; his full name is not known.

This is a collection of approximately 20 letters between Lister and Lord John. Many of the letters have sections written by both men. Lister signed his with the initials "T.V.L."

Ogden explains why BR changed his views on the Peace Pledge Union. Ogden quotes three sentences, in whole or part, from BR on the retraction of his pacifism in World War II. This is from "Why I Am Not a Pacifist in this War", New York Times, 16 Feb. 1941.

This letter has no salutation or signature; this information is supplied by a handwritten note by the Archivist. The original is in the C.K. Ogden papers at McMaster.

Also in file: copies of 3 letters from Smith to Ogden about Russell's views on the war, including a marked copy of the Manchester Guardian reprint of BR's letter. Smith worked for the Orthological Institute. These copies were made from originals in box 68 of the Ogden papers.

Four letters to Queen Victoria recommending people for appointments. Three have been approved by the Queen with "Appd: VR" written in the top left corner. Also in the file is a copy of the birth registration of a princess born to the Queen and Prince Albert on 21 November 1840. The child's name is not listed but it was Victoria Adelaide, their first born.

Pencilled draft reply in Gödel's hand. The photocopy is not good quality; a typed transcription of it has been made.

Gödel writes that he did not correspond with BR. He clarifies the passage about him in BR's Autobiography. This letter and Blackwell's reply are published in Gödel's Collected Letters.

Kielland writes that she has destroyed all the letters that BR wrote to her. "I was not really of importance in his life." She wishes that her letters to BR could be destroyed.

Extract from a covering letter for C46.07 that BR wrote to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He reads the Bulletin "with interest and attention". The remainder of the letter is paraphrased. BR had submitted the article to five other American publications, which all refused it.

BR asks Kanaar to reply to an article, "What Is Happening in Germany?", Forward, 15 Dec. 1945 which is critical of BR's "The German Disaster". Also in the file are two précis of Dr. Kanaar's unpublished book, "The Sign of the Hammer and Sickle", whose typescript is in the UCLA source. Each précis states that BR promised a foreword.

The acting editor accepts in principle an article on Tim Christie's reply to BR's "The German Disaster".

Kanaar asks if he may reply to Christie's 15 December critique of BR's "The German Disaster". Kanaar provides his background and experience in post-war Germany, and requests a copy of BR's article.

Kanaar encloses the promised reply to Christie's critique of BR's "The German Disaster". (He also sent a carbon to BR.) He hopes it will be published in full and asks for 3 copies. Kanaar's reply was published on 16 Feb. 1946.

"Xmas love".

Colette writes that her former husband, Miles Malleson, spent a weekend with her in December 1956. She invites his son, Andrew, to visit her as well in Lavenham, Suffolk.

Colette writes about her novel, Fear in the Heart: "I can't give a clear yes or no to your question whether I 'like' Hilary or not; but I feel great sympathy for him because his job went wrong, and because neither it nor he could keep their end up.... I think one of the reasons I wrote the book was to have a fling at the blimps and to show Hilary in as sympathetic a light as is compatible with truth." She liked Fitzgerald so much that she "very nearly married him off to Auriel at the end of the book."

Colette writes about the biography of Lytton Strachey by C.R. Sanders: "It's always interesting to see what a biographer doesn't say!"

Colette returned from Sweden on 29 Sept. 1958.

Colette's paralysis of her left arm and hand continues following her 1964 stroke. She wishes she had moved to Canada after World War II. The west wing of her childhood home in Ulster (Castlewellan) has been bombed by the I.R.A. She has finished a big book, "only to find that the absurd English libel laws prevent its English publication." This is presumably her book of letters to BR.

She's been reading Andrew Malleson's pieces in The Observer and looks forward to his book.

Colette's uncle was buried on the Golden Horn after the Crimean War of 1854. She turns down his offer of a visit because she is old and "practically stone deaf": "I am therefore better on paper, dear kind Andrew."

Colette writes now from the Planche Nursing Home, which she will "never be able to leave". She died later the same year.

BR writes that he expects "to be publishing several volumes of correspondence in the future, and one of these is already well advanced."

The typed carbon of this letter is document .151961, record 95672.

The letter is contained within a press release. It was written in response to BR's open letter to Eisenhower and Khrushchev of 23 Nov. 1957 (B&R C57.33).

The letter is noted as draft no. 1. The revisions are said to be in Dulles' hand.

The letter is noted as draft number 2. The revisions are said to be in Dulles' hand.

The letter is noted as draft number 3.

BR agrees to an interview about old age, as a request on Dr. Gumpert's behalf by Edward C. Aswell.

Gumpert published "A Second Prime of Life—After 70" in The New York Times Magazine, 8 July 1951, p. 14, with this comment on BR: he is "preparing his autobiography at 79 and complaining that he is easily tired because he cannot walk more than five miles at a time."

Kanaar's typist encloses 4 copies "of the newspaper article". This is a reference to Kanaar's reply to Christie's critique of BR's "The German Disaster", which reply was requested by BR. One copy of the article is present in the file; another is in BR's Kanaar files. The typist was also typing chapters of Kanaar's book, "The Sign of the Hammer and Sickle", which was never published.

John E. Thomas was the chairman of the planning committee for the Bertrand Russell Centenary Celebrations at McMaster University, 12-14 October 1972. His correspondents for this event included the following invited speakers, guests and McMaster staff:
A.J. Ayer, David R. Bell, R.W. Binkley, Max Black, K. Blackwell, Arthur Bourns, J.L. Brereton, Robert E. Butts, Dennis A. Carson, Chrystine E. Cassin, Gilles Cazabon, A. Chakravarty, Noam Chomsky, Ronald W. Clark, Victor Copps, Peter G. Cranford, R.H.S. Crossman, the Canada Council, R.K. Dasgupta, Lester E. Denonn, A.R.C. Duncan, Cyrus Eaton, Lee Eisler, Sid Emberley, Christopher Farley, Barry Feinberg, Anton Felton, Saul Field, J.L. Finley, Sidney T. Fisher, Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Eugene Griffin, Peter Hayman (British High Commission, Ottawa), W.F. Hellmuth, Hsu Chung-fu, R.T. Hutcheson, Ronald Jager, Gabriel Kolko, Raymond Klibansky, Corliss Lamont, William Ross MacDonald, Tsutomu Makino, Robert C. Marsh, Marcia McClung, Alexander G. Mckay, Richard McMurray, Boris P. Miroshnichenko, Robert Muehlmann, Iris Murdoch, Sami M. Najm, James A. Nathan, A.S. Neill, Jo Newberry (Vellacott), Douglas Odegard, Thomas M. Olshewsky, Daniel J. O'Hagan, Joe Park, David Pears, Gerard Pelletier, W.V. Quine, J.E. Raven (mentioning Michael Scott), William Ready, Nicholas Rescher, Howard Riddle, S.P. Rosenbaum, Harry Ruja, Conrad Russell, Edith Russell, J. Russell (Queen's University), Gilbert Ryle, Israel Scheffler, Adolph W. Schmidt, W.R. Shea, John G. Slater, A. Stevenson, I.F. Stone, Bernard Suits, Raymond Szabo, Derek Thomsett, Emmanuel Trepanier, Katharine Tait, Rayner Unwin, D.J. Urquhart, P.H. Walton, F.S. Weatherston, N.L. Wilson, Manuel Zack.

The correspondence with speakers resulted in publication of selected proceedings in Russell in Review, ed. Thomas and Blackwell (1976).

Typescripts of some of the papers, both published and unpublished, are present in the files, and transcriptions of filmed interviews.

Also a file of administrative arrangements and a file of clippings.

Correspondence with J.S.L. Gilmour (1906-1986), botanist and horticulturalist, concerning Crawshay-Williams's writings. There is correspondence between Gilmour and A.J. Ayer and others about Crawshay-Williams, including Michael Williams, Rob Winkelmeijer (with a bibliography of Crawshay-Williams), and concerning the memorial occasion for Rupert and Elizabeth.

See also Rec. Acq. 501.

"... Bertie Russell, in the one encounter he had with you when as he told me you laid him low in that charming duplex apartment of ours at 37 River Street. And I can assure you that Bertie Russell is seldom bested in argument."

"Do you know, I have forgotten Bertrand Russell, meeting him and talking with him? All I remember is the impression he made on me, of a man who might be a great mathematician but had a curious adolescent love of shocking people, as when he said 'monogamy, that darling superstition of the non-conformist mind.' It is all wrong for my memory to hold that absurd remark and forget all the wise ones."

Letters to Gilbert Murray from Sir James Headlam Morley, Sir Claud Schuster, Eustace Percy, Arnold Toynbee, Agatha Russell, J.M. Lloyd-Thomas on Murray's pamphlet.

Letters from Baron Vansittart and Sir Ernest Gowers re Swedish lectures.

Letters from Margaret Hobhouse, B.N. Langdon-Davies (mentioning BR), and John J. Withers (re fund for BR in 1918).

There are transcriptions made by Joan Johnson of correspondence: Margaret Hobhouse; H. Wildon Carr, Gladys Rinder, A.E. Taylor re arranging a Fellowship for BR in 1918; G.H. Perris re Problems of Philosophy; Sir Tresham Lever. There are notes made by William Stratton about Murray's correspondence with others. Murray included BR in his list of presentation copies of his book on Sir Edward Grey.

Balch writes in praise of BR, "A truly great and profound thinker" whom he is able to study because Simon and Schuster publishes his work in moderately priced books.

The letter concerns the book to be edited by Paul Edwards, Why I Am Not a Christian.

The letter concerns a deluxe edition of The Queen of Sheba's Nightmare, illustrated by Hans Erni. [A copy is in the Supporting Library of the Russell Archives.]

The letter concerns German Social Democracy.

The letter concerns The Amberley Papers.

The letter concerns The Amberley Papers. "Nothing from the pen of Bertrand Russell is alien to us".

Re BR's books.

The letter concerns Schwed's meeting with Stanley Unwin about BR's books, including The Bertrand Russell Reader (which apparently became The Basic Writings).

These many letters concern Quine's Mathematical Logic, and include a tentative table of contents. The letters include discussions of competing books, Principia Mathematica, the contract, typesetting, marketing. Mention is made in April-May 1940 of a circular letter. (BR is said elsewhere to have contributed a blurb to it, but no mention of him is made here.)

The letters concern Quine's Mathematical Logic. See record 121417.

Although there are a few letters to and from Dora Russell, the bulk of the file contains letters and memoranda discussing Dora Russell and her book The Tamarisk Tree. A.P. Watt & Son were her literary agents.
Also in the file is correspondence with G.P. Putnam's Sons. There is one letter from Mr. and Mrs. Y.R. Chao regarding small corrections in The Tamarisk Tree. It is addressed to Curtis Brown Ltd., Collins-Knowlton-Wing Inc. There is also one letter from Putnam's Coward, McCann and Geoghegan Inc. to Curtis Brown Ltd.

The original file at the Butler Library is labelled "Curtis Brown Ltd., series 3, Russell, Dora Winifred Black" although there are only two Curtis Brown letters in the file.

These letters are continued in a second file, Rec. Acq. 1017c.

53 letters from Lucy Donnelly to Helen Thomas Flexner while she was visiting England. Many of the letters mention BR and Alys. There is one letter to Lucy from Mary Gwinn. Donnelly stayed at 13 Cheyne Walk and then 11 Grosvenor Road during most of her visit from 25 October 1903 to 4 January 1904. On 15 November she went to Barford, Churt.

From there she wrote: "Gilbert Murray took me [on] a walk to see the house Alys and Bertie have taken." She was writing this letter at the same time as Alys was writing to someone else.

Hereble describes to her sister BR's lecture at Louisiana State University on 3 April 1939. The letter is in German.

Humbert sends Mead a petition with 40 signatures in support of BR's appointment to CCNY. The signatories are described as "men studying for some type of professional religious leadership".

Also in the file are the typeset minutes of the New York Board of Higher Education, 16 Feb.-21 Oct. 1940 (mentioning BR's salary and period of hire and many statements of support and opposition) and a statement by the Committee on College Affairs of the Associate Alumni of CCNY on the "fundamental issues" raised by BR's case.

Ingersoll writes on behalf of BR: "The last time I heard him speak was a week ago before an audience of conservative Stanford alumni on problems of a future peace. He received an ovation after his speech such as I have seldom heard."

Mill, an Episcopal clergyman, writes in support of BR's appointment to CCNY, calling him "one of the three or four best philosophic workmen in the world".

The Chaos point out two corrections to be made to The Tamarisk Tree, concerning the Russell's Peking (Beijing) address and an actress's name. Their letter was acknowledged on 29 March 1976.

Re BR's books.

Schuster agrees that Unpopular Essays was incorrectly titled.

Schuster outlines in detail his reason for rejecting Alan Wood's proposed books on BR. In a nutshell, he prefers to publish BR himself and there are many BR books in the pipeline that have to be spaced out to give each book its due.

Denonn notes that BR, via Pamela Wood, has turned down his request to edit BR's letters for publication. He quotes Wood's message:

"As much of his recent correspondence with Heads of State as can be published is being prepared for a book of various anti-nuclear writings. He does not really have time to sort out any other of his correspondence for you."

Denonn still thinks "that some day the letters other than those referred to should be edited and published."

"I think you and Puck will both be interested in the attached reply [not present] from Bertrand Russell on the fate of European civilization. We are going to release his answer, together with yours through The New York Times, or Life, or possibly The Saturday Review of Literature. In the race between civilization and disaster, I am still betting on Durant."

Schuster thanks Ellis for what is presumably the 90th birthday tribute book. Present in the file is the programme for the musical tribute.

Schuster explains why he is not able to donate, presumably to BR's work although he would like to. Ellis had been to his office and Schoenman had approached him by letter. He has already exceeded his budget for personal donations. He is not allowed to make the donation as a company expenditure. There is also a handwritten draft of this letter.