"I sold my husband's 'working library' to a local bookseller, G. David, in 1968 ...."

"I don't quite know what to say about Jumpers. Several friends of mine recommend it warmly and think it extremely funny, and I might think the same if I had seen it acted. But, in spite of Tom Stoppard's handsome apology for not realizing I was not dead when he wrote it, and his offer of a free ticket at any time, since I am housebound with arthritis I have only been able to read the play. It does seem to me, thus read, to be a bit feeble in its fun—but I notoriously lack a proper sense of humour ...."

"All the contents of Plas Penrhyn will be scattered far and wide in multiple small lots, but if you decided to take these pieces I think McMaster will have the lion's share."

The items described on the enclosed typed list were all purchased by McMaster.

BR's library and the furniture were shipped from Plas Penrhyn together. "I enclose a schedule of items which also went at the same time...."

The schedule is presumably the handwritten lists: "Items on BR's revolving bookcase"; "Notes on furniture from Plas Penrhyn"; "Items on BR's desk at Plas Penrhyn"; "Items on BR's 'Whatnot'"; "Books on BR's desk at Plas Penrhyn"; 26 books in total.

"I have probably known Russell as well as anyone in these later years, have visited him repeatedly, travelled with him, and of course did a very great deal of work with and for him—how much I don't think even he really knows." She remembers "the day we started from New York for MIT Boston for a lecture ... and got so engrossed in conversation at the airport that we missed the plane!" She worked to publicize the Russell-Einstein Manifesto; it didn't just happen on its own. "BR had more influence on our time than almost anyone, including Churchill."

There are other letters in the file; they are not entered individually.

"The clipping of an article by me on Bertrand Russell probably dates between 1952 and 1956."

"It is improbable that I wrote this piece for the syndicate, for that was the time when Russell had clearly lost his grip, even to the extent of recommending Khrushchev for the Nobel Peace Prize."

"The Nobel medals 1950 weighed 200 gr and were 23 carats fine."

Armstrong writes about BR's participation in the Parliamentary Group for World Government.

There are four files of correspondence between Clark and Blackwell. The letters are not entered individually. Their correspondence began because Clark was writing a biography of Albert Einstein. Clark began his work on his biography of Russell in late 1971.

1260a, Oct. 1968-March 1974. Contains transcriptions of some of BR's letters to Ottoline Morrell. There are also third-party letters in this file including some by William Ready and Anton Felton.

1260b, Apr.-Dec. 1974. Also contains John G. Slater letters.

1260c, Jan.-Sept. 1975. There is also a copy of the dust jacket of The Life of Bertrand Russell as well as a printed pamphlet advertising the book, using an image of a different dust jacket cover (not used).

1260d, Oct. 1975-Oct. 1986. Concerns Clark's picture book, Bertrand Russell and His World and as well as the biography.

The files include third-party letters: Penguin Books, John G. Slater.

Lenzen attended BR's lectures at Harvard in 1914. "Subsequent to the Harvard experience under the direction of Russell, I was in England during the period from September 1916 to March 1917. I visited Russell in his brother's house, 57 Gordon Square, and was a member of a group of four students who studied mathematical logic with him once a week in London. I came down from Cambridge for these occasions. Our group and Russell were the guests of Mr. Phillip Morrell (I am not sure of the spelling), the pacifist Member of Parliament, and Lady Morrell [sic], just before Christmas time 1916, in Garsington."

"The group of four students who studied under Russell in London during the fall and winter of 1916-17, consisted of Dorothy Wrinch, who was a student at Girton College and appeared to assist Mr. Russell as secretary; Jean Nicod; Armstrong; and myself. Nicod was a brilliant young Frenchman, tall, blond, and spare.... I visited him and his wife in Paris sometime after March, 1917.... I did not learn the first name, or even first initial, of Armstrong. He was a young man, a student of philosophy, who had been disabled during the war and had been discharged.... The group met with Russell once a week in one of the rooms on the first floor of the house of the then Earl. The procedure was to discuss the subjects of Volume I of Principia Mathematica. The introduction, which Russell told us he wrote, contains topics of great philosophical interest ... it has always appeared to me, even after these many years, that students of the Principia have never got beyond the introduction."

Russell at Harvard: "To the students, Russell was a super-human figure. It would be impossible for me to describe the adulation, veneration, and even awe which he inspired. Especially to be noted is that he was very kind and hospitable to students. He had an apartment in a house a block or so off Harvard Square and once a week he was at home for tea for us students. His witty remarks, uttered with a quizzical smile, were heard with delight. I remember one remark in his first meeting with the small class in logic (for which I do not seem to have notes). He said, 'a fact is not a thing. When I say that I am talking nonsense, but I want you to take it as a profound truth.' ... Another remark concerns J.M. Keynes. ... 'J.N. Keynes wrote an old-fashioned logic book, but his son is a much abler man'." Lenzen also recounts an incident involving Ralphael Demos and Professor Perry.

"My colleague, Professor Yuen Ren Chao, was interpreter to Bertrand Russell when he was lecturing in Peking during 1920-21. Ever since Professor Chao came to Berkeley many years ago as Agassiz Professor of Oriental Languages and Literature, we have frequently discussed our association with Russell.... Professor Chao told me that on the occasion of Russell's illness, a will was drawn up and Professor Chao and John Dewey were the witnesses."

Re the notebook: "Matters of quotation and publication from the notes is to be entirely under the control of the Archivist." (This is similar to assigning copyright.)

"That Nicod was Swiss was never mentioned when I was in his company, with the group, or with him individually. When Mr. Russell first told me of him, he spelled out the name and stressed the fact that it was a French name."

"Russell wrote to Costello that 'Royce was not at his best in this work', and Costello reported this to Royce. On an occasion while I was walking with Professor Royce, he mentioned the comment of Russell to me and seemed to have been hurt by the unfavorable comment."

The Bancroft Library has Lenzen's notes on two courses by Royce.

Lenzen writes at length about Nicod's nationality. He describes a letter that he wrote to his mother (Rec. Acq. 598, record 121129) identifying one of the conscientious objectors as Clive Bell.

"Russell at Harvard in 1914. Mr. Russell never read his lectures in that course. I sat in the front row and was exceptionally attentive. I do not recall that he even used notes. He did not refer the class to his Monist articles appearing at that time. Mr. Russell did read his lectures before the Lowell Institute, scientific method in philosophy. I was also in the front row at those lectures. The Lowell Lectures correlated quite definitely with the substance of the Harvard course. In the Harvard lectures he did not, so far as I can remember, ever refer to the Lowell Lectures."

"During the years 1911-13, when I was a student of C.I. Lewis at the University of California, he remarked to me that Russell changed his position frequently, but that this made life interesting."

Lenzen writes about Raphael Demos and his sister, Dorothy Demetracopoulou. Demos must have contracted his name as it was difficult to pronounce.

Demos became in 1917 "Sheldon Fellow in Europe for two years. I presume that he visited Mr. Russell frequently."

"I do not think that Costello gives an adequate account of the impact of Russell at Harvard in 1914."

Lenzen details his plan to attend the Russell Centenary Celebrations at McMaster.

BR will read Osborn's manuscript on ethics, although the crisis in world affairs may delay it.

A de Grindahl document is sent to Unwin.

BR declines.

BR has signed the "hippocratic" oath Hawton enclosed.

BR sends Rotblat documents from Sorm and Rees.

BR will agree if Simon and Schuster do—in connection with his "Why I Am Not a Christian" lecture.

BR encourages Simon to have his meeting in London. "We could meet at each others' houses."

BR sends her a typescript critical of CND and recommends that Canon Collins see it.

BR disagrees with Petch's typescript critical of CND.

BR declines.

BR reluctantly declines Stockwood's Cambridge invitation.

An "Indian letter begging for books" is sent to Unwin to answer.

In BBC payments BR distinguishes between expenses and fees.

BR cannot accept the invitation of the Indian Philosophical Academy.

A note: "Wine and Battines".

A statement on Linus Pauling's No More War! Only 3 of its 7 sentences were used.

BR sends a statement on Pauling's No More War!

BR sends Tylor for a cheque for £50 for Dora Russell.

Foulkes is welcome to visit BR on the weekend of August 2.

BR sends Pauling a copy of his statement for Gollancz on No More War!

Misdated 26 June 1958.

BR is still willing to write for General Kruls' NATO journal. "Various crises have kept me in doubt as to how I should respond."

A "third-party refusal" is to be sent.

"Helen Clare [ ]? game from Harrods?"

BR says it would be easy to arrange a recording at his house in Wales. "How far is criticism of British government policy tolerated?"

BR cabled his remarks on Jungk's Brighter than a Thousand Suns today, with difficulty.

BR sends Madams an Allen and Unwin envelope.

BR would be happy to have his Basel address in The Nation if the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists does not print it.

BR will be happy to see Smith.

BR sends £10 and wishes it were more.

Sinn's troubles with the S.P.D. are like those with the Labour Party.

BR sends a list of what Allen could do in the anti-nuclear movement.

No to an invitation.

The present bill minus the arrears is to be paid.

BR requests a copy of each leaflet for an unspecified campaign, and encloses £2.

BR refers Wilson to his History and Philosophy of Leibniz.

The world is not yet ready for a peace scheme. "I have thought in recent years that the first step must be to make governments and populations aware of the disastrous nature of nuclear warfare."

BR returns proofs of "Lady Carlisle's Ancestry" and discusses a permission question.

BR writes about the inclusion of Alan Wood's writing in My Philosophical Development.

On wives attending the Vienna Congress of Pugwash.

BR sends along Boyd Orr's letter.

BR does not think a small newspaper devoted to their cause would be effective. More important is getting publicity in ordinary newspapers.

BR is impressed by the photographs of Ruhman's art.

BR sends along 3 photos and Blumberg's letter on Ruhman's art. "Pictures and cartoons should play a large part in the Direct Action Campaign."

A copy of "Man's Peril" is to be sent to a Swiss man.

BR gives permission for her to reproduce the article in The Observer.

BR cannot go to Lund. (Frederiksson later interviewed BR and wrote a book about him.)

BR sends along a letter from the Polish ambassador.

BR thanks him for translating a message from the Polish Council of Ministers.

BR sends a prefatory note to Alan Wood's material in My Philosophical Development.

The letter is addressed to "The Librarian, McMaster University" and is signed "Mrs. P.H. Spence". She is in possession of BR's letters to her. She sent a second letter on 14 October 1970 indicating she did not get a reply to her initial letter. After legal consultation, William Ready sent a reply on 16 December 1970.

With the letter are Blackwell's notes on Mrs. Spence's claims and a copy of a letter dated 16 August 1970 to the Library's English lawyer, Richard Robinson.

Gowing writes that he has just sold a number of books with the Bertrand and Alys bookplate in them. Eighteen remain which he offers to the Archives. He also has a Venetian painting which used to belong to the Russells. It is described in detail in an enclosure.

Gowing offers the Archives three volumes of The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser once owned by BR.

Gowing offers the Archives 11 books once owned by BR; they are listed on a typed enclosure.

Blackwell declines Gowing's offer to sell a Venetian painting once owned by BR.

Horace Everett is the brother of Ernest Everett.

Holter attended BR's lectures at UCLA. He was also a teaching assistant with John Russell in his physics class. Holter has confused BR's chronology, placing the CCNY case before BR's arrival at UCLA.

He remembers BR as "a great teacher and I have no reason to think my fellow students felt otherwise. He particularly appealed to those with a sense of humour and who didn't take themselves too seriously." He found John Russell not accepting of "bad pedagogy".

Nell Hall-Humpherson was in the Women's Suffrage Movement. She was acquainted with Bernard Shaw and Israel Zangwill and met BR. "I do not know how Alys earned her slight reputation as being a working suffragist, because it always seemed rather a joke as she never seemed to do anything."

Francis's parents (his father was a Rector as is Francis) lived in East Marden and were friends of both Frank and Elizabeth Russell and BR. BR bought Battine House at Telegraph House from Captain R. de Salis, Royal Navy. "The Rectory adjoined the Battine House, and the children of the school [Beacon Hill] used our garden."

I "have nearly finished a book of about 250 pages, in which my parents' experiences with Russell are told." [The book seems not to have been published. (10 March 2016)]

"You ask whether Russell had read the 20th century philosophers in Wisdom of the West but not in History of Western Philosophy: no, he had not. With such matters he left me to deal alone, not even wanting to see the outcome."

Foulkes attended BR's seminar in Sydney, Australia. BR "was not unwilling to have his own views examined, since that is what he put forward for discussion."

"The Melbourne fiasco is due to something quite different: Russell had no time for Wittgensteinians, of which the Melbourne school was full." He goes on to write at length about Wisdom of the West. "The plan of the book, the text including the preface, the diagrams and the general policy of illustration are all my work." "As for the circumstances of the enterprises, they totally discredit Fisher and Foges, with MacDonald of London and Doubleday of New York close behind."

BR agreed to this undertaking because he had three young grand-daughters to support. "What sort of publishing worthies he had fallen amongst can only gradually have dawned on him."

He asks Blackwell to keep everything he has revealed "confidential for the present".

"I was an instructor at Chicago when Russell was there and I have distinct recollections of our weekly departmental luncheons, which, however, I am sure you would not like to publish."

BR implores the freeing of Istvan Bibo.

BR presses the case of Istvan Bibo, using the Chargé's visit to him in North Wales.

BR sends Ignotus copies of his plea for Bibo and asks about Mrs. Rajk.

BR would be happy to see Mr. Narayan in North Wales.

BR recommends his "proposals for an international university".

BR encloses a statement on behalf of Morley College's fundraising.

BR sends a cheque for deposit.

BR recommends Brimm get in touch with SANE.

The Frankfurt Conference is to be November 15 and 16, the Vienna Conference September 20 and 21.

BR is glad of publicity for a "tragic case".

BR is concerned not to be interviewed for 4 hours.

Re permission and a royalty for Alan Wood's heirs, and points in a contract.

BR will see Tornyos on August 12 at 6:15.