Total Published Records: 135,582
BRACERS Notes
| Record no. | Notes, topics or text |
|---|---|
| 123332 | BR hopes the "Box Holder" will write his film story, which certainly has possibilities. |
| 123333 | "I was enchanted when your letter was handed me on the steamer yesterday." The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123334 | Alys wants one of each of BR's photographs. She prefers the one not in the cap and gown. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123335 | "Thursday evening". Dated by BR. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123336 | BR cannot consult an article for Prof. Hagan as he is away from home. |
| 123337 | "No". |
| 123338 | On the grandchildren's reports. |
| 123339 | "Sunday morning". BR added the date. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123340 | Alys will not act as if she distrusts BR, when if in fact she does trust him. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123341 | BR agrees to appear on "Right to Reply" on Feb. 16. "I am willing to meet any opponent that you care to select." |
| 123342 | Enclosed with this letter is a clipping of a letter to the Westminster Gazette. The letter, from J.J.A. Drake, is dated Nov. 15 and titled "The Response to Lady Henry Somerset's Appeal". The long list of donors includes: "Hon. B. Russell and friends (per L. Pearsall Smith, Esq., London), £11". The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123343 | Immediately following this letter in the file is a microfilm print of a card announcing a speech by Alys at the opening of the Young People's Branch of the British Women's Temperance Association, 13 November. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123344 | BR is not sufficiently acquainted with the works of John Cowper Powys to support him for a Nobel Prize. |
| 123345 | BR hopes Ottino's "agitation in Switzerland will prosper". |
| 123346 | Alys suggests that she and BR read one canto of Dante each time they meet. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123347 | Ottino's letter is to be sent to Unwin with a copy of BR's reply at record 123345. |
| 123348 | BR mentions the Martyrs Memorial to Tyburn in Oxford. |
| 123349 | BR approves the typescript of Zemenides' interview with BR. |
| 123350 | Alys feels sure Lady Russell would rather have BR at home on Sunday to go to church with her. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123351 | Alys is very glad BR doesn't attempt to write bad poetry of his own. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123352 | Alys changes their arrangements. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123353 | The date was changed from the 19th to the 18th to match the day, Monday. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123354 | "I never read anything so interesting as your father's journal—it certainly is most uncanny, so like you." The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123355 | Alys's father was very pleased with BR's letter and asked if Alys had seen it. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123356 | Alys's resolution for the new year is "to let myself be as happy as thee is." The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123357 | Encouraging message on rationalism in America—"to be copied in B's handwriting". |
| 123358 | BR does not feel that Paul Edwards is too young to give a lecture on BR for Gruber's occasion. "I find it gratifying to be thought well of by people who are not, as I am said to be, superannuated." |
| 123359 | BR does not know where she can publish the article she enclosed. |
| 123360 | BR thanks Clunie for his review of Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare and wishes the Labour Party's official policy were more friendly to nuclear disarmament. |
| 123361 | "... I do not, on the whole, feel that it should be necessary to enforce birth-control." |
| 123362 | BR failed to see Westhoff at the congress. BR hopes his wife's pamphlets will be publicized. |
| 123363 | BR declines to go to Japan to give a lecture related to Buddhism, but is grateful for the honour of the invitation. |
| 123364 | BR suggests Julian Huxley, Ayer or J.Z. Young for a debate. |
| 123365 | BR encourages Crowther in his campaign against the "appalling risks to mankind". |
| 123366 | See record 76366 for a summary of this reply. |
| 123367 | On love as a motive for existence: "every affectionate parent endeavours to keep his children alive." |
| 123368 | BR praises the "FBI" issue of The Nation but wishes Sobell had been mentioned. |
| 123369 | #43 tax to Madams: "Was this included in the sum for which I sent you a cheque?" |
| 123370 | BR asks Broad if he can send Ellen Haring to him for help in accessing Cambridge University Library. |
| 123371 | BR will try to think of a way the anti-nuclear campaign can use her talents. |
| 123372 | BR encourages Shewin to keep on writing anti-nuclear letters to newspapers, despite the Cumberland News not printing one. |
| 123373 | BR admires the work of the sender's committee in Germany. (The incoming letter cannot be found.) |
| 123374 | BR agrees to be president of the Welsh National Council for Nuclear Disarmament and is sorry the Archbishop of Wales refused. |
| 123375 | BR is in entire sympathy with the objects of Muller's organization. |
| 123376 | "Cheque". |
| 123377 | BR agrees to become honorary president of the Bristol University Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. |
| 123378 | "Pressure of work makes him unable to answer questions". |
| 123379 | "No". |
| 123380 | "I used to enjoy Reichenbach's uncompromising rationality and I am glad that you are carrying on in the same tradition." |
| 123381 | BR wants the Conciliation Commission to be independent of the U.N. |
| 123382 | BR accepts the designation Honorary President of Glasgow Student International Club. |
| 123383 | "Electricity Board cheque" "(Pay in book)". |
| 123384 | BR declines an offer to increase his life insurance. |
| 123385 | BR likes the selection of quotations from himself and suggests one about philosophy and mental maturity from "Philosophy's Ulterior Motives". |
| 123386 | BR thanks the Mayor of Frankfurt for the municipality's hosting of the Congress of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. |
| 123387 | BR tells Collins that he has sent a letter of thanks to the Mayor of Frankfurt for hosting the CND Congress. |
| 123388 | BR finds The Global Atlas "exceedingly good" and asks for a copy to be send to his grandson in Washington (David Tait). |
| 123389 | BR will read the magazine that Senior sent when he gets the necessary leisure. |
| 123390 | BR cannot be present at Anne's service of confirmation on Feb. 24 and asks about dress for her. |
| 123391 | BR maintains that the US and USSR must have made elaborate preparations against the other side winning by striking the first blow in a nuclear war. He encloses a letter to send to the Burmese newspaper that published a view on the topic. |
| 123392 | BR replies to this newspaper's editorial on nuclear war. There would be retaliation to a first strike, and fall-out ought not to be ignored. |
| 123393 | BR read Glass's pamphlet, Who Was for Munich? with "interest and approval". Glass maintains that the pacifists did not preach appeasement. |
| 123394 | BR will not need a payment of royalties before April 5 this year. |
| 123395 | BR agrees with "Call to the Women of the World". |
| 123396 | "No and thanks for the photo". |
| 123397 | BR declines to lecture to the Jowett Society as his time and energy are completely taken up by the campaign against nuclear warfare. |
| 123398 | "Nothing > Arenente". |
| 123399 | BR declines an invitation. |
| 123400 | "No". |
| 123401 | BR does not propose that Britain immediately give up the H-bomb, but if no agreement can be reached to limit it to the US and USSR, then Britain should renounce it. |
| 123402 | BR confirms arrangements for 2 luncheons with Simon. |
| 123403 | On keeping Wyatt's tentative list of topics for his TV series subject to some degree of alteration. BR prefers these topics to autobiographical ones. |
| 123404 | The letter is addressed to "Mr. Johnson". BR declines his invitation to write for The Dial as he is about to enter prison. When he gets out, he will take up the invitation if it is still open. (It was and he did.) |
| 123405 | "I regret having given any kind of blessing, however qualified, to Korzybski." (Spelled Korbyski here.) "I doubt whether Wittgenstein's interest in language had anything to do with the writings of German scholars. Broadly speaking, nobody influenced him about anything." |
| 123406 | Alys likes the self-control that BR must show under their arrangement for their relationship. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123407 | "Return to Hannah Whitall Smith" is written at the top of the letter, page 1. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123408 | There is nothing Alys cannot talk with BR about. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123409 | Lion Phillimore says their ages don't matter, as BR looks older and Alys younger than their real years. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123410 | Alys's note is written on a card advertising her lecture on 17 January sponsored by the British Women's Temperance Association. The copy of this card was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123411 | Alys protests BR's expression "domestic comfort and harmony". The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123412 | BR has complained that her letters are not as long as he would like. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123413 | "The gulf between thee and thy grandmother is simply impassable". The copy of this card was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123414 | Lion and Alys have been working hard at the British Museum on papers for Wallas. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123415 | Alys is staying with Lady Henry Somerset, who knew the Amberleys at the time of BR's birth. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123416 | Following this letter are three printed documents issued by the British Women's Temperance Association. Two list Alys as a speaker. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. The copies of the three documents issued by the BWTA are in fact two documents, which were replaced with the originals in 2026. |
| 123417 | Alys will still marry BR even if she should cease to adore him. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123418 | Alys wants BR to send her scraps of his journal. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123419 | "Thy journal has just come & I want to read it all thro' at once..." The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123420 | Alys mentions that BR plans to go to Germany at some time after his exams. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123421 | Alys wrote the date "12 Feb. '93" on this letter. The year 1893 has to be incorrect as BR did not propose until Sept. 1893. The letter is incomplete. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123422 | This letter begins on page 2. Tickets for the "Wild Duck" are mentioned, as is her belief in God. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123423 | Knowles has accepted her article. The copy of this card was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123424 | Following this incomplete letter is another page with no salutation but a signature and with the letterhead of the British Women's Temperance Association. The pages seem to comprise a single letter. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123425 | Alys thought of God as a "magnified mother". The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123426 | Alys lacks Moore's enthusiasm for scepticism. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123427 | The letter is five pages in length, followed by a 2-page list. The copy of this letter and its attachments were replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123428 | Alys encloses (not present) notes on BR's paper (on women, apparently). The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123429 | Enclosed with this letter is a 2-page note by Alys's "old aunt" Lill "in America". See record 123498. She has not been further identified. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123430 | Alys refers to her article in the Nineteenth Century. The copy of this letter was replaced with the original in 2026. |
| 123431 | Following this letter are 2 printed invitations. Alys imagines BR reading his paper on Saturday night. She will be going to Paris. The copies of this letter and enclosed invitations were replaced with the original in 2026. |
