BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
125032

Schuster's business card and a Simon and Schuster "with compliments" card were inserted between the front endpapers of Frederick Winsor's The Space Child's Mother Goose (Russell's Library, no. 1421).

125033

A Christmas greeting card was inserted between the front endpapers in James Fisher's The Fulmar (Russell's Library, no. 1443). The card reads: "To Lord and Lady Russell, wishing you a Happy Christmas and New Year from Angus and James Fisher".

125034

A pipe cleaner was inserted between pp. 56-7 of the Memoirs of Henri IV (Russell's Library, no. 1498).

125035

A "with compliments" slip was inserted between pp. 160-1 of Leslie Paul's The English Philosophers (Russell's Library, no. 1467).

125036

A pipe cleaner was inserted between pp. 180-1 of Chang Hsin-hai's The Fabulous Concubine, a Novel (Russell's Library, no. 1477).

125037

A letter requesting BR's opinion on Chapters 3, 21, and 22 of F.S.C. Northrop's The Complexity of Legal and Ethical Experience was inserted between pp. 38-9 of that book (Russell's Library, no. 1484). A "with compliments" slip from the editor is between pp. 327-8.

125038

A "with compliments" card was inserted between pp. 50-1, the end of the reprint of BR's article "Logical Atomism", in Logical Positivism, edited by A.J. Ayer. The card has the publisher's name and that of Paul Edwards, the series editor (Russell's Library, no. 1482).

125039

BR doubts that Keller's Logical Theory of Language would be any easier to get adopted in state schools than world government. BR invites him to visit him.

125040
Not a letter, just a name.
125041

Re the Basic Writings of BR: BR recommends the PM preface as a selection from Principia. If Egner wants anything symbolic, BR suggests *110.643 "with its demonstration and the remark about the occasional usefulness of the proposition in question." (The editors did not adopt the latter suggestion.)

125042

BR very much likes the photo of himself in Desch's book.

125043

Re a quotation (very likely the one about Christian love): "I should not have used the word Christian if I had foreseen the misconception to which it gave rise."

125044

BR knows nothing about radiation from TV sets.

125045

BR would like to know the venue for the meeting at which he is to speak and length of the shortest speech for him. He hopes he will not be the only speaker "as I am not a technical scientist in the required sense."

125046

"Cheque and letter > Canon Collins".

125047

"BBC earnings > Madams".

125048

"£72.11.0 (for Griff), Tylor".

125049

"Time booked".

125050

BR sends him his piece on Moore to reprint.

125051

BR has no record of what occurred at the Foreign Office on a certain occasion in 1955.

125052

"No".

125053

BR sends £32.12.0 for BEA tickets. He wishes to take £100 in traveller's cheques. He gives their names as "Bertrand, Earl Russell" and "Edith, Countess Russell".

125054

BR has signed the 2 letters she enclosed, finding nothing to change in that to Charlie Chaplin.

125055

BR declines to journey to Mexico.

125056

BR corrects an error in the footnote on p. 77 of My Philosophical Development.

125057

BR thanks Heckstall-Smith for correcting an error in the footnote on p. 77 of My Philosophical Development.

125058

BR knew one man called Butcher, who lived at Killarney. He and Lang translated the Odyssey.

125059

This seems to be a reminder to type or send the letter of the previous day to Heckstall-Smith.

125060

This seems to be a reminder to type or send the letter of the previous day to Allen and Unwin, record 125056.

125061

"To Zora Lasch [BR] sent today, written yesterday—tea at #43 on Sept 11".

This seems to be a note about the sending of a letter that BR handwrote, since there was no record of a dictated letter to Lasch the previous day.

125062

"Autographed photo > Miss Cynthia Crosby, aet. 10".

125063

BR points out that Edith, being an American, is not subject to the currency restrictions that apply to the British.

125064

"No".

125065

"No".

125066
10 shillings is to be sent.
125067

BR declines a trip, although "I have a very great admiration for Jefferson and am sorry whenever a course is taken which he would deplore."

125068

It would be a pleasure to see Gilson again. The wife that she knew some years ago and BR were divorced.

125069

To "Sir George", BR regrets having to decline due to the great amount of work he has undertaken to do during the next months.

125070

BR suggests Dr. Elvin get in touch with him for a time to see Redefer.

125071

"Baker (Foges's man) to talk about public discussion of Wisdom of the West—Fri. Aug 21". Cambrian Express, car and dinner.

125072

BR has not the time and recommends that Stafford contact Stefan Themerson.

125073

BR does not want royalties for the Polish translation of Religion and Science to be paid in Polish currency.

125074

BR is glad Boyle likes the definition of "electricity" BR gives in The ABC of Atoms, which he unfortunately published just before Heisenberg's revolutionary work. BR has a suggestion for extending the definition.

125075

Cooper faces imprisonment. BR hopes he will not be condemned to a very unpleasant time.

BR deleted a sentence about Clifford Allen's "irruption" into the House of Lords.

125076

BR will come to Newman's office after lunch, due to his throat trouble. He asks for clarification of "your philosophy of the future of man within the next century".

125077
BR thinks there are practical difficulties against a world plebiscite.
125078

In view of Khrushchev's trip to America the day after the projected press conference in Paris, does Collins think the journey to Paris will have lost much of its utility? "... every enterprising journalist will wish to be in America."

125079

In view of Khrushchev's trip to America the day after the projected press conference in Paris, does Duff think the journey to Paris will have lost much of its utility? "... every enterprising journalist will wish to be in America."

125080

"Autographed photo".

125081

"I very strongly agree with you about the division into faculties in universities." BR can still understand why people were Hegelian, since it concerned the "axiom of internal relation". BR's mind-body theory "strikes every physiologist as a truism".

125082

BR sends Foges "The Fisherman's Nightmare". "It was written before the enclosed extract from the Manchester Guardian which shows that the story is topical."

125083

BR cannot recall ever having spoken in Trafalgar Square. He can't go to Frankfurt on certain days.

125084

BR is willing that Jones should exhibit his sculpture of BR.

125085

BR will see Crosser on August 18 and will be happy if he stays to supper.

125086

BR thanks Mrs. Law for asking his permission to reproduce "the painted photograph".

125087

"Cable > Pickett >"

125088

"Cheque > Barclays > 16/2".

125089

£10 > Committee.

125090

Warren requests that recipients provide mailing lists for their committees so that the IWCT may send them a promotional brochure.

125091

Schoenman thanks Burns for his recent letter and the enclosed journal. He says he will send him all the recent BRPF literature and provides the address where he can request BR's speech on the National Liberation Front Radio.

125092

Burns encloses a copy of their journal, which includes an article by Burns, and requests a copy of the recording of BR's speech over N.L.F. radio.

125093

Schoenman encloses all the recent Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation literature for Burns.

125094

BR agrees to let Reader's Digest quote him. The letter was offered for sale by Heritage Auctions.

125095

Material from the copy of Dear Bertrand Russell that Feinberg gave to his parents, including reviews (even the TLS review of The Archives of Bertrand Russell).

125096

BR says he would be glad to settle in America if he could get an academic position. Earning a living for several people prevents him from lecturing on logic and philosophy.

125097

Coolidge forwards BR's letter, record 125096, to Hocking.

125098

The transcript of a film interview, "Bertrand Russell Speaks on His Anti-Nuclear Committee of 100".

125099

John Dewey's introduction of Russell, probably prior to BR's debate with Will Durant.

125100

In a typeset letter, BR requests the title of any paper the unnamed recipient has for presentation at the upcoming sectional meetings of the Fifth International Congress of Mathematicians. Russell was chair of the subsection on philosophy and history. The document came with a copy of the proceedings (B&R B3), catalogued for the supporting library of the Russell Archives.

125101

BR thanks Ashford for his letter and is glad he enjoyed BR's radio talks. The letter was for sale by Adam Andrusier Autographs.

125102

This note was left between the back cover and endpapers of Max Born's Physics and Politics (Russell's Library, no. 1440). Part of the note (in Edith Russell's hand) recalls that Nell and the note's author remember the people of Minffordd coming to get BR's subscription to the Labour Party. The top portion of the note (mentioning the names of a couple of local people) is in Ralph Schoenman's hand.

125103

A "with compliments" card was inserted between the half-title page and title page of Robert C. Cook's Human Fertility: the Modern Dilemma (Russell's Library, no. 1250).

125104

A supplies (?) note was inserted between pp. 130-1 of J.C.L. de Sismondi's A History of the Italian Republics (Russell's Library, no. 869). The note had been folded over many times.

125105

A note was inserted between pp. 252-3 of Erich Eyck's Bismarck and the German Empire (Russell's Library, no. 1235).

The note is a summary of Bismark's character and is in the handwriting of Russell's first wife, who inscribed the copy to him.

125106

A "with compliments" card was inserted between pp. 14-15 in Myra Buttle's The Sweeniad (Russell's Library, no. 1429).

125107

BR is glad Cory agrees with him (presumably on mind and matter) in Cory's "Philosophical Letter".

125108

"Don't know".

125109

BR refers her to his Philosophy of Leibniz on windowless monads.

125110

BR does not remember his letter to Husserl, or ever meeting Husserl. "My early correspondence is in confusion". [Re Archives.]

125111

BR is willing in principle to give him an interview.

125112
BR cannot do such a chapter as she suggests because of work already undertaken.
125113
BR agrees to write an article for her, having found her letter and magazines very interesting.
125114
BR encloses a script (not present).
125115

BR deposits a cheque for $2,078.65 and asks the amount of the sterling proceeds.

125116

BR agrees to Japanese publication of chapters from Religion and Science.

125117

BR accepts £5 for the books he left with Galloway.

125118

BR declines to give the annual Lord Davies Lecture.

125119

BR sends her 2 autographed books, but cannot at present find a time to visit her. Above the letter to Lloyd is another letter "5"—to Unwin, which was crossed out. It concerns a letter about a book title that BR does not recognize, "Before the Apocalypse", but he thinks it may be the Italian title of one of his books.

125120

A very clear letter on the Baruch proposal and the use BR wished the world had made of it.

BR hopes A.J.P. Taylor will modify what he has written: "As for A.J.P. Taylor's phrase that I 'warned them to undertake a preventive war in 1948' is hardly correct. I urged them to press the Baruch proposal, but I hoped that Russia would agree to it. I think perhaps you could induce him to modify this phrase. What would be entirely correct would be to substitute for the quoted words: 'wished America to use the utmost pressure to secure Russian acceptance of the Baruch proposal.'"

125121

BR sends Johnson's group a signed message on nuclear disarmament. The message follows on a separate sheet.

125122
On the private language problem.
125123

£5 is to be sent to the bank.

125124

On what should be done for the grandchildren when BR dies.

125125

"No".

125126

"Rec'd with thanks £5 from Galloway and Hodgson (for books Bangor)".

125127

BR thanks her for the kind things she says.

125128

BR thinks it probable he would sign a multiple-signatory letter to Hungarian authorities.

125129

"£50 for D. Grace".

125130

"National Jewish Hospital at Denver > Simon and Schuster".

125131

Foges has a scheme for an edition of some or all of Nightmares, illustrated by Hans Erni.

[See record 121411 and others.]