Blackwell is looking for BR correspondence, which Michael Korda said would be almost impossible to find. But see Rec. Acq. 232.

Schuster telegraphs on BR's behalf at the time of his imprisonment.

The letter concerns the three manuscripts which BR gave to his daughter, Katharine Tait. (She much later returned them at his request.)

Schuster notifies Kate Tait of what A.S.W. Rosenbach has written to him regarding the sale of the BR manuscripts in her possession. See record 121434.

Agatha asks for information on Murray's pamphlet on Grey. "I have been unhappy as he knows at dear Bertie's very mistaken and harmful views (as it appears to me) about this terrible war."

Legal document: power of attorney, appointing Anton Felton to act in relation to BR's taxation affairs. The document is signed "Russell" and is witnessed by Frank Hampl and Christopher Farley.

Also present: a photocopy.

A second codicil to BR's will, revoking the appointment of Ralph Schoenman as executor and trustee and appointing Anton Felton, who is already one of BR's literary trustees. BR initialled the confirmation of his will of 18 November 1966 and first codicil of 8 December 1966. He omitted an "s" in signing his name ("Rusell").

The witnesses are Frank Hampl, physicist, and C. Thompson, physiotherapist.

Legal document: deed of covenant re BR's granddaughters: Felicity Anne Russell, Lucy Catherine Russell, and Sarah Elizabeth Russell.

Legal documents: three deeds of covenant, one for Felicity Anne Russell, one for Sarah Elizabeth Russell, and one for Lucy Catherine Russell.

First codicil to the will of Edith Russell. She revokes the appointment of Ralph Schoenman as executor and trustee of her will of 18 November 1966 and appoints in his place Anton Felton.

Witnessed by Frank Hampl, physicist, and C. Thompson, physiotherapist.

Deed of covenant for Sarah Elizabeth Russell (the typed name of Felicity Anne Russell has been crossed out and replaced). It is not signed. The witness names are: J. Redmond and R.J. Abbott.

This is a deed of covenant for Dora Winifred Grace (Russell). Payment scheme of £50 to be paid quarterly during her lifetime.

The document is not signed in BR's hand. R.R. Griffiths is listed as a witness.

This is a deed of covenant for Patricia Helen Russell. £10,000 is to be paid immediately. £58 six shillings and eight pence is to be paid monthly, beginning immediately. £50 is to be paid quarterly for their son Conrad Russell's expenses, beginning immediately. This document is not signed but the signatories' names are typed in. H.P. Gisborne is listed as a witness.

The typed document is at record 123218, in box 5.66.

Gilbert Murray papers, folio no. 76, notes on a file card transcribed by Joan Johnson, pp. 6–7.

Written by Gladys Rinder, these notes are possibly drawn from a letter Rinder received from BR while he was in prison, or from a conversation she had with him during a visit. She outlines what BR wants from the proposed Fellowship. He wants to live in London and he wants time for research work in addition to teaching. BR wants Murray to draft the letter or appeal about the Fellowship. More instructions on what Rinder and others should do are included in these notes. The portion of the document that seems to summarize BR directly is in the Transcription field.

Transcriptions made by Joan Johnson, p. 17.

BR was released from prison "yesterday" at 10 am. He went to see Rinder that afternoon. "He is going to Telegraph House to his brother at once." "He is very well and in great spirits naturally. I think he underestimates the danger of his position but it was impossible to convey that to him."

Transcription made by Joan Johnson, p. 23. Perris encloses (not present) an American critique of The Problems of Philosophy—an excuse for not copyrighting the book but only taking plates.

Transcription made by Joan Johnson, p. 26.

Re proposed book by BR, Science and Religion.

Transcriptions made by Joan Johnson, p. 29.

"BR accepts Science and Religion, and Fisher and I think his proposed way of treating it very good." Murray refers to what must be BR's letter of 30 November 1933 (record 52385).

The letter concerns financial implications of the administration of BR's estate. The legacies are listed.

The attached schedule lists several familiar documents.

Unfamiliar ones are:

26.9.1946 licence BAWR
26.9.1946 assignment BAWR
10.8.1945 agreement Sidney Cowan
4.5.1949 will and testament Edith Finch
11.1.1961 third codicil Edith Countess Russell
15.7.1969 departmental note Lord and Lady Russell

Slater requests more information on the holograph manuscript outline, "Freedom and Government", that he has purchased. He believes the manuscript contains notes for a lecture that BR gave at Occidental College on 4 May 1940. A copy of the outline is in the file; the original was donated by Slater to the Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.

Fitch has not heard of a lecture on "Freedom and Government" given at Occidental College by BR. However, BR did lecture to his Philosophy Club of undergraduates at the College. Fitch recollects that occasion in great detail. BR spoke on something like "a theory of non-emotive language". Fitch drove him back home and BR spoke at length about the CCNY controversy. Fitch recollects another gathering, this time of a group of intelligentsia, including himself and BR. BR came to the defence of Christianity. "There was a part of him that was deeply Christian, in his devotion to a Christian ethic of love. But he couldn't work it out in a coherent and consistent manner." Fitch offers an analysis of BR's character.

Fitch has been in touch with Raymond McKelvey, who was the head of political science at Occidental College. McKelvey asserts that BR did not speak on "Freedom and Government" at Occidental College.

"I enclose a copy of a letter from a Dr. Holter who used to teach you physics. I thought you might like to see what he says." Signed "Diddy". The copy of Holter's letter is in the file; BR kept the original letter, document .110850, record 4138.

Clark recounts to his parents his visit to Beacon Hill School, among other schools, beginning at the foot of the verso of p. 11. Although he went there without an appointment, BR "took me to his study and discussed some of his philosophy of life and the principles upon which he ran his school; I don't like to be unkindly critical of his school which is composed of 18 children, ages from 4 to 10 years." "It is his ambition to get children away from their parents at two, before they are spoiled and very seldom have them return to them until they are grown up." "I saw the school in session and never before have seen such quarrelling." "I came away more than ever convinced that Bertrand Russell's philosophy is not sound. Christian teaching makes for more beautiful lives than does Buddism [Buddhism]. Russell put Budda first...." He remarks on Beacon Hill's clothing rules.

Scott encloses a letter from BR asking for Connell's support for the Committee of 100. See record 121457 for the letter.

Apparently this John Connell was confused with his namesake, the head of the Noise Abatement Society (Clark, Life of BR, p. 578).

BR asks for Connell's support for the Committee of 100.

Connell declines involvement in the Committee of 100, regarding it as "utterly misguided and illegal". On the same day Connell wrote an article published in the Evening Standard, titled "Did They Know What They Were Starting?".

Slater pursues details of BR's speaking appearance at Occidental College and describes 3 new books on BR (Clark, Tait, and Dora Russell).

An invoice for the treatment of John Conrad Russell.

Barnes asks BR to review an unspecified book. In a later letter BR notes that he never received this letter. Barnes alludes to Roads to Freedom.

Barnes notes that he never received a reply to his letter of 6 November 1923 (record 121461). He invites BR to tour a chemical factory in Philadelphia and comment on conditions for the workers. "I could not promise to act upon your opinion because the one time when I did that, during the war, the Department of Justice listed me as an enemy of the State...."

BR writes that he did not receive Barnes's letter of November 1923 (record 121461). The general election was then on in the UK. He declines Barnes's invitation to visit the chemical factory in Philadelphia.

Barnes writes that he went to hear BR speak on Monday, 7 April. Barnes made notes of the lecture, "Causes of Modern War", 2 typed pages (attached)."I was even more charmed by the patience and gentlemanly qualities with which you handled the piffle that was offered as 'questions' and 'discussions' by the audience."

The next day he read in the newspaper, The Public Ledger, Philadelphia, that BR had given an interview at the Art Alliance. [No mention of BR was found in a repeated scrutiny of the Public Ledger, 8-10 April 1924, the microfilm being borrowed from the Library of Congress.]

BR is simply too busy to visit Barnes in Philadelphia although Dr. Dewey had told him of Barnes's collection of modern French pictures which he would love to see. He suggests a meeting in New York in the last week of May, subject to Feakins' permission.

"Irwin Edman told me of your stunt of seventy lectures in sixty days...." Barnes is not able to meet BR in New York. Barnes would like to do something practical with BR's ideas "especially about a humanized industry, sterile organized education, etc.—" at the Barnes Foundation. Barnes encloses "Bryn Mawr sheets" (not present). Barnes claims he blacked an eye of the College "in your own full name".

On board S.S. Celtic.

BR read what Barnes had sent him with great interest (see record 121466). He is "honoured to be made the theme of so good a cause. The attitude of Bryn Mawr was mainly due to the fact that the last president was a cousin of my late wife." [BR is referring to Alys from whom he was divorced.]

BR replies to Barnes's offer to lecture at the Foundation contained in his letter of 24 June 1940 (RA1 825, record 66409). BR agrees to lecture but only beginning in February of 1941. He has commitments to Harvard and also to Coulston Leigh, a lecture agent. Even if he does get the post at CCNY, he will still have time to lecture at the Barnes Foundation with his lectures fitting in "with the purposes of the Foundation". An extract from this letter appears in "Purpose of Russell's Lectures" (record 121470).

Barnes agrees to letting BR start lecturing in February 1941 at the Foundation. For the first four months BR will prepare "a topic you think is germane" and which will prepare "the way for a plan for the session beginning in October 1941". He will be paid $500 per month for the February-May 1941 period.

An extract of this letter appears in "Purpose of Russell's Lectures", record 121470 and record 121471.

This is an extract from a letter in the document titled "Purpose of BR's Lectures". This document extracts four letters, dated July 5, 13, 23 and August 16. The first two letters are extant in this file and are described in record 121468 and record 121469.

Barnes replies to a query from BR who wants to be given "some idea ... of the sort of subject you are thinking of." Barnes: "It is the philosophies of cultural stages in the journey from the Byzantines to our own period...."

This is an extract from a letter in the document titled "Purpose of BR's Lectures". This document contains four letters. The first two letters are extant in this file and are described in record 121468 and record 121469.

Barnes asks BR to "state in not more than one hundred words the subject of the course you are to give at the Foundation."

The original letter is in RA1 825, record 66547.

BR will meet Barnes with a car in Reno.

Barnes notes that his train arrives at Reno at 3 am and suggests that BR leave him to his own devices. He is sending BR a journal Opportunity which has a report on the Foundation's experiments with adult education. Also in the file is Barnes's handwritten draft of this letter as well as the itinerary for his trip prepared by Thos. Cook & Son.

The Barnes Foundation secretary is sending BR a copy of Hutchins Hapgood, A Victorian in the Modern World, and some excerpts of letters to Barnes from Leo Stein.

BR knew Hapgood in Berlin, 1895.

BR returns the contract signed and witnessed to Barnes. "You have made the most enormous difference to my peace of mind and power of work—more than I can possibly express. I will send you at once a hundred words on the sort of course that I plan. But I should not wish to be too closely tied to what I suggest now, as further reflection and study might make me wish to change the scheme in some respect."

She will accompany BR to Philadelphia before BR goes to Harvard. She will stay on to house-hunt. It is important to her to find the right house. "Houses and the furnishing of houses are a passion with me."

Also in the file is a typescript titled "Dream Farm". It contains a description of a stone and frame house; the name Frederick G. Higham also appears on the typescript.

The original of this typescript is with Barnes's letter of 21 August 1940 (RA1 825, record 66499). It does not contain Higham's name.

Barnes has hired BR on a five-year contract to teach at the Foundation. He plans a round table affair, with John Dewey and others, to discuss the CCNY case.

Hart became a biographer of Barnes in 1963.

BR opines that "perhaps ... there was no occasion to write as I did."

Barnes writes to refute the editorial of 12 October, "Russell's Loss is Pupils' Gain".

Also in the file is a "Statement of Albert C. Barnes" on 10 October 1940 refuting the story in the Philadelpia Evening Ledger that the collection of the Barnes Foundation will be given to the University of Pennsylvania. Copies of the statement were also sent to the Bulletin and the Ledger as well as to BR. A clipping from the Evening Bulletin of Philadelphia, 15 Oct. 1940, later in the file, quotes from this statement.

Patricia writes from the Commander Hotel in Cambridge, Mass.

Topics are: Her scheduled contribution to The Bertrand Russell Case; consulting with Fraenkel; BR's contribution on "General Principles" for the book; BR's need to be in New York on Nov. 18; Cantrell and Higham and house-hunting; their furniture "sits at London docks"; Conrad's illness.

Re a meeting of contributors to The Bertrand Russell Case, and real estate options for the Russells. Barnes suggests she contact Horace Kallen with regard to the former. He returns Fraenkel's letter.

There are two copies of this letter; they are filed in different locations at the Foundation.

The original of this letter is in RA1 821, record 120735.

The letter concerns the CCNY case. Barnes has written on the letter to send a copy to Mrs. Russell and to Dewey.

"Bertie is an old and beloved friend". Kallen mentions his article on the BR case for Twice a Year.

Patricia Russell writes from the Commander Hotel, Cambridge, Mass.

The letter concerns the CCNY case. "Bertie says if the New York case should be won, he would take the job, travelling to Merion on Thursdays, and resign it as soon as possible."

The letter concerns the CCNY case.

BR thanks Barnes for his "admirable" press announcement of his appointment at the Barnes Foundation. He discusses Kallen's book on the CCNY case. Barnes has sent him a cutting from the Evening Bulletin (not present, but see record 121476). BR notes that everything in it, including the spelling of his name, is inaccurate except for quotes from Barnes.

On the Evening Bulletin article (see record 121479).

Ashley Montagu is an admirer of BR.

Montagu was born Israel Ehrenberg. He changed his name to Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu. In the United States he used the name "Ashley Montagu", but in this letter he included the initials "M.F."

Montagu writes to BR at the Barnes Foundation where the letter remains. He lives in Narberth which is near Merion. He is an anthropologist. He offers BR any help he might need and invites him to dinner.

BR informs Barnes that he (Barnes) has been misquoted in the New York Times with regard to BR's contractual obligations at the Foundation. In addition to this typed copy of the telegram, Barnes made a handwritten copy.

"Occasional serious lectures essential", BR says.

BR writes on the letterhead of the Department of Philosophy, Harvard University. BR thanks Barnes for clearing up the matter of his contractual obligations, which was important for both Colston Leigh, his lecture agent, and the situation at CCNY.

BR plans on hardly any outside lecturing after the end of March 1941, and has very few Leigh engagements after Jan. 1. Barnes underlined a sentence in which BR praises Barnes's generosity.

His reading for the Barnes lectures is interesting.

BR "loves" Barnes the more. BR looks "forward to a quiet life without any popular lecturing, which I hate". He suggests November 18 as a date to meet about the Kallen book on the CCNY case. "I see Lord Winterton talked about H.G. Wells in the House of Commons just as my enemies talk about me here. England is becoming modernized." [See Hansard, 16 and 23 Oct. 1940.]

A copy of this letter appears later in this file as part of the court documents.

The preliminary meeting on the Kallen book on the CCNY case is 2 November. "Mr. Cantrell told me of Mrs. Russell's alarm about Conrad's health. There may be some foundation for the concern but don't let anybody tell you that altitude and climate are the main factors in combatting the condition threatened."

Re the date of the meeting on Kallen's book on the CCNY case.

Patricia writes from the Commander Hotel, Cambridge, Mass.

It is a scathing letter in which she tells Barnes that he is misinformed about Conrad's health and what is good for him, and is "almost intolerably managing".

A typed copy (four pages only) is in RA1 810 (record 120736).

The topic text for that entry is: on Barnes's generosity, but at the same time his unwelcome opinions on Conrad's health and where the Russells should live.

Patricia refers to dealing with Mr. Cantrell and mentions the Higham House again.

"I congratulate you upon your ability to raise hell."

Barnes explains himself under three headings: "Conrad's Health", "House-Hunting and Furniture" and "Education". There is also a two-page draft of this letter in Barnes's hand.

The original letter is in RA1 821 (record 120738).

BR confirms that he will not attend the 2 November meeting on Kallen's book on the CCNY case. He suggests some books for reading by his prospective class: Plato's Phaedo and F.M. Cornford's From Religion to Philosophy, "a fairly stiff book". Should he cover the whole period from 600 BC to the present or give one year to each period? There is a separate typed list with two of these books plus three others; it is dated 11 November 1940.

Book list: Plutarch, Life of Lycurgus; Plato, Phaedo and Republic; Rousseau, The Confession of a Savoyard Vicar; F.M. Cornford, From Religion to Philosophy.

Patricia writes from the Commander Hotel, Cambridge, Mass.

She views Barnes as a "benevolent bully" but she will no longer "return to the attack" regarding Conrad or where they will live. She replies on only one point. "You see Bertie married me because he found that I could help him with his work, and I can't stop now. In fact I was originally responsible for the idea behind the subject of the lectures: a history of ideas relating them to the social background of their period, and I must confess that I have already done a good deal of research and collected a lot of notes that Bertie was intending to use."

BR does not want to contribute to Kallen's book on the CCNY case. "I am not good at writing about myself." "If you very much want something from me, I should like to make it as impersonal as possible." For his Barnes lectures, he will confine himself to antiquity for the period January to June 1941.

Patricia writes from the Hotel Commander, Cambridge, Mass.

She asks Barnes to clarify whether the date of BR's first lecture is January 2 or 9.

Kallen writes that BR has suggested that Patricia should contribute a statement of facts in the CCNY case. Dewey and Kallen agreed that this would be helpful. Also in the file is a typed list of contributors titled "Book on Russell Case" prepared by Barnes, who has noted in pencil that a copy should go to Kallen.

(There is a writing by Patricia in RA1 811 that seems to be the statement of facts originally intended for this book. No such article appeared in The Bertrand Russell Case.)

Copi was a graduate student at the University of Chicago in the autumn of 1938. He writes about BR, Carnap, and Gödel.

This is a facsimile of an U.S. Department of State airgram. The subject line is "Bertrand Russell Exhorts Latin Americans to Anti-American Violence". It was published in Russell Society News, no. 68 (Nov. 1990). The airgram focuses on BR's "Message to the Peoples of the Third World", Marcha, 18 Nov. 1966.

The letter concerns BR's conviction in February 1918. The writer encloses the lengthy report from The Times, 11 Feb. 1918. It was published in facsimile in Russell Society News, no. 69 (Feb. 1991).

The letter was published in facsimile in Russell Society News, no. 69 (Feb. 1991). Enclosed is despatch no. 441. See record 121505.

Perkins in Shanghai informs Crane in Peking that BR has arrived in Shanghai with his secretary, Miss D. Black, on the steamship Porthos.

"It has been reported to this office that while on board the ship both Mr. Russell and his secretary gave free expression to sentiments of an extremely socialistic and anarchistic character. The informant gave it as his opinion that Mr. Russell would, during his sojourn in China, be very likely to continue to propagate doctrines of this nature." No. 441.

It was published in facsimile in Russell Society News, no. 69 (Feb. 1991).

Muggeridge writes about BR: "In brief I consider, especially after reading his Autobiography, that he was a man who had seen the light of truth but deliberately turned away from it."

In a document titled "Note Regarding Bertrand Russell" Wiseman writes about BR and World War I: "If the man is honestly expressing his views, he should be shut up in an insane asylum; if he is trying to make trouble, he should be shot."

Buckler suggests mitigation with regard to the division that BR will serve his prison sentence.

Walter Hines Page is U.S. Ambassador to Britain.

Murray, although not in support of many of BR's actions during World War I, does not agree with BR's expulsion from his Trinity lectureship or his prison sentence. He asks Page "to intercede for Russell's pardon."

See Papers 14: 392.

Buckler forwards letters from BR and Gilbert Murray (record 58020 and record 121509). He notes that Walter Hines Page has "replied to Professor Murray that he could take no step towards Russell's pardon without instructions, and this same rule would apply with even greater force to me. Considering his intellectual eminence and his character it seems to me that a request for Russell's pardon would be a graceful act on the part of our government", i.e. the American government.

See Papers 14: 392.

Stickland wants to obtain copies of her letters to BR in the Russell Archives. She is staying with Dora Russell, "a friend of long standing".

Stickland thanks Thomas for arranging to get her copies of her letters to BR in the Russell Archives. She points out a date gap.

Many scholars do not "... realize what a great part wit and humour played in BR's life".

The letter is in French. White notes he has sent "the Colonel" (E.M. House) everything that Buckler had written to him about BR; he knows nothing about the outcome. See Papers 14: 392.

White remarks on the progress of the war, the horror being unimaginable.

Miss E. Smith was Ogden's secretary. The letter and its enclosure titled "Bertrand Russell" discuss BR's pacifism and his support of the Peace Pledge Union.

Miss E. Smith was Ogden's secretary. Ogden writes about BR's pacifism and his support of the Peace Pledge Union.

Pages 14-17 of a longer letter, presumably to E. Smith. Miss E. Smith was Ogden's secretary. Ogden discusses BR's pacifism and his support of the Peace Pledge Union.

Susan annotated the letter: "Attention! Lord Russell. (S.P.L.) from Anne Russell to my future husband—signed—Susan". (Possibly "Williams" is Anne Russell's error for "Wordsworth", whom she did marry.)

Enclosed with document .104388.

BR requests that Pirie send Fall Out to Cook, record 119848, and he encloses the Nova Scotian's letter and his reply.

BR recommends that Paul Blanshard be the one to write a book on Catholicism and the Cold War.

On Switzerland's forbidding the International Congress of European Intellectuals from meeting at Basel on 5 and 6 July.

Word counts are evident.

BR withdraws his sponsorship of the Stockholm Peace Congress and issues a challenge to the Congress's impartiality.

BR, evidently in response to Halsbury's notification, has withdrawn his name as a sponsor of the Stockholm Peace Congress.

He encloses a copy (not present) of the letter at record 121521.

An extract from a letter from Mabel Minturn Scott to her mother.

BR "knew nothing of it [Bagley Wood] between the time when they chose the site last August and the day he came back from a walking tour to find his clothes in the bureau drawers and his books on the shelves."

This extract was typed by Sheila Turcon from extracts from the diary of Mildred Minturn Scott. Those extracts were made by her daughter, Leslie Allison. The originals were in the possession of her brother and not seen by Turcon.

The diary extracts concern visits with BR in 1901. Minturn notes that BR has "a genius for definition" of words.

Garnett responds to Turcon's request for information about BR and the Cranium Club. Few records were kept, but Garnett can confirm that BR was a member, "probably an early one". BR had stopped attending by the time Garnett was a member.

Frances Partridge writes: "The Cranium Club, formed in the late twenties I believe, was a dining-club for men only. No speeches or papers (as in the Memoir Club). Women were allowed a few years ago, when I was elected." She suggests Turcon contact Stephen Keynes, nephew of Maynard Keynes.

Keynes writes that BR was a member of the Cranium Club in 1929. He encloses a letter (record 121526) to prove that fact. He also encloses a list of Cranium Club members. It was founded in 1924.

Garnett asks Sassoon to join the Cranium Club. BR is listed as a member in the letter. The next meeting was to be held on 2 May 1929 at the Verdi Restaurant in London.

BR was a friend of Cary's father, Blair Brenan. She encloses a copy of a letter (record 121529) that her uncle, Gerald Brenan, wrote to her father. Cary recollects visits by BR in the 1930s. "I remember my mother returning amused but rather shaken because she had taken Russell's two children (by Dora) to the Caledonian market ... and they had insisted in buying swords, which they had fought with on the way back in the tube train."

Peter came to tea. The last time BR visited he was "irritated by a doctor my parents shared their house with, arguing over some mathematical problems with Russell, that Russell was too tired to explain."

Brenan writes from Spain to his nephew, Blair Brenan. He and Gamel had spent ten days in Yegen with BR and Patricia who had been sent by Blair. "I don't think I was ever so quickly fascinated by anyone [BR] before or so warmly disposed as I was to him ... I thought she [Patricia] was a nice girl, a trifle too schoolgirlish perhaps and too English—but evidently a rest after Dora. I think he is in love with her, but also—a common experience in love—very often bored."

Gathorne-Hardy wrote a biography of Gerald Brenan, The Interior Castle. He comments on BR's decision to name the Brenans as guardians of his children in case of his death. "It was, incidentally, a mad choice of the Russell's. Gerald and Gamel were both kind and conscientious but they were not good parents and any of their friends or relations who had children could see that at a glance. It reflects, I would say, the fact that Russell himself didn't really have any fundamental awareness of what was required in a parent, though he certainly had clear ideas of what he would like his children to become—in this case like Gerald and Gamel, and that certainly was a good choice."

Quine responds to a query from Garvin, 15 July 1992, which is also in the file. Quine attended BR's William James Lectures at Harvard in 1940: "In those days my focus was still on logic and ontology, however, and I was not sensitive to Russell's attitude toward epistemology."