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.

BR provides a bibliography for those working for peace (Melman, Noel-Baker, Pirie, Pauling).

BR sends £20 for Direct Action.

BR thanks her for the picture of Kingston-Russell House, which he would like to see.

BR has no time to write a special introduction but suggests his Basel address.

BR sends Moreton Hall bills.

BR does not like the suggested claim to "moral superiority" involved in a union of humanists.

BR sends "the part of Alan Wood's typescript" worth including in My Philosophical Development.

BR agrees with Roberts' typescripts.

"Dinner with Lord Simon on Oct 25 at Marsham Ct".

BR notes the dinner scheduled for Oct. 25.

BR provides greetings for Fenner Brockway's 70th birthday dinner.

White writes of a letter to her from BR that she sold because she needed the money. It contained the sentence: "I could renounce the world and the flesh, but never the devil." Of their relationship she writes: "Though I admired him tremendously, was enchanted with his wit and much flattered by his friendship, I didn't want a physical relationship with him."

Of the letters still in her possession she offers to send them to Blackwell for photocopying and return. This did not happen. She plans on giving them to her daughter upon her death.

BR quarrelled with her "at the time of his divorce from Dora, because he wanted me to supply some evidence about her which I had only acquired by accident, and didn't think I had a right to disclose to his solicitors. He desperately wanted to get the custody of his children, but I think he did get it after all."

With regard to the blurb by BR for her Frost in May, she thinks it came from a review. It did not come from a letter.

BR sends Unwin the contract for US dramatization of "The Psychoanalyst's Nightmare".

BR sends a postcard of a Canadian (?) fall-out campaign, as a suggestion.

BR cannot come to London to be photographed by Irving Penn during Sept. 1-5.

BR gives information for the train journey to Penrhyndeudraeth ("be careful to get into the Pwllheli portion").

BR thinks Collins's reply to Khrushchev admirable.

BR agrees to the paperback reprint of Problems of Philosophy in America.

The letter is not dated; the date above is its date of arrival in the Russell Archives. Vidal reveals himself as "a life-long Russellite".

Booth suggests that an oral history of BR's life be undertaken.

Booth saw Russell speak in the Rockefeller Chapel of the University of Chicago.

The note specifies Mrs. Redmond.

BR recommends sending technical writing on H-bombs to Rotblat, who knows "a great deal more" than BR.

The typescript carbon of this letter is document .137408a, record 108477.

BR declines to participate in a discussion because he will not be in London on Oct. 15 and 16.

BR recommends that he send his paper to Prof. Powell.

This is the second letter written that day to Matarisvan.

The dictated original of this letter is in RA1 750, record 14094.

The dictated original of this letter is in RA1 750, record 14399.

BR recommends publishing both sides of his correspondence with Gilbert Murray ("the exchange increased their interest" when BR reread them).

The ts. carbon of this letter is in RA1, 410, record 7124.

BR apparently orders the "Blue Guide to Austria".

BR requests details of his trip to Vienna. He and Edith will stay for a little while after the Pugwash meetings finish.

Krassner writes that he published BR's letter of 20 April 1959 (record 122064 and record 7124) in The Realist and then again quoted it in the introduction to an anthology of Krassner's writings in 1971.

BR suggests Aug. 21 for the interview.

BR thanks him for the nice pipe and "pleasant acrostic communication".

BR suggests a psychiatric examination of the lady concerned in Turnbull's letter.

"I am worried about Alan Wood's list of abbreviations." [None were left unexpanded in Wood's pages in My Philosophical Development.]

BR is not going to India.

BR is anxious to meet with Simon.

BR suggests Scott get in touch with humanist organizations.

BR suggests Reiner send his article to CND.

BR has not heard from Kingsley Martin about exchanging hostages. He refers to the fall-out suits.

Michael Silverman catalogue, no. 7, 1992, item 68, p. 23. Extracts from the letter are printed re Joseph Conrad and Henry James.

Ottoline notes that she lent Tomlinson's book The Sea and the Jungle to BR when he was in Brixton Prison in 1918. She prepared a transcription of BR's remarks and sent it to Tomlinson with this letter.

"Bagley Wood, Oxford, Sunday Sept. 5th". The Russells lived there from 1905 to 1911; the only Sunday, 5 September, in that period was in 1909.

The letter concerns a speech by Philip Morrell. Alys invites Ottoline to visit her at Iffley.

This letter was found by S. Turcon in Rec. Acq. 434 (source Barbara Halpern) in March 2013. Since the source of this letter is Texas it has been placed in Rec. Acq. 385.

The letter is headed: "Bertrand Russell on Russia". An accompanying typed note indicates that Inomata never posted this letter, which concerns BR's The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism.

From the catalogue "One Hundred Books", list number 60.

"Two typed letters signed and two autograph letters ... all relate to an article that Martin was submitting to Mind, about which Russell was very enthusiastic, writing that Martin had high qualifications for the profession of philosophy."

One of these letters is probably the dictated letter, RA1 750, record 11816.

The ts. carbon of this letter is document .006977f3, record 92364, and concerns corrections to BR Speaks His Mind.

Edith verifies the authenticity of BR's memorandum on Schoenman.

A note on the accession sheet in Carl Spadoni's hand indicates that the letter was found in the Russell Archives' staff correspondence.

Cairns asks BR to write an introduction to James Feibleman's book on Peirce.

"I saw Freda Utley the day she left for Chungking. Her romantic enthusiasm is still undiminished. I miss our old days on Invitation to Learning."

The introduction of Feibleman's book on Peirce should be about 700 words. "I hear that Freda had a little accident in Shanghai and that her arm was broken."

The Feibleman galleys have been sent to BR. "Freda [Utley] is now back from the Orient, and full of theories about the state of the world."

The dictated letter is RA1 750, record 16016. On Reinhold Niebuhr, BR has no opinion.

BR sends his autograph to a person in New Bedford, Mass.

BR is glad Rao liked a book of his.

BR has not any intention of visiting India.

"No". Soon there was a freethought congress in Brussels, and Colin McCall (the UK contact) reported on it to BR. See record 122492.

Bhabha's letter is sent to Rotblat.

On Couturat; on Poincaré.

BR cannot himself take part in the opening of the exhibition [of Ruhman's art].

BR advises Schell to contact SANE.

BR cannot attend a congress in Osnabruck. The Basel Congress has been moved to Frankfurt for November.

BR's Basel address is sent.

"No".

Re a permission request for an unidentified article in Atlantic Monthly.

BR recommends getting in touch with SANE.

The anti-nuclear campaign keeps the Russells "chained to this country".