BR chooses a book gift: Conceptual and Methodological Problems in Psychoanalysis.

To "Agent" BR sends thanks for a cheque for £12.12.9.

"No."

BR is glad to know the history of a certain plaque but cannot be present at the "little ceremony" on Jan. 3.

BR thanks Dr. Munster for a lecture.

BR thanks him for the book on Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle.

"No."

"Return ms on Peace Indivisible".

BR cannot possibly spare the time as he is "overwhelmed with work".

BR gives his name to the proposed Congress of Free Thinkers next September.

BR encloses a signed photograph for Urquhart's purposes.

BR enjoyed an extract on prostitution but cannot afford time or money to support the journal.

See record 23879 for the text of BR's comment on a book Youth in Chains, concerning survival in a concentration camp.

BR comments on her typescript "Peace Indivisible". She has not dealt adequately with the problem of executive power.

BR likes the appearance of Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare. BR and Edith are trying to sort his correspondence. He can annotate the correspondence with Gilbert Murray.

BR admires the courage and skill shown at North Pickenham and encloses £10.

BR would prefer to do a television appearance in Wales before Jan. 12.

BR prefers to see him in Wales.

"It is still possible to hope that the Conference for the Cessation of Tests may be successful. It must be a profound satisfaction to you to have made this result more probable."

BR sends Holland a bundle of Quine correspondence—for Miss Anscombe, too, if she is interested.

"About #29 [Millbank] keys".

BR tells her: "You do not say who the philosopher is that you mention."

BR encourages Dr. Tames to write his book on world problems.

BR provides a 4-point critique of Simon's memorandum. BR declines to open a second day of Lords' debate "as it would involve my sitting through the whole of the first day with a critical attention."

BR defends the use of demonstrations to bring press publicity to the anti-nuclear cause (as opposed to the press silence on the Vienna Pugwash meeting).

"No."

BR can meet Yourgrau in London on Jan. 19.

BR signs the Writers' Declaration. "I have no objection to the mention of the Ten Commandments as I hardly ever do any work on Sundays."

BR asks Harris's advice on a proposal by Stuart Robertson of SR Film Production Limited.

BR is in principle willing to give Zemenides an interview.

On presentation copies of Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare.

On further presentation copies of Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare.

BR is very glad of Russian publication of Fall-Out.

BR forwarded Helling's letters to Peggy Duff for a Disarmament Congress in the hope it will issue the invitations he desires.

"Send Helling letter to P. Duff. See 5" (record 122744).

BR clarifies misinformation Dennis has received. "I am on the best possible terms with 'Katharine and Charles Tait'. I am glad to know you are on the side of humanity and decency in the Little Rock controversy."

"No."

BR declares he is not willing to go to Frankfurt for the Disarmament Congress. (On Aug. 19 he said he and Edith would be going.) BR will attend the press conference on Jan. 16 and the first session of the congress on Jan. 17. He mentions "an affliction which prevents me from eating in public."

Group entry. This box contains 90 numbered files of letters from Malleson to Webster. Some of the letters have been entered individually. The box includes three mimeographed circular letters that Colette wrote from South Africa in 1928 as well as some from Lapland in the 1930s. Several of the letters concern details of Colette's acting career; there are also references to mental health issues.

"Was delighted with B.R. cutting. Many thanks. I'll be going down to stay with him and the kids in July—if Africa doesn't come off. They have an ugly house in Cornwall: Lands End."

"I hope to go to Bertrand Russell in Cornwall—but Dora Russell's father (Sir Frederick Black) has just died so am not sure of going."

Colette has begun her autobiography.

"Here I am—on holiday—bathing, going expeditions with the two children and Bertie to the Lizard and to St. Ives and various other beaches for bathing etc."

"In the evenings I read aloud from the proofs of Bertie's new book: The Conquest of Happiness which is coming out in the autumn. It is only a pot-boiler—but very witty and brilliant all the same."

"On Wednesday we are going to the Scilly Isles for the night and to sail round the islands. The children are thrilled at the idea." Also in the file is a picture postcard she sent to Webster showing the Cornish coast.

"I am paying for Violet Warner's 2 year old to be looked after at a friend of the Russells'."

"The Russells are still keeping on their school—which is grand for the children but not so grand for the Russells pockets!—as it runs at a loss."

"I have got a frightful face disease which may make acting impossible. You can imagine how I feel at the prospect of looking like a leper for the rest of my days."
 

This box contains 96 numbered files of letters from Malleson to Webster. Some of the letters have been entered individually.

"No, I've never owned a wireless in all my life. But sometimes I wish I could hear BR on the wireless, nevertheless. Will you be angelic and post enclosed [not present] to him, please?".

"I'm probably changing all my plans and returning here (in Sept) to househunt in Wales with BR (he has a cottage there)."

"I go to Wales about 10th Sept. to househunt for cottage with BR."

"The maidservant and the char have both walked off and so I am running this 6 room house for BR who arrives tomorrow and I have everything to do."

"I suppose a batter would not travel? Otherwise I'd ask you to send one of yours. BR adores batter and I cannot remember way to do it."

Colette writes in detail about Patricia Russell, her reading of the letter that Colette wrote to BR about Patricia's character, and her withdrawal of the offer she made on a farm in Wales.

Colette writes about Patricia Russell: "This bloody wife of BR's by the way, is a Yorkshire woman! I don't know from what village she comes: her mother was a village school teacher; or maybe it was in some small town. The father was an office clerk. I really think that swollen head, and swollen bank balance, have a good deal to do with her dictator tendencies."

"Cannot tell you anything about BR troubles—as there is this 2 months prohibition of all contact and letters. Hope to hear again after 20th Sept."

Colette writes about Patricia Russell: She "had told him to get out by 1st November—from Wales, from his own cottage, value £3,000—but of course she's within her legal rights, because he gave it to her long ago." Re Penralltgoch in Ffestiniog.

"I would be grateful to have all the wires you have, BR and mine, as I now have the careful habit of keeping everything: they give dates, which are sometimes important."

"BR has done 33,000 miles, mostly by air, in Australia and is supposed to be leaving there this Monday. He was lecturing all the time; and had a grand row with the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Australia; and has his arm in a sling: result of all the Australian hand shakes."

Colette writes about BR's divorce from Patricia: "I'm not saying that BR would be a model custodian of the child, but I think it is everybody's opinion that his mother is about as unsuitable a person for that job as one could find in a month of Sundays."

Colette writes about the portrait of Ottoline Morrell that she wrote for The Queen Magazine. Julian, her daughter, told the magazine "that it was the nicest thing that had ever been written about her mother."
 

"BR and my nephew may move me to a nursing home."

Also in the file is a letter from Angela Strachan to Colette, using her nickname of "Percy".

"I've been immersed in vetting certain parts of BR's Autobiography (Vol. 2)."

This box contains 54 numbered files. Files 1-39 contain letters from Malleson to Webster covering the date range above, plus undated letters. Some of the letters have been entered individually. It also contains newsclippings, theatre programmes, and the printed blurb by BR of The Way (file 51).

Edith thanks Unwin for the 3 Tolkien volumes.

Colette thanks her for sending the roses to BR on 17 May.

It was written in response to After Ten Years.

Group entry: These files are from the office of Lewis W. Taylor, Dora Russell's lawyer. There are nine folders in this box with correspondence to/from/about Anne Russell, Sarah Russell, John Russell, Susan Russell, Dora Russell, Lucy Russell, and BR. Six letters from this box have been entered individually, record 61779, record 61780, record 61781, record 61782, record 61783 and record 61784.

These files are from the office of Lewis W. Taylor, Dora Russell's lawyer. There are five folders in this box containing correspondence, legal documents, and newsclippings.

Group entry: These files are from the office of Lewis W. Taylor, Dora Russell's lawyer. There are seven folders in this box containing correspondence and legal documents re Harriet's birth certificate, John and Susan Russell's divorce, and Alan Wood's book The Passionate Sceptic.

There are letters to/from/about John Russell, Anne Russell, Lucy Russell, Sarah Russell. One letter has been entered individually, record 61778.

These files are from the office of Lewis W. Taylor, Dora Russell's lawyer. This is the second accrual of this recent acquisition acquired in December 1996. It contains legal documents concerning the divorce of BR and Dora as well as John and Susan Russell. There is also some correspondence and writing by John Russell.

Added to the box is a photocopy of a letter from Kate Tait to K. Blackwell, 26 Nov. 1991, setting out her thoughts on access to this Rec. Acq.

Shibata thanks Neilands for attending the Toyko Tribunal held to investigate U.S. war crimes in Vietnam. The letter contains a list of comments on photographs taken in Vietnam.

Neilands explains his role in the 3rd Investigating Team sent to Vietnam and lists the other members. He comments on Ralph Schoenman's role.

Enclosed are typed comments, 3 sheets, by Michael Burn on a draft of Feinberg and Kasrils' book, Bertrand Russell's America, vol. 1. Edith has commented in the margins.

More comments from Burn on a draft of Feinberg and Kasrils' book Bertrand Russell's America, vol. 1. Edith enclosed it with her letter of 10 February 1972.

Edith encloses Burn's letter of 9 February 1972 (record 122781).

BR "made the embargo to prevent people now living from being hurt—but whatever his reason for his making it, it is made and it is not and should not be within our power to change it. I think McMaster should be told, once and for all, that they agreed to the embargo and must stand by it, just as we must."

Edith encloses a typed carbon, 3 sheets, "Reminiscences of Peggy Kiskadden" (aka Mrs. William Kiskadden). She remembers the Russells' sojourn in the USA during World War II.

It includes a visit to the Huntington Library and an Easter egg hunt. Patricia did not attend the egg hunt. "'The world', Bertie confided ruefully, 'can be divided into two categories: those who do and those who do not have nervous breakdowns'."

Edith writes about what she remembers BR telling her about his time in America during World War II.

Edith sends her heartfelt gratitude on Bertrand Russell's America.

Edith sends her comments and criticisms of Bertrand Russell's America.

Further analysis of Bertrand Russell's America. See also record 122790.

"I rejoice that Vol. II is about to be completed!" Re Bertrand Russell's America.

24 letters from Feinberg to Edith Russell. One of the letters, 13 Dec. 1974, is also present in typescript form on letterhead of the Bertrand Russell Estate.