"I enclose a copy of a letter from Rayner Unwin" (not present).
 

"It seems strange that it should have taken so much courage to publish War Crimes in Vietnam...."
 

Re permissions and Leibniz.
 

A thank-you note for Principles of Social Reconstruction.
 

Edith was in London, staying at Brown's Hotel, and met with Feinberg. In the letter she mentions an art show, Philip Toynbee, Bernard Levin, and Rupert Crawshay-Williams.
 

Edith has not heard from Peter Foges.
 

"Has anything further been heard of the Italian records?"
 

BR thanks Sandys for his "encouraging" letter (on Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare) and suggests a meeting.

BR cannot see that unity of Europe would be a step towards peace if it did not include Russia and its satellites.

"No".

BR cannot see Utley before her departure to Africa.

"No".

Tuthill wanted a preface from BR for his book on sex. BR has no time to do it, but wishes him success for the ideas behind it.

Edith returns the doctor's outline.

"We are now settled in our new offices at Mr. Felton's home in Barnet...."

Feinberg will send her galley proofs of Bertrand Russell's America.
 

"As to Unwin's proposal—I find it difficult to assess. What's your opinion? I was surprised that there is no reference in the prospectus to My Philosophical Development which seems to me not only apposite but very important."
 

It was thoughtful to send Edith flowers in hospital.
 

Feinberg has visited the Beetle and Wedge in Moulsford. He encloses (not present) "specimen pages from Dr. Lackey's collection of Lord Russell's essays on logic."
 

Edith thanks him for sending the book by Ronald Jager.

"Thank you for your letter to Mr. Felton of 24 February. We do of course agree that Julian Huxley be given permission, without charge, to quote the piece on Pugwash from Volume 3 of Lord Russell's Autobiography."

He is responding to Edith's letter of 19 March and 8 April. "We are very pleased that you think well of the Marvin Kaye script despite your reservations (in which we concur)...."

Felton thanks Edith for her letter of 12 June. He is pleased that his letter of 19 April helped clarify some points. This letter goes on to clarify more: McMaster's plans for the collected edition [the Collected Papers], Farley's analysis of Unwin's accounts, Justice in Wartime, The ABC of Relativity, an agreement with Harry Ruja, Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind, Understanding History.

"Thank you for the copy of Prof. Ruja's letter to you of 3 July (not present). I hope that your letter, to which it is the reply, stirs him to action so that his 'project' is really completed early this coming autumn!"

"The proposal for an anthology of Lord Russell's 'feminist writings' sounds interesting and worthwhile but would seem to conflict with McMaster's plans for a volume on women's suffrage in the collected edition." [Re Collected Papers.]

"It seems to me that the reply to the Rollei people should be in the affirmative. I remember that Shell (or was it Esso?) delighted BR by using a quotation from him in their advertisements. I do not remember that he received a fee for it—but you will know or can find out whether a fee is appropriate."

This time "I do not know how the quotation is used...."

Edith encloses a permissions letter from the Aristotelian Society.

A permissions letter to reprint BR's "Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description".

"I am very much troubled by the apparently inexplicable delays that occur between the reception of requests and suggestions made to Continuum and their response." She lists examples.

"I am very sad as well as perplexed that you should suspect Continuum of 'carelessness' in carrying out its various tasks on behalf of the Foundation."

"We have heard from Gramm and Grey, the Dusseldorf agency who wished to use a quote from The Conquest of Happiness in an advertisement for Rollei, that following a copy test with consumers, they decided to cancel the advertisement." It did appear twice and he encloses a photograph (not present).

"It is a pity about the Rollei advertisement. It looks so fine!"

She remembers Robin Guthrie well. "He was a charming person and seemed entirely English." "He was a friend and follower and admirer of Augustus John. It took some time to make the drawings and Bertie had a great deal of talk with him and I had some. We both greatly liked him. We have one of the drawings—it still hangs in the dining room here [Plas Penrhyn]. As I remember it, he arranged for its framing. The other drawing he said that he wanted to keep himself." The photographer who made the cards was Paul Laib. She thinks Guthrie is dead and thus not the writer of a letter in The Times today.

The letter is written on an envelope sent to Edith by the BBC. "I don't know if it is within my power to sign this so I send it on to you to sign—I suppose, or not sign—on behalf of the estate."

Enclosed is a carbon of a letter from Feinberg to Chris Farley, 16 July 1974 and a letter from Allen and Unwin to Feinberg, 9 July 1974.

"I am very sorry indeed that opinions of mine should have held up Mr. Carr's book [Brian Carr, Bertrand Russell: an Introduction]."

Enclosed is a carbon of a letter from Feinberg to Christopher Farley.

Brian McGuinness will be visiting Edith. "I do not think that there is much in the Wittgenstein books here that is very enlightening so far a W. goes, but I may be wrong." She supports a new edition of the Basic Writings edited by Denonn.

She thanks Feinberg for sending the second volume of Ottoline's Memoirs. "I look forward to it with dread, not because it will tell me anything new but because I so much mistrust Ottoline."

She agrees with supporting Kaye.

The letter is the last one in file 2, a file containing correspondence between Edith and Feinberg.

File 3 contains correspondence concerning the recording by the Italian group, the New Trolls, of BR's poem "To Edith" sung in the original English language version. This letter contains Edith's opinion: "I have heard the tape (enclosed) played to a few friends here who know and care something about music. It seemed to us beautifully conceived and beautifully executed. I very much hope that a record may be made of it and sold widely."

The record was made by Fonit Cetra of Milan and 5 copies were sent to Edith. The file also contains 2 other letters from Edith: 10 May and 27 June.

Files 4 and 5 contain permissions requests dealt with by Feinberg. Correspondence is both incoming and outgoing.

The letters, both incoming and outgoing, are in file 6.

File 1 contains incoming and outgoing correspondence with publishers other than Allen and Unwin. The letters are in alphabetical order in the file.

Not all letters in this file have been entered individually.

"We have had the good fortune to acquire the original manuscripts of five essays written by you during one of your visits to the United States in the 1920's. As these were acquired from Sotheby's in London recently, I feel sure that you know the essays to which I am referring.

We would like very much to publish these essays in a small edition here under the title, America and the Future or Russia, Asia and the West."

"Enclosed is a copy of the text of the Bertrand Russell essays, as you request."

The letter from the Jenkins Co. to BR, 21 Nov. 1969 was never received (record 123082).

Edith "is quite happy in principle to see these essays published...."

File 3 contains correspondence, both incoming and outgoing.

The BBC wants permission "to include in this record an excerpt, or excerpts, from one or more of your broadcasts during the Sixties." The letter has a place for a signature and date; BR did not sign it.

Also in the file is a letter dated 2 August 1967 addressed to "Dear Sir" enclosing a cheque for the use of a BR photograph in Radio Times.

See record 123087 for a description of the remainder of the file.

File 4 contains correspondence, both incoming and outgoing.

Bertrand Russell Speaking [Speaks], TC 1149: rights were acquired from the Palette Record Co. Ltd.; royalties are paid to them.

This file, number 5, contains other correspondence not listed separately.

Enclosed is a transcription of an interview between Michael Nelson and Father D'Arcy.

The letter and ts. carbon are in file 7.

Black encloses a letter he has drafted to be sent to the Irish Times. Part of the draft reads: "It was certainly with Lord Russell's full knowledge and complete approval that Mr. Schoenman was removed as a director and member of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation in 1969...." Feinberg then sent the draft letter to Christopher Farley.

The letters are in file 8 with many other letters that have not been entered individually.

The date on the letter is 3 January 1968, but 1968 is incorrect. The letter is about BR's Autobiography, vol. 3. "Today, to my astonishment, I had a telephone call from Mr. Schoenman in New York telling me that the bidding was still open despite any previous agreement. I am surprised at the ruthlessness which has been employed on behalf of the Peace Foundation. My word had been given, and so had the Foundation's agents."

There are many other letters in the file which have not been entered individually.

Re BR's Autobiography, vol. 3. "The negotiations have been and are being and must be carried on by my agent, Mr. Felton, and whoever is acting for him in the United States in connection with the directors of the Foundation, since I have put Volume 3 in their hands to arrange for its publication."

The letter and a typed copy of it are in file 9.

Re BR's Autobiography, vol. 3. "Angry as I am at the way this negotiation was handled, let me say for the record ... that I have no complaints whatever regarding your conduct. Moreover, now that I know the whole story, I think that Simon and Schuster was just as badly treated as Atlantic-Little, Brown. Beyond that I do not trust myself to say anything."

Re the Canadian rights for BR's Autobiography, vol. 3.

"Much time has passed and with it virtually all hope from our point of view of catching up the sales that have undoubtedly been lost if we are left to market in Canada ourselves."

There are other letters from Rayner Unwin in the file, number 9.

Farley and Coates are writing as directors of the BRPF. They confirm the cancellation of the agreement with the Scott Meredith Literary Agency.

"You asked me to find out about the essay by BR entitled 'My Own Philosophy' which had something to do with a man called Brooks who wished to edit a collection of such essays by philosophers. BR says that to the best of his knowledge this was not published.... BR suggests that you get confirmation from Unwin about this ..."

"BR wonders whether in the Archives you have come across something which he wrote some time ago. It was a publisher's letter on receiving the Bible in manuscript. Inevitably the letter ended with its rejection."

There are many other letters in this file not entered individually.

"BR is wondering whether you have in the Archives a copy of his introduction to the report of the India League Delegation on the condition of India in 1932?"

"BR asks me to say that he hopes Unwin will ask Felix Pirani to look again at the book to see whether further changes are required." Re The ABC of Relativity.

Norah Purcell, one of Victor Purcell's wives, was BR's secretary in the late 1940s. She was given one of BR's manuscripts at that time. "BR does not feel it is for him to seek it back from her."

"BR has received ... no less than 26 copies of the paperback edition of the French translation of An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth. It is published in Paris by Flammarion."

Re Satan in the Suburbs. "I discussed this with BR, and the situation is very much as I described it on the telephone. The thing that concerns him chiefly is that any film of the two stories in question should faithfully reflect the original writing by the author."

Sales figures from Allen and Unwin re the Autobiography up to Dec. 1968: vol. 1, 44,088; vol 2., 26,616.

"Re: Satan in the Suburbs."

"I have shown BR the letter to Allen and Unwin from Ulf von Mechow dated July 15, and he feels strongly in the light of this that it would be best not to go ahead with such a film under these conditions. This is obviously a disappointment to him...."

"Problems of Philosophy. I enclose [not present] a copy of the letter to BR from Oriole Editions, New York, which I mentioned on the telephone yesterday."

"I have sent you separately a letter dated October 6 from Marvin Swartz to BR [not present], who would be grateful if you could deal with it."

[No letter from M. Swartz is in BRACERS.]

"Could you please order for BR in Wales three copies each of the following Unwin paperbacks: In Praise of Idleness, Mysticism and Logic, and Alan Wood's biography?"

"Do you have a copy of the book in French by Professor Philippe Devaux entitled Russell, published in Paris by Editions Seghers? ... It would be pleasant if BR could reply without complicating any possible difficulty about copyright."

"Could you please order for BR two soft-back copies of his History of Western Philosophy?"

"BR has received a complimentary copy of a Spanish edition of An Outline of Philosophy, published in Barcelona. It contains an introduction to that edition by a man called Manuel Sacristan. BR does not read Spanish and has no idea of the value of this introduction, and, as you know, does not like other people writing in his books without his knowledge."

"B.R. has heard that the moon article has appeared in the Spanish paper ABC, and the Russian magazine Neva of December 1969 (translated by Grigori M. Lev)."

"I enclose a greetings card which has been sent out by the Socialist Internationalist ... you will see that they have stolen a quotation from B.R., which he does not approve as the Socialist International is an organisation which makes noises about Greece and Spain and cannot bring itself to make connections with what is happening there and elsewhere. Is there a case for assaulting them?!"

The quotation is: "The world needs wisdom and human warmth in equal measure."

"Herewith is the list of BR's books not in paperback in the U.S. and also the long awaited transcript of the Fath D'Arcy interview on B.R." (Neither present.)

"The letter is addressed to the "Estate or Executors for the late Professor Bertrand Russell". It was answered by Farley on Feb. 11. The letter is undated but written after BR's death.

"I already have some photographs showing Russell with the late Hans Reichenbach in the Swiss Alps." He would like more photographs of BR. [Kirk and BR had an exchange on Reichenbach in 1959; see record 25302 and record 123380.]

"In about a month or six weeks I hope to assist in the production of a 30-minute closed-circuit television production on the significance of Russell as a philosopher. The program would not be released to the commercial mass media, but it might circulate among the campuses of the State University of New York."

"The excerpt from Dear BR will appear on Thames Television on Sunday night in an Arts Programme called 'Aquarius'."

"Are you saying that you do not have any of the hundreds of letters about the nomination of B.R. for the Nobel Peace Prize?"

"Thank you for your letter of February 17 concerning Ralph Schoenman and the Irish Times. We had already written direct to Jack Black about it, and I hope that he may send a stronger letter than his proposed one."

"Would kindly return by hand when I next see you the brass block of BR's coat of arms which I left with Anton a couple of years ago."

"Would it be possible for you to photocopy the correspondence between BR and ER and return the originals to her for her lifetime?"

[The originals have not been located at the BRPF offices. (March 2016)]

The Russell Archives have only photocopies.

"I sent you very recently Unwin's letter to BR returning the memorandum", i.e. the private memorandum written by BR "on the failure of his early marriage and his relationships with various women". "Jack Black would like any evidence that there is to establish the date of the memorandum, as it is undated...."

There are various forms of BR's letter to Unwin in the Russell Archives. See record 120777, record 50907, record 14742, and record 123119.

The letter concludes with the handwritten words: "(Signed) Russell".

See also record 120777, record 500907, and record 14742.

BR agreed with necessary abbreviations of Vols. 2 and 3 of his Autobiography in Eastern Europe, but he did not want it cut elsewhere. "It will be very important to look carefully at the reply of the Romanians concerning the sections they wish to delete from Volumes II and III."

"A short note on one of the points raised in your letter of 1st June, about the incorrect description of the 1966 printing of Mysticism and Logic, in what should have been described as a new format, as a revised edition."

The letter is a reply to Unwin's letter of 10 June 1970 re Mysticism and Logic.

Farley wants papers "relating to B.R.'s sponsorship of the committee for the limitation of secret police powers, which operated in Britain in about 1955/56...."

"There is little doubt that some of the post-1960 material was originally drafted by any one of five or six hands, and although BR would amend, incorporate, reject or accept drafts for instant use, this could raise in an enduring record problems of style and content unforeseen by BR."

"Allen and Unwin have received a letter from a Mr. Thomas Podlaha of Prague. Mr. Podlaha asserts that he is the artist who did the portrait drawing of BR which appears under the name of Robin Guthrie on the paperback edition of History of Western Philosophy."

"The BBC plan to do two things about Bertrand Russell's centenary: a Radio 3 broadcast by Freddie Ayer at 8.00 pm for 20 minutes on May 18, and a BBC2 TV talk by Ayer at 9.20 pm on May 19 in the 'Review' programme. Could you try to get recordings of these programmes?"

This file contains several other letters about the centenary.

This petition on "Vietnam—How Much Longer" was to be placed as an advertisement on 25 April 1967. This printed document contains signatories, their names are typed carbon. The list includes Dora Russell and John Conrad Russell.

Re The ABC of Relativity.

"I enclose a copy of a letter from Sir Stanley concerning certain alterations which could be made to your book by Professor Pirani.

We look forward to receiving your instructions regarding this proposal."

The letter in the file from Allen and Unwin is from Unwin's secretary.

Re The ABC of Relativity.

"BR asked me to thank you for your letter of October 7 and say that he agrees to the proposals in Allen and Unwin's letter to you of October 1."

Re Auto, vol. 1.

"I enclose proofs of the jacket which have been sent by Allen and Unwin. Lord and Lady Russell have told Mr. R. Eames, the production manager at Unwin's, that they do not like the photograph at all...." Their reasons are then given.

The jacket is not present.

Haldane indicates that BR is receiving a copy of this letter c/o the Royal Society. She has been "in correspondence with Lord Russell early this year concerning both his and my late husband's papers." She gives copyright permission for a J.B.S. Haldane letter to apear in Auto., vol. 3.

The same file has many permissions letters.