"Cards signed".

"A joint reception is being arranged for Bertrand Russell and Rudolf Rocker with Lewis Browne ... to welcome them...." "... we are asking if you would act as chairman to introduce speakers of the evening...."

£4.9.8 is to be sent.

BR cannot attend the conference on 25-26 June or give an address at it as his engagements fill up "every moment" of both days.

"The news from the U.S. Congress is most encouraging."

"Paul Jordan Smith asked what would be the subjects upon which yourself and Russell would speak and I could not answer except to say that I supposed that some aspects of problems that involve freedom in practical life today would probably be presented."

£6.10.0 is to be sent.

BR hopes he and Edith will be back home for the latter part of the Huxleys' visit to Portmeirion.

BR thanks Graydon for the "picture" of his grandfather.

A correspondent is correct: "hydrolysis" on p. 271, line 15, of My Philosophical Development should be "electrolysis".

BR hopes Wayland Young's book will be good, but he should not be present at the lunch with Gaitskell.

Re the new translation of Nicod: "I am a little alarmed by the prospect which your letter suggests of getting tangled up with a whole lot of philosophers, all of whom would be dilatory and many of whom would disagree with each other."

This is a testimonial on behalf of Daniel M. Cory, who has applied for a grant. BR has known him for at least 20 years.

£21.18.6 is to be sent.

BR tells him that: "It is possible to be a first-rate technical mathematician without ever bothering about foundations, and, conversely, one may be first-rate on foundations without being expert in other parts of mathematics."

Since BR has not worked on mathematical logic, except spasmodically, since 1914, he suggests Quine as being able to provide more current advice in response to Casshyap's questions.

BR has never been satisfied with any theory about negative facts. He wonders if Strawson will ever answer his criticisms of him [in "Mr. Strawson on Referring"].

BR tells this broadcasting employee that although he had great affection for Lowes Dickinson, that does not suffice for a broadcast.

BR cannot take the time to introduce a bill to the House of Lords. (The topic is not mentioned.)

BR has to change plans to meet Mr. and Mrs. Adams in Wales, as he must be in London for June 20-29.

BR would like to meet with Collins. BR is "much cheered" by the General Workers' Union.

BR has not the time to go into the Mental Health Bill.

BR will not be able to visit the U.S. during the coming academic year.

BR thanks him for his "very pleasant" letter and the picture of the hero of an old Japanese legend.

BR does not think truth is indivisible and does not know the work of Prof. Sorokin.

On the matter of paying family fares for a visit to the U.K.

BR agrees with what the writer said about Locke. BR has not looked into extending quaternions to more than 3 dimensions.

BR declines to give a public lecture at Hull.

BR was interested and pleased by Webster's letter "in a very high degree". He comments on the plan for Webster's book (on religion, sex and social order, which seems not to have been published). BR thinks love of power is as potent as sex as a factor in human society. BR opposes the idea of sex as a duty to the unattractive. He also opposes "bestowing enormous wealth for enormous services".

On the ambiguity of the word "meaning".

BR autographs Simmons' enclosures, apparently of quotations from BR.

BR is glad Popper likes My Philosophical Development.

BR thanks Cotereau for the inscribed copy of L'Homme Soit! and says he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, not peace.

[Re Archives:] "I have not yet made up my mind with old mss and typescripts...."

"Rec'd from the Midland Bank Ltd £52.8.3 with thanks."

A cheque for £52.8.3 is to be sent to Childs.

Joseph tells Sassoon that "we are inviting a number of well known men and women to express an opinion on Bertrand Russell's new book Which Way to Peace?, which we are publishing on October 19th."

"Lord Russell and British members oppose postponement of conference."

"I'm sure I read Russell in The Dial because I read everything in it in those days ... I don't suppose I saw the Century article nor Watson's review of Russell because 1922 was a little early." Skinner is responding to Laties' letter of 25 Sept. 1980, which is also in the file.

When BR sent Fraser the script for his "short German broadcast", he forgot to say June 26 would suit him better.

BR signs the cheque he forgot to sign. Will 11:30 on June 22 for their meeting be at Tylor's office or at Hasker St.? BR would much prefer the latter.

"Return letter and enclosure to Attlee > Dr. Watson".

BR replies to Raven regarding her interest in the International War Crimes Tribunal. He asks her to get in touch with Ralph Schoenman.

Regarding BR's request that new support money be sent to his wife, Santayana ponders the reasons. "... he is a great logician, if not a good man of business ...", but Santayana thinks BR is too old and heterodox for an academic job.

Santayana has seen a recent letter, evidently to Cory, and writes to him on 10 May 1940 from Venice: "Russell's letter is splendid in every way; besides appreciation of your articles and a kind word about Strong, there seems to be an air about it as if your Fellowship were going to materialize at last."

The photocopied index cards that Mendl encloses list BR's participation in various programmes broadcast by the CBC.

Brockway has received a copy of the reprint of the Tribunal. "Not only those of us who lived through the experience but to many to whom the story is new have found the Tribunal absolutely fascinating."

Group entry: 2 telegrams and a letter. Missing are any responses VP-Admin Heddon received from Continuum 1 Ltd. (A. Fel

A printout of an image of Heddon's cable to Continuum 1 Ltd., 27 May 1969, was added on 5 Sept. 2023. The image came from Tony Simpson of the BRPF, 23 Aug. 2023.

A second group of letters concerns whether the matter of Schoenman's cables in May 1969 may be cited by Ronald Clark in his then forthcoming biography of Russell. 

She addresses Waterlow as "Monarch" and signs herself "L.A." [Liebet Arnim?].

Bourdillon informs BR of the rule that no statement made at the Institute can be published. BR has broken this rule in an article published in the American Nation on 2 March.

Bourdillon apologises for not having brought the rule to BR's attention.

The article is "British Folly in China".

Mounsey informs Curtis of BR's transgression with regard to the non-publication of conversations at the Institute. He adds that Russell is mistaken in who Mr. Rose is and what he said, but that makes "no difference".

Bourdillon thanks Mounsey on Curtis's behalf.

"Your letter has brought to light the startling fact that the principle that our proceedings are private has not been expressed in any rule." "Gathorne-Hardy is drafting a rule for submission to the Council...."

Allen writes from Uppsala, Sweden: "Tomorrow there is a teach-in here with Jan Myrdal, Gunnar Fredriksson, Folke Issacson and the gang ... news on War Trial Tribunal to follow."

"That Russell affair seems to have been extraordinarily unfortunate. Evidently he has severe personality limitations, an egocentricity which seems to confirm your remark...." Yet I think that ... there is something to be said for Russell as philosopher."

Barnes thinks BR has a split personality. He calls his wife Patricia a "red-haired vixen" and a "bitch of a wife". Dewey advised him not to publish his analysis of BR's character as it was so virulent that it would have elicited sympathy for Russell.

There are two documents at the end of the file: "Russell's Deterioration" and "Mrs. Russell Controls His Every Act" which may be related but the document in discussion here vanished.

"I was very much interested in your comments on Russell's split personality."

"The article on Russell which you asked to see was so hot that it vanished, probably by spontaneous combustion." He goes on to give Chisholm an outline of what was in it. "... Russell is a man living in an ivory tower, with all the windows and doors closed, going through a complex series of calisthenics in front of a mirror." "I asked him what was the difference between his attitude and Hitler's, and his only reply was an irrelevant wisecrack that showed him up to the entire class." "... he crawls under the bed every time his neurotic wife butts in on affairs with which she is not even remotely connected."

Barnes has been to New York to visit Dewey. Dewey agrees that "Russell's thinking is a 'melange of incompatibles' that constitute his exquisite preciosity." With regard to History of Western Philosophy Barnes notes that "Russell in the preface puts me in the same bed with his wife, a dirty trick characteristic of him."

Dewey thinks that BR "never made a serious attempt to understand any view that is different from his own."

The letter mainly concerns John Dewey.

BR agrees to join the Humanist Broadcasting Council.

BR wants to send Green's attractive proposal to Lord Simon of Wythenshawe for his opinion regarding China.

BR provides an update to Marriage and Morals on marriage, infidelity, and infidelity.

"Bank cheques to Madams".

BR declines to write a preface for Williams' book, The Basis of Picto.

BR can see Marwick at Hasker St. on June 23. [Re conscientious objectors in WWI.]

BR can see the Adamses at Hasker St. on June 28th.

BR sends Simon 2 letters from S.W. Green of Cambridge with BR's reply to the first. They can discuss them when they meet.

BR is "charmed and flattered" that "my lucubrations at the age of 15 should cause disquiet to a powerful dictatorship supported by all the bombs controlled by 'the free world'."

He agrees to omitting pp. 28-36 of My Philosophical Development for the Spanish translation.

BR has signed "all the letters to newspapers that you sent" regarding the law against homosexuality.

Wieluch is a fourth to BR's "Three Musketeers" (?). BR has an a priori prejudice against theories about "second sight" and the like.

BR can recognize only Sidney [Webb?] in the photographs she has sent BR.

BR "cannot remember anything at all about a theory of manufactured relations that Wittgenstein in 1913 attributed to me. I have been trying to imagine what such a theory might be, but without any success."

This comes up in the notebooks of Wittgenstein, 1914-16.

BR will be happy to see him in London. Radhakrishnan provided an introduction for him.

BR thanks Nielsen for 2 articles on his ethical opinions (his metaethics). "... I have never, myself, felt at all sure that my ethical opinions were sound."

BR declines a dinner as his energies are limited and must make "very few public appearances".

On (Canadian) Brock Chisholm's article on biological warfare: "There are other ways of exterminating us all which would be adopted if nuclear weapons were banned." There was nothing new to BR in Chisholm's article.

BR hopes Gaitskell "will not funk meeting us at lunch".

"Income tax form, signed, > West and Drake about Alan Wood".

Cadogan Estates about insurance on #43 > Tylor.

BR is considering writing a letter on behalf of a statement by the UN Association.

"... the governments of East and West will adopt any trick and any device for the prevention of sane measures unless there is an overwhelming public opinion to which they must bow."

BR details reasons of health for which he wants to see Dr. Boyd as soon as possible (throat, catarrhal cough, running nose, and an itch).

BR comments with appreciation on "Myra Buttle"'s book about Arnold Toynbee (one of the "eminent reactionaries of the time").

BR writes in appreciation of Snow's Rede lecture ("Two Cultures").

BR is willing to provide a word of greeting for the project to send a copy of Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare to every member of Congress from the American Friends Service Committee.

BR comments with appreciation on Themerson's New Departures.

BR contributes £100 to the proposed edition of Nicod.

BR asks Unwin to concoct a polite refusal to someone who evidently wishes to write BR's biography, Wood's being as good as can be done until after his death.

BR will write to Khrushchev if Foges asks him to and indicates what to say.

BR has nothing to say in addition to what Snow said in his Rede lecture ("Two Cultures") and is too occupied with work already undertaken.