Total Published Records: 135,560
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". |
| 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. |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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. |
