BR agrees to write "Why Go to the Moon?".

"The material in my possession, however, is not limited to the letter and interview mentioned in your letter, but includes five letters from Lord Russell dealing with various subjects on the Middle East."

There are two other letters in the file, both from Blackwell.

BR will not write anything philosophical for the present, because of the anti-H-bomb campaign.

BR is willing to sit for photography by Richard Avedon.

A group entry for a file of letters between Ayer and Blackwell.

BR will be happy to see Gottesman in London during the next 2 weeks.

BR encloses (not present) a letter with information that Unwin may lack.

BR is willing to take part in a Lords debate. Simon's reply to Lord Halifax is excellent. The execution of Nagy and his friends (in Hungary) will be a setback to the campaign.

BR includes a message for the Fourth World Conference Against A and H Bombs in Tokyo in August and will be glad to be a sponsor.

BR forwards Yasui's letter (record 121812) with a query about sending delegates to Tokyo.

BR cannot come to Venice in August but hopes he has a successful meeting.

BR is glad Kaviraj no longer wishes "to cease to be", but personal association with BR would not be better than reading his published writings.

BR forwards a copy of an encouraging letter from Tito.

BR thanks him for sending encouraging letters from Tito and Khrushchev. The execution of Nagy and friends is distressing.

BR refers to 3 of his recent books as containing answers to Katz's questions.

BR cannot write the statement requested, but he has every sympathy with Pollak's goals.

BR would gladly send any letters from Gorky, but he has none. [There is one in the Dora Russell boxes; see record 74934.]

"Russell and my father were both Cambridge mathematicians. But I think that the link between them lay more in their political and philosophical approach than in any close mathematical affinity. Russell of course was not a churchman. But I think that both he and my father had an essentially scientific approach to the problems of life and they were both of course radicals in their general way of thinking."

There are other letters in the file.

Re McKinney's Hibbert article. It concerns not analysis but a scientific hypothesis, illustrated by astronomy; the gulf is between analysis and inference to things not perceived.

BR will get to work on the article at once.

BR forwards a letter from Dora Russell concerning the Basel Conference.

BR would like to see the caricature of Lord John Russell.

"The first time I met Russell must have been in the early 30s, when I commented publicly on a paper (his presidential address?) that he delivered to the Aristotelian Society. In the early 40s, I was in charge of a visit he paid to the University of Illinois, where I was then teaching. Later [in 1948], I spent much of a whole day sitting by his side in a touring bus in Holland. That was soon after his airplane accident and his subsequent swim to safety, of which I remember him as being very proud. There must have been other occasions, since we had a mutual friend in Susan Stebbing."

There are other letters in the file.

Blanshard knew Joachim well but doesn't know where his papers are.

There are other letters in the file.

Paul Blanshard sent his papers to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

"Bertrand Russell has taken a great interest in my work and has actively sponsored it."

Re Semantography-Blissymbolics.

There are more letters in the file.

Broad does not know where the papers of James Ward are. Broad does not have any letters from BR after Feb. 1969.

There are more letters in the file.

"Catherine Marshall died about a year ago.... I remained friends with her until the end."

There are other letters in the file.

BR cannot send a message to the Stockholm Conference, and encloses (not present) a copy of his letter to Vigne.

BR declines to speak at the Debating Society.

BR is much more concerned with H-bombs than sex questions and encloses (not present) his Basel speech.

BR looks forward to Das's translation of Satan in the Suburbs but declines to write an introduction to Das's translation of Schweitzer.

BR declines Urmson's unspecified suggestions.

BR recommends Morel's Truth and the War.

BR cannot be at the House of Commons on July 23 although he is in complete sympathy with Powell's aims.

BR sends Rotblat a letter from Cockcroft.

He notes that US income tax is paid on a Saturday Review cheque.

BR declines to address the Muirhead Society "as I am too busy trying to keep philosophers and other people alive to have any time for philosophy."

BR sends Rotblat a letter from Jablonski.

This is not a letter but a note about the Institute's International Journal and its editor, Harold I. Nelson.

BR has no photograph suitable for Mister's purposes.

BR, owing to heavy engagements, cannot write an article for Riess.

BR sends Duff a letter from "our Hampstead branch", which he has not answered. He has severed connections with the Stockholm Conference.

BR sends Erdei and Tokyo wire to Rotblat.

BR calls the cover to On My Own in Moscow "lovely".

[MacDonald is a Canadian poet.]

BR has nothing to controvert in Hodson's proof of Julian Huxley's article.

BR turns down a flat—it is not near enough to London.

BR signs and returns a letter to Arrowsmith.

BR sends his Vigne letter to Köln. (Spelled with an umlaut, "Köln" may well stand for a person or organization in Cologne.)

BR replies to Sybil Morrison's "attack".

BR sends her a letter from the Japan H-bomb Council.

BR approves the writer's broadcast of July 1.

BR requests that Unwin send Portraits from Memory to the author of the enclosed letter (not present).

BR consents to an interview in August.

BR is grateful to Pirani "for putting my book into modern dress".

BR and others are trying to make British policy [on nuclear weapons] more reasonable.

"On Dec. 1, 1931, the morning after the lecture he dictated the preface [to The YMCA Government of China], but the night before after his lecture he told me all about Dora's new baby not being his. And afterward I felt that perhaps I had failed him because I advised him to hold on to her as long as he could for the sake of the two older children and it would not matter where the new little baby lived as long as it was with its mother. He said at the time that the father wanted possession of the child. Afterward I recalled my visit with Dora when she came to New York on a lecture trip due to her new book The Right to be Happy.

"She had remarked that 'when a woman marries a man twenty years older than herself, she soon finds herself practically a widow'. Bertie should have given her more babies."

[This file contains many letters between Blackwell and Brooks concerning her book The YMCA Government of China for which BR wrote a preface.]

"The Language School in Peking was the largest in China.... It was called the North China Union Language School." Brooks held a party for BR there. "The Language School head refused me permission to hold the party but the YMCA permitted it. I do not say this in the ms. because Russell was 'living in sin' at the time and I do not want to have the YMCA censured."

"By the way, it was Russell's question to me: how did it get to be the YMCA Government of China? That is the main point: how did it?"

My Aunt, Mrs. Emil Brudno, brought celebrated persons like Lord Russell, Clarence Darrow etc. to an organizational lecture series on a voluntary basis. I believe Lord Russell stayed at their home ... (Dr. Brudno's). I recall when Lord Russell was here ... my uncle told me that he said he was going upstairs to prepare his lecture and would be there for about an hour. In a few minutes he came down, and my uncle asked him why he came down so soon. Lord Russell said, waving the back of an envelope with a few notes on it, and remarked, 'I would rather come down and talk with you'."

"My father [Henry Montague Butler] knew Russell's parents and was naturally interested in their son's career. In Russell's first volume of his memoirs he quotes a friendly letter from my father, but apparently only to suggest that my father was a snob. He clearly failed to appreciate my father's character. The visitors' book at the Master's Lodge shows that Russell and his first wife were guests there in November 1910."

Regarding BR and Elizabeth Russell: "Her marriage with his brother Francis naturally brought them together rather often but—being extremely discreet, as well as loyal—she would hardly write to him about her difficulties and sorrows when it almost immediately went to pieces. Moreover they moved in very different circles and she stood in awe of his intellectual superiority." "I do indeed remember Bertie Russell well. I stood in even greater awe of him and was almost frozen speechless when lunching with him in his rooms in Cambridge alone on a memorable occasion. We never corresponded, indeed we were light-years apart."

Enclosed with the letter are photocopies of envelopes addressed to BR in 1961 when he was in Brixton Prison. "The envelopes are the property of my son given to him by Lord Russell's grand-daughter for his stamp collection."

There are other letters in the file.

"From my memory of the 1948 debate with B.R., Russell was a bit ruffled a the end, as I had suggested (or he thought I had suggested—I forget which) that he was a logical positivist. He was not of course."

Copleston writes of his memories of the 1948 Amsterdam International Philosophical Congress. Arnôst Kolman in his speech gave "Bertrand Russell as an example of an ivory tower philosopher. Russell was sitting near me, and I could see that he was indignant, as indeed he had every right to be. When Kolman had finished his diatribe against the United States, several people spoke against him, among them Russell. Russell said something like 'When you get back to the place that you came from, tell your masters that the next time they send a propagandist to the West they had better send somebody with more brains than you seem to possess. You say that you are bringing values to the West, but your only decent statesman (Jan Masaryk) has just thrown himself, or been thrown, from a window'."

"The only work I did for BR was to type from letters an officer sent me from the front, of extracts which might show how horrible war really is. A wave of sentimental glory was around! My friend the Hon Graeme West was killed in action."

"My maiden names were Dorothy Mackenzie. I married Hilderic Cousens in 1918, a pacifist." "I had a break-down when most of my generation were either killed or in prison and Bertrand Russell was kind and helped me back to sanity."

"About Clough Williams-Ellis's autobiography: I hadn't noticed, until you pointed it out, how little there is about Russell."

Crawshay-Williams thinks the reasons may be both a lack of interest in people as compared to buildings and a lack of interest in philosophy. He then adds what he thinks is the main reason: "(This is only my wife's and my opinion; we have not talked about it recently to CWE) that Ralph Schoenman was so unpleasantly rude (in our presence) to CWE at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, that it somewhat soured CWE's recent memories of BR and his advisers. (Schoenman was rude also to us, and to other of BR's local friends, and to some extent he alienated them.) BR did in fact write to CWE apologizing for Schoenman; but perhaps the damage was done."

Re your query about the Metalogical Society. "I presume that Sir Alfred Ayer's referring you to me means that he himself does not remember any such paper being read to the Society. This confirms me in my own almost certainty that Russell did not in fact read that paper."

"I have in my possession a book of the complete writing of Edward Lear, which belonged to Bertrand Russell, who was my grandfather.

He gave it to me some time before he died, and used to read to me and my sisters from it when we were children."

Blackwell annotated this letter with the RL number 587, along with bibliographical details.

Edward Lear's Nonsense Books (Russell's Library, no. 587) was acquired by the archives in 1982.

"I did not know B.R. really, nor did I feel competent to summarize his technical contributions to philosophy, logic, mathematics. He did influence me deeply, as a student (Chicago), with his writings on relativity, education, etc."

"We are attempting to trace Bertrand Russell's involvement in the founding of the British Institute of Philosophical Studies, now the Royal Institute of Philosophy."

The file contains a list of "volumes once owned by Bertrand Russell in the Library of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, Gordon Square, London" prepared by Blackwell.

The volumes include 3 works by Joseph and Ward with marginalia by BR.

"The Institute decided that it did not at present wish to part with the volumes of Mind and The Review of Metaphysics which were donated to it by Russell."

"I suppose you know about Russell's blurb for Tarski's Introduction to Logic, and the absurd row that Russell raised over it.

"I have read your letter and enclosures on the Russell-Tarski affair with interest, and have read again the recommendations of Tarski that I sent to City College, Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, California, and Guggenheim in 1939-41. I made no use of Russell's statement in any of them. I think I can see why: mathematical logic was a fast growing subject, and Russell had long since turned elsewhere. I seem to remember someone saying that Russell's statement had been transmitted by Ernest Nagel. This may have been a conjecture."

"Tarski of course had no hand in the affair, and was understandably annoyed and unhappy about Russell's reaction, as was I; but I think Hook overstates the injury."

BR much enjoyed Cresswell's Poems for Poppycock. (Not in Russell's Library.)

BR cannot improve Simon's draft of a Lords' resolution and will happily speak to it.

BR forwards to Duff letters on or from Hiroshima, and the "international campaign".

BR tells a Swedish paper that he cannot undertake an article for it due to pressure of work.

On Hungary and Madame Rajk, with the texts of BR's telegrams to the Budapest government and to Khrushchev. See B&R C58.40a.

BR criticizes C.P. Snow for apparently not hearing of fall-out.

BR sends Martin correspondence on uranium with a Czech Trade Union journal.

BR is glad that Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, is anti-nuclear, but he cannot be present at a demonstration.

BR encloses (not present) his Basel speech and hopes a Frankfurt meeting will take place.

BR denies a rumour that he is going to India.