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

"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."

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

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".

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

Re the philosopher Pickard-Cambridge.

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

On a note regarding the uncanonical Pope John XXIII.

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

"Not lunch but tea".

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

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

BR calls the information about Patria shocking.

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

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

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

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

"About already paid diary bill and varying addresses".

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

McBride is on vacation in the Pocono mountains.

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".

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

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

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).

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

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".

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

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

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!"

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

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.

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."

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

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

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.

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!"

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

"Formal no > Walrus and the Carpenter".

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.

"Total capital £3000 in unrealizable securities".

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

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

"No".

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

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

BR suggests they meet in London.

"Third person refusal".

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

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."

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

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.

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

On names, Quine, the theory of descriptions and Miss Anscombe.

BR refers to the "illiberal policies in this country about immigrants".

BR mentions Fuchs, but thinks spies contributed little to Russia's nuclear success.

Edith asks for references to Thomas Amory (John Buncle).

The postcard was returned to Edith with references in pencil to which Edith has added more information.

BR makes a correction re Alan Wood in proofs of My Philosophical Development.

BR quotes Churchill on Franco: "That gallant, Christian gentleman".

BR signs a contract and is grateful for Unwin's approach to Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare.

BR severely criticizes the "obscurantist" approach, shared by Taylor, to viewing scientists as blameworthy for the world's (nuclear) troubles.

BR finds Herblock's cartoons "admirable". Causes of World War Three appears to be "excellent".

BR discharges his "avuncular" obligations.

BR wants the 3 deeds for his grandchildren renewed.

BR declines to be on an Honorary International Committee, although he "profoundly admires Casals".

To an article BR adds a statement on "limited war", mentioning MacArthur.

BR is about to publish Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare.

BR praises Cousins' open letter (possible for SANE).

"Go to Rationalist Society".

BR suggests a meeting at Hasker St. next day to discuss Burnett's proposal.

BR encloses (not present) a message for a meeting. ("Enclose same message as to Hull University".)

BR believes H-bomb shelters are "completely useless".

BR thanks him for "an early warning system for peace".

The sheet is undated but the date fits. The Russells will be at 43 Hasker St. for 3 weeks.

The Russells are moving from Millbank to Hasker St.

"Show Unwin letter about BR-GM [G. Murray] letters".

"No".

BR stated his views on gifted children in Education and the Social Order.

BR agrees to join an Honorary International Committee to honour "Maestro" Casals.

"No".