BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
124501

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

124502

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

124503

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.

124504

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".

124505

"No".

124506

"Colwyn Bay nuclear—No".

124507
Every moment of BR's in the near future is booked, and no meeting can be arranged.
124508

£32.4.7 to Qureck [?].

124509

BR cannot be present at Birkett's inauguration.

124510

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

124511
124512

"Cheque > Madams for Osborne's stamps".

124513

"Correct address".

124514

"No".

124515

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

124516

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

124517

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

124518

"No".

124519

The original letter, in French, is translated in Elena Anne Marchisotto and James T. Smith, The Legacy of Mario Pieri in Geometry and Arithmetic (Boston: Birkhäuser, 2007), p. 2, and reprinted at http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pieri.html.

The original letter is published in Gino Arrighi, ed., Lettere a Mario Pieri (1884-1913) (Milan: Università Bocconi, 1997), p. 105. The original was available at that time, but has since disappeared along with the other letters in Arrighi's edition.

124520

"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."

124521

BR declines to give the August Comte Memorial Lecture.

124522

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.)

124523

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

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

124524

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

124525

"No".

124526

"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."

124527

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."

124528

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.

124529

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

124530

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."

124531
There is no content for this communication.
124532

BR objects to a statement about the USSR's evils now being less than those in the U.S. and Western Europe in Dora Russell's preface to a new edition of The Prospects of Industrial Civilization.

BR agrees to matters concerning The Basic Writings. One volume is better than two, he says.

He agrees to the use in The Star, Johannesburg, by Mrs. Klenerman (of Vanguard Booksellers there) of a paragraph from one of his letters (record 51188). (It is in connection with Why I Am Not a Christian.)

124533

BR cannot be present at an exhibition in London but hopes it will be successful.

124534

BR is too occupied and suggests he approach Pirani.

124535

BR comments on The Brink, a science-fiction work that Gollancz published by John Brunner in 1959. BR says it exaggerates the evils of fall-out and "combines anti-nuclear propaganda with pro-Negro and free-love propaganda." He is mistaken about the Meridians.

The book is otherwise excellent, but BR does not wish to make a public statement about it.

124536

BR believes his contribution of all he can afford to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is more useful than a donation to the St. Agnes home. Otherwise the great powers may kill all the children.

124537

Mockford encloses his interview with Evelyn Brideswell re Beacon Hill School.

124538

The text of this telegram is on p. 21 of "Bertrand Russell: So Fondly Remembered". See p. 101 of her memoir for her explanation re the source of the letters she includes: "This file of his letters was destroyed in a flood where they were in storage during my absence in India some years later. I have therefore had to work from copies of letters which were in his files in England. [Supplied by the Russell Archives in the late 1960s.] There were of course no carbon copies of the many handwritten letters to me." Only letters that are not already entered in BRACERS in RA1 and RA2 are entered from Medlock's unpublished, book-length memoir.

124539

The text of this telegram is in "Bertrand Russell: So Fondly Remembered". See p. 101 of her memoir for her explanation re the source of the letters she includes.

124540

The text of this telegram is in "Bertrand Russell: So Fondly Remembered". See p. 101 of her memoir for her explanation re the source of the letters she includes.

"See no difference being bombed London or New York. Medlock"

124541

The text of this telegram is in "Bertrand Russell: So Fondly Remembered". See p. 101 of her memoir for her explanation re the source of the letters she includes.

A repetition of "Come at once and stay as long as you can. Russell."

124542

The text of this telegram is in "Bertrand Russell: So Fondly Remembered". See p. 101 of her memoir for her explanation re the source of the letters she includes.

"I'm off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz. Arriving London 8 a.m. tomorrow. Medlock."

124543

The text of this letter is in "Bertrand Russell: So Fondly Remembered". See p. 101 of her memoir for her explanation re the source of the letters she includes.

The text of this letter does not match Medlock's letter of 2 February 1970, document .118064, record 108724.

124544

The text of this letter is on p. 56 of "Bertrand Russell: So Fondly Rembered". The letter politely inquires about a large overdraft dating from around 1865. Julie Medlock saw this letter in a family trunk in BR's Richmond home in the early 1950s.

124545

"I have somehow mislaid the letter about the syndicated articles that I undertook to do."

The text of this letter is in "Bertrand Russell: So Fondly Remembered". See p. 101 of her memoir for her explanation re the source of the letters she includes.

The original letter is not extant so its form is not known.

Above the letter is one from Medlock to BR, 29 May 1951.

124546

The text of this letter is in "Bertrand Russell: So Fondly Remembered". See p. 101 of her memoir for her explanation re the source of the letters she includes.

This one concerns the "peak of loneliness" on which BR lives his life.

124547

The text of this letter is in "Bertrand Russell: So Fondly Remembered". See p. 101 of her memoir for her explanation re the source of the letters she includes.

She forwards an article request from UN World magazine.

124548

The text of this letter is in "Bertrand Russell: So Fondly Remembered". See p. 101 of her memoir for her explanation re the source of the letters she includes.

She mentions the Esquire reprint of the "Auto-Obituary".

124549

The text of this letter is in "Bertrand Russell: So Fondly Remembered". See p. 101 of her memoir for her explanation re the source of the letters she includes.

BR hopes Medlock will "disabuse" Krishna Menon "of a prejudice against me which is based on misconceptions."

124550

Handwritten note on her new business card; encl. press release by Benjamin A. Javits, announcing her appointment as Vice-President.

The text of this letter is on p. 209 of "Bertrand Russell: So Fondly Remembered".

124551

BR congratulates Medlock on her new appointment as V-P of the World Development Corporation.

The text of this letter is in "Bertrand Russell: So Fondly Remembered". See p. 101 of her memoir for her explanation re the source of the letters she includes.

The original letter is not extant; thus its form cannot be known.

124552

The text of this letter is in "Bertrand Russell: So Fondly Remembered". See p. 101 of her memoir for her explanation re the source of the letters she includes.

The original letter is not extant so its form cannot be known.

3 cables from Medlock to BR follow on p. 215.

124553

The text of this letter is in "Bertrand Russell: So Fondly Remembered". See p. 101 of her memoir for her explanation re the source of the letters she includes.

BR had called the Soviet intervention in Egypt provocative, but Medlock asserts "we have been greatly at fault". She refers to Krishna Menon.

124554

The text of this letter is on p. 222 of "Bertrand Russell: So Fondly Remembered".

See p. 101 of Medlock's memoir for her explanation of the source of the letters she includes. (The source was the Russell Archives.)

She mentions Geneva statements by President Eisenhower.

124555

The text of this letter is in "Bertrand Russell: So Fondly Remembered". See p. 101 of her memoir for her explanation re the source of the letters she includes.

Medlock will be going on a tour of the Middle East.

124556

The text of this letter is in "Bertrand Russell: So Fondly Remembered". See p. 101 of her memoir for her explanation of the source of the letters she includes.

Medlock provides the itinerary for her Middle East tour.

124557

The text of this letter is in "Bertrand Russell: So Fondly Remembered". It was written upon Medlock's return to New York after visiting the Russells at Plas Penrhyn. See p. 101 of her memoir for her explanation re the source of the letters she includes.

124558

Colette responds to Blackwell's query on March 7 as to whether BR commented on Canada in August 1921. He did not.

124559

Blackwell refers to "our publishing plans for the Russell Archives". "... we have not yet published even a single volume of his own work, which is our prime concern."

124560

"I am starting a little magazine to contain archival news, and this would be an appropriate place to describe the collection." (This became Russell: the Journal of the Bertrand Russell Archives; Colette was sent the first issue on her complimentary subscription, 6 April 1971.)

124561

"Bertrand Russell was an old friend and I have been continuously interested in education, especially educational development. Our own children went to Dartington."

124562

Re the CCNY case: "Why is it that we always select someone with a boil on his neck or a blister on his fanny? I don't think we ought to get a collection of damaged goods."

124563

Special counsel cannot be appointed in the matter of BR's appointment to the CCNY.

124564

Re BR's appointment to the CCNY: The Mayor has no power over the actions taken by the Board of Higher Education, even though the Mayor selects and appoints the members.

124565

The Mayor is replying to an undated memorandum from Chanler which is attached.

"In reference to your memorandum submitted to me concerning the Russell case, may I say that it might be becoming to a scrivener in the office of a barrister in the eighteenth century, but utterly unworthy of a law officer of the greatest city in the world."

A photocopy of a brief prepared by Chanler is in Rec. Acq. 762b.

124566

Group entry: Several letters from various people expressing their opinions on BR's appointment to the CCNY.

124567
124568
The date has been written on the letter in pencil in an unknown hand.
124569

"I was under the impression that Canadian butter and cheese was of the finest quality made and hence your statement came as quite a shock."

124570
124571
124572
124573
124574
124575
124576
124577

BR once had to write to the Agha Khan but was uncertain as to how to address him.

BR looks forward to meeting him as he finds "your outlook on the universe congenial."

124578
"There are so few hours out of the twenty-four when there is nothing better to do than sit in a barber's chair."
124579
124580

BR will be abroad until April 26.

"Most philosophers are prudes and I doubt they will take as much pleasure as I do in the boy who pees into the teapot."

124581
124582
124583

"I am interested to learn that you are moving into Julian Trevelyan's studio which is a charming place."

124584

BR comments critically on Themerson's typescript "The Cardinal".

124585

BR wants to visit, bringing a friend, Edith Finch.

124586
"I am very much interested by your remark that your main ambition has been to keep sane. This also has been mine."
124587
124588

Themerson has commented on "The Guardian of Parnassus".

124589
124590
"When I wrote my story I was despairing of there ever being a good society, and pinning my hopes on the recurrence of good individuals."
124591
124592

Re Professor Mmaa's Lecture, introduced by BR: "You seem to know a great deal about termites. I went to a place in the centre of Australia were they were the only form of animal life, and there were no artifacts except their innumerable hills built of dried twigs. It made my flesh creep with horrid visions of the world after scientists-cum-politicians have completed the work of progress."

"I am going to marry Miss Finch, probably in January."

124593

John Lane is publishing BR's stories. The firm "is virtually Unwin".

124594

BR has signed documents for Themerson. "I do not like (1) to see the British government behave badly (2) to see merit unrecognized." "You have my friendship in the fullest measure...."

124595

"Could you and Mrs. Themerson come to a tiny New Years' Eve party here? The time will be 8.30 p.m. til next year."

124596

"It will be a pleasure to have you publish The Good Citizen's Alphabet with Mrs. Themerson's delicious illustrations." BR will waive royalties.

124597

For a blurb BR suggests "P is for Pedant who wrote this book".

124598
124599
124600

"I am sending you here with a collection of small fancies called 'Nightmares', which I propose to include with Zahatopolk in a second volume. (Zahatopolk was not written in time for the first volume.)"