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.)

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

BR is too occupied and suggests he approach Pirani.

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.

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.

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

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 Only letters that are not already entered in BRACERS in RA1 and RA2 are entered from Medlock's unpublished, book-length memoir.

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.

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"

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."

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."

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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".

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."

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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."

"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.)

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

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."

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

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.

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.

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

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

"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."

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."

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

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."

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

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

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

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

Themerson has commented on "The Guardian of Parnassus".

"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."

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."

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

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...."

"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."

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

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

"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.)"

BR requests that copies of the Alphabet be sent to: Rupert Crawshay-Williams, Julian Trevelyan, Ion Braby, A.J. Ayer, Jacob Epstein, and Kate Tait.

BR wants a copy of the Alphabet sent to Julie Medlock. "The oftener I look at your pictures the more pleasure they give me."

BR has been ill but is "now recovering".

"I long to know who is the historian who prophesies a future for it [The Good Citizen's Alphabet] in Russia. Is it Deutscher?"

Re a real life search for an Elizabeth Pickle to rule over Pickledom.

"I enclose a short preface [not present] to Professor Mmaa."

Re Professor Mmaa: "Could you explain what the Royal Society in 1781 was illustrating by the picture on the jacket? I am completely at a loss. I am very glad indeed that you have got the book published."

BR congratulates Themerson on getting British citizenship. BR is no longer allowed to drink wine.

"I am delighted to learn that the National Book League has chosen The Good Citizen's Alphabet for its exhibition of book design."

"Thank you very much for sending me The Way It Walks." "It is distressing to see what a collection of platitudes we philosophers have uttered, and I am grateful to you for infusing some intelligence into these observations."

"I very much like your suggestion of hostage towns. I would do anything to support it except live in one of them. One cannot nowadays take sons as hostages, because family affection is extinct."

Written on letterhead of the Ullswater Hotel, Glenridding, Penrith. BR and Edith are on vacation.

"We are here until the end of September, after which we shall be back at Richmond...."

"I particularly like your people who wouldn't eat tomatoes but were willing to eat people who would eat tomatoes. They seem to be average human beings. We shall be in Wales until the end of January. After that we shall be back in Richmond...."

"I don't think it would do John [Russell] any harm at all if you were to write to him about Abandon Spa. I doubt whether he is well enough at the moment to finish any of the stories that he had begun, but if he is—or as soon as he is—the work could do him no harm whatever."

"Your theory that the best work is done by the men who are uprooted is one which occurred to me when I studied the pre-Socratics, most of whom were refugees. The fact is that one can make up any number of theories, all equally plausible and none of them true."

"I think the trend towards religion is an outcome of the Russian Revolution and the fear of Communism and Nazism. The same thing happened in England after the French Revolution. People will not cease to be religious until there is more security in the world." He recollects an anecdote about his grandmother. "She knew the Miss Berrys, who were friends of Horace Walpole, and she said to me: 'They were old-fashioned. They used to swear a little'."

"I am particularly pleased that you appreciated my semantic-ethical rule...."

"I hope the revival of Stalinism will not interfere with these various plans."

Edith has a serious illness and is not able to travel to London.

"I meant to say that there are reasons for thinking ethical values not absolute—i.e., that this conclusion follows from other things which appear tolerably certain."

"I don't know how the rumour got about that I was going to India. I have never had any intention of going there or given anyone any reason to think that I had such an intention."

"I especially like your phrase about people being 'bitingly jocular'. It slightly reminds me of Sir Thomas More on the scaffold."

"I enclose nineteen maxims which I attribute to La Rochefoucauld."

"As for what I agree with and what I disagree with in the maxims [of La Rochefoucauld]—this would be a long story. I liked the form because it enables me to say, without qualification, things which I only believe with qualifications that would make them tedious."