BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
124101

She has spoken with Veblen about BR's possibilities of being hired at the Institute for Advanced Study.

124102
124103

BR says writing "Einstein book" is impossible.

124104
124105

There is also a typed carbon of this letter in the file.

124106

The radiogram begins: "Russell writes Einstein book impossible".

124107

The memorandum begins: "I have given considerable thought to your suggestions for a book by Bertrand Russell." Also in the file is a typed document titled "Suggested Book for Bertrand Russell" which is dated 24 Oct. 1931.

124108

A grouping of internal memoranda about BR, involving memos by Mr. Stevens, Storer Lunt, H.P. Wilson, and Warder Norton.

124109

Four letters to BR, listed in Sotheby's catalogue, 18 July 1973. Individual dates are not provided.

The letters, lot 145, were listed as the property of T. Fox-Pitt. "Phelps" is identified as Elspeth's surname in the prior and succeeding lots. In later letters to BR she signed herself Elspeth Fox Pitt.

Subjects include meetings, his son Conrad, and going to Norway and Berlin for the Foreign Office. 5 pages in all.

The addresses are: Mayfair Court, Stratton Street, W.1; Telegraph House, Petersfield; and Penralltgoch, Merioneth. Phelps' letter of 1956/06/28 is at record 120106.

The trips to Norway and Berlin must belong to 1948, and record ? represents that letter.

124110

The typed carbon of this letter is at record 9203.

BR is "unwilling" to write further on the matter Gray mentions, as his time "is entirely occupied with the struggle to avert war." BR encloses literature about the BRPF and requests a donation.

124111

The typed carbon is document .112394, record 82911.

BR is sorry to learn of the way Weyditch's father was treated.

The letter was for sale on eBay.

124112

This is an internet print of a Western Union telefax for sale on eBay. The typed document, indicating "Cable", is document .199414, record 95905. It was sent at the request of King; see document .199413.

BR supports the boycott of Alabama "wholeheartedly".

124113

The legible internet print image is only a partial image. There is a much smaller total image. The typed carbon is at record 24561. The dictation is at record 15772.

On the philosophies of Whitehead, Schopenhauer, Vaihinger and recent physics.

124114

Warburg sends BR an advance proof copy of Paul Blanshard's Freedom and Catholic Power (Russell's Library, no. 466). BR kept the letter in the book.

124115

Holt sends BR an advance copy of the next issue of Daedalus (Russell's Library, no. 2235). BR kept the letter in the issue.

124116

Harris send a copy of Martial Heirs (Russell's Library, no. 2100) by P.W. Schmidtchen "with the author's compliments". BR kept the letter in the book.

124117

"I remember that in the past you have written most generously of the work of Ray Bradbury." Hart-Davis sent BR an uncorrected proof of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes (Russell's Library, no. 1956). BR kept the letter in the book.

124118

Ball encloses a copy of his book Intellectual Calculus (Russell's Library, no. 1764). BR kept the letter in the book.

124119

BR wrote this note: "'The cat would eate fish but dare not wet her feet' from Thomas Heywood's list of proverbs" and placed in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, p. 211 (Russell's Library, no. 1507).

124120

Three printed cards with an image titled "Camp Richardson, Lake Tahoe, California". Also the business card of Paul A. Schilpp. BR placed them in his copy of John Dewey's Logic: the Theory of Inquiry (Russell's Library, no. 1536). It is assumed that BR placed these cards into the book during the summer he lived at Lake Tahoe.

124121

BR explains and corrects some things in Cassirer's German translation of "My Present View of the World" in Der Monat.

124122

BR is willing to do several recordings in German, but only 2 per day.

124123
BR returns her typescript. Her aims are similar to his, but they would disagree on a good many points.
124124

BR favours an anti-H-bomb movie, though Lord Nuffield would almost certainly not favour it. Discussion of the excluded middle must await their next meeting "as the matter is very intricate".

124125

BR sends 1 guinea for sports.

124126
BR turns down an invitation to speak as he is husbanding his energies for the anti-nuclear campaign.
124127

("No".). An organization in Leicester is turned down

124128

BR has time for a short interview if Giles decides the trip to North Wales is worthwhile.

124129

Wilson, who worked for a second-hand bookseller, Bumpus, is asked to find a copy of E.D. Morel's Truth and the War for an American, H.E. Cohen.

124130

BR tells Cohen he has asked Bumpus to find a copy of Morel's Truth and the War. "Morel is long ago dead. He died of injuries to his health incurred while he was in prison."

124131

BR is too busy to write an article on current philosophy, like the one in the Hibbert Journal recently.

124132

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

124133

BR forwards a letter from Sang Woo Lee.

124134

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

124135

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

124136
BR agrees to sign an anti-nuclear tests statement and returns it.
124137

"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."

124138

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.

124139

"Fill out form for Anne's confirmation".

124140

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.

124141

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."

124142
BR is glad to know of the bias of people in radiation programmes.
124143

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."

124144

"G.E. Moore from Autobiog."

124145

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

124146

BR advises the writer to consult Human Knowledge.

124147

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

124148

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

124149

"1/2 yearly Portmadoc Water Works bill".

124150

"Photo > Stockholm".

124151

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

124152

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

124153
BR will make a script for his unspecified talk and send it to her.
124154

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."

124155

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.

124156

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.

124157

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

124158

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

124159

"No" to Aberystwyth.

124160

BR will read Cousins' typescript.

124161

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

124162

"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.

124163

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."

124164

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

124165

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

124166

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

"Hampstead is not a centre of progressive thought."

124167

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.

124168

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

124169

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.]

124170

"Gomulka letter for K. Martin".

124171

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.

124172

"No".

124173

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."

124174

"No".

124175

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."

124176

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.

124177

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

124178

"No".

124179

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

124180

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

124181

"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.

124182

"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.

124183

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

124184
BR provides the title of the book on geography to which he alluded in a recent interview.
124185

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

124186

"No".

124187

"No".

124188

BR will agree to anything that satisfies Allen and Unwin.

124189

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."

124190
One guinea is to be sent for the memorial.
124191

A letter from Montindo about Principia is to be sent.

124192

"No inst".

124193
BR opposes a church of truth because any church will always get into the wrong hands.
124194

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

124195

"No".

124196

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

124197

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

124198

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

124199

BR gives permission to quote from a publication with Gollancz.

124200

BR forwards a document from the CBC.