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."

I. Grattan-Guinness supplied the photocopies in record 121532 and record 121533. Miller was editor of the Educational Times.

Skinner thanks Laties for the articles by BR (in The Dial; not present, but Laties' letter of 25 September 1980 is). "I hadn't planned to say much more about Russell in the last volume of the autobiography, though he will certainly come into a summing up at the end. I shall keep your letter and the xeroxes to use at that time."

Sixty letters from the 12th Duke of Bedford to Graham Thomas. Some are addressed to "Mrs. Thomas". The majority are typed. Also in the file are four letters from Ada Osborne Samuel, who was the Duke's agent at Woburn Abbey, 1950-54. There are also two letters addressed to the Thomases: one from Richard Pares and the other from Gladys Scott Thomson.

Some early letters concern anti-Semitism in the British Peoples Party. The letters are highly political from a fringe point of view.

Weatherston was in Britain on behalf of McMaster's purchasing of the Russell Archives. He took William Ready's place in visiting BR when Ready's mother died. Weatherston was part of the Hamilton, Ont. law firm of Griffin, Weatherston, Bolby, Luchak and Martino.

Weatherston recounts his visit to BR and Edith Russell at Plas Penrhyn in early 1968. "He told us of a book he was writing, drawing attention to absurdities in the Bible." Weatherston writes that "after a few brief enquiries as to McMaster University, he tended to talk about himself, his family and his ideas through out our entire conversation." He later writes: "Lord and Lady Russell seemed generally interested in McMaster University...." There is much else from BR's conversation.

The original of this letter has not survived in William Ready's papers, which are held elsewhere in Research Collections.

Goodman writes about how the article "Do Science and Religion Conflict?" by BR came to be published in the Journal of the British Astronomical Association.

There are approximately 187 letters from Randall to Dora in this group entry, as well as two letters from her. See record 121539 and record 121540. There is also one letter from Griffin Barry to Dora, record 121541.

This acquisition has been placed in three folders. The Dora Russell letters are in folder (b). Also in folder (b) are two typescripts: "The Trevelyan Proposals" and "National League of Young Liberals". The Griffin Barry letter is in folder (c).

Dora hopes to have baby Roderick fully weaned by the end of November.

"I do not want to see my children so caught by class education and highbrow culture that they will ultimately only make the false escape their father [BR] made."

Paul Gillard is referred to in the past tense. He died in October or November 1933.

The sum of £27.1.9 is sent "for their services".

BR read Powell's poems "with considerable appreciation".

Powell is blind; he admires BR as an "avatar of world peace".

"Stop worrying about such things".

BR has no record of what he said on television, but tells McNicol to apply to Peggy Duff of CND for literature.

On his Sins of the Day.

BR's bankers, Glynn Mills & Co. require an answer.

"Thank you for sending me your vigorous 'castration' of a pedant, which gave me great pleasure."

BR wants to know if his lectures will begin on 2 January 1941.

Barnes encloses a list of the authors and their topics for Kallen's book on the CCNY case, including Patricia on "the personal history".

BR starts his lectures on 2 January 1941. It has been difficult to cap the enrolment at 50 students. "We are looking forward to a thoroughly good time with Russell at the helm."

Kallen writes that Patricia Russell cannot get her article ready in time for the book on the CCNY case. Thus "there may be nothing from the pen of either of the Russells."

He suggests making BR's first lecture at the Barnes Foundation "a pretty formal inaugural—a sort of academic occasion—so as to sharpen the issue of freedom."

Minutes of the "Organization Meeting for the Russell Class" at the Barnes Foundation. The minutes include a class list, typed twice, 2 pages. Barnes says BR has suggested 2 books: Murray, Five Stages of Greek Religion and Plutarch's Lives of Lycurgus and Alexander.

"Philosophy and Cultural Development in Europe", an outline for the first term of BR's lectures beginning in January 1941 at the Barnes Foundation.

Re the delivery of a bed to BR and Patricia's home. "Barnes thinks it can be carried on the back of a roadster."

A letter of recommendation for Patricia Russell to set up a charge account at Gimbel Brothers in Philadelphia.

Patricia is writing from the Commander Hotel in Cambridge, Mass. "BR is suffering from slight bronchitis."

Barnes has not succeeded in keeping class numbers to 50; there will be "59, about half a dozen of which are for the most part teachers in nearby colleges or universities." The Russells will not be spending the Christmas season in their new home.

The letter concerns an incident with a newspaper that took place on 2 January 1941 at the Barnes Foundation Gallery.

Barnes writes that "all of the books on your list, except Jowett's translation, have been ordered and will probably be ready for you at your next visit." Barnes will give BR his own copy of Jowett.

"The problem of note-taking has solved itself so that we don't need to run the risk of having somebody take the bloom off of your forthcoming book [HWP] on the subject."

An offensive student will be eliminated from the class. See record 121560 for his name.

The books listed are: J.B. Bury, History of Greece; Gilbert Murray, Rise of Greek Epic, translation of various plays, including Bacchae; Plato's Dialogues, Jowett's translation; Aristotle, Oxford translation (Clarendon Press).

Sam Soffer is informed that he may no longer attend BR's lectures at the Barnes Foundation. The reason given is that there are too many students in the class. For the real reason see record 121559.

BR thanks Barnes for lending him Barnes's "beautifully bound Plato". He tells Barnes not to bother about the other books in the list. [See record 121559 for the list.] With regard to his last lecture: "I like your short way with the tiresome man [Sam Soffer]. I hadn't noticed him during the lecture, but I thought his questions quite foolish. I am glad the lecture was all right from the point of view of note-taking."

With regard to BR's list of books Barnes writes: "An invariable rule of the Foundation is that any member of its staff who needs a tool that would facilitate his work is entitled to it and will get it." Because of the difficulty in buying "standard works" in Philadelphia bookshops, Barnes suggests that BR give sufficient notice (one or two weeks) for the books to be ordered.

Barnes sends enclosures (not present) re "The whole story as revealed by letters. I'm thumbing my nose not only at the cops but at the big shots who control them, but not me and public opinion." The enclosures are listed in the letter:

"Clippings—Inquirer, Our Town, A.C.B.'s letter to R.M. Cameron; copy of excerpt sent to police; copy of Supt. of Police reply—1/22/41; copy of A.C.B.'s letter to Supt. of Police 1/24/41".

Barnes notes that BR's hair cut has made him look younger "and put you in the approach to the Adonis class." "The two men who tried to get you to dilate on the highly-specialized topics that were properly by-products, are professors at Temple University."

BR made "a minor excursion into mathematics" in his lecture.

Barnes notes that it is not possible to get all the volumes in the set of the 0xford translation of Aristotle. Four volumes are on back order.

Barnes will put the French novel Clochemerle by Gabriel Chevallier in BR's desk drawer for BR to read, if he wishes to.

Barnes reads it twice a year.

Barnes writes that the journalist [C.W. McCardle, D41.01, E41.01] from the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin who interviewed BR six weeks ago has done considerable research in the interim and would like to meet with BR again.

Barnes invites BR and his Sunday guests to come and hear Negro spirituals.

A cheque is enclosed for deposit in BR's account.

Barnes replies to BR's offer to lecture to the Foundation's entire body of students. Barnes suggests as a topic "the basic issues of the war dealing with deeper and more significant moral and social values involved." He refers to the U.S. Lend and Lease Bill. The journalist, C.W. McCardle, from the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin should be invited as well.

This letter was hand delivered to BR by Mr. Jenney. A copy was sent to C.W. McCardle "at his home in Wayne".

Barnes has met with A.C. McCardle to make sure that the lecture story he writes for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin will be accurate. Barnes suggests that BR also prepare an abstract of his general lecture on war, which is to be given on Sunday, March 2.

BR thanks Barnes for the "3 extra vols of Aristotle. Two of them—Metaphysics and Ethics—were the most important of the whole set." He will bring the abstract for his lecture on 2 March 1941. The abstract is in the file: "Why I Support This War". Also in the file is a list of the invited people who attended the lecture, along with students and staff. The total number of attendees was 160.

"The crime of Lese Majeste which put Mrs. Russell in a tantrum last Thursday afternoon was committed solely by me." "When Mr. Cantrell informed me that Mrs. Russell was waiting outside, I told him that you were engaged in an interview to which you had agreed and that I had no right to interrupt it. A few minutes after Mr. Cantrell delivered the message, Mrs. Russell catapulted into the hall and bristling all over, said in a sharp, commanding tone, 'Where is Mr. Russell'." She addressed this question to Miss Mullen, secretary of the Barnes Foundation and one of its five trustees.

Across the top of this letter is typed: "Delivered by hand on Sunday, March 2, 1941. Copy also marked 'confidential' sent to Mr. McCardle with request that he 'return to sender by hand on Sunday, March 2, 1941'." Written in the margin is the note: "This letter destroyed—see letter of 3/3/41" (record 121571).

This is a modified version of Barnes's letter of 1 March 1941 (record 121570), although the description of Patricia Russell's behaviour remains the same. He adds a paragraph praising BR profusely for his lecture of 2 March 1941.

Typed across the top is: "Copy sent to Mr. Cantrell." Rather than reply to this letter in writing, BR spoke to Barnes about it on 6 March. What he said was typed up as "Russell's reaction to the letter of March 3, 1941" (record 121578). BR did not show the letter to Patricia. BR said it was all "a misunderstanding". "These statements should have been sufficient to get Russell's attention that no special privileges could be claimed by his wife and that the first requisite of all persons coming to the Gallery is that they behave themselves properly."

Barnes remarks that BR's licence number (51AR5) is "very appropriate for a logician and mathematician".

Barnes sends the following (not present) to BR:

"Clipping re Dreiser from Phila. Inquirer, 3/7/41; clipping re Dreiser from Phila. Record, 3/7/41"; copy of letter from Benj. Laskin; copy of letter to Benj. Laskin."

This note from Barnes to BR informs him that an article on page 160 of the May 1926 Opportunity magazine (not present) "describes the birth of the Foundation and foreshadows the goal of each of the present teaching staff with the students."

BR is glad that Barnes is doing a foreword for Kallen's book on the CCNY case and ventures 2 criticisms. BR will furnish a short abstract before each of his lectures. It would not be fit to publish. BR needs his lectures typed and has given Miss Warden his introductory lecture. BR wants to know if he can continue with this. There would be about 5,000 words a week. BR would also like to have "a peace-making talk with Miss Mullen" as a follow-up to the Patricia incident, "if she is not still too angry."

Re Kallen's book on the CCNY case. Barnes encloses (not present) what is presumably his preface.

BR thanks Barnes for his preface. "Kallen is neurotic, and is at times paralysed in his will; it is tiresome."

Also in the file at this point is one of the BR abstracts that were discussed in this correspondence. It begins: "Phaedo last hour of Socrates".

BR thanks Barnes for "very delightful material about the dog question", and for the typing. Yesterday's chapter "has been very well done." (The Barnes files at the Barnes Foundation contain a very large typescript of BR's HWP lectures.)

Partridge writes about BR: "He made a memorable impression." Turcon was attempting to find the location of a caricature of BR painted by Vanessa Bell and reproduced in E.M. Forster and His World (1978) by Francis King. Partridge said she would ask Quentin and Ann Olivier Bell about it. No new information about its location emerged. In December 2016, McMaster was approached about purchasing the caricature. It arrived that month (Rec. Acq. 1778).

This document is titled "Russell's reaction to the letter of March 3, 1941". See record 121571.

Barnes explains the procedures already in place to deal with people who show up at the Gallery without an invitation. Rather than give BR's address to people claiming to know BR, he wants to start following normal procedures. People are asked to write to individuals care of the Gallery and are given a card which informs them it is not a public gallery. Barnes encloses the card and also a copy of a letter to Ames Johnston (neither being present).

"I had not planned to stop on May 22; I was planning to give a final lecture, May 29, on Greek science and mathematics, especially astronomy. This would not lead to discussion, so I thought the discussion should be May 22, when I shall have finished Aristotle. If it suits you better, I can easily cut out the lecture on May 29. It is just as you like."

Tongue in cheek, Barnes says he has invited the Pope to BR's birthday dinner.

The letter concerns how to promote Horace Kallen's book on the CCNY case. A wide distribution of free copies should be avoided because of the stigma of propaganda; "Dewey and Russell were emphatic" that this "should be avoided."

Barnes explains at great length why BR's request to give his lectures next year on Friday rather than Thursday is not possible. He encloses a report on the subject [not present].

The letter is not dated.

"I enclose a letter [not present] for which I take no responsibility. I only once met the writer. Don't bother about her request unless you have a wish to do so."

[The enclosed letter may well be on file in the Barnes Foundation Archives, but with the date and the writer unknown, it may be difficult to locate.]

The typist assumes that BR wants a quotation from The Republic put in chapter 12 of his History and needs a copy of The Republic in order to add it.

(The quotation appears not to be in the History.)

The typist needs assistance in reading a word in the typed notes for Russell's History.

The typist, Virginia Werden, needs assistance to read three words in the History notes.

Alys congratulates BR on his exam (the Moral Sciences tripos).

BR asks Barnes to sign a bond for up to $500 to cover his son John's expenses at Harvard. This is a requirement of admission and must be signed by two U.S. citizens. BR will cover all of John's expenses himself.

BR encloses the bond form (not present) required for his son John's admission to Harvard. It is "written in the style of an ancient oriental despot addressing his trembling subjects."

BR invites Barnes and his wife to dinner and to drink champagne.

He asks permission to show his children, John and Kate, the Barnes Foundation Art Gallery.

BR thanks Miss Werden for the typescript she prepared for him and asks her if she would like to type the several lectures he has prepared for next term.

Barnes is away looking for art. Before he left he granted permission for BR's children to visit the Barnes Foundation Art Gallery. She does not have time to do the typing BR requested this summer. Even last term she only got it done by "working out of business hours".

BR assumes that his lectures at the Barnes Foundation begin on Thursday, Oct. 2, 1941. He will "begin by a recapitulation and synopsis of future lectures." BR requires "The Cambridge Medieval History (a work in many volumes)." Libraries are "reluctant to let it be taken out. Could you let me have it, and I would give it back to the Foundation when I have finished with the Middle Ages."

Miss Mullen tells Patricia that her knitting at BR's lectures at the Barnes Foundation was "annoying and a distraction from attention to the speaker." She reminds Patricia of the incident that took place on 27 February 1941. Now Patricia has again attended BR's class and indulged in knitting. This was BR's lecture on 30 October 1941. Mullen includes in her letter the text of the deferred communication by the Board of Trustees.

"The letter written on your behalf [record 121595] to my wife is astonishing by its incivility. I fail to see why what you wished to convey could not have been said orally without formality and completely unnecessary rudeness. I had not before understood that my wife was not allowed at my lectures; I do not now understand why I was not informed of this. I regret that by asking her to be present I infringed, ignorantly or by oversight, the rules of the Foundation."

Mullen outlines the case against Patricia Russell. She is guilty of "disorderly conduct" as well as irregular attendance at BR's classes. The inference is that she must either attend regularly or BR should have applied to have her admitted.

There are two other copies of this letter: Rec. Acq. 21, record 66660: the Foundation replies to BR's accusations of "rudeness" and "incivility" in the last correspondence. The Foundation supports its decisions and its rules for conduct and attendance. Also RA1 825, record 66506: Patricia Russell's various offences against the rules of the Barnes Foundation.

Patricia's letter ought to be addressed to the Trustees, not to any individual.

The original letter is in RA1 821, record 120742.

BR denies receipt of the Foundation's letter of March 3 (record 66573 and record 121571); but see the memorandum on BR's reaction to it, March 6 (record 121578). BR justifies Patricia Russell's "arrogance" in the matter of "interrupting" an interview with a journalist on February 27.

Another copy of this letter is in Rec. Acq. 21, record 66661.

On BR's behalf Patricia responds to Pinto's request. BR mentions his particular class has been disturbed by the "less obvious distraction of knitting". BR must consult with his class before granting Pinto permission to take photos during class.

A copy of this letter is in Rec. Acq. 21, record 66665.

(This letter is addressed to "Dear Sir"; Pinto's name is inferred from his letter of 28 Nov. 1941 in Rec. Acq. 21.)

Pinto and his brother Angelo have been informed that they will not be permitted to photograph BR's class.

The original signed letter, typed in the style of the Barnes Foundation, is in RA1 821, record 120744.

The enclosure is a formal summary from the Board of Trustees of the events, including the dialogue of BR and Albert C. Barnes to the class of "last Thursday". The enclosure is titled "Events of December 4, 1941".

Official descriptions of what had been made public about the trouble and when are given. In her covering letter Mullen threatens to go public with the dispute, which now covers Patricia's knitting and the Pintos' request to take photos during class.

A copy of this letter is in Rec. Acq. 21, record 66669. There are two copies of this letter in RA1 825: record 66508 and record 66509.

In the enclosure BR defends the privacy of those who had protested that Patricia's knitting did not disturb them.