"Private and confidential". BR agrees to contribute to her volume on Lord Simon's 80th birthday.

BR forwards a letter from Sang Woo Lee.

BR says Dr. Frankel (?) misses the irony in BR's remark about homo pekiniensis.

"Find greetings to Frankfort [Frankfurt] Congress for Dortmund".

"I am sorry to learn that the views of Empire Loyalists are prominent in service journals. The Empire Loyalists seem to have noticed nothing that has happened since the time of Disraeli."

BR is glad of the Cyprus settlement, but ought to resign from the Cyprus Conciliation Committee since he has hardly ever been able to attend meetings.

"Fill out form for Anne's confirmation".

BR is not convinced by the arguments against having a membership (for CND), but is not inclined to do anything about it. There is mention of the executive resigning en bloc.

BR has too much on hand to do an article on logic. The one he was sent "is very inadequate and more than a hundred years out of date."

BR thinks different approaches to peace are needed. "I do not think that history justifies us in expecting great success from the preaching of morality."

"G.E. Moore from Autobiog."

BR declines to reply to an article by Miss Ezorsky. Her confusion is palpable.

BR advises the writer to consult Human Knowledge.

This is a message for the success of the meeting of the Congress of Opponents of Atomic Armament at Dortmund.

BR declines an invitation to give a talk. (It's the kind he does not enjoy going and never agrees to doing.)

"1/2 yearly Portmadoc Water Works bill".

"Photo > Stockholm".

2 messages are to be sent to Llangefni and Bangor for March 7 "like message to Frankfort [Frankfurt] and Dortmund".

BR recommends his book The Conquest of Happiness for Gubbay's kind of unhappiness.

BR regretfully decides to withdraw from Wyatt's project, "which would take up a considerable amount of my time and energy with very uncertain results."

BR is interested in the series of lectures about which Edwards wrote. BR has no verbatim report of the interview reported in the Listener, and sends copies of his obituaries of Wood and Moore.

On geography: "I most emphatically do not regard geographers as academic charlatans." Geographical facts, like most others, do not have intrinsic value, though their relationships do.

BR is grateful for Holland's offer of help, but none is needed at present.

BR would be highly honoured to receive the bronze relief in profile that Willi offers.

"No" to Aberystwyth.

BR will read Cousins' typescript.

BR does not think Nehru would come into a conciliation committee unless requested to do so by either Russia or the U.S.

"Die Kultur letter to John Freeman of the television man who managed the obituary interview." Below this Edith Russell wrote Hugh Burnett's address at the BBC.

BR has not anything new to say on the unspecified subject and does not possess a tape recorder, "and if did, I should not know what to do with the spool that you suggest sending."

BR asks Tylor to find out if Dora wishes the granddaughters to spend part of the holidays with her.

BR suggests sending Madden a statement about his new views on induction.

BR will try to write 300 words for the CND ad in the Manchester Guardian.

"Hampstead is not a centre of progressive thought."

BR provides a statement on Manchester: "I am glad that the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is being vigorously pursued in Manchester and that your city is maintaining the lead in progressive movements for which it has been famous since early in the nineteenth century."

BR recalls a meeting in 1917 during which the police arrested conscientious objectors.

BR approves Mantoux's translation into French of Religion and Science.

BR provides a prefatory note for the Oriya translation of Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare. The text follows. [Seven years later it had not been published.]

"Gomulka letter for K. Martin".

BR thanks Mr. Sato for the "present of one thousand cranes", and is glad the feeling in favour of peace is so strong in Japan.

"No".

BR cannot travel abroad much anymore. "I did not feel 'offended' at the behaviour of the Swiss government as I am used to governmental expressions of the death-wish in many countries."

"No".

Re "an impartial" trial of those who endanger peace.

"I do not think that the example of the Nuremberg trials is any more to the purpose than the example of Dewey on Trotsky. Only German war criminals were tried. It was probably the Russians who committed the Katyn massacre, but no investigation was permitted."

BR is glad Blanshard approved of the way he put the case on television. BR invites the Blanshards to Wales if they cannot meet in London.

BR would like the pamphlets Unwin mentions. He is not yet able to comment on Gomulka's plan.

"No".

BR has not the time to read the magazines Senior sent, and he has no need of a secretary.

BR declines to attend a festival because of engagements in England.

"Darling Gogi".

Re Cardiff: "I only know the place in its more sober and official aspects." The Russells have found a little house in London quite close to Gogi.

"My Dear Irina"

BR is interested in her plan for the 14-18 age group. He will refresh her memory about Voltaire and Pope's mother.

BR agrees to an article's title change to "The American Way is Dour".

"I like the idea of a T.V. referendum every evening."

"No".

"No".

BR will agree to anything that satisfies Allen and Unwin.

BR was in error in telling Sommer that it was Gilbert and not Harvey who made the remark on Bacon's philosophy. It is correct in History of Western Philosophy, but "I no longer have the reference."

A letter from Montindo about Principia is to be sent.

"No inst".

BR suggests that the magazine print something from Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare.

"No".

Pressure of work prevents BR from reading Ableman's typescript.

BR declines to speak in Women's Hour because he has "as much work on hand as I can possibly get through."

Kingsley Martin has persuaded BR that no profitable use can be made of Gomulka's letter.

BR gives permission to quote from a publication with Gollancz.

BR forwards a document from the CBC.

BR has not time to give Mr. Bonche for sittings.

"29 Millbank is in process of being destroyed in order to make room for skyscrapers."

BR thanks Zahedy for the "lovely book of illustrations for Omar Kayyam".

BR suspends his order for Golden Mixture tobacco until further notice (but not the Silcut cigarettes).

BR returns the transcript of an interview on March 7 "which you have made very interesting". BR has "made some questions ["corrections" in the TL(CAR) at record 84467]", "partly of indiscretions and partly of errors of fact."

BR tells her that 15 Cheyne Walk belonged to Leonard Courtenay, whose wife was one of the 9 Potter sisters.

BR now accepts the "television programme" that was under discussion and involves 13 15-minute periods a day.

BR wants to be finished at least a week before May 1, when he has an engagement in Manchester.

BR thanks him for The Hedgehog and the Fox (by Berlin) and the return of his Quine correspondence. BR would like to see Holland.

BR recommends that he contact Gilbert McAllister rather than the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament for his scheme.

BR sends a cheque for £50 for his quarterly payment to Dora Russell.

BR sends Rotblat an unspecified letter that he cannot understand. He does not know if it concerns Pugwash.

BR will come and autograph 100 copies (presumably of My Philosophical Development). "You say, after 6 p.m.—does that mean that 6 p.m. would be all right, or ought it to be later?"

BR sends his "attempt at the 300 word advertisement" for the Manchester CND meeting.

BR blames King Leopold's personal rule for Belgian atrocities and refers him to E.D. Morel's books.

"No".

BR agrees entirely with Rotblat's letter of March 13 and has signed and dispatched the 21 letters he enclosed.

A contract is to be sent to the BBC.

BR thanks Foges for "The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly". He would like to see him and the Blacks earlier than April 13, when BR goes to London.

BR sends a cheque for Kate's copy of the paper.

BR must limit his speaking engagements but encourages Hamlet's new branch.

BR sends 2 letters, which are unacknowledged: an Indian letter about The ABC of Relativity and a Persian about Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare.

BR agrees to sponsor the programme of the Society for African Culture, provided no work is involved.

"No".

BR discusses Susan Lindsay and her attitude as a mother. He asks Lloyd-Williams for any advice she may have.

"I have to eat very soft food very slowly, since otherwise the food sticks in my throat", and this affliction keeps BR from eating in public. In case of imperative need, BR eats at home first. Thus he must decline the Club's invitation to dine, as "I have greatly enjoyed the past meetings that I have attended."

The dental appointment (possibly for the grandchildren) is being arranged for April 9.

Alys writes from Churt, Farnham:

"Bertie has so greatly enjoyed his growing intimacy with you this last year...."

Alys writes about the death of her mother, Hannah Whitall Smith. This is the second letter written that day.