BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
122203

"I do not know of anything to be done except public protest on occasion of each regrettable incident."

122204

BR has no time to write a foreword to Suzuki's Japanese translation of BR's book.

122205
BR provides autographs.
122206

BR tells how he came to know the Webbs: it was through the Pearsall Smiths and Frank Costello.

122207

Perhaps merely an appointment note: Miss Dinny (BBC), 18 Sept., Millbank.

122208
BR declines an invitation.
122209

"Letter to Linus Pauling from Bailey".

122210

BR declines an invitation—he is "at the extreme limit of what I can perform."

122211

BR declines to review a book about Wittgenstein.

122212

"Private". BR requests the source of a quotation from Sir Dermot Boyle.

122213

Re publishing the manuscript of "Respect for Law".

122214

BR declines to write a preface to Conrad's Lord Jim.

122215

BR forwards a document about Bhabha.

122216
BR balances the right of the sender against public importance in whether to publish a document.
122217

BR acknowledges a cheque for £170.17.9 on behalf of the Deutsche Bank of Hamburg.

122218

BR sends a cheque.

122219

BR denies for "about the 137th time" that he is going to India.

Principia Mathematica and Epimenides' "great truth". (Unwin had tested the claim that PM was out of print.)

122220

BR declines a BBC dinner on Nov. 27.

122221

"Formal refusal" to "Medical Society banquet".

122222

"Two books" to be sent to Dora "signed for Yugoslavs".

122223

Church discusses Douglas Lackey's alterations of Russell's spelling in editing Essays in Analysis. Church also wrote a reply to a Blackwell letter of 25 March 1987 at the foot of the letter; photocopied it; and returned the photocopy to Blackwell. Church asks whether the Russell Archives collect publications about Russell.

122224

The postcard image is of Lee Eisler.

122225

This is an extract from this letter typed by J.M. Johnson.

"Have you heard of the plan for the Russells to build a cottage on our land? ... both Mary and I like Bertrand quite particularly and find her [Alys]—at the least—quite easy to get on with and good and kind. We have found them pleasant neighbours during this spring.... He, especially, has great tact.... The cottage will be ours and they will pay us a percentage ... on the capital outlay."

The Murrays' house was in Barford, Churt.

122226

This is an extract from this letter typed by J.M. Johnson.

"I have written to Giddy and Giddy to try and sell this house for £8,000.... This is odd as regards the Russells but I warned them beforehand that we might at any time sell the house if we got a reasonable offer...."

The Murrays' house was in Barford, Churt.

122227

This is an extract from this letter typed by J.M. Johnson.

"... [T]he architect is waiting to see what the Russells do before deciding whether to get his fee from them or us. It is an annoying charge...."

Murrays' house was in Barford, Churt.

122228

This is an extract from this letter typed by J.M. Johnson.

"... we have a bevy of visitors tomorrow: Bevan ... Honor Brooke and Bertie" at Barford, Churt.

122229

This is an extract from this letter typed by J.M. Johnson.

"... guests, easy and loveable people: The Hammonds, Barker, the Berties, and by a chance visit, Mr. and Mrs. Bishop." They were at Barford, Churt.

122230

BR expects to return to London the evening of Oct. 1. He could record a message on the 5th. There are notes below: 2nd: television 3rd Line Grove 9 eve 4th CBC.

122231

"Agree".

122232

BR requests a copy of The Human Sum.

122233

BR cannot come to the U.S. in the near future but offers his essay in The Human Sum or a special message.

122234

"Forward letter to Claridge for Bevere".

122235

BR cannot attend Fenner Brockway's birthday celebration but subscribes a guinea for it.

122236

"Formal refusal".

122237

BR declines to write a new introduction to Marriage and Morals.

122238

BR would be delighted to pose for John and recommends he lodge at the Oakley Arms in the neighbourhood.

122239

"3 o'clock Monday, tape recording for nuclear disarmament. 5 minutes plus".

122240

BR thanks Meyers for the "authoritative" pamphlet on disarmament.

122241

BR sends The Human Sum, containing "Population Pressure and War".

122242

BR pays Madams 100 guineas.

122243
BR corrects the post office's record of his address.
122244

BR will stay over in London in hopes of talking with Simon.

122245

"Ring to fix a time, anytime after Friday".

122246
BR declines to attend a cartoon exhibit.
122247

BR approves the American edition of BR's Best but disavows the view expressed by a "Satan in the Suburbs" character on p. 31.

122248

BR declines to make a recording to say he will not attend the Frankfurt meeting. He will provide an address.

122249

BR recommends that Ashford take his theory to a physicist.

122250

BR requests Powell's copy of his Vienna address, the Russians having taken the other one.

122251

Madams is sent the "Penrhyndeudraeth tax man's communication".

122252

BR is glad to have Landro's information about Indian art.

122253
BR is impressed by the thoroughness of his studies of br.
122254

BR thanks her for Arctic Wild.

122255

Re declining to view a book on Wittgenstein: "What I should wish to say about him is somewhat complicated, and if I expressed myself shortly I should get into hot water."

122256

BR declines Radio Luxembourg's invitation to express his beliefs in a play.

122257

BR advises Benjamin to get in touch with the Rationalist Press Association.

122258

On a topic in a book by Schrödinger.

122259

BR suggests a bookseller could obtain D.H. Lawrence's Letters to Bertrand Russell.

122260
Permission to reprint.
122261

BR has not read Dunne's Experiment with Time and has a prejudice against him.

122262

Time may effect a cure in a life thought to be ruined by Catholicism (as BR knows from similar cases).

122263

BR could only see Dr. Ottone if he made the 7.5 hour trip to Wales.

122264

"Look up Osborn's article".

122265

BR is nearly certain to sign a protest about race persecution that Dr. Littlehead plans.

"I have never ceased to be grateful to you and your husband for your kindness to me at Oxford in 1944."

122266

BR will autograph copies of a certain book and looks forward to being shown around "your newly constituted philosophy departments".

122267

BR is sorry to hear of Popkins' death.

122268
BR declines an invitation.
122269
BR does not think it possible for them to meet.
122270

BR will autograph a book. As for a contribution to a cause, he suggests CND.

122271

Lord John Russell's "papers came into the possession of the Duke of Bedford who destroyed them." [Archives.]

122272
BR is too busy to study the writer's discovery.
122273

BR has nothing suitable for Naess's new journal.

122274

"No".

122275

BR leaves the editing of his Basel address in Bovard's hands and thanks him for information on his intended book.

122276

"Telephones".

122277

"Stamped envelope—read Why I Am Not a Christian".

122278

BR thanks Murrow for a cheque and is relieved that he evidently talked long enough during the programme "Small World".

122279

BR returns his typescript ("I receive, on an average, about 3 such typescripts a week").

122280

BR refers Hasty to the Rationalist Press Association and to SANE.

122281

BR declines her invitation to visit India. [She is Nehru's sister and a former president of the U.N. General Assembly.]

122282

"43 Hasker St. telephone form".

122283

BR encloses a cheque for £72.9.6.

122284

BR declines to read his manuscript "Don Quixote".

122285

"43 Hasker St.—gas form".

122286

"Re Hasker St.—Harrods removal form".

122287

BR answers 3 questions about his sleeping and dreaming.

122288
BR favours prohibiting the future development and manufacture of nuclear weapons, and destroying existing stocks.
122289

BR is grown too old to journey to the US.

122290

BR has nothing to send The Free World Review.

122291

BR sends Nubar 3 documents "concerned with organizing rational opinion among scientists".

122292

BR is "proud and happy" to be an honorary member of the International Institute of Philosophy.

122293
BR sends a subscription for 12 months.
122294

BR thanks Unwin re the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, and sends his Basel address for a Swiss publisher.

122295

Photocopies of letters from various people to Kallen concerning BR and the City College of New York case. There are some replies and newsclippings as well as a chronology.

122296

Photocopies of letters from various people to Kallen concerning BR and the City College of New York case. There are some replies and newsclippings.

122297

Microfilm reel no. 48. Approximately 250 letters from Logan to his parents and his sisters Alys Russell and Mary Berenson.

122298

Photocopies of letters from various people to Kallen concerning BR and the City College of New York case.

122299

Kallen requests that a review copy of the Bertrand Russell Case be sent to Max Otto.

122300

A review copy of the Bertrand Russell Case will be sent to Max Otto. "It is rather shocking that our publicity failed to penetrate the University of Wisconsin."

122301

Cardiff asks about the outcome of the City College of New York case.

122302

Re the City College of New York case. "I suspect that the outcome in the Russell case was due to a combination of inertia, timidity and unwillingness to take trouble on behalf of the principle. We are facing a general attack on the integrity of the public school system by churchmen which too, may win, for the same reasons."