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

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

"No".

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

BR thanks Schultz for information about recording machines.

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

BR does not need the book Our Changing Human Nature.

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."

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

BR must turn down Feely's attractive proposal.

"No".

"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.]

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

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...."

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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."

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

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

BR has made the 2 changes suggested by Gellner.

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

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.

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

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."

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

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

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

"Try Meitner-Graf about embroidered portrait".

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

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

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

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

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.

A cheque is to be sent to Child & Co.

The letter concerns an ex-employee named Osborne.

"No".

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

"Wine from Army & Navy".

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

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

BR is honoured to accept life membership in the Council.

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

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

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.)

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".

"Cheque and signed letter".

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.

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

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.

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".

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

"Cheque to Childs".

£82.3.4 for the rates.

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

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

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

"Japanese letter" and "Strinhoff letter" are to be sent to Allen and Unwin.

BR's time is so fully occupied that he cannot manage to give an interview.

Because he doesn't live in London, it will not be possible for BR to see him. He is glad Rahula is speaking about Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare.

BR encloses his Manchester speech and is grateful for his offer to get 100,000 copies printed. BR agrees to become Honorary President of the Science Clubs of India.

The dictation has "Mr. Jadhad".

"No".

"Colwyn Bay nuclear—No".

£32.4.7 to Qureck [?].

BR cannot be present at Birkett's inauguration.

BR tells Davies his letter "is the kind of letter which is really encouraging and gives one energy to persist in our campaign."

"Cheque > Madams for Osborne's stamps".

"Correct address".

"No".

BR regrets not being in London at a time when he could attend the exhibition of Walt Ruhman's art.

"Agreement about Egner and Denonn's book" > Unwin.

BR likes Carmichael's project to collect stories of authors who have had books refused, but he has never had any book refused.

"No".

"I once told the BBC that they made a mistake in reading poetry as if they were in church.... I never heard the record of Tennyson, but I have been told that it was most impressive."

BR declines to give the August Comte Memorial Lecture.

BR thanks Blumberg for the catalogue and film strips concerning Walt Ruhman's art. (The film strips arrived in the Russell Archives in August 2012. See recent acquisition 1679, #1.)

"In short, I am not and never have been a Communist."

"Warmongers have countered my propaganda by pretending that I am a Communist."

BR is "touched and impressed by the spirit of broad-minded tolerance which it [a birthday telegram] showed."

"No".

"The work of editing G E Moore's papers is indubitably important and in the interests of philosophy should be adequately done." BR recommends Casimer Lewy for the job. "I do not doubt that he will perform it with the utmost efficiency."

BR cannot make the dinner on Oct. 24. "I should be glad if you would convey my congratulations to the RPA on its diamond jubilee and my hopes for its continually growing prosperity."

BR "radically disagree[s] with" Whitehead's philosophy but has never wished to emphasize this fact.

BR's letter is mistakenly addressed to Alexander Dallardo.

BR approves of Michael Scott for the Lord Rectorship of Glasgow and includes £10 for the campaign expenses.

BR declines to be a candidate for the Lord Rectorship of Glasgow University, since Rev. Scott is running. BR has "a very great respect for him."