BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
12502

Current balance?; whether cheques for £5000, £4000, £2000 have been presented.

12503

Thanks for Satan; reviews.

12504

Will catch up shortly.

12505

Prospects of an English job for Charles Tait.

12506

Prepared to second Ernest Jones again.

12507

Finished another story of 14,000 words. Return "Zahatapolk" and "Nightmares" for corrections. Illustrator.

12508

Her son and his christening.

12509

Revises some figures.

12510

Meeting. [Ludwig] Wittgenstein.

12511

He to sing and his adopted daughter to dance in BR's home.

12512

Encloses message to Congress on Preserving Learning. [Draft of message present.]

12513

Replies to rejection letter for UN World article [not sent]. U.S. politics.

Following this draft is a slightly more conciliatory letter to Koeves.

12514

Reply to rejection letter. U.S. politics.

See also record 12513 for an unsent response.

12515

Open tax-paying account.

12516

Changes cabled for article.

No date on document. Date taken from physical location.

12517

Declines BBC invitation.

Document is located before 1 July 1953 letters.

12518

Accepts vice-presidency.

The document is located before 1 July 1953 letters.

12519

No wise advice. No mistake on p. 693 of History of Western Philosophy re indefinables.

Document located before 1 July 1953 letters.

12520

BR is willing to be interviewed if it is done at Richmond.

12521

Count on BR if taking further action on horrible case Matlala.

12522

The sender calls herself "a woman poet" and sends BR her poems in a mimeo circular, 5 pp. + wrappers.

12523

From a "woman Shakespearean poet". Her enclosed mimeo (4 pp.) quotes her letter to BR of 2 May 1961. (This letter has not been found.)

12524

The sender has "great respect" for BR.

12525

"I'm afraid I forgot to write to you myself as for before Christmas my son became ill and it was a few weeks before I could find time to attend to correspondence."

12526

Williams thanks Edith and BR for supporting the Toc H. Portmadoc Boys' Camp venture. See record 29465.

12527

St. Catharine's College is in one of BR's stories—used to see old master riding with his daughter.

12528

Returns autographed book.

12529

Thanks for pleasing letter.

12530

Must refuse to see Indian lady, since BR's energy must be conserved.

12531

William Pember Reeves; Amber [Pember Reeves, later Blanco White].

12532

Can't attend congress.

In reply to RA2 320.177071a (0065558).

12533

Encloses story.

12534

Encloses story.

12535

Comments on his offprint, "Oxford Philosophy".

12536

[Joe] McCarthy (and book-burning).

12537

Withdraws suggestion about BR's article's rejection. Irwin Edman.

12538

Unpopular opinions. Queen Elizabeth II. New York Times article.

12539

Declines invitation—was seriously ill with pneumonia and some damage will always remain.

12540

Declines speaking to political and economic circle of National Liberal Club.

12541

Accepts estimate for repairs to 2 watches and clock.

12542

Approves suggestions in pamphlet on combating Communism.

12543
On conscientious objection to war. "i do not think the question of refusal of military service ought to be decided without regard to political circumstances."
12544

Thanks for letter. New York Times letter.

12545

Remains with American Committee for Cultural Freedom.

12546
No time to read his paper or see him.
12547

Will discuss his book with him next summer.

12548
Wishes him safe from serious (political) misfortune.
12549

The "Free Man's Worship" is in Mysticism and Logic. Much interested in what he says about philosophy and law.

12550

McCarthy-Malenkov pact.

12551
Christianity.
12552
Reprints.
12553

Subjects of "Portraits from Memory".

12554

Obituary of Einstein.

12555

Nightmares.

12556

Suggests topics for article.

12557

Never met [Sigmund] Freud or had correspondence with him, so nothing to add to his archives.

12558
Sympathizes in his useful work.
12559

Retype parts marked "Type" in Stalin's legacy.

Encloses typescript in regard to Eastern European intellectuals.

12560
Can't attend dinner.
12561

Contract.

12562

A.J. Balfour ("using a bogus scepticism to give support to Tory prejudices"); [L.T.] Hobhouse's theory of knowledge ("liked"); considerable admiration for Jackson.

12563
Declines composition of message.
12564

Refuses contribution to [C.E.M.] Joad memorial—"I had at no time a high opinion of his merits".

12565

Encloses [Satan].

12566

Encloses [Gilbert] Murray's permission (re Autobiography).

12567

Reads Italian but can't venture to write it correctly. Declines writing article.

12568

"Always been rather sceptical of the interpretation of the red shift of the spectra of nebulae".

12569

Letter to editor re U.S. politics and Einstein.

12570

Declines to attend philosophical congress in Brussels.

12571

Encloses abstracts of first 2 "Portraits" (dictated mss. of "Some Cambridge Dons of the 'Nineties" and "Some of My Contemporaries at Cambridge").

12572

Obituary of Einstein.

12573

Glad to read Lady Mandle's book and provide blurb—has read others by her, and much interested in that whole circle. [Godwin and His World was published 7.9.53]

12574

Rudolph Rocker (liked a book of his).

12575
Re passage in BR's writings.
12576

Discontinues her as literary agent, except for cases in which BR asks her help.

12577

Re Nightmares.

12578
Encloses second "portrait".
12579

Glad German broadcast was successful.

12580
Approves 2 shortened abstracts.
12581

Accepts invitation for August 22-24. Raymond Mortimer.

12582

"My outlook became more like that of Shelley and Godwin after 1914 than it had been before."

12583

BR now advisor to National Arts Foundation.

12584

Leonard Woolf (and his book for review).

12585

Nightmares.

12586

Professor Mmaa's Lecture—will do preface.

12587

Agrees to [broadcasting?] a shortened "A Philosophy for Our Time".

12588

[E.D.] Morel biography.

12589

Thanks for Godwin and His World. Will write again after reading it.

12590

Encloses list of earnings for the income tax year ending 5 April 1953.

12591

BR never a member of any hunt.

No date on document. Date taken from physical location.

12592

Suggests books on social history to read.

No date on document. Date taken from physical location.

12593

Grants permission to reprint "Reflections on My 80th Birthday".

No date on document. Date taken from physical location.

12594

Swedish income tax.

No date on document. Date taken from physical location.

12595

Agrees to do 12-minute talk on Lord John Russell.

No date on document. Date taken from physical location.

12596

Muscio not an idealist.

No date on document. Date taken from physical location.

12597

Encloses Melbourne Herald article.

12598
Delighted with fantastic information about real world.
12599

Invites him to dinner.

12600

On his book on democracy (blurb-like).

12601

Re his "Letter to a Japanese Reader"; Japan.