Total Published Records: 135,548
BRACERS Notes
Record no. | Notes, topics or text |
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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. |
124110 | The typed carbon of this letter is at record 9203. |
124111 | The typed carbon is document .112394, record 82911. |
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. |
124113 | |
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. |
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." |
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. |
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". |
124182 | "My Dear Irina" |
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. |