BR thanks Stickland for The Manners and Customs of Ye Englishe. BR has verified the characters in the House of Commons picture. BR knew Mrs. Belloc Lowndes. BR's Aunt Blanche (Lady Airlie) was interested in birth control, but the information she obtained from BR's mother after visiting the Oneida community "was not sufficient to prevent her from becoming the grandmother of Lady Churchill."

"Manchester people for record—enclose money > Mrs Stickland".

"Too busy > Roback about Schweitzer".

BR agrees to their including a speech reported by The Observer.

"Secretary > Horobin enclosing £1".

BR includes an anti-nuclear statement in the body of his letter.

"£6.7.7 > Griffiths, chemist".

"BBC cheque > Barclays Bank, Portmadoc".

[This is surely a to-do for Edith Russell, not correspondence.]

BR would "certainly not regard any horse, however well groomed, as evidence of the existence of the godhead."

BR appreciates Tranter's friend's wish to avoid further publicity.

BR suggests Cobell ring him when he reaches North Wales.

"Clothing for Penrhyndeudraeth".

BR has nothing further to say (on Nehru), since he has just sent a message to The Times of India.

BR remembers well the days when Florence was president of the Heretics, but BR cannot add to his speaking appointments this year.

BR gives Notari his deepest sympathy over her late fiancé, who produced a typescript on philosophy. Although it treats "possibility" as more substantial than it seems to BR, he thinks the work has merit. BR recommends sending it to Ayer or Paul Weiss, editor of The Review of Metaphysics.

BR sends £5 because the Society "seems to provide exactly what is needed in the way of adventure that does no harm and some good."

"Unwin statement > Madams".

"Messrs G.A. and Unwin. Address > Plas P.—3rd person".

"Bank order".

"Same statement > Japan Council"

"Secretary 'this statement has already been sent to...."

"£26 > Chelsea rates".

BR thanks Emori for his Japanese translation of Mysticism and Logic.

"Portmadoc tax papers > Madams".

BR can't be at the House of Lords on 21 July but would vote with Lord Denning on the matter.

"Heartiest good wishes for success in your admirable endeavours. Bertrand Russell".

"Repeat letter to Powell (above)". See record 124956.

"Telephone bill for Plas P."

BR sends royalty statements from Liveright. In view of 21 copies of Education and the Good Life being sold in 1958, BR seeks Unwin's advice.

BR agrees to become an honorary member of Keller's League of War Resisters.

"I read German easily, but have difficulty in writing it...." "I am interested to learn that you studied logic under Prof. Scholz for whom I had a very considerable admiration."

"How absurd of Schoenman to deny that B.R. wrote the Memorandum!"

"Typescript arrived intact today absorbed".

[A clipping Colette seems to have sent the same month, dated 6 March 1971, is a death notice of Lord Sheffield, formerly known as Lord Stanley of Alderley.]

BR is glad to know Wisdom of the West is to be published on October 5.

BR denies Dewey was a nihilist. "I have always thought his philosophy identical with that of the early Marx as expressed in the Theses on Feuerbach."

"Return proof to Encounter".

BR hopes to hear from Hervey as soon as she has new philosophical ideas. He and Edith very much enjoyed her visit.

BR asks the dates he is to be in Paris for a press conference, and whether accommodation is being arranged. Following are notes on the events of 1954-55.

"Address not 41 Queen's Road > GPO".

BR encloses (not present) a postscript to his Autobiography. "If I live to be a hundred, I will send you another."

BR will forward Price's cheque for £100 to Rotblat. Price may have donated the money on behalf of the Atomic Scientists Association.

BR forwards Price's £100 donation to Pugwash.

BR agrees to an interview between August 18 and 28 and contributes 2 guineas to the work of his council.

BR declines to write an open letter to Ben Gurion and Nasser. "Middle Eastern affairs are very complicated...."

BR sends an autographed photo.

"Lord Bertrand Russell" is incorrect and "would only be correct if I were the younger son of a Duke or a Marquis."

BR agrees to the use of a quotation from his letter for publicity purposes.

BR suggests Lockhart get in touch with him when he comes to England the next summer.

BR agrees to the publication in Japan of "Bertrand Russell Reflects" in The Listener.

BR does not know enough about matters in South Africa to do an article. Thus he could not appear on TV in that regard.

BR encloses (not present) "the letter to Khrushchev", taking it from Kingsley Martin's excellent draft.

BR approves quotations for Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook, and adds a postscript that he has found greater happiness in marriage.

BR suggests the writer contact the Cardiff branch of the anti-nuclear campaign.

BR altered nothing in the draft address to Pugwash that Rotblat sent him.

"Cheque for $50 > Child".

BR "is strongly of the opinion that vivisection is ethically justifiable" but cannot take time from urgent work to write about it.

"Look up World Government card".

BR is willing to be a supporter of Isely's committee, but not an "active" one.

BR approves Japanese publication of their debate.

"With kindest regards".

BR cannot write an article for him, and points out that he wrote one on Russian conduct in Hungary in November 1956.

BR thanks her for "the excellently done portrait".

BR is willing to make a short speech in Trafalgar Square on Sept. 20 and to attend a small private meeting of scientists between Sept. 22 and 25. He and Edith will be in Paris for the press conference during Sept. 14 to 18.

BR books a room "high up" for Sept. 14 to 18. They have stayed there before.

[In 2014 this was a 5-star hotel.]

BR books a flight for Edith and himself by B.E.A. on Sept. 14, returning on Sept. 18.

BR thinks that a large portion of Patel's troubles need medical treatment, but he has not the necessary knowledge.

BR no longer remembers the names of the "three Texans" (who had read all of Principia Mathematica). They were students at the Rice Institute.

This is the carbon of document .201181, record 116689. It has no salutation, closing or date. It begins: "I am sorry about Rimbaud." It is the last third of document .001489f, record 18683.

This letter has no salutation, closing or date. It begins: "I am sorry about Rimbaud." It is the last third of document .001489f, record 18683.

This is a condensed version of document .052517, record 98442.

[This letter should not have been classified as 710.]

Not a letter but a square-bracketed note, presumably for Edith alone, concerning [illegible] "and hair".

On the verso of record 45175, in black fountain-pen ink:

"Students Association
University, Oslo
Sorry cannot come Oslo
Refusal sent 10 June
Russell"

No copy of the refusal can be found.

The note is an unfinished thank-you note. It appears to have been used as a bookmark in I Was a German by Ernst Toller (Russell's Library, no. 2421). The card was inserted between pp. 303-4, which are the advertisements at the very end of the book.

The note in Patricia's handwriting is a shopping list headed "Mrs Russell / rations" which has been used as a bookmark in I Was a German by Ernst Toller (Russell's Library, no. 2421). It was inserted in the back of the book between the endpapers and the back cover.

A blank postcard printed with the Telegraph House address. The card was inserted between the front endpaper and the title page of Birrell and Lucas's The Art of Dying (Russell's Library, no. 2850).

This is a clipping of a letter to the editor concerning an article from The Times, 28 March 1951, entitled "World Population", by James P. Brander. It was inserted between pp. 172-3 in Road to Survival by William Vogt (Russell's Library, no. 2192).

This is a small coloured drawing of a bearded man inserted between pp. 20-1 in John Harrington's Nugae Antiquae (Russell's Library, no. 543).

Furness-Lane sends BR a complimentary copy of Leonard Woolf's Downhill All the Way (Russell's Library, no. 2445) and asks him to reply with some comments on the book they can use for promotion.

The letter was inserted between the front cover and front endpapers.

The Macmillan Company sends BR a complimentary copy of Hans Reichenbach's Elements of Symbolic Logic (Russell's Library, no. 1591) and asks him to contact them if he would like to review the book for a British or continental journal.

The letter was inserted between the front endpapers. The letter is unsigned.

Two sheets of mainly shopping notes, the first written on the stationery of the Royal Court Hotel, London. The sheets were inserted between pp. 250-1 in K.R. Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 1 (Russell's Library, no. 2503).

More reading notes in Patricia's hand are found on the rear endpaper.

A note for Rats, Lice and History by H. Zinsser, inserted between pp. 288-9 in K.R. Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies, vol. 2 (Russell's Library, no. 2504).

The note has a short, crossed out to-do list as well, also in Patricia's hand.

Kennerley asks BR to send any words of praise he might have for Our Plundered Planet by Fairfield Osborn (Russell's Library, no. 2373) and encloses an advance copy of the book. The letter was inserted between pp. 128-9.

A slip of paper with the note (in an unknown hand) "For the third week: £15 = 34,500 lire" inserted in Our Plundered Planet by Fairfield Osborn (Russell's Library, no. 2373) between pp. 128-9.

A series of notes on Descartes written on Telegraph House stationery was inserted between pp. 438-9 in Alexander Campbell Fraser's edition of The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., vol. 1 (Russell's Library, no. 1119).

There are three news clippings in Sidney and Beatrice Webb's The Break-up of the Poor Law (Russell's Library, no. 2402) written in response to the publication of the book, inserted between pp. 468-9. Two clippings are letters to the editor, and the third a news story.

A postcard to Alys confirming a visit from "H.M." on the 10th of November with Mrs. Cross. It was inserted between pp. 534-5 of Webb's The Break-up of the Poor Law (Russell's Library, no. 2402).

The text of BR's telegram is in a hand that is likely to be Nicholas Johnson's at record 64970, and is typed into the text of a letter to Yehya G. Roomi Al-Washi at record 64971. BR requests that President Arif halt the executions of three women.

Implore you in the name of humanity to halt the reported executions of Leila Al-Roomi, Safiri Jamil and Zakia Shakir.
 

BR responds to Marseille's letter of 1954/09/02, record 30060. BR will accept the Saturday Review's invitation to reply to Marseille's article that includes BR's 1948/05/05 letter to him. BR says "new methods and new policies are called for", but he does not gauge the depth of Marseille's opposition to BR's new policies.

"There can be no a priori reason against 'the supposition that mind, previously non-existing,' can arise through a mere redistribution of matter and energy."

The above from BR's reply is quoted by Wheatley in his letter of 1911/11/05, record 81410.

A Christmas present tag was inserted between pp. 86-7 of The Lives of the Ancient Philosophers (Russell's Library, no. 586). The section is on Socrates. The card reads: "Greetings Diddy from John and Kate". The handwriting is BR's (aka "Diddy" to his children).

BR later signed the flyleaf, dating it 31 March 1967.

This is a form letter requesting editorial comment or review of Communism, Democracy, and Catholic Power by Paul Blanshard. It was inserted between pp. 24-5 in Blanshard's book (Russell's Library, no. 465).

This presentation note was inserted between pp. 12-13 indicating that this copy of Paul Blanshard's The Irish and Catholic Power (Russell's Library, no. 251) was sent with the compliments of the author and Beacon Press. See record 5333 for a blurb request.

A note suggesting certain pages of the book that BR will like was inserted between pp. 138-9 in Frost and Sherrin's That Was the Week That Was (Russell's Library, no. 24).

Five photographs of BR in Australia were inserted, one after the front endpapers, one before the title-page, and three between p. 216 and the rear free endpaper, of George Farwell and Francis Hans Johnston's This Land of Ours, Australia (Russell's Library, no. 22).

A photocopied article with photo from The West Australian, 10 August 1950, identifies BR's companion in some of the photos as R.P. Greenish, who inscribed the book to him on 1950/08/23.

This presentation note was inserted between pp. 78-9 indicating that this copy of John Andrews' translation of Memoirs of Ernst von Weizsäcker (Russell's Library, no. 1257) was compliments of Victor Gollancz, Ltd. There are two copies of the note.

BR had written to The Times in support of Gollancz's letter on Weizsäcker's behalf (see B&R C49.32). Weizsäcker, who had been a high official in Nazi Germany's foreign office, had received an especially long prison sentence from an American tribunal at Nuremberg.

This letter and its carbon appear to have been prepared as a draft for BR. His handwritten letter, document .200923, record 19919, differs somewhat from this but conveys the same message about passages in the Autobiography concerning Colette.

Bookmarks were left in The Book of Common Prayer (Russell's Library, no. 1353) between pp. 238-9, 274-6, 374-5.

A 4-page pamphlet, The Great Western Railway Company: Memorandum on the Railway Position, was inserted between pp. 32-3 of Stephen Mackenna's translation of Plotinus, The Ethical Treatises, vol. I (Russell's Library, no. 1031).

The memorandum is signed "Churchill, Chairman". This was Victor Albert Francis Charles Spencer, 1st Viscount Churchill (1864-1934).

A signed "with compliments" card from the author was inserted in the rear endpapers of Stefan Themerson's Wooff Wooff, or, Who Killed Richard Wagner? (Russell's Library, no. 935).

An envelope flap was inserted between pp. 16-17 in Siegfried Sassoon's The Heart's Journey (Russell's Library, no. 934).