BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
124401

BR's time is fully booked until the end of May.

124402
BR provides an 1893 photograph of himself.
124403

See Appendix I of Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare for a full statement of BR's views.

124404

"Who's Who > John".

124405
BR declines to become a sponsor of an appeal.
124406

BR will not be in London at the times Mr. Kudo would like to see BR.

124407

BR cannot help Kampe to get publicity for his typescript, "The Questions beyond Science".

124408

Cousins' work "The Rejection of Nothingness" "on practical issues is sympathetic to me, but on theoretical matters it is more favourable to religion than I should be."

124409

"Lolita > Foges".

124410

BR may be able to write a preface to Gellner earlier than June. How long would be satisfactory?

124411

BR praises their pamphlet One World or No World. He hopes it will be effective in Canada; "It is obviously addressed to Canadians." (The pamphlet has not been identified.)

BR is sending it to Peggy Duff.

124412

BR is not competent to deal with Foster's typescript on physics. "It is at least 60 years since I abandoned" the belief that physical reality consists of forces between billiard ball atoms.

124413

"No".

124414

BR expresses his strong wish to have his name on the title page (of Wisdom of the West) followed by "in collaboration with Paul Foulkes". "My conscience will not be satisfied unless you agree to an adequate emphasis on his part in the work." BR threatens "to have to take some other means of publicly disavowing sole authorship".

124415
There is no indication of a topic.
124416

BR has heard from the Soviet Embassy of Khrushchev's "prima facie approval of your plan for a book".

124417

BR is too occupied to take up Nubar's suggestions and is sending his letter to Rotblat of Pugwash.

124418

BR forwards his correspondence with Nubar.

124419

BR congratulates Schochlin on his engagement.

124420

"Yes, William, Lord Russell was the ancestor that I was alluding to."

124421

BR thanks Lewin for the "poetic effusion" from his father to his grandfather.

124422

"Signed photo > Yugoslavia".

124423

"I see that I must acquiesce in what is being done by way of acknowledgement to Foulkes."

124424

"Cheque".

124425

BR's "autobiography exists—though, like my life, not yet finished—but I do not want anything done with it at present."

124426

Pilder needs to apply to Simon and Schuster for permission to reprint the Nobel Prize speech.

124427

BR sees the need for the magazine Hibbard proposes, but cannot do anything to assist him.

124428

BR cannot undertake to read his manuscript and doubts his competence "to give an opinion of any value on the work".

124429

"Cheque > Tylor for Dora and Griff's wages £111.12.0".

124430

"Red Hackle for Plas Penrhyn", with Hepburn & Ross presumed to be the correspondent.

124431

"A chapter in my book on scientific method which I intended satirically was misunderstood by you as expressing my own opinion. My purpose was to inspire horror of a view of life dominated by technique."

124432

BR recommends Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare and Portraits from Memory.

124433

BR's auto-obituary prediction of his death was intended as a joke. "Astrologers and such have taken it seriously."

124434

"No".

124435

"Letter about transcript of 'In Perspective'" is to be sent to the BBC.

124436

Presumably this concerns the return of proofs of BR's reminiscence of G.E. Moore, published on 30 April 1959.

124437

Five sentences on Wittgenstein from a letter from BR to Sheffer are quoted in a letter to R.A.F. Hoernlé from Sheffer (record 54461). BR's letter is evidently his reply to Sheffer's letter of 31 August 1923.

124438

An excerpted transcription. "I feel rather like Rip Van Winkle, and wonder if my friends of other days will still remember me, but I hardly think you will have quite forgotten me".

For the full transcription, see record 56405.

124439

BR thanks Royon (Eaton's assistant) for copies of his Vienna address.

124440

BR asks for the World Council of Peace's statements on abandoning militaristic imperialism by Russia and China, especially in regard to East Germany, Hungary and Tibet.

124441

BR reluctantly declines to write an article for Bryn Mawr, although it is now 63 years since he first visited it.

124442

BR understands why Bullard must resign from Pugwash. He hopes the negotiations in Geneva will be rewarding.

124443

BR thanks Schultz for information about recording machines.

124444

Payment of £5.17.6 is for 2 volumes of Principia Mathematica to be sent to Zeppelin.

124445

BR does not need the book Our Changing Human Nature.

124446

On what Harvard undergraduates can do about nuclear war. "I think that everybody can contribute something to the creation of a public opinion which makes successful negotiation possible."

124447

BR likes the "framed photograph" of himself. Morris may be T.A. Morris, a local photographer.

124448

BR must turn down Feely's attractive proposal.

124449
BR is glad she has connected adult ferocity with miseducation in childhood but has no leisure to read her manuscript and form a critical judgment on it.
124450

"No".

124451

"I no longer regard as feasible the policy advocated in my chapter called "The Future of Mankind". [deleted: "I was concerned there, not with what I should like, but with what, in gloomy moments, strikes me as probable if some modern trends are not resisted."] "There was a time when I thought that atomic energy might be internationalized and that it might be worth while achieving this by threats to Russia if necessary. That was when America had a monopoly of atomic weapons."

[Re preventive war.]

124452

BR cannot help him as he has no official post in any university.

124453

BR cannot supply a manuscript or other item for a purpose concerning Roosevelt's father (FDR). BR refers to his "wandering life" and that he has "for a long time dictated all my work."

"I have the very highest admiration for your mother, as I had for your father...."

124454

BR's views differ from Booth's in her book, but he has no time to devote to lengthy argument on them.

124455

The Russell-Copleston debate is to be rebroadcast. "I am very glad it is considered worthy of this repetition."

124456

Willi's typescripts have arrived and BR will read them very soon.

124457

BR asks Gellner to give him any criticisms of his introduction to Words and Things before BR sends it to the publisher.

124458

BR is glad Pennington has arranged for him to speak only once at an upcoming meeting.

124459

BR has signed a petition regarding the case of Ronald Marwood. "I am in principle strongly opposed to condemnations based solely on confessions. We are in the habit of thinking ill of them in Russia."

124460

BR sends Simon a draft of his upcoming speech. He probably will not follow it exactly, but "if necessary, you can give it to journalists."

124461

"Correct Gellner preface and send off", presumably to Gollancz.

124462

BR declines to speak at the Guildhall in Manchester because of his age.

124463

BR has made the 2 changes suggested by Gellner.

124464

"Signed letter" is to be sent to "Sobell Committee".

124465

BR wants the title of Egner and Denonn's collection not to be "Definitive Writings". On most topics "only a nuclear war could put an end to disagreement."

Re South Africa's banning of one of BR's books.

124466
BR will read his paper when he can find time.
124467

BR does not know enough of the Marwood case to write a letter to the editor.

124468

BR sends Ashley his statement on Parkhurst's allegation that BR advocated preventive war. The draft statement follows. After saying "I have no excuse to offer", this passage was deleted: "except the forgetfulness of old age."

124469

BR sends his statement reversing his stand on whether he ever advocated "a policy of the threat of war".

124470

BR states that his statement published on Oct. 17, 1953 was incorrect and sends his new statement in reply to Winthrop Parkhurst.

124471

BR comments on That Reminds Me and his own grandfather, who could have been the Earl of Ludlow.

124472

"Try Meitner-Graf about embroidered portrait".

124473

"To look for a cause of the whole is like trying to define the spatial position of the universe."

124474

A letter from Eaton is to be sent to Rotblat. It is about the next Pugwash conference.

124475

BR must decline Branca's invitation to come to Venice.

124476

BR approves the reprinting of "The Science to Save Us from Science" and suggests a fee of $10.

124477

BR does not think that the need for religion is one of the most basic of man's needs, but otherwise he is in broad agreement with the paper Privett sent him.

124478

A cheque is to be sent to Child & Co.

124479

The letter concerns an ex-employee named Osborne.

124480

"No".

124481

BR does not need to see proofs of his preface to Gellner.

124482

"Wine from Army & Navy".

124483

BR cannot come to Wang's meeting or send a special message.

124484

BR cannot lengthen the preface (to Basic Writings). He refers to his and Denonn's "admirable undertaking".

124485

BR is honoured to accept life membership in the Council.

124486

"My philosophical opinions are still those expressed in the Inquiry into Meaning and Truth as supplemented by the last part of Human Knowledge."

124487

BR will be glad if Roux can publish the pamphlet in Africaans. (He is referring to Why I Am Not a Christian.)

124488

BR sends the letter from Winthrop Parkhurst, which Taylor had asked for. (It is, no doubt, the one to which BR replies in The Listener, 28 May 1959.)

124489

BR agrees to the proposals and the fee.

About a tape recorder described by Schultz, Edith Russell thinks she had better stick to a Grundig, despite the former's ability to have its tape recordings "taken off on to hard records".

124490

"Cheque and signed letter".

124491

BR "cannot give further time to reading your ms as I am increasingly overwhelmed by anti-nuclear work." He is glad that McLendon has adequate prospects of publication.

124492

Whitehead recommends to Trinity College Council that BR "be elected to a Research Fellowship" which would involve lecturing.

124493

Brief extracts from 9 letters from Frank Russell to Stopes were made by archival staff. The photocopied letters were then returned to the British Library. BR is mentioned in some of the extracts.

124494

This is an incomplete and unsigned letter about Moore's dissertation. The second page of the letter has the printed address of 14, Barton Street, Westminster. Crompton Llewelyn Davies lived there with his brother Theodore until the latter's death in July 1905. The handwriting does not seem to be Crompton's, so it might be Theodore's.

(There are no letters from Theodore in the Russell Archives.)

The letter is addressed: "My Dear GE".

124495

Re Hugh Trevor-Roper: "His intellect has a clear and cutting quality, rather like Bertie's."

124496

"Cheque to Childs".

124497

£82.3.4 for the rates.

124498

BR declines to address the society. "It is a number of years since I have had any new ideas on philosophy."

124499

["M.Z." is possibly a way of referring to Simon of Wythenshawe's secretary.]

124500

BR has had no time to read his thesis, "A Critical Study of Scepticism".