BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
12402

Hadn't heard of the "semi-book" (Minnesota ed. of lectures on logical atomism).

12403
Can't manage article in next year.
12404
Declines invitation to be guest of honour; going away for month's holiday.
12405

Permissions for including letters in Autobiography; Essay on Foundations of Geometry.

12406

Encouraged by "thank-you" letters.

12407

Suggests reprinting "Population" chapter in New Hopes.

12408

[Joseph] McCarthy and Dreyfus.

12409

Refers writer to New Hopes.

12410

Political climate in U.S. hard for their opinions.

12411
Not the knowledge to read his paper on physics.
12412

On details of Wittgenstein's life.

12413

Charmed by notice of Good Citizen's Alphabet in Observer.

12414

Encloses cheque for £5000. Wants to pay off undisputed tax arrears, especially as there are rumours BR's ex-wife [Patricia Russell] will try to get more money out of him.

12415

Desires advice on raising money from sale of capital.

12416

Can't do foreword to his book.

12417

Returns tickets to Ball.

12418

Going away so can't meet Sutse Khama.

12419

Likes sales of BR's books.

12420

"I hardly like your saying that the lectures were re-issued without my knowledge, because I am very apt to forget such things and it might turn out that I had given permission."

12421

Returns corrected typescript of their interview.

12422
Ok to include BR's photo in work he is planning.
12423

Thanks for poems.

12424
Terms are satisfactory.
12425

Agrees to his draft reply to K.H. Tung.

12426

Accepts invitation to be guest speaker at annual dinner on 30 September.

12427

Encloses "gist of your work in immortal verse" [surely "The Prelate and the Commissar"].

12428

[Take notes for Nightmares.]

12429

Sends revised poem. His Archbishop O'Hara case. "Post Highland vac."

12430

Delighted to see him and his daughter.

12431

Signed authorities for sale.

12432

Pleasure to assist his daughter re "unjustifiable prejudices".

Addressed to Mr. H-B.

12433

Possesses no copy of pamphlet, though well remembers debate, which was lively. [Could be Powys debate.]

12434

Never wrote Études sur Bergson. Not anxious to record History of Western Philosophy chap. on Bergson as revisions are necessary.

12435

Letter to be signed for Nobel committee.

12436

Re his remark that the more democratic side had always been victorious.

12437

Re accounts—very pleased; illustrations for Autobiography.

12438

$50 ok for reprinting "Ideas That Have Helped Mankind".

12439

Agrees to write article by August.

12440

Refers her to Education and the Good Life.

12441

"Conrad's School Report". [Conrad Russell]

12442

Agrees to write lecture and read it in German after translation.

12443

Hasn't modified agnosticism. Christian love is separate from Christian dogma.

12444

Agrees to be interviewed in June.

12445

Could write 3000 words on whether secular troubles are due to decay of faith.

12446

Re Chinese Communism as predictable in 1926 (and his students in 1920).

12447

BR showed his confessions of Chinese intellectuals to E.S. Bennett, whom he knew at the British Legation in 1920-21.

12448

Must return manuscripts—no time.

12449

Enjoyed his letter. Politics. Order of Analysis of Matter and Outline of Philosophy.

12450

Resigns from sponsorship of American Committee for Cultural Freedom.

12451

Shocked by her information about American Committee for Cultural Freedom. Has resigned.

12452
Accepts presidency of his club.
12453
His work is interesting (history).
12454

Titled "Man".

"In this strange world, of which we know so little, so it the fate of that puny colony of creatures called man, to be a failure, tricked by his very optimism, and to be mocked by the sum of his petty evils...."

12455

Glad of [Rudolf] Carnap volume, but can't devote time to article on him.

12456

[Percy Bysshe] Shelley's Queen Mab was read by BR at the same age as Shelley when he wrote it.

12457

Doesn't have time to read his manuscript.

12458

Has instructed Child's to sell securities.

Encloses letter to Child's: give Popkin information he requires re balance.

12459

Revokes arrangement by which Lady Amberley [Susan Russell] may sign cheques "PP" on BR's account.

12460

Happy to receive his biography of Einstein.

12461

On "Definition" in Principles of Mathematics, p. 63, and "On Denoting". The addressee is identified by his letter to BR the previous month. See record 1487.

12462
Sorry BR missed opportunity of meeting recipient of letter.
12463

From sale of capital raised £6409.18.9. Bedales [School] mortgage of £3,500 paid off yet? Pay further £5000. "I do not like having these unpaid obligations and I wish to clear them off as soon as possible."

12464

Can't do article for his South American philosopher ("sick to death of the talky-talky moralizing that he and others seem to demand of me").

12465

"If I may so sir, with all due respect for intellectual and scientific knowledge etc. etc.—you and your Committee are not adequately equipped to 'fight the good fight'. 'Put on the armour of the Lord'."

12466

Pc—"Delighted if he brings Miss Landis".

12467
Thanks for birthday greetings.
12468
Acknowledges birthday greetings.
12469
Pedestal not yet arrived.
12470

Will read but couldn't review his new book on ants.

12471

Re Colin Clark's "disgusting stuff" and his wife's encounter with BR.

12472

Refuse.

12473

Tax payments [owes at least £11,000].

12474

Returns reviews of Satan (especially likes the two in German).

12475

Disinclined to review anthology of [A.N.] Whitehead's works.

12476

Doesn't want to see his Italian visitor on [Ludwig] Wittgenstein.

12477

Can't give originals of statements quoted; one concerns Arab world and Communism.

12478

Glad to send 1000 words on the estrangement of Western man.

12479

Hasn't yet been able to read his paper because of recent illness.

12480

Not yet had time to study his paper.

12481

Bedales [School] mortgage is now paid off, and BR encloses cheque for £2,000.

12482

Harper's Bazaar and "Devil" in the Suburbs. "I am convinced that it must be a mistake since I have no doubt that you agree with me in thinking that an author's title ought not to be changed without his consent."

Kate [Tait] has manuscript of "Free Man's Worship": Any ideas on who might buy it?

12483

Writer surely wanted BR's (and not Edith Russell's) support (connected with Mr. Mayhew's very interesting pamphlet).

12484

Agrees to six Fridays from August 14 for "Portraits from Memory".

12485

Add BR's signature to letter to Peron (if not too late).

12486

Can't contribute to 1st issue of magazine, or review book on Heidegger. American Committee for Cultural Freedom.

12487
Encloses six autographs.
12488
Thanks for photos.
12489

Happy to join NALT and to accept vice-presidency if desired.

12490

Can't read ms. "as it is a great many years since I ceased to read anything about mathematical [logic?]."

12491

Refers him to Human Knowledge. "As to pure mathematics: I regard it as purely linguistic, and as not giving any knowledge except as to how to say the same thing in other words."

Doesn't know which of BR's books have been translated into Italian.

12492

Thinks that Binet's note should be published.

12493
Long time since BR studied such subjects, so can't form critical estimate of his work.
12494

American Committee for Cultural Freedom.

12495

BR's broadcast on D.H. Lawrence; A.E. Housman; Clemens' book.

12496

[Robert C.] Marsh's proposed table of contents; "On Denoting" reprinted elsewhere.

12497

Thanks for copies of her evidence to Royal Commission on the press.

12498

Encloses obituary of Einstein.

12499

Re books on Lord John Russell.

12500

Teachers and [Joe] McCarthy.

12501

Roses; Alphabet.