BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
122403

The letters concern a proposed change in BR's itinerary in Australia to include Tasmania. There are also photocopies of letters from other organizations in the file to Latham; 10 letters in total.

122404

Powell is writing on behalf of BR, asking for advice with regard to getting Professor Rehberg to join Pugwash.

122405
Re BR's 90th birthday celebrations.
122406
Re BR's 90th birthday celebrations.
122407
The original typescript is document .117031, record 45751.
122408

The ts. carbon is document .117032, record 45752.

122409

This is a mimeograph re BR's 90th birthday celebrations using the salutation "Dear Friends". "Prof. and Mrs. Neils [sic] Bohr" appears in the bottom left.

122410

The original letter is document .146306, record 91663. Tanggard notes that Niels Bohr will not be able to contribute to the anthology.

122411

Re the death of Niels Bohr. The typescript carbon is document .146307, record 91664.

122412

The letter concerns signing the Russell-Einstein Manifesto.

122413

The letter concerns signing the Russell-Einstein Manifesto.

122414

Re the Sonning Prize for BR.

122415

Re the Sonning Prize for BR.

122416
122417
122418

Re the Russell-Einstein Manifesto.

122419

Re the Russell-Einstein Manifesto.

122420

Re the Russell-Einstein Manifesto.

122421
122422

Re BR's lectures at Bryn Mawr later in 1896: "I must tell thee one thing, that I don't believe Bertie will have a good manner in lecturing. He is fearfully nervous and shy about it, and he thinks he will have to read the lectures."

"Bertie is not keen on going to other colleges, because he feels that the Johns Hopkins and Bryn Mawr are the best."

"Bertie does not really feel competent to write about psychology. The chapter on the 'Psychological Origins of Space-Relations', in his dissertation was severely criticised...."

122423

Alys thanks M. Carey Thomas for the invitation to lecture. "Bertie's book has been accepted by the Cambridge University Press, and we hope it will be in proof before we sail."

122424

"We shall still sail Sept. 26th and go to Millville for a visit on arriving, then a few days to Germantown ... and a trip to Boston, etc., before coming to you".

"I do not think the Mathematical Congress would care for a paper from him, as he says to thee, because he has done no original mathematical work".

"We are very busy this week with the International Labour Congress. The behaviour of the delegates is shocking, but very amusing ... our particular charge, Prince Borghese, is a charming simple young man, with an ambition to be a professor of political economy".

122425

Alys writes after their visit: "It was a perfectly delightful month, and we both enjoyed ourselves immensely, and found it exceedingly profitable as well. Bertie feels that thee and all the academic people were most kind, and he was delighted to have such a splendid opportunity of lecturing to such a splendid audience. He enjoyed all the social things, too, for the first time in his life."

She hopes her own lecture [supposedly on free love] does not cause too much trouble. She and Bertie are now in Germantown.

122426

"We went on Wednesday to the reception of the Graduate Club here [New York] to meet Chas. Dudley Warner, and we were simply loved to death, and came home early. It was so different from your charming reception to Bertie."

"What a wretch Lady Scott is to drag in poor Santayana. I hope it will not injure him. The papers are so dull this week with no accounts of the trial in them!"

"Bertie had 40 at his lecture on Wednesday, but did not find them a sympathetic audience like Bryn Mawr."

122427

"Of course will give up the lecture in New York, and I will write to Miss Minturn that I have decided to give it up for fear the College might be indirectly held responsible for what I say."

122428

"We cannot imagine how anyone could have supposed that we believed in such things as anarchism or free love. We never once mentioned in the presence of any Bryn Mawr students religion, neo-Malthusianism or free love." We did say that if "one party to a marriage has been unfaithful and returns a penitent, the other party should forgive." She actually preached the "duty to marry and have children." Their views have been totally distorted.

122429

"Bertie is sending the letters of his great-grandmother, Maria Josepha Holroyd. We have not read them yet, but they sound amusing."

"It is a great comfort to have that wretched Lady Scott landed in prison." Frank Russell "has come out of the trial with a better reputation than ever before." "It is she undoubtedly who had his house burned down, and she has tried to bribe his servants to poison him."

Hannah Whitall Smith has added a postscript to this letter.

122430

This letter is not complete. Re the arrangement of BR's lectures at Bryn Mawr.

122431

"I have written Uncle Robert to say that our mathematicians are delighted with Bertie's paper. They say it is brilliant, original, acute, that his propositions, radical as they are, are maintained, and many other ecstatic things."

"They want him to deliver one lecture at the Mathematical Congress that meets in New York in November."

122432

The letter concerns BR's lectures at Bryn Mawr and Johns Hopkins.

122433

"I take little comfort out of Bertie and it seems to me a terrible sacrifice of Alys...."

"The Russells leave on Saturday lunch to Boston."

122434

This is a group entry for twelve letters written in November and December 1896.

122435

This is a group entry for four letters written in December 1896. The accession sheet identifies the sender as Mary Whitall Thomas. The letters are signed "Mary SS".

122436

BR declines to be interviewed on H.G. Wells.

122437

Re the philosopher Pickard-Cambridge.

122438

Cheque for "rates and water rate for 43 Hasker St.".

122439
BR praises the work in his correspondent's country against nuclear warfare.
122440

On a note regarding the uncanonical Pope John XXIII.

122441

"I have never studied the evidence for telepathy"; the evidence "for foreknowledge and messages from the dead is quite unconvincing."

122442

"Not lunch but tea".

122443

BR read Osborn's "Principles in Planning" with much interest and is glad he had an influence, however slight.

122444
BR encloses (not present) a photo of himself.
122445

BR mentions Simon's resignation from the executive (of CND).

122446
BR points out the euthanasia proposals include the patient's consent.
122447

BR calls the information about Patria shocking.

122448

Principia Mathematica "is intended only to appeal to mathematicians. Philosophic contents are in Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy."

122449

BR sees no inconsistency between his view and Eddington's.

122450

BR tried to answer Gleich's question in Human Society but is not at all sure the answer is adequate.

122451

BR orders 2 copies of The Space Child's Mother Goose by Frederick Winsor, and encloses a cheque on Edith's dollar account.

122452

"About already paid diary bill and varying addresses".

122453

Most of this accession of documents in box 2.71 relating to Edith Finch/Russell are catalogued individually in BRACERS.

This RA3 number was used to accession the second accrual of the Edith Russell papers. Several letters, beginning with document .312610, are entered individually in BRACERS using Rec. Acq. 967, the number used for the first accrual. Thus all of the Edith Russell papers can be searched as a unit.

Letters that have not been entered individually include: letters to or from Lucy Donnelly and her parents; letters to or from Donnelly and Helen Flexner; letters from Donnelly to Frances Hand; letters from Donnelly to Laurette Pease; letters from Logan Pearsall Smith to Donnelly; letters to or from Donnelly and others. Many of these letters are not originals but transcriptions made by Edith.

A finding-aid for these letters is available on the Research Collections website. The second accrual is in boxes 2.36, 2.71, 2.76 and 2.77.

122454

This draft letter was to accompany a typed list of Lucy Donnelly's books for the library and a list of pictures for the art gallery which Edith was donating to Bryn Mawr. McBride was the president of Bryn Mawr. The letter also mentions globes and furniture.

Books by BR appear on the list. Located in file 1. The list of pictures includes etchings that once belonged to BR and Alys. It is located in file 2 along with a handwritten list of books.

122455

Agnew was the librarian at Bryn Mawr. Agnew returns the list of Lucy Donnelly books marked up to indicate which books the library wishes to receive as a donation. A bookplate will be placed in each book: "Given by Edith Finch from the library of Lucy Martin Donnelly".

Edith was no longer living in Bryn Mawr. The letter is addressed to her in New York City.

122456

Edith's list of Lucy Donnelly's books has just arrived.

122457

Edith's draft reply is written in pencil on the verso of document .312612.

122458

The letter concerns Edith's donation of Lucy Donnelly books and pictures to Bryn Mawr.

122459

Edith had deposited Lucy Donnelly's globes in the Quinta Woodward room at Bryn Mawr. The books and pictures are still under discussion.

122460

Agnew will not be at Bryn Mawr when Edith visits on June 18. She looks forward to looking at the Lucy Donnelly books in Edith's New York apartment in the autumn.

122461
122462
122463

This is an informal letter to thank Edith for the photographs (including some fine architectural ones) belonging to Lucy Donnelly that Edith donated to the Bryn Mawr Art Department. Landes loves the Mary Cassatt pictures that were also donated.

122464

McBride is on vacation in the Pocono mountains.

122465

Leach was secretary of the Board of Directors. She sends "great appreciation of your very generous indefinite loan of paintings and drawings from the collection of Lucy Martin Donnelly".

122466

Agnew has a "a great deal of personal enjoyment looking" at the books belonging to Lucy Donnelly.

122467

An invitation to attend a meeting of the Rare Book Room Committee on 6 January 1950.

122468

Agnew encloses a list prepared by her on 16 June 1949, "Gifts to the Bryn Mawr College Library from Miss Edith Finch". There are 19 items on the list, including BR's Forstice manuscript (now in the Russell Archives at BR's request c.1966).

122469

Edith's letter is in reply to Agnew's letter of 1 December, document .312622.

122470

Mrs. Paul was Katherine McBride's assistant. She writes concerning the Lucy Donnelly globes in the Quita Woodward room.

Plates are to be attached with the text "From the library of Lucy Martin Donnelly, gift of Edith Finch".

122471

Edith's reply is written at the foot of document .312626. She addresses Mrs. Paul as "Margie".

122472

The book plate reads: "Bryn Mawr College Library. The gift of Edith Finch from the library of Lucy Martin Donnelly."

122473

Edith's reply to document .312627 is written at the foot of that letter. The book plate is "so large and fine it fairly takes my breath away!"

122474

Buckey was the comptroller at Bryn Mawr. He thanks Edith for her cheque of $1,000.

122475

The letter concerns the bronze bust of Lucy Donnelly done by Jacob Epstein in 1931. Edith would like it exhibited in the main reading room at Bryn Mawr.

122476

Hawksley doesn't like the photographs of Edith in the newspaper. She encloses a photograph of a drawing that she does like, saying Edith has such a "sweet face". "The talk on the wireless last week went to prove that your Bertie is not old at all."

122477

Not a letter but a photograph of a portrait of Edith done in 1938. Hawksley added to Edith's hair with a graphite overlay.

122478

Saunders includes her Bryn Mawr memoirs. See document .312634.

122479

Not a letter, but a memoir "at Bryn Mawr" about Lucy Donnelly, Helen Thomas (later Flexner), Emily Thomas, and Saunders.

Lucy, Emily and Saunders travelled to Oxford after graduation. Helen joined them at Leipzig the following summer.

122480

The message on a printed postcard of Villa I Tatti reads: "I wish you were sitting here, with Edith Finch, to have a good talk!"

122481

"All greetings and good wishes 1932". On the postcard image is written "Argyll House, Chelsea, 1727-1931". Argyll House was her home.

122482

The picture postcard of The Three Tetons, Wyoming, is sent to Edith c/o her mother in East Deerfield, Mass.

122483

Worthington was a sister of Helen Flexner. She writes that both Edith and Lucy appear in Shane Leslie's book American Wonderland, Lucy on p. 109 and Edith on p. 218.

122484

An invitation to attend a lecture at Bryn Mawr by A.N. Whitehead who will speak on "Relativity and Gravitation, Group Tensors and their Application to the Formulation of Physical Laws" on 18 April 1922.

122485

Edith's handwritten note appears as a postscript on a letter that she typed from Lucy Donnelly to Frances Hand. Lucy's letter concerns gaining employment, perhaps an assistant professorship, for Edith.

122486

On publication plans for Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare. BR deletes a sentence suggesting the typescript be sent to Khrushchev. BR does not think it a good plan to re-issue The Foundations of Geometry in the UK.

122487

"Formal no > Walrus and the Carpenter".

122488

MacCarthy accepts an invitation to Bryn Mawr. He is worried about Logan Pearsall Smith's health. He had a postcard from Alys Russell, who reported that he is still ill.

122489

"Total capital £3000 in unrealizable securities".

122490
122491

BR is not competent to evaluate Foster's concept of time in physics and recommends L.L. Whyte and Schrödinger.

122492

BR thanks McCall for The Freethinker and is glad the Brussels reunion was a success.

122493

"No".

122494

BR cannot find letters from Mrs. Grote to his mother: "Frequent moves have caused confusion in my papers". [Archives.]

122495

BR is sympathetic and sends Brian £5 while wishing the Labour Party's policy were better.

122496

BR suggests they meet in London.

122497

"Third person refusal".

122498

Re BR's debate with Bishop Gore and the claim that all pain is punishment for sin.

122499

Alys is writing from Vienna. "With love to Edith, and longing to read all the Blunt, for which the 3 chapters last summer whetted my appetite."

122500

Not a letter but her memories of Lucy Martin Donnelly. (Possibly mid-1930s for Lucy's retirement?)

122501

Since Rose has read 33 of BR's books, BR has nothing to tell him about his opinions. For criticism of his views on religion, he recommends Copleston.

122502

Found with this letter is an envelope to Logan from an unidentified person, postmarked in Richmond, Surrey, 29 Oct. 1922.